This weeks exercise required a creation of a point database, marking various locations of known archaeological sites in Jordan. Most of the information provided for us was give in an Excel file format, and our lab exercise took us through the steps to convert the data into an ArcGiS friendly geodatabase. After entering coordinates for each of the selected site locations, ArcMap was easily able to read geographic location about each of the archaeological sites and display them correctly within the right coordinate system.
The geographic coordinates themselves were obtained from an interactive site: www.megajordan.com, which offers public information about known and recorded archaeological sites with intent to share this information with the public and help assess the monetary damage done by regular looting.
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