Friday, April 23, 2010
Cartographic Animation
Animation of the different empires that historically conquered the Middle East.
http://www.mapsofwar.com/ind/imperial-history.html
Bivariate Choropleth Map
DOQQ
The picture above is a black and white DOQQ. A DOQQ is an aerial photograph that has been orthorectified to prevent distortion. A DOQQ is an accurate representation of the Earth's surface. Photo was taken near Lago Vista, Texas.
http://www.crwr.utexas.edu/gis/gishydro00/Class/trmproj/Donnelly/termproject.htm
http://www.crwr.utexas.edu/gis/gishydro00/Class/trmproj/Donnelly/termproject.htm
Cave Painting Map Catal Hyuk 6200 bc
T-O Map
An Early world map that was produced during the middle ages. It depicts three continents with a christian symbol of a cross and Jerusalem as its center.
www.loc.gov/exhibits/world/earth.html
www.loc.gov/exhibits/
Burmese Buddhist Map
Map shows continents and oceans as a series of circles. Map depicts Buddhist ideals rather than physical landscapes. This map is also known as the wheel of life.
www.loc.gov/exhibits/
Portolan Chart
This portolan chart was drawn in 1559 on vellum. It depicts the Mediterranean area.
www.loc.gov/exhibits/world/earth.html
www.loc.gov/exhibits/
Ptolemic Geocentric Map
Map depicting the Earth as the center of the Universe.
www.biocrawler.com/.../index.php?dir=2%2F24%2F
www.biocrawler.com/.../
Babylonian Clay Tablet Map
Ancient Babylonian map produced on a clay tablet. Dated to about 2300 bc. Babylon is pictured as the center of the world.
www.bible-history.com/babylonia/BabyloniaMaps.htm
www.bible-history.com/
LIDAR
LIDAR image of terrain taken by a conservation group. LIDAR stands for light detection and ranging. LIDAR creates more accurate imagery of landscapes than aerial photographs.
www.treehugger.com/.../06/3-d_forest_mapping.php
www.treehugger.com/.../
Proportional Circle map
Bilateral graph
Bilateral graph displays monetary data of Australia for the years 1973 through 2008. ATWI in red and TWI in blue are the two weights displayed.
www.rba.gov.au/.../bulletin/2008/feb/1.html
www.rba.gov.au/.../
Lorenz Curve
Lorenz curve graph displaying percentage of households v. percentage of income. The red line represents the lorenz curve and the green line represents perfect equality.
www.biocrawler.com/.../index.php?dir=b%2Fbd%2F
www.biocrawler.com/.../
Index Value Plot
Scatter Plot
Population Profile
Population profile shows the projected effects of the AIDS virus on the population of Botswana. The gray color shows what the profile should look like while the pink shows how AIDS alters the population profile.
www.fao.org/docrep/005/y8331e/y8331e05.htm
www.fao.org/docrep/
Climograph
The climograph depicts precipitation and temperature data Memphis, Tennessee.
www.uwsp.edu/.../glossary/A_D/climograph.html
www.uwsp.edu/.../glossary/
Windrose
Triangular Plot
Parallel Coordinate Graph
Histogram
Box Plot
Stem and Leaf Plot
Similarity Matrix
Correlation Matrix
This correlation matrix represents the findings on a study done on livestock genes. It represents the top 100 cancer genes. The letters represent where the gene was found:A = extracellular matrix; B = nucleus; C = actin cytoskeleton; D = fatty acid metabolism and E = glutamine.
http://www.livestockgenomics.csiro.au/Genome_to_Phenome/
http://www.livestockgenomics.csiro.au/Genome_to_Phenome/
Star Plot
Classed Choropleth Map
This classed choropleth map shows the frequency of occurrence of low birth weights in Connecticut. The towns are colored in shades of blue to represent the percentage of low birth rate. The darker the blue color the higher the frequency of low birth weights.
http://www.ij-healthgeographics.com/content/8/1/52
http://www.ij-healthgeographics.com/content/8/1/52
Thursday, April 22, 2010
DEM
DLG
DRG
Isopleth
Isopach
Isohyets
Isotachs
Isobars
Black and White Aerial Photograph
Black and white aerial photo of Pottowatomie with overlay. Overlay depicts streams in blue, city outline in pink and a highway in orange.
http://www.kgs.ku.edu/CMI/how_to_use.html
http://www.kgs.ku.edu/CMI/how_to_use.html
Infrared Aerial Photo
Cartogram
In a cartogram map a variable is substituted for land area. This distorts the true shape of the land mass. In this case human population is the variable. This map clearly shows that most of the worlds human population resides in developing countries.
http://www.worldmapper.org/display.php?selected=2#
http://www.worldmapper.org/display.php?selected=2#
Isoline Map
The temperature in Australia for the month of January is show in this map. The lines of equal value depict the temperature in degrees Fahrenheit over the continent.
http://mapmaker.rutgers.edu/355/links.html
http://mapmaker.rutgers.edu/355/links.html
Choropleth Map
This choropleth map shows the percentage of Hispanic/Latino residents in Florida by county. The counties a coloured in various shades of green to indicate the percentage. Natural breaks in the data were used. This map is based on census data from 2000.
http://my.ilstu.edu/~jrcarter/Geo204/Choro/Tom/
http://my.ilstu.edu/~jrcarter/Geo204/Choro/Tom/
Dot Distribution Map
The dots represents participants from the United States and Canada of the Feeder Watcher Program. The Feeder Watcher program was conducted by the Labortoire D'ornithologie de Cornell in 2000-2001. Participants in this program counted birds that visited their bird feeders during this time.
http://www.birds.cornell.edu/pfw_fr/Members/ParticipantMap00.htm
http://www.birds.cornell.edu/pfw_fr/Members/ParticipantMap00.htm
Mental Map
A mental map of substrate material in Lough Neagh in Northern Ireland. The study was based on interviews with fishermen. It was done to compare the accuracy of the mental map to science-based maps.
http://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol13/iss1/art13/
http://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol13/iss1/art13/
Planimetric Map
This planimetric map was created for usage by Potlatch real estate company. It shows a plot of land in Big School, Idaho. The dark blue outline on the map shows where plot #11 is located.
http://realestate.potlatchcorp.com/idlands/REparcel23.asp
http://realestate.potlatchcorp.com/idlands/REparcel23.asp
Hypsometric Map
In this map the elevation in France is depicted by gradual shading of contour lines. In this map the lighter colours indicate a higher elevation.
http://www.reliefshading.com/colors/hypsometric.html
http://www.reliefshading.com/colors/hypsometric.html
PLSS Map
This map shows all townships in Alabama, The Franklin county townships are indicated by the blue colouring.
http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~alfrankl/land.html
http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~alfrankl/land.html
Tuesday, April 20, 2010
Cadastral Map
This cadastral survey was completed in Austria under Emperor Franz I. It is now held in an archive in Vienna.
http://www.fig.net/hsm/news/frans_1_2007.htm
http://www.fig.net/hsm/news/frans_1_2007.htm
Thematic Map
The amount of methane emissions caused by growing rice is shown in this thematic map. The colours of the countries correspond to the map key located at the bottom.
http://www.epa.gov/appcdwww/apb/gloed/map.htm
http://www.epa.gov/appcdwww/apb/gloed/map.htm
Topographic Map
This map depicts the Asama volcano in Japan. The map was made as a part of an aeromagnetic anomalies study over the volcano in 1992. The contour lines of this topographic map have been shaded various colours to better depict elevation. The pink lines indicate lines of flight conducted during this study.
http://unit.aist.go.jp/igg/geophysmap-rg/amag/asama_fig_E.html
http://unit.aist.go.jp/igg/geophysmap-rg/amag/asama_fig_E.html
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