Lab 3

1. The projections used in exercise 13a are GCS_North_American_1983 and USA Contiguous Albers Area Equal Conic.

2. The most common datum in the tutorial is Albers Equal Area Conic.

3. Alaska is the largest U.S. state in terms of area.

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5. The datum in the fast cities layer was in North American Lambert conformal conic. However, the datum in the states layer was in Albers equal area conic. When the fast cities layer was added to the states layer, the difference in projections had the cities in an incorrect location. The cities were projected in a more southern location. Some were in another state altogether, such as Colombus, and others, like Myrtle Beach, were even projected off the coast in the ocean.