Week 3

Map 1

Glad we finally learned the legends!! I was messing around with them in the cartography assignment but couldn't figure them out. Other than that it was fairly straight forward with no problems.

Map 2

This map was showed me how easily you can clutter up a map. Also, it was interesting to see the difference in speed of updating the screen with all the layers and lines everywhere. Other than that though, no major problems. I was trying to think of a better way to display the city names but with all the clutter around the city I could not.

Map 3

This one was my favorite!!! I'm going to be using DEM with my thesis so I was enjoying playing with this map. Anyway, the biggest trouble on this map was finding a good way to display the names of the small countries in Central America. I finally just shrunk them down so they would fit better but left Mexico and the United States large.

Week 2 Lab

This is the map showing the population of the earth by country. Higher populations are in red and lower ones in green. One thing that would have been nice to add to the map is the population values of each bin color. The only problems I had was changing the sizes and fonts of the writing. I thought that I could zoom in using the map tools but it turns out you can still zoom in on the map in the layout view.

Module 1

Deliverable 1:

This map I really did not have any problems with. The only minor pitfall that occurred was I had not turned on one of the layers and therefore could not find the feature on the map until I realized that. Other than that, finding the attributes and features was not too bad.

Deliverable 2:

This map I enjoyed more than the others as it went more in depth and I saw what GIS is capable of. There were a few places that had missed selecting something due to flipping back and forth between ArcMAP and the ESRI sight so I had to double back and find what I missed. Also, I kept forgetting how to deselect. But I have that down now!!!