GIS 4048, Storm tracking and coastal flooding
This was a great lab, in part because I feel like I'm synthesizing a lot of skills I've learned previously into GIS skills, and not just following a lab guide. The first part was making a storm tracker for Hurricane Sandy. The storm tracker section was fairly straightforward, but the trickiest parts were using the world countries layers and US boundaries layers to have unique labeling for the Sandy affected areas. This involved me labeling the US boundaries but excluding the FEMA states with a SQL expression, and making a new layer of Sandy affected countries from the world countries layer and labeling that, then labeling world countries with a SQL expression that excluded labeling the new layer. I also went a step beyond the lab guide and added a label for the first record of each day so I could show a temporal aspect. I got really stuck here, because the provided DATE___TIM column only shows the date in the attribute table, but it was labeling MM/DD/YYYY and adding H...