Three months of mapping experience has been incredible. The project will end in a few weeks. The accomplishments we have made have been rewarding. My students are finishing up their project to map the socioeconomic disparities in Bangladesh at the district level. After looking at some interesting socioeconomic maps of the United States, the sudents wanted to utilize Bangladesh census data in GIS to research socioeconomic disparaties in Bangladesh. Census data in Bangladesh is hard to come by. They are available in hard copy only; one source of basic population data by districts (states) can be found on the Bureau of Statistics Web site (http://www.bbs.gov.bd . The government of Bangladesh does have a soft copy of the data, but for some reason they are unwilling to share that with the students. This would have made our life easier, yet the students told me that they could show some interesting work by entering parts of the socioeconomic data themselves.
In the meantime, I am working on cleaning the digital road data by matching it with satellite images (see a snapshot below).
