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Three Additional Workshops

Map and Geospatial Hub Workshops The ASU Library Map and Geospatial Hub has scheduled three additional workshops for December.  As your year winds down, get some additional GIS training to prepare you for 2018 and perhaps ide...

POINT OF VIEW: 4th Annual Creative Cartography Art Exhibit Comes to the Hub

The ASU Library Map and Geospatial Hub is excited to host an exhibition of original cartographic artwork by the students in ASU professor Ellen Murray Meissinger’s Art on Paper class. Point of View is the fourth installment in the Creative Cartography collaboration betwee...

GIS in Digital Humanities Workshop

Historic Tempe Arizona Topographic Map Workshop: Geographic Information Systems (GIS) in Digital Humanities This workshop format will consist of two interactive sessions. Digital Humanities scholars from the School of Historical, P...

Save the Date: ASU GIS Day 2017!

Save the date! The ASU Library Map and Geospatial Hub's largest event of the year is nearly upon us: ASU GIS Day 2017!  Join us on Friday, November 17 at the Hub, located in the Noble Science and Engineering Library, 3rd floor. We intend to build on the success of last year's geospatial gathering w...

Tempe Arizona Map ... With Sparky

Map of Tempe Arizona 1962 Tempe, ArizonaTempe Chamber of Commerce1962 Through the years, the ASU mascot, Sparky the sun devil, has gone through significant changes in his appearance. This Tempe map from 1962 takes a humorous appr...

Braun and Hogenberg's Verona

Braun and Hogenberg's map of Verona Georg Braun, Frans Hogenberg from Civitates Orbis Terrarum c. 1600-23 Verona is perhaps best known as the setting of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. The city at the time this map was published ...

Fall 2017 Event Lineup -- Map and Geospatial Hub

It's upon us! The Fall 2017 semester has officially begun! Your ASU Library Map and Geospatial Hub is pleased to offer a fresh lineup of workshops and events for the new semester. We're particularly thrilled to be partnering with the grassroots community art group Cut + P...

Intro to Geology class labs are upon us

Over five hundred students visit the Map and Geospatial Hub each spring and fall semester to complete a class assignment. Students use geologic and topographic from our collection to research geological processes that produced our current land formations. They study maps of places such as San Franc...

Upcoming Tours - Spring 2017

We’re excited announce upcoming tours of the aerial photo and map collections in the Map and Geospatial Hub.     These tours will rotate through three different themes: historic maps of Arizona, historic aerial photography and mkrgeo services.  Tours are open to everyone. ...