cartography

Last month I took part in my first 30DayMapChallenge – a daily mapmaking challenge that takes place in November each year.

Hello! This week I thought I’d share a few highlights from my BCS Conference notes.

Another week passes, and what a good one it was!

The highlight was definitely the BCS Annual Conference on Wednesday and Thursday. I haven’t sifted through the notes I made and links I saved yet so I’ll come back to that later.

Some other stuff I got up to:

The first Student Reflection in GEOG 486 Lesson 1 asks:

Which map of the two below best communicates the trend of the data? Why?

For the graded assignment in the Introduction to Mapping, Spatial Data and GIS course I completed in June I made the following map:

Just a few things to note this week:

In Lesson 4 of GEOG 868 I completed a site selection using PostGIS.

A few things I got up to this week:

The Making Maps unit for the Introduction to Mapping, Spatial Data and GIS course I completed in June featured a tourism case study. The exercise that week was to create a tourist map of Melbourne in Australia.

Oops, my first late weeknote! I intended to get it done at the weekend rather than on Wednesday like usual, but that has ended up slipping over to today, Monday. Anyway. What GIS things did I get up to since my last post?