{"id":1941,"date":"2025-05-22T21:03:18","date_gmt":"2025-05-22T21:03:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dmcat.austincc.edu\/gis-blog\/?p=1941"},"modified":"2025-05-22T21:03:18","modified_gmt":"2025-05-22T21:03:18","slug":"the-university-of-texas-teams-up-with-austin-community-college-to-upgrade-campus-map-using-gis-interns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dmcat.austincc.edu\/gis-blog\/blog\/2025\/05\/22\/the-university-of-texas-teams-up-with-austin-community-college-to-upgrade-campus-map-using-gis-interns\/","title":{"rendered":"The University of Texas Teams Up with Austin Community College to Upgrade Campus Map using GIS Interns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"https:\/\/community.esri.com\/t5\/campus-operations-blog\/the-university-of-texas-teams-up-with-austin\/ba-p\/1617018\">community.ESRI.com<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><em>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<\/em><\/p>\n<p>You only get one chance to make a good first impression &#8211; and a university\u2019s online map can make or break how GIS is valued on campus. An easy to use, aesthetically pleasing, and informative map not only enhances\u00a0the 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.<\/p>\n<h3 id=\"toc-hId-1225827405\"><strong>What\u2019s Old is New<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>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\u2026really unlocking the entire campus.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"lia-inline-image-display-wrapper lia-image-align-center\"><span class=\"lia-message-image-wrapper lia-message-image-actions-narrow lia-message-image-actions-below\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"lia-media-image\" title=\"SueStewart_4-1747839171360.png\" role=\"button\" src=\"https:\/\/community.esri.com\/t5\/image\/serverpage\/image-id\/132801iC8B5A25A8A157F17\/image-size\/medium?v=v2&amp;px=400\" alt=\"The University of Texas at Austin Campus Map from 1975\" data-wp-editing=\"1\" \/><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"lia-align-center\">\u00a0<span style=\"font-size: small\"><strong>The University of Texas at Austin Campus Map from 1975<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/community.esri.com\/t5\/campus-operations-blog\/the-university-of-texas-teams-up-with-austin\/ba-p\/1617018\"><b>Click here to read the full story!<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From community.ESRI.com:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":{"\n\t\t\t\tfeatured_banner\t\t":null},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dmcat.austincc.edu\/gis-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1941","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dmcat.austincc.edu\/gis-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dmcat.austincc.edu\/gis-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dmcat.austincc.edu\/gis-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dmcat.austincc.edu\/gis-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1941"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dmcat.austincc.edu\/gis-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1941\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dmcat.austincc.edu\/gis-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dmcat.austincc.edu\/gis-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dmcat.austincc.edu\/gis-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}