by aorrego1@gsu.edu | Oct 12, 2014 | Atlanta connections, digital humanities, mapping, SIF Projects
This week has been another one of those informational weeks. I was recently recruited to be a part of the Atlanta transit project. This project is geared towards focusing on Atlanta’s public transportation history, particularly MARTA’s planned transit...
by Ramsundar Sundarkumar | Oct 5, 2014 | mapping, SIF Projects
For the front end of Deliberation mapping tool, we had the choice of either using HTML5 or flash. HTML 5 is supposed to the future of web development and flash is getting less popular for websites. Hence, this lead to the design decision of using HTML 5 over...
by nryerson1@gsu.edu | Oct 5, 2014 | Atlanta connections, mapping, SIF Projects
Known as the southern commercial railway hub and also for it’s urban sprawl, Atlanta is in constant movement within the city and throughout the metro area. Originally not the capital of Georgia, Atlanta was the center for rail traffic for the entire southeast....
by avaughan4@gsu.edu | Oct 5, 2014 | digital archaeology, mapping
In modern archaeological research, some portion of the research will take place in a Geographic Information System or GIS. Whether it’s fully integrated into the project both documenting and directing research, or utilized solely for the archiving of mapped...
by aboll1@gsu.edu | Oct 5, 2014 | Atlanta connections, mapping, SIF Projects
This week, the ArcGIS Online Outreach team started discussing its newest project -“Atlanta Mass Transit: Past, Present, Future.” This project is going to be using the Planning Atlanta collection to access past planning documents for Atlanta’s...
by agable1@gsu.edu | Oct 2, 2014 | data visualization, mapping
Often we present statistical data not as exclusively the numbers themselves, but as a visualization of those numbers—as charts or graphs or tables or even pictures—giving the reader or viewer a better way to understand the meaning or impact of the information. The...
