Exercise Two - Ed's Answers

I'm going to be posting my answers to the exercises and I invite everyone to critique them and let me know if my answers differ from your own so we can discuss the differences until we have agreement on a final, correct answer.

 

Step 3:

• Click on the Identify button to find "United States" in the Country layer.  What's the US population (Pop_CNTRY) in the layer?
• 258,833,000 people
• Click the identify tool, click on a city in the Citeis layer to identfy information assocaited with a city.  What information about a city can you get from the Cities layer?
• Field ID
• Shape
• Name
• Country
• Population
• Capital

Step 7:

• In order to measure distance, I resized the map display so that New York and Los Angeles were visible.  Then I used the measuring tool to draw a line between them (snap to feature was ON).  Did anyone use another method to get distance?  I wasn't too satisfied with the apparant accuracy of my method.