Class Pages and Class Resources

Here is a listing of the current course pages created by the Scholars' Lab. Each web pages has been created to enhance the instructional use of statistical or spatial data for that specific course. Web Pages describing resources for classes in general (not specific to a particular course) can be found at the end of this page.

 


 

Class Resources

Baltimore Geographic Data Guide

This page gives a good list of geographic data resources for Baltimore Maryland. These resources include links to scanned maps, on-line web mapping sites and other related sites.

Barcelona Index Map for 1:2000 and 1:5000 Scale Maps

This is an index of large scale maps of Barcelona produced by the Instituto Geográfico Nacional, Catalan. All maps date from the 1990s. (View index map - requires Flash player)

Charlottesville and Albemarle Geographic Data Guide

This page provides links and data that pertains to the Charlottesville/Albemarle area. This includes scanned topographic maps and aerial photos as well as links to descriptions of GIS data that the Scholars' Lab holds.

Displaying and Printing Planimetric Data

This page will give a quick outline of how to display planimetric data and aerial photos in ESRI's ArcMap software. These instructions assume that the user is within the Scholars' Lab but may be useful to other users who would like a quick overview of how to add similar data into ArcMap.

General Social Survey

The GSS (General Social Survey) is an almost annual personal interview survey of U.S. households conducted by the National Opinion Research Center. The first survey took place in 1972 and since then more than 38,000 respondents have answered over 3,260 different questions. Our GSS page was designed to provide local access to the GSS data.

Geographic Resources for Selected Cities

This page describes the geographic resources available to the UVA community for selected cities of particular interest in the School of Architecture studios. Cities include:

  • Baltimore, MD
  • Charleston, SC
  • Charlottesville, VA
  • New Orleans, LA
  • New York, NY
  • Norfolk-Viginia Beach, VA
  • Philadelphia, PA
  • Richmond, VA
  • Washington, DC

How to Map Drives to the Architecture School Server

Step by step instructions for mapping to the Architecture School file servers: Imagecenter/Scantemp and Olmsted/Classes.

LOSCO Louisiana Data

A collection of data of Louisiana compiled by the Louisiana Oil Spill Coordinator's Office.

MrSID Help PageThis link is restricted to UVA faculty, students and staff only.

Help page for viewing, converting, and changing coordinate systems for MrSID files.

New York City Geographic Data Guide

This page gives a good list of geographic data resources for the City of New York. These resources include links to scanned maps, on-line web mapping sites and other related sites.

Philadelphia Geographic Data Guide

This page gives a list of geographic data resources for Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Scanned Map Inventory

This interface allow users to search which maps in the UVA Library collection have been scanned on the Scholars' Lab large format scanner. Currently a very small portion of our collection, roughly 600 maps, have been scanned and are in the inventory. Here is a list of the majority of what you will find in the inventory : 15 Minute Topographic Maps of Virginia, New York City Maps, and Washington D.C. Maps.

Washington D.C. Geographic Data Guide

This page lists some good resources for those looking for geographic data related to Washington D.C.