Celebrate GIS DAY 2020 at UW!

Posted on October 31, 2020November 6, 2020

The 22nd GIS Day is coming on November 18th, 2020! Initialized by Esri in 1999, GIS Day is an annual event celebrating the wide use of GIS. On this day, celebrating events will be held by geographers and GIS lovers all over the world. This year, UW’s Department of Geography will hold an event encouraging people to contribute geographic features of COVID-19 facilities to OpenStreetMap (OSM), the most famous community-based map service in the world. As a free editable map,…

Congratulations, Steven Bao!

Uncategorized 2020 COVID-19 CSDE Geography GIScience Point Cloud Visualization

Written by Lab Manager

Posted on May 1, 2020May 1, 2020

Steven (Xiaoqi) Bao, an undergraduate HGIS member has been awarded an Applied Research Fellowship from the CSDE (check here for details). Steven is a Junior student in geography major, has been working on multiple HGIS projects (e.g., the dynamic COVID-19 dashboard, Point cloud visualization of UW campus). This fellowship will help him to gain practical experience in GIS during the summer of 2020. Congratulations, Steven, We are looking forward to seeing how this fellowship helps you to gain more practical experience…

COVID-19: Novel Coronavirus Infection Map

GIScience coronavirus COVID-19 web mapping

Written by Jou Ho

Posted on March 18, 2020

The HGIS lab team is developing a Novel Coronavirus Infection Map. This online interactive map enables users to track both the global and local trends of Novel Coronavirus infection since Jan 21st, 2020. The dataset is timely collected from multiple official sources and then plotted onto the map. Access to the current version of the map is available here. The source code and more information about this map, including data sources and contributors, can be found here. This is an…