Mexico

 In this activity we were introduced to Arc catalog but concentrated on Arc map where the work was done. In this map the World Countries map and the Mexico Map layers were used. The activity however was based only on the Mexico’s states and population while the rest of the world map was isolated. The labels for the Mexican map were added which are represented by the different states of the country; note that annotations were also added in order to manipulate the labels. In addition to the labels some color was added to it. This was chosen with the intention that the light yellow areas were states with a low density population while the bright yellow colored areas represent states with a high population density. Finally the legend depicting the population density was included as well as the scale, scale bar, north arrow and labeling of the map.

The map above represents the country of Mexico. This map had several layers added to it, mainly the primary rivers, main rivers, rail roads, urban areas and the federal which is viewed as Mexico City on the map. The map was cluttered at first but each layer was manipulated to select specific features on the map. For example the layer with rivers showed rivers, streams canals and shorelines but by selecting only the primary and major rivers on the add values section under categories and unique values under symbology properties all the other irrelevant data was not included in the map.  Each layer was then given a specific color to represent a different feature in the map. Note that annotations were added to the map in order to manipulate the labels. Finally a data frame was created to show the location of this map in a broader geographic context; to do this a new data frame was selected and the world countries layer was dragged into the new data frame. The map was arranged and activated. As with all maps the legend depicting the rivers, rail roads, urban and federal were included as well as the scale, scale bar, north arrow and labeling of the map.

The map above represents the elevation of Mexico. This map involved only the elevation layer which used the stretch symbology. A color was chosen to depict the elevation in low and high areas of the country. The legend depicting the elevation in high and low areas of the country was then created; note that the red color represents high areas while the blue color represents low areas. The scale, scale bar, north arrow and labeling of the map was done at the final stage.