Blog Map Post #6: Color

I really like this map of Europe. The color of each country is represented by its representative flag. It gets really confusing with Corsica and Sardinia and the Balkans look really jumbled. Also I think the borders around countries with similar color borders need to have a line that stands out more.

Blog Map Post #5: Chloropleth

This map was most likely done by a student but I still think it is very good. Pittsburgh is a very interesting city that has gone through a lot of demographic and physical changes in the past few decades. This map shows the population changes in all of the neighborhoods within the Pittsburgh city limits. The decrease in the Central Business District is no surprise to me because, well it is a business district. Not many people tend to live in those. Mount Washington is a bit surprising because it is a lovely neighborhood with a prime view of the city below. Oakland is another neighborhood that has changed over the years for an area that in the 1920s was mostly inhabited by low income immigrants. The only issue I have with the map is how the dashes to distinguish range and negative growth in the legend are confusing.

Blog Map Post #4: Campus Map

This may be one of the most complicated college maps ever. But it is mostly because there is so much that you have to fit! UT Austin is a HUGE campus! When I visited Austin I walked around campus for a couple of hours, only to realize I didn't see anything close to most of the campus. I also like the 3-D aspect of the map. The buildings with unique architecture and of larger size stand out, as they do when you are standing on campus.

Blog Map Post #3 Type

I think that this is a really cool type map. DC is a weird city to map because of the way the roads are laid out. This map is nicely done. I like how Dupont and Logan circles are labeled, as well as Rock Creek Park and Georgetown University. In addition I appreciate how the letters in the Potomac River are rippled to look like the flow of water.

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I've been slacking on these...

This is an Equidistant Conic projection. I chose it because it looks nice on the web, but a paper Conic map is a pain. There is no easy way to fold it! However they are fairly accurate.

Lab 7

This map projects the proportion of the numbers of farms with bee colonies. I was browsing through USDA data and stumbled upon a document with data on bee colonies. I am terrified of bees so I am not sure why I decided to map data related to them. Maybe it was so I know what counties to avoid going to.