Cool Typography

Here is a neat map that some might recognize. It's from the Goonies

But you can look at the typography, and notice that it is different in places such that they have different levels of improtance.

Here is the picture for the typography lab. This is the best quality that I could get the color picture on the website.

The Third Lab - PROJECTION!!!

TADA!!!! I would like to present, so the inspection of the class, my Graticule for the Mollwiede Projection. Talk amongst yourselves.

Crazy Projections

Ok, so the projections are not going to be all that crazy, but i'm sure that they can be classified as 'mad interesting'. Here is the link: http://www.progonos.com/furuti/MapProj/Normal/ProjOth/projOth.html

I think that most of the projections on this page are interesting but my favorites would have to be the ones near the bottom, the arden-close maps. I think that they are neat becaude the parallels are splayed out from the map were as most projections have them wind around close to the center.

That's my $.02 at least.

Second Assignment

Hello All,
Hear is my second post, which is in relation to the second assignment, being the first use of Adobe Illustrator software.
Here it is, Yay:















I hope that you all enjoy!

My First Post

I would like to welcome everyone to my blog for Geography 310, Digital Cartography.

The United States Geological Survey was added to my links list because they are major producer of maps in the US and offer great job opportunies.

The Library of Congress Map Collection is a great source of historical maps and records. These are great for study of past conditions and ways of thought about maps and mapping. My favorite part is doing a dearch for treasure maps, since they have a good sized collection of them.

I added the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency because of the job that they do. They create maps for the national military and national defense, which includes aquiring and analyzing aerial and satellite remote sensing data.