COVID-19 Home Learning Resources for Geographers - #34 - Make a map of your neighbourhood

CityLab asked people to share their lockdown maps and have started to share the submissions.
I particularly liked this one:


GeoLibrary 2013-18 - a 365 project: Mar 7: The Atlas of ExperienceIt's produced by Jonas Vagnoux who lives in France.
My friend Matt Podbury lives in the south of France and when he leaves the house for a run has to take his passport with him, along with a printed form outlining what time he has left the house and his reason for doing so. This is called an
Attestation numérique de déplacement dérogatoire. If you are found without one you may be in trouble, and fined after the 2nd time.
There is a 1km from home limit.

I like this particular mapping idea, and it would be easy to produce a base map of your 1km area using the buffering tool in Digimap for School or ArcGIS Online, or the Spotlight search in NLS mapping, and then relabelling it in Atlas of Experience style.


If you can get hold of the Atlas of Experience (second hand copies are available) that would add an extra dimension to your geographical imagination.

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