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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: [livejournal.com profile] 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).

Date: 30 Mar 2005 20:53 (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ilostonjeopardy.livejournal.com
Eastern Maryland/Virginia

The Chesapeake Watershed?

Date: 30 Mar 2005 20:53 (UTC)
From: [identity profile] chelona.livejournal.com
My guess:
Chesapeake Bay "feeding" area?
and
Pollution or pollution "risk" areas?

Date: 30 Mar 2005 20:55 (UTC)
From: [identity profile] chuck-lw.livejournal.com
I'm guessing Maryland and the surrounding area, as well as the river systems emptying into that bay.

Date: 30 Mar 2005 20:57 (UTC)
From: [identity profile] kalieris.livejournal.com
Ok, I'm probably totally wrong but: weather map of area around Wisconsin?

Date: 30 Mar 2005 20:57 (UTC)
From: [identity profile] 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.

Date: 30 Mar 2005 20:59 (UTC)
From: [identity profile] 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.

Date: 30 Mar 2005 20:59 (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ilostonjeopardy.livejournal.com
*waving my map/geography love flag proudly*

Date: 30 Mar 2005 21:00 (UTC)
From: [identity profile] faireraven.livejournal.com
I'll just say I'm friggin' blind, how's that? :)

Date: 30 Mar 2005 21:01 (UTC)
From: [identity profile] chelona.livejournal.com
My only other thought, and it seemed not very likely, was something along the lines of "amount of lake-effect snow".

Date: 30 Mar 2005 21:09 (UTC)
From: [identity profile] chelona.livejournal.com
TOTAL shot in the dark: Real estate prices?

Date: 30 Mar 2005 21:11 (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ilostonjeopardy.livejournal.com
Current flooding?

Date: 30 Mar 2005 21:22 (UTC)
From: [identity profile] scarydavedc.livejournal.com
Population distribution? Maybe?

Date: 30 Mar 2005 21:25 (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ilostonjeopardy.livejournal.com
nevermind...not water related you said.

Date: 30 Mar 2005 21:33 (UTC)
From: [identity profile] animadversio.livejournal.com
So, yeah, I got the Chesapeake watershed part right off -- fertilizer or nitrogen run-off?

Date: 30 Mar 2005 21:36 (UTC)
From: [identity profile] deboranter.livejournal.com
political affiliation?

Date: 30 Mar 2005 21:39 (UTC)
From: [identity profile] 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. :-)

Date: 30 Mar 2005 21:47 (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ravenrose.livejournal.com
Hmmm... Zoning? Parkservice/agriculture/residential?

Date: 30 Mar 2005 22:04 (UTC)
From: [identity profile] faireraven.livejournal.com
Population density of migratory birds...

Wetlands areas...

Mc Mansion density... ;)

Date: 30 Mar 2005 22:09 (UTC)
From: [identity profile] kalieris.livejournal.com
Yep. Totally wrong. :)

Date: 30 Mar 2005 22:25 (UTC)
From: [identity profile] evcelt.livejournal.com
The only thing I can think of is animal waste effluent sources. But that's probably wrong...

Date: 30 Mar 2005 22:29 (UTC)
From: [identity profile] 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.

Date: 30 Mar 2005 23:10 (UTC)
From: [identity profile] hexar-le-saipe.livejournal.com
Psychic dead zones?
Migratory routes of the dappled herring?
Widget distribution?

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