Geography 7 Lab 3

ZoomGeog 7 Lab 3 My map is created about some possible places that you can visit during a road trip in San Francisco.
This map marked some famous spots, such as the fisherman's Wharf, Angel Island, and the Golden Gate Bridge. I chose San Francisco as my map because I had been there once time during the last spring break. I want to give some advice and suggestions for all of my readers for planning their trip to San Francisco. Several types of activities that I marked on the map are including dinning, visiting, and hiking. The city of San Francisco is really mixed with multi-culture, such as Japanese and Chinese, and it is worth visiting.

As mentioned in the class, there are many potentials, pitfalls, and consequences of using neogeography. Neogeography allows normal citizens to create their own map by the web 2.0. Before the invention of technologies such as Google Maps, people will never imagine that they can work and process their own maps by their preferences. Now, as we can use satellite maps on the computer or smart phone, neogeography has raised the people's attention about their geographic life. Also, the use of neogeography are not required people to have professional training so it is very convenient.

However for the above map, it was totally created and decided by myself. Since I am not a professional map maker, my map may carry my biases and false information. This will lead to a possible pitfalls and confuse the readers that what I chose to show or not show. For my road trip's map, the readers may miss many tourist spots in San Francisco because they are too concentrated to my suggestions. Most of the time, the other people will be misled by your maps because of the lack or missing information. Also, many people are questioning about the safety of their privacy. As we know, the online satellite maps are even providing the street view function that may offended the privacy of citizens. 

Geography 7 Lab 2

1) Beverly Hills quadrangle.

2) Canoga Park, Van Nuys, Burbank, Topanga, Hollywood, Venice and Inglewood.

3) 1966.

4) North American Datum of 1927 (NAD 27) and North American Datum of 1983 (NAD 83).

5) 1:24,000.

6a) 1,200 meters.
 b) 1.89 miles.
c) 2.64 inches.
d) 12.5 centimeters.

7) 20 feet.

8a) 34°04'26.8"N, 118°26'20.6"W or 34.074117° N, 118.439048° W.
b) 34°00'27.4"N, 118°29'59.1"W  or 34.007616° N, 118.499744° W.
c) 34°07'14.5"N, 118°24'35.4"W  or 34.120706° N, 118.409840° W.


9a) 560 feet, 170.69 meters.
b) 140 feet, 42.672 meters.
c)  610 feet, 185.928 meters.

10) Zone 11.

11) (3763000, 362000).

12) 1,000,000 square meters are contained.
13) 

14) 14°.

15) From North to South.

16) 

Geography 7 Lab 1

Source: http://timpanogos.files.wordpress.com/2007/12/transit-map-of-world-ecardtransitmaps.jpg

This world transit map was drawn as a cover picture by Mark Ovenden in his book "Transit Maps of the World". Mark used his imagination to connect the whole world with the rail system that may happen in the future. We can discover that the most famous and well-known cities are all on the maps. What I find interesting about the map is that the map was not drawn in real scale. For example, the size of Africa is smaller than Northern America and Europe. Also, it reflects the level of development between different regions in the world. It is easily to notice from the map that Africa only has 5 rail stations around the north coast. However, either the United States or Europe has more than 10 stations all around the regions.

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This amazing world map was originally posted by Ramesh on SodaHead.com.
The map is showing us how the American views and illustrates the other parts of the world. As we can discover from the map, most of the views are negative (e.g. AIDs, F**king Desert, Curry). From the map, I think it is very interesting to note that Americans are too arrogant and still thinking that they are ruling the world. For examples, I think AIDs, desert, curry, or market should not be the symbol of a country. As there are more and more rising countries, I think there will be much different for the future United States World Map.

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This world map was posted on Bytes daily by BytesMaster. The map is showing how the American treats other countries. According to the writer, he described it as "The American World". From the map, the Asia world was described as a factory of shoes, oil, and computers. The Europe and Southern America were described as a food factory. Some of the regions such as the Africa, Australia, and Greenland have no meaning to the American.What I find interesting from this bias map is similar as the previous map. The Americans are too arrogant to treat other people/countries in the world as their labors or workers. It is also important for me to discover more about the American's view about the world.