Own Your Map - Week 2 Lab

In this weeks lab, we created a map of Escambia, County that utilized enough key features (roads, etc) to locate the UWF campus. The purpose of this lab was to get a feel for what design decisions to make based on an intended audience. It is important to make the map as concise and clear as possible and include details that are necessary to meet the goal of your map. 

One major skill I took away from this lab was learning how to separate certain features from a larger layer for emphasis. We separated Escambia, County from the entire state of Florida and enlarged it, since this was the area we were focused on the most. I also became more comfortable with locating metadata, but I had issues locating certain information for the UWF Logo. 

Overall, I encountered far fewer problems this week than last week and I believe I am learning how to navigate around them; however, I still ran into a few. When I was exporting the map, part of it was cut off and I had to play around with the print settings. I believe this is because I skipped the "optional" page orientation step (won't do that again). I also had problems with my layers changing sizes when switching from data view to layout view. I eventually got the Escambia_Cities layer to an appropriate size after going through troubleshooting steps. 

Here is my map: 




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