The process of using ArcGIS was a lot easier than I expected. It can be daunting to use new software and have different types of data represented at once. As a viewer it can be easier to understand, but working backwards to actually create a representation is another challenge. Specifically, for this type of mapping, we only had to upload a csv file and the hard work was taken care of. It seems that with a lot of digital humanities projects the premise isn’t regarding how much effort something takes, but there’s more of an emphasis on using different tools to create something complex in an efficient way. In the future, I’d like to see web mapping being used for comparing climate change records, migration (and populations of different regions), and educative purposes.
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Wow! It’s really cool to see your object and map side by side. When you look at an object in a museum, you rarely stop to think about all of the places it came from before it is sitting right in front of you. This all makes me excited for how the cumulative final project is going to turn out.
I completely agree that learning how to use the technology is much harder than getting the meaning of the end result. There are so many little things that we have to keep in mind in order to correctly use this tool.
One thing you could do to improve your map is to tell the reader what each dot represents.