GIS Tutorial

Our team and Prof. Mathisen.

On September 5^th , we had the opportunity to attend to a Geographical Information Systems (GIS) tutorial taught by our advisor Prof. Mathisen. Prof. Mathisen incorporates GIS in his courses at WPI. This tutorial was aimed to instruct us in how to use ArcGIS tools to manipulate and create maps. During the tutorial, Prof. Mathisen utilized ArcGIS to overlay different maps that were downloaded from the MassGIS database. The files we downloaded were ZIP files that contained different formats such as image data, vector data, etc., and we had to search and find the one that was the most useful to us. We learned how to change the colors of maps, display some of the maps features, obtain some of the data that is in the map files, select specific layers in a map, etc. Some of the maps we looked at were: the contour data, town outlines and coastal line maps. Additionally, we learned that we must add a North arrow and a scale to the maps we produce for our report.Thanks for the help Prof. Mathisen :)!