July 2013

2013-08-21

CENTER FOR GEOGRAPHIC ANALYSIS JULY NEWSLETTER

HIGHLIGHTS

Article On Mapping Boston Urban Conditions
New CGA Affiliates
Out of Eden Walk Update
Satellite Data Access Competition
Conference on Informatics and Health Equity
Call for Papers: 2013 ACM Health GIS Conference
Ordnance Survey Open Data Access
50th Anniversary of the ZIP Code
New Global Vegetation Map
Filtering Crisis Data Using Spam Filters
Anywhere in Three Words
New Global Map Services for OpenStreetMap
Mapping Beach Pollution in USA
US National Coastal Hazards Map
US Place Names Translated
Mapping an Invisible Slum

CGA NEWS

WBUR Article On Boston Urban Conditions Data

Article on the Boston Area Research Initiative (BARI) use of customer relationship management (CRM) data to create maps of Boston’s urban condition using WorldMap: http://www.wbur.org/2013/07/03/big-data-boston.

Update on the Out of Eden Walk: Walking Jeddah

Jeff Blossom of the CGA continues to work with the Out of Eden Walk team on a variety of cartographic products. Here is an update on the walk progress: http://www.outofedenwalk.com/map-room/walking-jeddah/.

New CGA Affiliates

Please welcome the new CGA affiliates Haifeng Zheng, Molly Ariotti, Alex Wei, and Paul Cote: http://gis.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword=k235&pageid=icb.page447877.

HARVARD GIS COMMUNITY NEWS

Harvard Medical School Health Equity Conference

This conference promotes the use of informatics to conduct population health, clinical, and quality of care research with the goal of eliminating racial, ethnic, SES, and geographic health disparities. The conference will be held 8:00am – 12:30pm on Monday, September 16, 2013 in the Rotunda Room, Joseph B. Martin Conference Center: http://www.mfdp.med.harvard.edu/calendar/2013/september/events/sep16.html

To pre-register, click here.

CONFERENCES, CALLS, EVENTS & EMPLOYMENT

Call for Papers: 2013 ACM Health GIS Conference

The International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems will be held in conjunction with the 21^st ACM SIGSPATIAL conference on November 5, in Orlando, FL. The paper submission deadline is August 20, 2013: http://healthgis.tamu.edu/.

Satellite Data Access Competition

To have a chance at obtaining satellite imagery for research purposes you can submit an application to http://greenermaps.com/academic-competition/.

Health GIS Conference

An Esri conference on health will be held October 14-16, in Cambridge at the Cambridge Hyatt Regency. There is an early bird discount for registrations before July 12: http://www.esri.com/events/health.

NEWS ON GIS RESEARCH AND SERVICES

Great Britain’s Ordnance Survey Makes Map Services Available

The Ordinance Survey is making access to some of its data available for download via the OS OpenData program https://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/opendatadownload/products.html. OS OpenData is a portfolio of 11 digital datasets of Great Britain produced by OS. They are made available for non-commercial use (free) and commercial use (paid).

Mapping the Boston Globe

This site shows on a map the places on the earth the Boston Globe has stories. Be patient as it can take time to load http://globe.mediameter.org/.

Spam Filter for Disaster Response Mapping

Article on http://irevolution.net/2013/07/29/spam-filter-for-disaster-response/.

Global Vegetation Map

http://www.businessinsider.com/the-first-global-map-of-vegetation-from-the-proba-v-satellite-2013-7

Two New Global Map Services for OpenStreetMap