1. TYPES OF MAPS AND PROJECTIONS

2. TYPES OF MAPS Projections Political Physical Thematic Chloropleth map, cartograms, flow line, isoline, dot, GIS, GPS Why are we changing maps?

3. Chloropleth Maps

5. Spending per capita on secondary education Cartograms – statistical data presented on a distribution map

6. World population, 1500 World Population, 2002

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

8. Infants who die between 1 – 4.

10. Dot maps

11. Dot map

12. Each dot = 50,000 people Dot map

13. Isoline maps

14. Flow line maps

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

16. 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

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

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

19. What is wrong with this map?

20. Mercator Projection

21. Robinson Projection

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

23. 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.

24. What is wrong with this map?

25. Which map is correct?