Isopleth Map of Georgia Rainfall

Here is my attempt at a 'hand drawn' isopleth map of rainfall in Georgia. I found manual interpolation difficult; several attempts and still not anything I'd present to a client... I seriously considered manually digitizing the ai layer and using Arc to draw the contours. I did learn more about the Pencil Tool in Adobe 'Irritater', and a keen appreciation of the folks at USGS that produced the beautiful Topo maps I've used for hiking.

'Bonus' Exercise - Classified Wine Consumption Map

Hi all! I enjoyed the research so much in producing my Proportionate Symbol Map in Week Seven (Wine Consumption in Europe), that I revisited it. I felt it may be misleading, as the consumption data was not standardized. In this attempt, I combined a Choropleth map of Population Density with a Proportionate Symbol layer showing consumption. Cypress appears completely awash in wine...

I drew this idea from the European Energy map in the ESRI Mapping Center. Cheers!

Flow Map of Immigration to the USA

Here is my attempt at a Flow Map depicting immigration by Continent. I struggled again with Adobe Illustrator... Each 'source Continent' was placed in its own frame in Arc, and retain their scale. North America is larger, to make it visually obvious as the destination.

Week 8 Florida Housing Unit Density

This map reflects the ratio of housing units (as reported by the 2000 Census) to buildable area; reported by Florida Counties. I chose to exclude wetlands (such as the Everglades) from the calculation, as the enumeration units could not be placed there. The area involved, with the vast delta in density, made it difficult to have a 'point' size visible in sparsely 'housed' counties, and not have a 'clot' in highly developed areas. I checked the spreadsheet values with the dot incidence in low density Counties and they correlate.

Week 7 Wine Consumption in Europe

This Proportionate Symbol map depicts national wine consumption in Europe. The data is scaled using the Absolute method, and is not a ratio reflecting population. I added the .xls data to the attribute table in ArcMAP after calculating the Symbol Size, and let Arc calculate the diameter of each symbol. The Legend symbols' diameter were adjusted in AI to increase the visual impact.