Mapmaking

Helen Aristar-Dry

Anthony Aristar

https://web.archive.org/web/20150424032216/https://idrh.ku.edu/colang-workshops

Time: 10:15am – 11:45am

Week 2: 25 - 28 June 2012

Meeting Location: 419 Watson Library

GIS (Geographic Information Systems) allow users to capture, store, integrate, manipulate, and display data related to positions on the Earth's surface. GIS enables linguists to build dynamic, detailed maps of their work. GIS can relate otherwise disparate data on the basis of common geography, revealing unseen patterns, relationships, and trends that are not easily visible in spreadsheets or statistical packages. This course will cover how to make linguistic GIS-ready maps from data and scanned maps. The course will discuss how to take GPS data and make maps from it, how to scan a map, register it in a map-making program like Global Mapper, and upload it to an appropriate map facility like LLMAP or Google Maps so it can be viewed on the web. It will discuss the main GIS formats, such as shape-files and geodatabases, as well as map layers and the art of organizing and displaying data on your map.