Mystery Map XI
It’s fall, the leaves are blowing, and Skidmore’s GIS Center is back and starting the year off with a new space and a new Mystery Map! Leave comments below with your guesses and the solution will be announced next Friday. The first correct answer in the comments will receive an ESRI map book. Good Luck!...
Mystery Map X
The new Mystery Map is here! When you've got a guess put it in the comments. We'll announce the winner next week.
Mystery Map IX
We’re thrilled to bring you this week’s map in a new format. Over the past several weeks, we’ve worked to bring you dynamic maps, so that you may move around and further explore the mapped data. Today, we bring you the result: If you have any issues viewing or interacting with the map please post...
Mystery Map VIII
The GIS Center would like to introduce you to a new mystery map. What do you think this map represents? It is undoubtedly a curious distribution across the United States, highlighting two facets of some phenomenon….. You know the drill…leave a guess in the comments. Free T-shirt to the first Skidmore student who gets it...
GIS Center Adds Some Mystery to the Skidmore Campus
In Fall 2010 the Skidmore College GIS Center for Interdisciplinary Research decided to add a little mystery to the Skidmore Campus. Alex Chaucer coordinated with his student assistants, Sarah Llewleyn ’12, Greg Lloyd ’11, Aaron Miller ’12 and Andrew Noone ’11 to create a series of mystery maps for the campus to try and figure...
Mystery Map VI
Interesting. This is a map of the United States, but it is overlayed with peculiar symbols. They appear to create a path. Click here to view the full size map. Around these islands, there is a strange concentration of similar marks. The symbols are your only clues. What is this a map of? Submit your...
Mystery Map V
Well, here is the fifth Mystery Map of the series, just in time for GIS Day. For this map we dug into the student archives. This data was gathered by A. Ruschp in 2008 for a project in the Introduction to GIS class. Once again, it is focused on the Skidmore College campus. Good luck....
Mystery Map IV Revealed
Click the image to view it enlarged. Skidmore College is offering a class this semester titled Sustainable Mobility Solutions. The class has been collaboratively researching how students and faculty move around on and off campus as well as identifying the mobility problems on campus. The aim is to provide plans and projects to improve Skidmore...
Mystery Map IV
Here’s our next mystery map, located at Skidmore College. Observe the red and green dots. What is this a map of? There also appears to be something else unusual about this map… Does anyone from Skidmore notice something strange?
Mystery Map III
We present to you the third installment of the mystery map series. For this week’s map we have several hints. The area covered is the Skidmore College North Woods The data was collected after a rain storm by students The color is related to the answer Good luck and post your guesses below. Warning: Click...
