Wednesday, October 16, 2013

Colored Map of the Distribution of Asian Americans

  
There is a noticeable difference between how the map looks on a computer screen and how the printed version looks. The one on my screen appears to be darker and appears a little dull. The gradient background appears to be darker. If I could make changed, I would make the 14.9% class a little more pink.

Sunday, October 13, 2013

Geography of Skin Color

I thought this was a pretty interesting map. It uses color, but not in the normal "colored map" kind of way. Each color represents the skin color of people in the area.

Thursday, October 3, 2013

Thursday, September 12, 2013

Mollweide Graticule: a pseudo cylindrical equal area projection. It was first presented by Carl Mollweide in 1805.