Northridge Earthquake

First off, let me apologize for the way this map looks. My files got erased twice, I had to redo it once already, and I didn't feel like redoing the map again. Secondly, for some reason the map data wouldn't show up in the Layout View, so I couldn't make the map look neat and add things like a scale, a legend, etc. But there is still a lot of useful information in this map.

The blue, green, and yellow-green parts indicate where the earthquake hit in Northridge, CA and indicate the magnitude (yellow-green = magnitude 8, bright green spots = magnitude 9). The red lines represent the major highways or other major roads in Northridge. From this map, you can see that the areas hit by magnitudes of 8 and 9 included stretches of highway and also large portions of urban areas.

Mississippi Counties Hurt by Hurricane Katrina

Hurricane Katrina strongly affected three counties in Mississippi: Hancock, Harrison, and Jackson County. This map displays the phisiography of these counties and suggests how they were predisposed to severe flooding (they are at sea level or just above it, and there is a large presence of marshes and rivers in the area). The red dots indicate major cities. 

Amelia Earhart's Disappearance

In this map, the last part of Amelia Earhart's flight is shown, along with the suspected path she took that led to her disappearance. The black dots indicate the cities she visited and the red line represents her known flight path. The red and black line indicates the suspected flight path before her disappearance, and the red and white line shows the probable path she took before she vanished. The white box with a red outline is the most likely area in which she disappeared. (This is not the best image; I will update this post with a better one).

Florida Campus Map

A few weeks ago our class created a map using satellite images from a school campus in Florida. We had to add a coordinate system to the map and make it match up with the satellite images. Mine wasn't matched up exactly, which you can see... the red spaces aren't exactly lined with the actual images.

Practice Map

Last Thursday we were given the opportunity to create our own map, as long as we demonstrated our ability to clip files, merge files, add a shapefile, and join a table. I live in Atlanta (in Cobb County), and this map represents the routes that are either the most relevant to my life or the routes that I travel the most. The red triangle represents the route from my house to my high school, from school to the Chattahoochee River National Park, and from the park back to my house. The yellow triangle represents my mom's journey from our house to my school (to drop me off), from school to her office, from her office to school, and finally back home. The green line represents the route from my house to my boyfriend's house. In almost all of those routes I have to cross from Cobb County to Fulton County or vice versa, which is why I created a layer that merged these two counties. This would have been a lot easier to visualize if I knew how to make a map legend :(

Chattooga and Floyd County

Today in GIS we created a map based on two counties in Georgia, Floyd and Chattooga, and their respective rivers.

Counties of Georgia Map

Today I attempted to make my first map through ArcMap 10. It contains all of the counties of Georgia, a compass, and two different scales. I downloaded the original image of the map as a shapefile, already containing the counties' borders, from the Georgia Clearinghouse website. The only alterations I made to the counties were changing their color scheme and displaying their individual names. Unfortunately, because of the scale, it's very difficult to read the county names on the image below. Hopefully my map-making skills will improve throughout the semester.