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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 Fall 2018 Art on Paper class.  ...

OSM Mapathon: YouthMappers Chapter Starting at ASU

Help Map Humanitarian Crises! ASU is starting an on-campus chapter of YouthMappers! We will be creating maps that will help the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) projects focus on increasing food security, preventing diseases such as malaria, and...

Spring 2018 Event Lineup -- Map and Geospatial Hub

The Spring 2018 semester is well underway! Your ASU Library Map and Geospatial Hub is pleased to offer a fresh lineup of workshops and events for the new semester. Notable additions to the Spring 2018 workshop lineup include new offerings introducing participants to ArcG...

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 ...