PRACTICAL ASSIGNMENT 1 OF 2

This is the GIS practical assignment.

Students are expected to take part as it amounts to your assessment for this course.
You are required to do the work yourself. You will learn and experience the feeling of using GIS
(ArcGIS-ArcMap).

Having been given enough time to install and practice GIS from Monday 5 February 2024; this
assignment starts on Tuesday 05 March 2024 and ends on Monday 18 March 2024. You are
required to submit your work in hard copy only during the Lecture. Late submissions will be
penalized. You have approx. 14 days (2 weeks) to do the work and submit.
Good luck!

This assignment is a practical exercise that students are required to do to get familiar with ArcMap. In
this activity, your task is to produce a readable and visually pleasing/neat map of Uganda.
Getting started with ArcMap, acquire the ArcGIS Desktop Setup, and install it on your laptops. Obtain
the following GIS Datasets/shapefiles and save all the acquired datasets in one folder, feel free to share
these acquired datasets.
 Country Uganda
 Uganda Districts
 Uganda Towns
 Uganda highway
 Industrial Parks UIA
1. Open a new ArcMap doc and add all the above layers/features.
2. Set the projection for the Default Data Frame (“Layers”). Set the projected coordinate system to
Arc_1960_UTM_Zone_36N since most of the above data sources are in GCS_Arc_1960 and not
in WGS84, Zone 36N. Right-click Layers, select ‘Properties’ and choose ‘Projected Coordinate
Systems’, UTM, Africa, and choose Arc_1960_UTM_Zone_36N.
3. Choose the correct symbols and colours for the features. Edit their appearance accordingly and
appropriately.
4. Add and edit labels of the features appropriately.
5. On particularly the Industrial Park features, create a reasonable buffer distance to them.
6. In the layout view
 Set the appropriate paper size
 Position the Data frame(s) on the paper space appropriately
 Insert the elements of a good map into your finished product. Edit their appearance and
layout appropriately.
 Insert a text box and write your name, registration numbers, student numbers, college,
department, and date of map production.
7. Save the ArcMap document/the map appropriately with a name describing the contents in the map.
8. Export the map as a PDF and submit a hard copy.
For Extras: (state/write the answers at the back of your map)
9. State the effect of any peculiar observation you have realized in your added data.
10. Due to the benefits that come with the phenomenon of collective units, state any significant spatial
relationship you have observed in the added data relevant for GIS analysis.