Activity 4.2.1

This is a map I created that can be used to plan a family road trip.  The purpose of the family road trip was to visit one national forest, one national park and one state park, and along the way stop at tow major cities.  In order do that I added created the map above that displays the US state boundaries the US freeway system and major cities in the US.  I edited the US Freeway system  layers to distinguished between Interstates, US highway and state and county highway.  I edited the USA parks layers to label National, State parks different colors so those could be easily distinguished between.  With all this information displayed on my map I was finally able  to use the route tool in ArcGIS to generate a route with all the stops I choose to pick for me family trip.

I created this map to display information that can be useful in deciding the location of a new landfill site.  The criteria for a possible landfill site is that, the site is away from earthquake fault zones, out of flood zones, away from protected wetlands and has a soil type that is ideally form restricting threats to groundwater contamination.   To meet these requirements I added the following information to my map, location of currently landfill sites, protected wetland areas, flood hazard areas, and population boundaries.   I edited these layers to display dense population is a dark grey to black color.  The current landfill locations are marked with a dump truck symbol.  Protected wet lands and flood areas are red.   Through research about soil types learned that the ideal type of soil for preventing ground water contamination is Inceptisols , Ultisols and Vertisols.  These types of soils were filtered on the map to be show green and orange colors.   To select an ideal location for a new landfill locations you would be looking for an area that is grey in color, referring to population.  An area that is out of a red area, meaning it is not in a flood zone or protected wetland, and finally on soil that is rendered orange or green on the map.