Here are student reflections on how GIS/spatial analysis enriched their summer endeavors: Amrita Acharya ’23, Art This summer I used ArcGIS Pro on Amazon Web Services (AWS) while interning with the Town of Brookline, MA Regulatory Planning Division. As part…
Art in the Time of COVID: Exploring Smith College’s Outdoor Art Collection
By Hannah Dillahunt ’21 At the beginning of last fall, I started working with the Smith College Museum of Art (SCMA) to create an interactive map for Smithies and visitors to campus to use to explore Smith’s large collection of…
Spring 2021 Workshops
Registering = agreeable A Historical Research Tool: Georeferencing the Vilna Ghetto 3/10 Wednesday 12:30-1:15 recording and Q&A With Hannah Dillahunt ‘21. When creating historical maps, it may be difficult to find data layers that reflect the landscape and landmarks of…
Semester Recap: Fall 2020
By Hannah Dillahunt ’21 My first semester as the SAL assistant coincided with Smith’s first fully online semester. Despite not being on campus this fall, Jon, Tracy and I were able to work on many different projects and help a…
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.
Finding Trees for the Forest
On a crispy Monday morning in mid September, the Spatial Analysis Lab (SAL) team set out with Albert Kim (SDS), Stephaine Choi (CEEDs), and Olivia Handoko (SDS ‘21) to measure and collect data for our very own, home grown “perfect…
X Marks the Spot
How do cartographers create the allure of the “X”? This post captures the iterative process of map-making through an art history professor’s request. The purpose of these maps is to illustrate and contextualize various types of bronze mirrors discovered at…