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Context: Hanging pillar of Lepakshi.
The guide whipped out a twig from his shirt pocket with a flourish and said dramatically: “Now I show you best part of Lepakshi temple.” He got down on his knees before the large grey pillar before us. Bending forward, he passed the twig slowly under the pillar. From one end to the other! There was an audible gasp from the group of tourists, mostly Europeans, as the twig emerged from the other side. He repeated the exercise with a page of an old grimy newspaper which he pulled out from another pocket. It is said that during the British era, a British engineer tried to move it in an unsuccessful attempt to uncover the secret of its support.
This was the famed Hanging Column or Pillar of Lepakshi temple, located in Anantapur district in southern Andhra Pradesh.
Do you know where is Anantapur located? Find out this place in the map. Will you be able to locate it easily on the map or you need a help? To get the help we will explore digital maps.
1. Opening digital map
a. There are several digitial mapping tools such as Google Earth, Marble, Open Street Map, Bing, School Bhuvan, wikimapia, Google My Maps and others. Marble is one such tool.
To open Marble for the first time you run it, either with Applications → Education → Marble (Desktop Globe) from the menu or with terminal and entering marble into the field.
Insert the screen shot of Ubuntu Marble opening
2. Interface of Marble - check the interface
3. Searching the specific location
a. In the Search bar type the name of your/neighbouring town or city. E.g. Anantapur and hit enter button. Then Click on the desired location from the search results as shown below.
b. After clicking the desired location following map will be displayed in the map screen.
3. Use Zoom in tool to go to the desired location.
a. There is a navigation info box and zoom slider tool on the right corner of the screen.
b. Use the (+) Zoom In tool as marked in the image to Zoom to your location.
c. Once zoomed in you can see your location marked as yellow dot as seen in following image (Note: you may have to navigate left or right using navigation info box to arrive at your location)
4. Identifying the nearest towns or cities from the map.
Once the place is identified you can also identify different places in the surrounding E.g. Lepakshi temple, Bellary, Kadiri, Hindupur, Chitradurga, etc
5. Address tagging in the form of coordinates (Latitudes and Longitudes) on a digital map.
1. Click on the listed place (E.g. Bellary) to get the pop up box showing coordinates in Longitude and Latitude.
6. Exploring different map views
Ask students what type of landforms we find in southern part of India?
We can find this answer through digital maps as it has various map views.
To get to a place via different means of transportation we need street map view and to explore various earth features such as relief, slopes, water bodies we need satellite view. Now observe the different map views and find out what we can conclude.
a. Go to Settings from the menu bar, select Panels and click on Map View.
b. In the Map View Select the Theme as Atlas view. (Note: It may be the default view)
c. In the Map view select the theme as Satellite view.
d. In the Map view select the theme as Open Street view.
e. There are various other view to explore such as Precipitation, Temperature, Earth at Night, etc. You can view and demonstrate the same using the above method of changing the views.
Context: Hanging pillar of Lepakshi.
The guide whipped out a twig from his shirt pocket with a flourish and said dramatically: “Now I show you best part of Lepakshi temple.” He got down on his knees before the large grey pillar before us. Bending forward, he passed the twig slowly under the pillar. From one end to the other! There was an audible gasp from the group of tourists, mostly Europeans, as the twig emerged from the other side. He repeated the exercise with a page of an old grimy newspaper which he pulled out from another pocket. It is said that during the British era, a British engineer tried to move it in an unsuccessful attempt to uncover the secret of its support.
This was the famed Hanging Column or Pillar of Lepakshi temple, located in Anantapur district in southern Andhra Pradesh.
Do you know where is Anantapur located? Find out this place in the map. Will you be able to locate it easily on the map or you need a help? To get the help we will explore digital maps.
1. Opening digital map
a. There are several digitial mapping tools such as Google Earth, Marble, Open Street Map, Bing, School Bhuvan, wikimapia, Google My Maps and others. Marble is one such tool.
To open Marble for the first time you run it, either with Applications → Education → Marble (Desktop Globe) from the menu or with terminal and entering marble into the field.
Insert the screen shot of Ubuntu Marble opening
2. Interface of Marble - check the interface
3. Searching the specific location
a. In the Search bar type the name of your/neighbouring town or city. E.g. Anantapur and hit enter button. Then Click on the desired location from the search results as shown below.
b. After clicking the desired location following map will be displayed in the map screen.
3. Use Zoom in tool to go to the desired location.
a. There is a navigation info box and zoom slider tool on the right corner of the screen.
b. Use the (+) Zoom In tool as marked in the image to Zoom to your location.
c. Once zoomed in you can see your location marked as yellow dot as seen in following image (Note: you may have to navigate left or right using navigation info box to arrive at your location)
4. Identifying the nearest towns or cities from the map.
Once the place is identified you can also identify different places in the surrounding E.g. Lepakshi temple, Bellary, Kadiri, Hindupur, Chitradurga, etc
5. Address tagging in the form of coordinates (Latitudes and Longitudes) on a digital map.
1. Click on the listed place (E.g. Bellary) to get the pop up box showing coordinates in Longitude and Latitude.
6. Exploring different map views
Ask students what type of landforms we find in southern part of India?
We can find this answer through digital maps as it has various map views.
To get to a place via different means of transportation we need street map view and to explore various earth features such as relief, slopes, water bodies we need satellite view. Now observe the different map views and find out what we can conclude.
a. Go to Settings from the menu bar, select Panels and click on Map View.
b. In the Map View Select the Theme as Atlas view. (Note: It may be the default view)
c. In the Map view select the theme as Satellite view.
d. In the Map view select the theme as Open Street view.
e. There are various other view to explore such as Precipitation, Temperature, Earth at Night, etc. You can view and demonstrate the same using the above method of changing the views.
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