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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!

Mapping tool on Social Explorer

  • Posted by Olivia Ildefonso (she/her) on December 14, 2018 at 4:27 pm

    I just discovered this new mapping tool on Social Explorer https://www.socialexplorer.com/explore-maps

    It seems really great. You can visualize any census data at any scale just by choosing the data set and zooming in and out to change the scale. You can also create time-lapse maps or side by side maps. And you can build a story around your maps.

    All GC students and faculty can get an institutional license, so make sure to use that so you can have access to all of the datasets and features. You can get that through being connected to the wifi at the GC and then creating an account on Social Explorer. I’m not sure if the other CUNY schools also have access but I would assume so.

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