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.
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.
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…
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…
While a pandemic summer is bummer, it didn’t melt away mapping endeavors. Here are reflections by students on how they leveraged spatial inquiry during this time/space apart: Espy Thomson ’21, Environmental Science & Policy This summer I used the ArcPro…
Registering would be agreeable Q&A Part 1: What’s in a Map? 9/8 Tuesday 12:30-1:15 Recording This workshop introduces GIS (Geographic Information Systems) and exercises spatial thinking through critiquing the abundance of election maps available – what are the ingredients and…
The end of an era. My time at Smith has taken me places, but it is time to officially leave the nest. At the beginning of my position as the final iteration of Spatial Analysis Fellows I felt hesitant, a…
As the pandemic began its sweep through the United States we have seen incredible mutual aid responses pop up all over the world, and in our local communities. And what better way to visualize those efforts than a map! The…
The mystery map returns! Take a look at the map below and explore the online interactive map to determine what the blue pins represent. Fill out this form to submit your guess! Add your submission by the end of February.…
The Spatial Analysis Lab is excited to offer another set of workshops– new and old– for Spring 2020! Take a look at the schedule and mark your calendars for more spatial learning. Please give us a heads up by registering…
What a semester! We’ve reached new heights this fall with new classes, workshops, and research. This semester we taught Drone Cinematography and Aerial Imagery, and assisted Contesting Space: Art, Ecology, Activism in Latin American & Latinx Studies, Great Cities: Los…