Cartography

At three years old, I received an atlas for my birthday. Immediately, it engrossed me. I remember looking at the pages, mesmerized by pictures of places, animals, foods, and people so different from anything I had ever seen. Thinking of myself an explorer, I searched for the tallest mountains, the biggest desserts and imagined living there, much like in the Jungle Book. As I got older, my interest in maps and geography grew. Every year, when my grandmother presented me with a new Rand McNally…

Seeing Isn’t Believing Maps and literature are tied more closely than most people believe. A book guides a reader through a story, word by word, showing them the development of the authors work. Too often, maps are over looked for their seeming simplicity. People fail to see the research and story the cartographer has created, and in turn miss every step of the cartographer’s choice to exclude and include attributes and other such map features from the final projection. Every map tells a story,…

Part I - Finding five more sources that relate to your teaching unit. A-Describe each in a few sentences to a paragraph--what is the main information in the source? How is this useful to your unit? 1. http://www.ancientegypt.co.uk/time/explore/main.html This website contains information about the history of Ancient and provides me with a timeline of important events, people and objects that occurred during a specific dynasty or period. It even provides specific information an important people…

The main focus of education in Flatland is polygon recognition. When looking at another polygon in Flatland, they all look like lines. However, in early childhood, everyone learns how to feel one another’s angles in order to determine what type of polygon one is. Yet, with further education, it is possible to detect the type of polygon through sight recognition. In Flatland, there are two main variables that determine the route of one’s education; gender and social status. If one is male, they…

TransCanada uses GIS for data management, mapping, geospatial analysis, and sharing the data through the company standard GIS web mapping application. Some of the technical specifications and standards for TransCanada is ensuring data integrity. It is one of TransCanada’s mission to provide quality geospatial products and services to Operations and Engineering. A set of quality standards and technical specification has been established in order to ensure the data meets the required accuracy for…

Carolyn Wehner CEE 1440 Water Resources Engineering Take-Home Final Exam Due: 12/14/16 Introduction: With changing climates, ice caps melting more rapidly therefore causing the water levels of the world to rise rapidly. With this increase of fluid water on the earth water resources engineers are concerned how the excess water will affect infrastructure pertaining to water designs such as dams and reservoirs. Also future engineering designs will have to consider the change in water levels and…

First, I wanted to cover maps as an intellectual technology that has changed the way people think. The progression of maps to where they are today can be illustrated and is closely paralleled by childhood cognitive development. Maps, like a child’s development, went from a “egocentric, purely sensory perception of the world to… [a] abstract and objective analysis of experience.” It also caused society to go from a purely sensory observation of the world to a more abstract and objective view of…

By applying the geographical concepts of ancient art, geography is defined as the study of physical features of earth’s atmosphere, which includes natural resources, countries, continents, land use, oceans, rivers, and other, whether it is physical, human, or environmental. According to the history of art, the major parts of geography mainly consists in civilizations, such as ancient Mesopotamia and ancient Egypt. The art history of Mesopotamia and ancient Egypt has been one of the huge concepts…

1. McDonalds uses human geography to plan out where to build a restaurant by using culture and economy. In certain places McDonalds will alter their food to fit a certain type of flavor. Sometimes the store may not expand in areas that can’t afford the food. 2. Maps display information about the surface and the areas of the world that we live in. Geography is very dependent on the use of maps. They are also used as communication, and storing reference material. It can help us to find…

Class #1: Geo-Literacy Please 1). The photos of "Map foolery" and the "True Size of Africa" surprised me, since I had never considered that my perception of the continents size could be so skewed. It brings up the question of why maps continue to be presented in the way they are. When presented with this new knowledge we began to get a greater understanding of the world around us and how individuals have to be critical of the information they take in. It's important to begin to understand the…