Lab Week 6: A Real Life Map!

Margie
Sun, 23 Oct 2022 18:23:08 +0000
Uncategorized, Week 6, data viz, lab, mapping, modeling, reflection

This week for our lab we were tasked with creating a map that shows the different locations of the object that we 3D modeled last week! Here is the embedded map that we created. It is still a bit rough and could use a bit more work, but I wasn’t exactly sure how to change some of the formatting as it’s embedded into the webpage.
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Difficulties:

We also encountered some other difficulties. The first is that ArcGIS didn’t like the place names we had given to the map, so I ended up finding the latitude and longitude data to include with the place, to help ArcGIS map the locations. This sadly didn’t allow us to show how the origin location was broad (a whole province), but in the map it is just mapped as a location. The other thing I don’t like is how the map doesn’t have a label, which makes it not super accessible outside of this class.

Successes!

It was nice to see that all the locations plotted in the end. I also like how the map automatically chose the different types for the location as the color for each dot. So the origin, importation, sale, and current location are all different colors. On this map it’s not that interesting since it’s one object, but I can see this being a nice way to break down multiple objects points of origins and movements.

Potential Uses:

As I stated above this map could be a good launching point to compare data about where and when these objects travelled and were made. It could help us answer questions about how this certain set of objects ended up at Carleton and draw some conclusions about the usage and similarities of these objects. Obviously this mapping tool isn’t limited to the movement of objects, but this tool could be especially useful if we sought to discover more about the collection we have at Carleton.