Fundamentals of Mapping and GIS – GEOG/GIS 22 Name: ___________________
Online and Desktop Mapping Tools - Lab
Exercise #3
In this
exercise you will examine online navigation/mapping interfaces and 3 web map
service-based desktop applications.
I. Online Mapping and Navigation
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Mapping
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MapQuest |
Yahoo
Maps |
Google Maps |
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1. Put in your address. How well does each of these applications
map your home? Be specific! |
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2. Put in an address of a place you are familiar with out of
the area (extend family member?). How’d it do this time? |
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3. Navigate from address in #1 to #2. Describe the navigation
functionality of this application? What works well? What doesn’t work?
Alternate routes? |
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4. Evaluate the display (cartography) of these maps (be sure to
look at various scales. How does this program deal with scale dependent
display? |
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5. Describe other functionality of this application (anything stand out?) |
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6. Return to this site
later in the semester (when I ask you to) and add any revised comments based
on your greater familiarity with mapping and GIS. |
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II. Desktop web-mapping
applications (use applications on the computers in the GIS lab or download at
home)
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Desktop
web mapping tool: |
NASA
World Wind |
Google Earth |
ESRI
ArcGIS Explorer |
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1. Put in your address. How well does each of these applications
map your home? Be specific and discuss differences from the programs above |
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2. Pick your dream spot on the planet to visit and try to use
their search tools to navigate to the location. How did the tools work? |
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3. How does this software depict the location from #2 that you
mapped? Be specific! |
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4. Try adding new layers of information to the map. Describe how
this appears to function. |
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5. Describe other functionality of this application (anything else
stand out?) |
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6. Return to this site
later in the semester (when I ask you to) and add any revised comments based
on your greater familiarity with mapping and GIS. |
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III. Find another
mapping site or tool on the internet and evaluate it as you did in
Site selected: _________________________________ Type of mapping
tool - _________________________
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