{"id":1157,"date":"2018-07-18T17:07:34","date_gmt":"2018-07-18T16:07:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/geospatialengineering\/?p=1157"},"modified":"2018-07-19T13:48:35","modified_gmt":"2018-07-19T12:48:35","slug":"mapping-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/geospatialengineering\/2018\/07\/18\/mapping-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Mapping the World"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Mapping the World project last week saw 15 year 10 and 12 students from 4 local schools experience University life as a Geomatics student. Students were introduced to the world of geospatial engineering and learnt about how GIS is used in their everyday life (think snapchat maps), and how to measure height change of land using levelling.\u00a0 The hi-vis jackets (or wally jackets as we like to call them) proved very popular with the flies on Exhibition Park but not so much with the students wearing them!<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1165\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1165\" style=\"width: 279px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/geospatialengineering\/files\/2018\/07\/index.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1165\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/geospatialengineering\/files\/2018\/07\/index-279x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"279\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/geospatialengineering\/files\/2018\/07\/index-279x300.jpg 279w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/geospatialengineering\/files\/2018\/07\/index-768x827.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/geospatialengineering\/files\/2018\/07\/index.jpg 881w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 279px) 85vw, 279px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1165\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Casually mapping the bins on campus&#8230;<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Using ArcGIS Online and the Survey 123 app students investigated how GIS can help with asset management around Newcastle University campus. Students were given free rein on which aspect of campus management they would like to investigate, projects covered everything from where to store your bike, where are the comfiest seat on campus and disability access routes. After exploring the campus whilst mapping, students concluded by presenting their findings using Story Maps to show off all their hard work. It was great being part of the <a href=\"https:\/\/futureme.ac.uk\/\">Futureme<\/a> programme inspiring the next generation to go into higher education.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1161\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1161\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/geospatialengineering\/files\/2018\/07\/bikes_heatmap_2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1161\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/geospatialengineering\/files\/2018\/07\/bikes_heatmap_2-300x187.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"187\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/geospatialengineering\/files\/2018\/07\/bikes_heatmap_2-300x187.png 300w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/geospatialengineering\/files\/2018\/07\/bikes_heatmap_2-768x480.png 768w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/geospatialengineering\/files\/2018\/07\/bikes_heatmap_2-1024x640.png 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/geospatialengineering\/files\/2018\/07\/bikes_heatmap_2-1200x750.png 1200w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/geospatialengineering\/files\/2018\/07\/bikes_heatmap_2.png 1354w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1161\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A heatmap of bike storage locations and there popularity, one of the many maps produced by the students with their own data.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Pippa<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Mapping the World project last week saw 15 year 10 and 12 students from 4 local schools experience University life as a Geomatics student. Students were introduced to the world of geospatial engineering and learnt about how GIS is used in their everyday life (think snapchat maps), and how to measure height change of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/geospatialengineering\/2018\/07\/18\/mapping-the-world\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Mapping the World&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7629,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","category-outreach"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/geospatialengineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/geospatialengineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/geospatialengineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/geospatialengineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7629"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/geospatialengineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1157"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/geospatialengineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1157\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1166,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/geospatialengineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1157\/revisions\/1166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/geospatialengineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/geospatialengineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/geospatialengineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}