Week 10: Isramithic Map

Week 10's exercise was a bit more time consuming with trying to make the contour lines look right with the precipitation data. The most difficult part I had with this lab was trying to fill in each contour shape with a different gradient of color using the grayscale option. It is hard for me to tell the difference between shades unless I make them extreme and with seven or more shades it becomes trying to make them work.

Bonus Exercise

I decided to re-do the US Census exercise because I felt it was the weakest one to date that I have produced. More of an Illustrator exercise than ArcMap but I needed the practice either way. Hope it is acceptible.

Module 9: Flow Map

This map was pretty fun to make. After applying the same basic principles as that of the Proportional Symbols Map and watching the short tutorial on drawing arrows in Illustrator the rest of lab was really about picking a design to your liking. I chose to keep it simple due to time restraints, but believe this map still displays the information in a clear and concise manner. I am really enjoying learning Adobe Illustrator and look forward to learning how to use it for more interesting map designs in the future.

Module 8: Dot Maps

Week 8 lab assignment became challenging in the way that figuring how to apply each dot individually throughout the counties in order to properly represent the housing density was very time consuming. I ended up having to copy and paste each and every dot. I looked for multiple wasys in avoiding this very time consuming exercise to no avail. Maybe as I become more familiar with the ins and outs of the software another simpler way will become apparent.

Week 7: Map 1

The Week 7 assignment presented a couple of challenges for me. First trying to figure out the direct proportional circle symbols per each countries wine data proved difficult. Second I chose to represent the countries with little wine consumption the same as the rest as to keep the map easier to read.