Map Projections
Portraying the round earth on a flat surface.
What is projection?
A group of places in the same area that share a characteristic.
What is a region?
The belief that landforms and climate are the most powerful forces shaping human behavior and societal development.
What is environmental determinism?
What are the four levels of scale of analysis?
What are--global, regional, national, and local?
computer system that can store, analyze, and display information from multiple digital maps or geospatial data sets.
What is GIS?
Preserves relative size, but appears to be stretched horizontally and doesn't enlarge areas well.
What is the Peters Projection?
What type of region does the south fall under?
What is Perceptual/Vernacular region?
A view that acknowledges limits on the effect of the natural environment and focuses more on the role human culture plays.
What is possibilism?
The earth's surface is curved and a map is flat.
Why do all maps have some kind of distortion?
GPS receivers on Earth’s surface use the locations of multiple satellites to determine and record a receiver’s exact location.
What is GPS?
A map projection based on the concept of projecting the earth's surface on a conical surface, which is then unrolled to a plane surface
A uniform region where everyone shares some characteristics.
What is a formal region?
The location of a place relative to other places.
What is situation?
Personal descriptions of processes and events.
What is an example of qualitative data used by geographers?
Measured from a distance without direct contact or the need to visit the location of interest.
Examples: Satellite images, Sonar readings
What is Remote Sensing?
Projection that preserves angles, but distorts relative size and shape.
What is the Mercator Projection?
A perceptual region. People believe it exists as part of a cultural identity.
What is a vernacular region?
Amount of territory that the map represents.
What is geographic scale?
49 degrees N, 2 degrees E
What is an example of absolute location?
data that has a geographic component to it
example: Addresses, zip codes, coordinates, etc.
What is geospatial data?
An area organized around a focal point or node.
What is a functional region?
Tell me about relative vs. absolute location....
Answers vary
386 miles west of ___, 644 miles south of ___
What is an example of a relative location?
What is the inherent danger with using spatial information like:
Media Reports
Travel Narratives
Policy Documents
Personal Interviews
Information could be bias, misquoted, inaccurate, influenced by outside sources, serve an agenda
Geographer should consult multiple sources of spatial information