Thursday, October 15, 2009

Geography 7 Lab 2 - USGS Topo Maps

1.) The name of the quadrangle is the 1995 topographic map of the Beverly Hills area.

2.) The adjoining quadrangles are: Canoga Park to the NW, Van Nuys to the N, Burbank to the NE, Topanga to the W, Hollywood to the E, Venice to the S, and Inglewood to the SE.

3.) The topographic map was created in 1966.

4.) The North American Datum(s) of 1927 and 1983 were used to create the map.

5.) The scale of the map is 1:24,000

6.) In accordance to the above scale:
5 centimeters on the map is equivalent to 1200 meters on the ground
5 inches on the map is equivalent to 120,000 inches on the ground, or 10,000 feet.
1 mile on the ground is equal to 2.64 inches on the map
3 km on the ground is equal to 31.75 cm on the map.

7.) The contour interval on the map is 20 feet.

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a.) In terms of decimal degrees, the following buildings are located at coordinates:
Public Affairs Building at latitude 71.20 degrees and longitude 67.33 degrees.
The tip of Santa Monica Pier at latitude 63.83 degrees and longitude 61.66 degrees.
The Upper Franklin Canyon Reservoir is located between latitudes 73.33 degrees  and 74.20 degrees, and between longitudes 69.80 degree and 71.00 degrees.

8b.) In terms of degrees/minutes/seconds, the following buildings are located:
Public Affairs Building at latitude 75 degrees, 12 minutes, 0 seconds and longitude 67 degrees, 19 minutes, 48 seconds.
The Santa Monica Pier is located at latitude 63 degrees, 49 minutes, 48 seconds and longitude 61 degrees, 39 minutes, 36 seconds.
The Upper Franklin Canyon Reservoir is located at latitude 73 degrees, 19 minutes, 48 seconds and longitude 74 degrees, 12 minutes, 0 seconds.

9.) The approximate elevation of the following are:
Greystone Museum - 540 feet
Woodlawn Cemetery - 140 feet
Cresthill Woods Park - 700 feet

10.) The UTM zone of this map is 11.

11.) The UTM coordinates for the lower left hand corner of the map are approximately 3,763,000M North and 361,333M East

12.) There is 1000 sq meters within each cell.

13.) The elevation changes from West to East at the northing and easting intersection are:
 
520, 600, 640, 520, 520*, 440*, 410, 340, 300, 250, 190, 140. 
The image of the graph is located at the bottom of the post (Fig. 2)

14.) The magnetic declination of the map is 14 degrees.

15.) The intermittent stream between the 405 and the Stone Canyon Reservoir flows south.

16.) Refer to Fig. 1 for cropped portion of UCLA.

Figure 1:


















Figure 2:



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