SMT201 AY2018-19T1 EX1 Ho Xin Yi

Part 1: Thematic Mapping

Singapore Public Educational Institution by School Type

By reading through the data sourced from data.gov.sg, I find that the 'MainLevel' variable could be used since it classifies the data into many different types of school such as Centralised Institute, Junior college, Mixed level, Primary and Secondary school. Next, under symbology, I used categorized as it is best suited for school type which is under qualitative data. In addition, I chose to use SVG markers instead of simple markers to allow the different school type to be differentiated clearly. School type that is not dominated is also set with more striking colors symbol to allow the ease of locating them e.g. mixed level.

Singapore Road Network System

There is 5 different type of road in Singapore, namely, expressway, major road, minor road, primary access, and local access. I decide to group minor road and primary access together as they both contain the same street name descriptor, drive, road, and street. The street descriptor that contains crescent, garden, height, and bow etc are grouped under local access as by looking at the random road with those names, I find that all those roads fit into the description of the local access road. The Landuse map is also deliberately darkened and the road type is set to striking color to create a big contrast in order for a clearer view of the different road type.

2014 Master Plan Landuse

Legend of the subzone is cutted down, as some of the landuse type could be grouped together. For example, there used to be a Business 1 and Business 2 attributes but I group them together under the attribute Business. Next, I tried to play with the colours of the subzone by selecting a less striking color for the larger area and, vice versa. This way allow the land use type to be seen clearly with the map. Some words in the legend is cutted down as well in order to aid the ease of viewing the legend together with the map.