Bobwhite - Manatee Transmission Line Project
Bobwhite - Manatee FPL Transmission Line
Dwight Fisher - 10.10.2024 - GIS 4043/L
My ArcGIS Story Map link is below:
My PowerPoint Transcript Link is Below:
This project from start to finish took a total of 24.5 hours to complete.
First I determined how I wanted to solve the problem statement from the cartographic model.
I began the project by organizing my files, uploading a PowerPoint file to my Google Drive and making it shareable. After which I began working on setting up my ArcGIS Story Map.
After the Story map was ready to start adding data and text to I created my Geodatabase file. I created four maps one for each of the criteria; Homes, Schools, Environment, and Cost.
After Loading in some data sets I check the Projections to make sure that they were all projected to the Albers Conical Equal Area projection. Starting with the homes map I brought in the data provided for both county parcels and then created new layers for homes within the buffer zone and then another within the corridor.
I altered my symbology to be appealing to myself and organized the data to allow me to create an appealing layout. I then created my first layout for the Homes perspective.
The next steps were to repeat the process by copying the same base layers into the next map that I labeled schools. I went to a previous module to obtain the geocoded point shapefile for Manatee county schools and added that to the map.
I searched for near by schools on google maps for Sarasota County and found none to be within the vicinity of the corridor so the only schools to analyze were those in Manatee county.
I determined that the FPL Transmission line would not interfere with any public schools and noted my conclusion.
Third, I created the map for the Environmental criteria. I'll be completely honest on this one I had the most problem with due to the nature of the geoprocessing tools needed to run in order to output the data desired.
I attempted to use multiple overlay tools that did not seem to produce the correct data I was looking for. I was able to determine the entire area of the corridor would be 6,566 acres of land but I didn't have the same success for determining total wetlands, and conservation acreage that would be interrupted by the new FPL transmission line.
I was hoping to determine the total area in Acres the amount of wetlands within the corridor.
After making my layout for that I created a line feature class to measure the distance of the corridor and came to the conclusion 25 miles long.
Overall this project took considerably more time than I had anticipated but I learned to pace myself more than anything. I broke this project up into sections and gave myself time to resolve or attempt to resolve issues that I ran into.
-Dwight
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