Vintage Look

This is a vintage style map of the island of Saint Lucia. Boundaries, streams, grid lines, and point locations were exported from ArcMap as AI files. Adobe Illustrator is where all colors, line strokes, fonts, and symbols were created, manipulated and the map was finalized.

Multi-Variable

This map was designed to illustrate the population shift in Pennsylvania, by county.The map uses a multi-variable choropleth design to show patterns between regressing county populations and an elderly population percentage.

The general design of the map follows the current Pennsylvania license plate, blue top, yellow bottom, and information in the center.In addition to the choropleth design, the map highlights the highest and lowest counties in each variable category and also shows the state’s top 10 city’s by population.The larger the text reflects larger population.These sizes are proportional to the population rank and not the city’s actually population because of the large gap in population between the largest city (Philadelphia at 1.5 million) and the 10^th most (Altoona at 46,000).

Interactive Map - Flash Player

Follow this link to this interactive map:

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/63907853/MTBK_Flash.swf

This is an interactive map created in Flash. It has buttons and hot links much like an online map would but it is a flash file that can be shared in similar methods that PDF or Microsoft Office files are. The only problem is that this blogging website does not display flash files. To get this map to display a public url from 'dropbox' was inserted in this blog entry. If viewing this flash map online becomes too much of a hassle please contact me and I can send you the original flash file.

This is an interactive mountain bike trail map. There are three parts to this, first is the splash/intro screen, the second is the actual interactive map, and the last is the additional information screen. The splash and additional info screens are mostly text and contain several links and hot buttons. From the splash screen the user can access the interactive map or the additional information screen and from the interactive map and the additional info screen the back button can be used to return to the splash screen.

The interactive map is the meat of this project. The map is an original static PDF map of the bike trail system in Fredericksburg, VA. The vector data was imported in Flash and code was added to make objects appear and disappear. The first thing this map will allow users to do is click on each obstacle in the map frame. Once clicked on a picture will appear showing the obstacle at that location. The second function of this map is each trail name can be selected in the legend. This will then display a terrain model at the bottom of that page. Of course the terrain model is for the trail selected and there is a gear at the beginning of the terrain model and a corresponding gear on the trail in the map. Once the play button is clicked (play, pause, and return buttons are found below the north arrow) the gears will travel together linking the maps vector line to the terrain variations.

Army National Guard Training Review

These maps were created as a visual aid to a research paper that was done on the necessary travel distances of Oklahoma Army National Guard Units.

Each of the major training facilities found in Oklahoma and its vicinity are shown with a 250 mile travel buffer.  The 250 mile buffer represents the maximum distance that a unit permitted to travel for training.

The first map was to be inserted into a PowerPoint presentation, so some map elements were excluded to better emphasis the data.

The second map is included as an appendix to the paper.  Some more detail was added to the symbology, labeling, and legend; but not too much that it took away from the maps visual purpose.

Simple Classification

Wedding Map

This is a basic location map that I made for a friend’s wedding.  It has imagery as a base layer because at this scale some of the land marks can be seen in the imagery that can also be seen on the ground.  The roads were created by editing and existing TIGER file (The original TIGER files was very bad).  The each location that was important to the wedding weekend was marked with a number that corresponds to the name of the location on the text box.

Adobe Illustrator

This map was created in Adobe Illustrator.  It demonstrates the use of masks to get the distinct breaks in each classification band.  Also, Smerg is a fictional pollutant in the air that was created to produce this lab exercise.