Lab 7

Lab 7

This map shows the distribution of African American's living in different counties within the continental United States. The key below the map clearly shows the darker the shade of red is equivalent to more African American's in a given county. The map shows that more African Americans live in the South East of the United States of America. With the highest concentration living in states such as Alabama and Georgia. 

This map shows the distribution of Asian people living in certain counties within the continental United States. The darker the shade of green illustrates a higher proportion of Asian people living within a given county. The map shows that the highest concentration of Asians reside on the west coast, while the middle of America has a relatively low number of Asian people in each county. 

This map shows the distribution of 'some other race of people' living in certain counties within the continental United States. The darker the shade of purple is proportional to the higher proportion of 'some other race of people' living within a given county. The map shows that the highest concentration of 'some other race of people' live in the western and south western states, while the middle of the United States and the east coast have a much lower concentration. 

This consensus map series shows the distribution of different races across America. It can be seen that African American's tend to live in the south of America, Asians reside in mainly the west coast and 'some other race of people' live also on the west coast and in some south western states.  These maps are highly useful for the any number of reasons in which finding large communities of certain races is necessary. 

Overall I found GIS hard to use in the beginning. I did not know many of the controls and I was constantly having to ask for help, however after the 3rd lab using GIS I found that we were using controls which we had already learnt to use and I was no longer having to look up how to preform tasks using the software. I found this latest lab the easiest of all, because it really used a lot of information which we had already gone over. The visuals of the GIS software are also very good and make it easy to use. As most of our tutorials showed the old software and we were using the new software I can see how much more user friendly the GIS software has become.