Week 3 - GIS Cartography - Three Maps of Mexico

Populations of Mexico States

Transportation, Rivers and Urban Areas of Mexico

Topography of Mexico

This week's lab covered using cartography in GIS.  We were introduced to some new skills in ArcMap, such as using dynamic text and SQL queries.  We also had raster data for the first time, in the form of elevation.  The main emphasis this time was to start putting the maps together independently...we were given a lesson on the cartographic process, presented with the data, told generally what the maps should represent. Then, using what we'd learned, we built the maps ourselves, without too much step-by-step instruction.