Georeferencing
and Data Sharing
for Teaching Use
Amelia C. Sparavigna, Roberto Marazzato
Politecnico di Torino
Introduction
Teaching history of physics
● Open to other subjects
● Improving
the learning process by
sticking knowledge to places
● Discovering new details about the life of
scientists
● Possibility to travel in space and time
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Georeferencing and Data Sharing for Teaching Use
Amelia C. Sparavigna, Roberto Marazzato - Politecnico di Torino
Sources
Public online sources (Wikipedia,
Google, open content sites/books)
● Traditional sources
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Georeferencing and Data Sharing for Teaching Use
Amelia C. Sparavigna, Roberto Marazzato - Politecnico di Torino
Technology
Google Earth
● KML
● XSLT
● PHP
● MySQL
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Georeferencing and Data Sharing for Teaching Use
Amelia C. Sparavigna, Roberto Marazzato - Politecnico di Torino
Development – First trial
DEVELOPER
ONLINE CONTENT
SOURCES
GOOGLE EARTH
INTERFACE
OFFLINE
CONTENT
SOURCES
KML
FILE
Georeferencing and Data Sharing for Teaching Use
Amelia C. Sparavigna, Roberto Marazzato - Politecnico di Torino
Features – First trial
To be viewed only on Google Earth
● Not easy to edit text/HTML (Balloon
propertes interface)
● Unmanageable file content (GE does it
all)
● All done by hand!!!
● Does not require any CS knowledge
●
Georeferencing and Data Sharing for Teaching Use
Amelia C. Sparavigna, Roberto Marazzato - Politecnico di Torino
Development – Second trial
DEVELOPER
ONLINE CONTENT
SOURCES
(SMART) TEXT EDITOR
OFFLINE
CONTENT
SOURCES
KML
FILE
Georeferencing and Data Sharing for Teaching Use
Amelia C. Sparavigna, Roberto Marazzato - Politecnico di Torino
Features – Second trial
To be viewed only on Google Earth
● Easy to edit text/HTML
● Manageable file content
● All done by hand!!!
● Requires CS knowledge
●
Georeferencing and Data Sharing for Teaching Use
Amelia C. Sparavigna, Roberto Marazzato - Politecnico di Torino
Adding web/printable output
DEVELOPER
ONLINE CONTENT
SOURCES
(SMART) TEXT EDITOR
OFFLINE
CONTENT
SOURCES
KML, XSLT, CSS FILES
Georeferencing and Data Sharing for Teaching Use
Amelia C. Sparavigna, Roberto Marazzato - Politecnico di Torino
Explaining XSLT and CSS
Pre
processing
HTML
OUTPUT
OUTPUT
TO USER
Rendering
Georeferencing and Data Sharing for Teaching Use
Amelia C. Sparavigna, Roberto Marazzato - Politecnico di Torino
Features – with XSLT and CSS
Rendered on Google Earth, on a
web breowser, or on other viewers
● Easy to edit text/HTML
● Manageable file content
● All done by hand!!!
● Requires CS knowledge
●
Georeferencing and Data Sharing for Teaching Use
Amelia C. Sparavigna, Roberto Marazzato - Politecnico di Torino
Script automation
ONLINE +
OFFLINE
CONTENT
SOURCES
CONTENT
MANAGER
BACK END (FORMS)
DEVELOPER
KML, XSLT, CSS FILES
Georeferencing and Data Sharing for Teaching Use
Amelia C. Sparavigna, Roberto Marazzato - Politecnico di Torino
USER
Features – with script automation
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Rendered on Google Earth, on a web
browser, or on other viewers
Easy to edit text – No HTML
No file to manage
Optimized interface
Require no CS knowledge (data entry)
Need for a developer (once)
Georeferencing and Data Sharing for Teaching Use
Amelia C. Sparavigna, Roberto Marazzato - Politecnico di Torino
The Newton Tour
Georeferencing and Data Sharing for Teaching Use
Amelia C. Sparavigna, Roberto Marazzato - Politecnico di Torino
The Newton Tour – Screenshot #1
Georeferencing and Data Sharing for Teaching Use
Amelia C. Sparavigna, Roberto Marazzato - Politecnico di Torino
The Newton Tour – Screenshot #2
Georeferencing and Data Sharing for Teaching Use
Amelia C. Sparavigna, Roberto Marazzato - Politecnico di Torino
The Newton Tour – Screenshot #3
Georeferencing and Data Sharing for Teaching Use
Amelia C. Sparavigna, Roberto Marazzato - Politecnico di Torino
The Newton Tour – Screenshot #4
Georeferencing and Data Sharing for Teaching Use
Amelia C. Sparavigna, Roberto Marazzato - Politecnico di Torino
The Newton Tour – Screenshot #5
Georeferencing and Data Sharing for Teaching Use
Amelia C. Sparavigna, Roberto Marazzato - Politecnico di Torino
The Newton Tour – web output
View Web Output >>>
Georeferencing and Data Sharing for Teaching Use
Amelia C. Sparavigna, Roberto Marazzato - Politecnico di Torino