What are the three types of reference maps?
Political, Physical, Road
What are the two types of maps?
Reference Maps and Thematic Maps
What is absolute location?
Exact and precise, longitude and latitude
What is relative location?
Relationship to another place “Next to my house”
What is abolute distance?
Exact and precise, uses miles, kilometer, feet, map scale
What is relative distance?
Spatial interaction, connections to contacts, movement, flow of things between places (Doordash and Amazon has decreased relative distance)
What is absolute direction?
Exact, precise, North, East, South, West
What is relative direction?
“Turn left at Target”, “Go straight at the stop sign”
Define clustering
Close together
Define Density
The number of something in an area.
Define dispersal
Far apart
Define distribution
the way something is spread out in an area
What are patterns and spatial associations?
Indications of two or more things can be related to each other
