Library Guides: An Introduction to Digital Scholarship: Mapping

Geographic Information Systems (GIS)

Geographic Information Systems (GIS)
by Kay P Maye Last Updated Aug 25, 2025 4424 views this year

Social Explorer
Digital mapping tool that can be used to trace important social datasets including Census data, CDC data, crime data, and other sources.
PolicyMap
A data and mapping tool that enables government, commercial, non-profit and academic institutions to access data about communities and markets across the US.

Tulane ArcGIS Online Portal
Provides access to many products in the ESRI suite. This includes ArcGIS Online, ArcMap, ArcPro and Storymaps.
Story Maps (ESRI)
With Esri Story Maps, you can combine your maps with narrative text, images, and multimedia content to create compelling, user-friendly web apps. There are several Story Map application templates you can choose from depending on the story you want to tell.
OpenStreetMap
Built by a community of mappers that contribute and maintain data about roads, trails, cafés, railway stations, and much more, all over the world.
StorymapJS
A free tool to help you tell stories on the web that highlight the locations of a series of events.
NYPL Map Warper
A tool for digitally aligning ("rectifying") historical maps from the NYPL's collections to match today's precise maps.
Map Warper
A free to use, open source map warper / map georectifier, and image georeferencer tool for individuals and small groups.