After last class, we have learnt enough no skills so that I know how to map the sculpture’s journey from China to Northfield, and the results can be accessed in the following website.
I feel this tool is among one of the most useful I’ve learnt from this course. The path was easily and clearly presented by creating a new layer of information, covering the original map. This kind of presentation have a great potential in showing wars, infrastructure, and landscapes of a place.
The best part is that we can make several decisions to personalize our work, for example the way of connecting points, the variables selected, and various styles to choose from. We chose to mark it as clearly as possible, using triangles to denote places and have words around each triangle to indicate how it left the place.
Finally about the ArcGIS itself, I feel it has been fun to play with; however, the functions are a bit limiting and the process seems too mundane if we want to picture more complicated events, such as the fall of Constantinople.
This is really cool! I love that you included arrows in your map in order to show the progression of time. Labeling your points also really helped me understand the journey of the artifact. How were you able to add arrows to your lines connecting the points?
I agree that this tool has been among one of the most useful applications we’ve worked with so far this term! Though, you make a good point about the limitations of ArcGIS Online.. I was a big fan of the song “Istanbul (Not Constantinople)” by They Might Be Giants in middle school. For lovers of ancient history, you’re right that events like the siege of Constantinople may be too complex for mapping in ArcGIS Online.