Wednesday, October 12, 2011

GIS Lab 6 - 18a Map 2

This map represents the Continent of Asia, its suppose to be before the map of Asia where is depicts the country of the Philippines. Then it will follow through to understand where the Philippines location is.

GIS Lab 6 - 18c Map

Once called the map of Asia, now is known as the Path of Typhoon Etang map. Notice on the last map, the typhoon passes closely to the Philippines, but on this map it now has direction, date, and time. Heading northeast of the last position of the typhoon, it depicts the time and speed of its last recorded position. 

Monday, October 10, 2011

GIS Lab 6 - 18b Map

The map represents the in  showing the location, speed, and path of Typhoon Etang (dark blue). With the latitude and longitude coordinates, it shows where the typhoon has been at different times.

GIS Lab 6 - 18a Map

The Philippines, had to change the graticule and interval values to from 10 degrees to 5 for the X and Y axis to depict the coordinates like 125' E and 15' N on the map page. Make sure to see 18a Map 2 in order to see where the Philippines exact location in the world.

Tuesday, October 4, 2011

GIS Lab 5 - 6d Map

The Mines and Diamonds map of Africa show the location of the sizes of diamond mines across the continent from big mines to small mines but majority located in south and closely to the center of Africa.

The Power sources map of Africa depicts three types electrical power sources, fossil fuel (red), hydroelectricity (blue) and other (yellow). Using pie charts to indicate the sources of each country. Now the difference is that the northern part is mostly fuel and but not enough water and the south has plenty of water but the power source is mostly run by hydroelectricity.  

GIS Lab 5 - 6c Map

The Population Dot Density map of Africa where dot placements indicate the populated areas in the continent of Africa. If you notice that in the other populated map, Nigeria and Ehtiopia have much more dots of population than the other African countries.

GIS Lab 5 - 6b Map

The topographic map of the Great of Horn of Africa, if you see the darkish brown red on top northeastern border of Ethiopia and Eritrea that indicates an area of elevation that is below sea level.