Eric's Digital Cartography Blog

Final Map

noreply@blogger.com (Eric Gerhart) — Sun, 09 Dec 2007 23:37:00 +0000

Here it is, my final project map.

Enjoy

U.S. Census Bureau Factfinder:
http://factfinder.census.gov/home/saff/main.html?_lang=en

Virginia State Board of Elections information for January 1, 2004:

http://www2.sbe.virginia.gov/VotRegServ/VVRS_Stats/Locality/2004/Voters.by.loc.distjan04.html

Virginia State Board of Elections information for January 1, 2005:

http://www2.sbe.virginia.gov/VotRegServ/VVRS_Stats/Locality/Voters.by.loc.distjan05.html

County Map of Virginia:

http://county-map.digital-topo-maps.com/virginia.shtml

Independent City Map of Virginia (easier to find):

http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/states/virginia3.gif

Also:

AI File:

http://mason.gmu.edu/~egerhart/Voters.ai

noreply@blogger.com (Eric Gerhart) — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 02:56:00 +0000

Here is the hardest map that I have had to make so far. This one was a real challenge due to the shear number of data points. I think this ties with the Dot Density map. This map just had a shear number of data points, while the DD map you could just place the points.

noreply@blogger.com (Eric Gerhart) — Sun, 18 Nov 2007 20:26:00 +0000

This is a little late, but better late then never. There really was not too much different in this map then the one in lab 6. I just used the ColorBrewer to find a suitable pallete. Otherwise it was just redoing the lab 6 map.

Dot Density

noreply@blogger.com (Eric Gerhart) — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 05:02:00 +0000

Here is my Dot Density map of the veterns of West Virginia.

Dot Density Example

noreply@blogger.com (Eric Gerhart) — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 20:07:00 +0000

Ok, this was the first idea that I had when I thought of an example of a dot density map. Please excuse the nerdiness. This is a map of the location of all of the people how are connected to the Internet playing Halo 3. This was taken on at 3:15 pm on the 5th of November. In 20 minutes, this will change as people log on and off. Since this is not being used for anything but a WOW factor, the only information provided is the total number of players online, there is no dot size or any other information.

Proportional Symbols

noreply@blogger.com (Eric Gerhart) — Sun, 28 Oct 2007 01:33:00 +0000

This was a fun lab for me. I had a very satisfying time working on it and I am proud to post it here for you to see.

Choropleth

noreply@blogger.com (Eric Gerhart) — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 03:45:00 +0000

Map 1: Natural Breaks

Map 2: Qauntiles - Quintile

noreply@blogger.com (Eric Gerhart) — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 20:56:00 +0000

Here is the beautiful map with its elegantly understated neatline. Enjoy.

Cool Typography

noreply@blogger.com (Eric Gerhart) — Sun, 30 Sep 2007 18:36:00 +0000

Here is a neat map that some might recognize. It's from the Goonies

But you can look at the typography, and notice that it is different in places such that they have different levels of improtance.

noreply@blogger.com (Eric Gerhart) — Sun, 30 Sep 2007 16:16:00 +0000

Here is the picture for the typography lab. This is the best quality that I could get the color picture on the website.

The Third Lab - PROJECTION!!!

noreply@blogger.com (Eric Gerhart) — Mon, 24 Sep 2007 20:47:00 +0000

TADA!!!! I would like to present, so the inspection of the class, my Graticule for the Mollwiede Projection. Talk amongst yourselves.

Crazy Projections

noreply@blogger.com (Eric Gerhart) — Mon, 24 Sep 2007 20:43:00 +0000

Ok, so the projections are not going to be all that crazy, but i'm sure that they can be classified as 'mad interesting'. Here is the link: http://www.progonos.com/furuti/MapProj/Normal/ProjOth/projOth.html

I think that most of the projections on this page are interesting but my favorites would have to be the ones near the bottom, the arden-close maps. I think that they are neat becaude the parallels are splayed out from the map were as most projections have them wind around close to the center.

That's my $.02 at least.

Second Assignment

noreply@blogger.com (Eric Gerhart) — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 12:57:00 +0000

Hello All,
Hear is my second post, which is in relation to the second assignment, being the first use of Adobe Illustrator software.
Here it is, Yay:

I hope that you all enjoy!

My First Post

noreply@blogger.com (Eric Gerhart) — Sat, 08 Sep 2007 23:18:00 +0000

I would like to welcome everyone to my blog for Geography 310, Digital Cartography.

The United States Geological Survey was added to my links list because they are major producer of maps in the US and offer great job opportunies.

The Library of Congress Map Collection is a great source of historical maps and records. These are great for study of past conditions and ways of thought about maps and mapping. My favorite part is doing a dearch for treasure maps, since they have a good sized collection of them.

I added the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency because of the job that they do. They create maps for the national military and national defense, which includes aquiring and analyzing aerial and satellite remote sensing data.