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While creating my map I found it rather easy once I became comfortable with navigating myself through Google Maps. At first I ran into a problem due to operator error because I forgot to put the – symbol before the Longitude coordinates, but once I corrected that problem everything seemed to fall in place. While creating my map it was difficult for me to come up with 4 data points on the first layer because my topic is fairly specific, which is The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier located at Arlington National Cemetery. The orgins of this go over to France which obviously does not fall under the D.C. geographic spectrum so I had to explore other points relating to Tomb of the Unknowns, which confined my data points to be located all within the same proximity of each other at Arlington National Cemetery. The only point outside Arlington National Cemetery that is directly related is the Capitol Building because Congress is who passed legislation to begin burying unidentified service members at Arlington. With that said, I don’t feel their was something that didn’t work, but rather learned my research will be confined to events that have gone on at Arlington National Cemetery in honoring the Tomb of the Unknown.

While creating my own historic narrative I did gain additional insights to my research topic that will be useful to me. For example, prior to creating my map I did not know the amphitheater was located right next to the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier and that it had a vault when it was built that has copies of the Declaration of Independence, the Bible, the Constitution, and other various items from the time it was built.