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Neogeography is interesting because with the technology available now, anyone can make a pretty interesting map. This is good for a number of reasons. One is that some information may not be viewed as important enough to map by organizations who do cartography for a profession. For example, a company may not want to spend the time mapping the locations of bakeries in Berkeley, but the people of Berkeley may really appreciate this map. Neogeography provides people with the tools and the internet provides people with information and used together they can create some very useful maps.

There is a definite downside to Neogeography in the fact that there are no quality standards for maps. One of the nice things about the maps provided by the government is that you know they are reliable and have been designed thoroughly, but with Neogeography you never know how reliable the maps are. The maps may also be too influenced by people's personal preferences, and may also be flat wrong. However, I don't think that these downsides are enough to not do Neogeography, but rather points that should be taken into consideration going forward in Neogeography.

Lab # 2

1. The name of the quadrangle is Beverly Hills.
2. The names of the adjacent quadrangles are Gonoga Park, Van Nuys, Burbank, Topanga, Hollywood, Venice, and Inglewood.
3. The map was first created in 1966.
4. The horizontal datum used to compile this map was NAD 27, the vertical datum used is National Geodetic Vertical Datum of 1929.
5. The scale is 1:24000
6. a) D=24000cm x 5=1200 meters
b) D=24000in x 5 =1.894 miles
c) D=63360in/24000=2.64 ind) D= 300cm/24= 12.5 cm
7. The contour interval is 20 ft.
8. a) The longitude is 118 deg 26' 58" and the latitude is 34 deg 4' 15". The decimal longitude is 118.449497 and the latitude is 34.071074.
b)The longitude is 118 deg 29' 52" and the latitude is 34 deg 00' 31". The decimal longitude is 118.4978 and the latitude is 34.0086
c)The longitude is 118 deg 24 ' 37" and the latitude is 34 deg 07' 10". The decimal longitude is 118.4102 and the latitude is 34.1194
9. a) The elevation is 560 ftb) The elevation is 140 ft
c) The elevation is 620 ft10. Zone 11
11. 3763000 meters North and 361500 meters East
12. There are 1,000,000 sq meters in each cell.
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14. 14 deg
15. The intermittent stream is flowing from North to South
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