Introduction to Human Geography - Mapping Lab
Mapping Yourself - For Groups
Because the suite of courses that you're enrolled in require you to work on a significant group project, it makes sense to put each of you into a group that minimizes the traveling distances for each student. This assignment not only will help place you into a group based on your home address, it will also introduce you to a segment of a mapping exercise that you'll be doing later in the semester.
Convert Your Home Address into Latitude and Longitude Coordinates.
In this section of the lab, you will participate in a group effort along with your classmates to construct a map of your homes.
The first part of this assignment is to submit your home address to a geocoding program called batchgeocode.com .
If you are not comfortable disclosing your actual address, feel free to submit a nearby address, something that is within a mile or so of your actual residence.
For example, if you live at 135 Main Street, but you don't want others to know that; use 125 Main Street as your street address.
We will use this data to make a wiki-style map of all the students in this class, so that we may best arrange you into spatially compact working groups, based on your address.
Step 1 . Open the online mapping program called batchgeocode.com (click to open in a new window).
- We'll be using the SINGLE address lookup function for this assignment. We'll map multiple addresses in a later assignment.
Step 2. Once you're in batchgeocode.com, enter your address (or a nearby one) into the window and click on the "Map it!" button.
Step 3. Make a note of the latitude and longitude coordinates.
Next, enter your home address and the latidude and longitude coordinates produced by batchgeocode.com into the form below.
Your data will be entered into an online spreadsheet, this spreadsheet will in turn provide information to a mapping program which will display each of our addresses.
One you have entered your home address, you may open the map using Google Maps to see the results of your efforts, though it may take as much as a half-hour for your data to be fully processed by Google Docs. To open the map, click the link below or click the link below the map.
Note that my Dr. Graves' address is already mapped.
Here's the class map - a work in progress - (opens in new window)
Try this link if the link above does not work - (opens new window)
Here's another...just because this thing sometimes takes a while (opens new window)
You may have to click reload several times, or go into the "Search Maps" window and remove the last digits following the "output&time="
