Investigative reporters use mapping for a wide range of stories: revealing crime hot spots; highlighting environmental destruction; uncovering demographic patterns; documenting war crimes. Here are ...

In the past, I’ve often used my New Year’s column to summarize the state of broadcasting and highlight last year’s developments and I what I expect to happen this year. I don’t have much to add to ...

Cite/Attribute as: Houtman L, G Baldrica-Franklin, and R.E. Roth. 2025. Mapping for a Sustainable World: QGIS Technical Supplement. The University of Wisconsin Cartography Lab. DOI: ...

As a condition of using these data, you must cite the use of this data set. Such a practice gives credit to data set producers and advances principles of transparency and reproducibility. Other ...

Satellites are a powerful investigative tool. Journalists are mining satellite imagery and remote sensing data to expose a widening array of problems: tree loss and forest fires, pandemic risk and ...

This workshop cover approaches and guidelines for creating map figures for academic books and journals using QGIS 3.38 to illustrate one workflow in a graphical GIS. This general workflow can be ...

Scientific visualization aims to present numerical values, or categorical information, in a way that enables the researcher to make an inference that furthers knowledge. Well-posed visualizations need ...