Lab C – My Neogeographic Map

The theme of my neogeographic map is a day tour around Hong Kong. Since i’m an international student from Hong Kong, i know the city very well and that i visit it once a year, i find it meaningful to introduce my home town to other people. This map guides tourists to walk to various destinations; furthermore, there would be a chance for them to experience the joy of travelling on a ferry and in the subways of Hong Kong. The tour starts and ends in JW Marriott Hotel in the destrict of ‘Admiralty’; area concentrated with hotels and malls; we would arrive at restaurants, cinemas, site seeing spots, museums, and even the night-club destrict as we travel according to this map. By making this map, i hope to increase the popularity of this small city as well as to spread the charisma of integrated culture in Hong Kong.

Neogeography is surely an innovative technology that is available to us nowadays. As computing sciences such as the world-wide-web advances over this past decade, people around the globe have been enjoying the convenience of accessing all types of information on the internet; especially as Google and other search engine companies arise. Using neogeography, people could create their own map according to their unique context and approach and share it to other people online; by doing this, it allows viewers to comprehend senses of directions in the creator’s perspective; and since the human brain tends to remember landmarks, viewers could easily relate to the creator’s view as they also have deep impressions of landmarks on their maps. However, on the other hand, this technology of uploading maps that are not standardized by the government on the internet may interfere with people’s sense of direction. This is because when there are all shapes and kinds of maps on the internet available to people, they would gradually adjust themselves to viewing inaccurate maps, and more importantly, they would use landmarks as their way to identify their position instead of using the precise cardinal directions.

Lab B – USGS Topographic maps

Lab B – USGS Topographic maps

1. Beverly Hills Quadrangle

2. The adjacent quadrangles are Canoga Park, Van Nuys, Burbank, Hollywood, Inglewood, Venice, Topanga.

3. First created in 1966

4. North American Datum of 1927 and 1983

5. 1: 24 000

6. a) 5cm on map equals to 1200 meters on ground
1/24,000 = 5cm/x  >> x= 5cm x 24,000 >> x= 120,000cm/100 >> x=1200m

b) 5 inches on map equals to 1.89 miles on ground
1/24,000 = 5in/x >> x= 5in x 24,000 >> x=120,000in/63360 >> 1.89m

c) 1 mile on ground equals to 2.54 inches on map
1/24,000 = 1m/x >> 1/24,000 x 63360 = 2.64

d) 3 km on ground equals to 12.5 centimeters on map
1/24,000 = 3km/x >> 3/24,000 x 100,000 = 12.5

7. The contour interval on map is 20 feet

8. a) the Public Affairs Building; 34° 4′ 22″ , 118° 26′ 24″
b) the tip of Santa Monica pier; 34° 0′ 27″ , 118° 29′ 30″
c) the Upper Franklin Canyon Reservoir; 34° 6′ 0″ , 118° 24′ 40″

9. Elevation in both feet and meters of
a) Greystone Mansion = 560 feet , 170.73 meters
b) Woodlawn Cemetery = 140 feet , 42.68 meters
c) 700 feet , 213.4 meters

10. The UTM Zone is 11

11. The UTM coordinates of the lower left corner are 3763 North and 362 East

12. Each cell of the UTM gridlines contains 1,000,000 square meters
1000m x 1000m = 1,000,000

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14. The magnetic declination is 14°

15. The intermittent stream between the 405 freeway and Stone Canyon Reservoir runs SOUTH

16.

Lab A – 3 Interesting Maps

This interesting map is found on the “Downtown Voices Coalition” website in the article “U.S. population and growth trends by county, 1970-2030”. This map illustrates the population density for every county across the United States; each block seen on the map represents a county, and the height of the blocks refer to the population density of counties in year 2000. I find this map interesting because it is 3D; further, since areas with high population densities tend to have a lot more settlements, the height of blocks on the map gives me a preliminary sense of how urban and populated the area is. Those blocks also remind me of skyscrapers that may be in the area.

This map is found on the “Cartography and Geographic Information Systems Laboratory” web page, “Maps Page on Australia”. This odd looking map basically gives viewers a sense of how big Australia is when compared to Europe. I find it interesting because the map can actually be practical for people who don’t know how large Australia is, since the continent is on its own in the Antarctic Ocean. By overlapping the border of Australia onto a map of Europe, people would know how big Australia’s land mass is in relation to Europe.

This map is found on a website called “Life On the Wicked Stage: Act 2”, in the article “Your Brain As a Map”. According to the author, this map was designed by New Zealand designers and it was made to map out the neural regions of the brain. I find the notion of this map very interesting, this is because, similar to a newly discovered island, the human brain is not yet fully understood by human, and there are still a lot of areas in the brain where we can explore on. In addition, scientists call different parts of the brain “regions” as if they are different provinces in a country.This brain map brings novelty to map reading; yet it preserves the basic principles of the process.

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