My map shows both squirrel coverage in Central Park and types of land cover. I feel like it is somewhat related, since it seems reasonable that there would be more squirrels in a park, but since we don’t have squirrel data for outside of the park…. I can’t really say. Overall, I thought the program was pretty easy to use and offered a lot of interesting options and customization possibilities. I was impressed by the number of base maps we had access to as well and I think they could be really useful when doing larger projects. I did some customization of the icons to get them to be the squirrels and of the pop-ups to weed out excess or distracting information. This process was, in the end, less intimidating than I thought it would be and I think it presents a great resource for people attempting to do projects that involved more complicated mapping efforts!
WordPress was not letting me embed my map, so I’m linking to it here: https://carleton.maps.arcgis.com/apps/Styler/index.html?appid=c89eacb3905842d4ae1b6afb5355f7fd
2 replies on “Squirrels and Ground Cover in Central Park”
I agree that the process was less intimidating than one would imagine. I really like that you tried to pair the squirrel data with another map that made sense, I wanted to do the same but struggled to find the right map.
I personally didn’t like so many customization tools because it feels like there’re just so many things to do and to make it distracts me from actually working on the mapping itself. I think Austin really made this very easy to do because of his tutorial otherwise I would not know that such a service exists and that you can do such mapping was only if few clicks.