CENTER FOR GEOGRAPHIC ANALYSIS NEWSLETTER
April 2010
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HIGHLIGHTS
· Public Launch of the Digital Atlas of Roman and Medieval Civilization
· CGA Research Fellows
· ESRI StreetMap Premium Europe Dataset Available
· ArcGIS Online Bing Maps Available
· CGA Conference Presentations Online
· Presentation: Latent Structure Modeling of Space-time Small Area Health Data
· H.T. Fisher Prize Deadline
· Harvard Public Service Map
· Harvard Geospatial Library Data Updates
· Call for Papers and Maps
· Where 2.0 and AAG Conference Summaries
· 2010 Census Participation Map
· Fossils Found with Google Earth
· New China Dataset Publications
· Mapping Presentations on TED Talks
· Government Requests to Google and YouTube
· Marge Simpson Map
· More…
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CGA NEWS
Public Launch of the Digital Atlas of Roman and Medieval CivilizationThe Introduction and Public Launch of “The Digital Atlas of Roman and Medieval
Civilization” (DARMC) will be presented by Michael McCormick, Guoping Huang, Kelly Gibson and more as part of the Medieval Studies Seminar.
Date: Monday, May 3, 2010 4:15PM,
Location: Room CGIS S20 in the Center for Government and International Studies South Building. 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge 02138 M.A.
A reception will follow. This event is sponsored by the Standing Committee on Medieval Studies, The Digital Atlas of Roman and Medieval Civilization, with support from the Center for Geographic Analysis and the Andrew M. Mellon Foundation.
CGA Research FellowsThe CGA has recently added research fellows Steve Chan (U.S. Department of Homeland Security consultant), Silvio Simoes (Professor from Sao Paulo State University), and Akihiro Tsukamoto (Department of Geography, Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto, Japan). See more about them on our People page:
http://gis.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword=k235&pageid=icb.page190006
ESRI StreetMap Premium Europe Dataset AvailableThis detailed streets dataset current as of 2009 is optimized for routing and network analysis. To get a copy please contact CGA at: contact@help.cga.harvard.edu
ArcGIS Online Bing Maps AvailableHarvard’s ArcGIS site license now enables the display of Bing maps within ArcMap. For details on using this, please see:
http://www.arcgisonline.com/help/help_Right.htm#CSHID=esri%2Fbing_maps.htm%23|StartTopic=content%2Fesri%2Fbing_maps.htm
CGA Conference Presentations OnlineVideos of the presentations from the March “New Technologies and Interdisciplinary Research on Religion” conference are online:
http://gis.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword=k235&pageid=icb.page148866
Presentation: Latent structure modeling of space-time small area health dataThe CGA and Department of Global Health and Population are sponsoring this talk by Andrew Lawson, Professor, Division of Biostatistics & Epidemiology College of Medicine, Medical University of South Carolina. More details:
http://isites.harvard.edu/fs/docs/icb.topic533305.files/Events/Lawson_seminar_6%20May%202010.pdf
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HARVARD GIS COMMUNITY NEWS
H.T. Fisher Prize DeadlineThe deadline for GIS project submittal by Harvard undergraduate and graduate students for this prize is May 6
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, 2010. For all of the details: http://gis.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword=k235&pageid=icb.page190018
Harvard Public Service Maphttp://onthemap.harvard.edu/
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CONFERENCES
Call for Papers and MapsNumerous conferences and events have May deadlines for paper and map submittal. See them all at our Events page:
Where 2.0 and AAG Conference SummariesCGA members recently attended these conferences. Read their reports from our Conference Summaries page:
http://gis.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword=k235&pageid=icb.page190014
Harvard Geospatial Library Data UpdatesThe following data has been added to HGL:
Publicly available:
28 historic maps of the Islamic world (Part of the Islamic Heritage Project: http://ocp.hul.harvard.edu/ihp/
Burundi, 1:50,000 scale scanned maps.
Paris, Bordeaux, Vienna, Cologne, Edinburgh historic maps.
For use by Harvard affiliates only:
Landscan global population database 2008. HGL homepage: http://dixon.hul.harvard.edu:8080/HGL/hgl.jsp?null
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NEWS ON GIS RESEARCH AND SERVICES
2010 Census Participation Maphttp://2010.census.gov/2010census/take10map/
Animated Map: Growth of Walmart and Sam’s Clubhttp://projects.flowingdata.com/walmart/
Fossils Found with Google Earthhttp://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/scientist_uses_google_earth_to_find_ancient_ancest.php
Nokia buys Metacartahttp://techcrunch.com/2010/04/09/nokia-metacarta/
New China Dataset PublicationsThe China Data Center at the University of Michigan has released two new digital atlases:
Changes in Population and Environment in China:
http://chinadatacenter.org/newcdc/news/NewsListDetail.asp?ID=463
The Atlas of Religions in China:
http://chinadatacenter.org/newcdc/news/NewsListDetail.asp?ID=464
Mapping Presentations on TED TalksAugmented reality mapping:
http://www.ted.com/talks/blaise_aguera.html
Making maps to fight disaster and build economies:
http://www.ted.com/talks/lalitesh_katragadda_making_maps_to_fight_disaster_build_economies.html
Unemployment Maphttp://projects.propublica.org/unemployment/
Government Requests to Google and YouTubehttp://www.google.com/governmentrequests/
Crime Mapping Evolution Articlehttp://www.directionsmag.com/article.php?article_id=3479
Marge Simpson Maphttp://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&hl=en&msa=0&msid=105976104673732766876.0004733e85b59d0ddcba6&t=k&z=4
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