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Dynamic Representation: The Design of Flow Maps

Lab Manual/Exercise Worksheets

Lab Manual/Exercise Worksheets prepared by Christopher J. Sutton, Western Illinois University


Flow Mapping. The flow map shows linear movement between places. In this exercise, students create a flow map showing air connectivity of the medium hub cities of Boise, Idaho, Jackson, Mississippi, and Syracuse, New York in 2007. Skills covered in the exercise include: using absolute scaling to symbolize flows, adjusting the transparency of a map layer, labeling map features, converting the legend to graphics.

Acknowledgments

The author wishes to thank ESRI, Inc. for their prompt and generous permission to use screenshots of the GUI and data used in these exercises. ArcMap is the intellectual property of ESRI and is used herein by permission. Copyright © 2008 ESRI. All rights reserved. http://www.esri.com

In addition to the data provided by ESRI, data used in the exercises are from the following sources:

The National Atlas
2002 Agricultural Census
CIA World Factbook
U.S. Bureau of the Census
Federal Aviation Administration
NOAA Coastal Services Center

Flow Mapping (1136.0K)

Flow Mapping is a PDF (Portable Document Format) document that must be downloaded to your hard drive. You will need the Adobe Acrobat Reader to view it. If you do not have the Adobe Acrobat Reader, you can download it from the Adobe web site for free.

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Flow Mapping PDF (1120.0K)

Flow Mapping Zip (1480.0K)

The mapping project file ([exercise name].mxd) and data files (contained in a separate folder) are compressed as a ZIP file and must be unzipped in order to work. Save the file to a location on your computer or external drive and unzip it.