CENTER FOR GEOGRAPHIC ANALYSIS NEWSLETTER
March 2012
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HIGHLIGHTS
• 2012 CGA Conference Tomorrow, 3/30: Re-mapping Africa in GIS: From Humanities to Health
• Harvard Geography Colloquium: Friday, April 6th
• Cartography Workshop
• ArcGIS Service Pack 4 Released
• Northern Mesopotamia Settlement Mapping
• Women in the World Conference
• Working Digitally With Historical Maps - presentations available
• ESRI International User Conference Student Assistantship Program
• The Atlas of Infectious Diseases
• The International Encyclopedia of Geography
• WorldMap Blog in The Chronicle of Higher Education
• Atlas of Global Religions
• Apple, Foursquare switch from Google Maps to OpenStreetMap
• Mapping as Medical Investigation article in The Lancet
• Animated Wind Map
• Toronto Open Data
• Mondrian Statistical and Geographic Data Visualization System
• MapBox Streets Base Map
• Annals of CPGIS Special Issue on Historical Mapping and GIS Available
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CGA NEWS
2012 CGA Conference Tomorrow, 3/30: Re-mapping Africa in GIS: From Humanities to Health
This conference on Friday, March 30, 2012, brings together scholars on GIS and Africa to share their knowledge and experiences; to explore the potential of geospatial methods in the social sciences, further humanities scholarship by critically engaging GIS methods, and promote interdisciplinary collaborative research in health and humanities in the continent of Africa.
View details and register: http://gis.harvard.edu/conference
Harvard Geography Colloquium: Friday, April 6th
Dr. Anne Kelly Knowles of Middlebury College will speak on “Geographies of the Holocaust” at the next Harvard Geography Colloquium to be held Friday April 6, 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM in room S050 of the CGIS South building at 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge. View the abstract here: http://gis.harvard.edu/colloquium
And a New York Times article on Dr. Knowles work: http://nyti.ms/nxz00o
Cartography Workshop
This full-day hands-on workshop focuses on the visual representation of geographic information, and will teach the fundamentals and conventions of reference cartography, statistical thematic cartography, and the use of GIS to generate visual representations of spatial information. The cost is $25 and includes lunch.
Date: Thursday, May 3, 2012
Location: Room B-09 of the Science Center
For more information and to register: http://bit.ly/H0wAe7
ArcGIS Service Pack 4 Released
To download this service pack, go here: http://bit.ly/GAaax1
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HARVARD GIS COMMUNITY NEWS
Northern Mesopotamia Settlement Mapping
Harvard Professor Jason Ur’s research on using satellite imagery to search for ancient settlements was featured in a recent Gazette article: http://hvrd.me/H9yQdP
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CONFERENCES AND EVENTS
Women in the World Conference
This recently held conference sponsored by the Virtue Foundation and Newsweek included celebrities such as Hillary Clinton and Angelina Jolie, and used WorldMap to start building a map of women-focused organizations around the world. See Get in the Map! for Women and Girls: http://womenintheworld.org/index.php/pages/get-on-the-map
Here is the WorldMap for this project that makes use of the new HTML attribute capability to display images and video: http://worldmap.harvard.edu/womenintheworld/
Working Digitally With Historical Maps - presentations available
These presentations from the 2010 American Association of Geographers conference are available here: http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~chgis/gazetteer/aag_2012.html
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NEWS ON GIS RESEARCH AND SERVICES
ESRI International User Conference Student Assistantship Program
Students interested in participating in this program are encouraged to submit their application soon. This is a great opportunity for students interested in geospatial technology to attend the UC for free. In exchange for helping Esri staff around the conference, students can attend sessions and network with GIS professionals from around the world. The application deadline is April 6. Complete details are at:
The Atlas of Infectious Diseases
http://www.ndm.ox.ac.uk/atlas-of-human-infectious-diseases
The International Encyclopedia of Geography
WorldMap Blog in The Chronicle of Higher Education
Atlas of Global Religions
http://worldmap.harvard.edu/maps/usefulglobal/CYM
Apple, Foursquare switch from Google Maps to OpenStreetMap
Two articles about this:
Mapping as Medical Investigation article in The Lancet
Animated Wind Map
Toronto Open Data
Mondrian Statistical and Geographic Data Visualization System
MapBox Streets Base Map
http://mapbox.com/blog/announcing-mapbox-streets/
Old Maps Online
Annals of CPGIS Special Issue on Historical Mapping and GIS Available
For free until April 18th only: http://www.tandfonline.com/r/tagi_hmg
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Editors of this issue are Jeff Blossom and Ben Lewis
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