January 2008

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CENTER FOR GEOGRAPHIC ANALYSIS NEWSLETTER 
January 2008 
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HIGHLIGHTS

  • Georeferencing Workshop in March
  • Spring Training Workshop Dates
  • Presentation on the Geography of Alcohol Outlets and Violence
  • Presentation on Remote Sensing Emissions in China
  • Harvard Mapping and Geography Poster Session
  • HBS Interactive Industrial Pollution Map
  • Tutorials for Geocoding and Georeferencing
  • Ripple Effects From 2007 GIS Advancements
  • Antarctica Imagery
  • Mysteries of the Waldseemuller Map
  • Maps of the Week



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CGA NEWS

Geo-referencing Workshop in March 
On March 21, 2008, the Center for Geographic Analysis, the Museum of Comparative Zoology, and a number of other departments and collections at Harvard will hold a workshop on the state of georeferencing. This free workshop is intended for Harvard faculty, student, staff and affiliates in all disciplines who are interested in assigning geographic location to digital information. The workshop is designed to introduce the general concept and broad scope of georeferencing; explain why georeferencing is useful to many disciplines; explore common issues and challenges, and exchange methodologies, standards, and achievements. The workshop primarily will focus on georeferencing digital records in museums, libraries, data archives and research collections, which includes gazetteer building, geo-tagging unstructured text, and address geocoding. For more information about the workshop including agenda, speaker and panelist list and an online registration form please visit:
http://gis.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword=k235&pageid=icb.page24711

Spring Training Workshop Dates 
CGA offers instructor-led non-credit technical training workshops periodically to introduce GIS concepts and teach the basics of how to use GIS software. Upcoming workshops for the Spring 2008 semester are:

  1. Making Sense out of Spatial Data:   01/18/08, 01/25/08, 05/02/08 and 05/09/08.
  2. GIS Basics with ArcGIS:   02/01/08 and 02/08/08.
  3. Getting the Most out of Google Earth:   03/07/08 and 03/14/08.
  4. Wrangling Data into Maps:   04/04/08 and 04/11/08.


Workshops are free, but you must register to attend. For workshop times, descriptions, and online registration go to: 
http://gis.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword=k235&pageid=icb.page71692 

Tutorial For Batch Geocoding Addresses 
A tutorial has been published for using Batchgeocode.com to quickly geocode a list of addresses directly onto a Yahoo! Map. Click on “Batch Geocoding Instructions” under the Tools Outside ArcGIS topic at:
http://gis.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword=k235&pageid=icb.page23178

Tutorial For Georeferencing Images in ArcMap 
A tutorial has been published explaining how to georeference scanned maps or images using map coordinates or existing GIS layers. Click on “Georeferencing scanned Maps and Images in ArcGIS” under the Tools Outside ArcGIS topic at:
http://gis.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword=k235&pageid=icb.page23178

ArcPad Version 7.1 Now Available 
The CGA has received ESRI ArcPad Version 7.1 software for use on GPS devices, and interoperability with ArcMap. Please email contact@cga.harvard.edu to obtain this upgrade or for more information.

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HARVARD GIS COMMUNITY NEWS

Presentation on the Geography of Alcohol Outlets and Violence 
The ABCD-GIS working group is sponsoring the presentation: “The Geography of Alcohol Outlets and Violence” by Dr. Robert Lipton of Harvard Medical School, Research Director in Emergency Medicine at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. Dr. Lipton will be discussing geographical-spatial methods in public health research he developed while at the Prevention Research Center in Berkeley, CA. The presentation will be Wednesday, January 16 at noon in the Lamont Forum Room, Lamont Library in Harvard Yard. Lunch will be provided.

Presentation on Remote Sensing Emissions in China 
Harvard China Project Research Associate Dr. Wang Yuxuan’s presentation “Understanding Emissions of Nitrogen Oxides from China Using Satellite Observations” is scheduled for February 14th:
http://chinaproject.harvard.edu/seminars/2007-1/wang-yuxuan

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

HBS Interactive Industrial Pollution Map 
Harvard Business School Assistant Professor of Business Mike Toffel collaborated with Duke and Dartmouth business school scholars to create a website depicting locations and information about industrial pollution sites in America. The map and several news articles: http://mapecos.org/map A Harvard Gazette story about the project:
http://www.news.harvard.edu/gazette/2007/12.13/11-mapecos.html

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CONFERENCES

International Symposium on Spatial Data Handling 
The International Symposium on Spatial Data Handling (SDH) is the “premier international research forum for Geographic Information Science”. It is convening in Montpellier, France, June 23 – 25, 2008. Abstract submission deadline for the conference is January 15, 2008.
http://sdh-sageo.teledetection.fr/

International Conference on Information Fusion 
An interesting conference on a topic the geospatial industry may be headed toward:
http://www.fusion2008.org/Conferences_en/Fusion+2008/Call+for+Papers/

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NEWS ON GIS RESEARCH AND SERVICES

Ripple Effects From 2007 GIS Advancements 
An article by Directions Magazine that includes comments from many industry leaders on what 2007 brought and what the future looks like for GIS, Location Based Services, and 3D / Building Information Modelling.
http://www.directionsmag.com/article.php?article_id=2645&trv=1

Industry Outlook 2008 – Peering Through the Looking Glass 
An article comparing predictions made 10 years ago with the current state of the geospatial industry:
http://geoplace.com/ME2/dirmod.asp?sid=&nm=&type=Publishing&mod=Publications%3A%3AArticle&mid=8F3A7027421841978F18BE895F87F791&tier=4&id=FE107EDA7DF94A4188670CCD0B47C665

Antarctic Imagery 
Cloud free satellite images of Antarctica were seamed together to produce a map of the entire continent.
http://www.geoplace.com/ME2/dirmod.asp?sid=&nm=&type=Publishing&mod=Publications%3A%3AArticle&mid=8F3A7027421841978F18BE895F87F791&tier=4&id=CD2DEA73451A40FB81A6D03C735CEFDD

Mysteries of the Waldseemuller Map 
The only surviving copy of the 500-year-old map that first used the name America goes on permanent display this month at the Library of Congress, but even as it prepares for its debut, many aspects of the 1507 Waldseemuller Map remain a puzzle for researchers.
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/world/2007-12/05/content_6300107.htm

Map of the Week 
mapoftheweek.blogspot.com features a unique map with a different theme each week. Some recent Maps of the Week:

Transit Map of the World:
http://mapoftheweek.blogspot.com/2007/12/map-of-week-103-transit-maps-of-world.html

Real time simulation of births, deaths, and carbon emissions
http://mapoftheweek.blogspot.com/2007/04/motw-73.html

West Virginia Slaw Mapping:
http://mapoftheweek.blogspot.com/2007/12/map-of-week-104-west-virginia-slaw.html


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