My Geographic Information Journal

 This assignment was to evaluate a well done map and a poor map based off of cartographic design principles.  1. -This was the example of a well designed map I decided to evaluate. Overall this map was created with purpose, and utilized colors and symbols that portrayed that purpose. It used neutral colors for the topic of hazardous fuels treatment, as to not evoke emotions about this from the viewer. It uses topographic design to show a relative size of these areas to the mountainous landscape, also giving the viewer an idea of the lands value. It gave an appropriate amount of information for a college-educated audience, likely working in the energy, conservation, environmental, or land management fields. It did a good job of highlighting the focus-area, and greying out irrelevant areas. Texts were easy to read, but not over-bearing. The symbol for highways and rivers, however, looked too similar and should probably have been different colors. The layout of all the pieces are...

  My name is Reese and I am in my third set of courses in this GIS program at UWF. I work full time as an Environmental Specialist for a local municipality, which is what my story map is all about (  https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/4cf090796d3f4682a018a53db55ee664 Links to an external site.  ). I have helped with lots of GIS projects in my environmental career, and taken one GIS course in my Environmental Science bachelors degree before I started this program. I absolutely love geography, history, and maps in general. Because I have done so much GIS work in the environmental and natural resource field already, I decided that I wanted to become even more skilled in this realm, which is why I joined the GIS program here. My goal in going through this program is to be as valuable to my city in environmental and geographic information science as possible. I also want to be the person who is looked to when any complex questions could be answered through GIS.   I...