Social Studies by Lucy
This week in geography we have been learning about maps. Our first project was to create our own made up continent. Some people chose to have a partner and others didn't. For the past week everybody has been working nonstop. Our map was to have a key, labeled countries, land forms and bodies of water around it.
Cartography by Kyle P.
A cartographer is someone who looks at ariel photos and makes new representations of them. A cartographer is also a position of a larger group called mapping scientists. A cartographer uses the help of geographic information system a.k.a GIS makes maps, charts, and photographs of large areas on the earths outer shell. A cartographer also updates old maps when something new is built like a road, city or neighborhood. Photogrammists look at aerial photos and create representations of them called scaled maps. Mosiacists take and arrange ariel photos in a certain order. Being able to look and change aerial photos is a important piece of cartography. The final product of a cartographers work includes weather aps (as seen on TV), atlases, GPSs and tons more! This is what I know of cartography.
