chap 2

Question 1

is evaluating your map during the process of making it is important

Answer 1

yes

Question 2

analytic decision making

Answer 2

viewers should be in a distance no more than 4 time the diagonal size of the map

Question 3

basic decision making

Answer 3

viewers should be in a distance no more than 6 time the diagonal size of the map

Question 4

passive viewing

Answer 4

viewers should be in a distance no more than 8 time the diagonal size of the map

Question 5

multiple types of user
experts vs novices

Answer 5

experts; more complex, accurate, harder to understand

novices; public, simpler, less details, easy to read, more explanatory

Question 6

statistical mapping

Answer 6

Dupin 1826: first modern map, statistical data, shows the borders and cities

Napoleon’s march to Moscow (Minard 1861): show temperature, number of soldiers

Question 7

Mapping for propaganda

Answer 7

control of population
ex. Nazi propaganda

Question 8

Military Mapping

Answer 8

aerial photography

Question 9

origins of GIS

Answer 9

mapping resources and terrains

Question 10

technological revolutions

Answer 10

created access for map making and changed the way we were making map, increase the speed of creation

Question 11

thematic map

Answer 11

special purpose maps, not just location, can be temperature, etc…, quantitative or qualitative, a phenomenon, show changes, can be at any scale, intangible map

Question 12

reference map

Answer 12

where things are located, x and y, reference points

Question 13

general reference maps
large-scale (fine scale)
small-scale (coarse scale)

Answer 13

large-scale (fine scale): topographic maps and legal documents (smaller area zoomed in)
small-scale (coarse scale): maps of states, countries, and continents

Question 14

topographic map

Answer 14

show location of things, reliefs, hydrography, vegetations, transportation. culture (building), boundaries, etc…, have isobars

Question 15

three kind of thematic map

Answer 15

inventory map; focused on a subject
sketch map; relationship between area
itinerary map;

Question 16

choropleth map

Answer 16

taking a variable (usually quantitative), and categories the data by borders, by colors, (ex; usa map divided by it state)

Question 17

isoline/isarithmic map (or surface map)

Answer 17

don’t care about the actual borders, but the border of the intensity of the variable/data

Question 18

isometric map

Answer 18

uses isolines resulting from interpolating values collected at sample points

Question 19

graduated symbol map; proportional symbols; dot density map

Answer 19

places dots within an enumeration unit in proportion to the represented value to preserve the distribution and variation of density of a phenomenon

Question 20

map of flux; flow map

Answer 20

understand the relationship between 2 points (direction or magnitude of a phenomenon)

Question 21

network map

Answer 21

relationship of different places, aspect, it’s more a diagram

Question 22

cartogram / anamorphosis

Answer 22

change the size of the area depending on the data