beverly hill GIS assignment

1. What is the name of the quadrangle?

Beverly Hill, CA Quadrangle.

2. What are the names of the adjacent quadrangles?

Canoga Park, Van Nuys, Burbank, Topanga, Hollywood, Venice, Inglewood.

3. When was the quadrangle first created?

1966

4. What datum was used to create your map?

North American Datum of 1927(NAD27). Projection and 1000-meter grid: Universal Transverse Mercator, zone 11 10000-foot ticks: California Coordinate System of 1927(zone 7).

North American Datum of 1983(NAD83) is shown by dashed corner ticks.

5. What is the scale of the map?

1:24000

6. At the above scale, answer the following:

a) 5 centimeters on the map is equivalent to how many meters on the ground?

5cm*24000=120000cm=1200m

b) 5 inches on the map is equivalent to how many miles on the ground?

5inches*24000=120000inches=1.89mile

c) one mile on the ground is equivalent to how many inches on the map?

1 mile/24000= 63360 inches/24000=2.64 inches

d) three kilometers on the ground is equivalent to how many centimeters on the map?

3 km/24000= 300000cm/24000=12.5cm

7. What is the contour interval on your map?

20feet

8. What are the approximate geographic coordinates in both degrees/minutes/seconds and decimal degrees of:

a) the Public Affairs Building;

34degrees 4 minutes 36 seconds North, 118 degrees 26 minutes 21 seconds West.

b) the tip of Santa Monica pier;

34degrees 0 minutes 30 seconds North, 118 degrees 29 minutes 50 seconds West.

c) the Upper Franklin Canyon Reservoir;

34 degrees 7 minutes, 15 seconds North, 118 degrees 23 minutes 10 seconds West.

9. What is the approximate elevation in both feet and meters of:

a) Greystone Mansion (in Greystone Park); 520 feet

b) Woodlawn Cemetery; 140 feet

c) Crestwood Hills Park; 650 feet

10. What is the UTM zone of the map?

Zone11

11. What are the UTM coordinates for the lower left corner of your map?

3763000 north, 361000 east.

12. How many square meters are contained within each cell (square) of the UTM gridlines?

1000000 m2

13. Obtain elevation measurements, from west to east along the UTM northing 3771000, where the eastings of the UTM grid intersect the northing. Create an elevation profile using these measurements in Excel (hint: create a line chart). Figure out how to label the elevation values to the two measurements on campus. Insert your elevation profile as a graphic in your blog.

14. What is the magnetic declination of the map?

14degree east

15. In which direction does water flow in the intermittent stream between the 405 freeway and Stone Canyon Reservoir?

South

16. Crop out (i.e., cut and paste) UCLA from the map and include it as a graphic on your blog.