Final Poster!

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Here is the final product for this semester's work toward mapping the property of the Otter Pond Club.

Figure 1. Final Poster for Otter Pond Club Property Mapping

Final Draft of Property Map

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Here is the final draft of the whole property map of the Otter Pond Club.

Figure 1. Whole Map of Otter Pond Property

Final Draft of Cabins Map

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Here is the final Draft of the Cabins/ Otter Pond Lots Map.

Figure 1. Map of Lots/Cabins on Otter Pond Property

New Drafts of Camps and Property Maps

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I just post two of the newer drafts of both the Camp/Lot Map and the whole property map with labels. Please Comment and leave any feedback!

Figure 1. Map of Cabins Around Otter Pond

Figure 2. Full Otter Pond Club Property Map

Plotted GPS Points

Tuesday, November 26th, 2013

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Yesterday I finally finish entering all the GPS points and other data variables into Excel from my field notebook. After a couple hours here and there all the data has been entered into Excel sheets in a nicely organized format. Upon finishing that process I was able to finally plot/display the GPS points onto the basemap. Overall I took 613 pairs of GPS points. These are very rough versions of what are to coming in the following week. Check out the results below!

This map displays the camp/property driveways.

This map displays the full extent of the Otter Pond Property with property line and trails.

Georeferenced Map

Hello Everbody,

Here the product of georeferencing the Essex County Property survey to the NYGIS Clearinghouse orthoimages.

First Rough Draft Map with Georeferenced survey raster JPEG

Weekend of Data Collection

Monday, November 4th, 2013

Hello Everybody,

         Jonathan and I had a successful weekend collecting GPS points over the weekend. I believe that we collected points for all the needed trails and paths at the Otter Pond Club. In the next week or two I will be compiling all of the data points into excel along with other information that is pertinent to each coordinate pair. For the most part aside from the beginning of data collection I collected the data in four columns that consisted of; Degrees North, Degrees West, Error (in feet), and Notes. All of which are quite self explanatory. Aside from this I recorded the weather conditions and dates for both days. 

Jonathan Glueckert Reading off the GPS Coordinates

         The first day wasn't exactly the most favorable day for collecting points as it was a 40° F with a wind chill and intermittent periods of light rain. At first the light on and off drizzle was tolerable but then it began to rain heavily making it impossible to collect the points in the notebook. To avoid ruining the notebook and becoming sick we decided to call it a day to head back to the cabin early. This set us back in time and made us much more constrained with time on Sunday. Sunday was 30° F, a clear and sunny day. To get back save time we used ATVs to get back to the waypoint at which we stopped collecting points the day before. Moving as efficiently as possible we were able to collect all the points needed by the time the sun had set. Overall we collected just under 800 coordinate pairs. In the next two weeks I'll be compiling the hand written data into excel so that it can be then loaded into ArcMap to map out the trails and paths. 

Important points are:

East Network Trail Head
        North - 43° 54.929      West - 74° 12.348
West Network Trail Head
        North - 43° 54.573      West - 74° 12.952
Otter Pond Way Trail Head
        North - 43° 54.718     West - 74° 12.913
East and West Network Trail Intersection
        North - 43° 54.345      West - 74° 12.455
Split in Trail to Tree Farming Plot from Network Trail
        North - 43° 54.577      West - 74° 12.165