Project Summary:The Local Mapping Project asks students to communicate aspects of their local environments through the practice of online mapping. Digital geolocation has become a significant means to reexamine our immediate spaces and explore how they connect with a shared history, culture, and landscape. Each student will construct a Google Map about a single subject that identifies and describes at least five relevant sites using substantive text and images. Drafts from previous students are accessible below:
Non-student examples of such maps include:
Many other examples may be found through Google Maps Mania, Mashable.com, and Programmable Web. Subject choice is wide open. Subjects need not be overly grandiose, but they should be interesting, useful, and productive for a specific audience. Consider local historical or cultural sites, campus areas, indigenous flora and fauna sites, health and sport sites, leisure spots, etc. Students must identify an appropriate context (venue), audience, and purpose for their finished maps. All maps will be built upon the Google Maps platform, and must incorporate text and images (we will discuss particulars in class). Students will do readings and activities that will give them the knowledge and experience to produce such maps.
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