Thursday, February 28, 2013

Hispanic Population in Perspective

A Cartogram of Hispanic population in the United States in 2010.
Cartogram was what won me over to change majors to Geography/GIS. I love how they are used to represent electoral votes...

Map Projection


Map Assignment

This is map was using the appropriate map projection to "highlight" your map to convey your message.
I used the Stereographic (light source projection)

Demographic Map #1


U.S. Interstate Road Network- lab Assignment

I made this for my GIS lab assignment.

Wednesday, February 27, 2013

TIN (triangulated irregular network)

TIN represents the physical surface.
Representing the surface: showing elevations

Tuesday, February 26, 2013

My First map with ArcGIS

This is one of the first few maps I made using ArcGIS about 2yrs ago.
A map to represent the land value by census tract in Brazos county,TX.
Very amateurish .....my professor would not be proud of this  but I was proud of my effort.
I rate myself low on this one...what do you think?
Can you deduce the message this map was trying to convey?

Monday, February 25, 2013

Why Use Map?

I have sat in several PowerPoint presentations with too many words that I fell asleep.I think i may not be the only one in this situation.That case was a bad PowerPoint presentation but that's how it comes to play when information could easily and effectively be communicated with maps.
Our society is becoming more visual than ever before.A picture on twitter,facebook,photobucket,flickr and other social media travel faster like wildfire than the lengthy news article.
A map can be manipulated to convey accurate or deceptive information but, however, the intended use of a map is accomplished when properly done.
The use of graphics,colors,lettering,patterns makes a map more appealing visually to the audience than a horribly made map.
Alright!
I know I have bored you with these many words already but that would probably be the most words I would use here unless they add further details to a map a made.

I hope you ENJOY your time here.
BY the way Thanks for visiting......