Cartographic Skills - Final Project

Cartographic Skills - Module XII - Google Earth

The conversion of the Southern Florida map into a Google Maps friendly file can be dont with the KML tool on ArcMap. In this case, a dot map from a previous exercise (module 11) was used. shapefile as well as an entire mxd were converted and opened directly from the desktop in Google Maps.

The yellow pins symbolize marked locations that are included in a tour, which was included on google maps for the purpose of this lab.

Intro to GiS - Lab XIII

The image raster files that fit over the general basemap show the general location area of the UWF campus. The feature class containing raster files that show a feature set of buildings and roads was georeferenced in ArcMap to fit over the image files.

Two extra features were created in the process: The Gymnasium (in the Buildings layer) and Campus Lane (in the Roads layer).

The inset map shows a protected buffer around an eagles nest, which is located east of the campus.

Cartographic Skills - Module 11

This Dot map was created entirely in ArcMap. Each green dot represents 25,000 people and the results are displayed only in urban areas. The three shapefiles provided for this assignment included an outline of southern Florida along with county borders, water bodies within the boundary, and urban areas within the boundary. The labels for the cities were made and placed independently, and the locations were based off of already existing maps.

Cartographic Skills - Module 10

1.       After completing adding the legend and the essential map elements to the project, I began to work on the color scheme. I locked everything but the continents in the layers table, and selected the direct selection tool. I went into “select-same-fill color” in the main menu as directed and highlighted Asia.

2.       I clicked in “Recolor Artwork” at the top, and picked a Strong Red color. I colored the other continents in a similar fashion, by selecting them and using the “Eyedropper” tool to pick the same color as for Asia.

3.       Afterwards, I locked the continents in the Layer table, and unlocked the “US Immigration” layer. I changed the color scheme of the enlarged United States in the same fashion. I adjusted the legend in order to correspond with the new color scheme by clicking on each box and using the “eyedropper” tool on appropriate states.

4.       I unlocked the neatline, and selected it with the direct selection tool. I chose a light blue, in order to match a color theme of my map (I do not think it could be mistaken for an ocean.)

5.       I selected one of the flow lines (Asia) and selected “effects – stylize – inner glow” as directed. I picked an opacity of 20 and Blue of 144. Left the arrow red in color. Afterwards, I selected all the arrows and clicked ctrl-shift-E as directed to make them all match.

6.       I highlighted all the arrows with a direct selection tool. I added a standard shadow to the arrows as suggested in the directions. (effect-stylize-drop shadow-ok).

7.       I used the rectangle tool to draw an oval around the enlarged US, in order to make it clear that it is not a proportional element. I moved the oval down in the layer table so that it does not appear on top of any other feature.

8.       I decided to make my large United States three dimensional. After locking everything but the US in the layer table, I selected it and in the main menu, I clicked on “Effect – 3d – extrude & bevel.” I experimented with different positioning of the cube, and the extrude depth but decided to do something different. Because the large US map contains info crucial to understanding the information, I decided to leave it flat. Instead, I decided to make the surrounding continents appear 3d.

9.       I locked the US in the layer table, and unlocked all continents. After selecting them all with the direct selection tool, I followed the same instructions to access the extrude & bevel menu. I reduced the extrude depth to 20 pt, and rotated the cube. The continents looked great on the preview, but after Adobe Illustrator crashed 4 times in a row after loading the changes for five minutes on each occasion, I decided to use a different effect.

10.   A added a shadow to both of my legends and the oval neatline for the center US map.

11.   I selected the large neatline, and opened the gradient menu on the left side of the screen. I angled the gradient at -126 degrees, and left it in grayscale.

12.   I saved the map, and exited the Illustrator.