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From community.ESRI.com:

By Sue Stewart, Assistant Director for Campus Geospatial Assets at the University of Texas at Austin and Sean Moran, GIS Professor and ACC Inc Manager at Austin Community College

You only get one chance to make a good first impression – and a university’s online map can make or break how GIS is valued on campus. An easy to use, aesthetically pleasing, and informative map not only enhances the campus experience for visitors, students, faculty, and staff, it inspires our leaders to reimagine how GIS can improve university operations. The University of Texas at Austin (UT) teamed up with Austin Community College (ACC) to upgrade the online interactive UT Campus Map.

What’s Old is New

As members of Generation X, we remember navigating campus as a college freshmen or a visitor with a printed map in hand. It was our spatial key to locating our classrooms, the library, parking…really unlocking the entire campus.

 

The University of Texas at Austin Campus Map from 1975

 The University of Texas at Austin Campus Map from 1975

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