Week 8 - Proportional Symbols

GIS 3015

This week's lab consisted of working with Proportional Symbols.  Above I show a map created solely in ArcGIS and although informative, ArcGIS was unable to manipulate the data in a more user friendly capacity.  I was able to get my point across to the reader, but in the end I wished I had more flexibility in the program.

Here we have a map created using a combination of ArcGIS and polished in Adobe Illustrator.  I was able to use data collected from independent sources to better reflect the symbology in the map.  I modified the size to be proportionate to the actual data it was intended to display.  The reader should be able to quickly identify where wine consumption was greatest in Western Europe.

Overall this project was a fun and useful exercise.  I learned how to label along a path (circle), as well as how to proportionally size symbology to reflect the visual representation of the data.