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.
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 →
I am a GIS Librarian in the Emory Center for Digital Scholarship, where I work with scholars to incorporate geospatial technologies into their research and teaching.
