In this lower resolution PDF, you'll find selected maps that were produced by students in the 2010 GIS Workshop held in the Department of Geography at Ball State University.
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GIS Workshop Selected Final Maps
1. GIS Workshop
Selected Final Map Products
Spring 2010
Instructor:
Matthew W. Wilson
Assistant Professor of Geography
Ball State University
Course Description:
Geographic information technologies continue to drive the representation and management of
complex as well as everyday spatial information. As a result, increasing numbers of for-profit and
non-profit organizations have recognized the need to transform their information into a spatial
format. The demand for collaborative and participatory skills in the use of these mapping tools has,
of course, been furthered by this general trend. Therefore, the goal for this course is that each
student will become an independent and effective GIS user while developing their collaborative
skills in the use of GIS for spatial analysis and representation. To meet this goal, this course follows
a participatory workshop model, drawing on Elwood (2009) -- an intensive, hands-on experience in
which student teams use GIS in collaboration with community partners. These partnerships will
involve students in a full range of collaborative GIS: working with team members and project
partners to identify project goals, acquiring and preparing spatial data for GIS analyses,
communicating with clients to assess progress, managing spatial data, and producing necessary maps
and analyses. The lecture, reading, and seminar discussion components of the course will focus on
topics important to collaborative development -- to be prepared to implement, manage, and apply in
a variety of research and applications areas, and in multiple geographical and institutional contexts.
Note: Further details about these projects, as well as their data sources, are available on request.
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Table of Contents
Student‐Authored Project Descrip5ons ............................................................................ 3
City of Muncie Animal Shelter ........................................................................................... 5
City of Muncie Total Strays in 2009 (dot density) 5
City of Muncie Total Strays in 2009 (by 2000 census tract) 6
City of Muncie Stray Cats in 2009 (by 2000 census tract) 7
City of Muncie Stray Dogs in 2009 (by 2000 census tracts) 8
City of Muncie Animals DOAs in 2009 (by 2000 census tracts) 9
City of Muncie Misc. Strays in 2009 (by 2000 census tracts) 10
Muncie Financial Services and Poverty Mapping ............................................................11
Muncie Social and Financial Services: Banks 11
Muncie Social and Financial Services: Tax PreparaMon 12
Muncie Social and Financial Services: Predatory Lending 13
Muncie Social and Financial Services: Homeless Shelters 14
Muncie Social and Financial Services: Churches 15
Muncie Social and Financial Services: Childcare 16
Muncie Social and Financial Services: Public Schools 17
Muncie Social and Financial Services: Libraries 18
Indiana 500 Tour .............................................................................................................. 19
Indiana 500 Tour Trail Basemap 19
Chicago Urban Heat Island 1998‐2008 ............................................................................ 20
Chicago Urban Heat Island: January Ground Surface 20
Chicago Urban Heat Island: April Ground Surface 21
Chicago Urban Heat Island: July Ground Surface 22
Chicago Urban Heat Island: October Ground Surface 23
Chicago Urban Heat Island: April 1998 Satellite Surface Temperature 24
Chicago Urban Heat Island: April 2008 Satellite Surface Temperature 25
Chicago Urban Heat Island: July 1998 Satellite Surface Temperature 26
Chicago Urban Heat Island: July 2008 Satellite Surface Temperature 27
Historical GIS for Tropical Cyclones ................................................................................. 28
Historical GIS for Tropical Cyclones: 1775 AtlanMc Hurricane Season 28
Historical GIS for Tropical Cyclones: 1775 Hurricane San Pedro 29
Historical GIS for Tropical Cyclones: 1775 Independence Hurricane 30
Historical GIS for Tropical Cyclones: 1775 Newfoundland Hurricane 31
Historical GIS for Tropical Cyclones: 1780 AtlanMc Hurricane Season 32
Mapping Muncie Sidewalks
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Mapping Muncie Sidewalks: Available Sidewalks 33
Mapping Muncie Sidewalks: Sidewalk CondiMons 34
Mapping Muncie Sidewalks: ReMrement Services 35
Mapping Muncie Sidewalks: Major MITS bus stops 36
Mapping Muncie Sidewalks: Cultural Points of Interest 37
Mapping Muncie Sidewalks: Age 65+ 38
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Student‐Authored Project Descrip:ons
Health Services in Muncie (maps not included as per agreement with partner)
Brad Hofmann, Brad Beer, Corbin Haggard
Our project consists of creating maps of the current use of the Open Door Health Services. We
were given a list of patients under the age of 18 that have used the service. We created a map of
this data that will display which census blocks have used the service the most. We also created a map
of the primary care facilities in Muncie. When we use these two data sets and compare them to
demographics such as poverty levels, race & ethnicity, single-parent household, insurance status, and
teenage pregnancy rates the Open Door Health Services facility will be able to more confidently
apply for grants because they will now be able to visually show where their services are being used.
City of Muncie Animal Shelter (pgs. 5-10)
Will Hamby, Andrew Goldblatt, Matt Canale
The main objective of this project is to illustrate the growing stray animal problem in the City of
Muncie. Animal shelter employees will be our primary target for this topic as well as the public. We
will use mapping software, created by ESRI, as a tool to categorize and analyze data. This software
will also be used to create maps that graphically represent problem areas within Muncie. These maps
will be given to the City of Muncie Animal Shelter to give them an idea of where to focus their
efforts in combating this problem.
United Way: Financial Services and Poverty Mapping in Muncie (pgs. 11-18)
Daniel Mills, Jeremy Trusty, Ashley Hooker
The collaborative community project that we have been assigned is projected to provide the United
Way with maps showing locations and density of certain places including poverty and social services,
financial services, and tax preparation services. Specifically these locations include banks, child care
providers, food pantries, homeless shelters, libraries, predatory lending facilities, schools, and tax
preparation services. Our goal is to create maps of these locations within the city boundaries of
Muncie, IN that can be used for future analysis. Mainly they will be used to analyze where certain
places are located with respect to areas with the highest poverty levels ultimately representing
potential areas for developing new facilities.
Indiana 500 Tour (pg. 19)
Todd Davis, Jeff Hultman, Carrah McElfresh
The Indiana 500 Tour Project is aimed to guide the public of Indiana or surrounding areas in a tour
of Indiana Automobile Historic Places. This trail will highlight the automobile industry, but also any
business that has historical value when going on this tour. Our job as GIS students was to map the
locations of interest. There are five different types of places to visit along the trail, and that can
include everything from diners and drive-ins to historic museums. The final product of this project
is an interactive website in which there will be information about anything that relates to this tour.
Also, there will be interactive maps that can be sorted by what type of attraction the visitors wishes
to view. Overall, it should be a great website to educate people in the history of Indiana's
automobile industry, and then hopefully motivate them to go experience it first hand!
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Chicago Urban Heat Island 1998-2008 (pgs. 20-27)
Laura Giboo, Jessica Thompson
An urban heat island is a phenomenon in which city areas experience as much as a 10 degree
Fahrenheit temperature increase over surrounding areas. To understand the urban heat island effect,
it is important to note that city areas are made up primarily of concrete and asphalt (buildings and
streets) with very little natural vegetation. The primary cause of heat islands is the absorption of
incoming solar radiation which later becomes trapped on the earth’s surface. Urban heat islands
are caused when the incoming solar radiation is absorbed into the Earth’s surface, concrete, and
asphalt but is not released. An urban area becomes a storage box for heat in which the heat
absorbed during the day, is not released until night (Gartland, 2008). In recent years, the
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has established an Urban Heat Island Pilot Project, where
Chicago was a chosen city. In this project, Chicago worked jointly with the EPA to reduce the urban
heat island effect (EPA, 2002). Our project is geared towards analyzing the difference between the
urban heat island effect from 1998, before the EPA implemented their pilot project, and 2008, to see
if the pilot project has begun to eliminate the problem. We will use satellite imagery and various
remote sensing and GIS tools to help with the analysis process.
Historical GIS for Tropical Cyclones (pgs. 28-32)
Steve LaVoie, Korey Klein, Derek Lawalin
An extensive database that contains the tracks of known tropical cyclones in the North Atlantic
Ocean after 1850 is currently available and is commonly known by the abbreviation HURDAT or
North Atlantic Hurricane Database. While this database is an invaluable tool to public and private
agencies alike, some of the deadliest hurricanes on record occurred prior to 1851. This study
revolves around the identification and quantification of tropical cyclones that existed during the one
hundred year period from 1751-1850 dubbed the "Pre-HURDAT era" by the analysis team. While
previous researchers have compiled works on tropical cyclones that occurred prior to 1851, they
have yet to attempt the development of a full database, complete with cyclone tracks, for any period
prior to 1851. This study is essentially a synthesis of all available historical and scientific data in
order to analyze the tracks of every tropical cyclone witnessed by man during the Pre-HURDAT era.
The goal of this study is to add valuable data to HURDAT in order to determine long term trends
in tropical cyclone frequency.
United Way: Mapping Muncie Sidewalks (pgs. 33-38)
Jeffrey Gibbs, Daniel Root
Our project is focused on mapping the conditions of Muncie's sidewalks as they relate to the MITS
bus system. As a portion of Muncie's senior population continues to grow, so does the importance
of sidewalks and public transportation. This project aims to better illustrate areas where sidewalks
need to be improved or constructed, so as to better serve Muncie's population. Sidewalks are
important when it comes to getting to and from MITS route stops and shelters, and people being
able to utilize the MITS system from their neighborhoods. The second half of our project deals
with charting all MITS routes, MITS shelters and stop locations as they relate to sidewalk coverage
for the city.