Workshop Materials (15 Feb 2024, 10:00 – 12:00)
Created by Sarah Schöttler
All material collected here is free to use but is covered by a License: 
- 10:00 - Welcome & Introduction
- 10:10 - Presentation: Understanding your project requirements and constraints
- 10:20 - Discussion: What are you looking to achieve?
- 10:50 - Break
- 11:00 - Presentation: Tools and Example Maps
- 11:15 - Time to try out mapping tools, supported by the trainer
- 12:00 - Closing
These are links to all the tools mentioned in the workshop. Of course there are many more tools around, though these are currently the most mainstream, well-maintained ones. However, if you have a very specific niche use case, you might want to look around some more.
- Datawrapper (free plan with most features available)
- Flourish (free plan with most features available)
- Google My Maps (free)
- ArcGIS Online (paid), some ArcGIS Online map types are also integrated in PowerBI (also paid, but may be available via UoE)
- Tableau (paid, but free 1-year student licenses available)
- Leaflet
- MapLibre
- MapBox GL JS
- DeckGL
- D3.js (primarily a visualization library, but can be used for highly customized maps with d3-geo)
- Online tools for modifying geographic data
- MapShaper: browser-based software for editing Shapefile, GeoJSON, TopoJSON, CSV and several other data formats
- geojson.io: easily create geojson files by drawing custom shapes
- Tools for specific data types
- The Vistorian: Interactive network (incl. geographic networks) visualizations