Thursday, April 22, 2010


This map came off of a fishing charter website. It is a map of Lake Coeur d’ Alene, ID. It’s a good reference map that idanetifies the major roads around the lake, various portions of the lake, and the towns located on the lake.

Here is another map that displays the census tracts of Buffalo, NY. It’s a bivariate map that displays two forms of information at one time, the dots represent the Asian population for a particular region and the color of the census block indicates the overall population of that census block.

This world map is good at showing the relative population of various capial cities around the world. This map style is called proportional symbol mapping, it is good way at relating size to some kind of quantitative value.

This dot map of Idaho is a good way to show where the agricultural lands are in idaho. You will notice most of the Agricultural lands in nothern idaho are in the palouse region, and in southern Idaho the snake river plain. The map was created in ArcMap.

Tuesday, April 13, 2010

Idaho Precipitation Map II


Map II also identifies the annual precipitation over Idaho. This isarithmic map should indicate regions of Idaho that receive high amounts of rainfall and others that receive little rainfall, and the variation within the state. Point data from weather stations were used to find the different precipitation amounts in various locations of Idaho. A Kriging interpolation was used to estimate the annual precipitation across all of Idaho. Map 1 and 2 show some variation, this is due to the different algorithms used to interpret the point data for all of Idaho.

Idaho Precipitation Map I


Map I identifies the annual precipitation over Idaho. This isarithmic map should indicate regions of Idaho that receive high amounts of rainfall and others that receive little rainfall, and the variation within the state. Point data from weather stations were used to find the different precipitation amounts in various locations of Idaho. An Inverse distance weighted interpolation was used to estimate the annual precipitation across all of Idaho.

Monday, April 12, 2010

Map of the Week II


This map was created by Tim Knight for the Washington Nature Mapping Program. The map shows the whitetail deer distribution of Washington state. This map was created by identifying known habitat requirements of whitetail deer. they used that information to map out where whitetail deer could be found.