Assignment: Take Home Exam
You are free to work together with friends and solicit teaching assistant help but you shouldn't have the same answers as your friends, particularly on questions where you have to pick unique coordinates, copy and paste a map, or describe something. In some cases where there is only one right or wrong answer - here you will have similar answers, but for other questions they should be different. You will get a zero on the exam if you are clearly choosing the same examples as another student.
A week from today on the 28th you will take the second part of the exam. It will be a short answer exam based on lecture. You won't be able to use any outside materials here. This will feel more like a traditional test. Most of the review is geared towards this portion of the exam. It will count as 50 percent of your midterm grade.
For all pictures, do not include screenshots of the entire screen. Use the snip tool in Windows or Command + Shift +4 for a Mac. Only include the part of the screen that is pertinent to the question. If you take a photo of the entire screen we will take points off.
1. Find two examples of mental maps. Copy and paste them here.
2. Find an example of two maps that have geographic coordinates and projections (Submit 2 maps)
Answer questions 3-6 based on The Projection Wizard.
3. Pick a Country to map/examine. Draw a box around the area it's located in. Take a snip of the map. Include it here. (Submit a screenshot of the box you drew in this application)
4. According to Projection Wizard what is a projection for this country that will preserve area? What about shape? (Submit the name of two projections)
5. What UTM Zone(s) would you use to map it? (Pick a UTM Zone or Zones(s)
6. Could you use State Plane to map it? Yes or No. (Submit yes or no)
7. What is the central meridian for the area you chose? What does the central meridian indicate? (Submit a number for the meridian and then a sentence or two explaining what it does)
8. Convert the coordinates of your box into decimal degrees using one of the applications from the lab. Include the coordinates here. (Submit the degrees minutes and seconds and then the conversion into decimal degrees of 4 coordinates)
9. Are these coordinates east or west from the Prime Meridian? Are they north or south of the equator? (Submit two answers either east or west and either north or south)
10. Play this game for 5 minutes. What did you learn about the Mercator Projection? (Submit a few sentences about your experience playing the game and relate it back to projections)
11. Find and paste world maps that are projected onto 3 surfaces (cylinder, cone, and flat surface)
Navigate to the Flat Earth Society Wiki.
Summarize one of the sections listed at the bottom of the page under ‘contents' You can do this in a paragraph or two. (Submit a paragraph or two about one of the ‘contents' of this wik)
12. Include a map of the Peters Projection. Why did he create this projections (Submit one map a few sentence describing why peters created it.
13. Describe a typical day for Gerardus Mercator. Where does he wake up? What trials and tribulations might he face? Do a little research and have fun with this (Submit a paragraph or two based on your research)
14. If Mercator and Peters had lunch what do you think they would discuss? Would they argue? What common ground would they find? Make your argument based on the differences between the Mercator and Peters Projection. (Submit a paragraph or two describing their interaction and possible disagreements about projections)
15. Find a map of the world that isn't oriented towards north. Include it here.
Examine the dataset below:
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Place
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Unknown
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a
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25
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b
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43
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c
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76
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d
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54
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a
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78
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b
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1054
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b
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2000
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b
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1300
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b
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46
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a
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63
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a
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65
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c
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25
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a
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11
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d
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88
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c
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8000
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c
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20000
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a
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1000
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d
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10
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16. Based on what we discussed in class and looking at the data from lab #6 what type of data is the unknown column? (Submit the name of a data type)
17. If you had to guess - which variable is it likely to be from lab #6? (Submit a variable or data column from lab #6)
18. Based on your answer to the previous question why is the row in the data table ‘c/20,000' (it's near the bottom of the data table) an impossible observation? (Submit a sentence or two describing why this observation can't be real)
19. Search ‘maps' on the million tweet map. For two tweets include the name of the tweeter and the tweet. Also include the geographic location of each tweet. (Submit the location of two tweets that have the word maps in them. Take snips of each and write one or two words describing the part of the country/world they are located in)
20. Go back to Google Street View. Navigate to a city outside of the United States. Take before and after pictures of a neighborhood that has changed. If you want help just google ‘gentrification' in any given city. Please pick a different city than the friend you are working with.
(Submit the name of the city you are working in - provide a before and after picture of the neighborhood. Describe what changes you see and why you picked this area of the country/world)
21. Navigate to ‘Google My Maps'. Sign in with your Google credentials. Create a new map. On the tool bar at the top of the page there should be a marker icon, a ruler, and glove. You will be using the ‘draw line' function. Zoom in Philadelphia and draw two geo fences around two small geographic areas. The lines will turn into a polygon if close a line where you started a line.
Create two polygons - one for an area where you think a geo-filter on snapchat will be expensive and one where you think the geo-fence will be cheap.
22. We established in class that GPS isn't the only game in town. Other countries have satellites that provide location services. In a paragraph or two please describe another country's system of location satellites (Hint: Russia, China, or India)
Submit (Write a paragraph or two about your research on these other location satellites)
23. Use this application originally create by Paul Rademacher to find your perfect apartment in San Francisco. Provide pictures of the apartment. Include the reasons why you chose it. Give us the particulars. At the very least the rent, the number of bedrooms, and the neighborhood location.
(Submit a snip from padmapper that show the location of the property you chose. Explain why you chose this property. Also include a list of particulars like rent, neighborhood, number of bedrooms, and anything else you think is interesting.
24. Why is this map a web map? What does the page it's located on have to do with FOSS the way we talked about it in class?
(Submit a one sentence response to what makes this map a web map and two sentences about how Leaflet and this page of instructions for how to create the web is related to FOSS the way we talked about it in class)
25. What is the most gnarly thing Google has ever done (please just mention one of the more interesting or grandiose things Google has done)
Submit (write a paragraph about your research on something ground breaking Google has done)
Format your assignment according to the following formatting requirements:
1. The answer should be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides.
2. The response also include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student's name, the course title, and the date. The cover page is not included in the required page length.
3. Also Include a reference page. The Citations and references should follow APA format. The reference page is not included in the required page length.
Attachment:- Digital-Mapping.rar