Interaction With Maps On The Internet

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Eric Ngo
Physical Geography
T/Th @ 9:05-10:30 A.M.
September 11, 2014
Written Report # 1
Article # 1
Title: Interaction with Maps on the Internet – A User Centred Design Approach for The Atlas of Canada.
Source: Kramers, R. Eric Cartographic Journal. May2008, Vol. 45 Issue 2, p98-107. 10p. 7 Color Photographs, 1 Diagram, 4 Charts, 1 Map.
Article # 2
Title: Application of logistic regression model and its validation for landslide susceptibility mapping using GIS and remote sensing data.
Source: Lee, S. International Journal of Remote Sensing. 4/10/2005, Vol. 26 Issue 7, p1477-1491. 15p.
Summary: The articles I read talk about people that have any electronics device and can access the internet must know how to use them. With their basic skills people can understand what they need to search and what they need to do. They can search thing where they need to go by Google map and they can understand where they need to go. People can search anything they want on the internet. Without their basic skills on any electronic devices, they won’t be able to know how to search things up on the internet or basically they don’t know how to the devices. Some people doesn’t know how to use an electronic device and it can be hard for them to learn.
Relation to Text: In the first article I read talks about how Atlas people interact with map on the internet. It relate to the text because the article uses some of the term we discuss in class. For example, the article uses the word Geographic Information System (GIS). Some Atlas people will think Geographic Information System is hard, but term is really easy to understand. For example, Geographic Information System are libraries of information that use maps to organize, store, view, and analyze information in an intuitive, visual manner (Physical Geography, Darrel Hess, ch. 2, pg 46). When people use GIS, it will let them know you where things are. When people interact with Google map, it will tell you the direction to places where you want to go. Global positioning system, or simply GPS, is a global navigation satellite system for determining accurate positions on or near Earth’s surface. (Physical Geography, Darrel Hess, ch. 2 pg. 37). This is way that the