{"id":2936,"date":"2015-05-29T07:18:15","date_gmt":"2015-05-29T14:18:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/ed-tech\/?p=2936"},"modified":"2015-05-29T11:26:20","modified_gmt":"2015-05-29T18:26:20","slug":"getting-on-the-map-workshop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/ed-tech\/2015\/05\/getting-on-the-map-workshop\/","title":{"rendered":"Getting on the map (workshop)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On May 29th\/30th, Reed is co-hosting the inaugural <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/729-miles-of-tech\/\">instructional technology conference<\/a> of the Northwest Five Consortium (NW5C). I am leading a workshop on maps, mapping, spatial analysis, and spatial thinking; materials below.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Hands-on #1: Social Explorer (<a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/0B3MAbgkG0EnLZkVLT2VCWlVJdHc\/view?usp=sharing\">instructions<\/a>) (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.socialexplorer.com\/explore\/maps\">website<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>Hands-on #2: Brief Buffering in QGIS (<a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/0B3MAbgkG0EnLemJ6WXdOU3RrWWs\/view?usp=sharing\">instructions<\/a>) (<a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/0B3MAbgkG0EnLUVJRaGFhR2M0dDA\/view?usp=sharing\">download data<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>Hands-on #3: Working with Longitude\/Latitude data (<a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/0B3MAbgkG0EnLNTdzeG52cnBaR3M\/view?usp=sharing\">instructions<\/a>) (<a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/0B3MAbgkG0EnLTTZPdlJacmhxdGc\/view?usp=sharing\">data<\/a>)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Additional links:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/o\t-- http:\/\/www.portlandmaps.com\/bps\/cpmapp2\/\">City of Portland comprehensive planning app<\/a>\u00a0(raster data in action!)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.qgistutorials.com\/en\/docs\/georeferencing_basics.html\">Georeferencing in QGIS<\/a> (tutorial)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.diva-gis.org\/Data\">Diva-GIS<\/a> (free, international spatial data)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.naturalearthdata.com\/downloads\/\">Natural Earth <\/a>(physical, political, cultural data)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhgis.org\/\">NHGIS<\/a> (Census + spatial data, 1790-2013)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/openstreetmap.org\">openstreetmap<\/a> (global, crowdsourced data)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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) &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/ed-tech\/2015\/05\/getting-on-the-map-workshop\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Getting on the map (workshop)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mapping-geospatial","category-workshops"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/ed-tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2936","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/ed-tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/ed-tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/ed-tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/ed-tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2936"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/ed-tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2936\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2943,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/ed-tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2936\/revisions\/2943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/ed-tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/ed-tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/ed-tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}