Lab #3: The Ultimate Trip to Vegas

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Neogeography maps are relatively subjective, and that may be an issue. Take mine for example, I believe that this would be a great trip to Las Vegas because of my personal experiences and familiarity with the city itself. Although, for those people who take a look at this map for the first time might not agree; either because of their experiences or maybe because they haven't even been there before. These maps also make the assumption that people would be somewhat familiar with locations and destinations, but this a simple assumption.

Of course on the other hand these types of maps may come very handy to those people who are studying the overall spacial thinking of people and the way he/she works with geographical tools such as Google Maps. These maps can honestly be used in studies doing with human behavior; it can really show what a person's interests and many more attributes are. Also it may be convenient for people whom have never been to a certain location and want to know the gist of where they should be heading. These types of maps can be useful to people who thrive on taking adventures!

Lab #2

(1) The name is the Beverly Hills quadrangle.

(2) Names of Adjacent Qudrangles: (1) Canoga Park, (2) Van Nuys, (3) Burbank, (4) Topanga, Hollywood, (7) Venice, (8) Inglewood.

(3) Topography was compiled in 1966.

(4) The North American Datum of 1927 & National Geodetic Vertical Datum of 1929 were used to create this map.

(5) The scale is 1:24,000

(6)
(a) 1/24000=5cm/X, X=120,000cm=1,200m
(b) 1/24000=5in./X, X=120,000in.=1.894 miles
(c) 1/24000=X/1mile, X=1/24,000miles= 2.64 in.
(d) 1/24000=X/3km, X=3/24000km= 12.5 centimeters

(7) Contour Interval is 20ft.

(8)Approx. Geographic Coordainates
(a) Public Affairs Bldg.= Latitude: 34 4 46 N Longitude: 118 26 14 W= 34.079 N 118.437 W
(b) Santa Monica Pier= Latitude: 34 0 43 N Longitude: 118 29 72 W= 34.012 N 118.503 W
(c) Upper Franklin Canyon Reservoir= Latitude: 34 07 10 N Longitude: 118 24 37 W= 34.12 N 118.41W

(9)Approx. Elevation
(a) Greystone Mansion= 560 ft=170.68m
(b) Woodlawn Cemetery= 140 ft= 42.67m
(c) Crestwood Hills Park= 620 ft= 188.98m

(10) The UTM Zone of the map is zone 11.

(11) The UTM coordinates of the lower corner of the map are 3,763,000m N 361,500m E.

(12) Within each cell of the UTM gridlines there is an area of 1,000m X 1,000m= 1,000,000 m^2

(13)

(14) The magnetic declination of the map is positive 14 degrees.

(15) According to the contours on the map, there is a higher elevation from the north to south, so I would say according to elevation the stream would flow from North to South.
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