Date: Wednesday 9th March 2011
Venue University of Manchester
Speakers: Professor Paul Longley (University College London) and Dr Alex Singleton (University of Liverpool)
Established cartographic design principles provide a range of novel ways in which information can be presented visually to the user. Using techniques of geovisualization, GIS provides a far richer and more flexible medium for portraying attribute distributions than traditional paper mapping. First, through techniques of spatial query, it allows users to explore, synthesize, present (communicate), and analyze the meaning of a representation. Second, it facilitates map transformation using techniques such as cartograms and dasymetric mapping. Third, geovisualization allows the user to interact with the real world from a distance, through interaction with and even immersion in artificial worlds. Together, these considerations present a range of important issues for on-line mapping, using background data such as Google Maps and Earth, and a range of more specialised resources. The innovation of ‘Virtual Earths’ and social networking has also encouraged the development of forums for feedback and the supply of volunteered geographic information (VGI) to augment official views on subjects that might give rise to social conflict, or flag topics that might require increasing attention or intervention.
IIn addition to reviewing these general developments, this workshop will develop extended examples that deploy ‘geodemographic’ analysis – methods of simplifying the complex characteristics of urban areas into groupings of neighbourhoods sharing similar characteristics. The use of geodemographic information about neighbourhoods will be illustrated through numerous examples concerning the delivery of public services. Practical sessions will show how you can apply a geodemographic classification to your data, and how this can be visualised within a GIS.
Throughout, we emphasise the use of widely available and open source software and data resources.
Programme
10.00-10.30 Arrival and Registration (Tea/coffee)
10.30-10.45 Welcome
10.45-11.30 An introduction to Geographic Information Systems and and Geographic Information Science
11.30-12.30 Advances in the Geoweb: Online Mapping Case Studies
12.30-1.30 Lunch
1.30-2.00 An Introduction to Geodemographics
2.00-3.00 Practical – Profiling your data with free geodemographics
3.00-3.30 Tea/coffee break
3.30--4.30 Practical – Visualising your data online with free mapping tools
4.30-5.00 Conclusions
Who is this course for?
Anyone interested in mapping small area socio-economic and demographic data using Google Maps/Earth backgrounds. Researchers interested in the ways that spatial data may be summarised into local area indicators, and be transformed in order to fulfil various mapping goals. As such, the event will be of interest to research students and academics from a wide range of spatially enabled disciplines, especially geography and planning.
Course fees
£30 for UK registered postgraduate students; £60 for staff at UK academic institutions, ESRC funded researchers and registered charity organisations; £220 for all other participants. All fees include event materials, lunch, morning and afternoon tea. They do not include travel and accommodation costs.
Registration
To register see: http://www.ncrm.ac.uk/TandE/events2011/0309/index.php
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