GIS Ed Weekly: New center focuses on community geography

On and Off Campus 

The Daily (University of Washington): People’s History map details the UW’s racist history, emphasizes student movement - The People’s History group, in collaboration with the Geography Graduate Student Association, presented its newly published interactive map, “A People’s Landscape: Racism and Resistance at UW, ...The map is a historical guide to the university’s legacy of racism and colonialism, featuring 32 locations across the UW Seattle campus, each marked with a representative photo." It's a StoryMapJS application.

Ohio State: Pandemic has surprising impacts on public transit demand - "While demand for public transit dropped about 73% across the country after the pandemic hit, the reduction didn’t impact all cities equally, according to the study, which analyzed activity data from a widely used public transit navigation app. Large, coastal cities – like Seattle, San Francisco and Washington, D.C – saw demand fall further than cities in the Midwest and South."

GIS Ed Weekly: GPS tracking shows seagulls know where and when to steal your food

Resources for Teaching and Learning

Predictive policing across Tennessee

The Atlas of Surveillance: "...is a database of surveillance technologies deployed by law enforcement in communities across the United States. This includes drones, body-worn cameras, automated license plate readers, facial recognition, and more. This research was compiled by more than 500 students and volunteers, and incorporates datasets from a variety of public and non-profit sources." A project of the EFF. Via @audreywatters.

MapScaping Podcast: GIS education and training, online and in-person - "This episode explores GIS education online and offline with Don Boyes, professor at the University of Toronto and online educator on the Coursera platform."

GIS Ed Weekly: Should I get a GIS minor, certificate, or degree?

Resources for Teaching and Learning

BuzzFeed: We're Not Gonna Know Anything For Hours, So Here Are Some Funny Fake Electoral Maps People Are Making On Twitter - Some silly but stress reducing maps to explore. I like this one. What is it? "The electoral map if people voted their jean color."

UChicago: See how your congressional district has handled COVID-19 - The University of Chicago’s Center for Spatial Data Science launched the COVID Atlas interactive visualization earlier this year. It launched with county-level case numbers and daily hotspot statistics. "Now, the online resource also includes a congressional district overlay—a new feature that allows users to see how the impacts of COVID-19 might differ according to local government responses."