[DISCUSSION GUIDE] Week 7: Who draws maps?

[eculler]

Agenda

1. Warm-up: what's your favorite map? [5 min]
2. Read and Discuss [30 min]
3. Everyone make or respond to a discussion post about a problem they had with the vector homework. [5-10 min] It could be a problem they were able to solve - this is an opportunity to practice making useful discussion posts. Discussion posts should contain at a minimum:

• What were you trying to do? What output or behavior did you expect?
• What did you do? (include a minimal reproducible code example)
• What actually happened? (include FULL error messages and screenshots as needed)
• Describe your system. This is pretty easy if you use a Codespace. Otherwise it is REALLY important. Consider including operating system/container system, how you installed your environment, output of conda list.

4. Choose one or two to answer as a class. Please also critique the discussion posts - do they have enough information to answer the question? I don't expect students to be able to solve every coding problem they encounter at this point (or maybe ever!). I do expect them to be able to describe the problem they have in a clear and helpful way. If as a class there is a well-described problem and you can't find the answer, tag @eculler !
5. Screen share - Continue from the data download.

[nquarder]

From Nate's Weds afternoon discussion -

• What are some of peoples favorite maps?
• @peterkobylarz likes to your Gaia GPS (https://www.gaiagps.com); use for backcountry navigation; cool tool that allows overlay of different base maps; mushroom foraging (private property layers; aerial photos; has a free version; also likes https://store.avenza.com as well as ArcGIS Pro; NOAA digital coast searchable for datasets and LiDAR, coasts, waterways (https://coast.noaa.gov/dataviewer/#/lidar/search/); fire data and maps (https://www.watchduty.org/) - useful for monitoring staying notified
• @jsmi374 likes https://tnris.org/ ; Texas Natural Resources Information System; in a previous job did desktop analysis using LiDAR; TX has good database of spatial data for free online; better than a lot of other states' open GIS tools; paleo river maps of the Mississippi River (https://kottke.org/19/06/the-marvelous-mississippi-river-meander-maps)
• @annettebalmes likes Science on a Sphere (NOAA tool) - way to see things in 3D; https://sos.noaa.gov/catalog/datasets/?category=Space&subcategory=Earth%27s%20Magnetism&platform=sos
• @Adriannaluger has used the ESRI tools
• @nquarder has used https://ortho.gis.iastate.edu/ for work specific to Iowa

Link to survey for anyone who still needs to take: https://cuboulder.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_5uu3DOLPZkgIPUq

Demonstrate how to ask/answer Q's in GitHub

• thanks to @Adriannaluger for screen sharing and demo-ing how to write a Discussion post in GitHub (Test cell failing in site maps notebook #493)

[eculler]

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