ARCH 702/802: New Orleans Studio
GIS Resources for New Orleans
The Scholars' Lab staff is available to help students in person Monday through Friday in the Scholars' Lab, located on the fourth floor of Alderman Library. Please feel free to contact us with any questions you may have.
NOTICE: Some images listed below are in the MrSID format. Please see the help page on .sid files here. Other images are in Adobe Acrobat format. Please ensure you have a PDF reader.
Greater New Orleans Community Data Center (GNOCDC)
The GNOCDC is a wonderful resource for New Orleans neighborhoods. This group has created a historical and demographic profile for each New Orleans neighborhood and each of the surrounding parishes. Please find the Broadmoor neighborhood profile here.
Louisiana Oil Spill Coordinator's Office (LOSCO)
LOSCO's website www.losco.state.la.us has a great deal of information about New Orleans and all of Louisiana.
Much information relevant to New Orleans from LOSCO is also available on our site:
LOSCO Data
Scanned Topo Maps
This is a directory with vector topographic maps for Orleans Parish.
New Orleans East (1:24,000) (PDF)
New Orleans Wast (1:24,000) (PDF)
Downtown New Orleans (TIF)
Aerial Images
New Orleans NW (MrSID) Georefferenced New Orleans NW (ZIP)
New Orleans SW (MrSID) Georefferenced New Orleans NW (ZIP)
Scanned Historic Maps
More historic maps are available at the University of Texas site listed below.
1759 (JPEG)
1845 (JPEG)
1863 (JPEG)
1869 (JPEG)
1873 (JPEG)
1878 (JPEG)
1891 (JPEG)
1908 (JPEG)
New Orleans Soil Maps
These are two scanned images from the soil survey for Orleans Parish held in reserve for class.
New Orleans 1 (JPEG)
New Orleans 2 (JPEG)
Legend (JPEG)
Census Resources
The 2000 Census includes many demographic and housing characteristics, including data on race, age, income, employment, commuting, and household composition. Data are available at many different geographic levels and for previous decades. An overview of census materials is available here.
Tables and maps of data for 1990 and 2000 can be obtained online from the Census Bureau's American Factfinder. Use our user guide.
Other Resources for New Orleans
New Orleans Geography: An interesting study of New Orlean's Geography pre-Katrina. Note the elevation profile.
Sanborn Maps: Excellent source of historical building information. The Sanborn collection has a large number of New Orleans maps.
MSNBC's Katrina Map: An interface for locating address and showing them on aerial photos.
New York Times Katrina Maps Interface: A site with a large amount if information about New Orleans post Katrina.
NOAA Katrina Satellite Images: While having a clunky interface and finding aid, this site has a large number of good satellite images.
University of Texas Louisiana Map Collection: UT has a large number of New Orleans area maps in their collection including a large number of topographic and historical maps.
Louisiana Geographic Information Center: LSU's center for geographic information.
Louisiana Digital Library: A large collection of images, texts and maps.