Lab Assignment #3

View Bay Area trip in a larger map

The theme of this map is to demonstrate the road trip that I head back to San Francisco Bay Area from the Los Angeles Area. I am an international transfer student and I studied in the community college of the San Francisco Bay Area. In this map, I would like to demonstrate what freeways I need to use in my road trip. From the starting point of my home to my old apartment, it needs 4 freeways. They are freeway 405, 5, 580 and 680. It takes almost 6.5 hours for more than 300 miles from Los Angeles to Bay Area. I also pointed 2 gases station for to refill for the gas and take a rest. The map also showed where I used to live and where my first host family in the United States. Both of them were really close to my college. Some of the places I love in the Bay Area are also shown on this map. Finally, I embedded videos for both my community college and UCLA in the map. Everyone should know more about what my community college and UCLA after watching the videos. Both colleges are awesome! 
Neogeography can have a lot of pitfalls, potentials and consequences. First, we always concern about the accuracy or the source of information. For example, in this map exercise, all of the information is given out by myself. I designed everything in this map such as the location that I lived, the freeway that I choose. However, I am not a professional so it is not guaranteed that everything shows on this map it's real and accurate. This is the biggest pitfalls in neogeography. Second, I think neogeography has a great potential in the future development of search engine. For example, yelp and yellow pages are the concepts of neogeography. They have information with the map locations and some personal reviews. Search result can be narrowed and all depends on what type of information you would like to get. Neogeography can be one of the most popular topic in the future. However, there are some consequences with neogeography. As well as everyone can access to the public information, privacy will be one of the problems in neogeography. Everyone can read the information or the maps that the user has made. Moreover, since most of the information is public, some can even edit by other users. This may also lower the accuracy of the information given out in the concept of neogeography. Other then that, neogeography can be a sucessful tool in human life.       

Lab Assignment 2

1. Beverley Hills Quadrangle
2. Canoga Park, Van Nuys, Burbank, Topanga, Hollywood, Venice, Inglewood
3. 1995
4. 1927 (NAD 27) and 1983 (NAD 83) are both horizontal datum. 1929 is the vertical datum.  
5. 1:24000
6.  
• a. (5cm x24000)=120000cm=1200m
• b. (5inches x24000)=120000inches= 1.8939 miles (cor. to 4 significant figures)
• c. (1mile/24000)=0.00004167mile=2.64 inches
• d. (3km/24000)=0.000125km=12.5cm
7. 20 feet
8.  
• a. 34°4'48"N  118°25'12"E 34.08°N 118.42°E
• b. 34°0'36"N 118°30'E 34.01°N 118.50°E
• c. 34°4'48"N 118° 29'24"E  34.08°N 118.49°E
9.  
1. a. 580 feet 176.784m
2. b. 140 feet 42.672m
3. c. 640 feet 195.072m
10. UTM Zone 11
11. Northing 3763000 Easting 361500
12.  1000x1000=1,000,000 meters square
13.   

14. 14 degree, 249 mils
15. South

Lab Assignment 1

This is a map that I found on google. It is a county map of California. It shows different county of California in different colors and names. There are 4 colors in this map, they are blue, yellow, orange and green but the patterns of color are not in order.  The map also briefly shows the geographical shape of California. I found it interesting because this is the first time for me to know different county names and the location of different counties. For example, Los Angeles county shares the border with Ventura, Kern, San Bernandino and Orange country. I used to live in the Contra Costa country in the Bay Area of San Francisco. Source: http://www.google.com/imgresimgurl=http://www.cagenweb.com/plumas/map_files/image007.gif&imgrefurl=http://www.infohub.com/Maps/california_map_262.html&h=691&w=597&sz=31&tbnid=I_hPCUPPieWn2M:&tbnh=139&tbnw=120&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dmaps%2Bof%2Bcalifornia&zoom=1&q=maps+of+california&hl=en&usg=__6f7um81KvJZCbn3tdte0hTI-_zY=&sa=X&ei=dVqiTPirCZS-sQOt4OG5AQ&sqi=2&ved=0CD8Q9QEwBw, image google, 2:35 pm, September 28, 2010.

This is the map of Hong Kong. I found this map on a website called China Highlights. This is a brief map of what Hong Kong looks like. From the map, Hong Kong is divided into three main parts, with the large bolded fonts, they are New Territories, Kowloon and Hong Kong Island. The country parks in Hong Kong are mostly shown in green color while others lands are mostly pale brown color. The map also shows that Shenzhen is really close to the New Territories of Hong Kong. Apart from that, the map also shows the rail network of Hong Kong. Different color represents different lines of railway. One of the interesting things is that not every places in Hong Kong are covered with railway network even though Hong Kong is a very tiny city. I found it interesting because I am a Hong Kong native. This is the place where I lived before I came to study in the States. The railway network in the map really attracts me a lot. Hong Kong is a very convenient place that can live without cars. Source: http://www.chinahighlights.com/hong-kong/map/hong-kong-map.htm, China Highlights, 7:15pm, October 4 2010.

This is the map of the pacific ring of fire. I found this map on the USGS website. The map shows the volcanic arcs and oceanic trenches partly encircling the Pacific Ocean. The Ring of Fire is a zone of frequent earthquakes and volcanic eruptions. The trenches are shown in blue-green. The volcanic island arcs, are mostly parallel to, and always landward of, the trenches. I found it interesting because I had a geology class while i was in the college. I was so shocked that most of the world's largest earthquakes occur along the Ring of Fire. Many of the countries such as the States, Japan, Indonesia and Chile, etc can be found in the Ring of Fire. The Ring of Fire is a direct consequence of plate tectonics and the movement and collisions of crustal plates. Source: http://pubs.usgs.gov/gip/dynamic/fire.html, USGS, 8:04pm, October 4 2010.