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Visualise your data on a map : how to create a map with Google My Maps

Visualise your data on a map : how to create a map with Google My Maps In-Person

Part of the series: Digital Tools and Approaches to Connect and Transform Your Research

 

Overview : To use this product you MUST have a Google Account.

Google My Maps is a free web mapping application, it allows you illustrate and communicate information by displaying it on a map.

In this hands-on workshop you’ll learn how to visualise data, including using spreadsheets which have a location column, on a map.You can use Google My Maps to show sites such as trees, buildings, locations of companies, attractions, historical events, places mentioned in literature, earthquakes, traffic accidents, routes between places, habitats, zones of interest, etc.

Google My Maps is ideal for those who wish to embed their map on a website or blog as you can zoom in and around the map, click on symbols you have added to read pop up text, add photos or images or YouTube clips. The workshop will include adding symbols / lines / shapes to represent your data and display it on a map. Adding labels, photos and videos to your map.

 

Objectives By the end of the session you will:

  • Have learned how to create, customise and share a map
  • Know how to import data from a spreadsheet and visualise it on a map
  • Add photos / images to your map
  • Embed the map on a website or print a map or save it as a pdf

No prior experience with Google My Maps is required and no advance preparation for this workshop is necessary.

 

Who should attend?

This course will be of interest to administrators, academic staff and researchers. 

 

Certificates of attendance will be available on request on the day of the workshop.

No booking required: places are limited to 35 and available on a first come first served basis.

Location: Information Skills Room in the Health Sciences Library (no. 29 on the campus map)

Related LibGuide: GIS at UCD and on the Web by Jane Nolan

Date:
Thursday, 27th September 2018
Time:
11:00am - 12:30pm
Presenter:
Jane Nolan

Location:
Information Skills Room
Library:
Health Sciences Library
Categories:
  Geographic Information Systems (GIS)     Visualising with Maps  

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Jane Nolan

Maps & GIS Librarian
UCD Library

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