Event

Data-Driven Web Mapping For Beginners

There are stories in the data. You need to get them out of there, and onto a map, preferably on the web. We'll talk about how to make the best interactive web maps that are possible without getting into any coding.

We'll begin with a quick run-down of what makes web maps tick, then we'll review some of the best and most common online tools for making them. We'll make a first web map using address data, which we'll prepare using spreadsheets and a data-refining program. Then we'll go over some basic GIS (Geographic Information Systems) software skills, in order to sum up address-based data within neighbourhoods. Once we've got those shapes ready we'll create a second, more sophisticated web map.

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