As part of the Science Festival 2019 (7th-10th November), the Institute of Geography and Spatial Planning of the University of Luxembourg is organising a mini Map Festival!
The event is targeting kids for the two first days and the general public during the weekend.
Through a set of fun and engaging hands-on activities, the workshops aim at encouraging people to discover and learn about how we create digital models and maps of where we live using a technology called Geographical Information Systems (GIS).
The final objective is that kids, teenagers and adults leave us with a better understanding of how do we represent and create maps of the world using the computers.
- Contour map of Luxembourg: kids are introduced the notion of space and geometries (points, lines and polygons)
- Mini booklet and Birthdate Map: teenagers and adults can discover how to we represent the Earth as a globe and on a map, and will use their knowledge to fill in our Birthdate Map during the public days (weekend)
- Quiz Book:
- Augmented Reality Map:
- Augmented Reality Sandbox:
- Web maps (ArcGIS and Leaflet/R):