FINAL MAP.............Fall 2014!!!

LAB 10 Bi variate Map

Since I'm a bit of a golf nut I  thought I would see what the total area for each county was and then figure out how many golf courses each had based on a 20 mile radius from its county seat. Then the idea would be to see if by playing a round at those courses, could you cover the total distance of the county. 

Dot Density Example map, after the fact but its still interesting.

LAB # 9

Dot Density of Poverty in West Virginia

Data Collected from US Census

Another example of a map I would like to redo...

http://thewillandthewallet.squarespace.com/blog/2011/2/18/a-foreign-aid-snapshot.html

This is an example of the map I would like to make for my final project. I think this example is pretty good but I would like to try and create a more pleasing version.

http://paper-bird.net/tag/foreign-aid/

For my final project I have chosen to create a map of the United States spending for financial Aid to other foreign nations. I find this topic fascinating because it ties in nicely with my areas of study. We have always heard of the US dolling out monetary funds to other Nations for assistance with economic development, military assistance or for other unknown reasons. I have seen other maps that have been created for this subject but would like to attempt it myself.

For the basic layout of the map I will attempt for fins a base map using ArcGIS. I will try and use a map that will show the world for what it is. I believe that an equal area type of map possibly a cylindrical map will allow me to show my data in an interesting way. In this I will also try and find a map that not contain Antarctica since this should contain no data. For the way that I will attempt to convey the data that I find I will lean for either a Choropleth map or if needed maybe even try for a proportional symbol map if I could find a way to not have the map look cluttered.

I have already begun to look for my data that I will need and have found that the US Census bureau list the amount of aid that the US gave to other nations in 2009. The data is listed in dollar amount in millions of dollars. I will have to figure out which method to use to break the data down into classes but as of right now I believe that I could use something along the lines of equal intervals. If I am unable to find a nice way to divide the data into good groupings I may look to see if there are natural breaks.

Scheduling the making of this map should not be very hard at this moment. For the most part I believe the largest requirement of time that I shall have will be the gathering of everything that I need and converting it all into a usable format just before the actual map making process itself.  I expect this portion of the process to really take me no more than 1.5-2 weeks as of right now with my time constraints as they are. I am looking to have a map ready to critique around Thanksgiving which should give me enough time to go bac and fix anything that may come forth with observation and suggestion.

LAB 8

Avoid SMERG!!!

Proportional Symbol Map

Incidents of Arson Per Maryland County in 2013

Proportional Symbol/Graduated Circle Map

http://go.owu.edu/~jbkrygie/krygier_html/geog_353/geog_353_lo/geog_353_lo11.html

Not very crisp but I think that's because it was part of a lecture. But still interesting in regards to our class.

LAB # 6 

Choropleth Map

Percentage of Veterans in the US

Proportional Map

Brewers and Wholesalers in the US

http://www.beerinstitute.org/embeds/at-a-glance-map

Choropleth Maps Lab # 5

Weekly Blog Map # 5 Choropleth Map

The Commonwealth of Virginia, Maryland and DC!

Definitely a lot harder then it looks. Especially when my wife has Honey Boo Boo on while I'm trying to fold all of it correctly.

Left side was the first try. Sloppy. But got better with the second try.

Blog Map # 4

A college map for Marist College in NY. This is a really nice visual representation of the campus. Particularly I like the look of the map in regards to the scenery. The addition of the river with a boat and the fall foliage are a nice aspect of the map. Also of not the compass rose in the athletic fields is a nice way to make sure it was inserted into the map while keeping the map visually pleasing.

Type map of the East coast. States are large and major cities and towns are in smaller text. Kinda cool.

LAB # 3

Interesting Map projections

While pretty boring I think this Pseudocylindrical map is kind of interesting. Its I guess a type of conic projection that will cut off certain areas like that seen above killing off central Asia. I bet they're none to happy about a projection like this.

http://members.shaw.ca/quadibloc/maps/mpse04.htm

Even crazier looking...

This one is a Loximuthal projection? Not sure....but it looks like someone sat on the globe and forgot to round it back out...

http://www.quadibloc.com/maps/mpse04.htm

Lab # 1

Lab # 1

First Post!

After a pain in the ass attempt to start this Blog I've finally got it going. So here we are. I guess the first assignment is to post an interesting map right. I guess I'll go overboard and use a few.

              http://oceanservice.noaa.gov/news/features/oct11/hurricanetracks.html

This first one show the intensity and amount of Tropical Storms/Hurricanes around the world. Its an interesting map for me since over the summer I took a Physical Climatology Class and as my final project I did a study of just this.

http://www.boredpanda.com/maps-show-how-americans-feel-about-different-states/

I have family in Mass so their accent is that weird to me. Neither is Louisiana....I was born in Missippi. 

http://seaworldparks.com/en/buschgardens-williamsburg/park-info/map/

Last one I swear but who didn't enjoy these as a kid? it was our first introduction to maps!