GIS Weeks 7-8: Data Search

For the midterm lab assignment for Intro to GIS, we were asked to acquire a list of datasets for a county in Florida, project all of them into the same coordinate system, "clip" state-level or other larger datasets to the shape of the county in question using the tools available in ArcMap, and create 1-3 useful maps.

I was assigned Flagler County, on the state's Atlantic coast. My first set of maps, below, includes one illustrating some key natural and man-made features in the county, including waterbodies, cities and towns, roads, and parks, and one showing Strategic Habitat Conservation Areas symbolized according to their priority ranking (with cities and roads marked to help orient the reader). For both of these maps, the data is overlaid on a Digital Elevation Model, allowing the reader to see how all the features represented interact with the county's terrain.

I had one other dataset that I felt was too complex to be combined with any others, so my third map just shows land cover categories for the county. However, one of the required datasets was a DOQQ, or digital orthophoto quarter-quandrangle, so I also included an inset zoomed in on part of the city of Palm Coast, where the land cover dataset is overlaid on top of the aerial imagery.