MAPPING WITH DATA

SELECT MAPPING TOOLS

General overviews of GIS / resources

GIS On the Web tutorial on Lynda.com (free with NYC library card)
Learning QGIS on Lynda.com (QGIS is an open source platform equivalent to ArcGIS)

GIS Commons – Introduction to GIS / Geographic Information System

GIS Lounge

Essentials of Geographic Information Systems at Open Textbook Library
online version (visit above link for PDF)

Mapbox – A User-Friendly Mapping Tool

Mapbox – this one is good for creating base-maps, styling, tiling. There is a free option. Once you get an account you can start “building” and you are taken to
Mapbox Studio.

Mapbox GETTING STARTED

Introduction to Mapbox Studio – webinar (53 min)

MapBox TUTORIALS
Start with: Adding points to a web map 1,2,3

Add your own data in Mapbox Studio

Mapbox’s own how-to videos (some interfaces are old, but concepts should work)

Here is a cool template designed by Mapbox for creating interactive location-based stories

I think this example by AlJazeera uses this template:
https://interactive.aljazeera.com/aje/2019/nations-divided-mapping-canadas-pipeline/index.html

And here’s a webinar talking through the process of making something with this template.
Live-coding demo: How to use the Mapbox Storytelling Template to create a story map

Another User-Friendly Mapping Tool
This one is free for 6 mo.
CARTO – GUI mapping platform

Online Map Mashups: Google Maps / My Maps, Bing Maps, ESRI

More Robust, Industry Standard, Open-Source Mapping Tool

QGIS – opensource mapping platform
QGIS users manual
Origins of QGIS (map examples about min. 29)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQ8ytFJE_Wk
Introduction to QGIS for beginners (not Lynda.com)

Industry Standard Commercial Mapping Tool using ESRI Engine

ArcGIS

SOME SOURCES FOR DATA

NYC Open Data – planning dept open data page

NYC Open Data Initiative

Open Street Map
(see end of post for some tutorials for extracting data from OSM)
About Open Street Map (GIS Lounge)

USGS (US Geological Survey)

MORE RESOURCES

Google Material Design icons
https://m3.material.io/styles/icons/overview

D3 Data-Driven Documents – javascript library

Spatial Analysis and Visualization Initiative (SAVI) at Pratt

MORE MAPPING / GIS

NYPL Web Maps Primer – using historical maps, aligning them with current maps using the mercatur projects, adding data, the map warper tool, etc.

Columbia Center for Spatial Research Tutorials

Public Lab Maps – Open data maps from balloon and kite photography

Field Papers

GIS / DATA

tutorial: Getting source data from an OpenStreetMap (from a Penn State online course)
http://extract.bbbike.org/
or
Metro Extracts – city-sized portions of OpenStreetMap, served weekly
+ export using a plugin

OpenStreetMap Wiki

OpenStreetMap Tag Info

OSM made up of nodes (points), ways (lines), closed ways (polygons). Nodes, ways and closed ways are just shapes with no meaning until you give them attributes, as in any GIS. Users add attributes. Tags: key-value pairs. Tags are made up along the way. Types of data: number, string, geometry, … coordinates lat/lon or a code that combines

MAPS (specifically) WITH DATA

Google Earth… / Google Maps…

USGS Maps

Anti-Eviction Mapping Project
…Ellis Act Evictions
You can get involved with their collective!

Odd Lots by Sara Eichner – a visualization of Gordon Matta-Clark’s Fake Estated projects from 1974 and a look at odd tax lots in Brooklyn (uses Leaflet plugin.
Concrete Waves by Sara Eichner for Thread Collective