The proposed Wind Farm Location in the Great Lakes meets the following criteria recommended by the BERR (Department for Business Enterprise & Regulatory Reform) site.

Wind Speed - The http://www.windpoweringamerica.gov/wind_maps.asp shows the area with a Resource Potential rating of Outstanding, Wind Power Density at 50 m W/m = 600 - 800 and Wind Speed at 50 m mph = 17. 9 - 19.7

Ornithology - http://www.npwrc.usgs.gov/resource/birds/migratio/routes.htm . The Canvasbacks migrate through the Southern Great Lakes area to the Chesapeake Bay area and a portion of the dabbling duck population migrates across the great lakes to the Chesapeake Bay area as well. This would leave a possible area on the southern migration route of the dabbling duck and the Northern Route of the Canvasback for wind farm site.

Noise , Shadow Flicker and Landscape visual - It is over 20 miles to the coast and adequate distance to satisfy all three of the "location to population" aspects.

Shipping Impact - http://www.greatlakes-seaway.com/en/navigating/map/index.html shows that the ports of Lake Michigan are on the South and Western sides of the lakes and would likely see minimal shipping traffic.

It should also be noted it is just off the coast of Holland, Michigan and Windmill Park, so the tourist aspects might be appealing to a community that already considers itself a place to visit for windmills.

Manual Interpolation of Contour lines with simple contor lines interupted with the value.

Bonus Map

I did the Dot Density over again, this time I used Arc Map to generate the dot density values. I stole some ideas from the ESRI map site to get the Florida drop shadow and to get the dot density to NOT place in the water. I started out trying to create a density map with the Spatial Kernel Density tool...but it bombed out on me. I then opted to link the excel GCT-PH1 spreadsheet to the Florida counties and created the dot density off the values at 1 dot = 10 of the value. I linked the the county layer to the excel sheet by auto generating a sequential number once the counties were in Alphabetical order.

The desire to re-do the dot density came solely from my dislike of doing things repeatedly... ie 2,000 plus dots, but I was not familiar enough with the dot density in the symbology tab to do it that way in the original lab. In addition I was to chicken to do a work around on the AI dot density, for fear of missing some escalating skill development that I would need in later labs.

I posted this last night without comment after a bad case of the "continual tweaking" set in. I went with a World Goode Homolosine projection with the Central Meridian altered to 100 West; to place the US in the middle. I included the grid more for worldly visual balance then necessity. I did more in AI then I have in the past... and as my confidence grew in "playing" with effects... I unfortunately mismanaged my layers and got into the time consuming mode of "fixing" stuff I had already set.

Gross national Product Non Contiguous cartogram. 65 % opacity on the circle to make sure Canada and Mexico are shown behind the US.. as well as the congestion of Europe.

Robinson Projection.

Gross national Product 2004, Continuous, linear legend with a gradien color scheme for gdp $$ amount.

I came up with a housing value of 3 per dot, 2,000 dots. I geographically placed the dots on limited knowledge of major city's, in hindsight uniform placement might have been better due to my lack of knowledge on Florida. A visual filter was used in order to not place dots in the wetlands... but then the wetlands were removed after it looked a little cluttered. Legend is just a statement of dot value.