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Geographic Information Systems (GIS)

Geographic Information Systems (GIS)
by Kay P Maye Last Updated Nov 6, 2023 1896 views this year

Social Explorer This link opens in a new window
Social Explorer “contains over 18,000 maps, hundreds of profile reports, 40 billion data elements, 335,000 variables and 220 years of data”. It can be used to locate census tract boundary information from 1940 to the present.
PolicyMap This link opens in a new window
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.