A guide to mapping resources, including GIS (geographic information systems), at the UNT Libraries and on the Internet. The guide also provides links to geospatial and other data that can be downloaded and mapped.
Produced at the University of Richmond's Digital Scholarship Lab, the collaborative project shows how the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation contributed to racial segregation of cities, or red lining. This project looks specifically at the New Deal era, 1935 to 1940.
Native Land Digital, a Canadian not-for-profit organization, aims to social the original and displaced land of indigenous peoples across North America and part of the world.
GIS and Humanities
Digital Humanities or Digital Scholarship employ GIS to visually tell a story and support research.
Mitch Fraas at the University of Pennsylvania explores the history of books through GIS in his blog. Fraas tries out a variety of GIS applications (many of them free access) to create his maps.
A map created by USGS in ArcGIS Online shows active wildfires and areas with fire warnings across the US. Click and drag with your mouse to see the entire map.
Earth As Art is a project to show the natural beauty that the Earth offers. It also is a poignant way to illustrate some of the ways in which the Earth is changing.
The population density throughout the city is displayed in this map created in ArcGIS Online. Click twice on the map repeatedly to zoom into the neighborhood and street level.
The Spatial History Project at Stanford University is a place for a collaborative community of students, staff, and scholars to engage in creative spatial, textual and visual analysis to further research in the humanities.