March 2010

CENTER FOR GEOGRAPHIC ANALYSIS NEWSLETTER

March 2010

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HIGHLIGHTS

·         Rwanda Genocide Memorials Project

·         Spatial Differentiation of Villages and Local Systems Presentation

·         CGA Earthquake Data Portal Article

·         CGA Spring Conference Material Online

·         ESRI Data and Maps 2010 Available

·         H.T. Fisher Prize Orientation Session

·         Improved Interactive Harvard Campus Map

·         GSDI 12 World Conference

·         Free Seminar: How to Create Better Maps

·         The China Atlas of Population and Change

·         The Remotest Place on Earth

·         Bike Directions on Google Maps

·         World Mega-regions

·         Classic Literature Geographic Visualizations

·         SpatiaLite Spatial Database

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CGA NEWS

Rwanda Genocide Memorials Project

Professor Jens Meierhenrich of Harvard’s Department of Government, in cooperation with CGA, launched an interactive website in support of a multi-year 

project on genocide memorials in Rwanda. By showcasing original geographic, ideographic, and photographic data collected in the field, the website provides a fascinating glimpse into the ongoing project, and affords a heretofore unavailable, GIS-aided perspective on the spatial dimensions of memory in the wake of collective violence. The project website:

http://www.genocidememorials.cga.harvard.edu/

Spatial Differentiation of Villages and Local Systems Presentation

Tsunetoshi Mizoguchi, Professor of Geography at the University of Nagoya will present “Villages and Local systems: Spatial Differentiation in the Nobi Core: Villages and Towns in Owari, Central Japan, 1672-1883” on Thursday, April 1 at 4:00-5:30 pm in the Kang Room S050 (Japan Friends of Harvard Concourse) of the CGIS South Building at 1730 Cambridge St.  The event will be moderated by Peter Bol, Harvard College Professor and director of the CGA.  The presentation is co-sponsored by the Reischauer Institute.

CGA Earthquake Data Portal Article

The Harvard Gazette recently wrote an article about CGA’s Haiti and Chile earthquake data portals:

http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2010/03/portals-into-haiti-chile/

Haiti Portal: http://cegrp.cga.harvard.edu/haiti/

Chile Portal: http://cegrp.cga.harvard.edu/chile/

CGA Spring Conference Material Online

CGA’s annual spring conference was successfully concluded on March 13th. The

2010 conference was titled “New Technologies and Interdisciplinary Research

on Religion” and was co-sponsored by the Political Economy of Religion Program

at the Taubman Center of the Harvard Kennedy School. The two-day conference featured 6 panels and 18 presentations by scholars from 13 universities and

4 countries, drawing 60 some attendees from Harvard and beyond. Over a dozen posters were on display in the Friday poster session.  To view presentation slides, posters, a more detailed summary and an attendee’s feedback survey go to:

http://gis.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword=k235&pageid=icb.page148866

ESRI Data and Maps 2010 Available

CGA has received this updated dataset that includes hundreds of GIS data layers and maps.  The data can currently be accessed and copied from any workstation at the HMDC lab at 1737 Cambridge St., and will be available at the Harvard School of Public Health’s Kresge building labs next week.  For more information contact us at: contact@help.cga.harvard.edu 

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HARVARD GIS COMMUNITY NEWS

H.T. Fisher Prize Orientation Session

An Orientation session will be held on Friday, April 16, 2010, from Noon to 1:30pm at the CGIS North Building, Room K031, 1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge by Lucia Lovison-Golob for all prospective students, both in the undergraduate and graduate categories.  We will discuss issues related to eligibility, requirements, pre-registration and any other questions that students may have. To prospective students: this is a wonderful opportunity for streamline, sharpen and more effectively communicate your work. If you absolutely cannot make this and still have questions, please send email to lovison@post.harvarad.edu. For more details about the H.T. Fisher Prize in GIS, please visit: http://gis.harvard.edu and navigate to Awards & Funding. 

Improved Interactive Harvard Campus Map

The University Planning Office has enhanced the design and functionality of this map:

http://map.harvard.edu/mapserver/campusmap.htm

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CONFERENCES

GSDI 12 World Conference

This conference will be held in Singapore October 19-22, 2010, with a theme of “Realizing Spatially Enabled Societies”.  For more information:

http://www.gsdi.org/gsdi12

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NEWS ON GIS RESEARCH AND SERVICES

Free Seminar: How to Create Better Maps

This ESRI seminar is being offered in Boston on April 7

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.  More info:

http://www.esri.com/events/seminars/bettermaps/index.html

The China Atlas of Population and Change

<I lost the URL to this, can someone please provide it?>

The Remotest Place on Earth

http://www.visualcomplexity.com/vc/project_details.cfm?id=672&index=672&domain=

Other maps from Visual Complexity:

http://www.visualcomplexity.com/vc/ 

Bike Directions on Google Maps

http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2010/03/google-maps-adds-bike-directions/

World Mega-regions

News article:

http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2010/03/23-3

Academic paper:

http://creativeclass.typepad.com/thecreativityexchange/files/florida_gulden_mellander_megaregions.pdf

Classic Literature Geographic Visualizations

http://laphamsquarterly.org/visual/assets_c/2010/03/Spring2010Map-1211.php

SpatiaLite Spatial Database

http://www.gaia-gis.it/spatialite/

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