This is a map of Milwaukee County in Wisconsin and it represents the different ethnicities within that area. It is very decisive in displaying the cultural divide within the city as African Americans are almost exculsively inhabiting “downtown” areas while White citizens reside primarily in the surrounding suburbs. The map types shown in the four different maps on this area is known as a chloropleth map, and represents different areas with different shades depending on the numerical value associated with that area. The most difficult aspect to this map was to place four smaller maps on the space while maintaining a non – cluttered and aesthetically pleasing graphic.
Creations
A collection of maps that I have made
This map is a representation of the total number of farm acres in 1997. This map was created in ArcGIS and it describes well where a majority of our domestic food product originates. The type of map used for this is known as a cholorpleth map and it uses the separation of area (usually though political boundry) and then assigns a different color, or shade of a color, that is associated with a particular value. This map is particularly good at describing within the United States, where a majority of our farm land exists.
Farm Acres in 1997, a photo by nelsobr@uwec.edu on Flickr.
This map describes the number of automobile accidents in 2010 per 1,000 per state as well as the percentage of people in that state that are 65 and over. This map was created partially in ArcGIS as well as in Adobe Illustrator and tries to correlate ‘bad driving’ with old age. The most difficult aspect of creating this map was to realistically represent the data in a manner that is statistically accurate. For example, the state of Florida had one of the highest values for total accidents in a given year, but, that could have been soley based on the fact that simply more people live in that state than say South Dakota. That being said, instead of taking the total number of accidents per state and correlating those data with percent elderly population, I had to relate the number of accidents to the number of people. Therefore, I used accidents per 10,000 citizens and related that to the percentage of elderly drivers. The results may surprise you.
Elderly Drivers And Motor Vehicle Accidents 2010, a photo by nelsobr@uwec.edu on Flickr.
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.
Layoffs in the Continential USA 2010, a photo by nelsobr@uwec.edu on Flickr.
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