Assignment task:
You are the owner of a small GIS-based services start-up company and a client approaches your company for soliciting a quote to perform the following GIS-based services: Create digital data from paper maps of privately owned land (near the Algonquin Provincial Park) that the client owns and intends to develop an eco-tourism camp on wooded lots connected by a road and nature trails, in Whitney, Ontario. Develop a GIS model to study the potential environmental impact of the proposed development to the surrounding area including the Algonquin Provincial Park. However, the client would like to meet with you first to ask some GIS-related questions to ensure that your company is up for this task, before her lawyers and administrative team send you the RFP for this project. Her team, consisting of the following people, is ready to meet with you at her company headquarters in Orillia, Ontario today: Owner/client Project manager (also an environmental geoscientist familiar with GIS) Project coordinator (who has some rudimentary knowledge of GIS) Lawyer (who has some rudimentary knowledge of GIS)
The client has a stack of 10 paper maps showing underground oil and natural gas pipelines that pass through her land and asks you to re-create the information as digital files in GIS. The client wants to develop the land in the vicinity of the two pipelines. Once the arduous process of manually inputting the map data in a GIS is completed, the 10 maps can be re-drawn producing 20 files, 10 each for the oil and natural gas pipeline features, respectively. Discuss what could be done in a GIS to join them together into just two seamless layers (one for the oil pipeline and the other for the natural gas pipeline - Hint: Think about the six "geoprocessing" tools).