Map of the Week April 25-May 1

This is a tourist map of the island of Bali in Indonesia, from www. indonesia-tourism.com, this map is interesting because it shows images of several areas on the island on the map and shows where on the map these images are from.

Map 9-Mixed race population in Buffalo, NY

This map shows the distribution of the mixed race population within the city of Buffalo, NY. It is a proportional symbol and chloropleth map. The circles and color both showing the amount of mixed race people in each census tract. With darker colors and larger circles representing a larger mixed race population. There is a clear spacial pattern with large amounts of Mixed race people living in the Northwestern portion of the city especially in the area just North of downtown, and there are very few mixed race people living in the Southern portion of Buffalo. This means that the Northern portion of Buffalo is likely more racially diverse then the Southern portion.

Map 8-Capitol Cities

This is a proportional symbol map with a Conical projection showing capitol cities with populations of greater then 750,000 the size of the dot represents population, as larger dots are capitol cities within a larger population range there are 5 different dot sizes, classes within the map. This map is not quite up to date as the national boundaries are those from 1992 which is why the Ukraine and nations of Central Asia are shown as still part of Russia. The dot values are also based on population values from 1992.

Map 7-Dot map of Vacant Homes in Idaho

This map is a dot map showing the density of vacant homes

in Idaho, 1 dot represents 60 vacant homes. It clearly shows a spacial pattern that vacant homes tend to be clustered around recreational vacation areas such as McCall, Coeur D' Alene and Sandpoint, as well as Boise. The fact that the vacant homes are clustered around vacation areas means that most of the vacant homes are probably second-homes for the wealthy which were unoccupied while the census was being taken.

Map of the Week April 18-April 24

This is a map of the extremely complex Tokyo subway system with the names of the stations in English. I got it from www.traveljapan.com

Map of the Week April 11-April 17

This is a map of the fictional town of Springfield from the Simpsons.

Source: http://simpsonseps.com/cutenewsupdate/data/upimages/map_of_springfield.gif

Idaho Rainfall Maps

The first map, near the bottom, shows annual precipitation in Idaho using the inverse-distance weighting method, the second map, to the right, shows the same data using the Kriging method, while the maps are relatively similar, there are a few noticeable differences. On the Kriging method map, the contour lines are much smoother then they are on the Inverse-Distance map and the change in shade which shows the level of precipitation, is much more gradual in this map, also in the Kriging map much more area in the map lies below the lowest contour value of 10, and much more area in the map lies above the highest contour value of 40, But, the range in values is slightly greater in the Inverse-Distance map. Both maps show that the Northern portion of Idaho receives much more precipitation then Southern Idaho. And the amount of precipitation is especially high in the Rocky Mountains near the Montana border.

Map of the Week April 4-April 10

This is a map of Europe showing EU member nations and which nations were added as members members in 2004 and 2007 it also shows EU candidate nations and EFTA member nations

Source: http://www.nationsonline.org/maps/countries_europe_map.jpg