Detroit Land Use Study – Past and Present
For this project, I sought to compare the land use of downtown Detroit of the past and present. Due to suburbanization, the construction patterns of Post-WW2 America, and De-Industrialization, Detroit (as well as many other cities) have been emptied out. I compared aerial imagery of Detroit today and in 1949, to determine how much land…
Midwest High Speed Rail Proposal
Here is an idea for a high speed rail system covering the American Midwest. The idea was to have main lines service major cities and use existing railways. The railway data for this project was obtained from the National Map Gis Data: https://www.usgs.gov/core-science-systems/ngp/tnm-delivery/gis-data-download First data was loaded into QGIS for each state. From there I…
Michigan Parks Map
This is a map I created as a part of my GIS Certification course, it is a map of national and state parks in Michigan. The data for this project comes from the State of Michigan open GIS portal at https://gis-michigan.opendata.arcgis.com/ I started with a base map using the NAD83 projection in ESRI ArcGIS Pro.…
Nosara, Costa Rica Surf Map
As part of my professional GIS Certification course, I was tasked with updating a map for surfers of Nosara, Costa Rica. The map was cluttered and old, and I started by tracing the base shapes and roads. After that I filled in colors, symbols, and names on the map. This project was done in Adobe…
USA Map Cartography Project
In this project, completed as part of my professional GIS Certification course, I took a base map of the United States and added the symbology. I labeled all the specified regions, cities, rivers, and lakes as part of the assignment. This project was done entirely in Adobe Illustrator.
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Thomas Hamming - GIS and Cartography 