WorldMap Workshop Center for Geographic Analysis, Harvard March, 2017 1.0 GETTING READY .................................................................................................................................................. 3 2.0 INTRODUCTION ................................................................................................................................................... 3 3.0 GETTING STARTED ............................................................................................................................................... 4 3.1 REGISTER ................................................................................................................................................................ 4 3.2 FILLING IN YOUR PROFILE ...................................................................................................................................... 5 3.3 NOTE ON PERMISSIONS ........................................................................................................................................... 5 3.4 NOTE ON TERMINOLOGY ......................................................................................................................................... 5 4.0 VIEWING MAPS IN WORLDMAP ........................................................................................................................... 6 4.1 FRONT PAGE ............................................................................................................................................................ 6 4.2 LOOKING AT EXISTING MAPS .................................................................................................................................. 6 4.3 SEARCHING FOR AVAILABLE MAPS ........................................................................................................................ 6 4.4 CHOICE OF BASEMAPS ............................................................................................................................................ 6 4.5 WAYS TO ZOOM (CHANGE SCALES) ......................................................................................................................... 6 4.6 FINDING PLACES USING THE GAZETTEER TOOL ...................................................................................................... 7 4.7 LEGEND, SCALE BAR .............................................................................................................................................. 8 4.8 LAYER ON/OFF, TRANSPARENCY CONTROL ............................................................................................................ 8 4.9 LAYER ORDER ........................................................................................................................................................ 8 4.10 STREET VIEW ..................................................................................................................................................... 8 4.11 BOOKMARK AND EMBED YOUR MAP IN ANOTHER WEB PAGE .......................................................................... 9 4.12 CLICK ON MAP FOR INFORMATION ABOUT A FEATURE ...................................................................................... 9 4.13 SEARCH A MAP LAYER ...................................................................................................................................... 11 4.14 ANNOTATE A MAP ............................................................................................................................................ 11 4.15 DOWNLOADS .................................................................................................................................................... 11 4.16 VIEW ANY LAYER IN GOOGLE EARTH .............................................................................................................. 12 4.17 PRINTING .......................................................................................................................................................... 12 4.18 EXERCISE: SEARCHING AND VIEWING MAPS ................................................................................................ 12 5.0 CREATING YOUR OWN CONTENT IN WORLDMAP ............................................................................................... 13 5.1 CREATE A MAP ..................................................................................................................................................... 13 5.2 CHANGE BASE MAP .............................................................................................................................................. 13 5.3 SAVING YOUR MAP ............................................................................................................................................... 14 5.4 PERMISSIONS, MAP NAME, PROFILE ..................................................................................................................... 14 5.5 ADD A LAYER FROM WORLDMAP ......................................................................................................................... 15 5.6 SEARCH ................................................................................................................................................................. 15 5.7 UPLOAD LAYER .................................................................................................................................................... 25 5.7.2 Upload GeoTIFF .............................................................................................................................................. 31 5.7.3 Uploading a TIFF Created with ArcGIS .......................................................................................................... 32 5.7.4 Permissions ...................................................................................................................................................... 32 5.8 EDIT EXISTING LAYERS ........................................................................................................................................ 32 5.9 CREATING A LAYER USING DESKTOP SOFTWARE ................................................................................................... 32 5.10 CREATE LAYER ................................................................................................................................................ 33 WorldMap Workshop Page 1 5.11 CREATE FEATURES AND EMBED MEDIA IN THEM ............................................................................................ 33 5.12 RECTIFY LAYER ............................................................................................................................................... 37 5.12.1 Adding georeferenced maps to WorldMap ..................................................................................................... 37 5.12.2 Masking your map .......................................................................................................................................... 38 6.0 USING DATAVERSE TO CREATE AND UPLOAD WORLDMAP CONTENT ................................................................. 38 6.1 TURN DATA TABLES INTO MAPS WITH SPATIAL JOINS ......................................................................................... 39 6.2 MAPPING OF LAT LONG TABLES ........................................................................................................................... 43 6.3 MAPPING SHAPEFILE DATA .................................................................................................................................. 43 7.0 CREATING A CUSTOM GAZETTEER ...................................................................................................................... 43 7.1 ADDING CONTENT ................................................................................................................................................ 43 7.2 GAZETTEER API .................................................................................................................................................... 44 7.3 EXERCISES ........................................................................................................................................................ 45 8.0 UPLOADING DATA TO YOUR MAP (UPLOAD LAYER TAB) .................................................................................... 46 8.1 CREATING LAYERS FOR WORLDMAP USING DESKTOP SOFTWARE ......................................................................... 46 8.2 UPLOAD A SHAPEFILE ........................................................................................................................................... 47 8.3 UPLOAD A GEOTIFF ............................................................................................................................................. 47 8.4 METADATA (DESCRIBING YOUR LAYERS) ............................................................................................................. 48 8.5 TROUBLESHOOTING SHAPEFILE UPLOADING ........................................................................................................ 50 8.6 EXERCISE: ADDING DATA TO YOUR MAP .......................................................................................................... 50 9.0 STYLING YOUR LAYERS 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