map quiz

[kmusser]

It's time for a map quiz.

Take a look at this map.

Tell me where is being mapped, extra points if you can tell me what is being mapped.


Note to self: I need a map icon.

Edit: Many of you were able to recognize the Chesapeake Watershed, which is good considering how many of you live there *grin*, no one's identified the theme yet, so I'll leave that part open for a while.

Edit2: ravenrose came closest with zoning. The answer is land use patterns. The reds are high and low density urban. The green is forest, blue water, yellow cropland. The purple area is a mix of agriculture, forest, and low density urban (i.e. where no single land use dominates).

Comments

[ilostonjeopardy.livejournal.com]

Eastern Maryland/Virginia

The Chesapeake Watershed?

[kmusser]

You're the winner. That is indeed the Cheasapeak Watershed.

[ilostonjeopardy.livejournal.com]

*waving my map/geography love flag proudly*

[ilostonjeopardy.livejournal.com]

Current flooding?

[ilostonjeopardy.livejournal.com]

nevermind...not water related you said.

[chelona.livejournal.com]

My guess:
Chesapeake Bay "feeding" area?
and
Pollution or pollution "risk" areas?

[kmusser]

Got the area correct, but it's not pollution.

[chelona.livejournal.com]

My only other thought, and it seemed not very likely, was something along the lines of "amount of lake-effect snow".

[chelona.livejournal.com]

TOTAL shot in the dark: Real estate prices?

[kmusser]

No, I made that map though when I was house hunting - a big part of why I ended up in Brunswick

[chuck-lw.livejournal.com]

I'm guessing Maryland and the surrounding area, as well as the river systems emptying into that bay.

[kalieris.livejournal.com]

Ok, I'm probably totally wrong but: weather map of area around Wisconsin?

[kalieris.livejournal.com]

Yep. Totally wrong. :)

[acroyear70.livejournal.com]

the chesapeake watershed, and (knowing you as a liberal/libertarian) the level of impact of a geographic region on the polution that goes into the bay.

[kmusser]

yes, but it's not pollution. I actually had to make this map for work so I didn't get to choose the theme :-)

[nachoha.livejournal.com]

Having driven through the damn thing and passed the signs so many times I'd say the chesapeake watershed and how much water from what area's is fed into the bay.

[kmusser]

Yes on the area, the theme isn't water related though.

[faireraven.livejournal.com]

I'll just say I'm friggin' blind, how's that? :)

[scarydavedc.livejournal.com]

Population distribution? Maybe?

[kmusser]

Very close, explanation will be added :-)

[animadversio.livejournal.com]

So, yeah, I got the Chesapeake watershed part right off -- fertilizer or nitrogen run-off?

[kmusser]

No, but I have made that map, somewhere I even have a 3-D map of excess nitrogen for the Chesapeake.

[deboranter.livejournal.com]

political affiliation?

[wanderingbastet.livejournal.com]

My guess would be population density, though given that the lavendar color bands seem to follow the ridges of the mountains, I'm not sure... I suppose it could be as simple as elevation, but then the red wouldn't make sense. So I'm just gonna stick with my first guess. :-)

[acroyear70.livejournal.com]

well, the large lavender swath on the left corresponds to the Shanendoah valley. then between it and us is the US-29 corridor down to charlottesville.

the green inbetween is the mountains that include markham on i-66 outbound.

so whatever it is, its in an even range across most of the river valleys.

the dark blue runs along the rivers that lead to cities as well as the baltimore harbor. cities are red (DC, Richmond, Annapolis, and Baltimore can be easily recognized), as is the route down 50 from DC to annapolis, but then so is most of maryland north of baltimore and a mostly rural portion of virginia at the start of the James River.

but i can't come up with anything that also would give a clear distinction represented by the yellow blobs on the eastern shore and up in PA near harrisburg.

[kmusser]

Population density is very close, as that map would look pretty similar. It is actually land use patterns.

[ravenrose.livejournal.com]

Hmmm... Zoning? Parkservice/agriculture/residential?

[kmusser]

Close enough :-) It is in fact land use patterns. I'll add a color explanation in the original post.

[faireraven.livejournal.com]

Population density of migratory birds...

Wetlands areas...

Mc Mansion density... ;)

[evcelt.livejournal.com]

The only thing I can think of is animal waste effluent sources. But that's probably wrong...

[hexar-le-saipe.livejournal.com]

Psychic dead zones?
Migratory routes of the dappled herring?
Widget distribution?