geography of religion

GIS and the Geography of Religion

March 10, 2017By Mark AltaweelSpatial Analysis

GIS has become an important historical and contemporary analytical tool used to explain past and current social trends shaping and being shaped by religions.

Map Gallery of Religion in the United States

August 19, 2009By Caitlin DempseyMaps and Cartography

The Valparaiso University’s geography department has a collection of chloropleth maps on religious affiliation.

Maps showing Socioeconomic risk, physical risk, and total risk areas for drug abuse. From: Mendoza et. al, 2013).

Detecting Spatial Patterns in Drug Abuse With GIS

Drug abuse has been shown to have clear spatial patterns that GIS has helped to demonstrate.

How Agencies Can Harness Geosharing to Improve Infrastructure

How can communities become more engaged with reporting issues with infrastructure? Olivia Harne discusses how an investment in geographical data sharing could be a potential solution.

Elements of a Map

Maps are the primary tools by which spatial relationships are visualized. Maps therefore become important documents. There are several key elements that should be included each time a map is created in order to aid the viewer in understanding the communications of that map and to document the source of […]

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