Friday, April 3, 2009

Module 7: Dot Map



I determined the dot value of 2660 from the lowest county housing units value resulting in 2750 dots for the whole state! After some trial and error, I used a dot size of 0.8pt to fill 181 dots within the county with the highest calculated housing density; Pinellas. The basemap and dots were enlarged 160% to fill the width of the page. The dot was inappropriately small to be represented in a legend so the value was simply described. With the limitation of the page size and quality of the jpeg image, it is unlikely that original raw totals could be garnished from the map, however I did maintain a fairly high level of accuracy regarding the clusters where towns and cities are located by using an atlas.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Again, very nice. And no you could not backtrack from the map to get the real data.