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Audience Middle and high school students Time 2 class periods, plus additional time for data collection Day 1 : Read “Cream of the Crop” Day 2 : Use the activity “Just Passing Through” Materials  Cream of the Crop Natural Inquirer monograph (download the pdf from the webpage) GLOBE learning activity Just Passing Through (pdf) GLOBE’s Agriculture Protocol Bundle Everyone around the world relies on agriculture, whether they live in cities or rural areas. Many of us don’t think about ...

For my (Area of Interest) AOI project I collected my 37 points using GLOBE observer, google maps, and a grid creator. These tools made collecting my data points a lot easier. To start I plotted where all my AOI points would be based on a central point. Using CVS and GeoJson files I was able to get all 37 AOI points in that area. When choosing a center point for your grid you should consider things that will affect your ability to take photos before placing your center point. Originally I had placed my AOI points in West Bloomfield but due to the large amount of private ...

The Problem You've got a list of AOI coordinates. Google Maps will show them to you, but it won't tell you the best order to visit them. If you’ve got more than a few points, this becomes a mess—guesswork, wasted time, and unnecessary backtracking.  We need a tool that will plan the most efficient route for us instead of figuring things out ourselves. That’s what this does, here’s how:  The Solution This problem is a textbook example of the classic Traveling Salesman Problem (TSP): How can we find the shortest route that visits each ...