Good Typography

Though a relatively simple map showing only Maryland's 24 counties and major water resources, it uses good typography. The difference in font color and size make it easy for the viewer to discern the county labels from the water body labels. All of the county labels are fit within their boundaries reading horizontally on a straight line with few exceptions. These exceptions were only made in efforts to keep the county labels on land and within their boundaries so they were not to extend into the water. All of the water body labels were properly italicized, while all of the rivers are labeled along their path. The water reservoirs were labeled with the best possible type placement due to it being a small scale map which doesn't allow the reservoirs to be labeled within the body of water.

Lab #4: Typography

For this lab we were given a printed copy of Harpers Ferry National Park. We were then provided with a computer copy of the map without any labels. The point of this lab was to label the blank map as close as possible to resemble to printed copy of Harpers Ferry National Park. You be the judge, how close is it?

Becca

Lab #3: Mollweide Graticule

For the third lab we were instructed to make a replica of the Mollweide Graticule whose equator is to be exactly 10 inches long and the prime meridian 5 inches high (on the printed version of course). This projection is made using a series of ellipses to create the rounded meridians and straight lines for latitude markers. I included two scales, one is a ratio of the equator and the second a drawn scale to show the relationship between inches and miles.

Interesting Map Projection

Here's an interesting map projection. It kinda resembles a doughnut. However, it looks like Greenland was sucked into a black hole at the top where the doughnut hole is.

Not a traditional map but slightly humorous.

Lab #2

Here's my sphere, ellipsoid, geoid, and natural surface drawn on Adobe Illustrator for Lab Assignment #2

View My Links!

While the first two links posted; our class’ Geography 310 blog spot and our school’s Geography Department; were required links to post, the later three were of my personal choice. Google Earth was my first choice because the new GIS programs and software used to create a mapping program such as Google Earth is amazing. These types of GIS advancements are leading the way to new technologies and give the opportunity to the public to open up more cartography related jobs in the future. My second choce being the National Geographic website is because of the relevance in which National Geographic is able to relate a significance between maps and the world as we know it today. My third link takes you to the United States Geological Survey website where maps are most closely correlated with up-to-date information on natural phenomena occurring across the globe. The USGS Department is also a good place to search for government jobs including entry level positions.

First post

Just thought it would be useful to try this out and make sure I can post for the class.