1. Day 4
8/31/2017

2. Starter How do maps positively impact our lives?
How do maps negatively impact our lives?

3. Review of Scale
Small-Scale
Large-Scale
What does scale tell us?

4. Identifying Places 1. Place Name
toponym - Names derived from people, religious affiliation, physical features, or origins of its settlers
2. Site - the physical character of a place
Characteristics include climate, water sources, topography, soil, vegetation, and elevation.
3. Situation - the location of a place relative to other places
Relative location

5. Utah is made up of mountains, valleys, and sagebrush
Site or Situation?
Utah is made up of mountains, valleys, and sagebrush

6. Provo is south of Salt Lake City
Site or Situation?
Provo is south of Salt Lake City

7. 3 Properties of Distribution
1. Density: mass/volume; the amount of something in a set area
High density area is going to refer to metropolitan cities as they will have high amounts of people in a small amount of physical space
2. Concentration
Clustered, dispersed
3. Pattern
Linear, circular, random, etc.

8. Density
High Density
Low Density

9. Density = Mass/Volume = ♥
Back to the Future - You Are My Density

11. Concentration (not density!)
Clustered
Dispersed

12. Pattern

13. Top: Lower density
Top and middle: Both dispersed
Middle and lower: same density
Lower: More clustered

14. Christaller’s Central Place Theory
Cities exist because they have services and then suburbs develop around them

15. Sense of Place
When a location has a strong identity and character that is deeply felt by local inhabitants and by many visitors
Does Utah have a strong sense of place?
Salt Lake City?
Price?
Paris, France?

16. Distance
Distance is the measurement of how far or how near things are to one another
Proximity indicates the degree of nearness
Meters, miles, kilometers, etc.
Straight line distance (as the crow flies) or travel distance

17. Distance
Distance decay - The interaction between two things declines as the distance between them increases
Ethnic groups
Radio signal
Etc.
The friction of distance indicates that when things are farther apart, they tend to be less well connected

18. Space-Time Compression
The shrinking “time distance” between locations because of improved methods of transportation and communication

19. Article- Ptolemy to GPS

20. Article Questions
What is the main point that the article is trying to make? (What does the author say our goal is with maps?)
Do you agree with the author?
Is there anything that you would add to this article?

21. Contemporary Geographical Tools
Help us learn more about characteristics of places
Remote Sensing – the scanning of earth by satellite or aircraft to obtain information about it
GIS – geographic information system
Designed to capture, store, and analyze spatial or geographic data
GPS – Global Positioning System

22. Layers of a GIS
Fig. 1-5: A geographic information system (GIS) stores information about a location in several layers. Each layer represents a different category of information.

23. GIS examples http://durhamnc.gov/1455/Interactive-Maps
sustainability/gis
Google Earth