Tuesday, November 11, 2008

Lab #9: Color Choropleth Map


My printed map looks very different from the visual map shown on the computer screen. The printed version is slightly darker in color giving each hue a little bit more weight or value. Some of the colors that appear to be very distinct (i.e. the difference between class 5, 31-32%, and class 4, 25-28%) on the computer screen appear to much closer in hue on the printed version. This could make a map easy to read on the computer but much harder to read or understand the phenomena presented on a printed version of the same map. The online version also makes the last class appear as though it has a slightly higher intensity than the rest of the classes but on the printed copy looks to be the same intensity or chroma.

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