Blog Post 7

Since my last post, I have been trying to clean up my map with the use of a better color scheme, bolder route for the rally and such other edits.  I have also started work on my poster using Microsoft PowerPoint.  I will have more done by the end of this week and will be able to show the work in progress poster.  Stay tuned!

Blog Post 6

I have made a large breakthrough on the project.  I was able to successfully add in the .csv files for the United States, France, Spain, and the United Kingdom from the FFDAS database.  It took a while but I added the .csv files by country to ArcMap, used "Display XY Data" to make rasters of the data. It was drawn in grid form, but by making a "Unique Values" category and eliminating the null values that made up the outline xy points, I could just display the CO2 data.  The route data and checkpoints were also added on top.  I will continue to workout the bugs and try to smooth the raster data so it flows better. But this is just a huge improvement.  Thanks to Matt Porter for the help!

Screenshot showing East Coast United States CO2 data and Rally Route

Screenshot showing Europe CO2 data and Rally Route

Blog Post 5

I am still having issues with imputing the excel data (.csv).  Here is an example of CO2 data from the UK and how it is not working right.  I am not sure what can fix this issue.  It is some progress over the large black box I got last time I tried to import the US data.

As you can see, it is drawing lat/long as points and not showing CO2 data.  I have tried to change the symbology, I tried to convert it to a raster, and so far no luck.  

Blog Post 4

I changed my objective from critical habitats to global carbon emissions because it would be easier to correlate to the Gumball 3000 and the emissions the cars give off.
As of right now I am still in search of CO2 and emission data to map.  So far I have found a .kml file from Project Vulcan of Arizona State University.  It provides layers of emission data for the United States.  I have also found a excel file from the Fossil Fuel Data Assimilation system from Purdue University which had global data.  Examples of each can be found below.

Project Vulcan KML File with Gumball Route

Fossil Fuel Data Assimilation System