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.