SAGT Conference 2014 presentation

1. “When we travel, we travel through
an infinity of simultaneous stories….
and maps are a surface over which
these stories are played out…”
Emeritus Professor Doreen Massey

2. “The urge to map is a basic,
enduring human instinct.”
Jerry Brotton, professor of
renaissance studies at the
University of London

3. SAGT 2014
It’s a sign….
Finding new ways with maps

4. Alan Parkinson
a.parkinson@gmail.com

6. Work here…
4 days a week

8. Digimap for Schools
Digimap for Colleges

9. Education Director – Explorer HQ

10. John Muir
Trust
“Going to the
mountains is
going home…”

11. John Muir Trust

13. Greater London National Park
@LondonNP

14. Mapping at the heart of it…

15. Previous & current projects
(selected)
• I-USE project (statistical literacy) – EU wide
• GeoCapabilities – EU wide until 2016 – “what
can Geography do for you….”
• Voyage of the Betsey – Summer 2014 & 2015
• Rediscovering London’s Geography &
LondonMapper (Innovative Geography
Teaching grant) for RGS-IBG website
• GCSE Textbooks for 2016 – chapters on
Landscapes amongst others…

16. This year’s Pixar connection
Coming out in 2015

17. Mapping ideas…
Digital Inside
Paper Outside

18. From the classroom…

24. The Cuillins
Inaccessible Pinnacle

25. Danny MacAskill – ‘The Ridge’
• The film – YouTube
• The Making of – BBC Scotland – still on iPlayer

26. Collaborative Google Document
Ideas for using the film…
http://bit.ly/11L6MyS

27. NLS Map release

28. Local Stories and Maps
Your Life on Earth
http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/2
0141016-your-life-on-earth

29. Accuracy checking…
Shorter term changes in landscape
Images: Ian Ward

30. Language of Landscape

31. Maps of your own area…
• Tied to stories,
which you write
• Literacy Week

33. Landscape Haiku

34. Recite this / Canva – app or website

35. OSLocate – App
Identifying locations
accurately
Free: iOS / Android
Nearby.org.uk = Lat &
Long conversion
also
Fieldtrip GB

36. ArcGIS Online session
Steve Dunn and Mark Smith
Grammar School at Leeds

37. Voyage of the Betsey
ArcGIS Online Story Map
http://bit.ly/1nlCEle

39. World GIS Day
World Record Attempt
Few Scottish schools have signed up…
http://gisrecord2014.jimdo.com/

40. http://www.arcgis.com/home/webmap/viewer.html?webmap=58f0f7e1cad64c4082bf41
f7b521f607
Sign in and edit the map to answer questions

41. Geograph – image download from
search function

42. Google Earth
Viewing images in the location they
were taken….

43. Global

44. Bishop Louis of Kigali: Rwanda

45. Mapping clothing and memorabilia

46. Maps of Antarctica…
• Instructions in Dropbox

48. Landscapes / Maps in a Box…
http://www.small-boxes.com

49. Year 9
project

50. Curate a page on Pinterest…
• http://www.pinterest.com/geoblogs/

51. OS Maps

52. Maps coax their readers into doing the lion's share of the
work. They require an act of code-breaking to distinguish
the symbols for railway embankments from gravel pits;
club houses from cattle-grids; coppice from saltings. They
demand close attention to variations in the landscape and
navigational initiative. But, as abundantly generous
recompense for such active exertion, the bird's-eye view
grants the freedom to eschew efficiency, to choose one's
own path, to wander, improvise and play among the hills.
The freedom to get lost, and find oneself again.
By stimulating and freeing the mind, the paper map is
loved by poets, artists, hikers, historians, lovers,
dreamers.
Rachel Hewitt

53. OS Create a Map
https://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/shop/custom-made-maps.html
• Shop allows creation of
map image – don’t have
to order it, although
Darren would appreciate
it if you did…

54. What are the most popular OS sheets?
Top 10 sheets
2 million
paper maps
sold in 2013
1. OL17 – Snowdon
2. OL7 – The English Lakes: South-eastern
area
3. OL24 – The Peak District: White Peak area
4. OL6 – The English Lakes: South-western
area
5. OL1 – The Peak District: Dark Peak area
6. OL4 – The Lake District: North-western
area
7. OL2 – Yorkshire Dales: Southern &
Western area
8. OL15 – Purbeck & South Dorset
9. OL5 – The Lake District: North-eastern
area
10. OL22 – New Forest

55. Top 10 OS Landranger Maps
1. 115 – Snowdon
2. 90 – Penrith & Keswick
3. 41 – Ben Nevis
4. 119 – Buxton & Matlock
5. 200 – Newquay & Bodmin
6. 23 – North Skye
7. 203 – Land’s End & Isles of Scilly
8. 114 – Anglesey
9. 32 – South Skye & Cuillin Hills
10. 194 – Dorchester & Weymouth
http://www.bing.com/maps/

58. Facebook pages for landforms
Tony Cassidy

59. Home Profile Inbox Friends Settings Logout Search
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62. Alasdair Rae

63. Luminocity 3D
http://luminocity3d.org/#population_density_2011/11/56.3938/-
3.4779

65. Practical Session
#minigeogs

69. The Professor
Illustration: Tom Morgan Jones

70. Illustration: Tom Morgan Jones

73. http://map.sepa.org.uk/floodmap/map.htm
All Screen captures made using SKITCH

75. http://io.morphocode.com/urban-layers/
- New York

76. WW1 – how has your town changed ?
Google Drive

78. Questions

79. Thanks
• Add your name to the list for a Dropbox
invite to lots more resources that I didn’t
have time to show you…
• And get in touch if you want to follow up
anything that I’ve introduced you to…
•See you in 2015…

80. Maps Playlist