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.

My trip to Costa Rica

Over this past summer, I visited my dad's house in Costa Rica. The main airport is in San Jose, and from there we drove to his house in Atenas. The red region indicates the very broad area that I covered during my visit; we visited the Arenal volcano (northwest point), visited the beach in Jaco, and went to various other locations.