GIS Basics
Curved lines along a map that join and delineate elevations.
What contour lines?
This location is the center of the Northwest hemisphere.
What is the 45-90?
This CPZ team relies on GIS mapping to schedule and manage inspection locations throughout the County.
What is the Admin Team?
Land Surveyors utilize this GIS layer to identify improvements such as field edges, fences, trails, etc.
What is the Ortho Photos layer?
This was ET's favorite snack in "E.T., The Extra Terrestrial".
What is Reese's Pieces?
The term used for the geographical representation of water features such as lakes, rivers, oceans, and seas.
What is Hydrography?
This is the number of supervisory districts in Marathon County.
What is 38?
This GIS tool allows zoning staff to quickly illustrate setbacks from roads, structures, or the OHWM, helping landowners see where a project can be placed without encroaching on required setbacks.
What is the GIS BUFFER TOOL?
RPL
What is the nadir?
A sloop, yawl, ketch and schooner are all types of these.
What are boats?
This is the shape of the earth.
What is a geoid (lumpy potato)?
Rich Seubert, former NFL player, who played for the New York Giants from 2001 – 2010 grew up in this unincorporated community in Marathon County.
What is Rozellville?
The Conservation Team uses GIS to map parcels in this HUC-12 watershed that they have conducted field visits on in hopes they will visit every parcel.
What is the Fenwood Creek Watershed?
What is interpolation?
In 1950, this future symbol of fire prevention was rescued from a fire in a New Mexico forest.
Who is Smokey the Bear?
A single entity representing a real-world object on a map, such as points, lines, or polygons.
What is a feature?
Wausau was founded as a lumber town in 1939 originally called this, due to the rapids on the WI River.
What is Big Bull Falls?
Under the Soil Onsite Policy, Staff often review this GIS layer to determine whether a site may need an onsite soil evaluation before proceeding with a POWTS design.
What is the NRCS Soils Layer?
addressing
What is spatial modeling?
A flock of geese in flight can be called a skein or wedge; the same group on the ground or in the water is this.
What is a gaggle?
Technology that is used to create, manage analyze, and map all types of data.
What is a geographic information systems?
Rib Mountain is made mostly of a this very strong rock that was formed about 1.5 billion years ago.
What is quartzite?
Using GIS, the MPO is updating this non-motorized map to highlight routes, infrastructure, and amenities to support velocipede transport throughout the community.
What is the Wausau MPO Bicycle Map?
The Marathon County Land Information Council manages fees collected by this County Department.
What is the Register of Deeds?
Apparently still learning to duck, tight end Cam McCormick of this Pac-12 school got a 9th year of eligibility in 2022.
What is the University of Oregon?