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1 Issues of Scale Using Color

2 Scale Issues

3 What is map scale? The scale of a map is the relationship between a unit of length on the map and a unit of length on the ground.

4 Verbal scale “One cm represents 100 km” Bar scales (graphical) Representative fraction (RF) 1:24,000 Map Scales

5 Representative Fraction A 0.025 inch line on a 1:24,000 scale map represents 50 ft (600 in) on the ground A 0.025 inch line on a 1:200,000 scale map represents almost 417 ft on the ground

6 Scale Issues Beware of scale statements 1:200 (“one to two hundred”) does this mean unit-to-unit (one inch on the map equals 200 inches on the ground) or not unit-to-unit (one inch on the map equals 200 feet on the ground) For this course, all scale statements will be assumed unit-to-unit

7 Scale Issues large scale vs. small scale To a geographer: 1:2,000,000 is small scale 1:200 is large scale

8 Importance of Scale Scale of data plays an important role, and frequently causes problems All spatial phenomena have scale dependent behavior/properties Be aware of: Data source scale Mixing data from different source scales Appropriateness of output scale

9 Scale Issues Data from different sources and scales can vary widely 1:100,000 scale data from USGS DLG

10 Scale Issues 1:1,000,000 scale data from DCW (DMA)

11 Scale Issues 1:2,000,000 scale data from USGS DLG

12 Using Color

13 Displaying data: colors From Tufte 1990 Wabern, 1983 What can color do? Label Measure Represent or imitate reality Beautify

14 Displaying data: colors From Tufte 1990 Primary home heating fuel. U.S. Department of Commerce

15 Displaying data: colors From Tufte 1990 Primary home heating fuel. U.S. Department of Commerce

16 Displaying data: colors From Tufte 1997

17 Displaying data: colors From Tufte 1997

18 Displaying data: colors From Tufte 1997

19 Color Blindness

20

21 http://jfly.iam.u-tokyo.ac.jp/color/

22 Color Blindness http://jfly.iam.u-tokyo.ac.jp/color/

23 Color Blindness http://jfly.iam.u-tokyo.ac.jp/color/

24 Color Blindness http://jfly.iam.u-tokyo.ac.jp/color/

25 Color Blindness http://jfly.iam.u-tokyo.ac.jp/color/

26 Color Models RGB

27 Color Models CMYK

28 Redundant Coding

29 http://jfly.iam.u-tokyo.ac.jp/color/

30 Redundant Coding http://jfly.iam.u-tokyo.ac.jp/color/

31 Color Schemes

32 http://www.personal.psu.edu/faculty/c/a/cab38/ColorSch/Schemes.html Dr. Cynthia Brewer / Department of Geography / The Pennsylvania State University

33 Color Schemes http://www.personal.psu.edu/faculty/c/a/cab38/ColorSch/Schemes.html Dr. Cynthia Brewer / Department of Geography / The Pennsylvania State University

34 Color Schemes http://www.personal.psu.edu/faculty/c/a/cab38/ColorSch/Schemes.html Dr. Cynthia Brewer / Department of Geography / The Pennsylvania State University

35 Color Schemes http://www.personal.psu.edu/faculty/c/a/cab38/ColorSch/Schemes.html Dr. Cynthia Brewer / Department of Geography / The Pennsylvania State University

36 Color Schemes http://www.personal.psu.edu/faculty/c/a/cab38/ColorSch/Schemes.html Dr. Cynthia Brewer / Department of Geography / The Pennsylvania State University

37 Color Schemes http://www.personal.psu.edu/faculty/c/a/cab38/ColorSch/Schemes.html Dr. Cynthia Brewer / Department of Geography / The Pennsylvania State University

38 Color Schemes http://www.personal.psu.edu/faculty/c/a/cab38/ColorSch/Schemes.html Dr. Cynthia Brewer / Department of Geography / The Pennsylvania State University

39 Color Schemes http://www.personal.psu.edu/faculty/c/a/cab38/ColorSch/Schemes.html Dr. Cynthia Brewer / Department of Geography / The Pennsylvania State University

40 Color Schemes http://www.personal.psu.edu/faculty/c/a/cab38/ColorSch/Schemes.html Dr. Cynthia Brewer / Department of Geography / The Pennsylvania State University

41 Color Schemes http://www.personal.psu.edu/faculty/c/a/cab38/ColorSch/Schemes.html Dr. Cynthia Brewer / Department of Geography / The Pennsylvania State University

42 Color Schemes http://www.personal.psu.edu/faculty/c/a/cab38/ColorSch/Schemes.html Dr. Cynthia Brewer / Department of Geography / The Pennsylvania State University

43 Color Schemes http://www.personal.psu.edu/faculty/c/a/cab38/ColorSch/Schemes.html Dr. Cynthia Brewer / Department of Geography / The Pennsylvania State University

44 Color Schemes http://www.personal.psu.edu/faculty/c/a/cab38/ColorSch/Schemes.html Dr. Cynthia Brewer / Department of Geography / The Pennsylvania State University

45 Color Schemes http://www.personal.psu.edu/faculty/c/a/cab38/ColorSch/Schemes.html Dr. Cynthia Brewer / Department of Geography / The Pennsylvania State University

46 Color Schemes http://www.personal.psu.edu/faculty/c/a/cab38/ColorSch/Schemes.html Dr. Cynthia Brewer / Department of Geography / The Pennsylvania State University

47 Color Schemes http://www.personal.psu.edu/faculty/c/a/cab38/ColorSch/Schemes.html Dr. Cynthia Brewer / Department of Geography / The Pennsylvania State University

48 http://www.personal.psu.edu/cab38/ColorBrewer/ColorBrewer.html Dr. Cynthia Brewer / Department of Geography / The Pennsylvania State University

49 Specifying Colors in ArcMap

50 Homework Read: “Creating Feature Datasets & Vector Editing” & “Creating and Modifying Tables” Start working on assignment #4 -- Due April 26.


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