Module 12: Final Project and Caption

Caption:

This is a map showing the United States National Average ACT Scores and Participation Percentages in 2009. I decided to use a Cloropleth Map for the Composite Scores and a Proportional Symbol Map to represent the percentage of graduates that were tested.

Module 11- Google Earth

This is my potential Wind Farm, located in Lake Superior. This area is secluded and far away from any neighborhoods or businesses, which will help with any problems caused by "eye sores", Shadow Flicker, or Ice Throw. The area has significant wind speed to be able to turn the large wind turbines. Also being where it is, it is out of the path of any major bird migration routes.

Module 10- Isopleth Map

This is a Isopleth Map of the Mean Annual Precipitation in the state of Georgia. I really liked this lab, it was not real difficult and pretty much straight forward. I used the live paint tool in AI to fill in the different areas, then used the pencil tool with a white background to cut the edges around the state.

Module 9- Flow Map

This is a map of the Immigration of People from regions around the world into the United States in the year 2007. I thought I was beginning to get the hang of AI, but after the break we had I think I may have forgotten a little bit about it. I mostly just had problems with the layers, theres so many different trees in some of the maps I get lost trying to find the particular layer I'm trying to modify or make it be the top-most layer.

Module 8: Dot Map

This is a Dot map of the housing and population density of Florida in 2000. This was a very time consuming lab and I'm very happy to be finished with it. It wasn't a hard lab to complete, but making all the dots really kind of slowed it down. I think it turned out well, I didnt really have any issues with doing anything. I'm really having fun learning how to do these maps in both classes.

Module 7: Proportional Symbol Maps

This map is a Proportional Symbols Map showing the Annual Wine Consumption on Europe in 2005. This lab was a little time consuming at first, but after getting the formuals down and entered into Excel things went pretty fast. Making the symbols didn't take as long as I thought it would but other than not being sure how to start off, this lab eneded up being pretty fun and simple. I feel like my map is well balanced and I also tried to pick colors that would show up well with eachother such as the man land areas underneath the red circles.

US Regional Population Map # 2

This is a map of the Population Changes by Region in the US between April1, 1990- April1, 2000. The hardest part of this part of the lab was putting together each regions state populations then figuring out the % for the whole region and then making the Equal Interval Classification. I did what I felt was the correct formuals and the map turned out fairly well. Also, I feel like I'm becoming a little more familiar with the Adobe software.