Our class Google Map is embedded below. Adding content to it will give us some experience working with Google Maps before creating our own maps for the Local Mapping Project.

Each of us will find a local data set and then plot it to this collaborative map. Feel free to be creative in your choice of data sets; you might use the "Mapping" episode of This American Life to consider how to view your local environment in new ways through all five senses.

Once you have determined what data set to plot, click this link, sign in to your Google Account, and click the "Edit" button to begin making changes. Make sure to click "Save" while you are working. When you are finished, click "Save" one last time and then click "Done" to shift out of editing mode. Feel free to revisit the Google Map tutorial video embedded below for information about editing maps.