I'm still undecided about this.



5 links
http://www.footballgroundguide.co.uk/
http://soccernet.espn.go.com/?cc=5901
http://www.premierleague.com/page/Home/0,,12306,00.html
http://www.football-league.premiumtv.co.uk/page/Home/0,,10794,00.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/default.stm

extra credit

MAPS FOUND ON INTERNET

I thought this map was neat in that it split America into different regions based upon MLB team affiliation. It is interesting that the state borders were not included on the map, but it still works really well.
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I really enjoy the chernoff face maps and thought this map utilized the concept to the fullest. It shows that a variable like health can alter in such a small area, but that’s “Chicagoland” for you!

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I liked this map projection because of the excellent color choice. The black background really made it stand out.

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I thought this map was effective in highlighting the technology savvy regions of the world by way of video game play over the internet. If this map used data from 3:15 P.M EST, that would explain why Asia and perhaps Australia don’t have more dots.

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I thought this map was effective because it seems as if Alaska Natives and American Indians are the least mapped of race demographics in the United States. I wish the map showed how many people a dot represents because I didn’t realize that either race is that prevalent throughout the US.

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CLASSMATE MADE MAPS

I thought this map of West Virginia really stood out due to the state being in a cream color instead of the standard white. The grey background is probably the reason for this.

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I thought the symbol on this map was outstanding and really captured my attention. I also think the green color scheme to represent the total number of farms does the map justice.
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The first thing I noticed about this map was the rounded edges of the neatline which is a change from the standard square neatline. I also thought it was a clever idea to put a slash through the graduation hat symbol to represent the population with no high school diploma.
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I thought this map did a good job of not making the legend box to big, making the state itself the focus of the map. I also thought the subtle detail of the house (like the white door) enhances the presence of the map.
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I liked this map a lot because of the realistic look of the symbol. I also liked the use of the brown color scheme because it conveys the construction theme really well.
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The correlation between the two variables is not as great as I had anticipated.

This is a side-by-side bivariate map. Kind of hard to find.
http://www.geog.le.ac.uk/russianheartland/DemographicMaps/images/PopulationMaps/RaionMaps/7RaionPopDenPerCh8902.jpg

Color map

Since this lab is being graded on the web, this was the first time when the layout was the main focus. As you can tell from my greyscale map, I never really took the time in trying to fix my layout and I found it to be pretty difficult. As for the color, I find the web version to be quite dull but it may be just the screen. The blues seem to be more similar on the web version but on the printed version each shade of blue really stands out.

Map of West Virginia's Irish population by county.

Dot density map of China's population. A dot represents 50,000 people.

Source:http://depts.washington.edu/chinaciv/geo/1zgzpopu.jpg

http://www.ncgia.ucsb.edu/education/curricula/cctp/units/unit47/html/czech.html

Though it's in Czech, this is a proportional symbol map that shows the voting numbers in each district.

Quintiles

Equal Interval

I present DMV.

This is a choropleth map. I picked it cause it was pretty.

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http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/HistTopics/Cartography.html

Here is an example of a map Eratosthenes would have constructed sometime in the 200's BC. I picked this map because the labels had to be carefully placed to represent proper location.

oh, we were suppose to post a map with interesting fonts instead of the one I posted on October 1st. Anyway, I picked this map because only pirate maps could fit so many different labels on one map, plus their use of small fonts is always intriguing. And, you don't see scales like this everyday.

http://pirateshold.buccaneersoft.com/images/maps/guinea-map.jpg

I could do this lab forever.

http://strangemaps.wordpress.com/2007/06/10/131-us-states-renamed-for-countries-with-similar-gdps/

Here is a map of the US but instead of putting in state names, coutries with comparable GDP's are used instead. Amazing.

This is my Mollweide Graticule lab.It was fun.

http://www.colorado.edu/geography/gcraft/notes/mapproj/mapproj_f.html

I thought this projection was interesting because both the scale and the shape is somewhat distorted, but shows a large country such as the US quite well because its area is accurate across standard parallels.

Lab 2

Websites of Possible Interest

The GIS Development website gives a comprehensive overview on the different applications of GIS. GIS applications range from Urban Planning to Agriculture to Business, and shows just how integral GIS has become in several fields and professions. http://www.gisdevelopment.net/

The need for cartographers is at a all time high around several counties across the country. The Careers in Cartography/GIS website is a good site which explains the procedure to lucrative, and interesting Cartography jobs. http://www.acsm.net/CaGISCareerWeb/index.html

The GIS and Mapping Crime website is an interesting site that details the relationship between crime mapping and cartography. Crime is of some interest to everyone since many decisions we make is affected by it. http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/ovc/publications/infores/geoinfosys2003/welcome.html