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abqMaps: an interactive environmental justice map for Albuquerque, New Mexico

About

This repository is for my Master's thesis project completed at the University of New Mexico, in the Department of Geography and Environmental Studies, as a member of the GeoAIR Lab. The live demo site can be found at this link.

Acknowledgements

Thank you to the following people and organizations who have helped support this project:

Purpose

This map aggregates data for Albuquerque, New Mexico and the surrounding area and serves as a communal resource for municipal, environmental, and demographic data. The site is a place where people can make maps and visually explore different environmental justice issues, regardless of prior geographic information science (GIS) knowledge. abqMaps was developed with the belief that that spatial questions are often better answered when paired with a visual component. The functionality and data included on the site were carefully chosen after reviewing the environmental justice literature and other interactive environmental justice web maps and can be used to explore questions related to data sovereignty, information accessibility, self-representation, and civil participation.

The site is a case-study on the current state of particular open-source web-mapping technologies (in this case, Leaflet) and highlights the tradeoffs between web-mapping and creating maps using traditional GIS software. All of the code for abqMaps is freely-available to view, download, modify, and share, providing a template for communities interested in creating their own interactive web maps to explore environmental justice issues.

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