My doodle that wasn't on my assignment paper for GIS day looked like that. Because it was that.
I think people were just mad that they had to go to GIS day because they had to sit on the floor for it... and I just was a tad mad because the guy was taunting me with a sandwich by not giving it to me. We were all quite hungry.
But don't listen to what anyone tells you! GIS day was fun!
GIS= Geographic Information Systems
I especially liked learning what you could do with GIS. I was much less interested in the "basics of GIS" and "how we gather info" blah blah blah stuff. What I liked was USING it.
And that story with the petroglyph things, even though it wasn't directly related to GIS, it was still my favorite part. It was talking about these things that you would find on the ground on the edge of a cliff that would be a circle (or multiple circles) and a line starting in and going out of it with a smaller circle somewhere around it. It was figured out that if you follow the line with your eyes, it points to some feature on the horizon. They figured out that the circle was the horizon, and if there were more than one, it was because from that point you could see more than one horizon. Then the smaller circle/s could be inside the larger somewhere, showing that there was a water spring before the horizon, or a circle outside which would show that there was a water spring there past the horizon that you could see. So it was like an ancient map to find water! Cool!
'Nother addition to my pin collection! I quite like it. "i love gis day". Their mistake for saying "gis" instead of "GIS"... everyone tried to read it, not say it.
My eraser knows where you live. :) <---- Eraser
On another note, color guard camp (since it's pretty much not tryouts, you'll get in mostly no matter what) went really good today! We had lotsa newbies! And we could use moooooore! And we have our first guys! Yay!
I think we all did super good for their first day. I think this is MOST DEFINITELY going to be our best season. I can feel it! Because after all, "Color guard is not an activity, it is a feeling."
FEEL IT?? FEEL IT??? Yeah, I feel it too!
I've read about and talked about GIS in my Human Geography class, but it would be helpful for my projects if I knew how to use it!
ReplyDeleteIt seems extremely confusing to use to me. But that might just be because that up to this point, it's all been eight page packets with very specific directions. So specific that it explained to us what it wanted us to do when it said "right click".
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