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Classes 18 and 20 – Mapping

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Overview

Mapping is a critical part of earth sciences.  A lot of people will use google maps and ArcGIS for their mapping.  These are great tools. What i am also learning is that Python has a lot of tools within it that makes mapping very easy. Plus you can make professional looking maps.  Plus if you have multiple parameters in your pandas dataframe it is easy to loop and plot them all.  This is a new mapping segment as I changed what I used to do to update it and help us make publishable maps. I am still organizing so here is a list of files we will be using.

Files.

Mapping Homework.

Due- Monday 8, 2024

  • Map 1.  Make a worldwide map with 5 places you like to visit marked with points and labeled.  To do this.  Make an excel sheet and then read in the excel sheet and map it.  Choose a projection and type of map you like.   You need to read your data from a file.
  • Map 2.  The temperature on the day were you born with a star showing where you were born and a title that correctly converts the time units to the date.
  • Bonus 10%.  Make a map in folium.  Here is the Folium pdf that is in the mapping folder (Map3-Bonus-Folium-contextilly).  Take one of your 5 places from map 1.  Find 5 places in that location you want to visit.  Using an excel file for your data make a folium map showing those 5 new places you are going to visit in that location.  Make sure to name each place in the popup/circle on the folium map.   For example if you wanted to visit the twin cities in Minnesota you could make a map with the Mall of America, St Anthony Falls Lab etc,.
  • For the homework you need to turn in each excel file and the html file for folium.