The most important thing to teach your children is that the sun does not rise and set. It is the Earth that revolves around the sun. Then teach them the concepts of North, South, East and West, and that they relate to where they happen to be on the planet’s surface at that time. Everything else will follow.
-R. Buckminster Fuller
cultivating a sense of place
A great deal of information is already available that can be identified in terms of a specific geographic location. Exciting and enjoyable collaborative map tools have become available that put power in the hands of everyone to place even more interesting and important information of interest into a geographic context on a map. Explore the links already on this map and contribute your own to share with others. As the map grows we can all begin to examine more of what cultivating a sense of place really means.
hint: to edit this map, click “powered by umapper”
October 13th, 2008 at 1:52 pm
It is “easy” to for all of us to collaborate by adding places to the map. First click on the “Powered by UMapper.com” text on the bottom right side of the map. This will open up a second new window with our UMapper Wiki page. (This IES 2008 GeoWeb page will also still be open)
On the top right of the new “Map Wiki” page, click the “Edit Map” button and you will get a bigger map page with several map editing tools on the right side. One important tool is the “Add Marker.” Use this to put a spot exactly on the map where you want it. Move it around if you need to. Use the square content box to enter information and even web page links. You can also draw polygons, lines circles, etc. and create information for these too. Save the map often. At the end zoom wide – or take the map out so you can see more than the whole state of Idaho and Save it one last time!
Finally you can close down the “Exit Editor” Window. (Our UMapper page may still be visible showing the approximate view you will see on the IES GeoWeb page.) Go back to the IES GeoWeb page now and refresh your screen and you will see the new map as others will see it. Whenever you look at this map, it will have any changes that have been made since the last time you looked.
(Apparently, the view you leave the map will be the view the next person will see it. I.e., if you are zoomed into a close view where your new placmark is located the next person will see that instead of the wide view of Idaho and surrounding states that shows all of the markers people have contributed.)