CUNY Academic Commons | Juliana Maantay | Activity https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/members/jmaantay/activity/ Activity feed for Juliana Maantay. Sat, 01 Jan 2050 18:00:18 -0500 https://buddypress.org/?v= en 30 hourly 2 d68b841868a05df1f8184d74865f7010 Juliana Maantay replied to the topic Top Mapping Mistakes in the forum GIS Working Group via email https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=115926 Wed, 12 May 2021 15:15:11 -0400 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]

]]> 57ac6b7c741b8724df5f9844a38bc0da Juliana Maantay replied to the topic Map class recommendations in the forum GIS Working Group via email https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=114576 Mon, 26 Apr 2021 16:12:02 -0400 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]

]]> faeb501794b8e97b8b5de5fde17fd99c Juliana Maantay replied to the topic Top Mapping Mistakes in the forum GIS Working Group via email https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=114273 Wed, 21 Apr 2021 21:13:40 -0400 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]

]]> 332d0a238729c45e4e3d127ca87b4578 Juliana Maantay replied to the topic Top Mapping Mistakes in the forum GIS Working Group via email https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=114246 Wed, 21 Apr 2021 17:20:55 -0400 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]

]]> 3ef96224039588d704d033613bf87c56 Juliana Maantay replied to the topic Event Tomorrow: Story Lines: Experiences of participatory mapping in the forum GIS Working Group via email https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=113532 Mon, 12 Apr 2021 18:26:37 -0400 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]

]]> c4c9dca00f14d40bfc8c33ee03b268fe Juliana Maantay's profile was updated https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/458099/ Tue, 07 Mar 2017 19:43:34 -0500 195db3dc184692b45e8d5e611e215c13 Juliana Maantay joined the group GIS / Mapping Working Group https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/458097/ Tue, 07 Mar 2017 19:42:07 -0500