1. Building a map for presentation from scratch
Peter Fox
GIS for Science
ERTH 4750 (98271)
Week 11, Tuesday, April 10, 2012

2. Contents Scoping the map Base layer Data layers Headers
Annotations/ legends
Layout Window
Web to the rescue or not?

3. #1 http://escience.rpi.edu/gis/data/ocean.zip

4. BEWARE resolution, color, layout…

5.
Map, (maybe) geocode, legend
Layout

6. #2
New map
World Or
Now use a web service (WMS) – Add World Grid (try other ones too) – note tablename

7. #3 Tile Server Maps -> Bing Aerial, or Hybrid
Then add World – adjust layer properties…
What would you add from here?

8. Reading for this week MapInfo (10.8) User Guide
Chapter 11 Stylizing your map for presentations and publishing
Chapter 15 Working with Web Services
Also reminder: Chapter 13 Getting your data on the map – and Geocoding versus Create Points (p336)

9. Next classes Friday, April 13, Lab: statistics
No class April 17 (Grand Marshall week)
Friday, April 20, Lab:
Tuesday, April 24 – guest lecture, Linda von der Heide (Principal Planner, Rensselaer County Economic Development& Planning)
Friday, April 27 – lab assignment
Tuesday, May 1 – short presentations*