By Karen Yu ’16 One of the older projects that we have worked on at the SAL is the Favorite Places Map on our website. The goal of this project was to see where students, alums, and others saw as…
April Mystery Map
Put on your spatial thinking caps – the next Mystery Map Competition is a go! Click on the image below to see the full, interactive version. Two hints to get you started: First, this maps relates to an event which took…
Collaboration with the Art Museum!
by Karen Yu, Spatial Analysis Lab Assistant Despite its physical appearance, the Spatial Analysis Lab (SAL) is more than just a computer lab in Sabin Reed. Behind the scenes, we’re often busy with new projects, teaching, and always thinking spatially.…
Two upcoming workshops on web mapping
Tomorrow, 3/22 from 4:15 to 5:30pm, we’ll offer our workshop “Teaching with Story Maps” for a second time this semester. The workshop will introduce ArcGIS Online’s Story Maps platform and strategies for using it in the classroom. Whether you’ve used Story…
March Mystery Map Solution
With almost 600 views, our most recent Mystery Map proved to be one of our most popular. And perhaps one of our easiest as well – of the 14 submissions received, all correctly identified the theme of the map as…
What’s it like to work in the SAL?
If you find yourself one afternoon with nothing to do – I know this never actually happens at Smith, but bear with me – I would highly suggest spending a few hours in the SAL, people-watching. At first glance, this may…
March Mystery Map
We’re excited to announce our first Mystery Map Competition of 2016! Like the carillon map, we used CartoDB to make this an interactive mystery map. Click on the image below to see the full thing. Once you have an idea of what this…
Using Story Maps to explore climate change vulnerability at Smith
By Karen Yu ’16 This year, Story Maps have been an increasingly important part of what we do in the SAL – see our recent post Story Maps in the Classroom for an overview of the different ways we’ve been using them. A…
A Low Altitude Aerial Perspective of San Salvador, The Bahamas
What do the Bahamas make you think of? Maybe beautiful beaches, nice resorts, and possibly coral reefs? I know that my first associations with the Bahamas were definitely not drones and hurricanes, but this January I got to see how…
Story Maps in the Classroom
Maps are increasingly popular as storytelling tools in the world of digital media – just a glance at the homepages of the New York Times, The Atlantic, or the Huffington Post confirms that. We’ve experienced this wave of mapping enthusiasm in the SAL,…