Lab 3

View High tech Companis in Sillicon Valley in a larger map




This is a great tool for people to create their own maps. It is very easy and at the same time very interstice to work with this tool. It is amazing how easy it is for people to create maps to guide their relatives or friends to new areas where they have not been.
The maps can be very attractive, because people can insert pictures, videos and lines to show how to get from one place to another. The biggest pitfall of this tool is that most of the people who will use this tool will probably be armatures in the field of geography, so they will create maps that will not be totally precise.
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Lab 2

1) CALIFORNIA_LOS ANGELES, CA



2)
  1-Canoga Park
  2-Van Nuys
  3-Burbank
  4-Topanga
  5-Hollywood
  6-
  7-Venice
  8-Inglewood



3)
 1966


4)
 NATIONAL GEODETIC VERTICAL DATUM OF 1929 & VERTICAL NAD 1929 & 1927


5)
 1:24000


6)
 a) 5cm*24000/100 = 1200meter
 b) 5inch*24000/63360  = 1.89mile
 c) 5inch/1.89*1mile =  2.64inch
 d) 300000m/24000 = 12.5cm



7)
 20 FEET


8)
 a) Public Affairs Building   118 26' 18'' -- 118.435 / 34 4' 26''  -- 34.077
 b) Santa Monica Pier   118 25' 00"  -- 118.42 / 34 00' 26'' -- 34.007
 c) Upper Franklin Canyon Res.   118 24' 43"  -- 118.41 / 34 07' 15'' -- 34.12



9)
 a) 570 feet // 570*0.3048=173m
 b) 140 feet // 140*0.3048=42.672m
 c) 640 feet // 640*0.3048=195.072m


10)
 UTM 11


11)
 3763 Northing  361.5 Easting


12) 1 sq. km

13)

14)
 +14


15)
 South


16) UCLA map

Lab 1

A very interesting view of GPS navigation system. It shows almost all the satellites that are hovering around  the earth to provide this very useful system on every spot on the world.

http://www.suite101.com/view_image_articles.cfm/2968236

A map that shows the highway system of US. It is very interesting that it is very dens on the eastern side of US and very scares on the western side. The US highway system is the biggest public project in the whole world.

http://www.onlineatlas.us/interstate-highways.htm

This is a map that shows the big forest territories on the earth. This is interesting to me because I can see that the biggest spots are on 2 latitudes (Upper side of US and Canada with Russia, Brazil with middle side of Africa). 

http://maps.grida.no/go/graphic/world-map-of-forest-distribution-natural-resources-forests