Thursday, July 11, 2013

Choropleth Map



Choropleth maps are a type of thematic map that uses different colors or different shades of the same color to show the different densities in certain areas of particular topics in question. This choropleth map shows the densities of the percent of hispanic people per county in Florida. This particular map, uses different shades of green to portray different densities of hispanic people with the darker green showing the higher densities of hispanics. As seen in this map, south florida obviously has a greater density of hispanics than the northern portion of the state.

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