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During the week three assignments, I discovered that the state of Hawaii has an extensive catalog of spatial data through the Office of Planning and Sustainable Development. The data ranges from carbon assessments to water quality classifications. When people think of a Hawaii map, beaches, resorts, and tourist attractions come to mind. The focus of my final project is to present maps of Hawaii that display historical, agricultural, and hazardous data from the state.
The first map is a basic map introducing the state of Hawai, identifying major roads(OPSDHi) and cities/towns (NatEarth). The Arial font was used for most map labeling, and the font style ranged from regular to narrow bold (for all maps). Macaw green was used for the island color with a 34.9% transparency. A satellite image mosaic with a shaded bathymetric relief was used for all maps in place of the default topo map and world hill shade (OPSDHi).
The second map in the introduction is a satellite image mosaic with a shaded bathymetric relief used in place of the default topo map and the world hill shade (OPSDHi) with a 48.2% transparency on a tarragon green. The coordinate system for the map is NAD 1983 HARN UTM ZONE 4 with a map scale of 1:2,200,000.
The next set of maps is a historic land boundary associated with 19th-century survey maps (OPSDHi). The legend contains cities/towns (NatEarth) and acres (OPSDHi).
Island of Kauai
Island of Oahu
Island of Maui
Island of Hawaii
The map of Oahu is a historical pineapple and sugar cane land from 1900 to 1937 (OPSDHi). A generalization tool was used to aggregate pineapple and sugarcane polygons regarding the first three maps. In addition to the three maps, a 2020 data set of the pineapple fields (OPSDHi) was added to show the viewer the decline of pineapples and sugarcane on the island.
The 2020 Agricultural map legend has over ten classes and cities/towns with the highest population per island (NatEarth). A generalization tool was used to simplify the different class polygons.
Safe, extreme, and number of evacuation zones. The map of Kauai shows three different evacuation zones on the island. I chose three different colors for easy identification and understanding. Again I added cities/towns (NatEarth), major roads, and secondary roads (OPSDHi) to the legends.
The last map is the island of Oahu and the hazardous flood areas. I was looking for a different approach because it is the final map for my project. I added more cities/towns (NatEarth) to the map with a halo around the fonts. Also, I tried to get the right color combo (black/no color)for the north symbol and the scale bar. I tried to get the proper transparency to bring out the colors more from the flood hazard symbology.
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