exercise 10 Mapping in ARCGIS

The purpose of this project was to introduce us to mapping using only ARCMAP to produce the maps. This got us away from being reliant on adobe illustrator to make our maps and taught us an easier way to make chloropleth maps and proprotional symbol maps. We had to make two maps (one chloropleth and one proportional symbol map) in ARCMAP using US census data provided to us by the program and the base maps were also produced in ARCMAP . We had to decide what classifaction system to use on our own and what of the census data that we were going to map. for the chloropleth map i chose to map Female population in the united states by county and for the second map I chose to map Population of people aged 18-21.The biggest hurdle in this project was learning how to use the program since we had never used ARCMAP to produce full maps before this point. Once that hurdle was climed and i had knowledge of theprogram making these maps became fun and the only problem after that was balancing visual hierarchy and making sure the maps did not look poor.