Comments on: Workshop: Let’s plot to learn GIS

By: Patsy Baudoin

Patsy Baudoin — Wed, 02 Jan 2013 03:21:49 +0000

Thanks for your replies to my post. We’ll see where GIS lands in the voting tomorrow. If no workshop materializes, maybe we can meet briefly to chat about the best strategies for learning GIS basics. I will try to read the material at the links you’ve provided. Thanks for those. Cheers. -P.

By: cottrell.j

cottrell.j — Tue, 01 Jan 2013 22:00:12 +0000

I’m a beginner with ARcGIS but I would be interested in participating in any kind of discussion relating to either the theory/problems of mapping or the more “hands on” work being called for.

By: trip.kirkpatrick

trip.kirkpatrick — Tue, 01 Jan 2013 21:20:04 +0000

I’d be interested in this specifically if there is some work on dealing with geographic uncertainty. Ambiguity/uncertainty in chronology and GIS came up in DH Q&A a while back (digitalhumanities.org/answers/topic/i-am-looking-for-discussions-of-how-to-model-dates-and-time-in-dh-projects and digitalhumanities.org/answers/topic/best-practice-for-representing-imprecise-historical-geospatial-data-on-a-map), but the latter felt a little insubstantial.

By: Amanda French

Amanda French — Tue, 01 Jan 2013 17:12:56 +0000

I’ve taught Google Maps before, so I could teach that, but nothing else — not like ARcGIS or anything. I have played around with ViewShare, too: viewshare.org/ I’d be willing to, um, facilitate a session on ViewShare (let’s not use the word “teach”).

The other software that I know a lot of people are or will use is Neatline, which is a plugin for Omeka, but I haven’t actually used that.