Week 7: Proportional Symbol Mapping

The map presented here conveys the 2005 European Wine Consumption rates (www.wineinstitute.org) in units of thousands of gallons per year. This is produced as a proportional map and the detail cartographic work work created in Adobe Illustrator. I grouped the countries by what I believe to be five natural breaks. This caused there to be two countries in the highest consumption category with the value in the legend corresponding to the highest consumption rate. Each legend value corresponds to the highest consumption rate for each break. The Vatican City is the "les than 60" symbol that rests in the larger circle for Italy.