Map Librarian
Dartmouth College
25 N Main ST
Hanover, NH 03755
Introduction to Mapping Online
This page highlights both purchased and free resources that allow you to create maps online. In some cases, you do not have to install software. We do not have subscriptions to all of these resources. Just a few of them. If you have any questions, please let us know. The sites provide data and other resources you need to create a map. Click on a tab and get started mapping!
The resources available include:
- Explore census data
Data.census.gov is the new platform to access demographic and economic data from the U.S. Census Bureau. The vision for data.census.gov is to improve the customer experience by making data available from one centralized place so that data users spend less time searching for data and content, and more time using it. ...
Use the Chrome browser for best results. - BatchGeoThis site allows you to convert a list of addresses into points on a map. If you have a spreadsheet of addresses, this site will convert them to points and you can then map those points.
- OpenStreetMap
OpenStreetMap is a basemap built by a community of mappers that contribute and maintain data about roads, trails, cafés, railway stations, and much more, all over the world. - Social Explorer
This resource lets you visualize historical and current census data. Social Explorer also includes data for crime, health, religion, censuses for Canada and the United Kingdom and development indicators.
To take full advantage of Social Explorer, you must create an account within the resource.
A short definition
Digital mapping (also called digital cartography) is the process by which a collection of data is compiled and formatted into a virtual image. The primary function of this technology is to produce maps that give accurate representations of a particular area, detailing major road arteries and other points of interest. The technology also allows the calculation of distances from one place to another.
[Source: Wikipedia, 10/15/2020]
In the Library's Collection
The library's collection contains several books and journal titles which look at online or digital mapping. The resources are scattered throughout the collections under different call numbers. However, one call number range, G 70.212, is a good starting place to physically browse.
- "web mapping"This is a keyword search for the phrase "web mapping."
Selected book titles
Charting the unknown: how computer mapping at Harvard became GIS by Call Number: Baker-Berry G 70.212 .C47385 2006 textISBN: 9781589481183
Else/where: mapping new cartographies of networks and territories by Call Number: Baker-Berry GA 139 .E48 2006ISBN: 9780972969628Else/where Mapping charts the ascendancy of mapping as a powerful interdisciplinary strategy, one that links people and places, data and organizations, and physical and virtual environments. Traditionally written by history's victors, maps are gaining new currency in our information-saturated age as a means of making arguments and processes visible. Mapping technologies today are as diverse as the agendas driving them: social networks are mapped with dynamic digital interfaces; buildings are mapped with lasers; cities and regions are mapped by satellite. ...
Mapping: an illustrated guide to graphic navigational systems by Call Number: Baker-Berry GA 139 .M47 2002ISBN: 9782880467074Focusing on information design, this guide reveals the visual language of location, direction, spatial and structural relationships which are central to this sector of graphics, exploring maps as varied as subway systems and websites to chemical symbols, and the mapping of time.
The mobile mapping: space, cartography and digital by Call Number: eBookISBN: 9789462984530This book presents the first in-depth discussion of how specific geographical and historical conditions shape the way in which mobile phone maps are read, deployed, and engaged with in daily life. Using a framework of mobile mapping, this concise study offers a radical analysis of the way local spatial and navigational practices are bound to global systems of knowledge and power. It argues that contemporary mobile mapping is imbued with multiple knowledges, pasts, spaces, and experiences, bringing to the fore complicated and tense relationships within cartographic and spatial assemblages. ...
