Points Unknown - Reflections from 4 years of Teaching Cartographic NarrativesJuan Francisco Saldarriaga, Michael Krisch, Brown Institute for Media Innovation, Columbia University
For the last 4 years, our Points Unknown course has been combining spatial training with journalistic techniques in order to teach GIS and mapping to journalism, architecture, and urban planning students. Anchored in spatial analysis and cartographic narratives, this course seeks to bring together and extend journalistic and architectural practices, and help students better find, understand, and tell stories. This presentation will provide an overview of our course, the challenges involved in crossing journalism with architecture and design, its successes and failures, and its evolution, from using traditional GIS software to adopting open-source libraries and programming as its main teaching tools.
Map It!: A Community-Minded Mapping CollaborationJosie Myers, Kent State University
We will discuss the opportunities and challenges of making maps with and for the community on a college campus and beyond. At Kent State University, Map It! is a community-minded collaboration between the University Libraries and the Department of Geography. Our aim is to provide spatial data visualization, geographic information science, and cartographic services to the campus community and the Northeast Ohio community at large. This talk will cover the efforts that went into getting this program off the ground, and will highlight different mapping projects that have been completed with community involvement and local knowledge.
The Disappearing art of CartographySiewe Siewe, John McIntosh, Northeastern State University
GIS degree and certificate programs, both online and face-to-face, have proliferated over the past several decades in North America. As GIS has evolved and become more sophisticated, academic departments have had to make decisions on what courses are most important to prepare students for the marketplace. While GIS arguably can trace its roots back to cartography, required course work in subjects such as cartography and map design face stiff competition with other skills such as web programming. The authors contend that education in map design and cartographic principals is still critical for effective map communication. Here, we present the results of a survey of course requirements for GIS certificate and GIS degree programs in North
This session is co-moderated by Travis White (in-person) & Bill Limpisathian (remote/Slack)
Slack channel:
#nacis2021-session-cartoedu
