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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!

Google Summer of Code GIS Visualization

  • Hello,

    Looking for a student (undergraduate or graduate) for this. Happy to answer questions. The work is paid, remote and the coding is basic-intermediate Python, and understanding of GIS visualization principals is probably more important than coding proficiency. Applications close April 9th.

    Google Summer of Code is a global program focused on bringing more student developers into open source software development. Students work with an open source organization on a 3 month programming project during their break from school.

    Matplotlib (a major Python visualization library) is participating in Google Summer of Code this year under the Numfocus umbrella. Applications are due April 9. Please apply and encourage students you may think are a good fit to apply.

    Application instructions are at https://github.com/numfocus/gsoc

    Due to the short time frame, relaxing the requirements for pull requests/issues against the project.

    Applicants are welcome and encouraged to propose their own projects or build on the project we have proposed, which is a collaboration with the geopandas library.

    GeoPandas is a Python library that allows users to work with geospatial data in Python by providing geospatial operations in Pandas and a high-level interface to multiple geometries to shapely. It also facilitates exploratory visualization of geospatial data via descartes and Matplotlib.

    The visualization interface in geopandas is currently on the rough side; it generates simple polygon based maps that are inconsistent in terms of supporting matplotlib features such as color mapping and color bars.

    Find more information here: https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/wiki/GSOC-2019-Ideas-Page

    Please respond to this email with questions or ask here: https://gitter.im/matplotlib/matplotlib?utm_source=share-link&utm_medium=link&utm_campaign=share-link

    Thank you,

    Hannah

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