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Forecasting snow and finding supermarkets

If you’re the type of person who loads up on bread and milk at the first hint of snowfall, then ArcGIS Online is your new best friend.  Using ArcGIS Online you can create a map showing projected snowfall amounts for your area along with the locations of nearby supermarkets. The ArcGIS Online Gallery has free basemaps that you can use to create quick and easy mash-ups online, stream directly into your ArcGIS map project, or (in many cases) download the raw data to use in whatever way you want. The basemaps shown below for snowfall forecasts and supermarket access are just two of the dozens of basemaps you can choose from in the ArcGIS Online Gallery.

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Read more about this on the ESRI ArcGIS Online blog.

ArcGIS Online Basemaps

Snowfall forecast map

Supermarket access in Lewisburg

By Janine Glathar

Janine Glathar joined the Digital Pedagogy & Scholarship team in 2009 to fill the newly-created role of GIS Specialist at Bucknell. She has worked in the field of geospatial technologies for more than 15 years as research specialist, technical analyst and software trainer. Prior to joining L&IT at Bucknell, Janine spent seven years doing applied GIS research in Philadelphia’s non-profit social services sector as the GIS Senior Analyst for Philadelphia Safe & Sound and the Greater Philadelphia Urban Affairs Coalition. Before transitioning to the social services research world, Janine worked for the GIS software company ESRI as a trainer and education/non-profit coordinator. She earned a B.A. in European History and Russian Language/Literature at the University of Pennsylvania. If you ask Janine where she’s from, she’ll tell you she’s a Navy brat and will probably offer to show you a map of all of the various places she’s lived over the years.

Areas of expertise:
ArcGIS, Digital Pedagogy, Digital Scholarship, GIS, Google Earth, Spatial Thinking