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Boat Restoration Project

2012-01-12T08:05:00.000-08:00

The Ajatella is a beautiful, custom 30' double ended trawler yacht built in Finland circa 1985. The plan is to replace, refinish, and restore exterior cabin sides and bright-work, etc.. But first, we must build a boat workshop (logs-of course)!

Our Cabin in the Woods

2011-09-22T11:46:00.000-07:00

Unique Table

2011-09-22T11:41:00.000-07:00

Handcrafted Log Picnic Table - September 2011
built exclusively by R & R (Rob & Robbie)

Gather Round

2011-09-22T11:35:00.000-07:00

Handmade Stone Firepit - May 2011
built by R & R from local stone hauled up from our creeks

Road Map to Virginia's Big Five

2008-05-13T06:25:00.000-07:00

Here is my final project. Buckle up sign too large. In retrospect I would have made a highway sign/post and I wish I had more time to polish map...but I had fun with this flash project! Motorcyclist moves/engine vroom (audio)...Enjoy!!

http://krieger.rob.googlepages.com/VA_BigFiveFinal2.swf

Baltimore Festival Of Maps

2008-04-14T11:17:00.000-07:00

Rob and Robbie's Excellent Map Adventure

In celebration of my son's twentieth birthday along with my cartography (+ extra credit) interest, we traveled north to Baltimore this past Friday. After eating lunch in Cafe Gia, an eccentric and delicious eatery in the Little Italy neighborhood near the Inner Harbor, we navigated to the Walters Art Museum.

Upon our arrival at the Festival of Maps Exhibition, we spent the next three hours touring and admiring really great works of art that also happened to be maps. Due to it being a weekday, we were able to enjoy the rare and many spectacular maps in a relaxed manner. Some of the historical maps were quite extraordinary and deserved our close inspection. A few of my favorites included: John Smith's early map of Virginia (of course), Leonardo da Vinci's map of Florence, Italy, the Aztec Capital Tenochtitla map, an early map of Cairo, Egypt, and a map of one of Europe's early port cities.

Again, the historical map's artwork and detail were amazing, especially when considering the scale. For example, regarding the port city drawing that I referenced above, hundreds of tiny ships had to be meticulously sketched for just one map. I also appreciated the craftsmanship involved with the mosaic tile world map located on the second floor lobby wall. In addition, the Hubble images and the museum's other artwork(s) were pretty cool.

Although we didn't make it to the fourth level exhibition, we thoroughly enjoyed our recent visit to 'Charm City'.

Lab 10 - Image overlays in Google Earth

2008-04-10T12:59:00.000-07:00

I know....I know... I picked an easy map to overlay, but hey, I used to live in Colorado.....and my wife is ill, the teenagers are acting like teenagers and my cat is picking fights with the neighborhood fox....you get the picture.

Here is my Link:

http://krieger.rob.googlepages.com/Lab10_Colorado.kmz

Lab 9 - SketchUp/Google Earth @ GMU

2008-04-02T17:17:00.000-07:00

Here's my link for my 3-D GMU buildings (sorry, nothing fancy):

http://krieger.rob.googlepages.com/RobAB_SubI_HarrisTh.kmz

Favorite Static Map

2008-03-28T11:24:00.000-07:00

Almost forgot....I thought this was an interesting subject, plus I also liked the colors!

Lab 8 - Google Earth

2008-03-27T08:59:00.000-07:00

Here's my google earth link for placemarks, cruise path, etc.:

http://krieger.rob.googlepages.com/RobKriegerLab8_.kmz

Geography Tool of the Future

2008-03-27T04:50:00.000-07:00

Here is my geotool of the future.....not sure exactly what it does.

Now, I have to figure out how to get my KMZ file (Lab8 placemarks) posted?

Lab 6 & 7 - German Invasion Map

2008-03-23T13:08:00.000-07:00

Here is my new Link to Flash Movie:

http://krieger.rob.googlepages.com/german_invasion_newmapC.swf

Lab 5 - Creating a "Faux-GIS"

2008-02-27T07:35:00.000-08:00

Again, for some reason Color changed a little when I tested movie. I published as is....will try to figure out my color dilemma one of these days......Checkboxes should be on link below (hopefully).

New Link to Democratic Presidential Map:

http://krieger.rob.googlepages.com/DemocraticMap.swf

Lab 3 & 4 Super Bowl Map

2008-02-20T08:44:00.000-08:00

Here is the link to my map post (via my mason cluster account:)):

http://mason.gmu.edu/~wkrieger/

Lets hope it works...........

Political Map

2008-02-07T07:17:00.000-08:00

Here is my political map. I couldn't for the life of me get the colors to fill in the legend. Also, I'm not sure that the other colors are right. Flash........Grrrrrrrr.

Lab 1 - The Devastation: Banda Aceh, Indonesia

2008-01-30T07:47:00.000-08:00

Probably should of reversed order of above images, but the top one represents incredible damage incurred by Banda Aceh from the December 2004 tsunami.......

2008 Election Map

2008-01-23T15:45:00.000-08:00

Please click link below for NPR Interactive 2008 Election Map. This map was very informative with regard to state's primary/caucuses election data including dates of contest, presidential candidates and number of delegates in play.

http://www.npr.org/news/specials/election2008/2008-election-map.html#/primaries/

Welcome to Geography 411 Blog!

2008-01-22T09:42:00.000-08:00

Final Project and Data Links

2007-12-11T06:20:00.000-08:00

All done! I liked this map-maybe I'd decrease legend a bit and change hat icon colors for more contrast between the public and private schools.
College enrollment data:
http://www.infoplease.com/edu/colleges/VA.html
http://www.petersons.com/
http://www.collegeboard.com/

Miscellaneous:
Map review- http://www.census.gov/
Layout ideas- http://www.geog310.blogspot.com/
Color review- http://www.colorbrewer.org

Lab 10: Bivariate Map

2007-11-26T13:21:00.000-08:00

This map process was very tedious for me. The result doesn't seem as good as my effort. Regardless, the map is unusual and does a nice job of highlighting density around NC metro areas (e.g., Charlotte & Research Triangle).

Obviously, the tilting the state "experiment" did not work and next time I would import better architecture (house) images for more professional display...

Onward to the final project!

Color Choropleth Map

2007-11-15T07:06:00.001-08:00

There appears to be a little color difference between web version and printed copy of map. The web colors appear more brown. I like both color schemes (halloween/fall)......waning years?

West Virginia Dot Density Map

2007-11-03T09:50:00.000-07:00

Here's my dot density map representing the Irish population by county in West Virginia.

Proportional Symbol Map

2007-10-31T09:46:00.001-07:00

Unfortunately, my first map got lost in cyberspace?? Houses much nicer....

Grayscale Choropleth Maps

2007-10-24T10:28:00.000-07:00

Tri-State Map

2007-10-10T07:01:00.001-07:00

Here is my Tri-State Area map. Finally, able to post (didn't work first time) to blog. Enjoy!

2007-10-03T09:44:00.000-07:00

This isn't perfect...but I hope it works.

2007-09-25T09:33:00.000-07:00

Slowly but surely I'm getting better at this :)

2007-09-25T09:29:00.000-07:00

2007-09-12T15:42:00.000-07:00

Welcome to Rob's Cartography Blog

2007-09-12T13:44:00.000-07:00

This should be interesting.....I've never blogged before :)