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GIS Tutorial 1

Lecture 5Importing spatial and attribute data

Outline

Map projections

Coordinate systems

GIS data sources

Vector data formats

Raster data formats

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MAP PROJECTIONSLecture 5


Latitude and longitude

Longitude (meridians)



Latitude (parallels)


Latitude and longitude° Longitude (prime meridian)0

° Latitude (equator)

0



Pittsburgh, PA USA

-80

40

Coordinates


Lat/Long coordinates

Degrees, minutes, and seconds (DMS): 40° 26′ 2″ N latitude -80° 0′ 58″ W longitude

Decimal degrees (DD) 1 degree = 60 minutes, 1 minute = 60 seconds 40° 26′ 2″ = 40 + 26/60 + 2/3600 = 40 + .43333 + .00055 = 40.434°


Lat/long coordinates

Translated to distance World circumference through the poles

is 24,859.82 miles, so for latitude: 1° = 24,859.82 / 360 = 69.1 miles 1′ = 24,859.82 / (360 * 60) = 1.15 miles 1″ = 24,859.82 * 5,280 / (360 * 3,600) =

101 feet

Length of the equator is 24,901.55

miles


Mercator projection (1569) Conformal projection Cylindrical Parallels and meridians at

right angles Linear scale is constant in

all directions around any point

Preserves angles and shapes of small objects

Distorts the size and shape of large objects

Map projection for nautical purposes


Hammer – Aitoff (1882-1889) Equal-area Modified azimuthal

projection Good for population

density (world area) Difficult to see some

areas


Robinson projection (1961) Pseudocylindrical Neither equal area nor

conformal Meridians curve gently,

avoiding extremes Good compromise

projection for viewing entire world

Used by Rand McNally since the 1960s and by the National Geographic Society (1988 and 1998)


Albers Equal Area Conic projection Scale and shape are

not preserved, distortion is minimal between the standard parallels

Standard projection for British Columbia, U.S. Geological Survey, U.S. Census Bureau


Projection important Measurements used to make important decisions Comparing shapes, areas, distances, or

directions of map features Feature and image themes are aligned

Los Angeles

New York

Los Angeles

New York

Projection: MercatorDistance: 3,124.67 miles

Projection: Albers equal areaDistance: 2,455.03 miles

Actual distance: 2,451 miles


Projection not important

Business applications Not of critical importance Concerned with the relative location of

different features

On large scale maps—street maps Distortion may be negligible Map covers only a small part of the earth’s

surface


COORDINATE SYSTEMSLecture 5


Geographic Coordinate System (GCS)

Spherical coordinates

Angles of rotation of a radius anchored at earth’s center


Census Bureau TIGER files


U.S. Census GCS example


Rectangular coordinate system

Used for locating an intersection on a flat sheet of graph paper or a flat map

Cartesian coordinates (x,y)

State plane and UTM


State Plane coordinates Established by the

U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey in 1930s

Originally North American Datum (NAD 1927)

More recently NAD 1983 and 1983 HARN

Used by local U.S. governments

All positive coordinates in feet (or meters)


State Plane zones 125 zones

At least one for each state Cannot have zones joined to make larger

regions

Follow state and county boundaries

Each has its own projection: Lambert conformal projection for zones

with east-west extent Transverse Mercator projection for zones

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State Plane zones


Pittsburgh neighborhoods as state plane coordinates


Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM)

Rectangular coordinate system

Used by U.S. military

Covers entire world

Metric coordinates

Longitude zones are 6° wide

Latitude zones are 8° high


Coordinate system summary Geographic coordinate system

U.S. Census State plane coordinate system

Local governments U.S. military

Projections defined in ArcCatalog or ArcMap (.prj) files

First file added in a map document sets the projection (others will adjust to it as long as they have a .prj file)


GIS DATA SOURCESLecture 5


GIS data sources ESRI U.S. Census USGS and other government sources GDT Dynamap/2000 U.S. Street Data Engineering companies

land surveys, aerial photos, CAD drawings

University Web sites (e.g. Penn State’s PASDA)

Others?


GIS data sources 30+ million Internet search results

type “GIS data download” or “population China .e00

add the name of the state, county, or city to the search


GIS departments Web sites Washington, D.C.

dcgis.dc.gov/ Chicago, IL

www.cityofchicago.org/gis

Austin, TX Tip: Search by county name (Travis County,

Texas) http://www.ci.austin.tx.us/development/ ftp://ftp.ci.austin.tx.us/GIS-Data/Regional/coa_gis.html


ESRI’s Web site http://www.esri.com/data/resources/ge

ographic-data.html


http://www.esri.com/data/resources/geographic-data.html

http://www.esri.com/data/resources/geographic-data.html

U.S. Census Bureau Started building a map infrastructure in

the late 1970s and early 1980s Census mapping needs were twofold:

To assign census employees to areas of responsibility, covering the entire country and its possessions

To report and display census tabulations by area, officials determined that the smallest area needed for these purposes is a city block or its equivalent


U.S. Census Bureau Compiles all line features used to

create a block layer for the entire country

Map features smaller than are the responsibility of local governments deeded land parcels buildings street curbs parking lots others?


Census TIGER/Line files Topologically Integrated Geographic

Encoding and Referencing files Census Bureau’s product for digital

mapping of the U.S. Available for the entire U.S. and its

possessions Include the following geographic features

roads and street centerlines railroads rivers lakes census statistical boundaries


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TIGER census tracts Statistical boundary (below county

level) between 1,000 and 8,000 people (in

general) 1,700 housing units or 4,000 people homogeneous population characteristics

(economic status and living conditions) normally follow visible features may follow governmental unit boundaries

and other nonvisible features more than 60,000 census tracts in Census

2000

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PA tracts


Allegheny County tracts


City Pittsburgh tracts


TIGER census block groups

Subdivision of a census tract 400 housing units, with a minimum of 250

and a maximum of 550 housing units Follow clearly visible features such as

roads, rivers, and railroads


Census block groups


TIGER census blocks Smallest geographic area for which the

Census Bureau collects and tabulates decennial census information Visible boundaries

street road stream Shoreline

Nonvisible boundaries county, city, neighborhood boundary property line


Census blocks


Other TIGER layers


U.S. Census Bureau data tables http://factfinder.census.gov


http://factfinder.census.gov/

Summary File (SF1) tables


Summary File (SF3) tables


SF tables comparisons

SF1

Population

Age

Sex

Race

Housing units

FFH

SF3

Income

Educational

attainment

Citizenship

Transportation

Detailed housing


Census summary Shapefiles downloaded from

www.census.gov or www.esri.com Data tables downloaded from American

Factfinder http://factfinder.census.gov Data joins needed to join SF1 or SF3 to

shapefiles

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VECTOR DATA FORMATSLecture 5


ArcInfo coverages Created using ESRI’s ArcInfo software Older format Set of files within a folder or directory called

a workspace Files represent different types of topology or

feature types


Coverage attribute table

Area and perimeter

Coverage_ and Coverage_ID


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Shapefiles ArcView native format

Minimum files shp–stores feature geometry .shx–stores index of features .dbf–stores attribute data

Additional files .prj–projection data .xml–metadata .sbn and .sbx–store additional indices


CAD drawings

CAD software Autodesk, AutoCAD (.dwg) Bentley, Microstation (.dgn, .dxf)

Often used by engineering

companies

Better digitizing precision


CAD drawings


CAD layers


Event files Data table that includes map coordinates, such as latitude and longitude or projected coordinates


Event files


Export event files


Creates point features

RASTER DATA FORMATSLecture 5


Digital file formats TIFF (Tagged Image File Format)

.tif file extension Very high quality images Commonly used in publishing Sizes are large because it is uncompressed

GIF (Graphic Interchange Format): .gif as its file extension. Ideal for schematic drawings that have

relatively large areas with solid color fill and few color variations.

Small file sizes


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Digital file formats JPEG (Joint Photographic Experts

Group): .jpg file extension. Most widely used format for photographs

and other images that have a lot of color variations

Uses file compression at the expense of picture detail, if you specify a lot of compression


Summary

Map projections

Coordinate systems

GIS data sources

Vector data formats

Raster data formats


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