Week 10 - Isarithmic Map

Week 9 - Flow Map

This weeks map illustrates immigration to the US for 2007. The map was created in ARCGIS and completed using Illustrator. Yet again, my text did not show up. I'm not sure why, I agreed to update when prompted in Illustrator. For the lines, I used the arc tool and added the arrowheads.

Week 8 - Dot Map

Wow, this map took a long time. We were given data from the 2000 Census to calculate the population and housing density per area. From this, I calculated the dot value and how many to place in each county. I was unclear about a few of the counties that contained mostly wetlands and required many dots. As for dot placement, I tried to copy and paste at first but it took way too long. So I tried to use the paint sprayer which ended up being a disaster. As I "sprayed" the dots the area kept getting larger and was out of control. Dots were ending up in other counties. Finally, I somehow figured out that I could use the paint brush to add dots with just one click, where ever I wanted them to be.

Week 7 - Proportional Map

Okay, here it is. Circles in Illustrator are not my friend. And yet again, I feel like I am taking the really long route to accomplish simple tasks. Hopefully with practice, things will move more quickly. I'm not sure why my country labels are not shown on the map. I labeled them in Arcmap and when I saved it as an ai file they disappeared. The same thing happened with the scale text, except I could click on the area where the text should have been and I was able to change the font and it was viewable. I could not get it to work for the country labels.