GIS 6005 Lab 6 Blog Post

 

Proportional symbol mapping is a great way to symbolize both positive and negative values because its an easy way to show the size relationship between those values and compare them on the same map rather than having to look at separate maps.

Bivariate choropleth mapping similarly allows you to look at the relationship between two values without having to look at separate maps of those values. It makes visualization a lot easier.

GIS 6005 Lab 5 Blog Post

 

I wanted to keep my layout as simple as possible so that anybody could read it, regardless of education level. I feel as though a lot of information out there is “hidden” behind fancy words that most people are unable to understand, and it could be information that is usually helpful for people. The data I am presenting, I feel, is important data for people to help them understand the importance of being physically active.

GIS 6005 Lab 4 Blog Post

 

The linear and adjusted progression options seem to stay within the original color’s ramp while with Color Brew it seems as though it switches to a different color after the third color on the ramp in order to greater exaggerate the differences between the colors.

I chose to contrast red with blue mainly because the two colors are very distinct from each other and you can easily tell them apart on a map.

GIS 6005 Lab 3 Blog Post

 

I wanted to try to keep this map as simple as possible while also making sure that the different land cover types stood out from each other enough to make sure that they were distinguishable from one another. For the hills hade, I went with the traditional option because I felt as though that option gives more distinguish to all altitude heights instead of just the ones that are higher.

GIS 6005 Lab 2 Blog Post

 

My area of interest is the state of Wisconsin. I went with the state system, NAD 1983 Wisconsin TM (US Feet), because, for the State Plane Zones, Wisconsin has three state plane zones and, for the UTM Zones, Wisconsin was split in half by UTM Zone 15 and 16. Because of this, I felt it was more appropriate to use a state system for the projection.

GIS 6005 Lab 1 Blog Post

 

For this map, I wanted to make sure that prominent things like city names and island names were prominent, so I made those labels bigger than the other features like parks and hills. I also put the parks layer on top of the streets layer since it was more important to label.

Special Topics in GIS Lab 6 Blog Post 6

 The higher the scale number is for vector data (1:100000) the less accurate your data is going to be, but you will be able to cover more data that way and load in more data. Similarly for basic resolution for raster data, the lower the number (like one meter) the better the resolution will be.

At the end of this lab we talked about gerrymandering and how to identify it using the Polsby Popper equation. Gerrymandering si the deliberate redrawing of congressional lines in order to get more votes (both democrat and republican congress members do this). They do this in order to suppress a certain group of voters that could be in a high concentration in a certain area so they balance them out by lumping them in with a large district that would vote the opposite of them.