Map and Geospatial Hub news

ASU School of Geographical Sciences & Urban Planning will be hosting Dr. Michael Gould for an hour-long talk:On the Evolution of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI) Thursday, April 4 4 to 5 p.m. Coor Hall, Room #5536 Dr. Michael Gould is Global Education M...

A new Web App, 1918 National Parks and Monuments, is now live on ASU Geodata. This App digitizes a map of the National Park and Monument system in its infancy and overlays it across a modern map of the United States, allowing the user to explore the NPS two years after its creation. ...

The United States National Park Service (NPS) currently administers 63 National Parks and 85 National Monuments, among the astonishing 423 total areas managed by the agency. That scope wasn’t always so large. In the years after its 1916 inception, the NPS oversaw only a small fraction of the nationa...

A new web map, 1959 World Less Polar Regions, is now live on ASU GeoData. The web map indexes a newly digitized series of maps produced by the Army Map Service in 1959. The maps depict the world at the small scale of 1:11,000,000, while featuring many interesting features and some peculiarities. ...

The ASU Library Map and Geospatial Hub is pleased to present a collection of newly digitized maps, accompanied by a corresponding web map index: 2005 Indigenous Languages of Mexico. View of Cancun in the Maya/ Maaya T'aan language. ...

As many of you know, Esri is formally retiring ArcGIS Desktop (ArcMap) for Education programs in March 2024. ArcGIS Desktop (ArcMap) will no longer be available to members of the ASU enterprise, which is an Esri Education program customer. Starting next calendar year (Jan...

Our latest web index, 1988 Hydraulic Maps of Major Grand Canyon Rapids, is now live and available to the public.   Geographic Coverage: Arizona Date: 1988 Scale: 1:1,000 Physical Availability: in-house only Digital Availability: scanned (600 dpi) This application depi...

In 1898, Cuba was in the midst of a bloody war for independence from Spain that had been raging for three years. American public opinion swayed dramatically towards support through the 1890s, especially with American journalists fully embracing Yellow Journalism to exaggerate and embellish the atroc...

Salt River Valley, Arizona, 1934. Cartography by T.A. Hayden. In 1934, the Phoenix valley was mostly farmland thanks to the incredibly successful damming of the Salt River with the Roosevelt Dam via the Salt River Project i...