New ways of mapping: using GPS mapping software to plot place names and trails

• Main Author: Claudio Aporta
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Subjects: Key words; Inuit place names; Inuit trails; mapping; Geographic Information System; GIS; Global Positioning System; GPS; Igloolik; toponymy; Arctic; inuit
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.561.2969; http://pubs.aina.ucalgary.ca/arctic/Arctic56-4-321.pdf

ABSTRACT. The combined use of a GPS receiver and mapping software proved to be a straightforward, flexible, and inexpensive way of mapping and displaying (in digital or paper format) 400 place names and 37 trails used by Inuit of Igloolik, in the Eastern Canadian Arctic. The geographic coordinates o...