I chose five buildings from Carleton: Watson Hall, Musser Hall, Skinner Memorial Chapel, CMC, and Willis Hall. I divided them into three types: Class, Dorm, and Knights practice. I chose “Light Gray Canvas” as base map, since it provides sufficient contextual information without distracting attention from the subject data. Then, I changed the sign to represent each type.
This is my link of map: https://carleton.maps.arcgis.com/apps/mapviewer/index.html?webmap=874e45af368c4eafa5a6b2666fbde8d0
This is my link of the sheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1edSHMGjyMhKJUNBYr5HCXMcMSmwK5wnPTCHd2HmBi-Y/edit?gid=0#gid=0
Through this practice, have some new understandings of map: web maps are a highly potential tool for humanistic research. When I mark the points of the buildings, they are not isolated. Instead, by combining these points and these lines, it demonstrate my whole fay lives. This ability to closely integrate personal stories with geographical space provides a brand-new perspective for humanists to study topics such as campus culture and student life history. If we could superimpose the personal maps of students from different eras, we might be able to clearly see how the changes in campus functional layout have influenced students’ community relations and cultural life. This is precisely the charm of digital humanities.
In terms of technical implementation, the ArcGIS online platform has greatly lowered the threshold for creating such maps. Its operation logic is very intuitive, we can use layers and ships to change the sign to create the interactive map. However, The platform also has its limitations. For instance, when drawing architectural polygons, the tools are relatively basic and it is difficult to precisely capture the complex Outlines of buildings, which to some extent restricts more refined spatial expressions.
Tags: Digital Humanities, Maps, Northfield
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I also decided to group my buildings into similar categories, as those seemed to be the most distinct, but simple categories. I really like the symbology that you created for your map; it is very visually appealing, but also very descriptive. I also like how you implemented size in your symbology to show frequency, which was a concept we had learned about in class the other week. It would be interesting to also map the path that you follow to get to and from these buildings in order to gain some additional information about your campus footprint. Overall, great job!
Great job creating your map! I really like the way you combined descriptive symbols with data-based sizing to simply convey multiple things with one aspect. I also appreciate the consideration for making these symbols somewhat transparent so that the polygon layer you created wasn’t completely blocked by the symbols. The idea you had about superimposing personal maps from different eras is also really interesting extension of this project that would convey something historically relevant to Carleton students and just be really cool in general. Great job again!