Gothos

It’s been a busy summer – I’ve spent a good chunk of it working on an election mapping project. The library wanted to create a resource for students to use for the upcoming 2008 presidential election. Here it is:

Red States, Blue States: Electoral Strategy Behind the Map

A few of the procedures and issues I encountered while working on the project became fodder for a number of posts to this blog, so I thought I’d share the end result.

I’ve also been assembling data and pages for a server I’ve been given to provide GIS data at Baruch, and have been investigating open source alternatives to ArcGIS. More on that later…