Hello Everyone,
This week was a very interesting week in terms of my lab. Murphys Law was very present in my work this week. This week I was tasked with making a choropleth map. Choropleth maps are maps that utilize color and proportional symbology to show quantities in map variables. For this map, I was tasked with creating a choropleth map of Europe that shows the population density and wine consumption. By the time I got to my final product my map was beyond broken, and I was beyond frustrated. My map can be seen below:
In this map, I used a continuous color ramp from light blue to dark to illustrate the variations in population density across Europe broken into 5 classes and classified using the Quantile method as I thought it would be best for the visualization of population density. For wine consumption, I used graduated symbols in order to show the difference in consumption across Europe also classified by the Quantile method. During this lab, I ran into more problems than I can count. The lab, unfortunately, had to be completed in ArcMap which I find is far inferior to ArcGIS Pro due to label issues. Even after migrating to pro, none of my labels would even load or work properly. Once a new update released for Pro, I attempted to recreate the project but would receive fatal crashes along the way making it impossible. I wanted to make an inset map, but that would not even work in Adobe Illustrator nor ArcMap...Overall this project has been a real challenge and an absolute pain because I am limited by the software I use, but I am reminded that software does not work as we always want it to. I look forward to sharing my next map on Isarithmic Mapping next module, and as always, ~Map On.
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