GIS support from the Harvard Map Collection

Screen recording of an example Google Sites page for Hist 15m

Atlas viewer, Atlascope, a GIS tool from the Boston Public Library.

Screenshot of a map of Olympia national park Offical Olympic National Park map.

Screenshot of United States 2020 census map Graduated proportional symbol map showing 2020 population by state in the United States.

Photograph of a roadmap of Louisiana Louisiana and Mississippi roadmap from the Harvard Map Collection.

Photograph of the road map, zoomed into New Orleans Louisiana and Mississippi roadmap from the Harvard Map Collection showing the New Orleans area.

Photograph of a 1909 map of land use in New Orleans Land cover map of Louisiana from 1909 in the Harvard Map Collection.

The legend showing different kinds of land use The legend of the 1909 land cover map of Louisiana.

USGS tool to extract modern day land cover data USGS data download tool, showing land cover data from 2016.

Chart diagramming the definition of GIS as a collection of methods, software, and data

John Snow map from 1854 showing London streets with dashes for each instance of cholera, centered around a water pump

John Snow map with a modern GIS heatmap overlaid on top

Image showing examples of points, lines, and polygons

Example of a points dataset, old growth trees in Washington State loaded into desktop GIS, QGIS

Back end table of the trees points dataset, showing each row is a tree, and each column is an attribute about the tree

GIF of the vision zero data page on City of Boston's data portal Analyze Boston, Boston’s open data portal.

Screenshot of the vision zero data as a table Vision Zero dataset, open as a table.

Screenshot of vision zero data as crowded points Bike crash data displayed visually as individual points in GIS software.

Map of bike crashes shows patterns better

Screenshot of our webpage listing our services

Support team

Example topics we help with mapping:

Example google my maps with points of interest

Screenshot of the front page of the Perkins SAS accelerator non visual digital maps page

Map Accessibility - Webpage with tips and guidelines

Color Oracle - Free color blindness simulator

Color Contrast Checker - Tool for comparing colors