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GIS mapping: What discrimination looks like

Brian Lawlor — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 23:10:08 +0000

Want to get a feel for how GIS mapping is being used effectively as a tool in the progressive community? Then read this: The Revolution Will Be Mapped, a recent article published by Miller-McCune Online Magazine. The article highlights the well regarded work of the Cedar Grove Institute for Sustainable Communities. And here’s a plug for the home team: The article also quotes Eric Schultheis, former GIS honcho at LSNC’s Race Equity Project, the gravitational center of LSNC’s ongoing GIS mapping projects.

Mapping, the essential tool

Brian Lawlor — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 14:57:14 +0000

This is a cross post from a LSNC sister site, but a well worthy share at this site: Mapping Out Success, an article from the current issue of California Lawyer, features Legal Services of Northern California as an example how California lawyers are increasingly relying on mapping to better analyze data, to get the job done. “One example is when LSNC in 2007 began using maps to show how a proposed gas-storage area in Sacramento would place a ‘disproportionate environmental burden’ on a densely populated minority neighborhood. … Similarly, LSNC has targeted its foreclosure-outreach program by mapping foreclosure data.”

The examples cited in the article are both products of LSNC’s Race Equity Project. For more information about mapping, visit the LSNC GIS Mapping Resources page.

Visually analyzing immigration patterns and student diversity

Brian Lawlor — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 07:07:28 +0000

This is a cross-post from the LSNC Advocate Feed but it is worth noting here as well: Today’s New York Times features Immigration Explorer, an interactive GIS map based on census data revealing settlement patterns for 20+ foreign-born groups between 1880 and 2000. The Immigration Explorer map is simply a companion piece to the NYT’s “Remade in America,” with today’s feature article about Diversity in the Classroom, which itself has a separate interactive statistical graph illustrating how student demographics break out by state and county and school district. For example, the Grant Joint Union High school district in Sacramento County, California.

GIS makes the cover of Clearinghouse Review

Brian Lawlor — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 07:30:17 +0000

You know GIS is at the heart of poverty law advocacy when it makes the cover of Clearinghouse Review, which it did in the current issue. The feature article is: The Use of Geographic Information Systems in Poverty Advocacy, by Jason Reece, a senior researcher at the Kirwin Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity and my two-doors-down compadre Eric Schultheis, who oversees all the great GIS work published at the Race Equity Project. Great stuff, all.