Resources

/ / / AUGMENTED REALITY

COMMERCIAL AR + WALKING TOUR APPS

Blip AR Blipbuilder – uses surface recognition (or “pages”), but you can use visual prompts in public space
https://www.blippar.com/build-ar
…free for 3 months for educators

SOUND ORIENTED

Echoes app for making geolocated audio
https://echoes.xyz/echoes-creative-apps

Sonic Maps

STEEPER LEARNING CURVE

Unity with custom GPS elements
or Vuforia

Google ARCore development environment

/// ICONS

The Noun Project

/// GIS MAPPING PLATFORMS

easier + (mostly?) free:
MapBox – good for styling and map tiling
– start with this interactive storytelling tutorial
Cartographica
Carto
web-based version of ArcGIS

steeper learning curve + free:
QGIS

steeper learning curve + expensive, an industry standard:
ArcGIS

Google Earth Engine
Google Earth Engine API, Apps +

Basic overview on Lynda.com – what is GIS?

Online Book (CC license): Geographic Information System Basics

Tutorials from Columbia’s Center for Spatial Research
(not necessarily up to date)

/// POPULAR DATA SOURCES FOR GIS

NYC Open Data – planning dept open data page

NYC Open Data Initiative

Open Street Map

USGS (US Geological Survey)

/// MAP COLLECTIONS

New York Public Library Map Division

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

David Rumsey Historical Map collection – 70,000+ free, high-res maps.
including these that are georeferenced

New York Historical Society

/// PLATFORMS FOR MULTIMEDIA STORYTELLING INCORPORATING MAPS

StoryMap – developed at Northeastern U

Scalar – for scholarly work that incorporates multiple media / digital humanities, developed at USC

/ / / EQUIPMENT CHECKOUT

Questions? 
resograd@hunter.cuny.edu (graduate students)

 

this info is from 2019:

Equipment available to Grad students:
Camera:  Canon XF-300, Canon C-100*
Sound Recorders: Zoom, Marantz PMD-660, Sound Devices 302*
Plus the usual suspects for sound mikes, accessories, lighting, grip, etc.
Plus 2 binaural microphones.
 
equipment room run by Renato Tonelli/Chief CLT
 
 

/ / / MORE GEOLOCATION

/ / / GOOGLE EARTH / GOOGLE MAPS

Google Earth Engine
Google Earth Engine API, Apps +

/ / / PROCESSING + DATA VISUALIZATION

D3 Data-Driven Documents – javascript library

A user-friendly series of videos on making visualizations using Processing. This one in particular is useful:
Coding Challenge #11: 3D Terrain Generation with Perlin Noise in Processing

Building maps in Processing
Tilemill

/ / / SOUND

info from 2019: There are sound recorders [Zoom, Marantz PMD-660, Sound Devices 302] and two binaural microphone setups in the department equipment checkout.

/ / / CODING – GENERAL RESOURCES

codecademy – learn to code basic web languages in a game-like fashion, free

/ / / ONLINE TUTORIAL – GENERAL RESOURCES

Lynda.com – software tutorials, free with NYC library card