Project Update

Project Update

Our project progress was a little slow this month as we only really had a couple of weeks, and then Spring Break.  Our main class we are working with this term spent the time learning all about crafting evidence based essays, so we were focused on that inside and did not have much time for our map making project.    Our hope is to hit the ground and get outside starting in April, when the weather we will be nicer (we had a lot of snow the last few weeks!).

We hope to get outside, capture some footage and begin training some of the new students in how to do the video editing and manipulating of our content to built and create small little artifacts to add to our map.    In concert with our other update this month, we also hope to add a new Indigenous layer to the map with local SENĆOŦEN names and important places labelled on the map.

Personally, I have been working on a recreation of the Saanich Peninsula, and Southern Vancouver Island in a simulator called City Skylines.  Here is a small video tour of the Victoria and the Saanich Peninsula area below.  This simulator allows you to import any map from around the world and then begin building your city, infratrstructure and services.  It is not a 1:1 recreation, but it allows us to create an interactive version of the map, and to learn about different impacts on the region.  Check it out: