Archives
All posts for the month November, 2012
This is a map of the continent of Africa. This is a basic reference map displaying major land features and political boundries. For this map, clarity and legibility was key for there are many different features and countries that had to be labeled. The most challenging piece to this map was simply finding room and placing data labels in a way to preserve the overall map quality and to prevent the map from looking cluttered.
This map represents the continent of South America which is being projected differently 9 times. The purpose of this map is to describe the differences in map projections and how it can distort the shape and size of a land area. The most difficult aspect of this map was to align the different projections based on one longitudinal point (-60 Degrees) to accurately describe the distortion of the seperate projections. I think this map gives great insight and proposes one to think about how different maps can poorly represent land area and shape and that what map projection that is being used is very important.
This map displays the travel route by scientists who collected fish in a stream approximately 9 miles from Pigeon Lake Field Station. The most difficult aspect when creating this map was properly representing the distance between the two sites visually. To properly accomplish this I included a basemap that gives the viewer a better aspect of the distance between the points.
Map of the Village of Osceola in 2012. Map includes key areas and streets of the village. There was a great degree of simplification in this map which posed problems when creating it. I included major points of emphasis and land features as well as major roadways and street names. The main goal for this map was to give a basic generalization of where different points of interest resided in within the city limits and what major roadways and physical features surrounded the city.
Map representing populations of people living in North Carolina that claim “American” as their nationality. The four maps have been created using different classification methods to represent the same data. As one can see, the maps look very different and hopefully the viewer realizes that map creators can manipulate data to better serve their needs. This map was particularly fun to create because geographically representing red necks in Southern states is just about as fun as it gets in this class.
This map represents proportionate layoffs in the continential United States in 2010. The most difficult aspect of this map to create was the different sizes of the proportional labels and having the greatest amount of contrast in the sizes to allow the viewer to get a good idea where the differences in data exist.