Tuesday, July 19, 2011

Transit map

http://www.city-data.com/forum/city-vs-city/607030-atlanta-vs-washington-d-c.html


A transit map is a topological map used to illustrate the routes and stations within a public transport system. This is a transit map of the subway lines in Washington DC.

Road atlas

http://www.mapshop.com/Atlas/US_Road/large-print-US-Road-atlas.asp

A road atlas is a map of streets, roads, highways etc. of a given location. This road atlas is a section of Ohio.

Dymaxion map


http://blog.lib.umn.edu/walke541/architecture/2008/02/

The Dymaxion map also known as the Fuller map is a projection of a world map onto the surface of a polyhedron, which can be unfolded and flattened to two dimensions. It depicts the earth's continents as "one island." The way its arranged disrupts the map only in order to preserve shapes and sizes.

Floor plan

http://greatbaycondos.com/floor-plans

A floor plan is an aerial view of each level of a building. It usually shows what each room on each floor of a building looks like and the square footage. this one is a floor plan of a condo.

Dasymetric map



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

A dasymetric map is a type of thematic map, that uses areal symbols to spatially classify volumetric data. this one shows climate and plant hardiness zones in north america. 

Range graded proportional circle map



http://gis.depaul.edu/shwang/teaching/geo381/LN10.htm

A range graded proportional circle map is a proportional circle map that shows the circles in relation to ranges of data. this one shows course offerings in cartography at different universities and colleges in different states .

Correlation matrix

http://blogs.fxstreet.com/fxbootcamp/2009/11/
"The correlation matrix of n random variables X1, ..., Xn is the n  ×  n matrix whose i,j entry is corr(XiXj)." This correlation matrix is on the currency of different countries.