GIS Day is an annual worldwide celebration of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) technology and community. GeoAwareness Week is an annual event highlighting the importance of geographic and spatial literacy and education. This year UBC Library and SFU Library are organizing four events in celebration of GeoAwareness Week and GIS Day:
Intro to Web Mapping – Friday, November 13th, 2020
Open to UBC and SFU communities
This workshop is part of the Web Mapping Workshop Series.
You’ve likely used Google Maps, Yelp, or Craigslist, which all have integrated web map elements, but have you ever thought of creating a web map for your research project? An interactive web map is a great tool for both data exploration and communicating your research with a wide audience, academic and public alike. This Web Mapping workshop series of 2 workshops will help researchers across disciplines understand what a web map is and how to create one in two different ways, namely ArcGIS online and R. This first workshop (Intro to Web Mapping) is not the prerequisite for the second one below (Web Mapping with R) – feel free to attend one or both.
The workshop will begin with a basic overview of technologies, principles, and terminology related to web mapping, such as map tiles and web services. The remainder of the workshop will be devoted to hands-on time with ArcGIS Online.
Time: 9:00 am to 11:00 am
A Zoom link will be sent to participants before the workshop
Registration is required and seats are limited.
Workshop: Data Normalization and Classification – Wednesday, November 18th, 2020
Open to everyone
Time: 11:00 am to 12:30 pm
A Zoom link will be sent to participants before the workshop
Registration is required and seats are limited.
Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Mapathon – Thursday, November 19th, 2020
Open to everyone
For this mapathon, we’ll be contributing to urgent mapping needs in the Caribbean, an area vulnerable to hurricanes, impacts from which are compounded by the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic during this hurricane season.
Please join us in this important effort on November 19th as part of GeoAwareness Week. You don’t need any prior experience, and all of our contributions together can make a big difference.
Time: 5:30 pm to 7:30 pm
A Zoom link will be sent to participants before the workshop
Registration is required and seats are limited.
Workshop: Web Mapping with R – Friday, November 20th Rescheduled: Friday November 27th, 2020
Open to UBC and SFU communities
Leaflet is one of the most popular open-source JavaScript libraries for interactive maps. Here’s an example of a web map created with Leaflet from The New York Times. This workshop will introduce you to Leaflet for R, an R package, which makes it easy to integrate and control Leaflet maps in R without knowledge of JavaScript. You can create interactive web maps right in R Studio! The topics covered include:
- Using the Leaflet package for R to add titles, markers, popups, create a theme map, change basemap, etc
- Host and publish your web map through Github
Time: 9:00 am to 11:00 am
A Zoom link will be sent to participants before the workshop
Registration is required and seats are limited.