DOQQ or Digital Orthographic Quarter Quads are aerial photos with map qualities. This is clearly an aerial photo. It is used by the University of Texas Civil Engineering in preparation for flood insurance.
This Isopleth map shows rainfall from 1961-1990. This map was created by the Oregon Climate Service at Oregon State University.
An Isohyet is a line on a map connecting places having equal rainfall. This map was taken off of the Hong Kong weather website.
Isotachs are also found on a weather map and are used to show different wind speeds. This map is of Mexico and the western United States. When the Isotach lines are close together, that is where the wind is the strongest.
Isobars are used to show different pressures on a map. This is a map of New Zealand that is updated on this particular website three different times each day.
Doppler Radars show the base reflectivity of an image. This is a doppler radar image of Tropical Storm Alberto in 2006. Doppler radar images can be viewed on the internet as the image is moving. They also show the severity of the storm and rain using a color coded system.
Black and White Aerial Photos always seem to have a great amount of character and history. This photo is by the USGS taken of the New York Inlet.
This is an Infrared Aerial photo of the Sacramento deep water channel. Infrared aerial photography is also very important to our environment because of its ability to detect any changes.
This is a Cartographic animation of Hurricane Katrina approaching Louisiana. This cartographic animation makes it easy to read the hurricane and examine the eye. Because the eye of the hurricane is so important to study, this animation makes determining the severity available to people.
This is a Statistical Map that shows the percent change in Metropolitain and Micropolitan Area Pollution from April 1, 2000 to July 1, 2000. This is an important map to become familair with and comfortable reading. It can help you learn about issues that surround us, such as pollution.
I found this Cartogram using a website called Worldmapper. On this map, Worldmapper uses a new algorithm to proportionally represent rail passenger traffic world wide. As you can see, this is not like a typical map of the world, but it has been set to proportional size to demonstrate a certain topic.
This particular Isoline Map is of Mexico. It is showing the mean annual percipitation. Mazatlan has the highest annual mean as shown by the closeness of the isolines on the map.
This is a dot distribution map showing the growth of Wal-Mart. You can see how Wal-Mart started off slow and eventually began to rapidly spread.
Because Propaganda Maps are mostly used for aiming malicious intent, here is a map indicating the Nazi Policy.
This PLSS Map is of Alabama. The grid lines are used to survey land for recording ownership. The township in blue is Franklin County.
A Thematic map is very easy to read and understand and they are the most common type of map. This is a Thematic map that shows a July prediction for the November 2008 election. The blue shows the Democrat states, the red shows the Republican states and the yellow show the states that are predicted to be a toss-up.
