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Another control on map design is reality.
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That's something that we all have to deal with.
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So, might as well.
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What we mean by reality is the spatial characteristics of
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the area and how that will affect how it will be mapped.
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So, I like these examples here is that there's no getting around the fact that Chile is
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a very long skinny country and doesn't fit
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onto a regular sheet of paper very easily or even if you're doing it on a screen,
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I guess if you're on a phone in portrait mode maybe that would work,
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but it's pretty challenging to work with.
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It's how do you pack a lot of information onto that map if I wanted to show
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the capital cities or mountain ranges or
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road networks because it's so long and skinny that's going make it challenging.
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So, that's the reality that we have though.
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We can't change that. If I'm making a map of
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that country that's what I have to deal with.
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There is options you could do things like perhaps cut it in
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half and make it into two parts on a page something like that.
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It's not ideal, but that might work.
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Another example of reality is the Hawaiian islands.
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You can't get around the fact that these islands are
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of varying sizes and they're spread apart,
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and same problem is that if you wanted to have a lot of information on one of
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these islands or in fact let's try one of the smaller ones like these ones.
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If you wanted to put in towns and roads and whatever things like that,
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in order to put them in their proper geographic location,
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but be able to pack all that information into it is going to be really difficult.
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So, again you might do something like divide these up into a separate map.
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So, this would be one map.
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Maybe you'd have a second map for this location.
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Maybe this for a third map or insects on the same map something like that.
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So, there are options to work with.
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But this is part of the control is that you have to make
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these decisions about okay where am I mapping? How am I going to work with it?
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If you happen to live in an area that's a perfect square or rectangle, lucky you.
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But in a lot of situations there are
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unusual shapes and sizes and things like that we have to contend with.
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Another control is available data.
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What this means is that you want to make a map of
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particular area does that GIS data already exist or not?
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If it does what's the quality of that data?
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Is it as complete as you would like?
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Is it as recent as you would like?
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Are there are values that are missing?
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Were the measurements done poorly?
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These are the kinds of things that can affect the quality of your outputs.
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So, you have to make decisions about well is this data good enough for me?
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Is that the only data I have?
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Do I have the time and money to go collect my own data or buy it from somebody else?
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Again, this is a control that we have to contend with in any project,
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is how good or bad is the data that we're going to use for our map.
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The scale of the map is important for
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map design and this is again a control that we have to just deal with.
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So, if I'm making a map of Canada that's going to have
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a very different set of design questions than if I was making a map of a small area
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like a lake like this in this case Lake Simcoe and one of the things I'm trying to
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show here is that that's actually not a suitable dataset to be used with that map scale.
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So, we might have to find a different dataset to use with that same map scale.
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So, the scale of the map in other words the geographic area that
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you're going to map whether it's a the world, a continent,
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or a country, state, province, city, neighborhood,
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that's going to have an effect on your design in terms of how you put things together.
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So, smaller scale maps are going to have less detail,
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larger scale maps are going to have more detail,
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and you'll have to contend with that as you make your map.
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It's very important to take your audience into
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consideration when you're making your map just as if you
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were writing a newspaper article or you're writing a book or making a movie,
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you're thinking about who are the people that are going to see this?
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Who am I making this map for? What is their background?
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What kind of characteristics do they have in terms of;
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it could be age or language or education or familiarity with the geographic area.
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All of those things will lead to to audience.
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So, the map should be easy to understand for that audience.
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Is your audience familiar with the area?
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That's actually a key question because you can get away with
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a lot less labeling and
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detail on a map if you know that your audience is familiar with that location.
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If I for example just drew.
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This is a really simple example,
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but if I drew something like that.
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That's a really bad example but you
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hopefully maybe you would see that that's meant to be the line of Italy.
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Maybe not. I tried.
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But the idea is that,
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if there's things that are really familiar to somebody.
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Maybe it's Manhattan or Washington DC or Paris or I don't know the outline of Australia.
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Whatever it is, if it's something that people are familiar with,
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you don't necessarily have to put a lot of information
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packed in there to make it clear to people that that's what it is.
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Now, if it's a more general audience that doesn't know
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that area well then you will have to put more information in there.
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It's also important to know their level of training.
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Are you making a map for a scientific audience,
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or maybe not such a scientific audience,
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and actually even if it is a scientific audience It doesn't mean that they necessarily
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know that particular topic or that subject or that geographic area.
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So again, think about who you're making this map for.
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What is their background?
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How familiar are they with the area?
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And with it the subject itself,
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and take that into consideration when you're designing your map.9226
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