April 2013

2013-09-10

cga_newsletter

CENTER FOR GEOGRAPHIC ANALYSIS NEWSLETTER

April 2013

HIGHLIGHTS

CGA Spring Conference – May 2^nd and 3^rd
WorldMap Update
CGA’s New GPS Receivers
May CGA Workshop Training
Fracking Data and FrackMap
Boston Marathon Bombing Maps
Association of American Geographers Conference Free Reading List
Microsoft’s GeoFlow
Inequality and New York’s Subway
Maps Explain how Geology Drives Politics
Map of How our Dollar Bills Move
Our World from the International Space Station
Future U.S. Workforce for Geospatial Intelligence – Free Online Book
Geography Covering New Ground – LA Times Article
Africa Satellite Images Made Free By Gabon Geoportal
GPS on Cats…..3D Giza…..More…

CGA NEWS

CGA Spring Conference – May 2^nd and 3^rd

The annual CGA conference “Creating the Policy and Legal Framework for a Location–Enabled Society”

will be held this week, on Thursday and Friday, May 2-3, 2013 in the CGIS Tsai Auditorium at 1730 Cambridge St. Cambridge MA.

View a detailed conference description and the Conference Agenda

WorldMap Update

An early version of a mobile client has been implemented in WorldMap. While out and about with your smart phone, add “/mobile” to the end of your Map URL (example: http://worldmap.harvard.edu/boston/mobile). The app supports locating yourself via GPS and creating and editing features (you must own the layer you are editing so create that before you go out in the field).

In addition, an early version of a map annotation tool has been implemented. You can find it under the “Notes” link at the top of any Map. This tool allows anyone to add annotation to any map. It is also possible to comment on an annotation, creating the possibility of geo-conversations. Please take a look at these new additions and give us your comments (worldmap@harvard.edu)!

Daily downloads of global geo-tweets are available here. These files are large (a couple gigabytes uncompressed), contain 5 to 7 million tweets, (about 2% of total tweets for a given day) and mostly come from GPS enabled mobile devices.

A new platform capable of storing, and rapidly querying and rendering very large spatial datasets using MapD, and an implementation of MapD called TweetMap, will be discussed at the annual CGA Conference “Creating the Policy and Legal Framework for a Location-Enabled Society” on Thursday, May 2nd. An article about Todd Mostak, MapD and TweetMap recently appeared on DataInformed.com. The article was picked up by Slashdot here and a lively discussion ensued, driving traffic sky-high on MapD and WorldMap.

CGA’s New GPS Receivers

The CGA has recently purchased 10 Magellan eXplorist GC GPS receivers, and one Trimgle GeoXT 6000 GPS receiver for use by Harvard Affiliates. If interested in using, please contact the CGA at: contact@help.cga.harvard.edu

May CGA Workshop Training

There’s a few training classes left this semester coming up in May: Cartography Workshop on 5/8, GPS Workshop on 5/9, and ArcGIS Online & Esri Maps for MS Office on 5/10. See details and sign up on our Non-Credit Training page.

Fracking Data and FrackMap

For a recently taught workshop in conjunction with the Harvard School of Public Health named “Mapping Fracking”, the CGA has compiled an extensive database of oil and gas fracking related data here: http://chgis.fas.harvard.edu/frack/

Also check out FrackMap: http://worldmap.harvard.edu/maps/FrackMap

CGA’s monthly GIS presentations – come join the discussion in May (free lunch)

Geography Colloquium @ CGA
The CGA Annual Conference will take the place of the Geography Colloquium this month.
GIS Presentation Series (ABCD-GIS)
“Converting the MIT Geospatial Data Server from Oracle to OpenGeoPortal” by Daniel Sheehan, Senior GIS Specialist, MIT Libraries. May 15, 2013. Noon – 1:30 in Room S050 of the CGIS South building at 1730 Cambridge St.

CONFERENCES, CALLS, EVENTS & EMPLOYMENT