M3 Lab: Cartography

 This week's lab required us to create a map in ArcGIS Pro that showed the types of schools present within Ward 7 of Washington D.C. while complying with Gestalt’s Principles of Visual Hierarchy, Contrast, Figure Ground, and Balance. In order to accomplish this task we had to use the Map Frames and Layouts feature, create labels and annotations for the data, and edit the symbology of those labels. 

My map indicates the schools in Ward 7 with light purple labels that vary in size by the level of school. It includes an inset map to indicate where in Washington D.C. the Ward is located, a legend, a north arrow, a scale, and a title. The major roadways have been labeled with their respective interstate or highway numbers and I have also labeled some of the neighborhoods within Ward 7. 

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