- Geography 5223 -
Project 5: Design/Build GIS (Week 2)
Data Acquisition Via the World Wide Web

Objective:
be familiar with downloading a GIS dataset from the web and preparing it for spatial analysis
through re-projection and editing metadata


The data in the image above was downloaded via the Census 2000 Web site. The region above shows block groups of Worcester County, Massachusetts. The projection has been defined as NAD83, UTM Zone 19N for the data frame. The ArcToolbox was also used previously to permanently re-project the 'citybnd' data layer from geographic coordinates to State Plane coordinates.

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