Mapping Your Favorite Place
Prepare a one-page map that provides
directions from our classroom of your favorite place--anywhere in the world. You
may select any destination you like--your home, a local park, or some spot you
have visited while traveling. It can be a location in Boulder, in Colorado, in
the US, or anywhere in the world. Your task is to prepare a complete map of this
place and its surroundings in such a way that anyone from our class could find
their way to the place you depict.
The learning outcomes of this project are:
- To layout a complete map comparable to what you might prepare for a term
paper or research project
- To experiment applying principles of effective map layout and composition
- To gain knowledge of the range and quality of cartographic resources
available in the Web
- To practice digital map-making skills with simple graphics and word
processing software
- To gain experience working with digital files
The following
instructions will guide your through the basic steps of the exercise and can be
used a checklist. More detail (and lots of examples) will be introduced in
lecture and lab.
Here we go...
Step 1: Decide on the Place You Will Map and Sketch an Idea
for Your Layout
Step
2: Locate
and Download the Digital Files You Will Use to Compose Your New Map
Step
3: Insert
the Saved Images into a Word Document, Then Position and Crop Them as
Necessary
Step
4: Finish
Your Map Layout and Add Other Necessary Elements, Details, and Symbols
Step
5: What to Hand In
Step
6: Grading Rubric
Tip Sheet
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Created on 2008.7.29. k.foote@colorado.edu
Materials first developed by Ken Foote and Carrie Westcott, with additions by Vanessa Bauman.