The Confluence Proposal
By: Joey Mandelko
The Confluence, a collaboration
project between the public University of Eau Claire Wisconsin and the private
citizens of the city and county of Eau Claire, aims to develop a center for
arts on the confluence of the Chippewa River and Eau Claire River. The goal for
the project of developing various maps centered on the proposed site of the
Confluence Project is to become familiar with the types of data used in analysis
of public spaces and land management in public areas. The first objective was
reach was to familiarize myself with the Eau Claire geodatabase and the various
data sets inside of it. Once an understanding of the layout of the geodatabase
was reached the second objective, of digitizing the proposed area of the
Confluence Project could be achieved. The third objective was to learn about
the Public Land Survey System by creating a map, again focused on the
Confluence, to be able to observe and look for patterns in the land survey
system. Objective four was to use an online resource to be able to describe
each land parcel in the proposal in legal terms. The last objective to be
reached was to organize a layout displaying the maps I had made with the
information I needed to use to reach the objectives.
To complete the first objective I
made a separate geodatabase to hold the datasets I would use then reviewed the
datasets held in the original geodatabase for Eau Claire City and Eau Claire County.
I did all of this movement and research in ArcCatalog. For Objective two I
added a basemap of World Imagery and added parcel_area dataset to the map.
After making that layer hollow I was able to make use the edit toolbar to
access the editing tool and digitize a polygon of the two land parcels to be
involved in the Confluence. Objective three was designed to teach about the
layout of the Public Land Survey System. I added PLSS_Townships dataset from
the Eau Claire geodatabase as well as the PLSS_Sections and
PLSS_Quarter_Quarter_sections to the map surface and used the Identify tool to
look into each Dataset to answer questions for the completion of the objective.
Objective four was to create the Legal description of the two land parcels. I
used the Identify tool again to obtain the parcel_ID then plugged that number
into www.eauclairewi.gov/departments/public-works/engineering/mapping-services
and was able to pull up the legal information for each parcel. Objective 5 was
completed all in ArcMap by creating a basic map for the following topics
concerning public land use and the Confluence: Civil Divisions, Census
Boundaries, Public Land Survey System, Parcels to be used for the Confluence,
and Zoning area. Each map used a layer of world image projection and the two
parcels in questionas well as the specific data from the dataset dragged and
dropped into the display. I then added to each of the displays, shown on an
11x17 landscape display, the required features for a clear map such as a scale bar
and a legend.
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