epa site review

 Here is an image of the map I made using the EPA site. The site fills in the demographic information quite well (I am using per capita income by county), however there is no pre-set filter that will put solid waste facilities on the map. Students will need to individually identify each facility. The red balloons on the map are my fake facility locations. I can put many balloons on the page and label them. I can also draw shapes (as I did here) that may be better for visual comparison. When drawing these polygons, you are able to get a report of the demographics/environmental statistics about the surrounding area within any desired radius. You can also make descriptions to the places you delineate.  The biggest problem I see with this program is that you cannot save the map and it is QUITE easy to erase all of your data. For instance, it took me 4 attempts before I could screen grab this page because I would accidentally erase all of my work. Also, the only way I was able to put this in my blog was to save the picture, then upload the image into blogger. Other than that, I could not find a way to embed the map.