Final Project... Dogs and Dog Parks

Final project was a bivariate map of projected dog population in 2007 using 2001 data and # of dog parks in each state... The dog population aspect was to give the map a little more color and attempt to link # of dog parks and total dog population.

The dog parks aspect is the primary focus.

1. My site for getting the population of owned dogs per state. It will give you population of all owned pets http://www.michvma.org/documents/site%20update%20docs/petownerstats.pdf

2. My site I used to manually count every dog park in america.

http://www.usadogparks.com/

3. Criteria from some wacko about what he would like to see in a dog park. http://home.earthlink.net/~ejlmp/dpd.html

4. Warnings about your dog and how he may act in a dog park. http://www.4pawsu.com/dogparks.htm

5. General information about dog friendly places like beaches, parks.http://www.notfortourists.com/pdfs/chicago/NFT_Chicago_2007_General_Information_Dog-Parks-Runs-and-Beaches.pdf

Final Lab 10 Color Background

I was a little confused with using a background color... I always have felt that if the map is so rich in color than you dont need to color the background... I tryed a few different backgrounds and found most background colors distorted the view of the blue circles. I agreed on a light background to make sure the North Carolina map makes the most noise. I do like a white background better, but you asked for a background color.

Lab 9 Colors

I didn't see how the map looked stretched... and I defenetly do not know how to fix it... especially when I can't see it.

Cooler Lab 8 map

This looks sharper... Black dots on top of the white West VA map looks more prominent....

Definetly draws alot of attention to West VA

Lab 8 Map 1

This is my dot density lab... I made 2 maps for this lab... this is the one ill turn in but i think my other one looks way better... just not sure if its what has been asked for.

Lab 7

Did it wrong first!!!! REDID IT!!!

Lab 6 Part A and B

My Area!!! Lab 5

Looks like blogger will fight me over the placement of my map.

Lab 4 Imitating A Map

This lab was pretty easy but still found myself taking hours on it. The hardest part was getting the spacing right. Making sure the letters didnt run together too was tough.

Blogger also is fighting me as far as putting a corrected version up.

Lab 3

Lab #3 was kind of tough. I had this done a few times and zoomed into it to find my ellipses were not perfect. I had to do it again 2 more times. The biggest dilemma I ran into with this was space judgement. Space of the title and the image I could never see as good in my eyes. It seemed like things were either too far to the left or too far to the right.

Lab 2

Illustration of Sphere, Geoid, Ellipsoid, and Natural Surface

Blog Post 1

I picked 3 sites that had maps that I felt were very useful. The first map I chose was a basic temperature map from weather.com. The map was done with a variety of tone and color indicating cooler temperatures or a drastic decline in temperatures with a dark blue color and red for a drastic increase. Temperatures that remained near normal were done in yellow and orange. I chose this map cause I myself like to work with weather maps. I have a deeper understanding of them and I see them all the time on the weather channel. I feel the format of this map is very informative and no matter where you live you can figure out the temperature change in your area.
The second map I chose from the same area was an interstate forecast map of the United States. This map doesnt provide the same amount of information as the previous one. It only gives areas surrounding the interstates but uses color to show hazards and good driving conditions. Even though this map doesnt have as much information, it is easy to read. The simplicity of the red, yellow, and green colors is what attracted me to this map.
My thiord map is a colorful political map of the eastern United States. This map has really good features. The map has state boundaries determined by varying colors, dark blue lines for rivers that show up really well on a lightly colored state, which most of them are, and the top big cities of each state. The map does not distinguish the state capital which I feel it should. The best attribute of this map is its use of colors pertaining to states and rivers. The city symbols could be better.