My Society has a great website for looking at Hypsometric and Contour maps. For the entry in my map catalog I will focus on the Hypsometric properties of this map. The third dimension that is being communicated is the time it takes to get from Cambridge to outlying cities in England. Red is fastest with blue being the slowest. A pattern emerges with it taking less time to reach destinations within a tight circle and then taking longer as the distance from the center increases. A few exceptions seem to follow specific routes in an almost straight line radiating out from the center. These are probably major rail ways.
Wednesday, June 11, 2008
Hypsometric Map
My Society has a great website for looking at Hypsometric and Contour maps. For the entry in my map catalog I will focus on the Hypsometric properties of this map. The third dimension that is being communicated is the time it takes to get from Cambridge to outlying cities in England. Red is fastest with blue being the slowest. A pattern emerges with it taking less time to reach destinations within a tight circle and then taking longer as the distance from the center increases. A few exceptions seem to follow specific routes in an almost straight line radiating out from the center. These are probably major rail ways.
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