Apr 28, 2010

Map(s) of the Week #8


This map is representative to the Hispanic population of Idaho. The purple area of the map is very likely to be the sparsely-settled regions in Idaho, especially the mountainous regions. The part of the map which gave me the most problems is the key itself (thus you could see a thick border on the first category there). As could be seen here, Hispanics are more widespread and densely distributed in the south, particularly in and near Boise (but Canyon County has more than Ada County does). The maps shows where they are in relation to the local geography.


This is a global map of the Earth with world capitals with at least 750,000 people labeled. Sorting out the data for that is sort of time-consuming, but not hard, considering that sorting a category in descending order can help. The legend of the cities is stacked with the lowest population in front, and the legend therefore goes in descending order, from highest population down.


This is the map of vacant homes in Buffalo, New York. The symbol of a house represents a certain, approximate, number of vacant houses in the area, which can most commonly be seen in the center. The legend is sorted in descending order from the highest number down.

And as a bonus...

I have here another non-project map to present as a weekly map. I've been doing maps based on current events/the world for quite a while that I decided to change gears for a moment. This week's map is 2Fort (capture the flag) from the popular multiplayer shooter Team Fortress 2. This takes into account the frequency of a player "death" throughout the map, going from blue (least frequent) to green to yellow then to red (most deaths). Based on the coloring, the most deaths occurred on and near the bridge linking the two sides

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