My Map Project by Geography197 UPD https://padlet.com/geog197upd/MyMapProject Draw your proposed map project for Geog 197. Post an image of your sketch and provide a short explanation on your map's purpose, features, and target audience. Post your answers no later than March 11, 2022 en-us 2022-02-23 08:44:59 UTC 2022-03-14 15:21:38 UTC hello@padlet.com Is UP for the poor? - Edward Dimacuha https://padlet.com/geog197upd/MyMapProject/wish/2088111795 For my map project, I want to create a dot map showing the spatial distribution of UP students in the Philippines, plotted against the GDP contribution per region (or average salary per month). I want to use the 2019 enrollment data for this since it's the last batch who took the UPCAT. I want to argue that UP is not a university catered for people in the lower echelons of the society in a sense that most of its students come from regions with relatively higher incomes. My target audience would be the general public but more importantly, the UP Admin. May this map be a signal that something is wrong in our admission system and necessary changes should be done in order to revert back to UP's initial image of being the university of the people and for the people.]]> 2022-03-10 11:10:20 UTC https://padlet.com/geog197upd/MyMapProject/wish/2088111795 "Tracks/Strands for SHS Offered by Public Schools in Quezon City" - Reuben Octaviano https://padlet.com/geog197upd/MyMapProject/wish/2089568840 "One of the main challenges high students face is the transition from being a junior high to senior high due to tracks and strands they need to choose from that will help them be prepared for college. Unfortunately, there are many cases that due to lack of information, many incoming senior high school students (SHS) do not know what schools offered their preferred track or strand that is why many just stay on their present school and continue with senior high level there with whatever available tracks and strands they have. And sometimes, due to this, the track or strand they chose is not aligned to the college degree program they are determined to choose and this causes lack of preparedness for them. It even happened to me and my classmates. Furthermore, due to lack of information also about the tracks and strands offered by different public schools around, some tend to enroll to other near cities or places that take so much of their time in terms of transportation. 

In order to prevent these and to be of help to our incoming SHS students around particularly in my city, my map project is all about "Tracks/Strands offered by Public Schools in Quezon City". This will feature all public schools in QC that are open to accept SHS students and their offered tracks and strands. In addition, their school address, contact details, capacity per track and strands (or currently enrolled students) are also included. On the other hand, there will also be a part where short testimonies and experiences from the alumni of those public schools are featured that our target audience can read and be a basis also in choosing that school. And lastly, school photos are also included as you click any public school available in the map. 

Overall, choosing a right school with a right track and strand will help someone be more prepared in facing the next educational level of his/her. And I hope this map project will help my fellow students particularly those incoming senior high so that all the challenges mentioned above will be resolved.]]> 2022-03-11 02:13:41 UTC https://padlet.com/geog197upd/MyMapProject/wish/2089568840 Effectiveness of flood-prevention infrastructures in Metro Manila - Jerwin Saria https://padlet.com/geog197upd/MyMapProject/wish/2089855016 This project idea was inspired by our recent experience with Typhoon Ulysses in November 2020.

In the past 10 years or more, many infrastructure efforts were initiated and made to address these flooding issues. But based on my personal subjective evaluation of the projects, they did not do any help. 

 I want to explore if there were substantial impacts (or benefits) we could have from these flood-prevention infrastructures: did they really prevent the floods? Why was the level of flood waters being much worse in Ulysses than during Ondoy, even with supposedly flood prevention projects were already in place? What were the areas and population affected by both Ondoy and Ulysses and other notable storms? Were there similarities/differences? Was there a change in the magnitude of affected areas due to these projects? Do these projects really make sense or just a waste of people’s money?

The idea is to determine if these projects, indeed, prevented/mitigated flood impacts. Measures include the occurrence/recurrence of flooding events: (a) presence of flood in an area may suggest infrastructures were ineffective in preventing them, as the local would put it “’pag may baha, may problema”;
(b) floods should not recur on areas previously affected by storm flooding; and
(c) previously affected areas should show lesser impacts from recent flooding
events. 

It is common sense that by having these flood-prevention infrastructures in the first place, flooding events should not occur or at least have very minimal and negligible impacts to adjoining communities.

 
]]> 2022-03-11 05:30:44 UTC https://padlet.com/geog197upd/MyMapProject/wish/2089855016 IP Map of CAR by Erika del Roasario https://padlet.com/geog197upd/MyMapProject/wish/2090647653 I thought of this map as product of appreciation and respect during my (almost) one year stay in the Cordilleras.

I have witnessed how varied and rich the culture of people are, especially the IPs in CAR ---and I wanted everyone to see and appreciate it, atleast through this map.
 
I aim for it to be interactive in the sense that you would know the differences of IPs that exist in the region ---- particularly the place where a certain group is clustered, what are their dominant practice or their 'pride', or even how each of them are distributed across the region.

Baguio City may be a well-known tourist destination for its chilly temperature and relaxing view. But I also hope for people who would want to visit/travel Baguio, in no time, to also be aware of how rich and diverse the culture it has and put the entire 'Igorots' into consideration and appreciation. ]]> 2022-03-11 15:30:22 UTC https://padlet.com/geog197upd/MyMapProject/wish/2090647653 #SiyaNaBa?: Using Twitter API from February to March 2022 in Mapping Voter's Presidential Preference in the Upcoming May 2022 elections https://padlet.com/geog197upd/MyMapProject/wish/2094089143 I have always been fascinated (and perturbed) how media platforms collect data and use them as they please. Drawing inspiration from Ma'am Madz research, I plan to use Twitter API to study voter's preferences in the upcoming May 22 elections. Specifically, I want to know the reliability of tweets in forecasting who is the most likely to win the presidential seat and whether Baluarte Politics still play a huge role in the country. Given that Twitter is more accessible to the privileged youth, I wanted to know the opinions of the people in Twitter verse and whether it mirrors the perspective of people on-ground. ]]> 2022-03-14 15:21:38 UTC https://padlet.com/geog197upd/MyMapProject/wish/2094089143