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Maps and Cartography
Online Accessibility Maps Should be Interactive
For a consistent experience across mobile devices, accessibility maps should be interactive instead of static images or PDFs.
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.
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.
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.
Spatial Analysis
Detecting Flooded Roads From Satellite Imagery
Mapping flood damage by manually examine imagery is a time-intensive and expensive process. New, automated methods using satellite data that compare pre and post-flood conditions are being developed.
Visualizing Temporal Data with GIS
While mapping spatiotemporal data has remained a challenge, increasingly we are seeing tools that are available on common open source platforms (e.g., R statistical package and QGIS) or commercial platforms such as ArcGIS.
The Role of GIS in Predicting Road Conditions
Recent developments in GIS and analytical applications have demonstrated that predicting road conditions, and thus preventing traffic accidents and possibly even traffic in the first place, is possible.
Researchers Analyzed over 22 Billion Shipping Positions to Map the Global Footprint of Industrial Fishing
To map out global fishing activity, over 22 billion AIS messages between 2012 and 2016 were analyzed by researchers.
GIS Software
Viz Palette Helps You Pick Colors for Data Visualizations
There’s a new color picker tool to help with selecting a palette for data visualizations.
Adding “Early Voting Wait Time” Information to a Layer in ArcGIS.com
Tracy Garrison outlines an example of how a “County” might provide current early voting wait times to the public with ArcGIS.com and coding.
QGIS 3.0 Released
Version 3.0 of QGIS, the popular free and open source GIS software, was released today.
Holographic GIS
As mobile and handheld devices increasingly use virtual reality and augmented reality applications, GIS has been incorporated to deploy spatial databases that apply holographic capabilities.
GIS Learning
GIS and Cartography Quotes
Growing collection of interesting and notable quotes relating to GIS, cartography, maps, and geography.
Mapping How Birds Are Affected by Human Activity
GIS and spatial analysis have demonstrated the complexity of how anthropogenic disturbances could affect birds and bird habitats.
The Argument for Greater Cloud-based GIS in the Classroom
This essay from Olivia Harne discusses how more cloud-based GIS activities in the classroom are needed.
GIS MOOC and Training List
Listed on this page is a roundup of GIS courses, training, and workshops that are currently available.
GIS Data
Where to Find GIS Data for Historical Country Boundaries
Finding historical GIS data can be hard to find. Listed here are available sites that offer historical country data in GIS file formats for download.
Over 2000 Sentinel-1 Satellite Images Were Used to Create a Map of Land Deformation in the United Kingdom
A new map of the United Kingdom map tracks areas of land subsidence and uplift based on processed data from Sentinel-1’s Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR)
Access 6 Years of Sea Surface Salinity Maps and Data for the North Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea
The SMOS Barcelona Expert Center recently released products available for downloading relating to Sea Surface Salinity.
Mapping Minerals with Satellite Imagery
Mapping minerals with remote sensing was one of the main motivating reasons for creating the earliest multispectral satellite systems.
GIS Industry
Geo Roundup: Paid Cartography Internship, Mapping Italy’s Moving Border…
In this edition of Geo Roundup: Italian Limes maps the shifting border from glacier melt, a cartography internship from National Geographic, a new data and visualization tool from NASA, and other new releases in geospatial.
GIS and Map Contests Roundup
Current map and GIS related competitions listed in order of the competition deadline.
GIS Conferences and Events
Upcoming GIS, remote sensing, and geography events, conferences, and webinars.
Using GIS to Study Gentrification
Given the phenomenon of gentrification happening in many cities across the United States in particular, recent municipal governments have begun using GIS to study the effects of gentrification.