October 2008

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CENTER FOR GEOGRAPHIC ANALYSIS NEWSLETTER

October 2008

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HIGHLIGHTS

 

  • CGA Now Offers Plotting Services
  • CGA’s New Asus PDA GPS
  • ESRI ArcLogistics 9.3 Available
  • November GIS Presentations
  • New Data Layers in HGL
  • Northeast Arc Users Group Conference Report
  • GIS Best Practices Free e-book
  • SPACE Instructional Development Awards
  • ArcGIS Online Services
  • GIS in Your Mouth
  • Center for Spatial Studies at UCSB Article
  • Google Maps on the T-Mobile G1 Phone
  • CINeSPACE Cultural Visualizer
  • Spatial Wiki Beta
     

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CGA NEWS

 

CGA Now Offers Plotting Services

The CGA now offers plotting of large format maps or posters for Harvard ID holders.  For more information, see the Plotting Services topic on the right side of our Technical Support page:

http://gis.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword=k235&pageid=icb.page137934

 

CGA’s New Asus PDA GPS

The CGA has recently purchased an Asus MyPal 696 personal digital assistant (PDA) handheld computer enabled with GPS for use by any Harvard Affiliate.  The device runs Windows Mobile 6.0, and is loaded with ArcPad 7.1 for mapping features and collecting attributes in shapefile format.  Locational accuracy is typical of recreational devices, 5 – 10 meters.  View it’s availability on our GPS Loan Calendar at:

http://gis.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword=k235&tabgroupid=icb.tabgroup7643

And email us at: contact@help.cga.harvard.edu. to reserve it.

 

ESRI ArcLogistics 9.3 Available

This software package is a Routing and Scheduling solution for Fleet Management. It comes with newer street data for North America and Europe.  For questions and to install this software please contact us: contact@help.cga.harvard.edu. 

 

November GIS Presentations

The CGA is hosting the presentation “A Scientific Management Model for Geographic Information Sciences (GIS)” by Dr. Carmen Reyes, General Director of CentroGeo (Mexico) on Monday, November 17th.  The CGA and ABCD-GIS working group are hosting the presentation “Case Studies of the Utilization of GIS for Watershed Environmental Management in Asia” by Dr. Akiyuki Kawasaki, a CGA and SEAS visiting scholar on Wednesday, November 19th. For more details see the fliers:

 

Reyes:
http://isites.harvard.edu/fs/docs/icb.topic35229.files/Carmen_Reyes_11_17_08.pdf

Kawasaki: http://isites.harvard.edu/fs/docs/icb.topic35229.files/Akiyuki_Kawasaki_11_19_08.pdf

 

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HARVARD GIS COMMUNITY NEWS

 

New Data Layers in HGL

Harvard Geospatial Library has added the following data to its collection for Harvard users: 
India SoilMap includes all suborders, groups and sub-groups of soil, physiography, parent material, surface texture, soil depth, particle size and location:
http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.gisdata:011548158 



Landscan gridded population database, 2006:
http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.gisdata:011584245 



And for public access:
The Des Barres Atlantic Neptune: scanned, georeferenced historic charts of the coast and harbors of New England by Joseph F.W. Des Barres, 1781.  http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.gisdata:011308171
Available in non-georeferenced form also:
http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:1271002
 

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CONFERENCES

 

Northeast Arc Users Group Conference Report

Jeff Blossom of CGA recently attended this regional event held in Hyannis, MA.  Read his conference report:

http://isites.harvard.edu/fs/docs/icb.topic133949.files/NEARC_Conf_Report_2008.pdf

The NEARC website:

http://www.northeastarc.org/index.html

 

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NEWS ON GIS RESEARCH AND SERVICES

 
GIS Best Practices Free e-book
A series of articles done for ArcNews have been assembled into a free e-book titled GIS Best Practices: Essays on Geography and GIS.  All essays are by academics and focus on different areas and topics.

http://www.esri.com/library/bestpractices/essays-on-geography-gis.pdf

 

SPACE Instructional Development Awards

The Spatial Perspectives on Analysis for Curriculum Enhancement(SPACE) program is accepting applications from faculty at four-year universities for awards up until November 1, 2008.  These awards are for instructional development of program activities for spatial thinking in undergraduate social science education.  See the call for applications:

http://www.csiss.org/SPACE/workshops/2008/award/SPACE-Award-Announcement-2008-2009.pdf

 

More about SPACE: http://www.csiss.org/SPACE/

 
ArcGIS Online Services
With the ArcGIS Desktop release 9.3, users can add premade basemap and thematic layers into ArcMap via an ESRI’s online service.  Many are available for free, and some more detailed layers are available for purchase: 
http://www.esri.com/software/arcgis/arcgisonline-services/index.html
 
GIS in Your Mouth
An article on GIS and dentistry:
http://www.directionsmag.com/article.php?article_id=2882&trv=1
 

Center for Spatial Studies at UCSB Article

This ArcNews article by Michael Goodchild talks about this new Center, and a new approach to teaching Geography:

http://www.esri.com/news/arcwatch/1008/spatial-at-ucsb.html

 

Google Maps on the T-Mobile G1 Phone

http://googlemobile.blogspot.com/2008/10/google-on-android-maps.html

 
CINeSPACE Cultural Visualizer

http://www.directionsmag.com/article.php?article_id=2885&trv=1
 
Spatial Wiki Beta
Create and share custom maps, and view shared geography at this new website:
http://www.spatialwiki.com/
An article about the site:
http://www.directionsmag.com/article.php?article_id=2908&trv=1
 

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Editor of this issue: Jeff Blossom

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