Recruits Warpath

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Recruits Warpath

• Phase One

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Plan

• Mission To prove that we, as recruits, are
  worthy enough to be invited back to the Academy
  (GIS Club).
• Plan To organize a march in six months,
  starting in November.
• Deadline April 30

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"Walking Trail"

• Phase I
• Learn ArcView 3.3
• Create Shape Files
• Plot Waypoints
• Site Visit to Test Trails
• Corrections

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Learning ArcView

• ArcView is a sophisticated system of surveillance
  cameras and as the recruits of Overlord Academy,
  it is our first job to work the night shift of
  ArcView. ArcView GIS is a mapping software using
  themes and views to layer different maps and
  types of information.

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Shape Files

• Shape files are a fairly big part of our
  training. Shape files help tell us where certain
  objects are (or supposed to be, in the case of
  the river). Sometimes shape files can be complex
  polygons, or sometimes they can be as simple as a
  single point. The first shape file we as
  recruits learn to do is a gigantic man-made lake.
  It is always helpful when deploying troops to
  know if you are trying to march through a 50 foot
  deep lake.

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Contour Lines

• Contour lines are another extremely good point to
  make to younger troops, and our instructors have
  pounded the importance of contour lines into us.
  Why, you ask? Well think about how an infantry
  unit feels about having to carry 15 pound
  backpacks across a 5 foot distance with an
  incline of 15 feet!!! That is very steep, come
  to think of it, that is steep enough to go
  cardboard sliding . . . . . .

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Learning How to Fire a GPS

• (or how to enter a waypoint)

One of the first things that we, at the Overlord
Academy (GIS Club), learn to do is to fire a GPS
(enter a way point). First, we thumb off the
safety (turn on the GPS receiver). Next we
scroll through the various safe points to start
our path of destruction (trial trail). If there
is no safe points already entered, we enter a new
point by pressing the button on the front upper
left side. It will then plot the point. As part
of our rigorous training (and because the senior
members dont want to), we as recruits must march
to the next point of entry. Absolutely BRUTAL!!!
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Learning How to Fire a GPS

• (or how to enter a waypoint)

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First March of the New Year

• Our first march (first site visit) was a very big
  deal to us new recruits, because it separated the
  quitters and the winners okay so maybe that is a
  little harsh. Anyway our first site visit was
  extremely exciting for all our recruits. It
  showed us what we were really working with. Of
  course we had to move almost all of our way
  points. They were in the river and on manholes.
  Needless to say, we had a lot more work ahead of
  us!!!

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Possible Warpaths
Nathan Schiferls Path
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Possible Warpaths
Dorathy Scrudders Path
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Possible Warpaths
Sarah Pritskers First Path
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Possible Warpaths
Matthew Zettlers First Path
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Possible Warpaths
Jonathon Russells First Path
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All Possible Warpaths
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Learn ArcView 3.

• Create a View
• Add Themes
• Create New Themes
• Extensions Projections
• Aerial Photos
• Contour Lines
• On to Phase II