At 11:53 AM 2/14/2003, you wrote:
>I was facinated with the work Mr. Sarnoff did with GIS in the High
>School. We have some GIS capability
>here at Tech, but it is very limited. I am considering doing something
>similar, but getting
>the various maps from the local city planner. Putting them on
>transparencies and then overlaying
>them to see where things are overlapping. This should work with a chapter
>on population, by
>tieing it to local situations. We have had tremendous inmigration in
>recent years.
>
We have done similar things using maps from the Dept of Trsnaportation
(they had aerial shots of the whole state) and the soil and water
conservation dept. Once I made sure the maps were the same scale, we
pinned them to boards and laid plastic over them and then could mark the
plastic sheets with washable markers. I have marked one sheet of plastic
with indeible ink gridlines to better calculate areas.
