Maps I Made

 

 

  For this week's blog participation, I picked a terrain map of the Grand Canyon and find it exemplary for the following reasons: 1. The terrain on this map is pretty intricate so that you can get a good understanding of the canyon's cliffs and the Colorado River. 2. The map has different color shades depending on the type of terrain that is shown. The deeper into the canyon, the browner the map becomes while the top has a shade of green to represent grass.  3. The map is labeled well so that viewers of the map can see different names of areas of the canyon. This could prove helpful for people hoping to visit or hike the canyon one day. Source: https://home.nps.gov/grca/planyourvisit/upload/GRCAmap5s.jpg

  For this week's blog participation, I selected a multivariate map and I think it is exemplary for the following reasons.  1. It combines a dot density map with a proportional symbol map where dots are larger or smaller depending on the data.  2. The colors of the dots correspond with whether or not the point represents high, medium, or low amounts of a mosquito. 3. The map provides a dark gray layer over the Southern part of the United States that shows where the observed extent of them is in the US. Source: https://www.e-education.psu.edu/geog486/sites/www.e-education.psu.edu.geog486/files/Lesson_07/Images/7.3.2.PNG

This cartogram map of the United States is exemplary for the following reasons: 1. The size of each state is based on how many electoral votes it has which in turn is as a result of its population. This adds an interesting way to look at the map. 2. Each state is either red or blue depending on which side of the political spectrum it is affiliated with.  3. The map is relatively organized and uses hexagons to space the states out in an organized manner. Source: https://blog.mapchart.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/2016-Elections-Electoral-Votes.png  

  For Map 6 I made a dot density map of the Livingston County population in 2020 without the town borders resulting in a somewhat dasymetric map. I would've liked to add to border to the map, but I found it very difficult to do so. I also chose colors that I thought worked best with each other. This map took me around 45 minutes to do because for me it wasn't easy to create a dot density map without town borders.  As for the other map, I failed to successfully make it in time. I was having a lot of trouble with the Natural Earth Data. At first, the data never showed up when I attempted to add it, but after a suggestion from Dr. Garrity, I was able to see it. Unfortunately, I kept getting this error message after attempting to add the shapefile to ArcGIS. This was very frustrating, and I tried different methods that I found on ArcGIS forums to fix the problem, but I kept getting the same error message. I have a feeling I am the only one having this problem but if I can get it fi