Tuesday, October 30, 2007

Choropleth map...

I forgot that we were supposed to post up an example of a choropleth map to our blogs, so here it is...



No, I'm not Mormon (not that there's anything wrong with that), but I thought this was a good example of how a Choropleth map can really convey the geographic pattern of a topic being studied. It's easy to tell by looking at the map, that most of the Latter-Day Saints reside in the region around Utah (no suprises there). The map is one of a series of maps showing where different religions are largely located around the country. I think they are all solid, good quality choropleth maps. Heres the link...

http://www.valpo.edu/geomet/geo/courses/geo200/religion.html

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