January 2018

• Drone Imagery in ArcGIS: ESRI Workshop
• Fisher Prize and EDC 2018 Applications Are Open
• Recent Publications by CGA Faculty Affiliates
• Harvard DataFest 2018 Registration Open
• Harvard Map Collection Map Story: Tactile Illusions on Maps
• Conferences, Call for papers, Jobs
• Mapping the Cyclone Bomb Storm
• Bare Essentials, LIDAR Overview
• Debt in America Interactive Map
• More …

Drone Imagery in ArcGIS, a one-time Workshop will be held 1pm-5pm on February 23rd, 2018. Cody Benkelman, Technical Product Manager for Imagery at ESRI will lead the workshop and answer your questions. For more information and to Register please visit the workshop webpage

Both the 2018 Fisher Prize for excellence in GIS and the ESRI EDC Student of the Year Award are open for applications from Harvard students.

Read more about applying for both prizes.

“How to Measure Legislative District Compactness”.
Authors: Aaron Kaufman (Harvard, IQSS), Gary King (Harvard, Dept of Government), Mayya Komisarchik (IQSS)
Published by: Working Paper (November 2017)
PDF available

“Claiming Crimea, A History of Catherine the Great’s Southern Empire”.
Author: Kelly O’Neill (Harvard, Dept of History).
Published by: Yale University Press (November 2017)
Description and Table of Contents

Harvard DataFest 2018 will be held Jan 17th - 18th Registrations are open! CGA will present geospatial data topics, such as PostGIS, R Scripts in QGIS, and WorldMap. See more on the DataFest Schedule

Harvard Map Collection Map Story: Look But Don’t Touch: Tactile Illusions on Maps in conjunction with a map exhibit on Jan 10th, the Map Collection has created an ESRI Map Story

Job: GIS Technician Commonwealth of Massachusetts [posted 21 Dec 2017] Read more

Call for Papers: FOSS4G 2018 (Aug, 27-28) Dar es Salaam Open call for presentations until March 21st, 2018. Read more

Mapping the Cyclone Bomb Storm (NASA Earth Observatory)

Bare Essentials, LIDAR Map Story (Washington Geological Survey)

Bitcoin Purchases Live Map

Debt in America Interactive Map (Urban Institute)

Jack and Laura Dangermond Preserve Point Conception with Major Gift to The Nature Conservancy

URISA Salary Survey for GIS Jobs, 2017

GIS in Interdisciplinary Research [Geo: Geography and Environment, 2017; 4 (2), e00046]

MapZen announces closure

The CGA Newsletter is published monthly. Editor of this issue: Lex Berman.