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.