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.

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.

This morning LSNC — with considerable help from Eric Schultheis at the Race Equity Project, reigning GIS guru at LSNC — completed a major update, minor reorganization and full-on link refresh of that page.

Among new additions are links to GISTools Freeware, an especially effective tool for extracting census data; Websites for Digital GIS Data, a comprehensive listing of GIS resources available on the web, courtesy of Stanford University; the Free Geocoding, Address Processing and GIS Data Capture web-based application created by the GIS geekmeisters over at the University of Southern California; and a handy dandy compilation of links to the growing collection of Race Equity Project GIS Tutorials.

Worth a revist, if you haven’t been over there for a while.