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Fieldwork H LC1 HQ
Key Stage 4
Year 11
Geography
This is a guide which is going to show you how to use GIS primary data for human field work. We're going to use a ready-made web map called Fieldwork H, where H stands for human. And what you'll notice is that there are some layers already loaded onto the map to support our learning about GIS. The first thing we're going to do is just click the time slider here because we're gonna use that later. And by default, it switches on every time you open the map. So we're just gonna switch that off for now. And you can see some orange dots have appeared and those orange dots are about the data that we're going to manage. Before we do that, you may just look at these features here. First of all, we have Gunwharf Quays marked, and you can see the extent of it here. And we can also see Portsmouth Historic Dockyard nearby. So what we want to do first is to visualise the primary data as proportional orientated symbols. I'm going to zoom in just a little bit so you can see them better. These orange dots, they will become clearer in a moment. In Layers, we click the three dots for the options to open the properties panel on the right, then you'll see a section called Symbology, where you click Edit Layer Style, and after that there's a panel. Number one, choose attributes. In that panel, you're going to click the word Field, which refers to the different attributes in the dataset, and you're going to find vehicle count. And when you've ticked that, you click Add and you'll see the symbols change to become proportional symbols. Now, these proportional symbols are circles. It would be good to use something a little bit more meaningful. So we can do that if we go to the second panel called pick a style. And within that, we go to the section called Counts and Amount Size and click Style Options. Then in the panel that says Symbol Style, we can click the pen and that will open another panel. And in that panel, click Basic Point and then Basic Shapes. And you can scroll down to Arrows and click that and then scroll down just a little way until you find a two-way arrow. And I think I'm right in saying there's only one two-way arrow in the selection. So click on the two-way arrow and then click Done. You'll notice the symbols have become two-way arrows. And then in Colour, we're going to change the colour of the arrows by clicking Pen. And if we click Pen, and then in this panel here, we're gonna select a shade of red, and its colour code is ff0011. You can choose something else if you prefer. Then we click Done. And then in Symbol Style, we're going to close that panel and then scroll to something called Size Range just here. What we're going to do now is adjust the size of the symbol. So we want to that manually. Untick adjust size automatically. And then we're going to change the size range so that the lower one is 15 and the largest one we're gonna have is 80. Next, we're going to scroll down to the very bottom of this panel, where it says rotation by attribute. At the moment, you can see the arrows are all pointing in the same direction, but it'll be much better if we could show directional travel of the traffic along these roads. So in rotation by attribute, we switch that to on and you'll see the arrows have moved, but that's because they're using the site number. They're not using the bearing data. So if we click this dropdown and then we select Bearing, you'll see the arrows change to show the direction of traffic flow on those roads. That's a much better visualisation than we had before. So we're going to click Done twice. If we click Legend, we'll see that that appears as a key on the left-hand side. And we're now ready to save our map. So it's already got a title, but being as you're logged onto ArcGIS Online, what you can do is save with your own name. For example, we could just save, we're saving it the first time, so we click Save As, and we're just gonna call it Fieldwork H1. I'm going to type DEMO after mine. You don't have to do that. Just to show that that's my copy. Our next step is to configure the popups for the vehicle count data. If we click on the popups at the moment, they're very long and not terribly meaningful, but we can improve those. So we click the Layers panel, make sure that we're looking at the properties, show properties for vehicle count, and then we find the popups button on the right-hand side. And when we click that, you'll notice it opens the popup so we can see what progress we're making as we configure the popup. So in the panel on the right, you'll see a fields list. We're actually going to delete those and customise those in a moment. We're also gonna change the title, so just delete what's there and type this formula of words, which will pick up the site number and site name from the dataset that sits behind the map. And it's gonna pick up photos for all the sites. If we just click on a couple, you can see as we click on the popups for each symbol, it's got photographs based on what was taken by the students at each of these locations. Now, another interesting thing we can do with this data is configure the time because the time was recorded for the observation. So if we click Time and put that time slider back, we can then click on this little cog at the bottom of the page here where we've got time slider options. So we go to time slider options, and in time slider mode, there's a small dropdown menu. Click that and click Show Data Progressively, then move across to the Time Intervals tab. And we could leave this as it is, but we're gonna just change it to perhaps every quarter of an hour. So we do that, and then to finish that process, we click the cog again, and then we can visualise the sequence. So I just scroll it back to the start, and then we can step through either using play or fast forward or going backwards. So I'm just gonna step forward now to show you what that looks like. So this reveals the sequence by which the data was collected along the Urban Transect. So if we show all that data in one go, and then compare that data with another layer, because one of these has been pre-prepared, which is pedestrian count, if we click that, we can then see another set of data underneath it. So if we just remove the properties panel here for a moment, and then what we can do is click this layer on and off, and this layer on and off, and we can get some idea to see if there's a link between the data. So for example, we see that there's a lot of traffic on this road here, and on the other hand, the pedestrian count is relatively low. If we look for somewhere where the pedestrian count is quite high, such as here, what's the vehicle count like? It seems to be very low. We can't see it all that clearly. So we'll just toggle the pedestrian count there, and you can see that that seems to be the case, particularly as might be expected in and around Gunwharf Quays itself.
Fieldwork H LC1 HQ
Key Stage 4
Year 11
Geography
This is a guide which is going to show you how to use GIS primary data for human field work. We're going to use a ready-made web map called Fieldwork H, where H stands for human. And what you'll notice is that there are some layers already loaded onto the map to support our learning about GIS. The first thing we're going to do is just click the time slider here because we're gonna use that later. And by default, it switches on every time you open the map. So we're just gonna switch that off for now. And you can see some orange dots have appeared and those orange dots are about the data that we're going to manage. Before we do that, you may just look at these features here. First of all, we have Gunwharf Quays marked, and you can see the extent of it here. And we can also see Portsmouth Historic Dockyard nearby. So what we want to do first is to visualise the primary data as proportional orientated symbols. I'm going to zoom in just a little bit so you can see them better. These orange dots, they will become clearer in a moment. In Layers, we click the three dots for the options to open the properties panel on the right, then you'll see a section called Symbology, where you click Edit Layer Style, and after that there's a panel. Number one, choose attributes. In that panel, you're going to click the word Field, which refers to the different attributes in the dataset, and you're going to find vehicle count. And when you've ticked that, you click Add and you'll see the symbols change to become proportional symbols. Now, these proportional symbols are circles. It would be good to use something a little bit more meaningful. So we can do that if we go to the second panel called pick a style. And within that, we go to the section called Counts and Amount Size and click Style Options. Then in the panel that says Symbol Style, we can click the pen and that will open another panel. And in that panel, click Basic Point and then Basic Shapes. And you can scroll down to Arrows and click that and then scroll down just a little way until you find a two-way arrow. And I think I'm right in saying there's only one two-way arrow in the selection. So click on the two-way arrow and then click Done. You'll notice the symbols have become two-way arrows. And then in Colour, we're going to change the colour of the arrows by clicking Pen. And if we click Pen, and then in this panel here, we're gonna select a shade of red, and its colour code is ff0011. You can choose something else if you prefer. Then we click Done. And then in Symbol Style, we're going to close that panel and then scroll to something called Size Range just here. What we're going to do now is adjust the size of the symbol. So we want to that manually. Untick adjust size automatically. And then we're going to change the size range so that the lower one is 15 and the largest one we're gonna have is 80. Next, we're going to scroll down to the very bottom of this panel, where it says rotation by attribute. At the moment, you can see the arrows are all pointing in the same direction, but it'll be much better if we could show directional travel of the traffic along these roads. So in rotation by attribute, we switch that to on and you'll see the arrows have moved, but that's because they're using the site number. They're not using the bearing data. So if we click this dropdown and then we select Bearing, you'll see the arrows change to show the direction of traffic flow on those roads. That's a much better visualisation than we had before. So we're going to click Done twice. If we click Legend, we'll see that that appears as a key on the left-hand side. And we're now ready to save our map. So it's already got a title, but being as you're logged onto ArcGIS Online, what you can do is save with your own name. For example, we could just save, we're saving it the first time, so we click Save As, and we're just gonna call it Fieldwork H1. I'm going to type DEMO after mine. You don't have to do that. Just to show that that's my copy. Our next step is to configure the popups for the vehicle count data. If we click on the popups at the moment, they're very long and not terribly meaningful, but we can improve those. So we click the Layers panel, make sure that we're looking at the properties, show properties for vehicle count, and then we find the popups button on the right-hand side. And when we click that, you'll notice it opens the popup so we can see what progress we're making as we configure the popup. So in the panel on the right, you'll see a fields list. We're actually going to delete those and customise those in a moment. We're also gonna change the title, so just delete what's there and type this formula of words, which will pick up the site number and site name from the dataset that sits behind the map. And it's gonna pick up photos for all the sites. If we just click on a couple, you can see as we click on the popups for each symbol, it's got photographs based on what was taken by the students at each of these locations. Now, another interesting thing we can do with this data is configure the time because the time was recorded for the observation. So if we click Time and put that time slider back, we can then click on this little cog at the bottom of the page here where we've got time slider options. So we go to time slider options, and in time slider mode, there's a small dropdown menu. Click that and click Show Data Progressively, then move across to the Time Intervals tab. And we could leave this as it is, but we're gonna just change it to perhaps every quarter of an hour. So we do that, and then to finish that process, we click the cog again, and then we can visualise the sequence. So I just scroll it back to the start, and then we can step through either using play or fast forward or going backwards. So I'm just gonna step forward now to show you what that looks like. So this reveals the sequence by which the data was collected along the Urban Transect. So if we show all that data in one go, and then compare that data with another layer, because one of these has been pre-prepared, which is pedestrian count, if we click that, we can then see another set of data underneath it. So if we just remove the properties panel here for a moment, and then what we can do is click this layer on and off, and this layer on and off, and we can get some idea to see if there's a link between the data. So for example, we see that there's a lot of traffic on this road here, and on the other hand, the pedestrian count is relatively low. If we look for somewhere where the pedestrian count is quite high, such as here, what's the vehicle count like? It seems to be very low. We can't see it all that clearly. So we'll just toggle the pedestrian count there, and you can see that that seems to be the case, particularly as might be expected in and around Gunwharf Quays itself.