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Assignment 3

(21GE602)

Vectorization Lab

- by Advaith S pillai
Since my personal Area of Interest was Stockholm, Sweden, the primary focus was directed
towards this region. Stockholm City is an archipelago consisting of 14 main islands that are
joined together by an extensive network of roads and rail lines (via bridges & underwater
tunnels). And the Region of Interest (Norra Djurgården) is located on the northern island,
consisting primarily of Universities & Student accommodations.

The coordinate system used in the default basemap (i.e. World Topographic Map - India +
World_Hillshade) was WGS_1984_Web_Mercator_Auxiliary_Sphere. During creation of a
New Feature Dataset, different projection coordinate systems were tried out as retaining the
older system could yield inaccurate results when studying this region.

Since Sweden corresponds to UTM 34, the following coordinate systems were possible
candidates and were tried out :- ELD 1979 UTM Zone 34N, ETRS 1989 UTM Zone 34N,
BGS2005 UTM zone 34N. Post this, RT38 (Stockholm) was applied to the region, which led to
unexpected and quite evidently erroneous results.
The dramatic tilt which appeared in the map near the nordic countries immediately nullified the
possibility of using this coordinate system any further. Finally SWEREF99 County ST74 was
used which corrected the previous errors and gave an accurate representation of the study area
as shown below.
Following this, a Hybrid Reference layer was added as a base map for easier visualization.
Following this 7 new Feature classes were created, whose descriptions are as follows :-

● Building - Point
● Road - Polyline
● Highway - Polyline
● Railway Line - Line
● Landmark - Polygon
● WaterBody - Polygon
● Boundary - Polygon

The next step was to begin drawing the boundary polygon which would delineate the work area
from the surrounding city. This was followed by the process of drawing further polygons
(representing water bodies) that separated the different islands from each other and also gave
land boundaries.
The large water body in the west is the large Brunsviken lake, whereas the darker water body in
the North-East direction is the Baltic sea brought in via an inlet.
The attribute table for the polygons representing these water bodies is as follows

Multiple polygons were drawn and merged together around the island of Tranholmen (top right)
to get the desired polygon representing water surrounding the island.
Next the polyline features representing Highway & Railway Lines were plotted using appropriate
symbology.
This was followed by the many small line features, which represented minor roads & major bike
lanes crisscrossing the Stockholm University campus.

Polygons used to represent major Landmarks were the next feature class represented in the
map.
The attribute table for the Landmark feature class is as follows :-

Finally, the last feature class (Buildings) were plötted. There is a high concentration of individual
houses in the island to the North (Stocksund area) and to the North-west (Bergshamra area).
Even though these large number of houses can be conveniently represented by a large
polygon, the approach used here is to individually represent each house (an impractical one for
most real-world applications). This resulted in a total of 701 points being used for houses. They
appear as follows -:
The end result with all the feature classes appears as follows :-

After this, a new layout was inserted and all the vectors were transferred onto the layout.
Subsequently the Direction button, Legend, Title and Scale bars were finally added and the end
result was generated, after which it was exported onto a pdf file.


The layout panel after the final panel edits, appears as follows :-

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