Lab 3 Assignment

View Routes to get to UCLA from Home in a larger map

What is Neogeography? Neogeography is about sharing location information with friends and visitors, helping shape context, and conveying understanding through knowledge of place. It literally means "new geography". Map shown above is an example of Neogeography. The increase of popularity of neogeography has spread all over the web. Companies make these neogeographical maps for their websites displaying where their local stores are located or directions on how customers can reach to their stores. Not only companies are making these maps but also everyday people are able to make these maps on anything that they want. One may map out the route that they run and show it to all their friends. Also one may list all their favorite places to eat and show it to all the followers on their blog sight.

So with all these positive results that Neogeography is presenting us then what its downfall? Well Neogeography is all based on a computer system. Meaning that most of the people that use Neogeography use it on a computer. So once the computer goes dead then the user can not use it anymore. Neogeography also is not the most reliable source of information. You are basically going off information on what someone suggests or puts up on the internet and nothing else. Finally probably the worst thing about Neogeography is that possibly it may cause a hidden spot that you love become overpopulated. Meaning if i had a secret beach spot and someone mentions it on a map that they made it becomes open to the public and possibly it could be over runed by random people.

Eigher way Neogeography is still very useful for anyone or any company.

Lab 2 Assignment

1. Beverly Hills, CA 1995
2. Canoga Park, Van Nuys, Burbank, Hollywood, Venice, Inglewood
3. 1966
4. NAD 1927 (Horizontal); NAD 1929 (Vertical)
5. 1/24000
6. a) 24000/20= 1200m
    b) 120000/63360inch= 1.89miles
    c) (1/24000mil)(63360inch/1mile)= 2.6inch
    d) (3/24000) (100194.62cm/1k)= 12.5cm
7. 20 feet
8. a) Longitude 118 27' 30" W    Decimal Degrees: 118 .4583degrees
        Latitude -34 0' 37"                                  34 .0107 degrees
    b) Longitude 118 30' 2"W       Decimal Degrees: 118 .5005 degrees
        Latitude -34 0' 15"                                  34 .00416 degrees
    c) Longitude 118 25' 0"W        Decimal Degrees: 118 .416 degrees
        Latitude- 34 7' 8"                                     34. 118 degrees
9. a) 575 feet
    b) 140 feet
    c) 640 feet
10. UTM zone 11
11. 361.5 Easting
12. 1 square kilometer
13.

14. +14 degrees
15.Southward
16.

Lab Assignment #2

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.