Skidmore has an active GIS Center for Interdisciplinary Research. Check some of their recommended tools and tutorials here.

• Tools

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Librarian Peter Rogers has collected a variety of mapping resources on a Colgate Libraries’  Course and Subjects Guide page.  Peter is not only an aggregator for mapping resources, he is an experienced GIS professional available to help with your mapping projects (his contact information is on the maps page).

More Libraries map information is available in their Fall 2013 newsletter (not yet on-line as this is posted; check for your printed version).

Categories include:

• Physical Maps at Colgate Libraries,
• Virtual Map Collections,
• Virtual Globes,
• Interactive Mapping Sites,
• Geoportals,
• Gazetteers,
• Historical Maps ,
• Hydrofracking Counter Maps,
• Geospatial Data

• SubjectsPlus: Maps

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EDUCAUSE ELI (Education and Learning Initiative) publishes a very useful series of short (two-page) summaries on educational technology topics; several of these relate to the topic of mapping. Here’s a collection of some 7-Things mapping-related offerings, ordered by date:

7 THINGS YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT Data Visualization II – August 2009  (PDF)

• Mapping is only one of the facets of data visualization, but an important one, supported by many free on-line tools

7 THINGS YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT Location-Aware Applications – March 2009 (PDF)

• Your phone knows where you are; that might be a valuable thing for  research and at the same time a nightmare for privacy

7 THINGS YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT Geolocation – August 2008 (PDF)

• Applications which can geotag their data, automatically or with minimal effort, offer interesting opportunities for data collection and mashup applications

7 THINGS YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT Google Earth – October 2006 (PDF)

• A powerful, quirky, and free tool to visualize and tour the Earth, including ocean depths, the Moon, and Mars

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