The Las Vegas Strip - Hotel & Casinos

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The Neogeography mashup of the Las Vegas Strip provides some of my favorite famous Resort Casinos and Hotels. There is a brief description of each Casino, along with a visual and a video of the Casinos. The map begins from the McCarran International Airport and travels the surrounding are along Las Vegas Blvd., ending at the famous Dining Hotel, the Las Vegas Hilton. Each Casino has its unique architecture, surrounding area, and gambling setting.

NeoGeography has allowed the introduction and incorporation of visual mapping with analytical data gathered about a certain and specific location or space. The potential that neogeography presented has allowed visually mapping out certain locations regardless of how large the area can be. The exercise extends important geographic mapping, complementary to the GIS concept that can make the combining of elements easier and quicker by using an existing tool set such as Google Maps. Neogeography has the potential to allow sharing location information on a myriad of subjects such as urban planning. It is a great approach to allow information and communication on a public level.
My map provides my favorite Casinos and Hotels, however it does not list every single Casino along the Strip of Las Vegas and in the surrounding area. A pitfall of and consequence of my neogeography map is that some information or places might be secluded and left out. This creates a bias for someone who wants to search the area for different Casinos. The extraction a viewer might pull from my map may not be what the viewer is looking for, causing a pitfall.

Week 2 Lab Report

1. Beverly Hills Quadrangle.
2. Canoga Park, Van Nuys, Burbank, Topanga, Hollywood, Venice, and Inglewood.
3. 1966.
4. North American Datum of 1927 (Horizontal) and National Geodetic Vertical Datum of 1929.
5. Scale of 1:24,000
6. a) 1,200 meters b) 1.89 miles c) 2.64 inches d) 12.5 centimeters
7. 20 feet.
8. a)118.27'5" degrees/min/sec = 34.23 decimal degrees
and -118.48 degrees/min/sec = 34.44 decimal degrees
b)118.30' degrees/min/sec = 34.30 decimal degrees
and -118.55 degrees/min/sec = 34.550 decimal degrees
c)118.22'30" degrees/min/sec = 118.4083 decimal degrees
and 34.7'20" degrees/min/sec = 34.1305 decimal degrees
9. a) 560 feet = 170.688 meters. b) 154 feet = 47.244 meters c) 650 feet = 198.12 meters
10. Zone 11.
11. 34 degrees 00' and 118 degrees 30' / 361.5 kilometers.
12. 1 square kilometer.
13. Elevation measurements: available on Line Graph.
Elevation Profile:
1 = 400
2 = 600
3 = 600
4 = 520
5 = 500 [Ucla Campus - East]
6 = 460 [Ucla Campus - West]
7 = 400
8 = 340
9 = 300
10 = 240
11 = 190
12 = 160
14. Positive 14 degrees.
15. It flows from North to South.