Capture and Share Mental Maps, Perceptions, and Experiences
Using ArcGIS StoryMaps
Use StoryMaps to:
-Add a stronger sense of place to your narrative
-Illustrate spatial relationships
-Add visual appeal and credibility to your ideas
-Embed other Esri applications within
-Present your work
Sketch Mapping & Participatory Mapping
Dissertation Title: Navigating Food Deserts: A Geo-Ethnography of Atlanta Residents' Experiences, Routines, and Perceptions
One way to do this...
Digitizing from paper maps
Atlanta Food Desert Target/Study Area along with participant's mental map, originally sketched on paper then digitized
Understanding the WHY by interviewing for more information
Participant shopped closer to work location
A better way to do this: EXPRESS MAPS
Use Express Maps within StoryMaps to map activity spaces, mental maps, and perform quick qualitative data collection
The goal was to make cartography as simple as possible so anyone can add focused maps at the right time.
Lakeisha's general activity space
Making an Express Map
Why Express Maps are Handy in Qualitative Research (use cases):
If you need to sketch what's in your head or add a quick locator map to your story
Get as detailed as you want, or keep it general. It's a matter of scale.
Helpful to gauge a person's perceived space
Requires little cartographic knowledge
More interactive than static, paper map
Great for showing a route or a sequence of events
Stay inside the StoryMaps framework; no need to hop out to create map in desktop or AGOL
Capture Your Field Notes
Express Maps are also great for adding your own field notes.
Writing Ethnographic Fieldnotes, Emerson et al., and Tales of the Field, John Van Maanen
In the Field: Participating, Observing, and Jotting Notes
Writing Up Field Notes I: From Field to Desk
Writing Up FIeld Notes: II: Creating Scenes on the Page
Pursuing Members' Meanings
Processing Fieldnotes: Coding and Memoing
