Map information

Today in Human Geography we learned more about maps. With maps we first learned about how the maps scale can tell us a lot. The map scale can be show in three different ways but the most common of them is the fraction and ratio (Example 1:24000 or 1/24000). With these the number on the left represents one unit of distance, while the number on the left represents the same unit of distance but on Earths surface. The scale can also be written as a written scale (Example 1 inch=1 mile). The number on the left is one unit of distance while the number on the right represents a different unit of measurement but on Earths surface. Lastly it can be written as a Graphic scale which usually consists of a bar line marked to show the distance on Earths surface. We then learned how every map that we have come in counter with have been distorted and wrong. We learned that the maps are distorted by the shape of an area, distance between points can be increased/decreased, size of areas can be increased/decreased, and direction between points can be distorted. Because of all of these imperfections we were able to see the map of the world that closets represents the world, Peters World Map. This map shows everything as in real size and representation to everything else. For example this shows how big Africa is compered to South America, this also shows how the map we have learned in schools is wrong for example it shows Greenland about the same size of Africa were as Africa is actually fourteen times the size of Greenland.