Geographical Map

I had oddly enough decided to do a geographical map.  Initially I was leaning towards doing a concept map, but decided against it.  I chose a fairly simple geographical location to map because I have never mad a map like this before.  I did not want to broad topic.  I chose to map a small section of Bristol.  My first step was finding map of Bristol that showed a close-up image of the town.  I used the website Mapquest becase the site allows users to type in very specific locations.

I began mapping out the street I live on, State Street.  I made that street name the most prominent because it is the most important street to me.  Despite the map being geographical, I wanted personal touches added to it.  Another location I marked on state street was the restaurant Nacho Mama's.  I love the food there and frequented the restaurant often during the summer. 

My map only extended to the portion of Hope Street in the direction towards the Roger Williams campus.  The other streets included in the map are prominent Bristol streets.  Included in the streets is Hope, Church, High, Wood, Constitution, Union and 1st.  On each street, with exception of Union and Constitution, I put marked a specific place in Bristol.  To find the exact locations of each business or restaurant I searched for their addresses on google and then on mapquest.  It was tedious, but the purpose of a geographical map is accuracy. 

I wanted the map to have a lot of color.  Since geographical maps are often times dull in color, I wanted to do something different.  I really enjoyed this project.  I thought that it would be easier than it was though.  I thought that I new the exact locations of all of the places I chose to highlight but I did not.  This map was completely different than a mind map, but still compeltely useful to further my knowledge about the importance of Visual Communications.