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Assignment: Buffering A buffer is a feature that is added around another feature, such as a pointfile that shows the region affected by that feaure, measured by distance. You will need to use your population by major cities map that you created for lesson 2.

You will be showing the market areas for the major cities of the U.S. For the purposes of this assignment, we will say that people will drive 100 miles to visit a major city. go to geoprocessing>buffer and enter a range of 100 miles. Change the color of the buffer to a crosshatch color of your choice. Publish the new map with the updated key and insert in a word document with a one paragraph analysis of the map.

Assignment: Basemaps and Geocoding Learning Target: Students will add specific addresses as point files on an arcmap document that was created using a pre-existing basemap

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