On May 29th/30th, Reed is co-hosting the inaugural instructional technology conference of the Northwest Five Consortium (NW5C). I am leading a workshop on maps, mapping, spatial analysis, and spatial thinking; materials below.
- Hands-on #1: Social Explorer (instructions) (website)
- Hands-on #2: Brief Buffering in QGIS (instructions) (download data)
- Hands-on #3: Working with Longitude/Latitude data (instructions) (data)
Additional links:
- City of Portland comprehensive planning app (raster data in action!)
- Georeferencing in QGIS (tutorial)
- Diva-GIS (free, international spatial data)
- Natural Earth (physical, political, cultural data)
- NHGIS (Census + spatial data, 1790-2013)
- openstreetmap (global, crowdsourced data)