GIS Liaison
About
This section offers various sources for GIS applications, online mapping and data available at the local, state, national, and international levels.
Library Mapping Resources
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PolicyMapPolicyMap is an online data and mapping tool that enables government, commercial, non-profit and academic institutions to access data about communities and markets across the US. Use it for research, market studies, business planning, site selection, grant applications and impact analysis.
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Sanborn Maps, 1867-1970 (TexShare)Includes more than 660,000 large-scale maps of more than 12,000 American towns and cities.
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Social ExplorerSocial Explorer provides quick and easy access to modern and historical U.S. census data and demographic information.
- ArcGIS
Trinity University has an ESRI educational site license, and ArcGIS is installed on all library and lab computers. Student personal licenses are available upon request. ArcGIS Online, ESRI's cloud-based GIS service, is also part of the Trinity site license, with limited availability for classroom and research applications.
To access ArcGIS remotely, you can use Trinity's VDI Access using your TU Network credentials. All of the GIS software is available using this option. Just be sure to save any of your documents to either your network storage drive or Google Drive as none of your work is saved once you log out of your session. For more information, please consult the information page about Trinity's VDI Access.
