Excellent synopsis! I will share it with my students. Thanks. JAM

Juliana Maantay, Ph.D., M.U.P., F.R.G.S.
Professor of Urban Environmental Geography
Director: Geographic Information Science (GISc) Program;
MS-GISc Program; and the Urban GISc Lab
NOAA-CREST Research Scientist
Department of Earth, Environmental, and Geospatial Sciences
Lehman…[Read more]

Greetings, Amber, and welcome to the GIS adventure! Most definitely there are many GISc classes throughout CUNY that you might be interested in taking, at several different campuses, and I can help you with the ones we are offering at Lehman (including a couple of summer classes, if you are interested in those).
We are offering Exploring the…[Read more]

Matthew – Another oldie but goodie along similar lines is the book “Mapping: Ways of Representing the World,” by Danny Dorling (of cartogram fame) and Dave Fairbairn, from about 1997. Not sure if it is still in print, but it’s a slim little book that does a great job of explaining some of these issues, and a nice overview of the art and science…[Read more]

One of my pet peeves is novice GIS-ers making choropleth maps to display absolute numbers (counts), rather than rates, percentages, proportions, per capitas, medians, or averages, etc. Another problem people often get into is relying on default options in GIS software packages, without really thinking about what they are doing and whether or not…[Read more]

Will this be recorded? I would love to join this event, since I have been especially involved and interested in PPGIS, community mental mapping, etc., but I am giving a presentation tomorrow at that same time. Thanks. JAM

Juliana Maantay, Ph.D., M.U.P., F.R.G.S.
Professor of Urban Environmental Geography
Director: Geographic Information…[Read more]