CENTER FOR GEOGRAPHIC ANALYSIS NEWSLETTER
February 2008
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HIGHLIGHTS
- PBS Documentary Features CGA Mapping
- Open Geospatial Consortium President to Speak at GSD
- Georeferencing Workshop Call for Posters
- CGA Provides Consulting for TheRoot.com
- GIS and Spatiotemporal Visualizations Presentation
- GIS Teaching Alliance of Boston
- Harvard Mapping and Geography Poster Session
- HealthLandscape.org
- International Conference on Cognitive Informatics
- Census Atlas of the United States
- New GPS Gadget for Geotagging Images
- Build your own Geo-enabled Calendar
- More…
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CGA NEWS
PBS Documentary Features CGA Mapping
African American Lives 2, a PBS Documentary hosted by Harvard Professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. airs Wednesday February 13 at 9:00 – 11:00 p.m. EST on WGBH Channel 2. A portion of this program features Ben Lewis of the CGA, discussing mapping he created to represent Dr. Gates’ genetic history.
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/aalives/?campaign=pbshomefeatures_4_africanamericanlives2_2008-02-10
Georeferencing Workshop Call for Posters
Share your georeferencing work with the GIS community at the Georeferencing Workshop Poster Session. Students, faculty, researchers and technology/industry leaders representing the spectrum of georeferencing and geographic analysis techniques will be at the event to trade ideas and expertise. All members of the Harvard Community are invited to join the forum by submitting a poster summarizing their completed or ongoing projects which involve georeferencing and/or spatial analysis techniques. For more details on the poster session:
http://isites.harvard.edu/fs/docs/icb.topic35229.files/georef_poster_3_14_08.pdf
For more information about the workshop including agenda, speaker panelist list and an online registration form please visit:
http://gis.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword=k235&pageid=icb.page24711
CGA Provides Consulting for TheRoot.com
The CGA provided consulting for “The Root”, a joint project of Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Washington Post/Newsweek Interactive. The Root is a new online magazine modeled on Slate, which went live January 28th. CGA assisted with the design of the genealogy application, which includes a tree building tool and both tree and map views of genealogical information.
http://theroot.com
GIS Teaching Alliance of Boston
The GIS Teaching Alliance (GISTA) of Boston is a collaborative effort by instructors in greater Boston area Colleges and Universities to improve GIS education. The alliance was launched with a meeting in October of 2007 at Boston University. The GISTA website lists of Boston Area GIS programs, instructors, course offerings, syllabi, case studies, seminar announcements, and many other resources.
https://wikis.uit.tufts.edu/confluence/display/GISTA/Home
New Tutorial
The CGA recently posted a one page tutorial on how to convert tabular latitude, longitude values to shapefile format in ArcMap. Go to:
http://gis.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword=k235&pageid=icb.page23178
and click on “Convert a table with latitude…” under How Can I do this in ArcGIS?.
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HARVARD GIS COMMUNITY NEWS
Open Geospatial Consortium President to Speak at GSD
David Arctur, President and CTO of the Open Geospatial Consortium Interoperability Institute (OGCii) will be visiting Harvard’s Graduate School of Design to meet people who are interested in Geospatial Interoperability and Interoperability Science. OGCii’s mission is to propose and manage research studies, pilot initiatives, educational programs and infrastructure that help advance the development and adoption of open standards, interoperable solutions, policies and practices that improve society’s ability to use geospatial data and technologies to address important social, environmental and economic issues. The meeting will be held in Gund Hall Room 123 on Thursday, February 14 from 4:00-6:00 pm. Gund Hall is located at 48 Quincy St., Cambridge. More on the OGCii:
http://www.ogcii.org/
GIS and Spatiotemporal Visualizations Presentation
As part of the Digital Humanities Series, Ed Ayers (University of Richmond) and Andrew Torget (University of Virginia) will be speaking on “GIS and Spatiotemporal Visualizations”. The presentation will be February 29, 2:00 – 4:00 pm in the Fong Auditorium of Boylston Hall on Harvard Yard.
Harvard Mapping and Geography Poster Session
Anyone in the Harvard community that wants to showcase how they’ve used mapping, geography, or geographic analysis is welcome to submit a poster for inclusion during a poster session to be held April 17th. The audience for the poster session will be attendees of the American Association of Geographers conference. More details at:
http://isites.harvard.edu/fs/docs/icb.topic35229.files/Call_for_Posters_AAG2008.pdf
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CONFERENCES
International Conference on Cognitive Informatics
The 7th IEEE International Conference on Cognitive Informatics will be held at Stanford University, August 14-16, 2008. The conference will feature papers on topics such as spatial statistics for change analysis, spatial and temporal data mining, and geospatial knowledge representation and discovery. The paper submission deadline is February 29, 2008.
http://www.enel.ucalgary.ca/ICCI2008/
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NEWS ON GIS RESEARCH AND SERVICES
HealthLandscape.org
HealthLandscape.org is an interactive web atlas that allows health professionals, policy makers, academic researchers and planners to combine, analyze and display information in ways that promote understanding and improvement of health and healthcare. By registering at the site, one is able to upload and geocode their own health-relevant data, display that information with key population, demographic, and economic indicators, and collaborate with others in their organization to create a myriad of informative visual displays.
http://www.healthlandscape.org/
Census Atlas of the United States
The U.S. Census Bureau has recently published the Census Atlas of the United States, the first comprehensive atlas of population and housing produced by the Census Bureau since the 1920.
http://www.census.gov/population/www/cen2000/censusatlas/
New GPS Gadget for Geotagging Images
The ATP Photofinder is a compact GPS with a flash card reader that automatically tags a latitude, longitude to photographs taken with a digital camera.
http://gizmodo.com/345407/geotagging-photos-on-a-budget-atp-gps-gadget-does
SPOT Satellite Imagery Becoming Available to Academic Institutions
A partnership between SPOT Image Corp. and AmericaViewSM will make SPOT satellite imagery available to academic institutions for education and research purposes at discounted rates. CGA contacted AmericaViewSM for details and was informed that imagery is not yet available on the web, and the agreement is only applicable to images for the USA.
http://spatialnews.geocomm.com/dailynews/2008/jan/23/news4.html
Open Handset Alliance
This group of technology and mobile companies have developed a free, open mobile device development platform which will allow for the unlocking of GPS finding functions on mobile phones.
The alliance website: http://www.openhandsetalliance.com/
And an article about it: http://www.xconomy.com/2007/11/06/floating-all-boats-local-companies-have-their-own-reasons-for-joining-googles-open-source-handset-alliance/
NASA working with Health Scientists
NASA and Health Scientists work together using remote sensing to identify links between environmental conditions and cardiovascular events.
http://www.nasa.gov/topics/nasalife/satellite_health.html
Build your own Geo-enabled Calendar
A step by step tutorial on how to build a sophisticated geoenabled calendar with no coding, by using existing feeds and Yahoo Pipes.
http://blogs.open.ac.uk/Maths/ajh59/012594.html
Jing Picture and Video Capture Tool
A new screen picture and video capture tool combined with web hosting service allows for instant sharing of maps, demonstrations – almost anything.
http://www.directionsmag.com/article.php?article_id=2671&trv=1
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