Link to spreadsheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1VZO8TnAJYl8wjDIQivqmtiy-0mh-LAuRPT1drBuI3SM/edit#gid=0
When making my web map of the five most relevant places on campus to me, I chose the Center of Mathematics and Computing, Olin Hall, Musser Hall, The Recreation Center, and the Language and Dining Center. The size of the pink points indicate how many days I spend at each location; the bigger the point is the more time is spent in that particular building. I noticed that where the points are placed does not match up with where the building actually is on the map. This may be because the points were placed according to the street address of the building and not it’s coordinates. If the location of the points was based on the longitude and latitude of the buildings, there may be a more accurate placement. I was not quite sure how to make this change, so my campus map is not 100% accurate.
In my opinion, web mapping in the digital humanities field has quite a bit of potential. There is a lot of spatial data in the digital humanities which needs to be organized and displayed in a succinct manner. This can happen with web mapping which represents geospatial data as a digital map that can easily be analyzed and shared. On a daily basis, web mapping can be used to get driving directions or street addresses in apps such as Google Earth or Map Quest. On a more niche and specialized level, this type of mapping could be used in fields such as archeology, geology, or urban planning where it is essential to have a bigger picture with multiple data sets.
The ArcGIS online platform allows for the creation of a web map in a fairly easy manner. The interactive maps can connect data, locations, and even people. The facilitation of these kinds of maps can help new perspectives come to light and draw attention to detail that may not have been looked at before.
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From your choice of campus locations where you represent time spent at these campuses through point size, it is apparent that thought was used in creating the web map. Although there are differences in point placement due to address-based data rather than coordinate-based ones, your attention to detail is evident through the recognition of possible improvements. Regarding the digital humanities, web mapping has a solid promise to order and appropriately show spatial data. Platforms such as ArcGIS online allow the creation of an interactive map where new insights and perspectives emerge in different areas, which is very interesting.