The main function of these maps is identifying the area that is suitable for building an education center on McNabs Island. I divided my analysis maps into three parts which are slope and geology, environment and cultural sites, and microclimate. For the slope and geology map, I combined the slope, bedrock and surficial geology together because I think all of them can majorly determine and describe the topography. Bedrock and surficial geology are the materials that are under the ground. They might form different topography by the geological action including weathering and eroding processes. Also, the slopes can decide whether the land is a plain or a hill. Furthermore, I think slope and geology can risk of the environmental hazards like …show more content…
I think it can be the next consideration to think about the land development because human comfort is important for people to live. For my final synthesis map, I just combined all of the information from the analysis map except the bedrock geology to show where the best place on McNabs to build the education center is. The reason that I do not add the bedrock geology because I think the education center would not be a skyscraper, and it might only have four or five floors’ height. So, the foundation might not touch or influence the bedrock. In addition, I add viewing location to my synthesis map. The reason is that I think the education center is the place to educate and to visit the island. So, a good viewing location is necessary. From the synthesis map, you can see there are some suitable to unsuitable places for the land development. Overall, there is approximately 70 percent of the land suitable for development with caution. For example, people should consider what kind of slope it is like the steeper slope always has a high risk of mudslides, and what kind of surficial material it is like tills are more stable than coastal sediments. Moreover, there is over 20 percent are suitable for development. Most of them occur around the coast. The reason is the coast has unstable materials that is risky to do the construction. Also, the coastal area are risky
Question 5: Compare the relative sizes of Greenland and Australia in the two maps? The true values of the surface areas for these countries are Greenland (2.2 million km2) and Australia (7.7 million km2). Does each map demonstrate these true values?
This image shows the development as of 2011. There is a significant amount of development, with a retirement village, residential area, roads, a display village and a biodiversity pond, making it multi-faceted compared to what it was before.
These maps show different elevation points, contours, mountains, valleys, bodies of water, and vegetation. You can only find the elevation and contour information on a topographic map, which makes it different from any other map. People use topographic maps for many different things. One reason people use topographic maps is for hiking. It helps people locate trails, and find there way back to where they started. Contour lines show the different elevations of the landscape. It also shows how steep the slope of the elevations are. Contour lines only show certain elevations. The lines are evenly spaced apart. It makes reading the map a lot easier to do, because it is not as
Not only does this area have practicable functions for such activities like recreation , bird watching, hiking , wildlife habitat
Figure 1, a map showing the proposed area and the key elements of the development. Image ©Google.
The land, local people’ opinions and their feelings, must be taken into consideration, and furthermore.
The first map that I drew is about, the space I inhabited in the past, which is Mexico City. In this part of my life I resided in a very residential area- one that in the United States could
In chapter 1 the first map he discusses is the old one, the trusty rusty, the map you almost fell asleep looking at in high school world geography. The paper multi-fold map. Jennings explains that he could stare at those maps for hours upon hours. For him it was like being on a never ending vacation. The places he would visit by imagination and the names of those places absolutely drew him in and held him in an utter fascination. He felt as if he could sit on the highest point in Arkansas all from his dimly lit room seated in a recliner. The world was endless; he could go anywhere he wanted without spending anything but his time.
Over the course of the centuries maps have been used to find locations all over the world. They have evolved and to become more advanced, thanks to technology. Of course, there are specific ways to use a map such as basic components. Basic components include a compass rose which indicates the cardinal directions. Legends is the key where symbols are used to help find a point on the map, or in other words, lead the way. A scale can range from as far as a continent to as close as a house. All these components are important while using a map.
Images were analyzed in GIS to identify and map features such as woody debris, rock outcroppings, shifting versus stable sand, and smooth limestone bottom.
Include if there are industries that your community is involved in that require those physical feature (for example, plains because you are using wind to power your entire community)
The study area is classified into 9 categories. Each land use type is formulated into Figure 1 and Table 1. The study area has clearly been divided into two functional parts, the northern part is mainly for residential and commercial use, and the southern part is primarily occupied by industrial and institutional use.
Economically, new land expansion is always viewed as beneficial. When companies or industries look to build new factories or houses, their end goal is always to make a profit. However, individual advancement in this case has to be sacrificed for the greater good of the rest of the stakeholders. For example, mining industries and residential lots
As with many third world and developing countries, they face numerous challenges to bring forth improvement and betterment towards the country. As a result our interest in this topic, it brought us into researching Guyana because we want to determine how their land use planning is affecting the country’s current development in the areas of environmental, social, economic and settlement. By doing this we hope to help our audience better understand how proper land use planning is a crucial factor to promote orderly development of a country.
Since there is limited intervention possible for these densely and ill-structured suburbs of Accra like Jamestown, Chorkor and Bukom, it is very important that for the now developing areas, measures will be taken to forestall such inconveniences to the society in the future. With the goal of a middle income status in mind, the government can undertake the building of a model town like Abuja in Nigeria where the overall structure will be supervised and developed by the town and country planning authority. The other alternative is for the government to direct the owners of lands- especially stool lands, to make provisions for structures like schools, clinics, community centres, etc.