Throughout May I shall share ideas for National Fieldwork Week - one per day...
Find out more about National Fieldwork Week here.
How do places change?
Why not use a tool I came across a while back to generate a report on an area.
It's called GeoFolio and you will need to draw an area of at least 10 square kilometres on the map.
The tool aggregates data and mapping from a range of sources to produce a report on an area. I made one on the Cambridge area which I am going to be investigating a number of times in June and July.
However, it is not always as accurate as one might like it to be, which is where the idea of doing fieldwork to groundtruth the mapping comes in.
e.g.the map here is of crops and shows many of the open spaces in Cambridge e.g. Parker's Piece are labelled as crops.. which they aren't...
Could also explore the accuracy of the blue line marking the course of streams and rivers.
The week has the theme of CHANGE.
If you do use this, or any other of the ideas I share, please let us know about what you do. We will be asking people to share their outcomes in various ways. Remember that the theme is CHANGE.
Use the hashtag: #nationalfieldworkweek
May is Living Streets Walking Month as well, so there may be some ideas there.
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