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| turn radians into degrees |
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| turn degrees into radians |
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where is the latitude=0
and what is latitude measured in? |
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equator
north/south degrees |
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How many times zones are there and
how many degrees and hours between each
zone? |
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24 time zones
15 degrees and 1 hour |
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where is the longitude=0 and
what is longitude measured in? |
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prime meridian
east west degrees |
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| how many satellites are there and how many in use? |
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| 28 total, 24 in use at each times |
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| How many satellites do you need to connect to? |
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| 4, 3 for position, 1 for time. |
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| What time zone is Culver in? |
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| what datum do you use in GPS? |
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| World Geodetic System 1984 datum |
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| What is a Geoid map projection? |
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| the actual shape of the earth |
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| What is a Spheroid map projection? |
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| the radius is greater at the equator, more realistic |
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111Cos(latitude) km
69Cos(latitude) mi |
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| where is a conic projection best at? |
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where is a mercator projection best at?
and what kind of projection is it? |
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the equator
and cylidrical |
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| what is a common length of topo maps? |
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| What is azimuth measuring? |
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| the angle measured clockwise from north |
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| What is quadrant bearing? |
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| the angle measured east or west of north/south |
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| collection of files where info is stored |
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| Structured Query Language |
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Select-fieldname, fieldname,…
From-table name
Where- fieldname> value… |
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| How is a Raster feature displayed? |
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| what is a vector feature and how is it displayed? |
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Points, lines, and polygons
mathematical coordinates |
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| what is the table of contents? |
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| where the feature layers are |
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| what is the main menu toolbar? |
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| where file, view, selection tabs are |
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| what is the standard toolbar? |
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| pan, zoom, full extent etc |
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| How do you get an attribute table? |
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| right click the layer and click attribute table |
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| how do you display layer properties? |
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| right click layer and click properties |
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| how do you change from data and layout view? |
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| on the view drop down menu |
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| how do you get a definition query? |
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| go to properties, go over to the definition query tab and use query builder |
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| what do geodatabases show? |
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| lat lines, long lines, easting and northing |
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