Data Display and Cartography数据显示与制图.pptVIP

Data Display and Cartography Chapter 8 – Chang Week 5 Map Elements Title Body – most important Legend North Arrow Scale Acknowledgement Neatline/Map border Others (options): Projection, grids, insert, data quality information. Exercise Add the following elements to your county map Title Legend Scale Bar Acknowledgement North Arrow Neatline/Border Map Symbols Points Lines Polygons Exercise – Open your ArcMap/ArcView project with your county census tract polygons. Add GPS points to the map. Download Street file from TIGER website (/data/tiger2000/tiger_download.cfm) select TN Select County name, then click Submit Selection Select Line Features – Road and click Proceed to Download. Click Download File You should get a zipped file starting with lkA47xxx.zip. Start unzipping this file to get your road layer (again, it contains three files for a shape) Move these three files to your folder (you’d better have a folder named “Data” under your personal folder) Add this road layer to your county map Size, Color and Patterns Adjust size of point symbols (grouped, not individually for the event points data) D-C on tgr47141trt00 (in ArcMap) to bring up the “Layer Properties” window. Select Unique Values under Categories and click “Add All Values” button from the window. You will have to choose a Value Field, such as tgr47000demtrt.P0010001. This will you the choices of individual colors for each polygons. Color Hue – colors – wavelength Value – lightness/darkness of a color, black to white. Usually, darker colors are more important features. Chroma (saturation) – richness/brilliance of a color. A fully saturated color is pure, whereas a low saturation approaches gray. Rules : Hue is for qualitative data. Chroma and Value are for quantitative data. Quantitative mapping received much more attention than qualitative mapping Color Schemes Single Hue Scheme – varies value and chroma to show sequential order Hue and Value – from light value of one hue to a darker value of a diff