1. Creating Thematic Maps
Now that you have “built” your campus and entered in attributes for them, it might be interesting to separate the features based on a characteristic, such as function. This way, we could easily determine which buildings are academic, which buildings are for maintenance, and which are athletic.
This type of map is known as a thematic map, and this section will guide you through the process of creating thematic maps.

2. Creating a Thematic Map
A thematic map shows selected information relating to one or more specific themes. Examples of classifications that could be used in a thematic map are temperature, land use, population density and rainfall maps. You have seen thematic maps used on television weather reports. When you see the map showing blue places as cold and red and yellow as warm, you are looking at a thematic map.

3. 1. To create a thematic map in GeoMedia, click on the Legend menu and select “Add Thematic”.
2. Choose School Features then “building”.
3. Select function and then click on the Unique button.

4. Notice that the building theme shows the different categories of buildings. You may try different classification schemes for the themes in the legend if you like. However, for the map in this project, you will want to use the function category.

5. You have now completed the data collection and manipulation to create your school map. In the next chapter you will perform some basic analysis. You will be determining the approximate amounts of land on your campus dedicated to different functions such as athletic, academic, maintenance, and other purposes.