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This is my 2nd semester at George Mason, I am a seinor and graduate in Fall '08. I have been back in VA for 2 1/2 yrs and now live in Manassas, before that I lived and went to school in Seattle, Washignton for 2 yrs. I am originally from Haymarket, VA. After I graduate hopefully I will be outta here again! :)

Tuesday, October 28, 2008

FINAL PROJECT - West Nile Virus in the US since 1999


This is a JPEG of my final project. I did it on West Nile Virus cases in Humans since it's outbreak in the US in 1999. The data used was 1999 through 21 October 2008, and from the CDC.

Lab #10 - Image Overlay in Google Earth



This is a map of Seattle and the area's large highways. This one took a bit more tweeking to make it fit closely. I think I did a pretty good job with it. It was easier to line up because of the roads and land/water boundaries.



This is my overlay of Mt. Rainer National Park. I picked this because I figured it would be good for the topo changes and draping. This was a bit hard to line up because I needed to check back and forth to find the towns like Sunrise.

Lab #9


This is my lab 9. This was kinda fun to do.

LAB #8 - Geography Tool of the Future



This is my geography tool of the future, it is a remote sensing adaptor. It can be carried around, and like most new technology (ie Computers) it is bulky in its first application, I predict this will get smaller in a few years. :)

Monday, October 27, 2008

Map Festival

While the Map Exhibit in Baltimore was a while ago, I will do my best to remember things about it. I am not super into maps, well I wasn’t at first, but I am more so now than I was before GEOG 310.  It was cool to see maps made of so many things like a glove, and clay tablets. I have seen clay tablet maps in the movie, but it is WAY different when you see it in person, doesn’t look the same at all… that’s also probably because in the movies they aren’t real. It was nice that it was only so crowded, it could have been worse if they didn’t only a certain number of people in at a time. Like others have said it was cool to see maps that we have seen in books, like the Cholera Map.

It would have been cool to get pictures of the exhibit, but they didn’t allow pictures from what I remember. But I can see why they wouldn’t. The exhibit wasn’t as big as I thought it would be, I remember thinking it was only a few rooms, and they had to be hiding more somewhere else!

Monday, October 13, 2008

LAB # 5


I can not find a site that will support both the swf and flash files. I have been looking since last night. Photobucket will no longer support those files for free, the Mason cluster account is a pain, and the SwfUP site you suggested is not working, and image shack had a limit for the size of the file, and my map is over it. I emailed the files to you.

So this is just a JPEG of the flash movie i created.

Interactive Music Map Posting

I think this is the last posting I need. I have been looking on our class 411 blog page and Martha, Ryan and Kevin's pages also to make sure I got them all. This is a link to Seattle's Interactive Music Map. Seattle being one of my favorite places and overflowing with music nd music history seemed like a good choice.



Seattle Music Map

This site gives you a map of land marks, and then you can click to see pictures, and info about the site, such as the Jimmy Hendrix statue. Seattle is where Jimmy is buried.

Census Map Examples Post


This is a census map of Languages spoken at home in the 2000 census. I like this just because it is so diverse, and its something I am interested in.

Web Posting for the week of 25 March


I checked out the website and liked a bunch of the maps there. This is a dot map of commercial wireless antennas in the USA. I picked this one because it always make me laugh to see how built up the east coast is compared to the west coast. I like population density maps like this also.

Thursday, February 21, 2008

LAB 3 & 4

Click this link to see my map:

My Lab 3/4 Map

I HATED this lab. Flash is driving me CRAZY! I lost my work 3 times, and then gave up. I wish this had turned out better

Thursday, January 31, 2008

LAB #2- Republican Super Tuesday

I REALLY miss AI. Flash is NOT fun at all. Can we go back?

Wednesday, January 30, 2008

LAB #1 - The Devastation: Banda Aceh, Indonesia

This lab was ok. I dont really enjoy drawing lines. I had some problems with the images matching up like you said, i had to redo somelines... but I think they look pretty close.

Before:



After:

Thursday, January 24, 2008

GEOG 411- Political Maps

I wasnt sure exactly what kind of politcal map you wanted so here are two kinds.


This is a 2004 election results.


Here is a political map of Africa.