To add new authors to this blog, go to the Blogger interface (which can be accessed if you go to "New Post", then hit close"), click settings, then "+add authors"...you must type in the new author's email address. I assume that the new author must answer a confirmation email. I would also assume that the new author must have a Google Account.
Thursday, October 6, 2011
success
Everything went well with my last post. Pictures can be inserted into the "compose" section of the "New Post" and maps can be embedded into the HTML section. In the new interface, I have ready access to see how many people view my blog, all my posts, and then the option to see my blog as the world does. Overall, a little different, but all the same functions that I found necessary last semester appear to be in order for this semester.
Testing new blogger/blogspot interface
Blogger/blogspot has changed. I believe I am now posting something to my TRC blog, but we will soon find out. Other trouble I have had with recent changes includes my inability to find the blog unless I have the exact web address. I also want to know if I can post maps or pictures to this post in addition to text content. Lucky me, I can! And I can move around the picture to any location in this post: above the text, below the text, next to the text, etc.Now what about Maps? or things I need to imbed.
Wednesday, August 17, 2011
Friday, April 15, 2011
Wednesday, March 30, 2011
Region 2
My Region 2 page demonstrates how multiple iFrames and descriptions are going to be used on the same page.
Tuesday, March 29, 2011
Monday, March 28, 2011
Process.
1) In firefox, go to tools, options, save file as: desktop
2) "save file" of landfill file
3)Click on Demographic link in Blackboard
2) hit "Download" (do not sign into acrobate)
3) save to "Water facility folder" from before
4) go to geocommons
5) "UpLoad Data"
6) Water facilities folder (all 4 files) and demographic data
7) do shapefile first, "Finish"
8) Alter shape + color of data (very small dots are best)
9)"add Data"---demographic set, ad an alter
10) Change base map
11) save
12) details, embed
2) "save file" of landfill file
3)Click on Demographic link in Blackboard
2) hit "Download" (do not sign into acrobate)
3) save to "Water facility folder" from before
4) go to geocommons
5) "UpLoad Data"
6) Water facilities folder (all 4 files) and demographic data
7) do shapefile first, "Finish"
8) Alter shape + color of data (very small dots are best)
9)"add Data"---demographic set, ad an alter
10) Change base map
11) save
12) details, embed
Sunday, March 13, 2011
State Demographics
State demographic data for 38 states are saved as CSV files and posted on Acrobat. They are ready to be posted on Blackboard
Tuesday, March 8, 2011
The EPA "General Report"
This is just the beginning of the statistics you get when you ask for a report of an area surrounding a polygon space drawn on your map. this may be useful, but I couldn't upload the entire thing
epa site review
Here is an image of the map I made using the EPA site. The site fills in the demographic information quite well (I am using per capita income by county), however there is no pre-set filter that will put solid waste facilities on the map. Students will need to individually identify each facility. The red balloons on the map are my fake facility locations. I can put many balloons on the page and label them. I can also draw shapes (as I did here) that may be better for visual comparison. When drawing these polygons, you are able to get a report of the demographics/environmental statistics about the surrounding area within any desired radius. You can also make descriptions to the places you delineate. The biggest problem I see with this program is that you cannot save the map and it is QUITE easy to erase all of your data. For instance, it took me 4 attempts before I could screen grab this page because I would accidentally erase all of my work. Also, the only way I was able to put this in my blog was to save the picture, then upload the image into blogger. Other than that, I could not find a way to embed the map.
Monday, February 21, 2011
Would this page be useful?
We want to increase accessability, would just adding these tabs do so? we could have studetns post under their Regional tab.
Friday, February 18, 2011
Data for Every State: Plan
We have all data for every state in a arcGIS file. we can import the data for each state into a separate excel file and post it on blackboard.
Question: What states will we need to do?
Question: What states will we need to do?
Project Trial 1 --proceedure
1) I tried to get demographic (income and employment 2003) information off of National Atlas, but had trouble opening the shape file because it is a zip file. I opened it with 7Zip, saved the folder to my desktop, and then loaded it into arcGIS10.
3) select all
4) save table as a text document
5) import text document into Excel (different fields are delimited with commas.)
7) upload to Geocommons: (not geocoding) bea_fips to cntyidfp
8) Shape: quintile (choose attribute)
- result: outline of all counties of all states
- double click on the file, go to symobology, pick the attribute you want displayed on the map
- Result: on my map: shows (# of jobs/persons per county) for each county
- highlighted just NY counties: make a table just for NY
- **Use metadata: look under "attributes" to know what the data is about
3) select all
4) save table as a text document
5) import text document into Excel (different fields are delimited with commas.)
- result: completed table in Excel for NY
7) upload to Geocommons: (not geocoding) bea_fips to cntyidfp
8) Shape: quintile (choose attribute)
Friday, February 11, 2011
Good site
open with google earth. We will load this onto Blackboard. Goal: separate each state and post it.
state, name, county of landfills
http://www.epa.gov/waste/nonhaz/municipal/landfill/section3.pdf
counties are listed excepted for Alaska, New England (?), Alabama
students find 5 active ones
New York landfills....location, ownership,etc (this is not the best) http://www.dec.ny.gov/docs/materials_minerals_pdf/indlist.pdf
counties are listed excepted for Alaska, New England (?), Alabama
students find 5 active ones
New York landfills....location, ownership,etc (this is not the best) http://www.dec.ny.gov/docs/materials_minerals_pdf/indlist.pdf
Landfill Data
Pretty impossible to find online....I recommend calling a state office and asking for the information. If we find any helpful links, I will post them.
As for demographic data: not difficult to find (as I posted last time).
As for demographic data: not difficult to find (as I posted last time).
Wednesday, February 9, 2011
Data.gov notes
You cannot find locations of landfills here for each state. This is not a good site to find that information.
this is a good cite to find demographic information. Go to "Data"; "Raw Data Set," search "census, your state", then limit your search to topics or agencies that are most relevant. Make sure your search is limited to "CSV/text," that way, we can import it into excel and geocommons.
this is a good cite to find demographic information. Go to "Data"; "Raw Data Set," search "census, your state", then limit your search to topics or agencies that are most relevant. Make sure your search is limited to "CSV/text," that way, we can import it into excel and geocommons.
Monday, January 31, 2011
On effective designs
The "watermark" background design for blogger has not been effective for me. It does not allow the viewer to see blog posts. I do not recommend applying this setting.
Reflecting on my previous post
In my previous post, I embedded a map from geocommons into the "Edit HTML" tab and described the map in my "compose" tab in the same post. As a result, the reader does not see the map and the description, they only see the description and are given a link to see the map. My recommendation: make the map and the description two separate posts so that the reader can see both on the blog. This makes it more convenient to refer back to the map when reading the description.
A mape with three sets of Demographic Data (by income level).
This map is not clear. You cannot see clear distinction between the levels of income. Instead of seeing regions dominated by one income level, most regions consist of all three, mixing the color code. Too many layers of data will obscure view of the bottom layer (in this case, the size and location of landfills are covered). It would be best to have three maps: one showing each income level in relation to the location/size of landfills.
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