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Final Projected

2008-12-09T14:07:00.000-08:00

This is my final project for my class. Its a map of the busiest fire and rescue stations in Prince William County (PWC) Virginia .I chose this topic and area because its the county that I volunteer for. I got the data off of the PWC fire and rescue website and it includes EMTand Fire calls. (In the fire service 75%-85% of the calls we go on are EMS.) To show this on a map I chose 4 different size circles and scaled them down (used 75%, 50%, and 25%) with the biggest being the busiest and the smallest being the least busy. As for the data I tried to split the data into quartiles but that failed because the data had a wide range. For example one jurisdiction ran 13,000 calls in a year when another one ran 600 calls in a year. So splitting the data was a very hard task. This how I did it.

1. Busiest- stations that ran 10,000 or more calls
2. Stations that ran between 4,000 and 10,000 calls
3. Stations that ran between 1,0000 and 4,000
4. Least busy- Stations ran less then 1,000 calls

The problem the data though is that only 2 jurisdictions ran over 10,00 calls and then the second highest number after that 5,000 calls. Talk about giant leap.

I like how I included the pictures of the hydrant, the flame, the axe, the firefighter in the legend, and the firetruck in the top right corner. I also like how I made the cirlces transparent with the roads on top. The one thing I don't like about this map is the numbering of the stations. When I first started this project I wanted to put the number in the middle of the cirlces but that didn't work because the east end (city) has all the firestation that are really busy and literally next to each other and you can see this by the overlapping of the circles. So instead I had to use a line pointing to the center of the cirlce. I also don't like how the west end (country) is empty. It makes map look really odd. Overall I think this is the best map I have made for this class.

5 links for this map.

1. PWC Fire and Resuce Link
http://www.co.prince-william.va.us/default.aspx?topic=040061

2. Data
http://www.pwcfirerescuevolunteers.org/

3.The station where I volunteer at
http://www.buckhallvfd.org/

4. News arctilces on Fire and Rescue
http://www.firehouse.com/

5. Counties in VA that have Fire and Rescue
http://www.usafireandrescue.com/va/

Last map

2008-11-25T13:52:00.001-08:00

Lab 8

2008-11-11T08:23:00.000-08:00

choropleth (SP) map

2008-10-28T16:14:00.001-07:00

dot map

2008-10-21T16:01:00.001-07:00

Dot Density Map

2008-10-21T10:08:00.000-07:00

Dot Lab

2008-10-21T09:41:00.000-07:00

Lab 4

2008-10-20T15:55:00.000-07:00

Lab 5

2008-10-07T10:04:00.001-07:00

Lab 3 (make up)

2008-10-07T09:50:00.001-07:00

Surgery sucks

2008-09-27T12:19:00.001-07:00

never hurt yourself to where you have to have surgery and are required to stay in the hospital for 8 days.

Lab numero 2

2008-09-16T08:32:00.000-07:00

Interesting Map

2008-09-15T10:50:00.000-07:00

Cedar Point- AKA Worlds Greatest Theme Park

NOTE: The map gets cut off, so if you want to view the entire map just click on the image and the entire map should show up.

Assignment Numero Uno

2008-09-02T19:41:00.000-07:00

So my Cartography teacher/professor/instructor/person in charge is forcing my class to make a blog where we can post the maps that we make in class and blog about our class/life **(Sounds super exciting)**

So to be fair here's a warning. I will be forced to talk about Geography things and it might get boring. So if at any point in time you get bored reading my random blog about maps or whatever else I blog about, by all means click the little red X button in the top right corner to EXIT or you can go to www.addictinggames.com or www.facebook.com. It won't hurt my feelings if you decide to ditch this blog.

***BUT I'm sure if you continue reading you will find something interesting to read or something stupid/funny that I post. So hopefully you enjoy the Blog***

Now for Assignment Numero Uno: which is to post 5 or more sites and why I chose them.

The GMU Dept. of Geography: www.gmu.edu/departments/geog/
My Professor chose this one so I'm going to be lazy and not explain this one.

The Class Blog: www.geog310.blogspot.com
Again my Professor chose this one. Its basically the mother blog for the class. If you click on the link you can access all my classmates blogs and look at their work and read about their boring life

My Uncles Nerdy Blog: http://ictcenter.blogspot.com/
My Uncles Blog that talks about random things in technology. He blogs about the most random things from the Pokemon Nerd Fest he went to in Florida, to basic computer stuff. Its a must read if your into computers and stuff of that sort.

Wikimapia: http://www.wikimapia.org/
A really cool site that my professor in Quant Methods: Geog Anly told my class about. Its like Wikipedia where you can edit stuff except it involves maps. Another very cool site to check out if your a map nerd.

Very Spatial: http://veryspatial.com/?cat=48
A cool Geography Blog that I found. Talks about GIS (Geographic Information Systems), Google maps, and other random Geography things.

Google Earth: http://earth.google.com/
Just the coolest download ever for looking at maps. A must see if you haven't already seen it.

Some random photos from my firefighting class. Something exiting for a change and something that does not involve geography things.

Until my next blog Enjoy.
Jack