Activity 8: GIS, Location Data and Maps

   GIS and Maps

Global Information Systems and Online Maps

Assignment: Use: Google Earth and or Google Maps to create a lesson for a Manitoba ICT curriculum subject that incorporates the use of 

Global Information Systems and embedded digital maps. 

Create an exemplar layered map for your lesson and embed it on a separate page and accessible with a tab on the top of your blog. 

Speed limits and road closures on Google Maps Apps 
Got data? http://maps.google.com/help/maps/mapcontent/basemap/

Keyhole Markup Language KML (or KMZ) files http://www.gov.mb.ca/conservation/fire/Fire-Maps/

Create KML files for custom maps http://www.instructables.com/id/Creating-KML-Files-For-Your-Custom-Google-Maps/

Have fun with Geoguesser https://geoguessr.com/

Plan wilderness adventures with UTM Canadian Topographical Map http://www.mappingsupport.com/p/gmap4.php?coord=utm

Snowmobile Trails in Manitoba

Maps like this make you think. 

Maps of indigenous territories
First Nations Seeker
Native Lands

The geographic location of Names based on Occupation
What was happening at your address 220 million years ago?
Nukemap http://nuclearsecrecy.com/nukemap/
Animaps
Canadian Geological survey

NASA WorldView 

FlightRadar24

Natural Resources Canada Toporama. Build your own map from Geographic data.
US Geological Survey Free maps. http://equipped.outdoors.org/2014/10/nearly-every-usgs-topo-map-ever-made.html
Google Fusion Tables 2011 Canadian election riding by riding
Electoral Map 2000-2015 http://esrica-tsg.maps.arcgis.com/apps/MapSeries/index.html?appid=bd7ddfd489b749cf9beb25b5786a8031

Lots of resources on the web directed to teaching with maps http://serc.carleton.edu/k12/maps.html

Maps as metaphors and organizational schemes.
Mappable Genres Everynoise at Once.

Assignment: Use: Google Earth and or Google Maps to create a lesson for a Manitoba ICT curriculum subject that incorporates the use of 

Global Information Systems and embedded digital maps. 

Create an exemplar layered map for your lesson and embed it on a separate page and accessible with a tab on the top of your blog. .