Check out this 1947 film about map projections. Film Description: “Development in long-range travel and the growing importance of the Arctic and Antarctic regions make it necessary to understand how maps may be misleading. Experiments with a grapefruit illustrate the difficulty of presenting a true picture of the world on a flat surface and it is concluded that the globe is the most accurate way of representing the earth.” — National Film Board of Canada
As part of the 2020 SCAG Student Showcase, ESRI and SCAG will be leading a free story map webinar training this Friday, March 6th at 10am. This training is available for students interested in competing or learning more about story maps. The competition is open to currently enrolled students at universities/colleges within the SCAG region, as well as those alumni that graduated from college within the last 12 months. For more information about the competition please see the PDF.
To RSVP to the webinar training, please visit the following link: http://scag.wufoo.com/forms/2020-student-showcase-webinar
Other important dates for the Student Showcase include:
o Submission link: http://scag.wufoo.com/forms/2020-student-showcase-submissions
o Submission link: http://scag.wufoo.com/forms/2020-student-showcase-submissions
Examples of Storymaps from past participants:
Once again we are very excited for this opportunity to work with students throughout the SCAG region. Please pass this information along to your students in the best way you see fit. Feel free to reach out to Lyle Janicek at janicek@scag.ca.gov or (213) 236-1966 with any questions you may have.
The United States Water Crisis is an interactive report published as a part of a graduate thesis in May 2019 that explores the effects of forces like “population growth and climate change,” on the United States’s water supplies. The graphic storytelling website allows users to scroll through three sections that demonstrate how our water systems have changed and what the consequences of these changes are. Check it out!
Interesting article about a do-it-yourself cartographer that got so frustrated with the official New York subway map that he designed and sold his own. But the MTA was not too happy about that and came after him. Check it out!
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