Thursday, March 31, 2011

Lab Post 1

http://www.digital-topo-maps.com/county-map/sat/california-map.jpg

This is a map of all the counties in California. This map is a map from a digital image provided by NASA and outlines the counties of California. The website where this map is found includes all names, population and square miles of the counties. I find this map intresting becasue I never knew how many counties California has. I've always just understood that i live in Los Angeles County and I am surrounded by San Bernardino and Ventura County. I also find this intresting because this is the only map that i found that has a land scape image of the California counties. Almost everything else that i looked up were just color maps of the counties.


http://www.pacificviews.org/weblog/archives/Pictures/map_gas_price.jpg

This is a map of the United States displaying the outlines of most of the states and the outlines of counties in each state. What i find interesting about this map is that this map shows the average range of gas prices in each county in each state. As you cans see to the prices of gas that this map is outdated. What i also find interesting from this map is that in the northwestern states the gas prices are incredibly cheap compared to the prices in Southern California. What also i find interesting is that in some states such as Oklahoma there are random spots where prices are much cheaper than surrounding counties. 

http://www.vagabondish.com/wp-content/uploads/blond-map-europe.jpg

This map is a map of Europe and shows the percentage of light hair color in Europe. The darker colors that are found around Italy and Spain show that there is a 19% to 1% chance of people in the area that have light or blonde hair. While in northwestern parts of Europe show that there is a higher percentage of people that have light or blonde hair. I find this interesting because even though I am not of European decent i do have a lot of friends who are and they do somewhat match the patterns that are displayed on this map.