DataShine

DataShine is another opportunity to access data from the Census 2011.
There are some good opportunities for filtering and displaying the data in various ways.

Thanks to Oliver O'Brien for the lead to DATASHINE. This map below, for example, focusses on properties that are usually empty.
This is Windermere in the Lake District, and the red colour tells you that the houses are mostly empty, which means that they are second properties. What impact does this have on those communities ?
Which other areas have lots of red properties ?

This would fit nicely with the enquiry in Chapter 10 of my book 'Fieldwork through Enquiry'.

You could also use it to create mystery type questions. E.g. which religion is shown in red in these cities ?

Use the tool or your knowledge of the Midlands to find out the answer...

FieldTrip GB

One of the questions that I had at the recent courses was on the use of fieldtrip apps.
I've had the app on my phone for a while but hadn't explored it, but was prompted to take another look by the question, but also by the work that I saw from Sevenoaks and other schools, who were starting to use it.

The app itself is created by EDINA, who have also created Digimap for Schools.
I wrote the Secondary teaching materials to go alongside the Digimap for Schools platform, and also for their MapStream service (OS maps streamed into a GIS client like QGIS) and am about to start work on the

There is a DESKTOP site to go alongside the app, which can be used to create DATA CAPTURE FORMS. These can be used on the site to capture data at specific points, which can then be exported in KML or CSV format.

I've been experimenting with this, and there are still a few areas I need to explore further to ensure that it works for me....
Here's a form I created for a trip to Sevenoaks tomorrow...

Sustainable Fish map

Another map built on ESRI's StoryMap template for ArcGIS Online (a summer project)

A Danish map providing advice on selecting and identifying sustainable fish species in various sea areas.

Doddle GIS resource

Free resource from Doddle (a Boardworks link)
ICT, GIS and Fieldwork...
Would make a good starting point for discussions - a nice sample...

'Feels like' temperature maps for the UK

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Another map which was shared in the last few days, created by the ESRI UK Education Team

UPDATE
Now a live humidity map too...

ArcGIS Online map of Terrestrial eco-regions...

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One of several new maps that I came across today .... Keep checking back for more new maps as I come across them...

The course that wasn't...

I have an embarrassing day on Thursday when running one of the final Google Earth and Beyond courses for the GA.
The internet at the venue didn't work for the first hour and a quarter of the day, and then came and went during the day, so the course was 'cancelled' but we hung on and I ran through a condensed version of events... less time for ArcGIS Online in the afternoon, which is a pity.
Apologies once again to those who made the journey to London, and thanks to the delegates who hung on and persevered with the day for your kind feedback.

Thanks also to Catrin, who sent through one of the outcomes that she had produced following the course, based on Snowdonia, and with a series of tasks and questions with layers to turn on and off... Really nice work.

ESRI Ed Community - ArcLessons

ArcLessons is a community for users of ArcGIS Online who share their lessons.
Although not all of the lessons are based on Geography, there are some ideas which you could adapt to Geography..
Some great contributions from Joseph Kerski, and also from Bob Lang.
For delegates at the GA course, I shall be putting some of these resources in the Dropbox area...

Graeme Eyre - 2009 vintage...

Still some interesting ideas to pick out of this... Things have moved on in the five years since Graeme produced it, so the final bits have now been sorted anyway with other mapping tools, but nice ideas to adapt...

Google Earth as a GIS from Graeme Eyre