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Why Maps Matter
Creator: PS | Level: Beginner | Category: Foundations: Maps and Meaning Why this matters Maps are not only tools for navigation. They are ways of organizing spatial knowledge, asking questions about place, and communicating patterns that might otherwise remain hard to see. Across the humanities, social sciences, public research, and community work, mapping has become…
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[Pathway 3] Urban Analysis Class
Audience: Undergraduate or graduate students in urban studies, planning, public policy, or introductory GISLength: 10 lessonsGoal: Build a structured pathway from conceptual foundations to data handling, cartographic literacy, and introductory GIS practice Lessons in this pathway: This pathway follows the logic of a longer classroom sequence. It begins with foundational ideas about why maps matter,…
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[Pathway 2] Public Storytelling and Advocacy
Audience: Educators, journalists, public humanities projects, community storytellersLength: 5 lessonsGoal: Build a place-based story that uses maps to communicate an issue, history, or public argument Lessons in this pathway: This pathway is designed for people who want to use maps not only to show information, but to tell a story or frame an argument. It…
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[Pathway 1] Community Meeting Starter
Audience: Community groups, advocates, students supporting public meetingsLength: 3 lessonsGoal: Prepare a simple, readable, community-centered map for discussion, advocacy, or outreach Lessons in this pathway: This pathway begins with the idea that community knowledge should shape what gets mapped and how. It then moves into visual literacy, helping users think about readability, emphasis, and what…
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Working with Large Geospatial Data in Google Earth Engine
Title Card: Creator: Parisa Setayesh | Level: Intermediate | Category: Tools: Building Maps Why this mattersGCDI’s GIS at Scale with Google Earth Engine introduces Earth Engine as a way to handle projects involving large geospatial datasets and highlights its ability to draw on a petabyte-scale database and cloud-based processing. Google’s own documentation says Earth Engine…
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Interactive Web Maps with Leaflet
Title Card: Creator: Parisa Setayesh | Level: Intermediate | Category: Tools: Building Maps Why this mattersGCDI’s Interactively Explore Geographic Data in R Using Leaflet states that its goal is to provide a basic understanding of Leaflet functionality and the tools and resources needed to make your own maps. The official Leaflet Quick Start Guide similarly…
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Quick Thematic Maps in R
Title Card: Creator: Parisa Setayesh | Level: Beginner–Intermediate | Category: Tools: Building Maps Why this mattersGCDI’s Quick and easy mapping with R frames R as a versatile tool widely used by academics, which makes it a particularly strong pathway for researchers who already work in a coding environment. On the R side, the tmap package…
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First Map in QGIS
Title Card: Creator: Parisa Setayesh | Level: Beginner | Category: Tools: Building Maps Why this mattersGCDI’s Intro to Mapping using QGIS describes GIS as an essential digital tool for the creation and analysis of maps and geographic data. The official QGIS Training Manual begins with a module on creating and exploring a basic map and…
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Storytelling with ArcGIS StoryMaps
Title Card: Creator: Parisa Setayesh | Level: Beginner | Category: Tools: Building Maps Why this mattersGCDI’s StoryMaps tutorial opens with a clear premise: maps are versatile tools for communicating ideas and information, and StoryMaps simplifies the process of making different kinds of maps to tell stories. More recent GCDI workshop copy presents ArcGIS StoryMaps as…
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Choosing the Right Mapping Tool
Title Card: Creator: Parisa Setayesh | Level: Beginner | Category: Tools: Building Maps Why this mattersGCDI’s Finding the Right Tools for Mapping begins from a problem many beginners know well: there are a lot of mapping tools, and it is hard to know which one fits the project. The same post also points to Leaflet…
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Reading Dataset Documentation Before You Map
Title Card: Creator: Parisa Setayesh | Level: Beginner–Intermediate | Category: Data: Data, Space and Place Why this mattersNYC Open Data is remarkably direct about documentation: data dictionaries should be a key resource, and the primer page contains information such as update date and field definitions. Their metadata guidance also emphasizes making documentation more usable and…
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