Module 2 Land Use / Land Cover

 

    Module 2 

    It occurred to me early on that I may have started drawing Polygons incorrectly as I work my way through. I kept thinking "There has to be a more efficient method." I think in this Module I ended up really shooting myself in the foot when drawing the polygons. As I read through the Lab instruction and steps I must have pre-emptively started drawing before even understanding that there are multiple ways to create polygons in a feature class that conflict or have edges touching.

Unfortunately, in my last class I did not learn any particular methods of drawing polygons in like this module required. Its pretty much sink or swim at this point. Next time I’m reading through the entire Process before starting my work.
    I ended up drawing all of the polygons by hand and pretty much Free handing the entire map extents. I think it caused me to spend double the amount of time that it should have taken and even now before I finish the assignment I’m concerned about how the assignment will be graded. I chose colors that were not so conflicting with the labels which was a task in and of its own. I manipulated the transparency of each polygon because I had originally set them all to 50% Transparency but honestly didn’t like it. Some are 50% some are 60%.When choosing sample points at random locations I felt confident that the way I had chosen to classify them early on was spot on. After going to google I think I was correct for the most part. This area luckily was pretty distinct when it came to determining Land Cover and Land use.