For my final project I decided to do a map on the local wetlands, lakes, and rivers of Bibb County. I also wanted to see how the land is being used in these specific areas. The map consists of an aerial image of Bibb County and shape-files of the bodies of water. There are also shape-files of a handful of landmarks that are around and on these bodies of water. The wetlands are divided into four section (East, Northeast, West, and Northwest). There are also a number of lakes and rivers that flow through Bibb County. For the most part, the land around the wetlands and rivers and lakes are of the Ocmulgee National Park and the Middle Georgia Regional Center. Highways and roads are also built above the rivers and the wetlands tend to have parks associated near them. Methodologically speaking, my project shows that I know how to incorprate different shape-files on an aerial imago, the aerial map of bibb county had background issues and i had to fix the raster to take the background off, and I had to organize a clear color scheme to separate the different areas the wetlands lie in. I also incorporated a compass, legend, and a scale.

Data Collection Words

Data Classification
Equal Interval
Quantile Method
Standard Deviation
Maximum Breaks
Natural Breaks
Optimal
Ethical Map Making

Data Collections

Potential Youth Center Locations

California Popuilation over Time

Map Projections

http://egsc.usgs.gov/isb/pubs/MapProjections/projections.html

Cartographers

John Paul Goode- John Goode created the homolosine projection, which is basically the best qualities of the homolographic and sinusoidal projections in one map. His specialties are atlases. One of his Atlases was controversial due to America's location which happened to be the center of the world.

Erwin Raisz-Erwin Raisz is most known for his delicate artwork of his skillfull hand drawn maps. He is a also known for his physiographic maps of landforms.

George Jenks-20th-century cartographer, who is well known for giving cartography a jump start by reviving the past and using new inks, paper, and have the undoubtedly amazing skills and techniques to draw maps precisely.

Waldo Tobler-influential American-Swiss geographer and cartographer. Established the 1st law of geography "Everything is related to everything else, but near things are more related than distant things."

The earliest map found to date is from the Babylonians. It was created about 8000 years ago.

Quiz 1

What are the skills necessary to be a good cartographer?

Now a days cartography is more of a computer science and the skills necessary to be a good cartographer leads into the understanding of a software such as ArcGIS that helps develop a map. Understanding and knowing the features that goes into a map is also one of the more important skills. Having the right elevation of land masses and how deep certain parts of the oceans and seas will make a great cartographer. Good labeling skills, using colors in a clear and reasonable matter, having distinguishable borders for the countries, and great labeling skills are necessary to be a good cartographer.

Distinguish between the elements that result in a "good" map vs a "bad" map.

A good map and a bad map can clearly be distinguished because of the elements used by the cartographer. Maps require layers, shapes, points, lines, surfaces, color pixels, and other elements that help the reader identify every part of the map. Good maps have features and attributes that give tons of information about the area. Names of cities, their latitude and longitude, and elevations are all clear information on a good map.

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This is an example of a bad map. The compass has two east and a north and west. The countries are all wrong, they would not be massed together on a good map. Everything is in black and white and it is impossible to follow.

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This is an example of a good map. It has layers and shapes, there is a clear line between the different shades of colors used to depict mountainous areas, valleys, water areas, etc. Everything is labeled clearly. Any reader should be able to understand this map.