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STARBUCKS LOCATIONS
IN WASHINGTON, D.C.
Starbucks
MARYLAND
Rockville
Silver
Spring
Bowie
Reston
WASHINGTON, D.C.
Arlington
Fairfax
Alexandria
VIRGINIA
0
5
10
15 Kilometers
0
5
10 Miles
Figure A.9
Starbucks Locations in Washington, D.C. This map uses dot symbols to indicate the loca-
tions of Starbucks stores in the Washington, D.C. area. Data from: Map Muse, Inc, 2011.
© E.H. Fouberg, A.B. Murphy, H.J. de Blij, and John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
A July 2005 story in the Washington Post reported a corre-
lation between income and Starbucks locations in the city.
Starbucks are clustered around federal and corporate build-
ings downtown and in northwest neighborhoods, where
incomes are higher (see Fig. 1.17). Lower income neighbor-
hoods in southeast D.C. have few Starbucks retail outlets.
Line symbols include not only roads and railroads,
but also political and administrative boundaries, rivers,
and other linear features. Again scale plays a crucial role:
on a large-scale map, it is possible to represent the fenced
boundaries of a single farm, but on a small-scale map, such
detail cannot be shown.
Some lines on maps do not actually exist on the
ground. When physical geographers do their fi eld work
they use contour maps, lines that represent a certain con-
sistent height above mean sea level (Fig. A.10). All points
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