Cartography Class Module 6 Lab

 

In this lab we created an Isarithmic map using the PRISM model. This was a very interesting method to learn about because of all the real world applications it has, especially in the weather field. At my internship we deal with contours a lot to tell the different elevations when delineating wetlands so it was really cool to see how those are made and where they come from.

Cartography Class Module 5 Blog Post

 

In this module we created a choropleth map of population density and wine consumption in Europe. This map was a lot of fun to make, however it took me over six hours to create because of how slow ArcGIS Pro was going for some reason. I ended up using the graduated symbology for the wine consumption data because I felt as though you could better see the population data with that setting, as well as get a good representation of the wine consumption data.

Cartography Class Module 4 Blog Post

    For this lab we learned about different classifications, specifically Equal Interval, Standard Deviation, Quantile, and Natural Breaks. I would say equal interval shows the data the best because of the fact that it creates classes that have an equal range in data so that when you look at the data you know that it is not skewed in one way or another. For example your breaks in classifications would be something like 1-3, 4-6, 7-9 rather than something like 1-2, 3-4, 5-9. In equal intervals you know you are getting the best representation of all the data rather than just a small portion.

 

Cartography Class Module 3

This is the map that I created for module 3.

 

Cartography Module 2 Blog Post

 

In this module we created labels for a map of the state of Florida. This map was a lot of fun to work with and I enjoyed the creativity that we were given to add our own "spin" on the map. For me, I edited the labels of the two swamps to be a little bit smaller so that you could better see the other labels for the cities. I also edited the counties layer to just be outlines of the counties so you could see the layers underneath. Then I created a star symbol for the capital city and made the label a larger font so you can easily distinguish it from other features on the map. The only thing I really struggled with was figuring out how to get rid of the basemap labels, but I was able to solve that problem by switching to a basemap where the label layer was separate so I could turn it off.