The map above shows the metro Vancouver area, and its vulnerability to a large tsunami. It shows that 15.5% of metro Vancouver is vulnerable to a 15m high wave crashing against the Vancouver coastline. In this scenario, five education or health facilities would be under threat:
- Broadway Pentecostal Lodge
- Coat West Community Hom
- False Creek Residence
- Villa Cathay Care Home
- Yaletown House Society
During this assignment:
- I evaluated the role of stylistic choices in map design, such as colour, density of entities, and types of legend.
- I gained experience in using ARCGIS and its functions to utilise different tabular data sets, in the creation of a hazard map of the Vancouver metro area.