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21st Century Fieldwork: GIS and New Technologies

Explore the new opportunities and advancements in geographical fieldwork with GIS and new technologies. Discover the potential benefits and learn how to make the most of these changes.

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21st Century Fieldwork: GIS and New Technologies

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  1. 21st Century Fieldwork Nick Lapthorn Head of Centre – Juniper Hall Field Centre nick.jh@field-studies-council.org

  2. A new dawn? (or just the same old stuff) GIS and NEW TECHNOLOGIES Quantitative Qualitative Primary Secondary RESEARCH

  3. 20th Century Fieldwork? 21st Century Fieldwork? STYLES LOCATIONS

  4. Examples of types of new fieldwork Studentification Clone towns Sustainable transport Eco/carbon footprints Use and miss-use of green spaces Re-branding the 24hr city Stakeholder views Energy audits Right to roam Place checklists Mobility pathways Food miles Activity patterns Exciting newopportunities Weather-watch Exclusion by gender / age Lifestyle analysis Catchment management Shoreline management Impression maps Sustainable communities Ecological value Think maps Flood-risk determination Roof hydrographs Tourism profiles Place profiles

  5. How to make the most of the new changes? • Less need to measure in minute detail. • Holistic and topical studies. • Greater opportunity for ‘qualitative’ approaches. • Greater relevance of topics to everyday situations.

  6. Becoming a geographical researcher • Find data • Select and Sort • Synthesise and Analyse • Record and Report

  7. Books – including standard A’Level texts Lots of choice

  8. Articles – the ‘big 6’ GeoFile online Guardian & Independent Range of articles newspapers GeoFactsheet GeoNews Review Geographical ‘dossier’ Geography Review

  9. Further Journals Remember to use their websites

  10. Getting additional help • Try the exam boards

  11. The World Wide Web

  12. Probably the best geography websites - CENSUS

  13. Probably the best geography websites: Fieldwork - OTHERS Google Books Search http://books.google.com/ Google Scholar http://scholar.google.com/

  14. Blogs and forums (also newspapers / editorials)

  15. ‘Miro’ – video search and saving software (freeware)

  16. On the web…always consider • Who published the information • Organisation/Agency/Individual • Who wrote the information • Expert or interested individual? • The age of the material • Why the material exists • Academic research/Special interest groups

  17. Web evaluation checklist?

  18. Library vs internet

  19. Exploring Ethnographic Opportunity A picture tells a 1000 words? All about participant observation: “people writing”

  20. Ethnographic fieldwork • Oral Histories • Direct participant observation (movements and flows) – covert or overt? • Focus groups • Personal video (extended) interviews • Diary of an event, e.g. city food festival Keep personal observations in a field note book / diary

  21. Price Prediction: High – Med – Low Actual Average Price (approx): £___________ Price Prediction: High – Med – Low Actual Average Price (approx): £___________ Imagery

  22. Price Prediction: High – Med – Low Actual Average Price (approx): £___________ Price Prediction: High – Med – Low Actual Average Price (approx): £___________ Imagery

  23. Denotation-ConnotationAnnotation-Implication Sophisticated, high quality, traditional Gold lettering in TNR, British Racing green What if all the shops in the street were like this? Who would(n’t) come? Curved facade to allow more display space

  24. What is GIS ? • “GIS has the ability to store, retrieve, manipulate and analyse a range of spatially related data” • The user can: • ask questions of data related to the map • search for patterns and distributions • investigate the underlying relationships between different sets of data • Article in Geography Review: March 2007

  25. Potential benefits of GIS • Spatial Understanding • Enquiry learning • Identifying relationships • Vocational element • Motivation

  26. Continuums FREE EXPENSIVE Often web based EASY TO USE COMPLICATED BASIC SOPHISTICATED Sometimes a ‘cut-down’ version

  27. Progression in GIS DIGITAL MAPPING (eg. Anquet, Memory Map) MAPPING LAYERS (eg Magic, Census, Google Earth) INTEROGATIVE GIS (eg Aegis, ArcInfo)

  28. Google Local

  29. More from Google Maps

  30. Google maps - manipulation

  31. Explore geo-tagged photos on a map - Flickr

  32. Panoramio

  33. Environment Agency

  34. High end – ARC GIS

  35. Other sources GA GTIP Page http://www.geography.org.uk/projects/gtip/gis/ http://www.geography.org.uk/projects/gtip/thinkpieces/gis

  36. Other sources RGS GIS Page www.gis.rgs.org

  37. Ordnance Survey

  38. GIS WWW Topic/Content Research

  39. A new dawn?

  40. nick.jh@field-studies-council.org

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