Lab 4: Geoanalysis tools

 

This week's lab was by far the most challenging. We were suppose to create a map that displayed camp sites based on their proximity to roads and water access. While on the surface it sounds straight forward, the geoanalysis tools were somewhat challenging to pick up. What seems like the most minor of details would throw my whole work off and force me to restart (a total of 3 times). However I did gain a wealth of knowledge from my mistakes. 

We had to use buffering in order to capture areas within a certain distance of the roads and water in order to determine an acceptable range to for the camp sites. apart from that in order to prevent unneeded information, intersect and overlay was also used to help grab areas without excess and overlapping regions. 

My biggest regret with this was under estimating the lab as I spent many hours having to go through troubleshooting what I was doing wrong. I am hoping to be more prepared next week.