Citizen Cartography @NYPL: Map Warper Workshop at the GC

Room C203 @ The GC 365 Fifth Ave., New York, NY

The New York Public Library’s Map Warper is a free online crowdsourcing tool that enables librarians and the general public to align digital images of historical maps with today’s map through a process called georectification, or “warping” maps. As part of NYPL’s ongoing commitment to creating new publicly available resources and building new platforms for …

GIS Day @ The GC: Project share and mingle

GC Digital Scholarship Lab, Room 7414 365 Fifth Ave, New York, NY

Following the CUNY GIS Day Events (on November 13), the GIS/Mapping Working Group is hosting an “after party” at The Graduate Center, CUNY, on Thursday November 14, from 6:30 - …

Mapping Needs and Solutions During COVID19

#DigitalGC

As we’ve seen from all of the COVID trackers, maps can be powerful tools for revealing important spatial phenomena and disseminating knowledge during a pandemic. We are interested in putting our skills to use to create other maps that can be helpful in this critical moment. Perhaps we can make maps that help to identify …

Intro to Making an Interactive Map

Interactive maps have increasingly become an effective tool for communicating one's research and engaging a broad audience. This workshop will introduce you to the basics of making an interactive map …