While playing around with the new functionality of Google Maps, I have created a Virtual Transect of Leicester which you might find useful. The transect is 15km long and dissects the Clock Tower. At each site I took a photograph facing North which has been embedded into the place mark.
Also included in the place-mark is the postcode for each site. By using sites such as Up My Street, Neighbourhood Statistics or the Environment Agency, students can use the postcode to explore and map a wide variety of spatial data across Leicester.
The Virtual Transect can also be viewed in Google Earth, click here to download the Google Earth file. Big thanks to Daniel Raven-Ellison for the idea!
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Ann Daigle // July 17, 2007 at 7:16 pm |
Very cool! Check out this website & the New Urban notion of the rural to urban transect. We use it to measure & describe the physical characteristics of “human habitats,” so we can plan for and code an appropriate diversity of building within communities:
http://dpz.com/transect.aspx