GG102 Lecture : GG102 Introduction & Cultural Geography.docx
Document Summary
Cognitive images representing a person"s perceptions, feeling, memories, meanings, and knowledge of a locations. What you see in our mind"s eye when you thing of a place/area. Tend to look like traditional maps and be. Tends to focus on node, routes and landmarks. Poorly capture meanings and experiences, interconnections of information, underlying creation process. Space: areal extent, usually earth"s surface absolute or relative. Place: a location that has a unique identity. Region: a large area encompassing many places. Receivers from your phone calculate your location using 24 satellites. Applications: navigation, estimated timing, traffic conditions, fitness. An automated systems for the capture, storage, retrieval, analysis, and display of spatial data. Practical: a modern day map that allows you to analyze problems. Vectors: kind of data that used points, lines, and polygons to represent things streets, customer density (smaller data file) Raster: pixels that represent different things land use and elevation (bigger file than vector)
