Project 1 - Report Week

GIS 4930

This week was Report Week.  This was the week that we took everything we have done from our Prepare Week and Analyze Week and combined it to produce desired results that could be used in the situation.  As you have read in my previous blogs, a hurricane is heading toward Tampa, Florida.  In the below maps I utilized Network Datasets to generate the results.  In Scenario 2 you will find a map of a Shelter located at Tampa Bay Blvd.  This map is to be utilized by drivers that need to deliver supplies to designated shelters throughout Tampa.  The routing took into consideration high water due to storm surge and redirected the drivers around areas that could be potentially flooded.  The documents were printed in a gray scale so special attention had to be made to colors and limitations on different types of symbology.  The overview map highlights the entire area and the extent boxes define which map the driver should use.

Scenario 2

In Scenario 4, I was asked to generate a map that could be displayed for a television station that showed local shelters. It also displayed, using different colors, which was the quickest shelter to get to based on local roads and delays that may be present at the time of evacuation.  I utilized ArcGIS to create the initial map, which included the roadways, north arrow, and scale bar.  All other work was done in Adobe Illustrator.  The flexibility of Adobe Illustrator allowed me to create special effects and graphics that ArcGIS does not have, or is limited on.  Drop shadows, layering of other images, and better control of text font were all used to produce a polished map for the viewing audience.

Scenario 4

Overall, this week's project was enjoyable and time consuming.  Each map was unique and even though the data was prepared in the previous week still took a lot of time to tweak to optimal viewing.  It's good to see Adobe Illustrator again as the last time I used it was in my Cartography class.  Once I got started, and did a little refresher reading it was like riding a bike and I was able to do the tasks needed to produce the desired results.