Tag: mapping
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The Downfall of Shamokin?
In the beginning of the semester, Professor Faull assigned each student in our Digital Humanities class a page from the Powell Diary to transcribe and convert into an online English transcription. Although the close reading and transcribing of the Powell Diary into an online English edition helped me to understand the literal meaning of the…
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A New Look at History: ArcGIS
For the past couple of weeks, our class has been collaborating on our sections of the Powell Diary in order to get enough information to build a GIS data dictionary. With the information that our class was able to collect through collaboration, we were able to determine the names and nicknames of the people and…
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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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Advanced Mapping with GIS
Throughout the week we’ve been learning about the various features of GIS and how we can take mapping and visual spatial thinking to the next level. Mapping has changed a lot over the years, and the “subject matter once organized largely by periods increasingly embraces themes of region, disapora, colonial territory, and contact zones and…