Very Spatial Games

Map games are a very useful way of teaching someone the basics about an area. I played some various games from the posted links and found some of them pretty good at teaching me where things are located on maps and got me use to the spatial aspect of maps.

The first one I played was called find it russia. It was where you just has a map of russia and the surrounding countries and you had to select the correct one when the name came yp. This is a very good tool if you needed to memorize where each contry is.

Another game that I played was GeoNet. This was a little more of a challenging one that gave spatial references to things and you were given choices to what it was. This is a great was to not just focus on one thing but to look around and get the spatial references around a place.

The last game that I played was from the national geographic website. This was a game that was simply just educational and interesting rather than playing along. This one was called see GIS in action. It showed lots of endangered animals and gave lots of different maps to show the facts and statistics about that animal so people can learn more about how to save them.

Mapping the Enviroment

This is the section on the minerals of nevada.





For this blog I used the USGS site. I found that the united states geological survey had the most information regarding the scientific aspect of the landscape. You can click on any state on a map and are given almost all of the information you can possibly think of. They have basic geologic maps of minerals, water, agriculture and almost anything else. They also have a section deovted entirely to earthquake analysis and gives a real time map of the recent earth quakes in the area of your choice. They offer many different kinds of real time maps as well to help inform the public of what is constantly going on around them. Overall this was a very useful site and I think I will be using it allot in the near future for research of the nited States Landscape.





This is just one of many different water displacement maps.

Mapping History

Maps have been used to halp people understand certain things about a given area. Some are made to help people understand distances and hazards. I found some sites and old maps that people are using to try and re-map all of charles lindberg's flight routes while he was preparing to cross the atlantic ocean non stop. These maps show in great detail the exact way points he flew and what he flew over during his training. Using GIS they can reconstruct his whole flight path and try and judge how he altered his flight due to the terrain and the weather of the area he way flying over at the time.

Using GIS to recreate this it can help people better understand how he got ready for this flight. Lindberg tried to fly the exact same distance over land non stop to simulate the trip over the atlantic. The only big difference was the altitude change because when he flew over the atlantic he only flew about 1000 ft abou the water and in order to cross over the rockies he at least had to climb to 3000ft just to cross one of the low points. With GIS we can create these models to very acurate simulations.