Tag: Bodenhammer
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If a picture is worth a thousand words, then a GIS map is worth a million.
Throughout this course we have looked at several ways to organise information and present it in such a way that it is more meaningful than before. The creation of our very own GIS maps are a prime example of this. Bodenhammer emphasises the meaningfulness of maps by stating that “all spaces contain embedded stories based on…
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Understanding History Through GIS
Over the last two weeks, we did close reading on Powell Diary, built our GIS Data Dictionary, created our own story maps and finally published the maps through a web mapping application. In my story maps, I focused primarily on the connections between Shamokin and Native Americans. Through maps and spatial thinking, I tried to find the answers…
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The Benefits of Using GIS
GIS stands for geospatial information system, a very useful system in which one can visualize, interpret and analyze a large sum of information. GIS can be used in many different ways, one way being a map in which one can layer information in an understandable and visually appealing way. The GIS map that displays the…