Discussion

 We made an accurate map of the Field Reasearch Station. The fields, trails, and streams were all mapped.
 We didn't have a clue as how to make a map like this. Niether one of us had done this before. We had to come up with what needed to be on our map. We started with colored lines and points and had  to turn them into something that people could use in the Field Research Station. We needed to provide boarders, trails and fields so people could read and understand the map. After studying other maps, reading material on what constituted a map, and researching how they were made, we had no trouble with making our own map.
 Before we could make the map we had to gather the data. In the winter time we had trouble with the deep snow. It was to the point  we were spending more time trying to get to where we needed do be for the days work than actually gathering data. We did have snow shoes, but when the snow was waist deep it didn't help much. Maybe a little experience in that area would have served useful. There was another factor that contibuted to collecting data. During the middle of the school year, Nick had the flu and Denver had mono. It made a difference when we were both working out in the field, as far as discussing what we needed to map. It helped sort things out when we could discuss them between us. Besides these minor pitfalls, collecting data was time consuming but easy. Each day we collected a little data. By the end of the year we had compiled quite a bit of data. Keeping the  data organized once we gathered it was important. One day we couldn't find the laptop computer only to find that someone took it and erased all the data on it. We had been backing up our data which was a good thing but still lost one months worth of data. We had to back track and try to fill in that time again. That was a difficult task  and we were not able to recover all our data that was lost. Despite the little data that was lost and not recovered, we had enough good data to make our map.