Lab 3

View Washington DC Tour in a larger map

This lab is focus on Neogeography, which is about people using and creating their own maps, on their own terms and by combining elements of an existing toolset. It is about sharing location information with friends and visitors, helping shape context, and conveying understanding through knowledge of place. In this week lab, I did a tour of Washington D.C. by using a pre-existing mapping toolkit, Google map.

Neogeography is different for everyone. So it is special and very creative. It has a large space to develop. Like Google map, it is quite easy to begin with, so everyone can easily express their own neogeography. It has some options for us to make our own map, we can add pictures, videos, also make our own tour routes and polygons.

However, neogeography is not very popular among people who are not geography major or work relevant with geography. If I didn’t take this class, I would not be able to know that I can make my own map just by easily using Google map, my map, to create. Also, neogeography needs a big space to share and develop, now, too few people focus on this thing, while it doesn’t have a enough effect.

lab 2

1.Beverly Hills Quadrangle
2.Canoga Park Quadrangle
   Van Nuys Quadrangle
   Burbank Quadrangle
   Topanga Quadrangle
   Hollywood Quadrangle
   Venice Quadrangle
   Inglewood Quadrangle
3.1966
4.Horizontal datum: North American Datum of 1927(NAD 27)
   Vertical datum: National Geodetic vertical Datum of 1929
5.SCALE 1:24000
6.a)1200 m
      1/24000=5cm/x
      x=120000cm=1200m
   b)1.8939 miles
       5*24000/63360=1.8939 miles
   c)2.64 inches
   d)12.5 cm
7. 20 feet
8.a)Public Affairs Building: 118degrees 27' 26" E, 34degrees 26' 12" N
   118.445 degrees E
   34.382 degrees N
   b)Tip of Santa Monica Pier: 118degrees 35' E, 34degrees 00' N
   118.58 degrees E
   34 degrees N
   c)Upper Franklin Canyon Reservoir: 118degrees 30' E, 34degrees 5' N
     118.52 degrees E
     34.06 degrees N

9.a) 570 feet = 173.74 meters
   b) 140 feet = 42.67 meters
   c) 720 feet = 219.46 meters
10. UTM zone 11
11. -3763000 Northing, 361500 Easting
12. 1,000,000 square meters
13. see the graph below

14. + 14 degrees
15. North to South

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