GEO 106 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Clothing Sizes, Social Distance
17 Oct 2016
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To be dealt with in their own lecture: arrow of time, time-space totality, time-space prism, time-space paths, discretionary events, obligatory events, time-space convergence, social distance. But for now, the big picture time s(cid:272)ales . The big picture about being big and small: scale: ratio between the distance of the map and actual distance on the ground, map scale, orders of magnitude, relative scale: imaginary, perceived or judgemental scales. Clothing sizes purchasing a jacket for a friend. Drawing an cat next to a car those with no perception of space and relative scale will draw a cat with a bigger than normal head. Maps cannot be to size so scales are used to indicate the relationship between the map and the area they represent. Map: diagrammatic representation of either the whole world or a part there of, on a piece of paper. Representative fraction (e. g. 1:50,000): means 1 unit of the map is equal to 50,000 units on the ground.
