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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
- American Panorama
Other Maps that I’ve built for middle school students’ research topics…
Cool ESRI Data sources/tools that work with ArcGIS.com
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!