Lab #3: Neogeography

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Neography is a great tool to allow anyone to work their way through a new city. It allows for anyone to show their favorite areas to eat, drink, look at a view, or enjoy simple pleasures. It is a customized outlook for a person to demonstrate what they want others to see specifically. It can act as itinerary for business, tour guide for tourists, to do list for residents, etc. Furthermore, it is a great tool that is easily accessible for anyone to use.

While there are numerous advantages and benefits to Neogeography, there are some pitfalls and consequences. Some pitfalls of setting up this map for people to see can be frustrating at first, especially when one doesn't know how to work the new tools. After some practice though, it is easy to catch on. Another pitfall is that while this device is useful, it doesn't allow for people to explore through a city like in the old days. Therefore, people become somewhat on technology, and this makes a city at some times more impersonal to people.

LAB #2 - USGS Topos

1. The name of this quadrangle is Beverly Hills, CA

2. The names of the adjacent quadrangles are:

a. Canoga Park

b. Van Nuys

c.  Burbank

d. Topanga

e. Hollywood

f. Venice

g. Inglewood

3. The quadrangle was first created in 1966.

4. The North American Datum of 1927 & National Geodetic Vertical datum of 1929 was used to create the map.

5. The scale of the map is 1: 24,000

6.  a) 5 centimeters on the map is equivalent to 1,200 meters on the ground.

     b) 5 inches on the map is equivalent to 1.89 miles on the ground.

     c) 1 mile on the ground is equivalent to 1,520,640,000 inches on the map.

     d) 3 kilometers on the ground is equivalent to 7,200,000,000 centimeters on the map.

7. The contour interval on the map is 20 feet.

8. The approximate geographic coordinates in both degrees/minutes/seconds and decimal degrees of each place are:

    a) the Public Affairs Building;

34°4’15”N, 118°26’18”W

34.071°N, 118.438°W

    b) the tip of Santa Monica pier;

            34°0’35”N, 118°28’50”W

            34.0097 °N, 118.481°W

    c) the Upper Franklin Canyon Reservoir;

            34°6’5”N, 118°24’15”W

            34.101°N, 118.404°W

9.  The approximate elevation in both feet and meters of each location is:

     a) Greystone Mansion (in Greystone Park)

570 ft & 173.74 m

     b) Woodlawn Cemetery;

140 ft & 42.67 m

     c) Crestwood Hills Park;

            800 ft & 243.84 m

10. The UTM zone of this map is 11.

11. The UTM coordinates for the lower left corner of the map is (37)63 Easting & (3)61.5 Northing.

12. There are 1,000,000 sq meters contained within each cell of the UTM gridlines.

13. The two dots placed on Intersection 5 and 6 indicate the two intersections on UCLA campus.

14. The magnetic declination of the map is 14°.

15. The direction that the water flows in the intermittent stream between the 405 freeway and Stone Canyon Reservoir is South.

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