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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.