Geographic Information Systems (GIS)  

The GIS laboratory, housed on the 3rd floor of Rotch Library (7-238), is available for use during Rotch's operating hours.

Summer GIS Lab Assistance:

May 24th - August 30th: Monday-Friday, 2-3pm and by appointment

**On Wednesdays, June 19th and 26th, lab hours will be 3pm-4pm.

There will be no GIS help on July 4th and 5th due to the holiday.

If you cannot make these times, feel free to email your question to us or contact us to set up an appointment at another time. Our email address is gishelp@mit.edu.

Summer workshops! We will be conducting 2 workshops in July: Intro to GIS and GIS Level 2. See the current workshops tab for more information and to register.

2011 India Census data available. Census data for states and districts has been added to the Geodata Repository. View it here: http://goo.gl/tXZy7 (MIT only)

We added new tutorials on finding business data, geocoding addresses, and adding xy coordinates as points. Check them out here.

Landscan Data Learn more about population distribution around the world using LandScan 2011. You must be on the MIT Network to access the web application. This data will soon be available in MIT's Geodata Repository.

Want to learn MIT GIS Services news as soon as it is released? Sign up for our listserv.

Download ArcGIS 10.1 and the MIT Geodata Search Tool for ArcGIS. MIT Certificates are required to download this software. Installation instructions are here (.pdf format).

ArcGIS 10.1 Service Pack 1 available. Download it here.

MIT GeoWeb: Start your search for geographic information here. You can search for GIS data held in the MIT Geodata Repository and other local colleges.

Traveling? Find out how to use ArcGIS off campus.

MITGIS email list: Subscribe to get updates about GIS related events, new GIS data and software, and more.

gishelp@mit.edu