http://jdmcd.edublogs.org A space to reflect on geography, education and the world about us. Mon, 12 Oct 2009 22:22:49 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.2 en hourly 1 http://jdmcd.edublogs.org/2008/01/26/using-maps-to-record-the-news/ http://jdmcd.edublogs.org/2008/01/26/using-maps-to-record-the-news/#comments Sat, 26 Jan 2008 20:34:08 +0000 jdmcd http://jdmcd.edublogs.org/2008/01/26/using-maps-to-record-the-news/ Having picked up Ollie Bray’s reference to musicians on Google Earth, I arrived, after many meanderings, via Alan Coady’s musings, to a site on TED blog that graphically illustrates the power of maps to record events as they happen. This map tracks the incidence of violence in Kenya, with each placeholder indicating a particular incident, colour coded by category. The spatial representation of data is a key way of offering firstly a description, for example of clustering or dispersal. It may also show chronology, tracking the spread of rioting for example over a period of time. From description comes explanation and then understanding. Depicting spatial information is straightforward. Solving the internicene, tribal and social problems which the map depicts is the difficult part.

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