Fact or Fiction Quiz

Maps merely representations of reality

• Map essentials
• Scale
  
  

Map Projections & Properties

• How do I flatten a spherical representation of the world?
  

• Cylindrical projections -
  • example: Mercator
    
    
    
• Planer projections -
  
  

• Conic projections -
  
  
  

Isolines

• joins points of equal value
  • contour lines
  • isotherms
  • isobars

Other Grid Systems (separate than projections!)

• Universal Transverse Mercator -
  
  
• State Plane -

Public Land Survey (Township and Range system)

• principle means to allocate public domain (18th Century to today)
  • Township -
  • Sections -