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Close-range Remote Sensing Class

By popular demand, the ASU School of Earth and Space Exploration is offering a Spring 2020 session of SES494/598 Close-Range Remote Sensing! Interested students should email the professor, Ian J. Wa...

Photography displaying examples of the Creative Cartography artwork.

Old and New: Student Artwork on Display in the Hub

Inspired by maps, this art exhibition explores the interconnections and contrasts between Old and New. Students in Prof. Ellen Meissinger’s Art on Paper class, Herberger Institute for Design and the ...

GIS at ASU and Beyond event flyer

ASU GIS Day 2019

The Map and Geospatial Hub is pleased to announce ASU GIS Day 2019! ASU Library is collaborating with the School of Geographical Sciences & Urban Planning, and the Arizona Geographic Alliance to ...

PHXGeo Mapathon at the Hub (November 2019)

The Map and Geospatial Hub is pleased to be hosting PHXGeo once again for an OpenStreetMap mapathon. PHXGeo is a community-based meetup group for those in the Phoenix area who like maps, GIS, OpenStre...

An oblique perspective of a three dimensional digital model of the forthcoming Map and Geospatial Hub unit at ASU Library. The model contains various rectangular prisms and other 3D shapes rendered in different colors -- black, white, red, blue, green, and various shades of grey.

The Map and Geospatial Hub is Moving -- Hayden 2020

The time is finally upon us! The ASU Library Map and Geospatial Hub is moving its physical operations to a specialized new suite in Hayden Library, on ASU’s Tempe campus. The move will begin in early...

Place and Space: Fifth Annual Creative Cartography Art Exhibit

The newest installment of the Creative Cartography exhibit series is now on view at the Map and Geospatial Hub. This year’s art exhibit, Place and Space, features artwork from Prof. Ellen Meissinger's...

Grand Canyon Map Competition

The historic Mapping Grand Canyon Conference to be held at ASU in Spring 2019 will feature three (3) Grand Canyon Map Competitions. Download the Grand Canyon Map Competition Flyer [pdf format]. Stud...

OSM Mapathon: YouthMappers Chapter Starting at ASU

Help Map Humanitarian Crises! ASU is starting an on-campus chapter of YouthMappers! We wi...

Quick look into geocoding

Geocoding is the process of assigning a geographic coordinates to a description of location-related information. The most common use is the attribution of geographic coordinates (latitude and longitud...