Lorain Ohio Windfarm site

I chose this site just offshore of Lorain, Ohio. I chose this site because of the strong SW wind component of Lake Erie. This wind is strong here year-round but especially in the winter when the West to East flow weather pattern is prevalent. This site does not effect shipping lanes of Lake Erie. It is offshore so noise and flickering effect are negated. It is far enough offshore that visual impact is limited. There is a railroad that passes through Lorain, so importing supplies is not a problem. I personally do not belive that Ornithology is a problem. Birds have a natural sense to move up and down to avoid objects such as windmills(just an opinion).

Isarithmic Mapping

The first thing I did was to print the map of Georgia out so that I could easily practice drawing the Isolines.I had to think about how close I want the isolines to be to the given values.
My next hurdle was to outline the state of Geogia so that I had enclosed areas which I could use live paint to fill in. That is exactly what I did. After watching a few videos I was more confident with live paint and was able to break up the area into area of rainfall. I then filled them in. I added labels for each section and a legend, a north arrow, and text.
I dont know why it shifted to the right. huh That happened during the export of the map, not in the making of it.

Week 9: Flow Maps

I began this weeks assignment my producing a basemap in ArcMap. I then imported the basemap into Adobe Illustrator. Then in Excel, I was able to determiine the number of people coming from each continent and calculate the width of each arrow by using the formula provided.
I then added the arrows to the map in Adobe Illustrator, making sure that the appropriate width of each arrow was correct. I was able to do the legend in Illustrator and was able to import a north arrow.

Week 8: Dot Map

I began this week lab by performing a few calculations in our Excel program. I first summed the total houses in Florida and then divided by 2000 because that was the number suggested in the exercise. I then rounded that number to get whole numbers. Then divided all values by four. This is how I got the number of dots to put in each county.
Then I used Adobe Illustrator to add the required dots to each county. I took in consideration the area where people could not live like wetlands. I then added each dot personally to the map(over 1800). I then used Illustrator to make the map visually appealing. I do not know why it is shifted to the right. I could not correct it. I do believe that you can see very clearly the areas which are most densely populated or where housing is located.