December 2008

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CENTER FOR GEOGRAPHIC ANALYSIS NEWSLETTER

December 2008

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HIGHLIGHTS

 

  • CGA 2009 Spring Workshop: Spatial-Temporal Modeling
  • CHGIS Releases Placename Search Tool
  • ArcGIS 9.3 Service Pack 1 Available
  • Thinking Globally and Mapping Locally
  • Tracts to Text Adjacency Matrix Tool
  • Surgical Safety Web Map
  • CGA Service Charge Rate Increase
  • Help Wanted for CGA’s AfricaMap Project
  • H.T. Fisher Prize in GI Science Orientation
  • CaGIS Scholarships
  • Ontology for The National Map Meeting
  • Geoinformatics 2009 Conference
  • From Cotton Pickin’ to Presidents
  • Rome in 3-D
  • Geolocating World News
  • India’s Version of Google Earth
  • Rapid Eye’s Image Gallery
  • More…
     

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CGA NEWS

 

CGA 2009 Spring Workshop: Spatial-Temporal Modeling

It has become a CGA tradition to host a spring workshop every year. Since 2006, the CGA workshop series has covered the topics of geographic analysis, remote sensing, and georeferencing. For the spring of 2009, we turn to a classical yet rapidly evolving topic – Spatial-Temporal Modeling.

 

CHGIS Releases Placename Search Tool
The China Historical GIS has developed a tool to search its database of over 175,000 places in China, returning matches in text format.  Use the tool:

http://chgis.hmdc.harvard.edu/xml/

 

ArcGIS 9.3 Service Pack 1 Available
ESRI has released service pack 1 for ArcGIS 9.3.  CGA now recommends using ArcGIS 9.3 in combination with the service pack, instead of version 9.2.

http://support.esri.com/index.cfm?fa=downloads.patchesServicePacks.viewPatch&PID=17&MetaID=1457

 

Thinking Globally and Mapping Locally

CGA research affiliate Akiyuki Kawasaki recently presented his watershed modeling research.  Harvard Science website is currently featuring an article on it:

http://harvardscience.harvard.edu/engineering-technology/articles/thinking-globally-and-mapping-locally

 

Tracts to Text Adjacency Matrix Tool

For a recently completed project the CGA created a tool in ArcGIS that receives census tract boundaries as input, and outputs a text file listing each tract and all adjacent tracts.  The text file can then be used for statistical analysis.
http://www.gis.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword=k235&pageid=icb.page138037

 

Surgical Safety Web Map
CGA has recently completed a Google Maps mash-up for Harvard School of Public Health Researchers involved with the Safe Surgery Saves Lives program:
http://cga2.cga.harvard.edu:8080/KML/Surgical_Safety.htm
 
See all of CGA’s publicly published web maps:
http://gis.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword=k235&pageid=icb.page138037

 

CGA Service Charge Rate Increase

Starting on January 1st, 2009, the CGA standard service charge rate will be $75/hr. We will remain flexible on offering discounts to first time users.

 

Help Wanted for CGA’s AfricaMap Project
CGA is looking for a Harvard graduate student assistant to work on the AfricaMap project, Jan. – April of 2009.  See the full job description on the right side of our website:

http://gis.harvard.edu

 

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HARVARD GIS COMMUNITY NEWS

 

H.T. Fisher Prize in GI Science Orientation - this one can be considered CGA news

An orientation session regarding any question people may have for participating in the H. T. Fisher Prize in GIS (deadline May 17, 2009) will be held on Thursday, January 7, Noon – 1p.m. in the CGIS Knafel building (1737 Cambridge St., Cambridge) Room K031.  More on the prize:

http://www.gis.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword=k235&pageid=icb.page23202

 

CaGIS Scholarships - this one is not Harvard news

Each year, the Cartography and Geographic Information Society (CaGIS) sponsors two scholarships to students whose research and accomplishments support the mission of CaGIS. The scholarships recognize academic achievement and encourage the continuing education of outstanding cartography, geographic information systems (GIS), and geographic information science (GIScience) students.  For information and to apply for the scholarship:

http://www.cartogis.org/awards

 

 

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CONFERENCES

 

Ontology for The National Map Meeting
The University Consortium for Geographic Information Science (UCGIS) is hosting a Specialist Meeting on developing an “Ontology for The National Map” on behalf of the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). The meeting will be held at the Doubletree Hotel, Washington, D.C., on Feb 3-4, 2009, immediately prior to the UCGIS Winter Assembly at the same hotel on Feb. 5-6, 2009.  More on the conference: 
http://www.ucgis.org/
 
More about the National Map:
http://nationalmap.gov/

 

Geoinformatics 2009 Conference

The 2009 International Conference on Geoinformatics will be held August 12 – 14 in Fairfax, VA.  This conference is an opportunity for all researchers and developers of GIS, GPS and Remote Sensing to discuss new ways to advance the theories, technologies, and applications of GIScience.  Session proposal deadline: December 25, 2008, abstract deadline: February 15, 2009
http://www.geoinformatics2009.org/
 
 

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NEWS ON GIS RESEARCH AND SERVICES

 
More Election Maps
Cartograms, the “purple map” and more:
http://www-personal.umich.edu/~mejn/election/2008/
 
From Cotton Pickin’ to Presidents
An interesting correlation:
http://strangemaps.wordpress.com/2008/11/15/330-from-pickin-cotton-to-pickin-presidents/
 
Rome in 3-D
Enjoy a 3-D rendering of Rome in 320 A.D. at:
http://earth.google.com/rome/index.html
 
MapUSA Custom Census Mapping
Brown University put together this site to create and download custom census maps for anywhere in the U.S.
http://maps.s4.brown.edu/mapusa/
 
Middle Eastern Geodatabase for the Antiquities
http://www.getty.edu/conservation/field_projects/jordan/index.html?cid=gci003
 
Rapid Eye’s Image Gallery
This satellite imaging company has recently released a gallery of images for viewing.
News article:
http://www.geoplace.com/ME2/dirmod.asp?sid=&nm=&type=news&mod=News&mid=9A02E3B96F2A415ABC72CB5F516B4C10&tier=3&nid=C512C651997C40A0918CF7912EA136DE
 
The gallery:
http://www.rapideye.de/home/news/gallery/
 
India’s Version of Google Earth
The Indian Space Agency is set to roll out an image browser software with higher resolution imagery than Google Earth:
http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/the_web/article5182639.ece
 
Indian Court Called to Ban Google Earth
Terrorists may have used Google Earth to aid the Mumbai, India attacks:
http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/the_web/article5311241.ece
 
Geolocating World News
Maplandia is a website that geolocates and links to world news stories:
http://www.maplandia.com/news/
 
GIS Next: A Chasm Crossed
An article on the growth and breadth of GIS technology:
http://www.directionsmag.com/article.php?article_id=2953&trv=1
 
Mapping Worlds
A fun website to look at various global data (population, crop production, consumption, etc.) by resizing country areas.
http://show.mappingworlds.com/
 
State steps up efforts to ban GPS with Turkish place names
http://66.84.25.241/news/main.php?id=43080&cat_id=1
 
 

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