We mapped the journey of a burial model of a grain storehouse using a mapping program called ArcGIS. Every one of our marks/pins marks a stop in the grain storehouse’s journey to its current destination at Carleton College. Coming from China, it stopped to an unknown location in the east coast, then to San Francisco,CA and from there to where it currently resides at Carleton College in Northfield, Minnesota.
This process shockingly went relatively smoothly. The only aspects that gave us just a few issues were the pop-ups when clicking the pins and the connecting of the pins. For the pop-ups, it may have just been a technical issue with my computer being slow, but for a while the pop-ups were not to working. And the lines weren’t connecting exactly where we wanted to be, so they seemed slightly off from where they were supposed to be.
Doing this lab I see huge potential in digital humanities. We could learn more about cultures and mass migrations based off where cultural objects have moved over time.
The map you created is good, easy to understand, and straightforward. I would agree that the process was mostly simple, I also thought that it flowed nicely from the last project. We had no problems adding the pop-ups or connecting the dots, so one thing I might recommend is zooming in on the location to click the exact location.