October 2010

CENTER FOR GEOGRAPHIC ANALYSIS NEWSLETTER

October 2010

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HIGHLIGHTS

•    Updated CGA Project Resume

•    DARMC Article in the Harvard Crimson

•    Great Circle Distance Batch Calculator Tool

•    The CGA Blog

•    Spatial Analysis Methods Working Group

•    NEURISA Day 2010 Conference Report 

•    2011 Spatial Statistics Conference

•    2010 ESRI Education User Conference Proceedings

•    MBTA Heat Map

•    Geolocation Services Article: Find a Smartphone, Find a Customer

•    The Most Wondrous Map Produced by Humankind?

•    Geocommons Online Map Maker

•    Google Fusion Tables for Mapping

•    The Common Census Collaborative Mapping Project

•    ESRI Deprecation Plan for ArcGIS 10.0 

•    More…

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CGA NEWS

Updated CGA Project Resume

Our project resume website has been updated to include select projects completed through August of 2010:

http://gis.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword=k235&pageid=icb.page222548

DARMC Article in the Harvard Crimson

The CGA Digital Atlas of the Roman and Medieval Civilization web map was recently featured in a Harvard Crimson article:

http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2010/9/9/mccormick-maps-research-history/

Great Circle Distance Batch Calculator Tool

The CGA has recently created this tool for use in ArcGIS 10.  Download the tool at our Shareware page, upper right:

http://isites.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword=k235&pageid=icb.page222557

The CGA Blog

For a more frequent than monthly dose of the interesting, educational, and cool sites we find and track at the CGA check out our blog, usually updated daily:

http://gis.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword=k235&pageid=icb.page190010

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HARVARD GIS COMMUNITY NEWS

Spatial Analysis Methods Working Group

The Spatial Analysis Methods (SAM) student working group recently formed at the Harvard School of Public Health Longwood Campus. The group aims to generate discussion and opportunities for spatial analysis and spatial thinking in public health. This year, SAM is organizing lunchtime seminars showcasing applications of spatial analysis in public health and hosting hands-on workshops that use technologies and datasets specific to public health.



To join the Spatial Analysis Methods listserve, visit http://groups.google.com/group/sam-hsph and select the “Apply for Membership” link.

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CONFERENCES

NEURISA Day 2010 Conference Report

Molly Groome of the CGA attended the NEURISA Day 2010 Conference on October 18, 2010 in Sturbridge, MA.  View the conference report:

http://isites.harvard.edu/fs/docs/icb.topic133949.files/NEURISA_2010_summary.pdf

2011 Spatial Statistics Conference

The inaugural Spatial Statistics conference will take place March 23-25 in Enschede, The Netherlands.  The early bird registration deadline is January 15, 2011.  For more info and to register:  

http://www.spatialstatisticsconference.com/

2010 ESRI Education User Conference Proceedings

Proceedings from this recently completed conference are online:

http://proceedings.esri.com/library/userconf/educ10/videos.html

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NEWS ON GIS RESEARCH AND SERVICES

MBTA Heat Map

A really cool subway usage heat map:

http://thunderhead.esri.com/readonlyurl/MBTA/MBTA2.html

The map’s explanation:

http://thunderheadxpler.blogspot.com/2009/11/spatial-temporal-mbta-heatmap.html

Geolocation Services Article: Find a Smartphone, Find a Customer

http://nyti.ms/a6UCjm

Business Analyst Online for the iPhone

http://www.esri.com/software/bao-ios/index.html

The Most Wondrous Map Produced by Humankind?

http://www.geoplace.com/ME2/dirmod.asp?sid=&nm=&type=MultiPublishing&mod=PublishingTitles&mid=13B2F0D0AFA04476A2ACC02ED28A405F&tier=4&id=CDF787E2BB5B4C56B1987727FE7DA3FD

Geocommons Online Map Maker

http://geocommons.com/

ShareGeo

http://edina.ac.uk/projects/sharegeo/

Geocoding Service List

A list of available geocoding services:

http://groups.google.com/group/google-maps-api/web/resources-non-google-geocoders?pli=1

Google Fusion Tables for Mapping

http://www.google.com/fusiontables/public/tour/index.html

The Common Census Collaborative Mapping Project

http://commoncensus.org/maps.php

ESRI Deprecation Plan for ArcGIS 10.0

http://downloads2.esri.com/support/TechArticles/ArcGIS10and101Deprecation_Plan.pdf

U.S. Forest Health Web Map

This ArcGIS Server web map runs on an Amazon EC2 cloud server.

http://foresthealth.us/Flex/FPC#

Web 2.0 Summit Points of Control Map

http://map.web2summit.com/?utm_content=em-orm-Points+of+Control%3A+The+Battle+for+the+Internet+Economy&utm_campaign=Webcasts+PR&utm_source=iPost&utm_medium=email&imm_mid=064ee5&cmp=em-orm-Points+of+Control%3A+The+Battle+for+the+Internet+Economy#t-105

Corruption Perceptions Index Map

http://www.transparency.org/policy_research/surveys_indices/cpi/2010/results

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Editor of this issue: Jeff Blossom

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