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Workshop Materials (15 Feb 2024, 10:00 – 12:00)

Created bySarah Schöttler

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• 10:00 - Welcome & Introduction
• 10:10 - Presentation: Understanding your project requirements and constraints
• 10:20 - Discussion: What are you looking to achieve?
• 10:50 - Break
• 11:00 - Presentation: Tools and Example Maps
• 11:15 - Time to try out mapping tools, supported by the trainer
• 12:00 - Closing

These are links to all the tools mentioned in the workshop. Of course there are many more tools around, though these are currently the most mainstream, well-maintained ones. However, if you have a very specific niche use case, you might want to look around some more.

• Datawrapper (free plan with most features available)
• Flourish (free plan with most features available)
• Google My Maps (free)
• ArcGIS Online (paid), some ArcGIS Online map types are also integrated inPowerBI (also paid, but may be available via UoE)
• Tableau (paid, butfree 1-year student licenses available)

• Leaflet
• MapLibre
• MapBox GL JS
• DeckGL
• D3.js (primarily a visualization library, but can be used for highly customized maps withd3-geo)

• Online tools for modifying geographic data
  • MapShaper: browser-based software for editing Shapefile, GeoJSON, TopoJSON, CSV and several other data formats
  • geojson.io: easily create geojson files by drawing custom shapes
• Tools for specific data types
  • The Vistorian: Interactive network (incl. geographic networks) visualizations