Interactive Map of Utah and the Environment
My blog piece is an online, interactive map of Utah and the geographic impact of
environmental policies (or lack thereof) in our state. It can be accessed by going to
ArcGISonline.com and searching for “Utah and the Environment” or by clicking on
the link below:
The goal of my piece is
to convey a large amount of environmental information in a user-friendly
manner. I’ve included a dozen different
types of data, each of which can be identified by looking at the Map Legend tab. Visualizing all of this
information at once can be overwhelming, so I’ve also made it possible to turn
each layer on and off using the Layers
tab. This way, each individual user
can visualize as many or as few different topics of environmental information
as he or she wishes. It was my intent to
make the map simple to use, and for this reason, the amount of information that
is included for each feature is relatively limited. For further explanation of data, please see
my sources. While this map contains a lot of very specific information, I feel
that it portrays five main ideas that I’ve learned more about in this class:
Sources
US Army Environmental Command (USAEC)
US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
Utah Automated Geographic Reference Center (AGRC)
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