In my second map I did remove the towns that contained no data; as you can see they leave questionable holes hence why I believed making them red and including it in a map key was more helpful. I utilized the bucket tool for this one and created five buckets (again because of limited color choice) and divided the buckets at numerical values I believe resemble some importance.
The darkest shade indicates square footage required up to 6000 feet for the ability to build multifamily housing (again think least prohibitive). I thought this showed an “easy glance” at how spread out accessible building options are across the data received.
The second darkest is for values between 6,000 and 15,000 square feet. This seemed to me where the majority of the data fell, what I was hoping to illustrate again though is how scattered these towns are in comparison to other towns of similar square footage requirements.
The Third shade (the middle in light and dark) represents zoning regulations requiring 15,000 sq ft to 100,000 square feet.
The Fourth Shade (4th lightest to the first) indicates zoning regulations between 100,000 sq feet and 500,000 sq feet. This was done for two reasons. The first being the limited gradient scale provided by Google Fusion, and I wanted to show how many areas make it difficult for developers to build multifamily housing.
The Lightest Shade – illustrates square footage values from 500,000 sq feet to 653,400 sq feet. Simple because the latter value is the largest the data goes up to.
A note: I did take a screen shot of the bucket table which would work for a rudimentary map key unfortunately, we are unable to upload pictures to word press. I do think this would work as a beginning for making map keys. Especially since simple photo editing software would allow one to “edit” the screen shot to employ proper tag labeling.