Lab 3

View Places I want to go to in a larger map   One of the pitfall of neogeography is the fact that anyone now a days can make a mashup of their own map. Meaning, anyone can give out or share their location information through online websites or to anyone in particular. One potential from this is that by sharing different location information online, and by creating different mashups, people around the world can become informed about certain locations in the world. Basically, its potential is that by creating mashups, it informs other people about different locations in the world. However, a consequence from this is that so many people have been creating mashups that even their private locations are being given away to many people in public. Concluding that, anyone can intrude your personal life by knowing where you live, or where you went when posting your location on online websites like facebook.

      The consequences from making mashups or posting location information online can sometimes put danger into someone's life. This is because anyone now a days can put their certain locations online. Therefore, by putting in location information like this, you can either be followed by anyone that you don't know and other people can easily track where exactly you are. Also by writing location information online, "terrorists might use such images to plan attacks" on a certain location, according to the article The World on your desktop. Another consequence or pitfall is that anyone now a days can pretty much make their own maps, meaning that anyone can put any information online without certainty in them. Therefore, giving wrong information to other people as well.
   

Lab 2

1. 7.5 Quadrangle Map

2.Canoga Park, Van Nuys, Burbank, Topanga, Hollywood, Venice, and Inglewood

3. 1995

4. North American Datum of 1927 (NAD 27)

5. 1:24000

6. a)5cm*24000cm=120000cm=1200m

b) 5inches*2.54=12.7cm*24000cm=304,800cm*0.01m=3048m*0.001km=3.048km*0.621mi=1.9miles

c) 1:24000 = 24000inches

d) 3km*100000cm= 300,000cm 

7. 20 feet

8. a) DMS=34Degrees 26minutes 30seconds - latitude
         DD - 34.44 degrees latitude
         DMS=118 Degrees 4 minutes 30 seconds - longitude
         DD - 118.075 Degrees - longitude

     b) DMS = 34 Degrees 29 minutes 30 seconds latitude
          DD = 34.49 degrees latitude
          DMS = 118 Degrees 0 minutes 30 seconds
          DD = 118.008333 Degrees longitude

     c) DMS = 34 Degrees 24 minutes 30 seconds latitude
         DD= 34.408 Degrees latitude
         DMS = 118 Degrees 7 minutes 20 seconds longitude
         DD = 118.12 Degress longitude

9. a) Feet = 540ft.
         164.59meters

     b) Feet = 140ft.
          42.67 meters

     c) Feet = 700 ft.
          213.36 meters


10. Zone 11

11. 3763N and 362E

12. 1000*1000=1,000,000 square meters

13.

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15. South


16.

The Wonderful Maps

                              The source of the map above is from this website, http://pictures.fanart-central.net/n/NauticalNymph/99178.jpg

The map shown above is the map in the Alice in Wonderland. This map shows the different places where Alice went during her adventure. If I'm not wrong, Alice roamed around the different places listed on this map to find the adventure that she's always been wishing for. She first fell on the rabbit hole, which is not shown in the map. Then she went on the Pool of Tears where she cried and flooded the hallway and where she also swam on her own tears when she was shrank into a tiny girl due to a fan that she picked up. Due to the lack of information that I remember from the movie, I would say that she also went to a couple of places before she went to the Caterpillar's Deformation Centre, which is just a place with a big mushroom. On top of the mushroom is a blue caterpillar sitting on it. This is also where the caterpillar and Alice had their conversation. The whole map basically explains and shows the different places where Alice experienced her so called dream adventure. In addition, the most exciting part where Alice went to is the Palace of Hearts where she fought the Queen of Hearts in the recent movie that came out on 2010. This map is a made up map of the places base on the movies of Alice in Wonderland. It is very simple, yet informative enough to understand and know the places in the Wonderland. Its simpleness makes it easier for people to understand what the map is showing and the directions that you can use to go to the different places listed in the map. Therefore, concluding that this map is easy to use when navigating the different places on the map. The most thing that interests me in this map is the way it was drawn or made. For me, this type or kind of map is easier to understand, which will make it easier for me to locate the places that I want to go. This map also interests me due to the fact that I love the movie Alice in Wonderland and also because I want to be more informed about the name of the places that Alice actually went to in the movie. It is also interesting to know which place she went to first, how she got to the next place and why she went on that particular place first instead of the other one. By looking at this map, you will actually see the adventure that she went to.


The source of this map is from this website, http://www.linkparis.com/images/francemap.jpg

The map shown above is a map of France. In this map, we can see the different places that tourists or other people can travel to when they go to France. We can see Paris, which is mostly everyone's dream place to travel to. Well at least to me and my friends, it is our number one dream place to go to in the future. We can also see Lyon, where University of Lyon is located. Base on the pictures of University of Lyon that I've seen, it is a very old, ancient looking kind of architecture. The way this university was built makes it interesting for me to visit that place as well. Also according to this map, we can see that France itself is composed of many cities, which in my opinion, is very interesting to travel to. Another interesting place to travel to is Bordeaux. What's interesting about it is that it's the most famous wine region in France. It is also one of the romantic places to go to in France. Also, don't forget to visit the largest city in France, Toulouse. Toulouse have delicious food, great music and also great medieval type of architectures. The cities mentioned are just some few great places to visit in France, but there's more to it as you can see in the map above. Therefore, I can conclude that what I find interesting in this map are the different places/cities that are located in France. Since France is my dream place to travel to, it was interesting for me to know the different cities that it has. The map also interest me in the way that I didn't know the name of the cities that are in France aside from Paris, and when I looked at this map, I was able to search the names of the cities and find different information about the different cities in France.  This also led me to knowing that each city have great, medieval type of architectures located in different cities in France.
                               
                          
The source of this map is from the website http://eater.com/uploads/map-food-state.jpg

The map shown above is a map of the United States. Though it is a map of the United States that consists of different food productions that each state mostly produces. For example, you can see in the map that Alaska is very rich in producing King Crabs or simply crabs, while Hawaii is very rich in producing pineapples. On the other hand, on the east side of the map where North Carolina is, their specialty is making barbecues. On the south east part of the map where Florida is located, we can see that Florida is rich in producing oranges. Finally, in the west side of the map where California is located, we can see that California is rich in producing grapes. Washington, which is located in the north west side of the map, is rich in producing apples. Minnesota on the other hand has their specialty in making fried food on a stick or just simply fried foods. Lastly, by the north east side of the map where Maine is located, they are rich in producing lobsters. Those are just some of the states that produces different kinds of good, and the picture of the map explains the rest of the other states. Now, the map interests me because of the foods that the different states produces. Everyone loves food, so do I, which made it more interesting for me to look at this map because now I know a little bit about the different foods that the states in the United States basically produces. Basically, my interest in knowing the different kinds of food production in the different states made it interesting for me to look at this kind of map.