Lab 1 Interesting Maps

     This is a map of Kuwait City, Kuwait. It is a tourist map. It came from the Libraries site of the University of Texas at Austin. One can find this map and many other city maps here: http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/map_sites/cities_sites.html
What I found interesting about this map was all the detailing. I think having drawings on the map can really help a tourist find something because sometimes buildings don't have names out front. It facilitates finding a place when you know what it looks like and you know the main streets.

This map is about the earthquakes that have happened in California and Nevada with in the last week. It came from the U.S. Geological Survey site, a  government webpage. What was most interesting was that majority of earthquakes have happened closer to the coast of California than out on the border between Nevada and California. Its also interesting that there was a whole cluster of earthquakes in the south of California, unlike the northern region where they seems to be in a line and more spread out. You can find this map here: http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/recenteqscanv/

 This map is "the contiguous United States visualized by the distance to the nearest McDonald's". It is very interesting to see the amount of McDonald's in the United States. The amount is so incredible that it outlines the whole country. I found this map on Data pointed which is the home of artist and scientist Stephen Von Worley's data visualization research. You can this map at: http://www.datapointed.net/2009/09/distance-to-nearest-mcdonalds/