London 2012 Olympics

Here is a basemap that could be used for my final project.

It is a neutral background with minimum labels, that can be used for a London 2012 Olympics map.

http://bit.ly/ymMJgg

IAAF World Indoor Championships

My Track Coach is the Olympic Relay Coordinator, and this week he was in Turkey for the IAAF World Championships. So I figured that would be my next Map. I made a map of the top 5 (so far) medal ranked countries at the meet. I included how many medals they have, who and what event the medals were received, as well as the total team points, and the overall place. All the information was retrieved from http://www.iaaf.org/Mini/wic12/Index.aspx && the flags were from google.

here is my map:

http://bit.ly/yj4TNE

enjoy.

Silly mistakes...

I have got to remember my log in information on ArcGIS before I make a map next time.

I guess I will make this map again once i recover my log in and password.

Better news:
I learned how to change the symbols on the maps (:
-You will see I was able to insert flags as the symbols, once I make my map again. It looked nice until it deleted...



I shall return....with a map

Eureka!

I just reached a turning point with this website. I was getting a little worried because I thought I would have to create layers manually, which was going to end up being a lot to handle. But I was clicking around and found that I can search layers, change the canvas, add demographic information, all kinds of things. The data was already collected. 

Needless to say... I just got very EXCITED!

I was looking at some tips on making great base maps, and people want simple background so that they can create their own maps--yes, I know it took me awhile to notice that. It is like when you are selling a house. You present the house with simple items, so that the potential buyer can visualize putting their own flare to the space, promoting them to buy the house; same with base maps.

For my end-of-the-year project, I have to figure out how to create simple base maps that people want to use. What am I going to do with my maps that sets them apart from other simple, base maps...hmmm?

back to thinking and wondering around on ArcGIS 

To Do list:

I apologize for being gone for a few weeks, I got caught up with other school work-->which is not an excuse. I am just being honest.

I was looking around on ArcGIS, and there are some really cool maps that I would love to try out.

For Example, this map http://bit.ly/z85cid has a really cool, vintage layout but I don't know how to even get my stuff to look like that.

Today, I am going to look around and see if I can figure out how to make a cartogram map. Hopefully, I figure it out.

Be back later

I want to do something like this...

Cherry & Silver Track Meet 2012

Link to my Cherry and Silver Track Map

http://bit.ly/wPqX2s

Notes for next time:
--> to make sure the area with the data only shows up in the screen instead of having to zoom into the area
--> figure out how to create a legend