Map Book Gallery

View maps created by your peers in primary and secondary education who have put GIS to work for their students.

Volume 23: GIS—Geography in Action

Airport Noise Impacts on Proposed Schools —GIS plays an integral part in the planning and successful implementation of any development. The Timucuan development of regional impact (DRI), a 10,000-acre area in northern Jacksonville, Florida, proposes a mixed land use that encompasses more than 10,000 residential units, 800,000 square feet of commercial and retail space, 200,000 square feet of office space, and 400 hotel rooms.

Volume 22: GIS—The Geographic Approach

Missing Infrastructure by Elementary School Area —The Chula Vista Elementary School District is the largest K–6 district in the state of California. The map shown here was produced for the Engineering Department’s Infrastructure Services Division. It is responsible for identifying current and future deficiencies in the city’s pavement, storm drain, wastewater disposal, and street systems.

Volume 21: GIS—Communicating Our World

Israel Physical Map
The Israel Physical 1:700,000-scale map series depicts Israel in aesthetic shaded relief. Planimetric details, such as roads and streams, were partially derived and generalized from the national GIS database. The purpose of this map is to provide every school student with a handy folded map portraying Israel's topography.

Volume 20: GIS—Helping Manage Our World

Linking Tax Lot and Student Record Data for School Planning—The Population Research Center at Portland State University is the demographic consultant to Portland Public Schools. Student and tax lot records are linked to be able to examine the effects of housing variables, such as tenure, number of bedrooms, and housing values, on the composition of the district's school-age population.

Volume 19: GIS—The Language of Geography

Sex Offender Proximity Analysis—The purpose of this analysis was to determine the high-risk areas within Riverside County where registered sex offenders could threaten children. To obtain this information, four different data sets were combined to locate these areas. The data sets included addresses of registered sex offenders, census block information, and locations of schools and parks.

The Map Book Gallery features the ESRI Map Book series dedicated to acknowledging the important and innovative accomplishments of GIS users around the world.

Published annually, each volume of the ESRI Map Book showcases a small portion of the work presented at the Map Gallery exhibition at the annual ESRI International User Conference.