Creating the first map

For our first map, we will be plotting the online revenue Harry makes from different states in the US. The following table lists the data for the 10 states Harry sells to online, for which we will be plotting:

State	Revenue
Alabama	78000
California	148000
Florida	95100
Hawaii	77000
Illinois	21000
Louisiana	128000
Massachusetts	50000
Nevada	93000
New York	128000
Texas	38000

We will be using different color codes to mark out the performance as good, average, and bad. The ranges that Harry has decided are in the following table:

Range	Name	Color
0-20000	Poor	FF9377 (Red)
20000-30000	Average	FFFFCC (Yellow)
30000-100000	Good	A7E9BC (Green)

Technically, there are three steps to creating a map:

• Finding the appropriate map for the region in the Maps folder

• Creating the XML data for the map

• Writing the HTML and JavaScript code to embed the map in the page