This map would be useful in a brochure advertising Marathon to tourists, who might be interested in a couple of fun activities, including golf at the country club, and picnicking and swimming at the state park. If the tourists decided to visit, they would want a more detailed map which includes a scale bar and roads, for example.
Cultural features are labeled here with a sans serif type, while natural features (including the keys) are labeled with a serif type. The hydrologic natural features are additionally labeled in blue italics.
I imported the symbols for the airport and country club from Google Images, and then removed the white background with the Tracing tool in Adobe Illustrator
I used a simple yellow triangle polygon for the state park. The more standard green tree symbols that I wanted to use were not conspicuous enough on this map. A couple of rules regarding placement of labels is that they should not stretch across the shorelines. If there is no room for the label of a land feature to be placed completely on land (for example, on these small islands), it's okay to put it in the water, with a lead line. The best place to put a label for a point or very small areal feature is to the right, and slightly above it. If there's no room there, to the right and slightly below is the second choice. When labeling larger areal features, such as the ocean, it is nice to stretch the text out a little to emphasize the breadth of the feature.
I really liked this lab and found all the cartographic standards interesting.
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