GEOG 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Contour Line, Geopolitics, Map Projection
15 Nov 2017
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Not always accurate, emphasize certain things through purposeful distortion. Road map may not show walking paths. None are objective, god given, or true; all human made. Cool line maps that attempt to show the shape of landscape on a 2d surface. Thematic maps (isopleth, proportional symbols, dot, choropleth, located chart) Map projection: rendering on a flat surface. Distance, direction, proportion, and aesthetic aspects may be emphasized. Map scale - the ratio of distance (ex. Gdp = standard measure of wealth, sum of all the spending. More spending in the usa than anywhere else, misrepresents as not everyone spends a lot in the us. Regions: territories that encompass many places, all or most of which share attributes different from the attributes of places elsewhere . Regional geography: concerned with the way that unique combinations of environmental and human factors produce territories with distinctive landscapes and cultural attributes. Planetary > world or global > international or transnational > national > regional >
