Krav Maga map for GIS Day

Here was my map that I presented for GIS Day in November! I researched the creator of Krav Maga and traced where he started, which was in Czechoslovakia where he began the art. He later moved to Israel to join the IDF where after he was released, he taught the technique to the soldiers. I geocoded the USA sites of IKMF which stands for International Krav Maga Federation, where they practice fighting the way Imi originally taught it. His students came from Israel, started in New York and it slowly dispersed from there. 

I researched this because I took the class last spring at Mason and really enjoyed it!  

Final Project

Here's my final outcome for the Final Project, mapping (Legal) Moonshine Distilleries in 6 southern states. The only problem I encountered was the mason jars, I wanted to crop them through Photoshop but it took way to long to download so I resorted to making them myself.
The audience this map goes towards would be lovers of 'Mountain Dew', or people who want to visit a distillery who have never been before!

Option 2 Extra Credit; top 10 maps!

I thought Jon's Alpaca natural breaks map was really creative and stood out, I like that for the highest data set he put actual alpacas in the state!

Tom's Bivariate map was very well done with how he actually cropped the heads of Romney and Obama! That can take a lot of time. He also stated at the bottom what the size of their heads mean related to them winning.

Nicole's dot density map for West Virginia was pretty cool with how she made a black background and the dots green, which made them really stand out. The clovers add a nice touch and her whole map looks balanced and neat!

Jared's Graduated symbol map for Maryland was really creative! I can tell it took him a lot of time to crop out the mountains or draw them and the background is awesome with the stream and the legend within it. 

John's map for his final project is awesome! I like the border of the Bigfoot's footprint, as well as the projection. It looks antiquey and just really creative.

Haley's was a good map for the weekly blog post measuring Dot density of global shipping. I liked how the data is different and the dots are in the ocean rather than on land!

Jame's weekly blog post of isolines was interesting to look at since the isolines are measuring the Earth's crust! Normally when seeing isolines they're measuring temperature so this was something different.

Gardy's weekly post about the Typhoon Haiyan was cool because it shows just how big the cyclone was compared to the islands it hit.

Danielle's post of skin color in the world by country was very interesting! I've never seen this done before and though it was neat to look at, although it's not very accurate..

Daniel's map of the African continent showing elephant population was cool because it shows that there is a great deal of them in South Africa but the farther north there are less.

  

  

Option 1 Extra Credit

A handy illustrator technique that I use that saves a lot of time is to hold down shift to select states or items on the map; that is especially useful for making choropleth maps.  I found that when I did this to put the different colors in the states, i could select the states that I wanted that would be all the same color, hold down shift and fill them in with that color. Great step for making life a little easier using Illustrator!  

Bivariate Map

Typhoon Haiyan

This map was well done tracking the path of the Typhoon that recently plowed through the Philippines. Not only does it show the impact of the typhoon and track the times, but it shows elevation of the surrounding waters, most important being the North Pacific Ocean where it originated. It also has great labeling so that the average person who isn't too familiar with the Eastern World can easily identify what is what.

Source: http://www.mapsofworld.com/world-news/super-typhoon-haiyan/

Example of a Bivariate Map

I thought that this map was done well with how they proportioned their symbols with the choropleth map. The houses have a nice transparency so can see the color of the data clearly through the symbols.

Irish Population in West Virginia

This is the map I created from the WV basemap and used the given data from census collected for the Irish population in WV. Keeping the Irish flag in mind being the reason for my color scheme!

Final Project Proposal

Map Project Proposal

-My map subject will be about tracing the moonshine distilleries in the Tennessee and/or North Carolina territories where there are quite a few. These will be legal moonshine distilleries of course.

- I’m interested in mapping this subject because of the show ‘Moonshiners’ on Discovery Channel. Also, the history is interesting.

-The map audience could be people who are interested in visiting Moonshine Distilleries or who actually like moonshine.

-The type of map I’m envisioning is an antique looking map with labels in an Old English Script.

-The scope of map would be the Tennessee and/or North Carolina states

-The data that I found was from Ole Smokey Moonshine Distillery in the Smokey Mountains, I visited this a few years ago but wasn’t of age to try it. It was interesting because there were so many different flavors, and moonshine has come a long way from what it was/is illegally. The data ranges from the years 2007-2013.

-The basemap needed for my map would be State boundaries that can be downloaded from ArcGIS with the important cities (the ones where the regulated Distilleries would be). I'm thinking of a Dot Density map to specifically show the locations.

-I expect the production to be somewhat tedious with labeling primarily and making it look really authentic.

-Some challenges that I perceive would be making it look rustic, I really want it to look like what I’m envisioning, and this might be a challenge since my artistic and creative capabilities are on the way side.

Source for picture: www.olesmokymoonshine.com

Sources of data:

http://www.visitnc.com/distilleries

http://www.southernbyways.com/2007/08/5-things-i-never-knew-about-moonshine/

http://blogs.findlaw.com/blotter/2013/04/is-it-illegal-to-make-moonshine.html

Example of a Dot Density Map

Source: https://mywebspace.wisc.edu/cmertes/web/images/lab5_florida.jpg

I thought this was a neat example of a dot density map. It was done very well with the data and color symbology, also I can easily spot where the most oranges are produced by county in Florida.

Isoline Map of 'Smerg' in VA

Example of an Isarithmic Map

I found this map online and thought it was a neat example because of everything that's going on! I can't imagine how long this took whoever drew it out, but they did a good job. It's a geologic map but the legend is too small to read unfortunately, even on the main page. Visually it is a good Isoline map!

http://www.esf.edu/es/felleman/USGeolMap.gif

Proportional Symbol Map for Maryland Counties

This is a proportional symbol map depicting the amount of people that carpool to work by county in Maryland. The largest was Prince George's County with the eastern, mostly southern and northwest counties being the lowest.

Lab 6: Color Choropleth Map

Looking at the printed copy and the web, the colors are different, as I imagined they would be. The lightest color (0-1.7%) looks darker and a bit dull on here compared to whats in front of me. The next class (2.0-3.3%) looks more like a mauve on paper. (3.5-4%) looks brighter on the web here whereas on paper it looks like there is no brightness into it. (5.1-6%) looks hot pink on paper and on web it looks more like fuscia. (9.3-10%) actually looks somewhat the same on web and on paper. I think overall, the web definitely adds brightness but on paper the colors are more crisp and of course glossy.

Example of a Color Map

I chose this map as a good example of color because I think that the colors go together very well, they don't blend together or clash. Also, the data was interesting because at this time of year I am on the lookout for deer while driving, especially in the country!

Gray Choropleth Maps

I did one of my favorite stores as the data for my map! There are over 400 Boutiques in the US and this shows the percentage by state. I think that the Natural Breaks map looks better, because there is more of a variety of the gray scale coloring than the Equal Interval.

Cool Choropleth Map

http://sarahpopesblog.blogspot.com/2011/04/choropleth-map.html

This Choropleth map came from a student, but I thought that it was very well done. It changes to show you the divorce rate by state and then will switch to show you divorce rate by county. Plus I found it interesting that California didn't have the highest increase as say Colorado, since actors can't seem to stay married, but I guess that goes for half of the US.

Creating Boundaries of VA, MD, and DC

This is my version of boundaries for the MSA!

Typography

Cool Example of A Type Map

www.skyscrapercity.com

I thought this was an interesting type of type map because it shows Ireland in its entire Geographic form, yet all in words to where the cities would be located. I thought that this was a creative way of showing Ireland!

Mollweide Graticule

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     

Illustration of Sphere, Geoid, Ellipsoid, and Natural Surface

This is my final product! What I had the most hard time with was the use of the pen; I guess it takes a lot of getting used to, as you can tell with my super jagged surfaces!

Unique Map Projection

Link to the picture: http://www.progonos.com/furuti/MapProj/Normal/ProjPM/

This projection might be an equal-area projection because the quadrilaterals decrease as they ascend North, but according to the maker of this projection it is an "Octant Projection". An interesting piece about this projection is that it was a reconstruction of Leonardo da Vinci's octant map that he had made.

Lab 1- An Interesting Map

https://www.google.com/search?gs_rn=26&gs_ri=psy-ab&gs_mss=interesting+mp&tok=_X4svI_xcXQaRCpIXNDzXQ&cp=16&gs_id=29&xhr=t&q=interesting+maps&bav=on.2,or.r_cp.r_qf.&bvm=bv.51495398,d.dmg&biw=1280&bih=909&um=1&ie=UTF-8&hl=en&tbm=isch&source=og&sa=N&tab=wi&ei=WHIfUuf-IY7i4APjkYGQBw#facrc=_&imgdii=_&imgrc=mTPIYfw2bLzA2M%3A%3B2V_vw0U-fZ8PPM%3Bhttp%253A%252F%252F1.bp.blogspot.com%252F-I8aJ0BiBoZ0%252FTmUDOosxXmI%252FAAAAAAAAA2w%252FS9azII-Ror4%252Fs640%252Finternet%252Bblack%252Bhole.jpg%3Bhttp%253A%252F%252Fgeographer-at-large.blogspot.com%252F2011%252F11%252Fmap-of-week-11-14-2011-internet-black.html%3B640%3B457

I thought this map was interesting because it shows several countries (listed in the graphic) that are "black holes" to the internet, I found this interesting because only Libya for instance in Africa has is considered a black hole but I would think that the whole top and even middle portion of Africa would be a black hole since it has a lot of developing countries. I can see why portions of the Middle East are black holes, because they don't want free news circulating there, as the graphic states, but everywhere else minus parts of Asia, get news.