Community Mapping Lab at the University of Georgia. All tweets our own.
Athens, GA
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Linnentown was a Black neighborhood near the UGA campus that was destroyed by Urban Renewal in the 1960s. This new storymap created by students in the Community GIS class tells that story, including a virtual tour with former residents. arcg.is/HiC5S
Students in this semester's Community GIS class have been writing blog posts about our work, including digitization of a historical city directory and the creation of a storymap about Linnentown. A few highlights!
In her blog post, @AmberAOrozco talks about open-source tools such as QGIS and Leaflet and how "open access" isn't just about software. communitymappinglab.org/blog…
In previous coursework, Eli Vinson found GIS to primarily an analytical tool. Through the class focus on qualitative GIS, he writes about how he's come to see intersections between his interest in graphic design and the working "geo(graphically)". communitymappinglab.org/blog…
Coverage of the recent report by @jerry_shannon and others in the local paper.
UGA experts estimate $5 million in reparations owed to Linnentown residents onlineathens.com/story/news/…
It's a mapathon! Join us next Wednesday, 2/2, from 6-8 ET as we work on data cleaning for the 1958 Athens directory. We're creating an open data set that gives an in-depth view of the labor market, segregation, and housing ownership at that time. Signup: signupgenius.com/go/20f0d44a…
New blog post! Emilie Castillo writes about work we've been doing this year with @BikeAthens to create a map of bike routes through the city. communitymappinglab.org/blog…
New blog post! Mary Farrell was an undergradaute research assistant for the CML this semester and mapped out social service coverage in our area using R, Mapbox, and Tableau. communitymappinglab.org/blog…
New blog post! We've started a reading group over the summer, and last week we looked at @wilsonism's new article in @ProgHumGeog on a minor GIScience. We largely liked it but wished it gave more space to participatory methods. w/@tayhafley communitymappinglab.org/blog…
Partnering with Broderick Flanigan, the @cmaplab has updated our map of Black-owned businesses in Athens. Here's the link: communitymappinglab.org/acc-…
New blog posts! This semester, the Community GIS class at UGA partnered with the Linnentown Project to digitize and provide analysis of records about the demolition of an African-American neighborhood near campus in the early 1960s. (Map by student Dane Hulsey)
Katrina wrote about how this class changed her own perspective on research, becoming aware of "the continued presence of our past ghosts and grievances" as well as growing into a "more active, empathetic, and responsible citizen." communitymappinglab.org/blog…