{"id":489,"date":"2015-02-26T14:10:38","date_gmt":"2015-02-26T19:10:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/dig210\/?p=489"},"modified":"2015-02-26T14:33:10","modified_gmt":"2015-02-26T19:33:10","slug":"inaccuracy-of-maps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/dig210\/2015\/02\/26\/inaccuracy-of-maps\/","title":{"rendered":"Inaccuracy of Maps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In class the other day we were told to draw maps around campus to other places that we may or may not have known the location. After thinking about the drawings that were made and talking about how different maps could be inaccurate. I wanted to see what different ways in which a map could be inaccurate. So as I was looking on the internet I came across a study done by Colorado University at Boulder looking at the different types of inaccuracies that can be found in maps. The article, &#8220;<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.colorado.edu\/geography\/gcraft\/notes\/error\/error.html\">Error, Accuracy, and Precision<\/a>&#8221;\u00a0<\/strong>talks about &#8220;the problems caused by error, inaccuracy, and imprecision in spatial datasets.&#8221; Throughout the article it talks about the different inaccuracies. The different types that they bring up are format of the data, age of the data, relevance, density of observations, map scales which all deal with the characteristics of the map itself. It also goes over inaccuracies made through general error such as numerical error and analyzing the data gathered. It was interesting to see the different types of inaccuracies, and it goes with the notion that was brought up in class stating that all maps have errors and are inaccurate.<\/p>\n<p>Questions are constantly brought up about how to make maps more accurate. The article raises some of these questions.\u00a0How accurate are positional and attribute features?\u00a0What projection, coordinate system, and datum were used in maps? These are just two of the many questions that can be asked on how to make maps more accurate. What can cartographers do to make sure their maps are as accurate as possible? What are the most important aspects of a map that need to be the most accurate in order for amble data to be taken from it?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In class the other day we were told to draw maps around campus to other places that we may or may not have known the location. After thinking about the drawings that were made and talking about how different maps could be inaccurate. I wanted to see what different ways in which a map could &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/dig210\/2015\/02\/26\/inaccuracy-of-maps\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Inaccuracy of Maps<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,6,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-group-2","category-responders","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/dig210\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/dig210\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/dig210\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/dig210\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/dig210\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=489"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/dig210\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":492,"href":"https:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/dig210\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489\/revisions\/492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/dig210\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/dig210\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/dig210\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}