Rainbow World

Tuesday, October 28, 2008

A Great Example of Choropleth Map!!!


YES!
Map of China again!

This choropleth map is fun! Seen carefully, tiny tiny dots would be found blended within the colors!

Density data is applied properly. That's what is being mapped in the first place definitely!

Besides, possibly different from other choropleth maps, this one shows your addtional information of where major rivers are located!

I like this choropleth map! The color choices are nice!~

Wednesday, October 22, 2008

Lab6: DOTS!DOTS!DOTS!


MY DOT MAP!!!

Dot maps are cool! They are the best choices to show the geographic patterns of a certain phenomena~

However,

When I really tried to make my own dot map, it was not that fun :(

It took time! A LOT!!!

Still,

I tried to enjoy the process of making it! It was not hard...Patience!!!!!

My lack of the ancillary information of where to put those dots does affect the visuality of the map! This is not cool :(

I got a conclusion:
Ancillary Information of properly putting dots is important! It makes your map much better to show patterns! And it will look better ~


Monday, October 13, 2008

A great DOT MAP!!!


Dot map definitely works well for population density mapping~

Here is a map of my home country China!(
A dot represents 50,000 people )


I really like the way how it shows the pattern of population distribution :)

Monday, October 6, 2008

Antique Map of Virginia~

The overall quality of the Antique map of Virginia is quite good!

I like the very "old" looking of this map,

more interestingly,

this map by Hondius shows me more about the "Art" aspect of cartography!~~~

Lab 5!!!


我的天啊!

Oh, My gosh! This lab definitely got me!~~~

Initially, I expected this lab to be easy; however, it turned out to be quite frustrating~

It even took me a long time to figure out how to get the two files together in order to overlap

them!!!

Also, the sublayers of the new layer I created and the states layer were really driving me crazy.

It also took me a long long time to figure out how to make fill of the states with white color, how

to type the labels on the right layer was also hard for me to figure out.

Anyway, this lab was definitely time-consuming for me!!!

But most importantly,

I am still satisfied with the final vision of it!

It looks nice~~~