Map making for kids to help support #VisualizeNoMalaria
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Over the last couple of months, I was fortunate to have the opportunity to meet with the 4th and 5th Grade Girls Club at a San Francisco school and get them excited about all things data visualization and mapping. In a couple lunches and after school workshops we learned about cartography, map construction, and design, built our own outrageously fun custom maps of San Francisco using Mapbox, and finally contributed to the #VisualizeNoMalaria project by tracing buildings for Humanitarian OpenStreetMap. Here is my presentation for all the lessons.
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- 1. I N T R O T O C A R T O G R A P H Y P A R T 1
- 2. C A R T O G R A P H Y
- 3. W H A T A R E W E G O I N G T O T A L K A B O U T ? • Cartography • Why Make Maps • Types of Maps • Coordinate Systems • Points, Lines, & Shapes • Glitter
- 4. A N D I N A F E W M O R E L U N C H E S … • Make your own digital maps • #VisualizeNoMalaria project
- 5. W H Y M A K E M A P S ?
- 6. R O A D M A P
- 7. P O L I T I C A L M A P
- 8. P H Y S I C A L M A P
- 9. T O P O G R A P H I C A L M A P S
- 10. T O P O G R A P H I C A L M A P S
- 11. T H E M A T I C M A P
- 12. T H E M A T I C M A P
- 13. C L I M A T E M A P
- 14. W H A T T H E E A R T H L O O K S L I K E
- 15. W H A T A F L A T E A R T H L O O K S L I K E ?
- 16. M A P P R O J E C T I O N S
- 17. M E R C A T O R
- 18. P O L A R P R O J E C T I O N
- 19. L A T I T U D E A N D
- 20. X O V E R Y !
- 21. P O I N T S , L I N E S , &
- 22. P O I N T S , L I N E S , & S H A P E S Line Shape Point
- 23. P O I N T S , L I N E S , & S H A P E S Line Shape Point
- 24. W I T H S T Y L E !
- 25. S I Z E , C O L O R , P O S I T I O N , S H A P E
- 26. W H A T P O I N T S , L I N E S , S H A P E S , A N D S T Y L E S T O Y O U S E E ?
- 27. W H A T P O I N T S , L I N E S , S H A P E S , A N D S T Y L E S T O Y O U S E E ?
- 31. I N T R O M A P B O X A N D M A P M A K I N G P A R T 2
- 32. L E T ’ S G E T M A P P I N G !
- 33. S E T U P Y O U R M A P B O X A C C O U N T• Go to http://www.mapbox.com • Click on Sign Up in upper right corner
- 34. S E L E C T T O M A K E A N E W S T Y L E • Click on New Style • Give your Map a name • Pick a starter map style and click on Create
- 35. P O I N T S , L I N E S & S H A P E S W I T H G L I T T E R • Layers of: • Points • Lines • Shapes
- 36. S H A P E S • Select the Water layer to see the Style options • Pick a new color for the water • Optional - pick a Stroke Color
- 37. L I N E S • Select the Admin Boundaries folder to open it (this is country boundaries) • Pick a new color for the boundaries of Admin 2 Boundaries • Change the line width to be bigger or smaller. • Zoom and and out
- 38. P O I N T S • Use the Search to find San Francisco
- 39. P O I N T S • Find the layer for Place City Lg N, ad change the color. • You can change the color at different Zoom Levels • You can change the Opacity (if it see through or not)
- 40. P O I N T S • Notice the options for Icon, Position, & Placement under Style • Add and Icon to the Large Cities • Use the Size to make it larger • Use Position to move the Label or the Icon
- 41. P R O P E R T I E S • Use the Properties (lower left) to adjust: • Fonts • Colors • Icons • Etc.
- 42. D U P L I C A T E • Select a Layer you would like to copy • Click on the Duplicate Layer icon
- 43. F I L T E R • Select a layer to filter • Go to the Select data tab • Add a filter, such as on iso = US
- 44. P L A Y A N D P U B L I S H
- 45. S H A R E . Y O U A R E N O W A F A M O U S : - )
- 46. H U M A N I T A R I A N O P E N S T R E E T M A P T O H E L P F I G H T M A L A R I A P A R T 3
- 47. What is malaria? Slide courtesy of
- 48. Slide Title using your data skills to have an • 3.4 billion people live in areas at risk of malaria transmission • 104 Countries or territories in which malaria is currently considered endemic • ~200 Million cases of malaria per year • $12 Billion UDS the direct costs of malaria every year • ~400,000 deaths worldwide from malaria each yearSlide courtesy of
- 49. Where we are going? Slide courtesy of
- 50. Nets Picture Slide courtesy of
- 52. INSERT BETTER PHOTO of CHW Slide courtesy of
- 54. “Surveillance is the next malaria vaccine”
- 56. R E M E M B E R S F W A S P O I N T S , L I N E S A N D S H A P E S … Line Shape Point
- 57. https://vimeo.com/217858137 D R I V I N G T H R O U G H Z A M B I A
- 58. NOW WE WANT TO GET DOWN TO THE HOUSEHOLD LEVEL
- 60. WE ARE GOING TO ADD THOSE SHAPES SO MAP MAKERS CAN USE THEM TO BUILD MAPS
- 61. SO WE CAN ALL HELP FIGHT MALARIA
Editor's Notes
- Can you draw a picture of how to get from (pick two locations in the school) Let’s say a friend asks you how to get to your house. What will you tell him? Could you draw a map? What would you include on the map? Perhaps you’d include streets, houses or maybe buildings like your favorite ice cream store. Maybe you’d include landmarks. Maps help people know where to go. Someone who makes maps is a cartographer. Cartography is the study and practice of making maps. Combining science, aesthetics, and technique, cartography builds on the premise that reality can be modeled in ways that communicate spatial information effectively.
- Road Map - A road map is one of the most widely used map types. These maps show major and minor highways and roads (depending on detail) as well as things like airports, city locations and points of interest like parks, campgrounds and monuments. Major highways on a road map are generally red and larger than other roads, while minor roads are a lighter color and a narrower line.
- Political - show man made political boundaries. A political map does not show any topographic features. It instead focuses solely on the state and national boundaries of a place. They also include the locations of cities - both large and small, depending on the detail of the map.
- Physical - A physical map is one that shows the physical landscape features of a place. They generally show things like mountains, rivers and lakes and water is always shown with blue. Mountains and elevation changes are usually shown with different colors and shades to show relief. Normally on physical maps green shows lower elevations while browns show high elevations.e.
- Topographical - elevation or height above sea level.
- Thematic Map - A thematic map is a map that focuses on a particular theme or special topic and they are different from the six aforementioned general reference maps because they do not just show natural features like rivers, cities, political subdivisions, elevation and highways. If these items are on a thematic map, they are background information and are used as reference points to enhance the map's theme.
- Thematic Map - A thematic map is a map that focuses on a particular theme or special topic and they are different from the six aforementioned general reference maps because they do not just show natural features like rivers, cities, political subdivisions, elevation and highways. If these items are on a thematic map, they are background information and are used as reference points to enhance the map's theme.
- Climate - A climate map shows information about the climate of an area. They can show things like the specific climatic zones of an area based on the temperature, the amount of snow an area receives or average number of cloudy days. These maps normally use colors to show different climatic areas.
- Maps are flat - the earth is not.
- Try wrapping a large piece of tissue paper around a ball to show difficulty in making a flat map match a round shape
- Animated gif
- Talk about using colors, size, etc. to communicate.
- A satellite view of Zambia with shapes in yellow to show district boundaries, and points to show facilities and the health workers that report them.
- Samples of fun maps
- A map made to look like a Keith Haring painting to show tweets about love on Valentines day.
- Malaria is a life-threatening disease caused by parasites that are transmitted from person to person through the bites of infected female Anopheles mosquitoes. In 2015, 91 countries and areas had ongoing malaria transmission. Malaria is preventable and curable, and increased efforts are dramatically reducing the malaria burden in many places.
- Example of Bed Nets used to keep people from getting bitten.
- Example of Spraying a house with insecticide.
- Community Health Workers out in the field performing blood tests for the parasite and giving medicine.
- We are going to help make maps to support the fight against Malaria by adding shapes to a map that indicate where houses are.
- This is a video of driving through Livingstone. It is to show what it looks like in Zambia.
- By adding the buildings, we can create maps down to the household level, just like we can see houses in SF when we were building maps in Mapbox.
- What some houses / huts may look like.