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Mapping Your Life - A free workshop from the Out of Eden Walk project The Out of Eden Walk project is a 7-year storytelling walk across the world. The CGA’s Jeff Blossom has been making maps for this project, and wrote a summary of the team’s staff meeting held recently in Tbilisi, Georgia. In a new educational initiative funded by this project, the CGA will be offering two free mapping workshops this fall. Each full day workshop will teach students how to make basic reference and thematic maps, and an interactive online story map using geotagged photos and GPS locations. For more information and to register for the October 17th workshop in Cambridge, MA click here. For more information and to register for the November 20th workshop in Washington D.C. click here. The Out of Eden Walk nonprofit has launched a crowd-funding campaign on Kickstarter. While National Geographic and the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation generously support this global storytelling journey, it still depends on the contributions of readers to keep going. Please consider donating. Follow the walk on: Twitter Facebook Instagram | |
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CGA Help Desk at Harvard Business School In addition to the Cambridge and Longwood Help Desks, the CGA will now be doing a monthly help desk session at the Harvard Business School. The first session will be Wednesday, August 19th, in Room 130 (Baker Research Services) of the Baker Library, located at 3 Soldiers Field Road, Boston (on the HBS campus). | |
New Staff at CGA David Smith joined the Government Department and the CGA as a Preceptor in Geospatial Analysis starting August 2015. He will be teaching GIS courses at FAS and co-teach the GIS Institute at the CGA. David has an MA and PhD in Geography from the University of Chicago. He brings rich experience in designing and developing a university level GIS program and has worked on GIS projects in Central and Southwest Asia. He is especially interested in GIS in emergency management. David is working remotely in August and will be on campus by the beginning of September. His office is in CGIS South Room S310. | |
Understanding Today’s Online GIS User Through the Lens of a WorldMap Survey This study analyzes the results of a WorldMap survey, by summarizing the responses to each question described their activities, purposes, experiences, and preferences regarding the system independently and by examining the relationships and dependencies of these answers across the different questions to try to better understand why users responded the way they did. We aim to use the survey results to improve our understanding of user demographics and needs. Findings from this study will be used to guide WorldMap improvements, and we hope the findings will also shed light on the broader requirements of online GIS users. Read the full paper here. | |
Esri UC 2015 Technical Workshop Recordings Available (For Harvard Affiliates Only) Esri UC 2015 Technical Workshop video recordings are now available online (HUID required). read more | |
Bring FOSS4G 2017 to Boston The FOSS4G (Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial) is an annual international event that brings together professionals and users involved on the open source side of the geospatial industry. CGA joined the Boston Local Organizing Committee for FOSS4G 2017 (LOC) led by Michael Terner of AppGeo and Guido Stein of AvidGeo, and submitted a letter of intent to the Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo) on July 27. If successful, we will be advancing to the proposal development phase in late August. Final decision will be made in early November. If you are interested in participating please contact the LOC directly. read more | |
HARVARD GIS COMMUNITY NEWS | |
Apply for Radcliffe Institute Exploratory Seminars Exploratory seminars provide funding to bring together scholars, practitioners, and artists from Harvard University and around the world to develop early-stage ideas and research across the disciplines. These seminars have led to new scholarly research, publications, cross-disciplinary partnerships, and successful grant applications. The 2016-2017 exploratory seminars at the Radcliffe Institute are now accepted through their online system until Monday, October 26, 2015. read more | |
CONFERENCES, CALLS, EVENTS & EMPLOYMENT |
Esri Free Online Course - Go Places with Spatial Analysis This Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) is for people who know something about data analysis and want to learn about the special capabilities of spatial data analysis. Spatial analysis focuses on location to gain a deeper understanding of data. Registration closes September 15, 2015. read more |
New Online Graduate Program in Digital Mapping at the University of Kentucky The University of Kentucky will begin offering a graduate certificate (11 credits) and a Master’s of Science (30 credits) in digital mapping for the web this October. read more |
The CGA Newsletter is published monthly. Editors of this issue is Fei Carnes and Jeff Blossom. |
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