For the lab this week, I made a campus map for the top five frequently visited buildings. I started by choosing the buildings: Cassat Hall, LDC, CMC, Gould Library, and Recreation Center, which basically cover my step pattern for this term. I then made the spreadsheet for these locations with information like longitude and latitude, days visited every week, and function. Then in ArcGIS, I started building the mapping from an appropriate basemap and uploaded the spreadsheet to the map. I chose the days visited every week as an attribute that I wanted to emphasize and used circles of different sizes to indicate the level of this attribute. I also outlined the buildings and added images to those available.
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