GIS Education Weekly: Teaching and Learning with Coronavirus Maps

Resourses for Teaching and Learning with Coronavirus Maps

Medium: Five Questions to Ask when you See a Coronoavirus Map - Garrett Dash Nelson,
Curator of Maps & Director of Geographic Scholarship, Leventhal Map & Education Center at the Boston Public Library provides a nice intro to virus cartography. Via @macgaffeyn.

Crowdsourced Grocery Store Reports: Holly Terpi put together this ArcGIS Dashboard with crowdsourced information about the situation in grocery stores. Via Stephanie Long on LinkedIn.

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Maps in this week's news are of three types: coronavirus maps, where to get food during coronavirus outbreak and maps related to the presidential election. There are a lot of data, cartography and other issues to discuss! This map of cases in L.A. is a good starting point. 

The Economist: Foot traffic has fallen sharply in cities with big coronavirus outbreaks - "Data from Google show that the virus has indeed prompted a sharp decline in overall foot traffic. They also suggest that shops and restaurants in places where covid-19 is now taking root should prepare for similar slowdowns." Via RE Seiber.

GIS Education Weekly: Mapping and Charting COVID-19

Coronavirus, Maps and Education

Kyodo News Plus: Student creates online map charting coronavirus cases across Japan - "Kyushu University student Lee Dong Yon, 25, utilizes health ministry data to plot the routes traveled by those infected within Japan....The psychology student has no background in programming, and taught himself after he became interested in a disaster prevention map he saw at an event hosted last year by Line Fukuoka Corp., a regional unit of messaging app provider Line Corp."

Forbes: Why Geography Is A Key Part Of Fighting The COVID-19 Coronavirus Outbreak - Atmospheric scientist Marshall Shepherd, who has three degrees in meteorology, argues for geography.

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NPR (Shots Blog): Map: US States With Coronavirus Infections - How helpful is this map in the context of Ken Field's discussion from last week?

The Conversation: Coronavirus outbreak: a new mapping tool that lets you scroll through timeline - I only this week found this article and map from Edward Parker, Research Fellow in Systems Biology, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine. Via Google Maps Mania.

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The Source (Washington University in St. Louis) - The divide between us: Urban-rural political differences rooted in geography - "A new study by Washington University in St. Louis political scientists finds that it isn’t personal profiles, but rather proximity to bigger cities that drives the political divide."

Tribune Review: Map lets you track your flush to the ALCOSAN plant - "The ... Follow the Flush interactive map allows the public to track the wastewater from their home, or any other address, to the ALCOSAN treatment plant in Pittsburgh’s North Side."

GIS Education Weekly: Mapping Coronavirus, Marathoners and Shelter

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Current residence of women who qualified
for the U.S. Olympic Marathon Trials. These
are counts, not rates.

USA Track and Field (USATF): USATF offers maps of the counts of olympic trial marathon qualifiers by state in two maps: a pink one for women and a blue one for men. Is this a reasonable thing to count rather than display as a rate? Shout out to one time Somerville Road Runner, Alex Taylor who qualified at 40. Via Victor Gonzalez.

Teaching with maps and GIS in K12 class - A Padlet from Esri's Tom Baker collecting "Easy, medium, and advanced ideas for using digital mapping tools (GIS) in a school classroom."  Via @trbaker on Twitter.

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PublicSource: CMU created a map excluding Pittsburgh's Black Neighborhoods - The article discusses two situations where maps of the city did not meet the viewers' expectations.

Something About Maps (blog): Maps in the Kitchen - Daniel Huffman shares an analogy he uses when teaching introductory cartography. Does "Cartography is like cooking?" work for you? Via Andy Woodruff.

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LinkedIn: Tom Backhouse is working to get a hard copy of a 'GeoScience for the Future' poster to classrooms. The poster has a nice representation of geoscience jobs, including those in GIS and remote sensing and their connection to one or more millennium development goals.

Can you point to Ukraine on a map?:  Chris Zubak-Skees wrote some code to give visitors to the site a chance to try. This was after the U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo challenged Mary Louise Kelly of National Public Radio to do so on an unlabeled map.