May 2009

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CENTER FOR GEOGRAPHIC ANALYSIS NEWSLETTER

May 2009

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HIGHLIGHTS

 

·         ERDAS Software Update

·         ArcGIS 9.3.1 and ArcLogistics Now Available

·         Academic Geography for Sustainability

·         Open Geospatial Consortium 3D Fusion Summit

·         Tufts GIS Course

·         Spatial Decision Support Knowledge Portal

·         China Survey Data Network

·         Data.gov

·         White House Change Map

·         The Geography of Jobs

·         Subway Sparklines

·         ESRI ArcWeb Services Phase Out

·         Google Map Data API

·         London Tube Time Travel Map

·         MassDEP Google Map in Open Layers

·         GeoWebCache for GeoServer

 

 

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CGA NEWS

 
ERDAS Software Update
ERDAS’s Image and Photogrammetry 9.3.2 software suite is now available for download for Harvard ID holders.  This remote sensing, image processing and geospatial information management package is highly enhanced from previous versions.
http://gis.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword=k235&pageid=icb.page189839
 
ArcGIS 9.3.1 and ArcLogistics Now Available
CGA has received both the ArcGIS Desktop and Server 9.3.1 software releases from ESRI, and they are now available for download.  Details on what is new with this release:  
http://webhelp.esri.com/arcgisdesktop/9.3/pdf/Whats_New_In_ArcGIS_931.pdf
Download the update:
http://gis.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword=k235&pageid=icb.page222558
The respective version of ArcGIS 9.3 must be already installed before running this update file.
 
CGA has also received ArcLogistics 9.3 Tele Atlas Q4 2008 data. It is for geocoding and traffic routing with newly registered postal addresses. Please email contact@help.cga.harvard.edu if you are using ArcLogistics 9.3 and need this data update. 
 

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HARVARD GIS COMMUNITY NEWS

 
Academic Geography for Sustainability

Dr. George E. Clark, a Harvard University Environmental Research Librarian, published this article for Environment Magazine:   http://www.environmentmagazine.org/May-June%202009/Bytes-mj09.html

 
 

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CONFERENCES

Open Geospatial Consortium 3D Fusion Summit

The OGC 3D Fusion Summit is to be held June 23, 2009 at the Stata Center at MIT in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The OGC’s 3-D Information Management Domain Working Group (3DIM WG) has emerged as an important forum activity for the discussion and promotion of the convergence of 3-D visualization, CAD-GIS integration, and Building Information Modeling (BIM). Those stakeholder groups involved with capital facility projects throughout their lifecycle benefit from this forum. In addition, the same standards support scene visualization and decision support systems in defense, intelligence and emergency management. http://www10.giscafe.com/nbc/articles/view_article.php?articleid=694194

 
 

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NEWS ON GIS RESEARCH AND SERVICES

 
Tufts GIS Course

Tufts University is offering an Intro to GIS course this summer.  https://wikis.uit.tufts.edu/confluence/display/GISatTufts/GIS+Courses

 

Spatial Decision Support Knowledge Portal

The Redland Institute at Redlands University, Redlands, CA, and the Spatial
Decision Support Network recently announced this. http://www.institute.redlands.edu/sds/

 

China Survey Data Network

The mission of the recently released CSDN is to promote sharing of micro data sets on China among researchers both inside and outside of China. http://141.211.142.28/CSDN_EN/

 
Data.gov

All sorts of U.S. Federal data available in csv, kml, shape, and other file formats.  http://www.data.gov/

 

White House Change Map

The White House uses open source mapping software and crowd sourced data to show where change happens:  http://www.whitehouse.gov/change/

 

The Geography of Jobs

An animated, interactive map showing U.S. job gains and losses 2004 – present.

http://tipstrategies.com/archive/geography-of-jobs/
 
Subway Sparklines

Map of New York City subway system, graphing use of each station through time. http://transit.frumin.net/subway/spark.php

 
ESRI ArcWeb Services Phase Out

ESRI is phasing their ArcWeb Services; it is replaced by ArcGIS Online Services.  Info on ArcGIS Online Services:

http://resources.esri.com/arcgisonlineservices/
 
Google Map Data API

Google recently announced this at the O’Reilley Where 2.0 conference. http://radar.oreilly.com/2009/05/google-launches-maps-data-api.html

 

London Tube Time Travel Map

http://www.tom-carden.co.uk/p5/tube_map_travel_times/applet/

 

MassDEP Google Map in Open Layers

Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection has created this web map: http://public.dep.state.ma.us/fish/Search.aspx

 

GeoWebCache for GeoServer

http://www10.giscafe.com/nbc/articles/view_article.php?articleid=687542

 
 

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Editor of this issue: Jeff Blossom

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