Resources

Beyond Esri Resource Guide
What can moving beyond Esri look like?
- Teaching Esri’s links to policing
- Teaching open-source alternatives to Esri
- Cancelling departmental Esri licenses
- Geography professional organizations reckoning with Esri’s partnerships with police
- Understanding that it’s not only about Esri
- And more!
Tools to use
Platforms/software for making a (base) map
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Geographic information systems (most are free)
Creating “story map” type-stuff (and other experimental web mapping apps)
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Georeferencing tool
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Free online tools for geocoding and data creation/manipulation
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Geospatial data processing, analysis, and visualization
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Tools for creating dashboards to display data
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Data/code storage, software development, and version control
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Trainings and tutorials
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What you can do
I’m an instructor
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I’m a student
I’m a GIS practitioner
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Projects that inspired us
- 596 Acres
- Anti-Eviction Mappin Project
- Landlord Tech Watch
- Narratives of Displacement and Resistance
- Counter Cartographies Collective
- Counter Mapping Queen Mary University
- Community Justice Exchange – National Bail Fund Network
- From Data Criminalization to Prison Abolition
- The Databases that Feed the System – Our Bestiary