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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…