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A place to store my notes.

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# Types of Maps

## Notes from 9/26

## 📕 Vocabulary

| **Word**         | **Definition**  |
| ---------------- | ----------------|
| Figurative Map   | DEFINITION      |
| Geography        | DEFINITION      |
| Hipsography      | DEFINITION      |
| Literal Map      | DEFINITION      |
| Reference Map    | DEFINITION      |
| Thematic Map     | DEFINITION      |
| Topology         | DEFINITION      |
| Topography       | DEFINITION      |
| Watershed        | DEFINITION      |

## 🤔 Things to Remember

| **Item**   |      
| ---------------- |
| Purple paper is due on Friday |


## How Do We Use Maps?

- Show an area / features that we often times can't perceive
- Present information concsiely
- Capture spatial relationships

One object in space can be related to another.

"Feature" - points, lines, polygons

Presenting information consisely means you're leaving something out.

## Reference Maps
*General Purpose Maps*

> Location, location, location

- Overview on location of important geographic features. (e.g. cities, rivers, boundaries), landform.
- "Raw" geogrpahic data
- Multiple categories of data
- Often intricate, ornate, visually complex

"I would think of most reference maps, at least eh good ones -- as literal."

## Thematic Maps

- Focus attention on property of features, specific topics
- Interpreted and / or processed data
- Simplified and generalized
- Usually a single theme
- Visualize thematic / attribute data
- Meant to be read quickly.

## Mapping and Technology
- Cartogrpahy
- Land Surveying
- Remote Sensing
- Computer Science
- Information Science
- Social Science

## Mapping and Society
- **Data**: raw facts in bits and bytes
- **Information**: processed data
- **Knowledge**: Information combined and anyaluyzed
- **Intelligence**: Use of knowledge for action

## Mental Map
> A colorful collage.

## In Terms of Humans
The physical reality does not match an externalization.
What we have in our minds is difficult to externalize.
> Do a dance about what you know about your neighborhood.