Lab 2

1. The name of the quadrangle is the Beverly Hills Quadrangle
2. The names of the adjacent quadrangles are : Canoga Park, Van Nuys, Burbank, Topanga, Hollywood, Venice, and Inglewood.
3. The topography was first compiled in 1966, but this particular map was created in 1995.
4.One datum is the North American Datum of 1927 and North American Datum of 1983(horizontal datum) and the second datum is the National Geodetic Vertical Datum of 1929 (vertical datum).
5. The scale of the map is 1:24,000
6.
a. 5 centimeters on the map=5*24,000/100=1,200 meters
b. 5 inches on map=5*24000/(5280*12)=1.89 miles
c. 1 mile on ground=5280*12/24000=2.64 inches on map
d. 3 km on ground=3*1000*100/24000=12.5 cm on map
7. The contour interval is 20 feet, with a supplementary contour interval of 10 feet.
8.
a. Public Affairs Building: 118.44 degrees West, 34.07 degrees North
b. Tip of Santa Monica Pier: 34 degrees North, 118.5 degrees East
c. Upper Franklin Canyon Reservoir: 34.12 degrees West, 118.41 degrees West
9. Elevation in Feet and Meters
a. Greystone Mansion: 580 feet or 177 meters
b. Woodlawn Cemetery: 140 feet or 43 meters
c. Crestwood Hills Park:
10. Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM) Zone 11
11. UTM Coordinates for the lower left corner of the map are (37) 63 Northing, (3) 61.5 Easting
12. 1,000,000 square meters