LibGuides: Visual Resources Guide: ARCH 754 Mapping Workshop

GIS Basics

ArcGIS Open Data Hub
Big Ten Geoportal
Geospatial Projects hosted by the Big Ten Universities in the United States. Project purposes and scope vary initial goals.
CADMapper
Transforms data from public sources such as OpenStreetMap, NASA, and USGS into neatly organized CAD files.
DataONE
Community driven program providing access to data across multiple member repositories, supporting enhanced search and discovery of Earth and environmental data.
Digital Maps & Geospatial Data Portal
by Princeton University Library
Earth Explorer by the USGS
GEOSS Portal
Earth Observation data from archives all over the world.
Google Earth
Also check out Google Earth VR - try it out in the Art & Architecture Library (Ed Hall, Rm. 101).
Interdisciplinary Earth Data Alliance
Data Repositories and Syntheses of Geomapped data from across the globe. Contact a librarian for assistance in extract datasets.
NGA GEOnet Names Server
Keeping track of all the location names and how they have changed.
OneGeology.org
Datasets collected from across the globe.

Anyplace America
GeoPlatform (Federal Geographic Data Committee (FGDC)
Data USA
Library of Congress Map Collections Maps from throughout the United States in various themes (fire insurance maps, roads, hydrography, ownership, etc.)
National Geologic Map Database Standardized geoscience information for the nation.
United States Gazetteer
USGS Publications Warehouse
National Historical Geographic Information System (NHGIS)
access to summary statistics and GIS files for U.S. censuses and other nationwide surveys from 1790 through the present.
USGS the National Map Viewer
Orthoimagery, elevation, geographic names, hydrographs, boundaries, transportation, structures, and land cover.

Canadian Atlas Online
This site allows you to use numerous tools to customize and view a map of Canada which provides street level detail for all of Canada.

Urban Displacement Project
The project aims to understand the nature of gentrification, and displacement, and exclusion in American cities. It focuses on creating tools to help communities identify the pressures surrounding them and take more effective action.
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Chapple, K., & Thomas, T., and Zuk, M. (2021). Urban Displacement Project website. Berkeley, CA: Urban Displacement Project.
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Pleiades
Pleiades is a community-built gazetteer and graph of ancient places. It publishes authoritative information about ancient places and spaces, providing unique services for finding, displaying, and reusing that information under open license.
Decima - Florentine Census Mapping

Compose maps and data reports based on historical and modern census data at all geographic levels
Upload your data and layer it with features and demographics.
Link an Individual Account to save, publish and collaborate maps.

Click on Maps
Select Start Now. You'll see a default map of the United States
Enter a location into the search box.
Pull down Show Data By and change it to your geography (county, place, census tract, etc.). Place refers to both cities and unincorporated areas.
Select the Change Data button
Browse by Category or Survey
1. Browse by Category (tutorial): Use the slider bar to select a Census year and category. Not all categories are available for each census year as some questions are added or dropped from survey to survey
2. Browse by Survey (tutorial): Shows a list of all available data variables by Census year
Creating a Project to enhance your map with text and images.
Invite Group Members to Collaborate by Share > Email Collaborators.

Social Explorer This link opens in a new window
Use Social Explorer to visually explore demographic information, from census and economic data to election and religion data, and more. Users can visually explore change over time and understand the patterns behind the raw numbers.