EKy audio driving tour

• First Frontier Audio Tour link
  • Vistas into the Mountain Frontier
  • Waters of the Cumberland River

Task 1

• Will we be strangers?

Field work

• Using public, open data, can we do field work without going into the field?

AOI

• Area of interest
• Settlement oriented along stream network.
• Find a stream: Troublesome Creek

Goal

• Create a base map for our AOI
• and use that base map on our mobile device.

Sources of data

• Bridges: NBI & download
• Hydro: USGS
• Demographics: US Census 2019 ACS with attributes, US Census geographies, 2020 US Census
• Kentucky: Ky Geo Network

Let's explore!

• 🔥 up ArcGIS Pro.

Steps today

• Find your watershed in the WBDHU12 or WBDHU10 layer.
• Edit the bridge layer to include private bridges.
• Steps in Python.
• Your locations.

Steps outside

• You might need to work outside of class time.
• Will make video for all steps.

ARE YOU FINDING BRIDGES?

Lab 1

• Pick a community watershed; map their bridges.
• Due date extended one week.
• Submission

Lab videos

• Watch videos for each step
• done with GUI tools in ArcGIS Pro.
• Great for one-off analysis (i.e., run one tool and see what happens).

Technologies?

• One-off analysis doesn't scale well.
• What if your watershed wasn't fruitful?
• What if we needed dozens of watersheds?

Review

• What is the goal of our analysis?
• What are the steps in processing and analysis?
• What is the most time-consuming step?
• What steps can we automate?

Workflows design

• One-off analysis to verify each tool.
• Chain the output of one tool to the input of another.

Workflows in practice

• Model Builder
  • Menu-driven, visual coding environment in ArcGIS Pro.
  • Reads like a flowchart.
• Python Notebook
  • Python code in a Jupyter Notebook.
  • Reads like a recipe.

Let's practice both

• Then do some cartography!
  • locator map
  • bridge map
  • population map
• First: start an ArcGIS Pro Map project.

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