The Chris English National Map Challenge
Last Updated on Thursday, 30 October 2008 10:11 Written by Chris English
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(You may circulate this challenge as wide as you wish )
The National Map, its data, and the software hosting its
interface will be the foundation of the Department of Interior
(DOI)/Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) Enterprise GIS. Emergency
Incident Information Technology/GIS is testing thin clients for
all incident computing. The vision for map data is using
consistent national data sets.
The person completing this challenge first according to the rules
below will receive an 8 gigabyte thumb drive of my choice. It
won't be a sissy cheap one either, but an international known
brand I can afford from my own pocket. Eight gigs lets you copy
enough data from a machine that can't write a DVD to one that
can.
The challenge is:
Using the data and interface of The National Map create a map of
California's Hoopa Valley Indian Reservation, the 1978 pilot
project site for BIA GIS. This map must show shaded relief, local
transportation, the reservation boundary and local federal
management with appropriate shaded relief and labels for each
ownership.
This map must have the elements emergency management and
emergency rehabilitation demands of any map product distributed
or published for an incident:
S: Scale Bar
T: Title
A: Author
N: North Arrow
D: Date & Time
D: Datum
L: Legend
This is the basis for the famous Tammy Wynette song "STANDD by
your maps, Lou."
This map must be completed within one GIS shift operational
period in a two shift work day - 9 hours
Using only the National Map portal http://nationalmap.gov/
and resources of Internet Explorer 6 or 7
(skip the 7, use IE 6, BIA has no 7) export an
8.5 x 11 PDF or PNG to your local hard disk.
Send the exported file, the steps describing how you completed
the task, your name, address and phone number, to
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by December 1, 2008.
The winner will have their name bandied about BIANet and have an
8 gig thumb drive by Christmas.
You may circulate this challenge as wide as you wish. If
permitted, I will publish the map to the BIA Enterprise GIS
(EGIS) discussion portal.
chris
Chris English
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c: 602 421-2112
f: 602 379-6826
