Street Write Up 1 – Using AEGIS
Posted by geoblogbytes on June 13, 2007
In your street write-ups (for advice on how to do this see next posting) – you will need to make good use of maps, graphs etc. AEGIS is a digital mapping programme which can help you make good use of maps in both your street write up and analysis. You can use AEGIS in a number of different ways in your street write-up:
1. Create blank base maps of the four streets – e.g. to use in method for showing the four streets you are studying or zoomed in to each street to show their location in the individual street write-ups;
2. Create shaded land-use maps to show different land-uses in the streets (shaded like the GOAD map – but automatically!) – again you can zoom into individual streets
3. Create maps to show heights of buildings on each street
4. Use AEGIS to calculate distance from streets to the nearest car parks when looking at accessibility.
The following slides show 3 examples of how maps might be incorporated – remember you must annotate / refer to any that you include. You could also draw on traffic restrictions etc. if you wanted to.
You have all been given instructions sheets for AEGIS but they can also be downloaded from the key documents section.
Make good use of this and be inventive in the way you use it – think about what you can use it to show.
