Project 4 Analysis

Project 4 Prepare

Based on the demographic maps produced above, I would definitely say that there is a direct correlation between the density of restaurants and liquor stores to population clusters in Napa county. Basically, the higher the population, the greater number of restaurants and liquor stores. This makes sense since sales will be higher in dense residential areas. The distribution liquor stores and restaurants relative to these purchasing patterns follows a pretty logical outline for the most part. While there are some restaurants and liquor stores that fall into the lower sale brackets, most of these sites are located near population peaks.

Project 3 Report

Project 3 Analysis

Project 3 Basemaps

Project 2 Report

Week 2 Analyze

Analysis and Report (Week 1)

Special Topics - Week 1 Prep

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Final Project

This map was drawn with a combined proportional symbol and choropleth style. The colored states represent ACT participation rates while the proportional circles represent ACT score brackets. A mercator conformal projection was used to preserve the shape and distance among states. The East and West coasts of the country appear to have lower rates of participants, and the highest test scores were concentrated in the Northeast region.

Lab 10 Wind Farm Proposal

I found that a good potential site for a wind farm would be near the coast of Lake Michigan just east of Grand Rapids, Michigan. The area has a high annual recorded wind speed. The location is void of shipping lanes and obviously land traffic and congestion. The location would not produce any noticable noise (or shadows) to residents living on the coast if the site was far enough from the coast. There are also less bird flyways over the water. I do not believe the propose sit location would affect tourism either. If the location was several miles from the shoreline, the turbines would not be visible to beach-goers.

Lap 10 Contour Map

I had some difficulty with the fill portions of the contours. I could not get the fill to extend to the extent state boundary, so I had to make all of my contours smooth polygons and draw along the state boundary...hench the sloppy contours. Besides that, everything else went smoothly.

Week 9 Flow Map

I had some trouble with creating a scale. For some reason the scale would have a max. value of 40 meters? I'm not sure why that was occuring. Besides the scale issue, everything went pretty smoothly. This was a fun lab!

Week 7 Revised

I expanded the size of the map below to increase quality. Here the is revised:

Week 7 Proportional Map

Here is my week 7's proportional map. The greatest difficulty I had with this one was from the size differences between the circles. I also had a little trouble ungrouping the circles from a the country label layer. After some trial and error, I finally figured it out.

Week 6 Choropleth Maps

I had a lot of difficulty with this lab. The main trouble was through Illustrator, since through this course is the first time I've used the software. The most trouble I had was with the black and white map. I was not sure exactly what was asked for and how to modify it through Illustrator effectively.

Also, when I modified my projection to Albert Equal Area Conic, I did not notice any shape change to my maps.

Week 5 Florida Map

Here is my map I created for week 5. I had some trouble rearraging the colors on the Hispanic county populations and the legend.

Week 4 Florida Keys Map

Below is my map of the Florida Keys. I was not sure how to create simple underlines for text or even draw a line in Illustrator.

Week 3 Maps

Why did I choose the 'Natural Breaks' data classification method? I felt that this classification best displayed the data ethically and visually. There are very noticable trends through this classification, while some of the other methods categorized the data without showing any obvious patterns.

Bad Map

When I look at this map, I think of a several spices to add. First, there is no legend. Although the maps labels islands/mainlands, no further information is provided. There is also no scale, title, north arrow, reference features (roads, points of interest), etc.. The only strong point on this map, in my opinion, is its simplicity - it's easy to read.

Good Map

Here is an effective thematic map. It provides you with deatiled information about an aspect of Hawaii. It is easy to read yet detailed, has a title, thorough legend, scale, etc.