resources

Information on Projects

• Marlboro Shapefiles

• US States Shapefile

• Census Data Itself

reading for class

• How to Lie with Maps, Chapters 1-3 (pdf) [Reading for 10th Sep.]

• Measured Survey Using a Plane Table (youtube). [Watch for 19th Sep.]

some map-related links

• David Rumsey Map Collection

• GIS-Windham Regional Commission

• More Basemaps in QGIS: Indicatrix

• Search Tools (Vermont Center for Geographic Information)

• Imagery services (Vermont Center for Geographic Information)

• Chicago History of Cartography Online

• The Perry-Castaneda Library Map Collection

• The Nasa Projection Gallery

• Closed Resources has items that are accessible only to the class.

8 Oct

• The Racial Dot Map

• Some "doubly isarithmic" maps

• Is a map the best choice (example)

29 Oct

• Empty Seats
• Shrinking Doctor
• Schools without Latrine
• xkcd: Angular Size
• xkcd: Questions
• xkcd: Ice Sheets

• Big Mac Index
• horsemeat
• Election map
• UK Languages I
• UK Languages II
• Most visited site by country
• Causes of Death in the 21st Century
• Sasquatch sightings
• Size of African Countries
• Starships
• Where quarterbacks throw
• Plan Sponsors I
• Plan Sponsors II

• Shrinking Doctor

Nov 14

• Wikipedia's sextant gif
• Rough Science 1, including finding latitude and longitude.
• Gnomon experiments (how to do what we're doing more thoroughly) and a more concise approach. This table of declination angles for the sun will be useful.

other

• software tools - editors, compilers, statistics, etc
• Copyright and Plagiarism
• creative commons

attachments

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allcosp2.pdf Oct 28 2013 5:34 pm 113kB Monmonier_-_How_to_Lie_with_Maps_-_Chaps_1-3.pdf Sep 5 2013 12:53 pm 23.4MB Monmonier_-_How_to_Lie_with_Maps_-_Propaganda.pdf Nov 13 2013 1:59 pm 22.2MB Rhumb_Lines_and_Map_Wars_-_Last_Three_Chapters.pdf Nov 13 2013 2:00 pm 28.0MB Wood_and_Fels_-_The_Nature_of_Maps_-_Chap_1.pdf Nov 18 2013 9:33 am 28.6MB Wood_and_Fels_-_The_Nature_of_Maps_-_Chap_3_-_Land_of_Living_Fossils.pdf Nov 18 2013 9:34 am 25.7MB