Nathan Berger Portfolio: Geographic Information Systems

  Today I want to talk about Typography and how it relates to Cartographic principles . The map displayed above is an overview of the state of Florida.   The capital city, main cities, rivers, lakes, and swampland are displayed above.  So how does this map represent the state of Florida in regards to Typography? Typography is the font, color scheme, theme, and overall display of a map. Therefore, I used a neutral gray themed background, with the dark canvas base map, gray headers, black font, and light gray canvas inset map as an overview of the state. I felt as if this color scheme really highlighted the main cities and water features I wanted to display on my map with bright colors. The green capital star, the red cities, and blue water ways really standout and highlight the main objective of the map. As you can see, the labels are easy to read as well. I used italics for the water areas such as the labels on the rivers.   With expression queries, I wanted to identify and label only

Let's Talk About Map Making Design Principles!  Cartographic Principles lead to good maps... These principles allow us to understand maps, read maps, and use maps to solve complex problems. The science of designing maps follows a set of rules to help guide us in the map making process. In doing so, excellent maps can be produced to solve real world problems.  This concept is known as "Cartography" OR "The science of drawing maps" A map, essentially, is a drawing or depiction of a geographic area displaying data and relationships between objects and space. It can have a theme, colors, symbology, data layers, text, pictures, coordinates, grids, and all sorts of information.  We use map design principles to create maps that make sense, and maps that inform people of spatial information relative to a geographic area. This process helps us answer the following questions... Why do we make maps?  Does this map explain the information clearly? When was this map made? Ho

Hello Cartography Class!  My name is Nathan Berger and I am a student here at UWF in the online masters program in GIS.  I currently live in the state of Georgia, and I work as a Geospatial Intelligence Analyst in the U.S. Navy Reserve, as well as a GIS Crime Analyst at the Athens Clarke County Police Department.  I love learning about GIS and ways to solve complex problems to support the national defense of our country, as well as benefit the safety and security of our local community. I would consider myself a mid-level analyst, with very basic programming skills. I love teamwork and helping others in collaboration. Feel free to reach out to me on the e-learning discussion board. You can also email me at anytime. I hope to learn a lot about dot density mapping , 3D analysis, web applications, managing dashboards, Python programing, etc. in this program. I also would love to learn more advanced remote sensing techniques to improve my imagery skill sets. The biggest takeaway would be l

Laying a Transmission Line in Southwest Florida https://arcg.is/1rWWj0 Story Map located at link  above https://drive.google.com/file/d/1apwrzjN_4JMhQCrrX17Cd1S3pF6W4FT9/view?usp=sharing Transcript for project located at the link above https://arcg.is/1azbO41 Web-map located at the link above A transmission line must be constructed and installed between the Manatee and Sarasota Counties, located in southwestern Florida. This project's objective is to provide electricity to the community east of I-75 for residential and commercial use. Depicted below is a cartographic model to solve this complex problem. The Transmission Line product Deliverables For the first part of this project, the homes that are within proximity of the preferred corridor were identified. A 400 Ft. buffer range outside of the transmission line corridor was used with the buffer tool. Aerial imagery was utilized to identify homes within the corridor or within the buffer ring, which are depicted below in red and or