Aesthetic Map of Madison Wisconsin

This map was created in QGIS using a shapefile from the USGS and road shapefiles from the Wisconsin Department of Transportation. This map was simple to do, all the roads were extracted from the road shapefile and depending if it was a heavily used road or a small street road the thickness of the line was decreased or increased.

The map was was then transferred to print composer where a title was added and additional tweaks to the coloring and scale were added. overall this was a fun project that shows maps can be aesthetic as well as informational.

Cumberland Ski Trails

This map was created for the Cumberland Area Ski Trail Association, also known as CASTA.
The map was created with data collected on a trimble handheld unit shooting at 1 second intervals. After the data was collected it was then imported into the GIS platform Qgis for  analysis.

the trails were broken into separate selections based on the input I received from the CASTA board. elevation data was taken from the USGS DEM file and was interpolated with the lines that were imported from the data collected in the field. The elevation profiles were created using the Qgis plugin "Profile Tool."

To complete the trail map I then used the integrated Print Composer to create the final touches of the map including digitized water, symbolism, legend, and description. All this was used to create the CASTA ski trail map.