RTC+ridership+and+economics


 * __Project Title:__** RTC Ridership, Homeownership, and Socio-economics in Washoe County

Alex Quintero: alexq171@hotmail.com Mark A. Demuth: mdemuth@unr.edu Pablo Marin: pmlara82@hotmail.com Richard Salas: rsalas1788@sbcglobal.net Pat Guiberson: ( patg@unr.edu ); ... __**Project Description:**__ In this project we are are using GIS to represent a number of variables in graphical format to show the interreationship of RTC ridership, homeownership, and socioeconmics of reginoins of Washoe County.
 * __Particpants:__**

4/10/07 We (Alex & Pablo) have collected the subregions and roads shapefiles for our base data project. Richard is at the "Jobe Fair"
 * __Status:__**

4/11/07
 * Alex and me continue onward making good progress with Richard still MIA. Where are you little camper?(2pm)
 * A new member (Mark) joins the team today and Richard appears after a near death experience while riding his bike. (Good thing you had your pink helmet Richard.) The Chemistry within the group is now in harmony and progress is going well. Currently we are awaiting SketchUp6 since SketchUp5 cannot transfer 3D images into Google Earth Pro. (8pm)

4/12/2007
 * Heard back from Patrice Echola (Planner) RTC on traffic data. Judy from RTC is to contact me (Mark) and arrange data dump (11:16a)

4/15/07 Time to meet
 * __Discussion:__**
 * Let me know what times are good for you guys, so I can ride my girls bike and wear my pink helmet (R.S. 6:21p)
 * Richard it's time to get the ball moving on your side of the court! Please come prepared knowing how to effectively use google earth pro (know it inside and out!). Were counting on you champ. (8:43)

4/17/07
 * At great personal sacrafice, Pat G, stayed late at the lab (while other frolic in SF at the AAGs) to make sure SketchUp6 is up and running.
 * Seems our group has taken a slight detour in this project. We have choosen to look at a number of variables including: transportation (ridership), homeownership (SFR, Condo, MFR, and MH), and Socio-econoimcs (household income). I (Alex) have now created and updated the boundaries shapefiles (we joined the data from the UNR Business whatever that Fred works at with the data from the RTC). I hope that by tomorrow Richard will have completed his prototype buildings (SFR, Condo, MFR and MH) and bring them to the lab. Once again we can only hope! Then we will be able to determine what images we will "skin"/drape over each building. (9:13 and updated 04-18 at 1:39 by MD).

4/20/07
 * Recd shapefiles form RTC with up-to-date traffic counts for project and other shapefiles covering the entire state form NDOT. I (Mark) have forwarded the data to Pablo and asked him to share with Alex. (3:34 by MD)

4/25/07


 * Abstract for NGIS.org Conference**:

Title: RTC Ridership in Washoe County

Presenters: Pablo Marin: pmlara82@hotmail.com Alex Quintero: alexq171@hotmail.com Richard Salas: rsalas1788@sbcglobal.net

Moderator: Pat Guiberson: patg@unr.edu

Abstract: A group of UNR students taking an upper division class in GIS for Planners will share their class project consisting of a PowerPoint presentation of the steps involved during this session. The students used existing data from the Nevada Small Business Development Center’s 2005 Business Activity Report (demographics [income, ethnicity, and housing type], traffic, retail sales, employment, and residential/commercial activity) and compared it to Washoe County Regional Transportation Center (RTC) ridership for 15 subregions of Washoe County, as well as the overall Reno-Sparks metropolitan area. The shape files and data are then presented in graphical format through ArcGIS 9.2 directly in Google Earth Pro with geo-referenced images from Google SketchUp 6. The resulting 3-D images can be viewed live in Google Earth Pro via the web. (8:05p by MD)

What happen to the fourth member MD (Mad Dog (A.K.A. Mark Demuth))...wait wait, i see something in the distances and it looks like a life raft--oh, it is Mark. I guess his not going down with the ship.(7:50a by M)

__I (Richard Degirl) found this site to be helful with phots and wrapping up in Sketchup. If anyone needs help let me know since I am a professional wrapper. (7:00p RS)

http://sketchup.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=57655&query=photo&topic=&type=

Here is a url to help place a sketch up model in google earth.

http://sketchup.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=36241&topic=9057

http://sketchup.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=38610&topic=9060____ _

Yeah Richard, relating to your help advertisement in the previous post, what if, what if, you helped your group?__


 * Discussion:** __

4/28/07__ Interseted in thematic mapping in GEpro? Then you must visit this site http://www.sgrillo.net/googleearth/gegraph.htm. [patg]

__4/26/07__

Alright guys (Mark, Pablo, Alex) we are definitely making progress in our project work, I am just waiting for the traffic data to come in. I (Alex) have just discovered how to place our symbolized features from ArcMap into GE Pro. Once we have all agreed on what type of symbolizing method we would like to use in order to display our data we will then create a KML file. This KML file will then graphically represent our features in GE Pro as seen in ArcMap. Here are a few short steps to complete this process:
 * 1. Create an ArcMap project with any shapefile (I used the Boundary and extracted points from boundary file)
 * 2. Symbolize the shapefile
 * 3. Save the ArcMap project file.
 * 4. Open up your ArcTool Box. This is the red toolbox located in the standard menu. (Richard, this step might be difficult for you)
 * 5. Once intoolbox, navigate to 3D Analyst, into conversion, to KML. (There you will you either select Layer To KML or Map to KML)
 * Note: Selecting Layer To KML will convert a selected feature from the project into a KML. The Map to KML will convert all features from current map project into a KML. (Clarified for the less technically advanced colleagues)
 * 6. Select the shapefile or map project which you would like to see in GE Pro, The output field will be the place where the new KML will be stored. Layer Output Scale should be set to map scale in current ArcMap project (ex. 1:210,000 set to 210,000)
 * 7. KML should be created now and simply import that file into GE Pro for viewing pleasure

Let me know if anyone (Richard) has a problem with these easy to follow steps.

We have now incorporated a legend in our GE Pro project. (AQ)

__4/30/07__ GE:GRAPH is a new program that Pat has installed in the lab. This software creates graphs from existing or new files that have latitude and longitude information. There are a few edits that need to be done in data in order for GE:Graph to work. Playing with fields and columns was the biggest trick after that it should be easy.


 * Some screen shots of our work in progress:**

4/30/07 GE:Graph at its best! An example showing NDOT's 2005 traffic count in a 3D graph.

4/26/07 Example of KML file.

Dots are symbolized by shape and color. The large red dot symbolizes highest ridership and the small blue dots represent low ridership. The regions polygon follows the similar same color pattern (Red high and blue low). Each region is classified by all minorities living with each region.



4/26/07



4/28/2007

We have decided to produce data in both GIS and GoogleEarth Pro each and then compare the usefulness of each. I (Mark) began the PowerPoint Slide Show (see image below).



05/12/2007

We met in the lab and began to assemble our PowerPoint Presentation. (MD)

05/13.2007

Recieved a number of JGPs of for final presenation. (MD)



5/14/2007 All images loaded into PowerPoint Presenation - file to big to post. Will meet at 130 to work as group on final presenation and rehersal. (MD)

My Google Earth Project Take me back to Google GOO I wanna go Home