Teacher Instructions Abstract Students will map the journey of the two masted, coastal schooner Industry 1868
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- Navigate this page:
- Set the MyWorldGIS map preferences
- Symbolize features in a layer. In VISUALIZE mode
| Figure 2: Setting preferences in Google Earth.
The first location has been done for you in the table below. See Figure 3. All points of west longitude are expressed as a negative number. Save your spreadsheet as Industrylog in the MyWorldGIS/data/Shipwreckdata folder. Figure 3: Ship’s log of the Industry
Figure 4: Detail of Nova Scotia coast from La Have to Halifax from The North Eastern Coast of New York to Cape Canso including Sable Island published by Edmund Blunt, New York, 1826. David Rumsey Historic Collection. 
Set the MyWorldGIS map preferences To begin, open MyWorldGIS. Set the default map preferences in VISUALIZE mode by choosing Edit/Preferences. Change the Measurement Units to Nautical Miles, the Default Map Projection to Lambert Conformal Conic, the Default Background Color to light blue and the Physical Memory Size to > 640, and click OK. Add layers In CONSTRUCT mode, at the top of the Data Library list, click the dropdown menu and choose Oceanography. You should see the layers Continents, Global Wind Patterns and Surface Currents in the Data Library. Drag them to your Layer List. Rearrange them so that you can see all layers, and rename each of the layers. Symbolize features in a layer. In VISUALIZE mode, symbolize all the layers, by double clicking the layer name in the Edit Appearance window, and choosing an appropriate color and line width. As shown in the screen shots below, double click continents to see the Edit Appearance window and choose the Fill Color tab, choose light green, then click Apply. See Figures 5 and 6. Figure 5: Symbolizing the layers in MyWorldGIS. 
Figure 6: Editing Appearance of the layer Continents 
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