Week 8: Mapping

Response due Monday, March 17 - respond to the readings

Tuesday, March 18: Map forms

• Readings:
  • R. White, “What Is Spatial History?”, Spatial History Lab (Stanford 2010)
  • Tao Leigh Goffe, “Unmapping the Carribbean: Toward a Digital Praxis of Archipelagic Sounding”
• In class:
  • Discussion of Data Essay assignment
  • Discussion of readings
  • Storymapping activity
• Projects to look at:
  • In the same boats
  • Native Land Digital
  • Imagine Rio
  • Mapping Inequality
• Tool: Knightlab’s StoryMap

Thursday, March 20: Web mapping

• Readings:
  • “Anatomy of a Web Map” by Alan McConchie and Beth Schechter (click through slide show).
• In class:
  • ArcMap tutorial: Cartographic creations

Instructions

• Log in to ArcGIS Online
  • Bryn Mawr: login with SSO at brynmawrcollege.maps.arcgis.com
  • Haverford: login with SSO at trico.maps.arcgis.com
• Start with Cartographic creations - Style and thematic data
• Continue with these options

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