GEOG5870/1M: Web-based GIS A course on web-based mapping

Blue Plaques Task

This practical forms part of the portfolio submission. It involves taking a data file and generating a set of markers from the data.

The data are a list of blue plaques identifying buildings of historical interest (or buildings with associations with persons of historical interest) in Leeds; these were recently catalogued as part of a book about Leeds. The data contain the location of each plaque, details of who unveiled it and when, and the text of the plaque. The data file is incomplete and will need some editing before you start to use it.

Your practical task is to create a map that contains markers for plaques for which a grid-reference exists, and for each marker to have a pop-up window that contains information about that plaque. You should also add suitable text to the web pages that you create (in addition to the map object) that describe the background to the data.

The practical notes will contain details of how to convert from OS National Grid co-ordinates to WGS84 Latitude / Longitude.


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