Mash Up Week 7

This week in our face to face tutorial we learned how to create a map.This to me was very interesting as I use the maps app on my phone daily and never once thought about how it was created. Creating this map also showed us the collaboration on two sets of data it was a mash up. This was putting theory from this weeks lecture into practice. We had data on excel from the book Heritage Trees of Ireland and then we combined this with Google maps so we could actually see the locations of all these heritage trees. The process of making the map was quite simple, thanks to the step by step guides. Firstly we created our map then we made a layer based on the Oak heritage trees of Ireland, this appear on the map after the data was downloaded.

Then following that we downloaded more data , which then also appeared on the map but with this data we learned how to change the style of the data. So to distinguish between the different types of data we changed the icon and the colour, to make the difference more visible to the user.

Then finally we were able to left click on the different icons on the map and see the unique data each icon had,such as the place, the county and the species.

I have embedded my map to this post. I hope in the future I will be able to create a more detailed map.