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Cartograms

A cartogram is a thematic map in which some variable (e.g. population)  is substituted for land area.  The alternate variable is conveyed through a distorted geometry  of the map.  This example...

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Smith College Rail System

Geo-artist Elena Terhune ’14 created this awesome map of an imagined Smith College Subway System. Check it out, and read what she has to say about the process of creating it: “Especially in the colder...

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Spring ’15 Workshop Offerings

Workshops offered by the SAL in spring 2015 — together they provide an introduction to mapping and GIS (Geographic Information System), and separately provide skills for particular GIS tools and skills...

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Nepal Earthquake Response Workshop Well Attended in the Week Before Finals

The Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team has developed a project called MapGive, which allows volunteers to populate maps in parts of the world where mapping resources are limited. The idea originated...

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Collaboration with the Art Museum!

The Arch of Constantine, one of the engravings to go on exhibit in When in Rome, Fall 2016, in the Smith College Art Museum. by Karen Yu, Spatial Analysis Lab Assistant Despite its physical appearance,...

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Diversity on Diversity

A portion of the School to Prison Pipeline story map made by Prof. Lisa Armstrong’s class Gender, Land, and Food Movements in the fall of 2015. Although embedded deeply within the Sciences at Smith,...

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Cartograms

A cartogram is a thematic map in which some variable (e.g. population)  is substituted for land area.  The alternate variable is conveyed through a distorted geometry  of the map.  This example...

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Smith College Rail System

Geo-artist Elena Terhune ’14 created this awesome map of an imagined Smith College Subway System. Check it out, and read what she has to say about the process of creating it:   “Especially in the...

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Spring ’15 Workshop Offerings

Workshops offered by the SAL in spring 2015 — together they provide an introduction to mapping and GIS (Geographic Information System), and separately provide skills for particular GIS tools and skills...

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Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Nepal Earthquake Response Workshop Well Attended in the Week Before Finals

The Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team has developed a project called MapGive, which allows volunteers to populate maps in parts of the world where mapping resources are limited. The idea originated...

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Collaboration with the Art Museum!

The Arch of Constantine, one of the engravings to go on exhibit in When in Rome, Fall 2016, in the Smith College Art Museum. by Karen Yu, Spatial Analysis Lab Assistant Despite its physical appearance,...

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Image may be NSFW.
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Diversity on Diversity

A portion of the School to Prison Pipeline story map made by Prof. Lisa Armstrong’s class Gender, Land, and Food Movements in the fall of 2015. Although embedded deeply within the Sciences at Smith,...

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Navigating Yucatán

Director Note: SAL Associate, Waleska Reyes ’23 brought home a fine mapping effort (book title forthcoming) that continues not only the fine tradition of student / faculty mapping collaboration, but...

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