It’s midsummer, and we’re steadily moving through our growing list of software skills tutorials, updating those that need it before classes start in the fall. New team announcements: We are sending off Sally Kaye with the best of wishes and the greatest of thanks for her contributions and tremendous work and welcoming Evin Schwartz to the Mapping101 team as a Research Intern at Meisterlin Projects.

As we move into the summer, there is plenty of activity at Mapping 101! Including a few new tutorials and “behind-the-scenes” updates to the website. We hope those of you in the Northern Hemisphere are staying cool during the summer heat!

The 2025-26 academic year has been a big one at Mapping 101! As we wrap up the spring, we have added a few more tutorials to support creating GIS data while planning for the summer. Thanks again to Sally Kaye and Daniel Wexler for their contributions to our growing resources this semester.

As we roll into the end of the semester and school year, we are reflecting on how much GIS and mapping work has happened in the last several months and grateful that Mapping101 can support so much GIS teaching and learning.

This month’s Mapping 101 updates center around Making Data and creating GIS datasets, with a collection of software skills tutorials that aid in georeferencing, digitizing, and geocoding source material. We’re also very excited to welcome Sally Kaye back to the team for the remainder of the spring!

February has been a busy one! The spring semester is in full swing, and this month's additions to Mapping 101 have been driven squarely by what's happening in the classroom.

The spring semester has started, which means plenty of new GIS students. It also means we’re busy double-checking the tutorials most crucial for early learners—and making updates where needed. As always, we regularly update tutorials as when we find they are outdated. If you stumble across a confusing new change, let us know!

Through the finals season of the fall semester, we are gearing up for the spring semester and a new year. Wishing everyone an awesome 2026!

Happy (belated) GIS Day to all of you who celebrate the third Wednesday of November, during the educationally festive week we know as Geography Awareness Week.

We have some exciting new additions to the site this month, as we start posting our Concepts and Methods series which is designed to support teaching and learning introductory GIS and geospatial analysis across platforms and disciplines or topics. This month, we also celebrate our 150th software skills tutorial added to Mapping 101!

Happy Fall from the Mapping 101 team. As students and teachers get back into classrooms and onto campuses, our summer frenzy of new material has slowed but not stopped. We have a handful of new tutorials added to our resources with several more planned for the coming months.

As we wrap up the summer, we want to thank Sally Kaye who has finished her internship at Meisterlin Projects this month. Alongside her fantastic work on other projects, she added tremendous value to the QGIS resources available at Mapping 101 over the last several weeks.

It’s been a busy month with team members traveling, enjoying summer and family time, and creating more than a dozen new skills tutorials for QGIS—bringing our collection to more than 130 tutorials and closer to parity with ArcGIS skills training materials as we all prepare for the fall.

Summer is off and running, with new updates, several new tutorials, and new Mapping 101 contributors! Sally Kaye has joined the team for the summer along with Daniel “Wex” Wexler—both are developing new tutorials (particularly for QGIS). And Steven Duncan is continuing to flesh out a beginner sequence on webmapping with Leaflet.