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<html><head></head><body style="color: rgb(32, 33, 34); font-family: undefined;"><p style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">Peruse GIS Data Sites</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">Due Date:</span></b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"> Thursday, January 25<sup>th</sup> to Assignments 11:59PM</span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">Purpose:</span></b></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">The purpose of this lab will be for you gain experience and knowledge with web-based resources for obtaining GIS datasets. &nbsp;</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">&nbsp;</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><u><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">You are encouraged to think about resources that may be of potential use for your midterm project.</span></u></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">Learning Objectives After completing the lab, you will know:</span></b></p>
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<li style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">Critically examine web-based resources in terms of the value it may provide with giving you usable GIS data. </span></li>
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<p style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">&nbsp;</span></b></p>
<p style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">Instructions and Deliverables:</span></b></p>
<p style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">&nbsp;</span></b></p>
<p style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">Browse the web and find four (4) potential sources of GIS data. You cannot use the New York State GIS clearinghouse or CUGIR. For each source you find, indicate:</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">:</span></p>
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<li style="margin: 0in 0in 0in 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">Include a table of the data source name, types of GIS datasets the source provides, the GIS file formats (</span><a href="https://pro.arcgis.com/en/pro-app/3.1/help/projects/supported-data-types-and-items.htm" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">https://pro.arcgis.com/en/pro-app/3.1/help/projects/supported-data-types-and-items.htm</span></a><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">) you can download the data in, and the URL. (Note Only Fomats in this listing are acceptable to list) For example:</span></li>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">&nbsp;</span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">Data</span></b></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">Data Types</span></b></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">NY GIS Clearinghouse</span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">Boundaries, addresses, census, habitats, hazards, wetlands, soils, political districts, etc. </span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">shapefiles, Tiff, geodatabase, etc </span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">https://gis.ny.gov/</span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">&nbsp;</span></b></p>
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<li style="margin: 0in 0in 0in 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">A brief (25-50 word) description of your opinion of each data source in terms of how effective the source might be fulfilling GIS data needs. For example, is comprehensive metadata available? Is the source easy to use and understand? Is it easy to download the data? </span></li>
<li style="margin: 0in 0in 0in 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">Load an example of the data into ArcGIS Pro and include a screenshot</span></li>
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<p style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">&nbsp;</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.25in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">Ideas for sources you might look into include GIS clearinghouses of your home state, US Federal Government sites or GIS data distributed by international organizations.</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.25in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">Upload your write-up to the lab 1 drop box on myCourses.</span></b></p></body></html>

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