Reviewing the blogs on collaborative geography made me think of events during geography 412 that was collaborative. During our Google project 2 I got to work in a group dedicated to using Google and sketch up to recreate what Goldfield actually looked like during it's heyday. The interesting part of this project was how small Goldfield is today and how large it was when it was at its peak production. Just the grandeur of the Goldfield hotel tells you how much money was coming out of the mines. I found out through some readings that Theodore Roosevelt made an appearance a Goldfield during his presidency. What we set out to do was that the old snaborn maps would be set up on Google earth and two of the areas buildings, such as the hotel and the courthouse, would be sketched into 3-D.
Also during the semester we were to do a collaborative work on doing a Nevada Atlas for Nevada schools. This project would have required that we all work together to create not just single pages on our own, but to work out all the pages between us and create an Atlas that was truly collaborative in that everyone had a hand in creating the maps. It would have been fun to see how that type of project would have turned out.
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