 The Center for GIS contributes to Towson University's outreach blog, People.Partners.Projects.
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Mark Your Calendar
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TUgis 2013
Towson University
March 19, 2013
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Meet CGIS
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Lead GIS Programmer Steven Fabijanski enjoys tackling complex problems tied to the physical world and discovering the best ways for users to interact with and experience spatial data. He believes that "creating a successful GIS web application is much more than dropping a map on a web page."
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Using GIS to promote good health and improve local food systems through geographic awareness
The Johns Hopkins Center for a Livable Future believes that understanding the interrelationships among public health, diet, food production, and the environment is crucial to pursuing a livable future. Illustrating relationships in a geospatial context is an area where GIS excels. CGIS worked with staff at the Center to take their static maps of local food system data to the next level with an online interactive map application. The application enables anyone to create customized state, county, city, or neighborhood maps with data prepared by the Center, or researchers can also use their own data. As the only entity compiling publicly available geographic information about food, the Center sees the Maryland Food System Map as a unique, accessible resource that researchers, planners, officials, community, and farmers can use to improve state and local food systems.
View the full project description >  Launch the Maryland Food System map > |
Meet the Team - Mark Helmken
Watch our latest video and hear Mark's thoughts on the ways GIS is helpful to everyone. 
CGIS offers students the chance to earn while they learn
During the Fall 2012 semester, three Towson University student interns are working with CGIS on projects that give them valuable hands-on experience with major projects. - While completing his M.S. in Computer Science, Ehsan Eslamloueyan, GIS Programmer Tech II, is working as a graduate assistant on a Maryland Sea Grant Extension project to develop GIS tools that help track best management practices for residential runoff control measures. Ehsan is also undertaking a 3-credit independent study on the project to develop an additional mobile application.
- Poornima Venkatakrishnan, GIS Programmer Tech II, is working as a graduate assistant on a project to build the user interface for the OSPREY Alert Dashboard to be implemented at the Maryland Emergency Management Agency (MEMA). Poornima is completing her final semester toward an M.S. in Computer Science at Towson University.
- Brad Smith, GIS Programmer Tech I, is completing a B.S. in Applied Mathematics with a Computer Science concentration. He began his internship at CGIS during the spring semester and was on hand to help set up the power outage graphing interface for the OSPREY project. He also provided support after the derecho in June and is now supporting the Maryland Food System Map.
CGIS is currently interviewing students for the statewide GIS Inventory project. Other opportunities for students that are in the works include an IT capstone project, and a geocache project in partnership with Baltimore Geocache and the Maryland Municipal League.
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CGIS, Out and About
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Here's where we were
Here's where we're going
- We're pleased to be invited to the Maryland Association of Public Library Administrators Conference on October 4 and 5 to present on the Community Anchor Institution data component of the Maryland Broadband Mapping Initiative.
- We're also attending these important meetings.
- MD iMap Technical Committee, October 2
- MD iMap Executive Committee, October 9
- MSGIC Executive Committee, October 10
- MSGIC Quarterly Meeting, October 17
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