Dear Diary – FranklinCountyGeologicMap
7/5/12 – Began working on the map today. MM decided to compile a mapview/layout that
would have all the geologic files comprising the county. Then MM would send this to PB and SS, so that
they would see the geology that would make up the map. If they thought some of the geology was
outdated, they would let me know. MM
brought in all the shapefiles (and a couple of feature classes) that comprised
the Franklin County area. The two quads
at the top, Vicksboro and Afton, did not have geology and were left blank. MM made pdf’s of the county (with and without
a grid) and emailed them to PB and SS.
7/6/12 – MM created the geodatabase and used the earlier
shapefiles to create the feature classes.
MM brought in the layer files, created a new column “MapUnit”, saved the
ROCKUNIT values to this column, then brought in the layer files again, this
time using MapUnit as the new value, so that the RGB values got
transferred. MM also put in LatLong
coordinates for the map. MM then saved the
folder in the G:. MM also downloaded
files that PB sent me for Franklinton, Kittrell, Grissom and Wilton.
3/20/13 – MM have completed edits for these four quads and
sent them to PB and SS for their assessments.
MM re-added the polygons for Rolesville, since they didn’t turn up when
MM opened the .mxd.
3/22/13 – MM shrunk each polygon’s .lyr so that it has only
units that are in the feature class. MM
loaded the contact lines for most of the quadrangles.
11/18/14 – MM just got back to this, since PB wanted me to
find out what we had for Franklin County.
The connections had been dislodged, so MM had to Repaired Data Source
for a lot of files. Once that was
finished, MM had to continue to complete the files for the county. MM still have to figure out why some files
got brought in and some files got brought into the FranklinCounty folder as
feature classes instead of keeping them in their respective folders.
11/19/14 – MM put in the remaining polylines and polygons to
complete the county and to restore the map to how it used to be. MM then sent PB two pdf’s of the county – one
with a grid (sometimes_you_feel_like_a_nut) and one without
(sometimes_you_dont).
12/19/14 – MM tried creating a seamless cropped geo tiff
base for Franklin County in Global Mapper, but the yellows and whites of each
cropped quadrangle showed up in the new geotiff. What you have to do in Arc is take out each
yellow and white for each quadrangle, then take it all to Global Mapper and try
again to create a cropped geotiff.
2/5/15 – MM completed placing structural symbols for all the
quadrangles into the Franklin County .mxd.
The next thing to do is to combine all of these feature classes into one
giant symbols feature class for the county.
In the last few weeks, MM has added contour lines from the Franklin
County GIS website (or DOT-I can’t remember right now), and used Global Mapper
to create a seamless basemap with a separate layer each for transportation and
hydro. MM also created the layout, which
includes all the linework, rock unit boxes and rock unit descriptions. The rock unit stuff is preliminary, depending
on what PB does with them. The title,
scale bar, disclaimers, NCGS logo and the quadrangle index were also added to
the layout.
2/9/15 – MM brought in the new combined
Ingleside_OrientationPoints feature class and deleted the other seven
shapefiles associated with Ingleside. MM
then listed the quads from NW to SE in the Table of Contents, and then began
looking through each attribute table to make sure the tables conform to each
other. The next file to work on is
Franklinton_OrientationPoints.
2/10/15 – MM continued looking through attribute tables and
making corrections where necessary. The
next file to work on is BunnWest_ObservationPointsCoastalPlain.
2/11/15 – MM finished looking through the attribute tables
for the first time. Will look over the
attribute tables a second time today.
2/15/15 (Sunday) – MM looked over the attribute tables twice
and added columns to some files and changed the names of columns of others to
match the main schema. MM also added
some files to the Table of Contents, because some quadrangles weren’t
completely showing all the points available.
MM will either today or tomorrow merged all 26 files into one super file
for the observation points. The total
number of entries is 12,990.
2/22/15 (Sunday) – MM brought in
BunnEast_ObservationPoints3A (617 additional points).
2/23/15 – Discussed the Skipp99 points from Bunn East with
Skip and Phil. Those are geochem points
and should be labelled as such. The
other geochem points in Franklin County should also be labelled in the
attribute table. Do that on 2/24. Maybe make Diamond 1 or 2? Orange 12?
3/2/15 – MM started by adding 2 columns (Type and Symbol) to
the GeoChem Points feature classes to make sure those values are “geochem” and
“Diamond 5 Electron Gold (orange) 20” respectively. MM then began, starting with Wilton, to
enhance the feature class attribute tables by adding values to the Symbol
column. PB decided that it would be
better to merge all 29 files into one giant ObservationPoints feature class
with all the symbols. MM completed this
merging. MM then started working on ES
edgematch issues, starting with Doodles #1.
3/3/15 – MM completed all the edgematch issues with Doodles
1 and sent a report showing the changes to ES and PB. MM then completed the first of two edits on
Doodles 2.
3/4/15 – MM completed the rest of the Doodles2, as well Doodles3
and Doodles4. MM emailed ES and PB with
screenshots that showed the completed edits.
MM then worked on extension of Doodles3, drawing overlay polygons of the
facies in the SW portion of the county.
3/5/15 – MM finished drawing the overlay polygons for the
facies. MM symbolized the polygons. MM tried bringing in the Rolesville diabase
points but they wound up in Georgia.
Only when MM also had to bring in the Alton and Vicksboro points did MM
realize he had to assign a GCS to the points from Skip’s files. MM later brought in the Alton and Vicksboro
points.
3/6/15 – MM started made corrections to ES revised edits for
Doodles3 from email on 3/5/15. It led to
MM bringing in the MapUnitPolys feature classes for Bunn East, Bunn West,
Middlesex, Rolesville and Zebulon. MM
has no idea why MM brought in earlier versions of those polygons (maybe they
are all in Raleigh 100k?). MM changed
inferred2 lines that border the facies back to their original 1.1.5 50% gray. MM put in additional diabase (8 points) from
ES’s Jd2_funky_otcps_rev.xls file. MM
brought in Alton and Vicksboro point data from 3/5/35 ES files into the
FranklinCounty_ObservationPoints_Merged feature class, only after modifying and
adding columns to ease with the data merge.
MM is in the process of turning on the Qal for every quadrangle in the
county that has the unit. Then MM will
change the names of polygons per ES’s
Granites_symbol_changes_table_FranklinCo.docx.
3/9/15 – Changed the location of the MapUnitPolys for
Ingleside, Louisburg, Stoddard4 and Zebulon back to their original .mxd’s. MM had originally saved those into the
FranklinCountyGeologicMap folder, but later decided to send them back to their
original .mxd’s. MM then began to change
the names of the rock units internally on the attribute tables, per changes
from ES. Brought in latest ES rock unit
descriptions into the layout. MM will
start on Justice tomorrow.
3/10/15 – MM changed Czum to CZum in Kittrell. MM completed making internal polygon changes
to the MapUnit’s for MapUnitPolys. MM
will next standardize the MapUnit columns for the MapUnitPolys in preparation
for merging them at some point.
3/11/15 – MM had PB in office and answered questions from
“Things to do for Franklin County” .doc.
MM began drawing non-Franklin County facies polygons in Rolesville and
then will transform those polygons into two-level polygon symbols.
3/12/15 – MM has been making two-level symbolized polygons
for the facies. MM needs to draw
Lassiter polygon next. PB sent him an
example of the linework for the polygon.
3/13/15 – MM completed the Lassiter facies. MM added the structural symbols, but could
not add the layer file because “The imported layer is in an invalid
format.” MM added the
Quarries_Mines_Prospects_Franklin file, but the same error message prevented
the layer from loading correctly. MM edited
the symbols compilation attribute tables because there was a flaw in the
SM_CODE column. There were 0,1 and 2.
Should only have been 1 and 2.
Also changed SM 1 to 2 for many points, especially in Louisburg. MM brought in the stereoscopes and Domain
map. There is something wrong with the
layout, because there is something squirrelly with the Franklin County geology
Data Frame in the layout. It goes beyond
the layout into the upper left corner.
PB saved stereoscopes and domain map as one png and MM brought it into
the layout.
3/14/15 (Saturday) – MM opened the layout and the squirrely
thing went away. Everything is normal,
for now. MM moved the png to SE of
Franklin County. Moved index of county
to NW corner of layout. MM began sweep
of county to make sure the structural symbols are being represented properly
(i.e. no false multiples, when only a single is necessary). MM arranged the symbols around the center
point for aesthetics and also went back to the original point files to bring in
the foliation, if an arrow was by itself. (only did this twice-the three or
four others were just deleted) MM
enlarged the fault line symbol in Grissom.
In preparation for merging all polygon files together, MM will make sure
each file has a Quadrangle column and a MapUnit column. Use Wilton MapUnitPolys.lyr when everything
is combined. That has the most polygons
with symbols.
3/16/15 – MM combined all the MapUnitPolys into one file –
FranklinCounty_MapUnitPolys. MM then
clipped this layer to the Franklin County polygon. MM then symbolized this with Stoddard4, not
Wilton, because it would cover more polygons in the map. MM completed the symbolization of the
polygons for MapUnitPolys. MM then
auto-labelled the polygons.
3/17/15 – MM added the names of the symbols to the “Label”
portion of the Layer Properties window for
FranklinCounty_ObservationPointsCompilation feature class. MM then Inserted the symbols into the layout
and made it look good. MM brought in the
lines, and with PB’s help, made that look good.
MM checked or fixed items around the layout. MM made the rock unit descriptions fit in the
printed area. There wasn’t time to put
the colored boxes next to the descriptions; we didn’t have time-that will come
later. Once everything was good enough,
MM printed out the map (it took a little more than an hour).
3/18/15 – Either today or tomorrow or someday, MM will fix
some flaws to the map, including colored rock boxes, proper scale for the
symbols on the map, dip numbers, crosshairs, etc… MM changed the font size on the color rock
boxes. MM also reduced size of boxes to
.4 x .2.
3/19/15 – MM deleted old rock boxes and inserted new
ones. MM symbolized the boxes so that
they are smaller and the text still fits.
3/24/15 – MM finished arranging the colored rock boxes. MM emailed ES that there are about 8 or 9
rock unit names with colored boxes, but no rock unit descriptions. MM will email him screen shots of the rock
units in question and whether they are in the county or not, in the next couple
of days.
3/25/15 – MM emailed ES screenshots of the rock units that
were not listed in the rock unit descriptions that ES gave to MM. MM also printed out a copy of the Franklin
County geologic map and it is on the wall in the hallway.
3/27/15 – ES sent MM an email with a response to the
non-rock-unit-descriptions. Most of the
rock units will be renamed to existing rock unit names. MM created a new county index tif image (so
the geographic coordinates won’t interfere with the GeoPDF) and placed it in
the layout. MM removed
“Structural_symbols_Franklin_for_compilation” because the new feature “Analyze
Map” said this “Layer’s data source doesn’t have a spatial index”, which
apparently is important to Arc, plus this layer has been superseded by
“FranklinCounty_ObservationPointsCompilation”.
3/30/15 – After looking at Analy ze map, MM copied the one entry of
“Age_date_location_Franklin” to “FranklinCounty_ObservationPointsCompilation”
and then deleted Age_date… After looking
at Analyze Map again, MM can live with the errors. MM then saved the quadrangle index as a tif
image and put it on the layout, so this data frame wouldn’t interfere with the
GeoPDF. MM needs to change the rock unit
names.
3/31/15 – MM changed the rock units per ES changes. MM brought in rock descriptions for the
layout for CZhg, CZrl, p, PzZgg. MM
changed the color symbol for p from purple to a pink with + signs in it. MM started arranging the external rock unit
labels in a sweep.
4/13/15 – MM continued the sweep.
4/14/15 – MM finished the sweep.
4/16/15 – MM continued adding the rock unit descriptions to
the layout. The description box had
reached its maximum, so another box was added.
After the text was added, the text will need to be bolded for the rock
unit name. The rock boxes will also have
to have a frame.
4/17/15 – MM started putting frames around the colored rock
boxes in the layout. MM made the Jd2
lines visible in Kittrell, Franklinton and Rolesville .mxd’s, which
automatically made them visible in the Franklin County geologic map. This started after realizing the rock
descriptions in the layout had a Jd2, but no lines in the Data View.
4/25/15 (Saturday) – MM put the rock unit descriptions in
the attribute table.
4/27/15 – MM put the rock units descriptions that were not
listed in the main description list into the attribute table.
4/29/15 – MM made edits to the layout.
4/30/15 – MM had a tough time with the Annotation to the
ObservationPointsCompilation layer. MM
tried to correct the Compilation file in the Incline column, and that did work,
but it did not get translated to the Annotation layer. MM tried saving the Compilation as another
feature class, but Arc wouldn’t create annotations for it. So MM went back to the original Compilation
file and decided to work with it. MM
started arranging the dip numbers around the symbol.
5/1/15 – MM continued moving dip numbers.
5/15-5/19/15 – MM finished moving dip numbers. MM noticed Qal anomalies on Bunn West in
BW_MapUnit_Polys_Final. MM noticed that
the patterned polygons for Bunn East, Bunn West, Middlesex and Zebulon need to
have their Qal polygons copied and pasted to the OverlayPolys feature classes
for each quadrangle. Then they need to
be merged with those adjoining polygons.
This will lessen the problem of lines overwriting each other. Then delete the BE, BW, MX, ZE polygons. MM has not figured out yet how to use the
granitoid polygons to clip out the Qal polygons.
5/20-5/21/15 – MM worked on the text of layout, using ES’s
email from 5/12/15 as a guide, took the overprint-stippling patterns on the granite
polygons from 50% to 20%, labelled the Jd and Jd2 lines, put symbols on the
fold lines, adjusted the color rock boxes on the layout, standardized the
length of lines in layout and started to label Qal polygons.
5/22/15 – MM finished labelling the Qal polygons and, per
ES’s 5/11/15, drew the linework and polygons for the northernmost part of the
county. MM then printed out a pdf for ES
and PB.
7/23/15 – MM made and completed edits from ES 052215
comments on a pdf. MM also began to make
edits from ES 052715 comments from Microsoft Word. MM changed pegmatites from polygons to Ginger
Pink plus symbols. MM will add pegmatite
symbol to layout next to pavement outcrop.
7/28/15 – MM finished all ES Word 052715 edits, except for
number 6. Awaiting instructions on that
one.
7/29/15 – MM figured out where line was and thickened
it. Then MM printed out the map.
8/10/15 – ES
wanted the text for the unit descriptions from the map. So I sent him the
Franklin_County_Unit_Descriptions_3_6_15.doc
8/11/15 – ES sent an email with edits and modifications to
the rock unit descriptions. MM made most
of the 6 edits and all but the last two of the edits to the rock unit
descriptions. MM merged the gray Tpfms polygons from
Middlesex and Zebulon with the polygons from Bunn East, in order to take out
the black lines showing the quad boundaries.
MM then sent ES back the text from the layout for his additional
adjustments.
8/12/15 – MM picked up ES’s edited map from CPO. MM corrected almost all of the edits on the
map. There are a few questions for PB. PB verified some answers, but will get more
from ES. MM has to merge the Qal layers
(hopefully, just like the coastal plain merge).
8/13/15 – MM finshed merging of Qal and then printed the
map.
8/20/15 – MM added back the Stoddard/Fuemmeler addition to
Other References section that was taken out earlier.
9/5/15 (Saturday) – MM started correcting edits from
KBT. Numbers 1,2,3, 8, 9 need help from
PB. MM corrected number 4, 5, 6, 10 and
11. MM moved the N arrow. MM put the correct designation for the map in
the upper right portion of the map. MM
added three 1:24,000 scale inset maps (BunnEast, Franklinton, Stoddard4) to be
used for a representative map of the data density. Along with some text description. PB or KBT will determine which density map goes
on the layout.
9/17/15 – MM merged all the lines for the quadrangles into
FranklinCounty_ContactsAndFaults.
Depending on how things go, MM might create an OtherLines feature
class.
9/21/15 – MM added the lines from the cpu and Qal polygons
for Bunn East, Bunn West, Middlesex and Zebulon, by converting the polygons
into polylines and then copying and pasting the polylines into
FranklinCounty_ContactsAndFaults.
Tomorrow, MM will create an .mxd that thins out the herd and leaves just
the important things in the .mxd.
9/22/15 – MM saved the .mxd as
FranklinCountyGeologicMap_092215.mxd.
Then MM started removing feature classes that were not being used. MM merged OverlayPolys feature classes
together, created an OverlayPolys2 feature class, then added the two shapefiles
for mines and prospects to the FranklinCounty_ObservationPointsCompilation
feature class. MM changed the other
DataViews so that they are also in the same geodatabase. Tomorrow, MM will put the images in the same
folder with the geodatabase, so that the folder itself should be portable.
9/23/15 – MM created a DISTRIBUTABLE and PRODUCTION folder
and put everything that was in the FranklinCountyGeologicMap folder into the
appropriate folders. MM sent PB a
detached copy on the T drive and the .mxd would open, then crash Arc. PB was able to open various feature classes
and their .lyr’s. MM will now merge all
the polygon files and the coastal plain polygons into feature classes.
9/24/15 – MM merged a couple of polygons in the south side
of the county. Tomorrow, MM needs to
deal with overlapping polygons.
9/25/15 – MM merged many polygons together. MM is ready to try topology on MapUnitPolys
feature class. MM has loaded the
topology for the polygons and will correct it on Monday.
9/28/15 – MM loaded topology and tried to correct the errors
that topology indicated. The polygon
PPcga was offset and MM had to manually sew the nodes back together again with
the adjacent polygons. MM also corrected
other errors.
9/29/15 – MM adjusted some errors with topology.
9/30/15 (at home) – MM finished correcting errors with
topology for MapUnitPolys. MM also added
topology for ContactsAndFaults and OverlayPolys. MM trying to get Qal contacts fixed, so that
the polygons are continuous, without lines going through where Qal polygons got
merged. MM merged the nodes where the
Qal contacts changed quadrangles.
10/1/15 (at home) – MM verified more Qal polygons and
contacts. MM eliminated many overlapping
Qal polygons. Once that was finished, MM
started eliminating overlapping cpu polygons.
Tomorrow, MM will merge those polygons together. Also, MM might clip everything to Franklin
County itself, so the herd shall be thinned and there will be no excess.
10/2/15 – MM did clip feature classes to Franklin County and
corrected more topology, especially for the coastal plain.
10/12/15 – MM saved bedrock_polygons, bedrock_polylines for
Franklin County. MM created a
ForFranklinCounty.mxd and brought in these two feature classes. MM then spliced the diabase away from the
bedrock_polylines to make diabase_dike for Franklin County. MM created topology for all three feature
classes and corrected all the mistakes. MM
also saved layer files for all three feature classes. MM saved this into a new feature dataset –
ForFranklinCounty in the Franklin folder in C:MMFolder/AGOL. They are ready for PB to give to Franklin
County.
10/23/15 – MM has a new/different computer and when MM went
into FranklinCounty.mxd, MM realized that all the symbols had been turned into
wingding symbols. After PB helped
correct the problem, MM spent a good chunk of the day fixing the symbols and
turning them back into FGDC symbols. MM
then printed a copy of the map and left it on the front table.
10/26/15 – MM realized that the new computer didn’t pick up
all the symbols that the previous computer had.
Therefore, MM had to backtrack and re-select ALL symbols from the FGDC
suite of symbols, instead of wingdings.
MM double-checked to make sure everything was back the way it was before
the computer change. MM also noticed
things that needed to be fixed and put big red dots next to them, so that they
could get fixed tomorrow.
10/27/15 – MM corrected line issues that were pointed out by
red dots. MM checked the map again to
make sure the symbols were correctly drawn.
MM also labelled some Qal polygons.
Transferred Dear Diary entries into blog entries on Blogger. (http://mapstatusncgs.blogspot.com/)
11/6/15 - MM uploaded latest version of Franklin County map to Google Drive:
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0BxSMuI20Ka_kU0lxNW9TZThUeTQ
11/19/2015 - OFR number 2015-07 added to map. GeoPDF posted to DENR Portal at: http://portal.ncdenr.org/c/document_library/get_file?uuid=8e041c56-58f6-40cf-ac13-f578ab393586&groupId=38334
11/19/15 – MM made more corrections – adding Lake Royale to the Inset Map, to the description below this map, and then on the Lake itself on the full map. MM then put this map for sale at the Online Store. MM also tried to put it on the Portal page, but there were error messages when MM tried to upload it. MM was unable to save it to T drive, because MM couldn’t see T drive.
11/20/15 – MM can see T drive and saved the map there. MM also saw that the map was saved to the Portal page.
11/24/15 – Gave PB latest versions of polylines, polygons and diabase – For Franklin County geodatabase in T drive.
12/8/15 - MM uploaded latest version of Franklin County map to Google Drive:
