I know, I know, I really suck at this keeping up with the blog thing! Yet again, I find myself sitting at the computer in the early hours of the morning with a to do list longer than I care to think about. I’ve crossed a few items off of the list and now it is finally time to check off those blog posts that I am behind on. One such blog post was an assignment regarding our experience with online map tools including Google MyMaps. At this point I have had more than a few fights with the Google map making program while working on my final project. The sad part is that I have to admit defeat and tell you that the program won nearly every round. Eventually, I found a video tutorial on YouTube which I have found to be useful. My final map was not the most fancy or detailed, but to put it simply, it does the job.
This is a link to a map of walking directions from the Arlington Cemetery Metro to Robert E.Lee’s home at the heart of Arlington National Cemetery.
I learned a valuable lesson from this assignment, that lesson being that I will never be a cartographer if I can not even cooperate with Google Maps. While it was never a particular ambition of mine, it is still a difficult realization to come to considering I come from a family of cartographers stretching back several generations.