Technical Session 2: My Maps for Environmental Change
Event Details
My Maps is a quick and easy way to create interactive maps that visualize environmental change. Using My Maps you can add 10 layers of content, customize the appearance of
Event Details
My Maps is a quick and easy way to create interactive maps that visualize environmental change. Using My Maps you can add 10 layers of content, customize the appearance of your data, and embed a map in your website. New improvements allow you to export a CSV (spreadsheet) file from your map and update your map layers when new information is added to imported spreadsheet files.
In this session we will do hands-on activities to learn about ways to use Google Forms to gather information from the public, create a response spreadsheet, import the responses into a My Maps, update the map layer when new responses are added to the spreadsheet, customize the map layers, and export map layers as CSV files. We will learn how to fill out Google Forms on phones to facilitate community engagement, but participants will need a laptop in order to create Forms, Sheets, and My Maps. The focus will be on efficient workflows that can be used in community engagement and planning in this time of rapid environmental and climate change.
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Time
(Monday) 11:45 AM - 12:45 AM(GMT-07:00) View in my time
Location
River Cree Room 1
Speakers for this event
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Cynthia Annett
Cynthia Annett
Research Associate Professor at Kansas State University & University of Alaska
Cynthia Annett has a Masters from Moss Landing Marine Labs and a PhD from U.C. Berkeley. The focus of her recent work is on developing techniques for environmental and cultural inventories and database management, Indigenous Mapping and Environmental Justice. She has a research faculty appointment at Kansas State University, and works with the Tribal TAB program. Dr. Annett is a trainer for the Google Earth Outreach Network and the Indigenous Mapping Workshops, and has provided training on digital mapping techniques for communities around the world. As a co-chair of an ASTM task group for publicly available climate adaptation mapping tools, she is helping to coordinate the development of user and developer standards to make environmental and demographic geospatial data more easily accessible to non-technical users. You can see her workshops and research at http://CynthiaAnnett.org
Research Associate Professor at Kansas State University & University of Alaska
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Nasbah Ben
Nasbah Ben
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Peter Solodov
Peter Solodov
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Tara Rush
Tara Rush
Administration Business Partner, Google Canada
Tara is Kanien’kéha from Mohawk Nation at Ahkwesáhsne. She works at Google Canada in Waterloo, as an Admin Business Partner. She is part of the Google American Indian Network and Google's First Nations Group. Tara holds a degree in Indigenous Studies from Laurentian University, and is currently doing post-grad studies at University of Waterloo. Her work on diversity at Google has focused solely on Indigenous work, including mapping, education, language, inclusion, and community outreach.
Administration Business Partner, Google Canada
Schedule
- Day 1
- November 21, 2022
11:45am Technical Session 2: My Maps for Environmental Change11:45am - 12:45pmMy Maps is a quick and easy way to create interactive maps that visualize environmental change. Using My Maps you can add 10 layers of content, customize the appearance of your data, and embed a map in your website. New improvements allow you to export a CSV (spreadsheet) file from your map and update your map layers when new information is added to imported spreadsheet files. In this session we will do hands-on activities to learn about ways to use Google Forms to gather information from the public, create a response spreadsheet, import the responses into a My Maps, update the map layer when new responses are added to the spreadsheet, customize the map layers, and export map layers as CSV files. We will learn how to fill out Google Forms on phones to facilitate community engagement, but participants will need a laptop in order to create Forms, Sheets, and My Maps. The focus will be on efficient workflows that can be used in community engagement and planning in this time of rapid environmental and climate change. Speakers: Cynthia Annett, Nasbah Ben, Peter Solodov, Tara Rush