{"id":396,"date":"2019-12-07T02:06:43","date_gmt":"2019-12-07T08:06:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/puckpossessed.com\/?p=396"},"modified":"2020-02-26T15:02:30","modified_gmt":"2020-02-26T21:02:30","slug":"posts-of-the-canadian-fur-trade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biathlonanalytics.com\/TEST\/posts-of-the-canadian-fur-trade\/","title":{"rendered":"Posts of the Canadian Fur Trade"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

A page on Canada’s Open Data Portal got me interested in the Fur Trade in (and around) what we now call Canada. (link<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It also contains a map that uses colour, symbology and labels to identify Fur Trade posts based on who was the first owner, when it was started, how long it was active, etc. It’s a great map, and I quote from the site: “Contained within the 4th Edition (1974) of the Atlas of Canada is a map that shows locations of fur trading posts for the period 1600 to 1870.<\/em>“<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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When I saw this map I really wanted to create a map with animation where you could see the progress of new fur trade posts, based on the first year of Operation. To do so I had to take the following steps:<\/p>\n

– Georeference the map (align it with data with lat\/lon locations)<\/p>\n

– Digitize the locations with “real-world” lat\/lon locations<\/p>\n

– Add attribute data in a spreadsheet that can be linked to the digitized data from above<\/p>\n

– Save all data in one file<\/p>\n

– Visualize<\/p>\n

After playing around with the data I got a general idea what I wanted to do. Unfortunately Tableau Public currently does not support Pages (animation) when publishing to the server, although I did see it is one of the new features coming to the new version of Tableau Desktop; hopefully it will be implemented for Tableau Public soon.<\/p>\n

At some point I may create a GIF but for a now the user is going to have to click through the years manually. I also don’t like that I cannot change any style of the pages “buttons”, but so be it.<\/p>\n

I used Gravit Designer to create the static part of the dashboard, and Mapbox to created my own stylized background map, in itself worthy of a blog post at some point.<\/p>\n

I like the result (link to the live version<\/a>), and after some more playing with the data, I may add one or more pages\/tabs at a later stage.<\/p>\n

Cheers!<\/p>\n

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A page on Canada’s Open Data Portal got me interested in the Fur Trade in (and around) what we now call Canada. (link) It also contains a map that uses colour, symbology and labels to identify Fur Trade posts based on who was the first owner, when it was started, how long it was active,… Read More »Posts of the Canadian Fur Trade<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[20,21],"class_list":["post-396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-canada","tag-canada","tag-fur-trade"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t