Great GIS tool for those who want to create basic maps quickly.
*Allows you to compare Reading to similar cities.
Social Explorer provides easy access to demographic information about the United States, from 1790 to present. It allows you to easily create visual maps and reports for a variety of variables.
Create maps of financial data like housing, education, mortgage originations, jobs and more. It’s fast, efficient and captures data in visually powerful ways through custom maps, tables and reports.
PolicyMap (www.policymap.com) is an online mapping application created by The Reinvestment Fund and contains over 15,000 indicators related to housing, education, mortgage originations, jobs and more. It’s fast, efficient and captures data in visually powerful ways through custom maps, tables and reports.
Create Reading-specific thematic maps and reports using extensive demographic, business and marketing data.
**You will need to create your personal workspace with your email and a (new) password.
**Use Firefox or Chrome, as Internet Explorer is not friendly to this database
Limited to 3 concurrent users. SimplyAnalytics enables non-technical users to quickly create professional quality thematic maps and reports using extensive demographic data (ie. census, consumer expenditure data) including estimates and projections, business data from D&B and the County Business Patterns Survey (CBP) and marketing data from EASI/MRI and Claritas PRIZM segments. SimplyAnlytics turns complex data into valuable information that is easily accessed through an innovative and user-friendly interface. Data is available at the State, Congressional District, County, City, ZIP Code, Census Tract and Block Group level in addition to custom trade area and can be exported as images, shapefiles or in tabular formats. Authorized PSU users must "Sign in as a guest" if they do not wish to register for a personal account. Personal accounts save your preferences, reports, and maps.
The Berks County District Attorney’s Office uses crimemapping.com to provide data to Berks residents.
*Allows users to create interactive maps that display types of crimes and time periods at the street level.
"General education courses are commonplace. By integrating GIS into these educational objectives, learning approaches and common curricula we create richer, more fulfilling educational experiences that profile the power of geography’s spatial perspective"
"Developing a service learning component for a GIS (Geographic Information Systems) course can require substantial start-up time and requires consideration of institutional and other constraints. Based on my experience, do I think it was worth the effort? Unequivocally so, for several reasons..."
A showcase of student projects done at NC State that fused GIS and service learning. While the projects were done by graduate students in GIS, these projects can spark ideas for undergraduate courses in other fields.