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There is a need to develop GIS layers for a new project concerned with the management of a small watershed catchment, 25 square miles in size. You are in charge of developing a set of GIS standards that the layers should meet. There should be at least 4 standards that apply to types be they vectors and raster types. In addition, you should have two additional standards that apply just to vector data and one that applies just to raster data for a total of 7 standards. The project will include but is not restricted to land use, Digital Elevation Models, roads, streams, and point information like water wells, power poles and others.

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You have been asked to help organize a plan for a new park project in western Montana. You have been given three different datasets: 1) set of hand-written coordinates of eagle nests with no other information, 2) a GIS shapefile layer of the proposed park boundary which is based on the PLSS system along with proposed cabins, RV camping sites, and primitive camp sites dispersed over a large area, and 3) a GIS shapefile of the fence lines from a highly accurate Global Navigation Satellite System receiver. You have two jobs: 1) make sure no park cabins or RV camp sites are within 300 feet of an eagle nest, and no primitive camp sites are within 50 feet of an eagle nest, and 2) all primitive camp sites have to be 300 feet from the boundary as per an agreement with the surrounding landowners. You have noticed several things about the layers when you put them over a base image of the new park site.

Some of the eagle nests appear to be in a lake in the park,

The fence lines do not match the boundary of the park. Some of the fence lines are 200 feet further into the park. In conversations with the ranchers you have been told that ranchers insist their fence lines are in the correct location based on prior surveys.