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Digital Mapping and GIS Support

Request help with maps, mapping, geographic information systems, and other geospatial tools, as well as cartographic design.

How to Get Help

The Harvard Map Collection offers Harvard affiliates support with geographic information systems (GIS) methods, software, and data.

Example Mapping Projects

These are just a few ways we've supported faculty and students in using geospatial data to investigate nature, human societies, and historical change.

Map of underground diversity, based on location and type of trees and presumed root structure.

Using GIS to Understand Microhabitats

How GIS became embedded into a history course about "re-wilding" urban spaces.

A screenshot of a WWI trench map

Digitizing Trench Maps from World War I

Turning historical WWI trench lines on a map into geospatial data.

A screenshot of a map with points of interest

Mapping Black Cambridge

Using data to to discern historic dimensions of Black life in Cambridge.

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    Lamont Multimedia Lab

    Your one-stop shop for media creation and data visualization, including editing and production for audio and video.

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