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Portraying Earth. Finish Themes and Issues in WRG Maps Map Projections Map Project For Wednesday : Read Chapter 2 (pp. 48-52). Population Movements. Migration Voluntary Forced (e.g., Refugees like those pictured in Figure 1.27 at right) Push vs. Pull Factors. Southern Sudan. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
Portraying Earth
Finish Themes and Issues in WRG Maps Map Projections Map ProjectFor Wednesday: Read Chapter 2 (pp. 50-55)
Diversity Amid Globalization, 4th edition: Rowntree, Lewis, Price, and Wyckoff 2
Geopolitical FrameworkNations vs. States Ethnic Separatism – Centripetal
vs. Centrifugal Forces
Figure 1.42 Figure 1.43Basques in Spain
Diversity Amid Globalization, 4th edition: Rowntree, Lewis, Price, and Wyckoff
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The Colonial Imprint
Figure 1.44
Wealth and Poverty
Figure 1.44
2009 Global Recession
Figure 1.45
Impoverished Brick Workers in India
Development: Economic and Social
Economic Development
Figure 1.48
Figure 1.49
Social Development – Health and Education
Figure 1.51
Figure 1.50
Receiving a polio vaccine in Jakarta
Women and Literacy
What is a Map?
Maps
What is a map? A map is a representation of
the surface of the earth. At its best, a map will
always fail to tell the whole story.
Maps show distance, direction, size, and shape.
Almost always have a special purpose, or theme.
Map Projections
How to transfer data from a roughly spherical object to a flat sheet of paper has puzzled and challenged cartographers for centuries.
Major Dilemma: Equivalence vs. Conformality• Equivalent projection – equal area• Conformal projection – proper angular
relationships Every map projection is a compromise!
Map Projections
Do you prefer a conformal or equivalent map projection? Why? Which is “more accurate”?
ConformalEquivalent
Robinson Projection
Interrupted Projection
Figure 2-9
Map Project
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