GEOGRAPHY 281: MAP MAKING WITH GIS

Course Material:

• Please check TITANium for weekly labs.

Cartography Related Readings:

• The Renaissance Geographer   (Web Link)
• The Real Size of Africa   (Web Link)
• CityLab: Why Most Twitter Maps Can't Be Trusted  (PDF file)
• CityLab: When Maps Lie  (PDF file)

GIS Data Sites:

• Historical Census Data   - Historical census data and shapefiles. Attributes come in a table that you have to join to a shapefile.(Web Link)
• Free GIS Data   (Web Link)
• CalTrans   (Web Link)
• LA County   (Web Link)
• US Census Data   (Web Link)