Spring Break Fun!

The posted map was completed as an optional exercise during Spring Break the University of West Florida Online GIS Certification program class, Introduction to Geographic Information Systems (GIS 4043/L). The map was created use ArcGIS based on recent data downloaded from the State of Florida Department of Revenue.



The goal of the exercise was to take a ArcGIS shapefile of land parcels for Gulf County, Florida and join the parcel data to associated Tax Roll Data that was compiled as a table into a Comma Separated Value (CSV) file then use the information and the ArcGIS functions to determine the top four landholders in the county.

The instructions for the exercise were straightforward as was using ArcGIS to compile and analyze the information to obtain the desired result, a testament to the power and utility of a GIS system, particularly when the sources exist to provide the desired information. As someone with a lot of database and file conversion experience, I was very comfortable using the tools that are available in ArcMap much to my delight. I actually spent more time trying to compose a visually interesting map that displays the data in an easily identifiable way. Hopefully the final map outputed here does so.