Mapping Your Life - A free workshop by the Out of Eden Walk Project

Date: 

Saturday, October 17, 2015, 9:00am to 5:00pm

Location: 

K050, CGIS Knafel, 1737 Cambridge St, Cambridge
Maps visualize data in a geographic context. They add meaning, power and beauty to the stories we wish to communicate—whether it is a map of income inequality across the globe or the geo-coded route of your daily jogging route. The Out of Eden Walk project, a 7-year storytelling walk across the world sponsored byNational Geographic and the Knight Foundation, is now sharing its digital mapping expertise with the interested public. In this new educational initiative taught by the Center for Geographic Analysis at Harvard University, anyone can learn the basic mapping skills and free online tools needed to create compelling maps that tell your geographic story. Please join us. Students will learn how to create: General reference and choropleth maps using sets of data and GIS software freely available online. A sequential, interactive story map online with geotagged photos and GPS locations, similar to the walking map of Tbilisi, Republic of Georgia, pictured below (click it to see the interactive version). Workshop Agenda: 9:00 a.m. – Noon: Learn some mapping basics, and create maps with QGIS and Google Earth. Noon – 2:00 Walk to lunch as a class, mapping our route, collecting geotagged pictures on the way. 2:00 – 5:00: Each student will create an online narrated story map of the GPS and photos collected during lunch. Date and location: Saturday, October 17th. Harvard University, Cambridge, MA. Room K050 of the CGIS Knafel building, 1737 Cambridge St. Students must bring: A laptop to perform the mapping exercises on. A digital camera. Smartphone cameras are the easiest to use, but other digital cameras are also fine. Appropriate clothing for a short outdoor walk. Anyone interested in telling stories with maps is welcome to attend. Limited to 24 participants per workshop. REGISTER_FOR_THE_WORKSHOP Workshop materials mapping_your_life_flier_final.pdf