New Ways of Mapping: Using GPS Mapping Software to Plot Place Names and Trails in Igloolik (Nunavut)

• Published in: ARCTIC
• Main Author: Aporta, Claudio
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: The Arctic Institute of North America 2003
• Subjects: Inuit place names; Inuit trails; mapping; Geographic Information System; GIS; Global Positioning System; GPS; Igloolik; toponymy; lieux-dits inuits; pistes inuites; cartographie; système d'information géographique; SIG; système de positionnement global; toponymie; Arctic; Nunavut; inuit; inuites; inuits
• Online Access: https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/arctic/article/view/63688

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 of some of...