Summer 2023 ESS205 Individual Maps

Summer 2023 ESS205 Individual

Lisa Tutty
July 12, 2023

It is called the "individual map" because it will be different than anyone elses. It will be
about your topic (the one you did your rough draft on), in your specific area of the world. You will
use the skills that you learned in the map tutorials, in addition to any that you learned in any
optional map tutorials that you might find at https://learn-arcgis-learngis.hub.arcgis.com/, to
create an Individual Map about the same assigned topic choice as your rough drafts and Story
Map. We are looking for map readability, a good useful legend, pertinent information included,
and irrelevant information excluded. For most people this will entail making more than one
map. Then you will number them, ex. 1 of 3, 2 of 3, 3 of 3.

So, for example, if you were making a map about Hurricanes it would be great to include sea
surface temperature and pretty useless to include the number of rabbits in Britain! A map about
earthquakes would do well to have plate tectonic boundaries and faults on it, but including sea
surface temperature here would be silly...

Don't forget to cite each layer used in your map in APA format in the map credits section of the
item page! See the images below (Fig 1 and 2) for more information.

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Fig 1: Citing map layers for your individual map - get the information from the item page for each. See the next image
for how to get to the item page

Fig 2: In your map contents, click on show item details to get to the item page for each layer that you have added to your map.

Lets consider our basic climate change idea. If I am going to tell a story about climate change, the
first thing I want to do is "hook" my reader in, make them CARE about climate change. One of the
best ways to do this is to show them that climate change will be affecting the area where THEY live!
This year we in North America have been living with the affects of an unprecedented number of
wildfires, which are climate change related as the climate gets warmer and drier. You might decide
to use wildfires too, or perhaps inland flooding, coastal flooding, drought or extreme heat. I might
decided to add in a map of wildfires (Fig 3):

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Fig 3. Map of real-time world thermal hotspots and wildfires. Click on any hotspot/fire for more information.

To make that map (Fig 4) I just went to maps.utoronto.arcgis.com, signed in to my UofT GIS
account, and went to the map tab. Then I added data from the Living Atlas (which is a reputable
source of high quality data) using Add data, my keyword was "wildfires". Then I simply changed
the basemap. It only took 2 minutes to get a good "starter" map to make people care! Lets look to
add in another one, the ash/smoke from the wildfires and where people are feeling the effects (Fig
4).

Fig 4. Map of smoke detected by NOAA satellites.

Similarly, Fig 4 map was made by simply using a keyword (smoke) and searching for an appropriate
layer to add in the Living Atlas. I changed the basemap to match what I had done above for style.
Great! So hopefully my readers are starting to feel like they might be personally affected by climate
change. Lets make one more simple map to help get them on board, this one has data with a built
in time animation feature to show change over time (Fig 5):

Fig 5. Global Yearly Temperature Anomaly (1880 to present). Click on the arrow to see the animation over time from 1880 to the present day.

I feel like I have hooked my readers in with some background maps, yours might be the same as
these or different. Now I need to move on to making maps that have more to do with the topic at
hand (either climate mitigation through construction or climate mitigation through farming). Cool
beans! Okay, one of the things that people might decide to do in order to mitigate climate change
through construction is to build solar panels on rooves, so we could make a map about solar
paneled rooves, or the potential for them! If you want to make this particular map you will need to
use a software called ArcGIS PRO. You can absolutely put it on your own WINDOWS machine if you
want to, or you can go in to the Robarts Library, 5th floor map library where they have a GIS help
centre and several computers with PRO already installed for you to use. Or, you could skip this
map and choose to make a different one, it is YOUR project.

Fig 6. Estimate solar power potential map, good for those who chose the construction topic, perhaps.

For the next map, Fig 7, I chose to use an ESRI layer that contains information about the availability
of incoming solar energy worldwide. I included a bit of information about solar panel installations in
India too, just as a sample of what you could do with your map. I don't know which area(s) of the
world you focused on, but you can search in the Living Atlas and in ArcGIS online using the Add
button and keywords to find data about solar panels if it is something that you want to use to tell
part of your story about the construction industry mitigating climate change. Notice that I am
keeping my map style (ex. basemap, bright colours) consistent from map to map where possible.

Fig 7. Global Solar Atlas and rooftop solar systems in India.

Lots of people might have chosen the farming topic instead of the construction one, so lets start
coming up with some ideas for that! This map shows various land use categories worldwide, over
time between 1992 and 2020 (Fig 8)

Fig 8. Global Land Cover 1992 - 2020. Click on the arrow to see the layers built-in time animation showing the changes in land cover over time. Click on any spot on the map to
read a pop-up showing information about the land cover classification.

To analyze the changes in landcover you could use ArcGIS PRO software, which you can absolutely
put on your own WINDOWS machine, or you can go to the Robarts Library, 5th floor map library
where they have it installed on various machines for you to use in the help centre. Or you can skip
this map (Fig 9) and choose to do another one instead, it is your project.

Fig 9. Evaluate Ethiopia's changing landscape.

You won't need any special software to do this map below, for instance. And certainly you can do it
for any area of the world after following this practice example for Thailand...(Fig 10)/

Fig 10. Depict land use change with time animation

No special software is needed for this one either, Fig 11.

Fig 11. Get started with change detection for Africa

I have no idea which area of the world you have chosen to talk about for your Story Map, but this
dataset is global, (Fig 12) so you could zoom in anywhere in the world and see recent land use
changes (2018 - present).

Fig 12. Global land cover change 2018 - 2021. Click on any dot for information about what the area changed from/to during this time period.

I would look at adding population to one of my maps in the series (normalized of course - which
means raw population must be divided the area of the area in question), perhaps social
characteristics such as income/race too if it is relevant. Go ahead and use ANALYSIS - DATA
ENRICHMENT on boundary type data (like tracts, counties, districts, neighbourhoods, census
areas...what they are called depends upon which country you are working in) to find out! For
instance, if you are doing the farming option - what size are the farms? Big industrial farms or small
household farms? What is their average income? If you are doing the construction option - which
neighbourhoods tend to have solar panels? The richer ones? The poorest?

Basic effort and maps will get basic marks. Put in some time and consider how you will tell your
story. What kinds of things did you talk about in your rough draft. How might you be able to map
those things? Don't hesitate to drop in (virtually or in person) to the GIS help centre in the Robarts
library, open weekdays 11am-5pm.

Great! So now you have a much better idea of the expectations for individual maps. Mine are a
great place to start for ideas. You can submit a basic map, but it isn't going to get a stellar mark.
You can put in the extra work if you want to submit a series of A grade maps. This involves both
choosing appropriate content and styling wisely using normalization, filters, overlay, and
symbology to give your maps clear readability and a consistent feel. If you need help, you can ask
on the Discussion Board or you can use the GIS Help team - their information is on this contact
page https://mdl.library.utoronto.ca/about/contact-form

Don't forget - it is YOUR responsibility to ensure that your individual map(s) are shared to the class
group. Remember - this is NOT the same thing as sharing to the organization/everyone/public.
You must directly share to our class group. Check that you have shared your individual maps and
any feature layers that participate in those maps to the class group. If you have forgotten how to
do this, just go to your CONTENT tab at utoronto.maps.arcgis.com and check out the symbol listed
beside each item. You will receive a 10% per day late penalty until your work is submitted to the
class group, no matter when you "finished" it.

Happy Mapping!