Name: #m5c: Navigating the Past: Interactive mapping platforms to explore the factors that have shaped our cities
Start: 2017-10-23T16:00:00-0400
End: 2017-10-23T16:55:00-0400

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#m5c: Navigating the Past: Interactive mapping platforms to explore the factors that have shaped our cities

Navigating the Past: Interactive mapping platforms to explore the factors that have shaped our cities
Robert Nelson(1), Kevin Ehrman-Solberg(2), Megan Slemons(3), Joseph Hurley(4), Jay Varner(3)
1: University of Richmond; 2: University of Minnesota; 3: Emory University; 4: Georgia State University

This panel will explore the creation of data-rich map collections and applications in university libraries. The three projects that will be featured are all aimed at broad public audiences and all of them offer insight into the policies and histories that shaped twentieth- and twenty-first-century American cities.

Speakers

Kevin Ehrman-Solberg

Joseph Hurley

Data Services and GIS Librarian, Georgia State University

Joe Hurley is a Data Services and GIS Librarian at Georgia State University Library. His research interests include historical GIS, urban renewal, demographic and built environment change and writes on urban change in Atlanta. He is the PI on the NEH funded Planning Atlanta: A New... Read More →