Coffee Quest: Exploring West Michigan one coffee shop at a time
Zoom Kaffeeklatsch: Friday, March 19, noon - 1:00 p.m. Mark Hoffman (CCPS Associate Dean) and Chit Zin Win (MS '20) visited 112 different coffee shops on Saturday mornings between July 2017 and October 2020. They searched for the perfect coffee / pastry combo from Grand Haven in the west, Ionia in the east, Cedar Springs in the north, and Plainwell in the south. They will offer a typology of local coffee shops, reveal some novelty locations, unique menu items, and nearby "must see" attractions, plus give some recommendations for the best places to visit among those shops that survive into the post-COVID world.
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Our Quest on Google My Map
On our trips, we did not do any social media and rarely took pictures. However, I did want to experiment with easy online mapping tools that I thought my Community Analysis class might be able to use to create neighborhood asset maps. The two tools I tried were Google My Maps and StoryMapJS.
Google My Maps used Google Map technology for creating personalize maps. Addresses can be uploaded from a spreadsheet. Alternatively, with a cell phone's GPS, you can pin right where you're standing.
Our Quest on StoryMapJS
Coffee Quest using Story MapJS
Knight Lab's StoryMapJS is a free tool to help tell stories on the web that highlight the locations of a series of events. Data entry is manual, so more tedious than using Google My Map. But it is more fun to use and is more customizable.
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