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Title
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Economic Development of the Tennessee River Region
Description
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This collections seeks to understand how different entities depict the Tennessee River Valley region through mapping. The three maps included are made by three government organizations with profoundly different purposes. The analysis focuses on how natural features, rivers, lakes, and mountains, are represented. These different styles of representation indicate the different points of view of each different agency when it comes to developing the same landscape. Thus, these maps visually represent both the landscape and the economic potential of the region.
Historical Map
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Title
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Knoxville
Creator
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U.S.G.S. (U.S. Geological Survey)
Publisher
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U.S.G.S.
Date
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1955
Type
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Topographic Map, Scale 1:250,000
Coverage
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Local, Multi-State
Description
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This large-scale topographic map covers the region between Knoxville, TN and Asheville, NC. As an official U.S.G.S., the map makes claims to objectively representing the landscape through topography. The consistency of representation across such a large region makes the map more difficult to read than a small-scale or pictorial map.
Great Smoky Mountain National Park is not depicted in a different color, but is labelled by text. All the cities are made the same fluorescent orange color. Roads are the same color red on both the white and green background.
Despite the consistency of representation across the entire landscape, the choices of the U.S.G.S. mapmakers still indicate a hierarchy of landscape. The "Great Smoky Mountain National Park" text is at least as large as the "Knoxville" toponym and spaced out to cover the large area which highlights the spatial importance of the mountain region. The orange color represents "populated places" according to the key, which would then imply that people only live in this landscape in named cities; the rest is untouched natural wilderness. The red roads contrast more with the white background as opposed to the green, which emphasizes the presence of road in non-forested places and tends to hide them in the green area.
The faith to the scale of the natural features places lakes over rivers in the visual hierarchy. Lakes are blue polygons, rivers are small blue lines winding among the brown contour lines. Nonetheless, the water features of significance, lakes, rivers and ponds, are all represented on the map.
Contributor
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Army Map Service (AMTV), Corps of Engineers
contour lines
lakes
large scale
legend
national park
North Carolina
populated places
regional
reliability diagram
rivers
road system
state lines
Tennessee
topographic map
U.S.G.S