Undergraduate students and master’s-degree candidates are invited to apply for the National Geographic Award in Mapping. This award recognizes student achievement in the art, science, and technology of mapping and seeks to encourage student research. The first place award consists…
The Food Bank of Western Massachusetts sought mapping and analysis support from the Spatial Analysis Lab during the summer of 2010. The project is currently on hold, but you can view some of the initial map products below. Sarah Motti…
The Spatial Analysis Lab (SAL) recently finished the 2011 version of the “Easthampton ~ Northampton Trail & Bicycle Map” for the Friends of Northampton (MA) Trails and Greenways (FNTG) organization. The 2011 series marks the third iteration of the map…
Animating Spread of European Settlement in the US 1790-2000
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 displays the state origins of the Smith Class of…
I’m just starting to track who looks at our webpage and in particular the maps that are posted. I never dreamed that such fist-o-cuffs would erupt over our animated map showing the history of US settlement. I (add some of…