Geographic Information Systems Lab 1 Goals and Background: With the knowledge and skills that I gained by working through the tutorials, and listening and taking notes at lecture, I was able to examine the task in front of me and accomplish it. By learning about ArcGIS and the tools that come along with it, I was able to use coordinate systems, shapefiles and so much more to do the task at hand. The goal of this lab was to examine the different projections of the same shapefile and see how it was distorted base on which projection it was. It was evident to see which projections distorted shape, or which distorted distance and so on. Secondly, the other part of the lab was to address an issue of two shapefiles not being compatible. With the skills I have gained, I was able to locate the issue, fix it, and make the two shapefiles compatible. Methods: ...
