For a consistent experience across mobile devices, accessibility maps should be interactive instead of static images or PDFs.
Maps and Cartography
Maps and Cartography
Visualizing Climate Change With Maps
The choice of labeling and color can have a pronounced influence in shaping opinions when visualizing climate change on maps.
Maps and Cartography
Holiday Season Gift Ideas Created by the GIS Community
Looking for a holiday gift idea for the geographers in your life and want to support the GIS community? Listed here are some great gift ideas produced by geographers.
Maps and Cartography
Preserving a Landscape Through Maps and Photography
Knowing how to preserve books, film and other information is common practice for libraries and museums. Maps, especially, can showcase that data for those who want to look back on the history of an area.
Maps and Cartography
You Can Help the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team With Its Research on Crowdsourced Damage Assessment
The Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team recently launched three formal research experiments on crowdsourced damage assessment and is seeking volunteers interested in participating.
Maps and Cartography
Using Localized Mapping to Accommodate Employee Diversity
Localized mapping is the process of developing navigational aids for a small area such as a building or college campus.
Maps and Cartography
Using the Map Gallery to Encourage Cartography as Art
Olivia Harne discusses how both physical and digital map galleries can be used to foster artistic expression in cartography.
Maps and Cartography
Using Geolocation to Connect Geography with Genealogy
The ability to create a potential geographic scrapbook could add a new dimension to the popularity of genealogical research.
Maps and Cartography
Mapping Urban Trees Using Google Street View imagery
A project by the MIT Senseable City Lab, dubbed Treepedia, has mapped the amount of trees that were growing in major urban areas.
Maps and Cartography
7 Nifty Gift Ideas for the GIS Person in Your Life
Whether you are looking for gifts for Christmas, Hanukah, Kwanzaa, Festivus, or just looking for a special gift for any time of the year, here are some gift ideas for a range of budgets. From silly to serious, find the perfect GIS gift idea on this list.