Mapping the Way This two day workshop took place with year 8
pupils from St.Paul's Way Community School in Tower Hamlets,
London. On each day we set out to map the school grounds by
walking at the edges of footpaths and boundaries, around
buildings, and along the painted lines of the playing field.
When all the walks from both days were overlaid it produced a
map composed of over 40 miles of tracks (left). It shows the
overall accessible areas and details of the features within
while the densities of lines destinguish the popular and
unpopular places. As the pupils walked along the edges of the
school with GPS receivers their positions were automatically
recorded every two seconds for about an hour. Back in the
classroom we uploaded the GPS tracks and scrutintized them on a
big screen. We also had a large outline of the school drawn on
the wall that we gradually filled in with annotations and
details of where things were. Above is a selection of some of
the individual maps made by the students. We could see w