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.

https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9QkfhXwjuwME0D-Fjavqou65Te6rOkG8cH0rx9Ng9uBgbM2ngHnjZdncg2lZ8s8C7iE-BaLn7Hh_P7mHXfxj9o4J0aMcAuujfKEr0k0N9tIZRyjFNcgpWPFxZkqFo-EfhfrpdEcKlSE4n/s1600-h/untitled.bmp

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