What’s ‘behind’ the Campus Map?

If you haven’t done more than cursory building search, you might be missing out on what makes the Campus Map such a powerful wayfinding tool — the many layers added in the decade since it launched.

If you work, study, or teach at the University of Utah — or attend the occasional event at the U — chances are you’re familiar with the Campus Map. Solving a longtime need, the geographical information system (GIS)-based online map was created in 2014 as the result of a partnership between University Marketing and Communications and Facilities Management’s GIS team. It remains the university’s most-utilized GIS application.

The Campus Map is a handy tool to help navigate our circuitous 1,534-acre campus, health care system, and research park nestled in the Wasatch Mountains. Year after year, the Campus Map has integrated layers that add new dimensions of relevant, real-time data.

The three-line “hamburger” menu at the top-left of the Campus Map displays building-to-building pedestrian routes as well as dropdown menus that display:

• UTA bus stops
• Bike routes, racks, and repair stations
• Live campus shuttle routes
• Vehicle parking, including spaces for visitors, faculty/staff, students, housing residents, electric vehicles, motorcycles, and people with disabilities
• Food and coffee vendors
• Accessibility and safety information on wireless access points, emergency assembly areas, emergency phones, entrances for people with disabilities, all-gender restrooms, and lactation spaces
• Active constructions sites
• Self-guided tours (campus tour, historical building tour, and tree tour)
• Printable maps

Thanks to the Campus Map, getting from point A to point B has never been easier.

 

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