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GIS
I think the technology incorporated into GIS is extremely useful because it provides us with a way of uploading or rather copy and pasting information into a database called Carto DB. I appreciate the fact of being able to create your own personal maps to use as a display for not only a class project but anything that’s map related. GIS allows us to access small repository of datasets and a variety of base maps. I think its wonderful to be able to upload and visually create a map with data of your choosing. GIS is a great new technology that I think can benefit a lot of people.
Reflection (6)-Making Sense of Maps
Maps are a diagrammatic of representation of an area of land or sea showing physical features, of cities, roads and much more. Maps are used as historical information which is documented and possibly preserved and housed within an archives in a library somewhere. We use maps as a guide when we need to travel from point A to point B. Whether or not we see it as such we travel on a map everyday of our lives from the street we walk down, the trains we take to and from school and even the planes we take to travel when on vacation; it’s all a map. I thought this article tied in so well with our site visits to the library; because it helps use to grasp a better understanding of maps in a much broader prospective. It gives us different ways of using and accessing historical maps.
Sixth 100 Word Reflection: Hypothesis about Vinegar Hill 1820-1870
My group and I arrived at many conclusions on Vinegar Hill from 1820-1870. We believe during that time, the Ferry Lines refocused the neighborhood, and when photography was introduced in 1839 that changed how every thing was documented and collected. We also believe that during that time, the government of Brooklyn were the wealthy land owners in Brooklyn , and they made sure the government was ran how they wanted it to be and everything favored them. And as far as documentation goes we think that population, jobs, money, buildings, were some of the collected things with the exception of the slave population.
Reflection #6: Hypothesizing Vinegar Hill 1870-1920
My group and I created hypotheses about Vinegar Hill during the 1870-1920. We focused predominantly on how technological developments impacted Vinegar Hill as a place. During the time period we were given, Brooklyn was becoming much more connected to the rest of New York City. The Brooklyn and Manhattan Bridge were completed in 1883 and 1909. These bridges directly attached Downtown Brooklyn to Manhattan. The construction of these bridges impacted Vinegar Hill in a few ways. One way Vinegar Hill was affected was many of it’s streets and buildings were demolished to make room for the Manhattan Bridge.
Bridges were not the only way Vinegar Hill was becoming more attached to the rest of the city. In the 1904 the first subway was opened. Shortly after 1904, many more subway routes were created providing thousands of people with easy and affordable transportation. In addition, cars were becoming more commonplace towards the 1920s. All of these factors made it easier for people to come and go from Vinegar Hill. Before the bridges, subways, and cars, people would not travel very far distances. Because of that there was a sense of dependency on the shops and industries in Vinegar Hill. That dependency faded away when people were given more ways to access Manhattan.
100 word reflection 3/7/16 class:Frank Smith
My group was given the Vinegar Hill area in the time period of 1870-1920. In that time period there were many changes to Brooklyn most notably the change from Brooklyn being a city, to it be acquired into New York City, The Manhatten bridge was also built during this time period. The Manhatten bridge changed the landscape of downtown brooklyn extremely it change many streets in the neighborhood, so the people of the neighborhood were had more accessibility. Some of the key names in Brooklyn at this time were James Howell the mayor from 1872 to 1882, Patrick Keely who was an architect who greatly shaped brooklyn during this time period.
