Exercises for 1999

IMPORTANT NOTES
Web page design
Remember that your web pages can/will be viewed by many people. They are your opportunity to display your mastery of both the subject and web page design/development. There are a number of good resources for web design on the web (can you say recursion?). One particularly useful one is the Yale C/AIM Web Design pages.

COPYRIGHTS!!!!
Under current copyright law you should NEVER !! use a graphic from any source (especially another web page) unless you have either obtained permission to use the image/graphic OR the web page expressly indicates that you may use the image/graphic. Be sure!

Resources
There are a number of KEY resources that you will want (need?) to utilize.

The first are the GeoMedia Tutorials developed by Dori Gould. They are accessible at http://www.cast.uark.edu/east/is/Intro_to_GeoMedia.html.

An essential set of resources are the Onward Press Web pages that are an "extension" of the Inside GeoMedia book. They include material that is NOT part of the text as well as data that are used in the examples in the book. The site is accessible at http://www.cadd-drafting.com/INSIDE_GeoMedia/

Creating Web pages using Word tutorial by the ubiquitous Dori Gould is at http://www.cast.uark.edu/local/uaclasses/it_fall99/WebInWord.html

Everything you ever wanted to know about HTML is at http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/General/Internet/WWW/HTMLPrimerAll.html and at http://www.davesite.com/webstation/html/

Downloading ESRI shape files off the web at http://www.cast.uark.edu/local/uaclasses/gisss/download_esri.html

Downloading and accessing the EPA EnviroFacts spatial data at http://www.cast.uark.edu/local/uaclasses/gisss/EPA_data.html

Exercise 1
Part 1.
Create an individual class web page. This page will be located in your student directory

http://www.cast.uark.edu/local/uaclasses/vgis_fall99/vgis#

where the pound sign represents your student number for the class. The file should be called "index.html" so one might be:

http://www.cast.uark.edu/local/uaclasses/vgis_fall99/vgis6/index.html

This page will ultimately have links to all your homework.

IMPORTANT

Though the URL for your page is www.cast.uark.edu/local/uaclasses/vgis_fall99/vgis#/index.html (or others) that is NOT the location where you will FTP your files when you publish them in Word or Netscape Composer!

The FTP address is ftp://swag/proj/web2/docs/local/uaclasses/vgis_fall99/vgis#/

As part of the first exercise have your home page linked to a second page. On this page you should provide a schematic set of instructions on how to create the home web page and how to create the existing page and link it to the home page. The level of detail should be such that a person knowledgeable about the use of Word and Netscape could reproduce your results.

Part 2
Complete the Section "Whirlwind Tour" in IG and print out the map on page 38. NOTE: Do NOT continue to the section "Before Going ON." also on page 38. To print out the map simply go to the File > Print selection and use it. Make sure that the printer QMS on NTAS is the printer that is selected!

 BOB for Exercise 1  -- TBD

Exercise 2
Create a web page (and link to it from your home) that describes the steps necessary to create a GeoMedia display that looks like this example.

As always, the level of details should be sufficient that someone familiar with GeoMedia could reproduce your work.
 

BOB for Exercise 2 --  TBD

Exercise 3
Create a web page (and link it to your class home page) that describes the steps necessary to:

1. Create a GeoMedia thematic map display that shows the counties in the US in three classes. The classes are "numbers of individuals who have less than a high school education."

2. Create a GeoMedia thematic map that shows the counties in the US in three classes. The classes are "percentage of the population that has less than a high school education." Pick some divisions (say 0-15% 15 -30 over 30 that you find interesting.

3. Describe the steps necessary to accomplish each product in sufficient detail that a normal GeoMedia user could reproduce your results.

BOB for Exercise 3 -- TBD
 

Exercise 4
Create a web page (and link it to your class home page) that describes the steps necessary to:

1. Identify all the locations in Arkansas where an interstate crosses a river.

2. Identify all cities where the percentage of the population that has completed (or exceeded) a college education is greater than 20 %.

3. Identify all cities in Arkansas that are within 10 miles of an interstate.

4. Identify any cities in Arkansas that are in group 2 but not in group 3.

For each of the steps include a map on the web page showing the results.
 

Exercise 5
Create a web page (and link it to your class home page) that describes the steps necessary to address the following:

There has been some discussion about the relationship between various crimes and various demographics and geographic factors. You have been asked to conduct an analysis to determine if there is a pattern between the following (admittedly simple) factors:

1. proportion of the population with less than a high school education and the breaking and entry rate in different parts of Arkansas?
2. is there a higher rate (eg. crimes per 10,000 individuals) in counites that have intestates than not?
3. is there a higher crime rate in rural counties near urban areas than in rural counties not near urban ones?

In your exercise you will need to discuss how you defined the various categories you used (what is rural for example) and how you used the data you had available to map theses categories.

Exercise 6
Ok now we're getting into some real stuff!
On the cd_geodaat directory is extensive data on the US mortality rates for a variety of sources. Your job is:
1. Access the entire data sets (for US) and cut out just the parts that apply to Arkansas.
2. Merge the data from the mortality source wiht the county data. The mortality data is a rate per 100,000 so you can simply assocaite the rate with each county that is included.
3. For any single mortality cause (or aggregates - your choice) create maps of black and white males or females showing  (a) NUMBERS for each county in Arkansas and (b) rates per 100,000 in each county.