Lab 3
View Favorite Eats and Drinks in Long Beach in a larger map

     The map is above represents my favorite places to eat food and grab drinks in Long Beach, California. The blue points on the map represent sushi places in the area. The burger icons represent areas eateries that are either small sandwich shops or burger companies. Pink pinpoints on the map represents places that are International foods, including french food cafe Le Creperie, Mediterranean food from Open Sesame, and Mexican food from Super Mex. The coffee icons represent cool coffee places in the fourth street area of Long Beach that have a good atmosphere and good coffee and pastries. There was a video included in Veinto Y Agua of a band performing at the coffee shop. Snack places are indicated with a yellow pin point. And the martini glass symbol represents bars in the Long Beach Area.
       My map selectively focuses on the fourth street, second street, and and Studebaker areas of Long Beach. The issues of my map is that parts of the eateries are not visible. This means that it is likely for parts of the eateries and bars that I want to showcase will be missed by my audience. Furthermore, I entitled my map "Best Eats and Drinks in Long Beach". However, this is very subjective. This represents one large pitfall of Neogeography: inherent bias and the potential of misinterpreted and false data. Neogeography most basically means "new geography", in which people use shared information and data to create maps. The use of the Internet and "cloud data", which is the ability to share and back up data through multiple devices, are the main drivers of neogeography. Though there are many issues, such as incorrect data, bias ,and the inability to reach a particular audience; neogeography represents a lot of potential. The growth of the internet allows users to reach a wider group of people more easily, and neogeography has embodies the potential for information to be distributed more easily and more thoroughly.

Lab 2: USGS Topographic Map

1.  The name of the quadrangle is the Beverly Hills Quadrangle. 

2.  The name of the adjoining quadrangles are Canoga Park, Van Nuys, Burbank, Topanga, Hollywood, Venice, and Inglewood.

3.  1966

4.  North American Datum of 1927 and North American Datum of 1983

5. 1: 24000
6.
  a. 1200 meters
  b. 1.894 miles
  c. 2.64 in
  d.  0.72cm

7.   20 ft
8 a. 118 degrees W 26' 30" x 34 degrees N 4.5' 30"- 118.438 degrees W, 34. 074 degrees north
   b.  118 degrees W 30' 00" x 34 degrees N 00' 28"- 118.458 degrees W, 34.008 degrees N
   c.  118 degrees 24' 45" W x 34 degrees N 4' 46"- 118.24' 45" W by 34 degrees 4' 46" N- 118.413 degrees W, 34.0794 degrees N


9a.  560 ft/ 170.7 meters
  b. 140 ft/ 42.7 meters
  c.  680 ft/ 207.3 meters
10.  UTM Zone 11
11.  362,000 meters E and 37,630,000 meters N
12.  1000000 meters squared
13.

14.  14 degrees
15.  Southward

16. 

Lab 1.

(http://bigthink.com/strange-maps/170-a-map-of-the-internets-black-holes)
This map illustrates the internet "black holes" of the Internet around the World.  The "black holes" represent the places around the world in which internet access is restricted by the government.  This is indicated by the large pieces of black amongst the lines of green on the map. The map was created by Reporters Without Borders to represent the restriction of "free speech".  The map comes from http://bigthink.com.  I found this map interesting for several reasons.  On a most basic level, the map is eye-catching.  The lack of empty space draws people in, and highlights the "black holes" of the internet because it breaks up the green.  This map was clearly used to not only inform of the "black holes", but to also make a point of displaying the lack of freedom in parts of the world.  This map is effective at creating the point that the reporters wanted to make: to represent the restriction of free speech through restriction of the internet.  I also found this map interesting because it is problematic for many reasons.  The map uses green lines to represent internet connections.  However, the map does not explain what these green lines represent. The map leaves the person looking at the map to conclude that the green lines represent interconnection through internet access between countries. The map would also be more accurate if it did not use lines, but shadings of green to represent places in which the internet is accessible to the general public.  Furthermore, the map does not indicate if the internet "black holes" are black holes solely because of government restriction, or if lack of access to the web was also factored into the creation of the map.

(www.popvssoda.com )
This map represents the generic names for soft drinks by county.  This map was created by Matthew T. Campbell.  This map came from www.popvssoda.com.  This map is an interesting map.  It sparked my interest because I have noticed that in Los Angeles and in a majority of California, people refer to soft drinks as "soda".  It was not until I visited the Midwest that I heard the term "pop" to refer to soft drinks.  This map supports my conclusion.  The map shows that Western Coast and North Eastern   parts of the United States uses the term "soda" to describe soft drinks.  The Northern and Midwestern part of the United States uses the word "pop" to describe soft drinks.  The south uses the word "coke" to describe soft drinks.  This map uses survey data generalized over county.  I am curious as to whether this data would change if the the creator of this map divided responses by city, or even by state.  At first glance, the coloring of the map makes it look like there are stark division of responses to the term used for soft drinks by regions.  However, if the viewer looks more closely, it appears that there are a good number of counties for which the creator of the map received no responses.  Also, the map does not indicate the number of people that were involved with data collection. This could misrepresent the actual data, causing a discrepancy in this map. 

(http://philly.curbed.com/archives/2012/07/11/we-are-sorry-churchgoers-to-have-shortchanged-you.php)
The website said that this map was created by someone named Floating Sheep.  The map comes from a map website, philly.curbed.com.  This map represents the comparison between tweets about beer and church from Twitter.  I found this map interesting because it is an interesting and fun comparison.  It does not represent the number of tweets about each subject, but instead whether the state "tweeted" more about beer or church.  Based on the coloring of the map, it appears that more people tweet about beer than church.  I am curious as to how this comparison was made and at which point a state is considered to have tweeted "more beer" or "more church" as compared to "much more beer" or "much more church".