Link to my spreadsheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1bY4-M6TqqjIKBPsFBN8LafVaH2t6OmKpH7rDFSRddrI/edit?usp=sharing
I am very interested in digital maps and how they can add to humanities research, so this project was very useful for me. I thought the interface was actually very easy to understand and the labels of tools made sense. I chose locations that I frequent on campus, like buildings I have classes in, where my dance practices are, and where I live. I labeled and drew the buildings on the map, and wrote then their formal functions for me. The house I live in wasn’t on the map because its a ew house, so drawing the outline of the building actually helped with my map. I made the color of the buildings grey to fit my map, and lowered the labels and made them smaller. It was a very easy process, much easier than I expected. With a program like this, someone can map the route of a voyage, draw maps of historic events, or draw historic sites that don’t exist anymore. Creating a map is very useful for any kind of geographic, historic, or spatial analysis because it’s a very engaging, aesthetic, and visually comprehensive ways to portray information. I found ArcGIS in particular very useful in this process because it’s easy to understand, and I’m saying this as a humanities major, and aesthetically pleasing. The sketching tool especially is very useful for creating specific landmarks and the labels and pop-ups are also great tools for humanities research.