GIS Week 3

During this weeks lab we made three maps of Mexico. The first one we learned how to use the labeling tool and labeled all the states of Mexico. Labeling was much easier than I originally thought, however fixing up the jumbled mess into something readable was a whole other scenario. Overall the first map took the most time for me, but I figured it out as I went along. The second map of mexico showed the major roads, rivers and cities. This went much quicker than the map before. The only part that was difficult to using the attribute table tools to select specific data. We did this to separate the populations and only include the more populated cities. The third map was much easier than the rest, it was a topography of mexico and it was very straight forward. All three maps we used symbology and learned how to insert an inset map, key, legend, scale, and north arrow. It became easier each time and by the third map I could do it like a pro. Overall this lab was very useful overall and I learned how to use several different things that help format my map the way I wanted it.