TYPES OF MAPS AND PROJECTIONS

TYPES OF MAPS Projections Political Physical Thematic Chloropleth map, cartograms, flow line, isoline, dot, GIS, GPS

Chloropleth Map

Spending per capita on secondary education Cartograms

World population, 1500 World Population, 2002

Wealth, 1960 Projected wealth, 2015 GDP Per Capita, 2000

Infants who die between 1 – 4.

Dot maps

Dot map

Each dot = 50,000 people Dot map

Isoline maps

Flow line maps

World map of Erastosthones What is peculiar? Note grid lines. Oriented to the East. Why? The sun rises in the East.

World Map of Eratosthenes 200 BC Note grid lines. First meridian at Alexandria Caspian Sea connected to a world ocean. Based on info gathered by Alexander the Great Circumference 25,000 miles

Ptolmey’s World Map Circumference of the Earth, 14,000 miles

GIS -- Global Information Systems - “layered” maps Using “remote sensing” satellite photos.

What is wrong with this map?

Mercator Projection

Robinson Projection

How to lie with maps. The size of maps can be deceptive.

Name the major country that is not shown on this Arab map printed recently. Why? Arab countries do not recognize Israel’s right to exist.

What is wrong with this map?

Which map is correct?

With a partner, create a cartogram of the population of you assigned countries. 1.United Kingdom, Ireland, Norway, Germany, Poland, Hungary 2.France, Spain, Portugal, Italy, Switzerland, Romania, Greece 3.Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Israel, Jordan, Syria, Egypt 4.China, India, Japan, South Korea, North Korea, Indonesia, Vietnam 5.Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iraq, Iran, Kuwait, Oman 6.Uzbekistan, Pakistan, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan 7.Libya, Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco, Chad, Mali 8.Burkina Faso, Nigeria, Ghana, Cote d I’voire, Cameroon, Congo 9.South Africa, Botswana, Angola, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Kenya 10.Venezuela, Ecuador, Colombia, Peru, Brazil, Chile 11.Cuba, Haiti, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Costa Rica