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A quick 2nd look at Story Maps:
- Building your own Story Map Tutorial
- Building your own tool:
- Story Maps (new tool)
- Story Maps (classic tool)
- UMinn Story Maps Resource Page
Let’s look at some additional ArcGIS examples in an educational context
- Origin of US State Names
- Started with a spreadsheet – perhaps build through student research?
- Map in ArcGIS
- Web App
- Jewish populations and the Holocaust
- Civil War battles in Eastern Theater
- Parks in Allentown vs Parks in Philly
Other Maps that I’ve built for middle school students’ research topics…
Let’s dive deeper into adding custom data…
Adding new data (from outside ArcGIS) to a map
- Working with point data, which is the easiest possible data
- A small dataset: Iacocca Hall geocache locations.csv
- Note the lat/long are in DD format
- A larger dataset: Honey Bee Production in the USA
- A small dataset: Iacocca Hall geocache locations.csv
- Creating your own POINT DATA set for ArcGIS – Spreadsheet KungFu!:
- An example:
- First – I saw this article:
- Then I went and got the raw data for test scores
- Then, I needed addresses for the PA schools
- Then, I needed to mesh the two together…this is the Kung Fu!
- Need to find a common value to match two data sets together
- Need to “clean the data” so that it will import into ArcGIS.
- Spaces, dashes, and periods are not allowed for field names in the header row.
- Make sure there are separate columns for latitude and longitude values.
- Check that longitude values for the western hemisphere are negative (if in decimal degrees).
- Best practices for file format
- Resulting in this csv file
- Resulting in….this map app
- An example:
- Importing polygon data….it’s sort of hard (read impossible) to do so with just ArcGIS
- But…let’s try to import this data set into ArcGIS and see what happens: Jewish demographics circa Holocaust -sheet 2.csv
- What you need is a shape file.
- So…there are ready-made shape files available on the www.
- Shape file resource example 1
- Shape file resource example 2
- “But, I want to add data to this shape file I found!”
- Adding data to a shape file (Not that we’re going to get into this!)
- Don’t have access to a pre-made shape file but you REALLY want polygons? You have two choices:
- Get help from a GIS master (like Jeremy Mack)
- Combine Point data to Polygon data using ArcGIS.com’s JOIN tool! If we have time, I’ll demo….
- Combine Point & Polygon Data with the Append Data Tool
I NEED HELP!
Time to brainstorm again:
- Talk to some peers to clarify your thoughts about your ArcGIS project
- Having trouble? Check out this cool map site for inspiration!