We have cool, shiny new LiDAR data to play with in the Spatial Analysis Lab. These data were captured in December 2013, but we did not receive the final product until earlier this summer. We’ll provide more details about LiDAR,…
Winter Mystery Map Revealed
Answer Revealed: As many of you successfully guessed — our winter mystery map, themed: Annual Valley Event, was mapping… Valley Gives Day 2014! Making…
Winter 2015 Mystery Map
In celebration of the indoors we bring you our latest Mystery Map to help occupy your mind through the last of the winter’s cold! Challenge: Name the Annual Event Bonus: Explain the Pattern click to expand Submit answers here by Friday 3/6…
November Mystery Map Revealed — Mystery Migrations
Answer Revealed This mystery map challenged viewers to anticipate movements on campus based on a set of starting points and ending points. What quest is shown on the map?? The journey to the Lewis Global Studies coffee machine! The map was…
Mystery Map Challenge — November 2014
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Fall Mystery Map Solution Revealed
The Fall Mystery Map challenged viewers to consider the regulation of space. Each of the three maps represented a unique regulation zone that participants were asked to identify based on context clues within the maps. This led viewers to through a…
Fall 2014 Mystery Map
The Spatial Analysis Lab’s Mystery Map Contest returns with its Fall 2014 challenge: Regulated Space Study the image (map) below (click to expand) to solve the mystery of the regulated space depicted in each of the three maps! The first correct answer* wins…
February Mystery Map: Solution Revealed!
And the answer is… The February Mystery Map challenged you to match four different maps of the world with the quantitative variables they showed, and prompted all interested spatial thinkers and pattern detectives to question things like: “Which areas are more…
November Mystery Map Solved!
The answer is: The November Mystery Map showed the locations that non-motorists (pedestrians, bicyclists, etc) have been hit by cars in downtown Northampton. In this case, the data is from the year 2010, showing a complete snapshot of collisions during that…
November Mystery Map
November Mystery Map: “Doctor, Doctor” Come one, come all! Can you guess the mystery variable shown on this month’s Mystery Map? Update 11/15/12: First hint released! The theme of this month’s map was decided when two similar yet rare events occurred…