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GEOG 4203/5103 Fundamentals of Geographic Information Systems
Lab 4, week 5: Coordinate Systems
Name:
Janelly Salgado
Date of submission:
09/26/2023
Due date:
October 1, 2023 at 11:59pm
Lab questions (Indent and provide an answer in a complete sentence, 20 points in total)
Questions from lab tutorial
Question 1
What is the map coordinate system (CS) now (1 point)?
The map coordinate system is latitude and longitude.
Question 2
What are the coordinates of the SE tip of Florida (2 points)?
-80.433, 25.231
Question 3
What are the map units of this frame (1 point)? What are the display units (1 point)?
The map units of this frame are decimal degrees and the display units are also
decimal degrees.
Question 4
What are the map units for this Mercator project (1 point)?
The map units for the Mercator project are in meters.
Question 5
Which continent has primarily negative x AND negative y coordinates in this project (1 point)?
Which one has primarily positive x and y coordinates (1 point)?
South America has primarily negative x and y coordinates. Asia has primarily
positive x and y coordinates.
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Question 6
What longitude is the central meridian (1 point)? What is the latitude of origin (1 point)? What
are the standard parallels (2 points)?
The longitude of the central meridian is -96.0. The latitude of origin is 40.0. The
standard parallels are 20.0 and 60.0.
Question 7
Will the new StudyBoundary data set overwrite the old one, since they are the same name? Why
or why not (2 points)?
No, it will not overwrite the old one since they are saved in the geodatabase, which is
saved in a different file.
Question 8
What coordinate system is HistoricMines stored in (1 point)?
NAD 1983 South Dakota State Plane
Questions from practice exercises
Question 1
Examine the coordinate system for the
streets
feature class in the
Austin
geodatabase. What is the
name of the coordinate system (1 point)? Is it projected or unprojected (1 point)? What are the
map units (1 point)?
The name of the coordinate system is NAD 1983 State Plane Texas Central. It is
projected and the map units are in degrees.
Question 6
Is the Africa Lambert Conformal Conic project a tangent or secant projection? How can you tell
(2 points)?
The Africa Lambert Conformal Conic project is a secant projection. I can tell
because it has two standard parallels.
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