D.C., Maryland, and Virginia with County Borders

Lab 3: Typography

This Mollweide projection is a pseudo cylindrical equal-area projection with straight and elliptical meridians; it was first presented by Carl Mollweide in 1805.

Type Used Creatively and Effectively

The first map is from a page in an atlas for the blind where the author must choose type to be efficient and straightforward.  The state bird map I thought was simple and pretty, but the type was hard to read when it came to the actual names of birds.

Van der Grinten Map Projection

http://www.progonos.com/furuti/MapProj/Normal/ProjOth/projOth.html
"Van der Grinten's proposals are examples of conventional designs, derived not from a perspective process but from an arbitrary geometric construction on the map plane. They are neither equal-area nor conformal (despite a superficial resemblance to projections by Lagrange, Eisenlohr and August), but intended to "look right", in the sense of conveying the notion of a round Earth (in this aspect, they resemble earlier globular projections) without departing too much from Mercator's familiar shapes."

Lab 1: Illustration of Sphere, Geoid, Ellipsoid, and Natural Surface