Lab#3 Mollweide Projection

Well here's my Mollweide Projection jpg for Lab#3. I had the most trouble with erasing the dangling lines....but now that I know how to do that, it will help me re-do my lab from GEOG 110!!

The Mecca Projection aka Craig retroazimuthal

Even though Wikipedia is not an authoritative source, I thought it had an excellent page with colored pictures of projections. I chose this one because I thought it had a cool name and then once I saw it's history and purpose, I really think it's cool.

Included is the text of the page from Wikipedia and the link below. It even gives the mathematical formula for the projection....uggh, I hate math!


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Craig_retroazimuthal_projection

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The Craig retroazimuthal map projection was created by James Ireland Craig in 1909. It is a cylindrical projection preserving the direction from any place to another, predetermined place while avoiding some of the bizarre distortion of the Hammer retroazimuthal projection. It is sometimes known as the Mecca projection because Craig, who'd worked in Egypt as a cartographer, created it to help Muslims find their qibla.

Lab #2

my photo

I am posting a photo looking out from Stony Man Mtn in the Shenandoah National Park. I loveto hike and instead of a pic of me, you can see colorful fall leaves.

my links

Here are the three links that I have chosen. I hope no one else has these on their pages.

This one is the Library of Congress' Map Reading Room it is pretty cool to see the collection of digital and historical paper maps that they have. The site also has educational items such as the illustrated guide to maps and geography.

This next link is a hisory of mapping from the British Library. If you follow the links within the web page, you will learn a lot about the use of maps for wars, how maps "lie" and it has a cool Chinese Globe from 1623.

The third link is from an antique map seller called The Old Map Gallery located in Denver, Colorado. It may not be as educational as the other two links, but I like looking at old maps and thought this site was more fun than the other two.....enjoy! This site really showcases the point that Cartography is half ART..some of these old maps are really interesting and creative.

Hope you all enjoy my post...I look forward to seeing what other people have on their blogs.