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GIS / Mapping Working Group

The Geographic Information Systems (GIS) / Mapping working group is a network of CUNY students, faculty and staff who are interested in sharing methods and techniques, and finding support from others about ways GIS can be used to further research and teaching.

The GIS/Mapping working group is part of a GC Digital Initiatives program designed to create collaborative communities of Digital Fellows, CUNY-wide graduate students, staff, and faculty to meet regularly and share their areas of interest. The working groups provide a sustained, supportive environment to learn new skills, share familiar skills, and collaborate with both the Digital Fellows and the CUNY digital community.

If you are using Geographic Information Systems or other mapping technologies in your teaching and/or research, or if you are interested in mapping your data, or using GIS technology to analyze/visualize your data, we invite you to join the GIS/Mapping working group.

Peruse our mapping resource bank here: https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/groups/gis-working-group/docs/gis-mapping-resources/

For the Spring 2024 semester, the GIS/Mapping working group will meet in the Digital Scholarship Lab, Room 7414, every other Tuesday from 2-4 p.m. Check out our event calendar for the specific meeting dates. Please stop by!

  • Event: Wed, June 7 at NYPL "Mapping Time: History of the Lower East Side"

    Posted by Javier Otero Peña on June 5, 2017 at 6:52 pm

    Please join Bard High School Early College students who participated in our interdisciplinary digital humanities course “Mapping Time,” as they showcase their final projects on the history of the Lower East Side on Wednesday, June 7th at the New York Public Library from 1:00-3:30pm.

    This is event is free and open to the public but to attend, please RSVP here.

    All are welcome, so please forward to your friends, lists, departments, and groups. We look forward to seeing you!
    Wednesday, June 7th, 1:00-3:00pm
    Mapping Time: History of the Lower East Side

    The New York Public Library, Stephen A. Schwarzman Building, 476 Fifth Avenue (at 42nd Street), Trustees Room
    Join the Bard High School Early College students who participated in our interdisciplinary digital humanities course “Mapping Time,” as they showcase their final projects on the history of the Lower East Side.

    The Center for the Humanities at the Graduate Center, CUNY collaborated with Bard High School Early College and the New York Public Library to create the Lower East Side history course “Mapping Time.” The course aimed to accomplish two goals: 1) to teach high school students the rich history of the school’s neighborhood and 2) to foster digital literacy with the newest archival and digital research techniques.

    Students used NYPL’s new Space/Time Directory, its digital collections, and archival holdings to explore the history of the school’s neighborhood through photographs, maps, building plans, oral histories, government records, newspaper articles, art, and literature, and by making personal visits to the site of their own choice around the school’s neighborhood. In essence, high school students had the opportunity to write history—and, in most cases, a history that had never been written before.

    Free and open to the public. Please click here to RSVP.

    Cosponsored by The New York Public Library and Bard High School Early College.

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