CGA Newsletter May 2016 PDF Download
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2016 Fisher Prize Winners The 2016 Fisher Prize for excellence in GIS was co-awarded to Yunhan Xu for “Visualizing Urban Hospitality” and Heidi Hurst for “Allocating Disaster Recovery Centers” in the undergraduate student category. For the graduate student category, Alex Mercuri’s “Runnin’ to Dunkin’: Business Location and Patronage Analysis” and Omar De La Riva’s “Mexico’s Violent and Contested Territories” were the winners. Congratulations to the winners! Click here to view the awarding posters and judges’ comments. | |
CGA’s Monthly GIS Presentations-come join the discussion
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Global Spatio-Temporal Search: NEH Funded Enhancements to WorldMap With a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the CGA is building a platform to create, maintain, and deploy a global public registry of web map services, and has developed a new visual interface to support searches by time and space. The technology can scale to millions, even billions of objects. Read more | |
Dynamic Mapping of Secondary Cities Workshop A 1.5-day workshop is scheduled for the Mapping Secondary Cities for Resiliency, Human Security, and Emergency Preparedness project sponsored by the NGA and State Department. The project is managed by CGA visiting scholar Dr. Melinda Laituri, who is working with the team to plan an international workshop at Harvard on June 14-15 this year. This day and half workshop will focus on open source geospatial tools and technologies for mapping Secondary Cities. The aim of the workshop is to bring together organizations and individuals involved in innovative mapping activities and solutions for emergency preparedness, resiliency planning, and urban sustainability. Secondary Cities are rapidly growing urban areas that are regional hubs for commerce, services, and governance in developing countries that are often inadequately planned for future development and growth. The workshop will open with a half-day session to provide a hands-on venue to explore and assess online, open sources tools for mapping and creating geospatial date for cities. The full day sessions will include: 1) Secondary Cities overview; 2) Case studies of dynamic city data collection; 3) Interactive assessment session of tools as linked to emergency preparedness, resiliency planning, and urban sustainability; 4) Solutions/Lessons learned. See more information and register (for free) here. | |
HARVARD GIS COMMUNITY NEWS | |
Harvard Map Collection Update The Map Collection has recently licensed the Mobil Coverage Explorer dataset from Collins Bartholomew. This product shows aggregated 2G (GSM), 3G and 4G (LTE) mobile coverage on a global basis. The polygon data is in ESRI shapefile format. The Map Collection has also licensed postcode point data for Greece, Slovenia, Croatia and Albania. The datasets will be made available through the Harvard Geospatial Library soon, but are currently available to Harvard Affiliates in the Map Collection reading room in Pusey Library. A recent paper map purchase includes part of a series of maps of the “Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere”, a propaganda concept created by Imperial Japan in 1940. The maps are in Japanese at various scales, and cover parts of China, India, Myanmar (then Burma), New Zealand and other countries. The maps will be cataloged and listed in HOLLIS. | |
CONFERENCES, CALLS, EVENTS & EMPLOYMENT | |
2016 GIS Poster Expo at Tufts University The 10th annual Tufts GIS Poster Expo is a campus wide exposition of the GIS work being done at Tufts. There will be over 170 posters submitted by students, faculty and staff. This is an excellent opportunity for students to showcase their work, see what classmates in various disciplines have completed with GIS. 3:30-5:00pm, Wednesday, May 11th, 2016. Alumnae Lounge, Aidekman Arts Center 40 Talbot Ave, Medford Campus. | |
The CGA Newsletter is published monthly. Editors of this issue are Fei Carnes and Jeff Blossom. |
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