GPS Data Collection

Hello Folks,

To create the above map, I was put into a group of three. Together we collected GPS points, using a handheld GPS, of a building, a road and three trees of the school I attend which is the University of Belize. Of the data collected, our lecturer created the main shapefile needed and from that we created three different shapefiles. The shapefiles we created were of trees, roads and buildings. We also added the different non-spatial data collected for the trees, road and building. For tree we added its specie name and height, for the road we added its condition, and for the building we added its name and its area calculated by the GPS. Apart from adding the non-spatial data we also had to to change the feature type. For example, road is a polyline, building is a polygon and trees are points. All of these shapefiles were created using ArcCatalogue and then they were transferred to ArcMap. Using arc map we connected the points of the building and the road to create a polygon and polyline respectively. This was done using the editor tool box, which was a new feature I learnt. We added a basemap to our map and the one we used was called "Imagery". Our map was then created and we added the basic elements to it which were: Title, Scale Text and Bar, Legend, North Arrow and Inset Map. This map was fairly easy to created especially with the aid of my group members. Three heads are better than one!