Map Book Gallery

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

Volume 23: GIS—Geography in Action

Reach the Summit: Mount Hood, Oregon—Mount Hood, a stratovolcano in northern Oregon, is approximately 50 miles southeast of Portland. Belonging to the Cascade Range, Mount Hood is the highest peak in the state and home to 12 glaciers.

Volume 22: GIS—The Geographic Approach

This Dynamic Planet —Scientists from the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), Smithsonian Institution, and U.S. Naval Research Laboratory published this new world map of volcanoes, earthquakes, impact craters, and plate tectonics.

Volume 21: GIS—Communicating Our World

2004 Hurricanes Charley, Frances, and Jeanne Track and Wind Speed—The 2004 Atlantic hurricane season deeply affected the state of Florida. Four major hurricanes hit Florida within one and one-half months. This map shows the tracks, timing, wind speeds, and general areas affected by hurricane and tropical storm force winds of the three hurricanes that hit the southern part of the state.

Volume 20: GIS—Helping Manage Our World

Crisis GIS—Preparing for the Next Volcanic Eruption in the United States—A well-designed and constructed GIS of U.S. volcano information will be invaluable during a crisis when timely analysis and communication of volcanic hazards are most critical. An effective crisis GIS system will be vital to the Volcano Hazards Program (VHP) of the U.S. Geological Survey for visualizing and analyzing the situation and communicating with emergency managers, the media, and the public during the next volcanic crisis.

Volume 19: GIS—The Language of Geography

First Space Shuttle Columbia Disaster Media Map—On February 1, 2003, at approximately 8 a.m. CT the Space Shuttle Columbia was lost upon reentry over east Texas. Within a few minutes of the spacecraft breaking up and explosions over Nacogdoches, GIS was put to work aiding local law enforcement in protecting public safety. Within a few hours of the destruction of Columbia, GIS accurately modeled the shuttle's debris location and distribution. This was the first media map produced for the Space Shuttle Columbia tragedy. It was produced in mass and distributed to the media on the afternoon of February 2.

Old Fire, November 1, 2003—In October 2003, fires raged throughout Southern California in San Diego, San Bernardino, Los Angeles, Ventura, and Riverside counties. As emergency responders worked to put out the fires with every resource available, computer mapping played a key role in many areas, including emergency response, public safety, and the media.

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.