17. Internet Search
The ESRI data did NOT contain any
data pertaining to “Groups” or
unofficial “Regions.”
Turned to the internet – found no
usable GIS data
But found on-line Maps (and
Statistical data)
18. Some of the Maps I found
* Sunni Triangle
(WikiMedia Commons)
* Ethno-Religions Groups
(Iraq, a Country Profile 2003)
Middle East Reference Map
(World Factbook 2007)
* Oil Infrastructure
(Iraq, a Country Profile 2003) ** Population Density
(UT Map No. 503930 1978)
** Kurdish Area
(Iraq, a Map Folio 1992)
** Ethno-Religious (Regional)
(Univ-Tx)
20. Iraqi ethnic and religious groups
“Distribution of Ethnoreligious Groups and Major Tribes”
Iraq Country Profile 2003 (UT)
(42 polygons !)
(7 categories)
ArcMAP
Georeferenced Map
29. Tabular Data Created in
MS Access
(data from “The World Factbook 2007”)
Table for IRAQ and Neighboring Countries
MS Access table
Imported into GDB then ‘added table’ to project in ArcMAP
32. Oil Exports and Reserves
as a % of World Total
Stacked Charts * created from CIA data “related”
to ESRI ‘country’ data
33. Importance of Studying
this Region
Help Find a Solution to an Ongoing
Conflict
Increased World Competition for
Energy
34.
35. Ideas for Future Work
1) More Statistics
• % Iraq oil in Sunni
Triangle
• Bar graphs of oil/per
person in ethnic areas
within Iraq
2) Other digitized data
– eg: Population
Density within group-
areas in Iraq
3) Other Regions:
Israel and Palestine –
complicated! ArcMAP
36. Sources
1) ESRI (2002) data: shapefiles, layers,
attributed, spatially referenced, metadata
2) University of Texas Online: Perry
Casteneda [Map Library]: Scanned maps,
(from various sources and projects)
3) CIA: The World Factbook 2007, country
statistics and reference map
4) WikiMedia Commons: images of maps,
general purpose reference only
44. How I did my project/GIS layers
How I did my project:
• I had a book with a CD with ESRI data in it. I downloaded the CD data
and opened them up in ArcGIS.
• Found data layers (shapefiles dated 2002) to make my base map.
Didn’t find any statistical data of use.
• I searched the Internet and found no relevant GIS data layers.
• So I searched for any data. I found scanned maps, AND statistics in
raw form.
• Made a Personal Geodatabase to put all this new, and the old, data
• I created GIS layers by georeferenceing ALL the maps.
• Later, I selected the area features, and digitized them.
• I created a table and entered the statistical data, then imported the
table into ArcGIS. Later, applying the stats (by country) to make
charts/graphs.
GIS layers.
• Layer 1; source, format, coordinate system, necessary processing.
• Layer 2; etc…
45. Ideas for Future Work
1) Statistics
• % Iraq oil in Sunni Triangle
• Country/Admin population statistics
• Bar graphs of oil/per person in ethnic areas
within Iraq
2) Other digitized data – eg: Population
Density within group-areas in Iraq
3) Israel and Palestine – complicated
