Week 3: Neogeography

View My trip to China in a larger map

     Neogeography is useful in terms of narrowing the ideas of one's perspective. The map created helps organize an individuals ideas. It helps clarify the ideas an individual has through the use of maps. The map created helps the reader understand the map creator's ideas. An individual can personalize the map they create and use it to serve their purpose be it to tell a story of their travels or to focus the reader's attention to a particular area.

    Neogeography has certain consequences as well. The information the map creator includes in their map can be wrong. The creator can include anything he/she wants due to the lack of authority monitoring the creation of these maps that anybody can create which includes both professionals and amateurs alike. Those who use the map may find unnecessary information included in the map that does not apply to their purpose. Such neogeography maps tend to serve few in use since it was created to mainly serve a narrow purpose.

Week 2: USGS Topographic maps

1. Beverly Hills Quadrangle

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

3.  1966

4.  North American Datum of 1927, North American Datum of 1983, National Geodetic Vertical datum of 1929

5.  1:24,000

6a. 1200 m

6b. 1.89 mi

6c. 2.64 in

6d. 12.5 cm

7. 20 ft

8a. 34 d 4’30” N, 118 d 26’ 15” W; 34.075 degrees N, 118.434 degrees W

8b. 34 d 0’ 28” N, 118 d 29’ 0” W ; 34.0078 degrees N 118.483 degrees W

8c. 34d 6’ 15” N , 118d 24’ 45” N; 34.0042 degrees W, 118.4125 degrees W

9a.  600ft,  182.88 m

9b.  140 ft, 42.67m

9c.  800ft, 243.84 m

10.  zone 11

11. 37630000 ft N, 3620000 ft W

12.  1,000,000 sq. meters 

13.

14.  +14

15. south

16. UCLA Campus