LibGuides: Digital Mapping Tools and Resources: GIS

Geographic Information and Technologies in Practice

Select Mapping platforms (including ArcGIS Storymaps, Felt, QQIS, etc, for analysis and presentation; layering open data, original data, text, images and media.
Social Explorer for demography and data upload anaylsis.

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.
Picturing Places
Discover the role and history of topographical views, maps and texts through over 500 examples from the British Library’s collections and beyond, with fresh research in over 100 articles and films from an academic conference hosted by the British Library and Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art.
Decima - Florentine Census Mapping