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 connects back to a previous SAL Associate who designed maps…
Drawing Delicate Lines
Director Note: SAL Associate, Kate Nash ’23 follows in a fine tradition of students collaborating with faculty to prepare maps for print publication. This practice dates back to 2007 when the SAL worked with Ann Zulawski, now Professor Emerita of…
Smith Stars’ Day Constellation Map
By Waleska Reyes ’23 Over the past several weeks, I have worked on creating a star map for the Office of Alumnae relations. The map’s purpose is to celebrate “Smith Stars”—alums who have donated to the college five years in…
GIS Day #30DayMapChallenge Day 18 Land Use
Cozy rendition of ///traditional.vintages.primer: This past Wednesday was GIS Day, we coalesced our spatial friends in the Valley and across the state to celebrate the mappiest day of the year. The month of November also marks the #30DayMapChallenge, a call…
October 2020 Mystery Map Solution
The October Mystery Map was perhaps unsurprisingly themed around elections. The map garnered 386 views and a dozen submitted guesses, with the superlatives as follows: Most Inconceivable: Don’t Tempt Fate – gender reveal parties that go wrong Most Puntastic: Smithtoral…
Mapping a Movement: Black Lives Matter & Racial Injustice Mapping in Minneapolis
By Hannah Dillahunt ’21 On May 25th 2020, George Floyd was killed in Minneapolis, Minnesota. An unarmed black man, Floyd was killed by a Minneapolis police officer while 3 of his coworkers silently watched. A Minnesota native, I watched as…
October 2020 Mystery Map
Explore this interactive timelapse map and submit your guess as to what the map portrays and what the symbols represent. You can start the time slider by clicking the play button on the bottom left corner.
Maps that Engage and Promote Change Workshop – May 14 & 17, 2018
Learn to create maps that affect social change with design thinking principles at the Maps that Engage and Promote Change Workshop this coming week. Please register here. On Day One: (Monday, May 14 in the Design Thinking Studio – Capen…
February 2018 Mystery Map Solution
March right in to find out what the February Mystery Map was about! While the map received more than 300 views, we had modest submissions (must be fight-or-flight response to Google Forms.) Scott Gilman, our previous post-bac fellow, promptly solved…
Mystery Map 2018 Kickoff
The state of affairs for a new year can be uncertain, but your unequivocal love for map mysteries is huge! You can launch the full version here. Hint: Not sports-related despite the title, but a clue is embedded in the…