PL431B / PL531B - Map Analysis and Site Planning

WORKBOOK and REFERENCE AID

by Alan A. Lew, Ph.D., AICP
Dept. of Geography & Public Planning
Northern Arizona University

CONTENTS

1. Syllabus

1.1 Course Schedule

2. AutoCAD Tips

2.0 General and Miscellaneous Tips

2.1 Making Backups and Deleting Files

2.2 Large File Management and Recovering from Crashes

2.3 Most Useful AutoCAD Commands, as indicated by former students in PL431

3. Setup, Map Scale, and the Prototype Drawing

3.1 Prototype Drawing Setup - Summary

4. Plotting to Scale

5. Digitizer Calibration Notes

6. Coordinate Systems and Control Points

6.1 Digitizer Calibration using ADOT Control Points

6.2 ADOT Horizontal Control Point Coordinates

7. Digitizing and COGO materials

7.1 Mapping Coconino County (report)

7.2 COGO Exercise 1 - Deeds

7.3 COGO Exercise 2 - Subdivision

8. Site Plan Checklist

9. Global Positioning System - Lecture Outline

9.1 GPS Project Directions

APPENDIX 1 - Mapping Layers

1.1 - Land Use and Land Cover Layers

1.2 - Land Base and Utility Layers

1.3 - tba

APPENDIX 2 - Miscellaneous Maps

APPENDIX 3 - Sample of Past Written Midterm Exam

APPENDIX 4 - Miscellaneous Readings

4.1 - ArcCAD: A Review - By Dr. Alan A. Lew

4.2 - Standard Land Use and Land Cover Mapping Layers - By Dr. Alan A. Lew

4.3 - Standard Land Base and Utilities Mapping Layers - By Dr. Alan A. Lew

Homepage - Syllabus - Schedule/Assignments - Workbook - Virtual Text - Dr. Alan Lew