Geography 1100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Spatial Analysis, Mesoscopic Physics, Contour Line

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Thought pumps were the source of cholera. Tell people to stop using the pumps, figure out how the pump got contaminated, clean up the water somehow. Produced a map of people died and where they lived. Contacted authorities, removed the handle from the pump so people couldn"t use it. Most people still didn"t believe it was caused by the water, they thought it was the air. They had no knowledge of the bacteria in the water. Look for patterns, find connections between different things (spatial) A method and perspective, not a body of knowledge. A way of looking at the world, once you"ve got that then you cant see the world in any other way it changes your perspective. Surveying the beach to find where you will sit. Maps: isoline colours/shades: chloropleth lines: isopleth relate some patterns to something else qualities of things are not uniform environmental quality can explain the patterns we see qualities effect the number of people.

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