About Step By Step

Spatial Humanities Step By Step is a peer-reviewed series of tutorials and guides to getting things done in teaching and research with spatial tools and resources. Interested in submitting content to Step By Step? Please

  • Patrick Florance Tufts University
  • Chris Gist University of Virginia
  • Tracey Hughes Colorado Mountain College
  • Kelly Johnston University of Virginia Editor
  • Scott Nesbit University of Richmond
  • Bethany Nowviskie University of Virginia
  • Diana Stuart Sinton University of Redlands
  • Ginny White University of Oregon

Vectorizing Historic Maps

Peter Peller

How to create geographic features from georeferenced historic maps.

Online GIS Using ArcGIS.com

Kate Lyndegaard

Add your data to ArcGIS.com and embed the map in your website

Creating GIS Datasets from Historic Maps

Chris Gist

How to extract features from georeferenced maps and store them in a geodatabase for use in ArcGIS.

Mapping Wikileaks Afghan War Diary Data Using Google Fusion Tables (Part 2 of 2)

Devin Becker

How to import and map datasets with Google Fusion Tables.

Cleaning Wikileaks Data for Use in Google Mapping Applications (Part 1 of 2)

Devin Becker

How to harvest and prepare text from a web-based datasource for mapping.

Making Mapped Points through Geocoding

Diana Sinton

How to convert a list of street addresses to points on a map

Create a Project in HyperCities using Google My Maps

Barbara Hui

Import your own customized Google map into HyperCities.

GPS – adding points to your map

Kelly Johnston

Learn how to add a file full of GPS locations to ArcGIS

Georeferencing – making historic maps spatial

Kelly Johnston

Learn how to add spatial smarts to cool historic maps