A4+-+Making+Land+Use+Maps

Click the image above and follow link to Download Google Earth on your Home Computer

Lets Start Simple and Look at the very local scale - Codrington School Here is a map that has been produced before by MYP1 on paper. They produced it by looking at a satellite image and then tracing over this by hand. Very nice, but lets see how accurate they were.

1. Creating Overlays of Land use maps

a) Open up Google Earth on your computer b) Find Codrington School, Barbados (note you will probably have to search for Consett Bay and then find the school) c) You will need to create a copy of the image above (right click and save it to your folder) d) In Google Earth Click on Add ..... Image Overlay e) Browse for the image you just saved and click ok f) the image will appear on your Google Earth. You now need to mess around with it to try and get it exactly over the school. g) Give the person marks out of 10 for how good the land use map was.

Excellent now its time for Stage 2 Making your own land use map without Tracing Paper Note: A land use map is only a representation of the main land use in an area, not every little thing. NOTE: At any time you can go to File -Save - Save Place as ........kmz file. You can save it onto your memory stick and then work on it at home.

To download Google Earth on your computer at home - follow the link at the top of the page.

When you are happy go to Edit / Copy image. Then open up an image editing software like Paint and add your Key and Title.



> Once you create your land use map then make a copy of it: File .. Save .. Save image
 * Task 3 - Creating your own land use Map using Google Earth and Street View. **
 * 1) Find a smallish sized residential town similar in size to the one above. You could start in Barbados and do Speightstown.
 * 2) You need to think of some categories of land use you will use. The one above is an example. However it is not very good. Make a simple key with your partner and then ask me is it is ok.
 * 3) Create your own SIMPLIFIED land use map by looking at the housing and land use.
 * 1) Now try and get some photos of different areas to back up your reasons. This may be difficult for Speightstown. However for other places you can go into street view.

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 * Assessed Work on Creating a Land Use Map