{"id":381,"date":"2026-07-15T09:56:54","date_gmt":"2026-07-15T13:56:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/communitygeography.kent.edu\/?p=381"},"modified":"2026-07-15T09:59:50","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T13:59:50","slug":"maps-for-everyone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communitygeography.kent.edu\/index.php\/2026\/07\/15\/maps-for-everyone\/","title":{"rendered":"Maps for everyone!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Community Geography Lab creates a collaborative space for using maps to talk through social and environmental challenges. I\u2019m working to establish this as a community space as well as a point of interdisciplinary connections on campus. In 2026, the lab hosted several visits from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.edu\/ehs\/tlc\/earlychildhood\/news\/putting-education-map\">social studies education classes<\/a>, an LGBTQ Studies methods class, and a fourth-grade class studying wetlands and topographic maps. A Child Development Center class came to learn about my LEGO City before building one of their own. I worked with Not Your Mother\u2019s Quilting Bee to create a community meeting spot at the Lab. Map Librarian Michael Hawkins and I also hosted GIS Day at the Lab, creating a space to share maps and hosting a map-a-thon where participants could georeferenced historic maps of Portage County. These now-accessible maps are now <a href=\"https:\/\/oaks.kent.edu\/sanborn\/allmaps\">available on the University Libraries\u2019 website<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Community Geography Lab creates a collaborative space for using maps to talk through social and environmental challenges. I\u2019m working to establish this as a &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":383,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-maps"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communitygeography.kent.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/communitygeography.kent.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/communitygeography.kent.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communitygeography.kent.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communitygeography.kent.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=381"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/communitygeography.kent.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":387,"href":"https:\/\/communitygeography.kent.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381\/revisions\/387"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communitygeography.kent.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communitygeography.kent.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communitygeography.kent.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communitygeography.kent.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}