Map Book Gallery
The ESRI Map Book entries for sustainable development acknowledge the important and impressive efforts of GIS users who are collectively working toward the vision of sustainable living for a better world.
Volume 22: GIS—The Geographic Approach
 3D Population Distribution in the Bay Area in 2000
This map depicts a multidimensional surface derived from population density distribution within the nine-county San Francisco Bay Area. A hillshade grid was layered beneath the grid depicting population density from which it was derived.
Volume 21: GIS—Communicating Our World
Global Population Density Estimates for 2015
Global population density maps exist up to the year 2005, but there is no map depicting the projected situation in 2015, which is the target date of Millennium Development Goals and the World Food Summit. This is the first such map for 2015. It was made based on the data from more than 375,000 administrative units. Population is projected to the year 2015 using simple extrapolation methods.
Volume 20: GIS—Helping Manage Our World
Northern Goshawk Models
The Northern Goshawk Nesting Suitability model was developed to support a resource management plan. The variables used to develop the model were height class, canopy closure, tree species, and edges.
Volume 19: GIS—The Language of Geography
Development Through Knowledge
Development Through Knowledge reflects the motto of the Africa Institute of South Africa (AISA), and these maps are a representation of some of the data that AISA publishes in its statistical volume, Africa at a Glance.
 Map Book Gallery
Volume 18: Geography and GIS—Serving Our World
St. Johns County Northwest Sector Plan
Responding to the Florida Department of Transportation concerns about traffic congestion on Interstate 95, St. Johns County initiated the Northwest Sector Plan to create a vision of a full build–out for the 80,000 acres west of Interstate 95 and east of the St. Johns River.
Map Book Gallery
Volume 17: Geography and GIS—Sustaining Our World
West Oakland Residential Development Assessment Model
The Institute for Urban and Regional Development at the University of California at Berkeley wanted to identify the vacant properties and environmental/toxic contamination sites in West Oakland as part of a larger effort to help West Oakland community groups improve the quality of life in their neighborhoods.
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.
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.
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