Maps and Legends


            5    NOTES FOR TEACHERS, CARTOGRAPHERS AND PROGRAMMERS

              The  Maps  and  Legends program is an excellent tool for
         teaching geography and elementary cartography. Since the maps
         generally  do  not  show political boundaries or place names,
         students  like to compare the maps with maps in atlases. This
         leads  to  easy recognition of land mass shapes. These shapes
         are  often  overlooked  by  beginning  students  who are more
         interested in the colors, boundaries, and names on a map. The
         names  can  be  annotated  on  the  maps  later. Teachers can
         generate  maps  for  each  area of the world covered in their
         lessons. Ask the students to identify as many of the features
         on  each  map  as they can. Also ask them to locate political
         boundaries  on  the  maps.  To do this they should first look
         them up on a regular globe or atlas.

              Show  your  students  various projections to demonstrate
         how   they   distort  land  areas  in  different  ways.  Make
         Perspective  projections  from a variety of altitudes to show
         how  the  earth  looks  to an astronaut. Show the Eastern and
         Western  Hemispheres or the Northern and Southern Hemispheres
         side by side on the screen to compare the land and sea areas.
         Compare  the sizes of countries and continents by drawing one
         on top of the other using different colors. Be sure to cancel
         erasing the first map before you draw the second.

         PUBLISHING OPPORTUNITY:

         The Overlay function in MAPS and LEGENDS version 2.0 was put
         in the program at the bequest of a navigational flight officer.
         The flyers on his base are using the program (on 1040ST's) to
         generate flight plans.

         This is only one of the many many creative uses for Overlay.
         You can also find books, mainly from the Census Bureau and
         The US Geological Survey, that contain coordinate data for
         population, zip codes, county lines, country borders, etc.
         If you create a coordinate database that would be useful to
         a general group of people, we'd like to evaluate it.  It
         may be good enough to be published in the catalog as part
         of the MAPS and LEGENDS product line.  For more information,
         write or call:

         Antic Catalog Product Manager
         Antic Publishing, Inc.
         524 Second St.
         San Francisco, CA  94107  USA
         (415) 957-0886

              Note:

              The  source  code for Maps and Legends, The Cartographer
         is available direct from the authors for $250. Write to:

             Harry C. Koons
             1123 Oakfair Lane
             Harbor City, CA 90710

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