{"id":103,"date":"2010-03-11T09:17:45","date_gmt":"2010-03-11T15:17:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/opengecko.com\/igcse-geography\/2010\/03\/11\/site-and-situation-and-ordnance-survey-maps\/"},"modified":"2010-03-12T18:05:02","modified_gmt":"2010-03-13T00:05:02","slug":"site-and-situation-and-ordnance-survey-maps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/opengecko.com\/geckoview\/igcse-geography\/site-and-situation-and-ordnance-survey-maps\/","title":{"rendered":"Site and Situation and Ordnance Survey Maps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/opengecko.com\/geckoview\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/siteandsituationgrindelwald_opengeck2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"siteandsituationgrindelwald_opengecko\" style=\"border-top-width: 0px; display: inline; border-left-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px\" height=\"338\" alt=\"siteandsituationgrindelwald_opengecko\" src=\"https:\/\/opengecko.com\/geckoview\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/siteandsituationgrindelwald_opengeck2_thumb.jpg\" width=\"450\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>&#160;<\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\">Image source: opengecko.com<\/font><\/p>\n<p>The site and situation of a settlement are really important to understanding (a) why the settlement was located in a particular place in the first place and (b) whether or not the settlement was likely to grow over time. <\/p>\n<p>You need to understand:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>the difference between the terms &quot;site&quot; and &quot;situation&quot; <\/li>\n<li>different factors affecting the site and situation of a place (usually, we think about the needs of the original settlers. In many parts of the world, we have to rewind many hundreds of years, and think about what people would have been looking out for when they decided to build a small settlement somewhere). <\/li>\n<li>how to recognise these factors through a map such as an ordnance survey map commonly used in the United Kingdom <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>First check your understanding by visiting these very useful web pages:<\/p>\n<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/geobytesgcse.blogspot.com\/2007\/02\/settlement-site-and-situation.html\" target=\"_blank\">Settlement &#8211; Site and Situation at GeoBytesGCSE<\/a><\/h3>\n<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/schools\/gcsebitesize\/geography\/settlement\/set_charrev2.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">GCSE Bitesize &#8211; Settlement Site and Situation<\/a><\/h3>\n<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/www.s-cool.co.uk\/gcse\/geography\/settlements\/site-and-situation.html\" target=\"_blank\">Geography GCSE: Settlements Site and situation \u2013 S-Cool<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>For some real examples, you could explore the middle &#8216;Site and Situation button&#8217; here:<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"http:\/\/www.mrdgeography.com\/Urban%20Geo\/Urban_Geo.swf\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mrdgeography.com\/Urban%20Geo\/Urban_Geo.swf\">http:\/\/www.mrdgeography.com\/Urban%20Geo\/Urban_Geo.swf<\/a><\/p>\n<p>For a quick activity to check your understanding you could try evaluating the following sites on this imaginary map in terms of which might be better than others for locating a settlement. Make sure you can give reasons why.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/opengecko.com\/geckoview\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/SETTLOC_opengecko.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"SETTLOC_opengecko\" style=\"border-top-width: 0px; display: inline; border-left-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px\" height=\"384\" alt=\"SETTLOC_opengecko\" src=\"https:\/\/opengecko.com\/geckoview\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/SETTLOC_opengecko_thumb.jpg\" width=\"450\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Now you could select a map (such as an OS map). A good example can be found in this area below, comparing six villages (near to the green dots). Click on the image below to take you to an interactive OS map on a separate page. Note that you can zoom in and out:<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Opengecko OS Map Weston-Super-Mare Environs - Settlement Site and Situation\" href=\"http:\/\/opengecko.com\/resources\/geography\/settlement\/cheddarsettlement.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"cheddarmapsettlement\" style=\"border-top-width: 0px; display: inline; border-left-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px\" height=\"368\" alt=\"cheddarmapsettlement\" src=\"https:\/\/opengecko.com\/geckoview\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/cheddarmapsettlement.jpg\" width=\"450\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p>To help you evaluate different settlements&#8217; site and situation factors, you can use the following framework. Note that this includes reference to &#8216;morphology&#8217; which you may or may not have covered yet. If you have not covered settlement morphology (shape) yet, you can leave this out.<\/p>\n<p> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/spreadsheets.google.com\/pub?key=tyNJZcPh7E4VZKhLP9yqYDw&amp;single=true&amp;gid=0&amp;output=html&amp;widget=true\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"500\" height=\"300\"><\/iframe>  <\/p>\n<p>A direct link to this document for print (and save as pdf) is here: <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/spreadsheets.google.com\/ccc?key=0Ai2uIg8n83fidHlOSlpjUGg3RTRWWktoTFA5eXFZRHc&amp;hl=en_GB\" target=\"_blank\">Table to evaluate 6 settlements&#8217; Site and Situation<\/a><\/p>\n<p>When completing this table you should include as much information as possible. If the settlement does well under any heading, say why and give map evidence (including grid references). If you think the settlement would not score so highly on any row, again say why, and give good reasons. Finally, you may like to view the same area using a Google map with satellite view. Again, you can zoom in and out:<\/p>\n<p> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps\/ms?ie=UTF8&amp;hl=en&amp;t=h&amp;msa=0&amp;msid=101612240761491097965.000481a2e7b34b74d421d&amp;ll=51.339192,-2.850952&amp;spn=0.214477,0.617981&amp;z=10&amp;output=embed\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"450\" scrolling=\"no\" height=\"250\"><\/iframe>  <br \/><small>View <a style=\"color: #0000ff; text-align: left\" href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps\/ms?ie=UTF8&amp;hl=en&amp;t=h&amp;msa=0&amp;msid=101612240761491097965.000481a2e7b34b74d421d&amp;ll=51.339192,-2.850952&amp;spn=0.214477,0.617981&amp;z=10&amp;source=embed\">Weston-Super-Mare Environs Site Situation Settlement<\/a> in a larger map<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#160; Image source: opengecko.com The site and situation of a settlement are really important to understanding (a) why the settlement was located in a particular place in the first place and (b) whether or not the settlement was likely to grow over time. You need to understand: the difference between the terms &quot;site&quot; and &quot;situation&quot;&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,79],"tags":[82,306,80,81],"class_list":["post-103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-igcse-geography","category-settlement","tag-ordnance-survey-map","tag-settlement","tag-site","tag-situation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/opengecko.com\/geckoview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/opengecko.com\/geckoview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/opengecko.com\/geckoview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opengecko.com\/geckoview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opengecko.com\/geckoview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/opengecko.com\/geckoview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":113,"href":"https:\/\/opengecko.com\/geckoview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103\/revisions\/113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/opengecko.com\/geckoview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opengecko.com\/geckoview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opengecko.com\/geckoview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}