{"id":3628,"date":"2021-06-08T10:19:17","date_gmt":"2021-06-08T14:19:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/libraries\/?p=3628"},"modified":"2021-07-13T14:10:46","modified_gmt":"2021-07-13T18:10:46","slug":"new-enhancements-in-policymap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/libraries\/2021\/06\/new-enhancements-in-policymap\/","title":{"rendered":"New Enhancements in PolicyMap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>See what\u2019s new in PolicyMap, a GIS mapping tool, which is used at SHU in many programs such as Public Health, Political Science and Education for student assignments and useful data for grant applications.\u00a0 There are fantastic new enhancements to make PolicyMap even more essential in your classroom and for your research including simplified data labels, histograms for ranges, an amazing number of boundaries and custom regions you can create, data benchmarks for context and the ability to add local data to PolicyMap that is important for your research. On\u00a0 June 1,\u00a0 the Libraries held a webinar that looked at new data including predominant race, mortgage denials\/redlining, Social Vulnerability Index (CDC), andjh Medically Underserved Areas.\u00a0 The recording of the June 1 webinar is located <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=6PvpyzW7Tp8&amp;ab_channel=PolicyMap\">here<\/a>.\u00a0 Additional sessions will be scheduled over the summer.\u00a0 Stay tuned to SHU Libraries social media.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-3629\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/libraries\/files\/2021\/06\/policymap-300x169.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/libraries\/files\/2021\/06\/policymap-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/libraries\/files\/2021\/06\/policymap.png 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/>Information about new features is listed below:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>New help page for new PolicyMap: <a href=\"https:\/\/policymap.helpdocs.io\/\">https:\/\/policymap.helpdocs.io\/<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Data Updates: \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/policymap.helpdocs.io\/whats-new\/data\">https:\/\/policymap.helpdocs.io\/whats-new\/data<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Multi-Layer Maps (upgrade to 3-Layers) <a href=\"https:\/\/nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fpolicymap.helpdocs.io%2Fmulti-layer-maps%2Fmaking-a-multi-map&amp;data=04%7C01%7CLisa.DeLuca%40shu.edu%7C16522ce6dcc4491d687e08d9276373b6%7C51f07c2253b744dfb97ca13261d71075%7C1%7C0%7C637584130380753137%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&amp;sdata=lioA5qftxXdQ8XhXA3ujl5MIVYXCODZGlptELiM85pU%3D&amp;reserved=0\">https:\/\/policymap.helpdocs.io\/multi-layer-maps\/making-a-multi-map<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Editing Custom Regions\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/policymap.helpdocs.io\/custom-regions\/edit-a-custom-region\">https:\/\/policymap.helpdocs.io\/custom-regions\/edit-a-custom-region<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>There are additional resources available with sample assignments about using PolicyMap in the classroom here:\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/policymap.helpdocs.io\/academic-resources\">https:\/\/policymap.helpdocs.io\/academic-resources<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Please contact your <a href=\"https:\/\/library.shu.edu\/library\/subject-librarians\">liaison librarian<\/a> for more information about PolicyMap.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>See what\u2019s new in PolicyMap, a GIS mapping tool, which is used at SHU in many programs such as Public Health, Political Science and Education for student assignments and useful data for grant applications.\u00a0 There are fantastic new enhancements to make PolicyMap even more essential in your classroom and for your research including simplified data &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/libraries\/2021\/06\/new-enhancements-in-policymap\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;New Enhancements in PolicyMap&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":531,"featured_media":3634,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,67],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-databases","category-library-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/libraries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3628","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/libraries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/libraries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/libraries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/531"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/libraries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3628"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/libraries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3628\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3662,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/libraries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3628\/revisions\/3662"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/libraries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/libraries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/libraries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/libraries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}