CENTER FOR GEOGRAPHIC ANALYSIS NEWSLETTER

April 2012

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HIGHLIGHTS

• Cartography Workshop on May 3rd

• SpatiaLABS

• Site License Options for Remote Sensing

• GIScience 2012 – Abstract Deadline 5/4

• UCGIS/USGS Conference on Geospatial Semantics

• CyberGIS 2012 Conference

• Big Data for GIS and Geography - Article

• The “Big Data Initiative” Funding Opportunities

• Tufts Library Uses GIS for Resource Planning and Facility Management

• Satellite Mapping Coordination System Launched

• Visualizing Emancipation Web Application

• GeoTrellis: Open Source Geoprocessing Engine for High Performance

• Water Risk Atlas

• Mexico Drug War Map

• PostGIS 2.0 Released

• Warmest U.S. Month of March on Record - Video

• Bathymetry Survey Map

• The Center for Spatial Law and Policy

• HTML5 For Map Visualization

• ArcBruTile – Tile Services in ArcGIS Desktop

• Mean Center Population for the U.S. Map

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CGA NEWS

Cartography Workshop on May 3rd

This full-day hands-on workshop focuses on the visual representation of geographic information, and will teach the fundamentals and conventions of reference cartography, statistical thematic cartography, and the use of GIS to generate visual representations of spatial information.  The cost is $25 and includes lunch.

Date: Thursday, May 3, 2012

Location:  Room B-09 of the Science Center

For more information and to register: http://bit.ly/H0wAe7

SpatiaLABS

Offered by ESRI Press, SpatiaLABS are stand alone computer lab activities that introduce, develop, and reinforce spatial reasoning and analysis skills.  More on this product here:  www.esri.com/spatialabs

The CGA is considering purchasing this collection of classroom GIS lab exercises for use by any Harvard affiliate.  Please let us know if you are interested in using this product by emailing: contact@help.cga.harvard.edu 

Site License Options for Remote Sensing

CGA is evaluating the need for adding a site license for ENVI, which is remote sensing image processing software. One option is to replace Idrisi with ENVI due to the low usage of Idrisi. If you use either of these software packages for your Harvard related teaching or research, please email contact@help.cga.harvard.edu to let us know which product you prefer. We will continue to maintain ERDAS Imagine site license.

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CONFERENCES AND EVENTS

GIScience 2012 – Abstract Deadline 5/4

This conference on Geographic Information Science will be held September 19 – 21 in Columbus, Ohio. The deadline to submit abstracts is May 4, 2012

To submit an abstract and register: http://giscience.org/register.html

The conference main page: http://giscience.org/index.html

UCGIS/USGS Conference on Geospatial Semantics

A special optional feature preceding the 2012 University Consortium for GIS Symposium “Building GIScience 2.0” in Washington, D.C., will be a pre-Symposium workshop on Geospatial Semantics, led by staff from the U.S. Geological Survey. The pre-symposium will be held on May 29^th, to be followed by the symposium on May 30 – June 1.

More on the pre-symposium and to register: http://www.ucgis.org/Events/moreinfo.asp?ID=304

More on the UCGIS symposium:

http://www.ucgis.org/symposium2012/schedule.aspx

CyberGIS 2012 Conference

The First International Conference on Space, Time, and CyberGIS (CyberGIS’12) will take place during August 6 - 9, 2012 on the campus of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IL, USA.  CyberGIS’12 will provide a forum for sharing cutting-edge research, education and training experiences ranging from new theories, methods, and applications of CyberGIS and Space-Time Analysis/Modeling/Synthesis, to related industrial relations and partnerships, and international collaborations.  The call for papers deadline for this conference is May 15^th.

The conference website: http://www.cigi.illinois.edu/cybergis12/

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NEWS ON GIS RESEARCH AND SERVICES

Big Data for GIS and Geography - Article

http://bit.ly/HUM0MU

The “Big Data Initiative” Funding Opportunities

http://1.usa.gov/Hnz8m7

Tufts Library Uses GIS for Resource Planning and Facility Management

http://bit.ly/kzqQNr

Satellite Mapping Coordination System Launched

The story: http://www.unitar.org/unosat/node/22/1975

The application: http://www.gdacs.org/

Visualizing Emancipation Web Application

Where men and women became free in the Civil War South.

The story: http://spatialnews.geocomm.com/dailynews/2012/apr/13/news4.html

The application: http://dsl.richmond.edu/emancipation/

GeoTrellis: Open Source Geoprocessing Engine for High Performance

http://www.azavea.com/products/geotrellis

Water Risk Atlas

http://insights.wri.org/aqueduct/atlas

Mexico Drug War Map

http://www.diegovalle.net/drug-war-map.html

PostGIS 2.0 Released

http://postgis.refractions.net/news/20120403/

Warmest U.S. Month of March on Record - Video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=JAjjjtDY8UU

Bathymetry Survey Map

http://maps.ngdc.noaa.gov/viewers/bathymetry/

The Center for Spatial Law and Policy

http://spatiallaw.com/

HTML5 For Map Visualization

http://bit.ly/HoCuDL

ArcBruTile – Tile Services in ArcGIS Desktop

http://arcbrutile.codeplex.com/

Mean Center Population for the U.S. Map

http://visual.ly/mean-center-population-united-states-1790-2010

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CENTER FOR GEOGRAPHIC ANALYSIS NEWSLETTER

April 2010

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HIGHLIGHTS

·         Public Launch of the Digital Atlas of Roman and Medieval Civilization

·         CGA Research Fellows

·         ESRI StreetMap Premium Europe Dataset Available

·         ArcGIS Online Bing Maps Available

·         CGA Conference Presentations Online

·         Presentation: Latent Structure Modeling of Space-time Small Area Health Data

·         H.T. Fisher Prize Deadline

·         Harvard Public Service Map

·         Harvard Geospatial Library Data Updates

·         Call for Papers and Maps

·         Where 2.0 and AAG Conference Summaries

·         2010 Census Participation Map

·         Fossils Found with Google Earth

·         New China Dataset Publications

·         Mapping Presentations on TED Talks

·         Government Requests to Google and YouTube

·         Marge Simpson Map

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CGA NEWS

Public Launch of the Digital Atlas of Roman and Medieval Civilization

The Introduction and Public Launch of “The Digital Atlas of Roman and Medieval 

Civilization” (DARMC) will be presented by Michael McCormick, Guoping Huang, Kelly Gibson and more as part of the Medieval Studies Seminar. 



Date: Monday, May 3, 2010 4:15PM, 

Location: Room CGIS S20 in the Center for Government and International Studies South Building. 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge 02138 M.A. 



A reception will follow. This event is sponsored by the Standing Committee on Medieval Studies, The Digital Atlas of Roman and Medieval Civilization, with support from the Center for Geographic Analysis and the Andrew M. Mellon Foundation.

CGA Research Fellows

The CGA has recently added research fellows Steve Chan (U.S. Department of Homeland Security consultant), Silvio Simoes (Professor from Sao Paulo State University), and Akihiro Tsukamoto (Department of Geography, Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto, Japan).  See more about them on our People page:

http://gis.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword=k235&pageid=icb.page190006

ESRI StreetMap Premium Europe Dataset Available

This detailed streets dataset current as of 2009 is optimized for routing and network analysis.  To get a copy please contact CGA at: contact@help.cga.harvard.edu 

ArcGIS Online Bing Maps Available

Harvard’s ArcGIS site license now enables the display of Bing maps within ArcMap.  For details on using this, please see:

http://www.arcgisonline.com/help/help_Right.htm#CSHID=esri%2Fbing_maps.htm%23|StartTopic=content%2Fesri%2Fbing_maps.htm 

CGA Conference Presentations Online

Videos of the presentations from the March “New Technologies and Interdisciplinary Research on Religion” conference are online:

http://gis.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword=k235&pageid=icb.page148866

Presentation: Latent structure modeling of space-time small area health data

The CGA and Department of Global Health and Population are sponsoring this talk by Andrew Lawson, Professor, Division of Biostatistics & Epidemiology College of Medicine, Medical University of South Carolina.  More details:

http://isites.harvard.edu/fs/docs/icb.topic533305.files/Events/Lawson_seminar_6%20May%202010.pdf

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HARVARD GIS COMMUNITY NEWS

H.T. Fisher Prize Deadline

The deadline for GIS project submittal by Harvard undergraduate and graduate students for this prize is May 6

^th

, 2010.  For all of the details: http://gis.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword=k235&pageid=icb.page190018

Harvard Public Service Map

http://onthemap.harvard.edu/

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CONFERENCES

Call for Papers and Maps

Numerous conferences and events have May deadlines for paper and map submittal.  See them all at our Events page:

http://gis.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword=k235&pageid=icb.page189844&pageContentId=icb.pagecontent371683&state=maximize

Where 2.0 and AAG Conference Summaries

CGA members recently attended these conferences.  Read their reports from our Conference Summaries page:

http://gis.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword=k235&pageid=icb.page190014

Harvard Geospatial Library Data Updates

The following data has been added to HGL:

Publicly available:

28 historic maps of the Islamic world (Part of the Islamic Heritage Project: http://ocp.hul.harvard.edu/ihp/  

Burundi, 1:50,000 scale scanned maps.

Paris, Bordeaux, Vienna, Cologne, Edinburgh historic maps.  

For use by Harvard affiliates only:

Landscan global population database 2008.  HGL homepage: http://dixon.hul.harvard.edu:8080/HGL/hgl.jsp?null


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NEWS ON GIS RESEARCH AND SERVICES

2010 Census Participation Map

http://2010.census.gov/2010census/take10map/

Animated Map: Growth of Walmart and Sam’s Club

http://projects.flowingdata.com/walmart/

Fossils Found with Google Earth

http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/scientist_uses_google_earth_to_find_ancient_ancest.php

Nokia buys Metacarta

http://techcrunch.com/2010/04/09/nokia-metacarta/

New China Dataset Publications

The China Data Center at the University of Michigan has released two new digital atlases:

Changes in Population and Environment in China:

http://chinadatacenter.org/newcdc/news/NewsListDetail.asp?ID=463

The Atlas of Religions in China:

http://chinadatacenter.org/newcdc/news/NewsListDetail.asp?ID=464

Mapping Presentations on TED Talks

Augmented reality mapping:

http://www.ted.com/talks/blaise_aguera.html

Making maps to fight disaster and build economies:

http://www.ted.com/talks/lalitesh_katragadda_making_maps_to_fight_disaster_build_economies.html

Unemployment Map

http://projects.propublica.org/unemployment/

Government Requests to Google and YouTube

http://www.google.com/governmentrequests/

Crime Mapping Evolution Article

http://www.directionsmag.com/article.php?article_id=3479

Marge Simpson Map

http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&hl=en&msa=0&msid=105976104673732766876.0004733e85b59d0ddcba6&t=k&z=4

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CENTER FOR GEOGRAPHIC ANALYSIS NEWSLETTER
April 2011

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HIGHLIGHTS
• CGA Spring Conference May 6-7
• CGA Acquires New GPS Mapping Devices
• Harvard Humanitarian Initiative and Maps for Disaster Relief Efforts
• AutoCAD Student Position open for Summer 2011
• Harvard CPPM and Community Maps
• New Layers Added to Harvard Geospatial Library
• UCGIS Summer Assembly
• Civil War Map Collection
• ESRI and United Nations to Collaborate on GIS Research and Training
• Interactive World Nuclear Reactor Map
• History of the World Animation
• Google Map Maker and Earth Builder
• Tracking Your Every Move
• Gravity Satellite yields Potato Earth view
• Open Source Technology and ESRI
• Libya Crisis Map
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CGA NEWS
The annual CGA spring conference “Geospatial Collaboration: New Common Ground” will be held May 6-7
in Cambridge. Friday, May 6th will feature numerous presentations and a poster/video session. On
Saturday, May 7
th, participants can choose from 15 different live demo or training programs to attend. The
conference is open to the public.
CGA Spring Conference May 6-7
The conference program:
http://isites.harvard.edu/fs/docs/icb.topic769892.files/Program_brochure_2011-chart-ALL-pages.pdf
For much more information and to
register: http://gis.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword=k235&pageid=icb.page148866
CGA Acquires New GPS Mapping Devices
The CGA has recently purchased Magellan eXplorist 510 and eTrex Legend HC GPS mapping devices for
use by Harvard affiliates. If interested in using these, please contact us at: contact@help.cga.harvard.edu

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HARVARD GIS COMMUNITY NEWS
Harvard Humanitarian Initiative and Maps for Disaster Relief Efforts
Online mapping is transforming how disaster relief efforts are conducted. The HHI co-authored a report on
this subject:
http://www.unfoundation.org/assets/pdf/disaster-relief-20-the.pdf
A United Nations article on this report:
http://www.unocha.org/top-stories/all-stories/disaster-relief-20-future-information-sharing-humanitarianemergencies
A NY Times article about the report: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/28/business/28map.html?_r=1
And a Harvard Gazette Article:
http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2011/03/tapping-the-%E2%80%98information-fire-hose%E2%80%99/
A temporary student summer position will be available at Harvard Capital Planning and Project
Management. The position will be using AutoCAD to modify building floor plans and geo-locate plans so
AutoCAD Student Position open for Summer 2011

A temporary student summer position will be available at Harvard Capital Planning and Project
Management. The position will be using AutoCAD to modify building floor plans and geo-locate plans so they are compatible with the University’s Geographic Information System (GIS). Flexible hours, $13-$15/hour rate depending on experience. AutoCAD experience required. Please email resume and cover letter to: Parvaneh_kossari@harvard.edu
The Harvard Capital Planning and Project Management Department is actively involved with donating their
large scale campus mapping to the ESRI Community Maps Program:
Harvard CPPM and Community Maps
http://www.esri.com/news/arcnews/spring11articles/colleges-and-universities-participate-in-communitymaps-program.html
New Layers Added to Harvard Geospatial Library
Euratlas, a historical atlas of Europe showing boundaries every 100 years starting at year 0 is now available
to Harvard researchers.
The following datasets have been recently added to HGL:
25 geo-referenced historic maps of Africa, the Pacific, and the Arctic. These are associated with the Open
Collections Program at Harvard and were digitized as part of the Expeditions and Discoveries project that
highlighted library materials from nine major Harvard sponsored scientific expeditions. These are available
for anyone to download.
ESRI Data and Maps 2010 updates are also available. About 40 layers were updated for 2010, and these
are ready for download for Harvard affiliates only. To access these layers go to HGL:
http://hgl.harvard.edu

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CONFERENCES
This conference will be held June 22-23, 2011 in Boulder, CO.
UCGIS Summer Assembly
http://www.ucgis.org/
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NEWS ON GIS RESEARCH AND SERVICES
Civil War Map Collection
http://www.nauticalcharts.noaa.gov/history/CivilWar/index.html
ESRI and United Nations to Collaborate on GIS Research and Training
http://www.esri.com/news/releases/10_1qtr/unu.html
Interactive World Nuclear Reactor Map
http://blogs.nature.com/news/thegreatbeyond/2011/03/the_worlds_nuclear_reactors_as.html
History of the World Animation
http://www.ragtag.info/2011/feb/2/history-world-100-seconds/
Google Map Maker
http://venturebeat.com/2011/04/19/google-map-maker-opens-in-the-us-to-improve-localmapping/?source=facebook
Google Earth Builder
http://techcrunch.com/2011/04/20/google-earth-builder-allows-companies-to-process-and-store-geospatialdata-in-the-cloud/
Tracking Your Every Move
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2011/02/23/opinion/20110224_Schulten.html

Gravity Satellite yields Potato Earth view
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-12911806
Open Source Technology and ESRI
http://www.esri.com/news/arcnews/spring11articles/open-source-technology-and-esri.html
Libya Crisis Map
http://libyacrisismap.net/

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CENTER FOR GEOGRAPHIC ANALYSIS NEWSLETTER 
April 2008 
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HIGHLIGHTS

• Political Data Opportunity
• Howard T. Fisher Prize in Geographic Information Science
• Call for GIS Book Requests
• CGA Workshop Material Available
• Making Sense of Spatial Data Workshop
• AAG Harvard Field Trip
• UCGIS Summer Assembly
• Google Spreadsheet Mapper
• Mapquest API
• United Nations Data
• We Tell Stories
• More…

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CGA NEWS

Political Data Opportunity 
Polidata.org contains publications, maps, election reports and histories, and analyses based on a comprehensive set of political and demographic data:
http://www.polidata.org/data/default.htm

Is there interest in obtaining this data for research projects at Harvard?
Please let us know by emailing: contact@cga.harvard.edu

The Digital Scholarship Lab at the University of Richmond used this data to put together some great map animation videos showing population trends over time:
http://dsl.richmond.edu/VotingAmerica/

Call for GIS Book Requests 
The CGA has acquired funding to purchase GIS books for inclusion into the Harvard Library system. What books are of interest? Please visit:
http://gis.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword=k235&pageid=icb.page144303 
to browse a list of potential books, add a book of interest, and submit feedback. Harvard login is required.

CGA Workshop Material Now Available 
CGA’s GIS-training workshop materials are now available online at our Workshops & Training page. Powerpoint presentations, PDFs of Lab exercises, and data files to work with for all four workshops are available:
http://gis.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword=k235&pageid=icb.page24711

Making Sense of Spatial Data Workshop 
CGA’s next free GIS-Training workshop is an introduction to spatial analysis for various kinds of problem solving in a GIS environment. Examples of both raster and vector data-based spatial operations like overlay, buffering, and interpolation will be covered. This non-credit workshop is the fourth in CGA’s series, and will be offered May 2 in Cambridge and May 9 in Longwood. To register scroll to the bottom right of this website:
http://gis.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword=k235&pageid=icb.page24711

CGA download area for GIS tools 
As CGA develops tools they will be posted to this site. teKml and HGL Desktop tools are available now.
https://cga-download.hmdc.harvard.edu/publish_web/Geo_Tools/

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HARVARD GIS COMMUNITY NEWS

Howard T. Fisher Prize in Geographic Information Science 
The competition for the Howard T. Fisher Prize for Excellence in Geographic Information Science offers an opportunity to all students at Harvard University, including both undergraduates and graduates in good standing, to submit their work in geographic information science and be considered for an award of $1,000 in each of the two categories – undergraduate and graduate – at Commencement. For submission deadlines, requirements, and more information:
http://www.gsd.harvard.edu/academic/fellowships/prizes/gisprize/

AAG Harvard Field Trip 
The CGA and Harvard Map Collection hosted a field trip for attendees of the 2008 American Association of Geographers conference in Boston. The field trip concluded in the Pusey library reception area where posters showcased work performed by members of the Harvard community involving geography, mapping, or geographic analysis, and tours of the Map Collection were given. All posters will be published on the Center for Geographic Analysis website.

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CONFERENCES

UCGIS Summer Assembly 
The University Consortium for Geographic Information Science (UCGIS) is a non profit organization of over seventy universities and other research institutions dedicated to expanding and strengthening geographic information science. The organization will hold its Summer Assembly from June 23 – 24, 2008 at the Hubert Humphrey Institute in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The Summer Assembly has a call for papers deadline of Sunday, April 20. There is also a research award, with a submission deadline of May 3. For more information see the topic on our Conferences site:
http://gis.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword=k235&tabgroupid=icb.tabgroup7644 
And view the flyer:
http://isites.harvard.edu/fs/docs/icb.topic35229.files/2008_SumAssem_papercall.pdf

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NEWS ON GIS RESEARCH AND SERVICES

Google Spreadsheet Mapper 
A very slick way to add address, latitude, longitude data with images, web links, or other content directly from a spreadsheet to Google Earth.
http://earth.google.com/outreach/tutorial_mapper.html

Mapquest API 
Mapquest is rolling out unlimited maps, geocoding, routing, and lots of other things in their new API.
http://devblog.mapquest.com/

United Nations Data 
This UN site is a good new source for global datasets
http://devblog.mapquest.com/

MetaCarta Introduces GeoSearch News 
http://www10.giscafe.com/nbc/articles/view_weekly.php?articleid=512842

National Archives, Library of Congress Highlight Mapping 
Select National Archives holdings now are searchable from the Geospatial One-Stop (GOS) Historical Collections Channel, which the National Archives and the Library of Congress jointly manage.
http://www.geoplace.com/ME2/dirmod.asp?sid=&nm=&type=Publishing&mod=Publications%3A%3AArticle&mid=8F3A7027421841978F18BE895F87F791&tier=4&id=E06AE3DCE85444BBADF79835A8C48655

ArcGIS 9.2 Service Pack 5 now available 
This patch is necessary for ArcGIS running on Windows Vista.
http://support.esri.com/index.cfm?fa=downloads.patchesServicePacks.viewPatch&PID=16&MetaID=1379

Demographic and Health Survey Data 
A good source for Health and Population data, most with latitude longitude for import into GIS:
http://www.measuredhs.com/

The Geography of Gasoline Consumption 
http://austinzoning.typepad.com/austincontrarian/2008/03/ive-done-some-m.html

Web 2.0 and GIS: From Ptolemy to Tufte and Beyond 
Brian DeLacey, a former senior researcher at Harvard Business School, gave a talk at the Emerging Tech Conference in Philadelphia, PA on March 27, 2008. View his presentation:
http://isites.harvard.edu/fs/docs/icb.topic133949.files/Brian_DeLacey_Web2.pdf

Public Commend Solicited for Geographical Questions 
The U.S. National Research Council’s Committee on Strategic Directions for the Geographical Sciences in the Next Decade is now receiving public comment on some very important/high profile questions, in which geographic information science has a role. Check out the questions and input your 2 cents:
http://dels.nas.edu/besr/SD_questionnaire.cgi

The Open Geography Journal 
http://www.bentham.org/open/togeogj/index.htm

The OGC approves KML as an Open Standard 
http://www.opengeospatial.org/pressroom/pressreleases

We Tell Stories 
A neat combination of Google Maps and paths that communicate a story geographically.
http://wetellstories.co.uk/stories/week1/

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April 2009

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HIGHLIGHTS

·         China Learning Workshop

·         IDRISI Taiga Available

·         Geographic Location Finder

·         Call for Submissions: Fisher Prize in GIS

·         New Data added to the Harvard Geospatial Library

·         Travel Awards: UCGIS 2009 Summer Assembly

·         Free LiDAR Seminars

·         Geomatica Special Issue Call for Papers

·         URISA GIS in Public Health Conference

·         Conference on Advances in GIS

·         Population Calculator

·         SpatialWiki

·         Google Map Maker

·         Martian Cartography

·         The Evolution of Geospatial Technology

·         Real-Time Boston / Cambridge Shuttle Bus Locations

·         Next Generation Geospatial Information

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CGA NEWS

China Learning Workshop

This workshop to be held on Wednesday, April 22, introduces China data, especially spatial (map-able) data, including demographic, economic, environmental, administrative, historical and more. The presenters will reveal what data and technology are available, at what level of details, how to access such data, how to map such data, and discuss potential collaborations in spatial studies of China across boundaries.  View the flyer for more details: http://isites.harvard.edu/fs/docs/icb.topic533305.files/Events/China_Learning_Workshop_Program.pdf

Register for the Event: http://gis.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword=k235&pageid=icb.page148866

IDRISI Taiga Available

This integrated GIS and Image Processing software solution providing nearly 300 modules for the analysis and display of digital spatial information is available for download for Harvard ID holders:

http://gis.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword=k235&pageid=icb.page189839

Geographic Location Finder

A site for easily finding latitude, longitude coordinates of any place:

http://maps.cga.harvard.edu/samples/gpf.htm

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HARVARD GIS COMMUNITY NEWS

Call for Submissions: Fisher Prize in GIS

Harvard’s “Howard T. Fisher Prize for Excellence in Geographic Information Science” was established in 1999 to promote and reward student work in this broad and potentially interdisciplinary area, from both undergraduate and graduate students at Harvard University.  The deadline for file submittal is 11:59 pm on Sunday, May 17, 2009. Pre-registration is required to be able to submit your paper.  View the announcement flyer:

http://isites.harvard.edu/fs/docs/icb.topic533305.files/Calls/Fisher_Prize_05_17_09.pdf

Learn more details, see previous winning papers, and link to the paper-upload website from the Fisher Award page on this website: http://gis.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword=k235&pageid=icb.page190018

New Data added to the Harvard Geospatial Library

Detailed street centerline and railroad data for the cities of London, Paris, Barcelona, Beijing, Hong Kong, Berlin, Nairobi, and Madrid has recently been added to the Harvard Geospatial Library:

http://dixon.hul.harvard.edu:8080/HGL/hgl.jsp?null

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CONFERENCES

Travel Awards: UCGIS 2009 Summer Assembly

Assistant Professors (untenured) from University Consortium for GIS member institutions are invited to submit applications for Intergraph and ESRI Junior Faculty Travel Awards of $1,500.00 each to attend the 2009 UCGIS Summer Assembly, to be held at Bishop’s Lodge in Santa Fe, NM, June 22-23, 2009. The goal is to attract junior faculty from across the U.S. to participate in UCGIS activities, contribute to agenda-building in Geographic Information Science research and teaching, and to prepare junior faculty to play an active role in Geographic Information Science-related academic organizations in the future. Deadline to apply is May 8, 2009. http://gis.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword=k235&state=popup&topicid=icb.topic533305&view=view.do&viewParam_name=/Calls/UCGIS_travel_05_09.html&viewParam_fname=

Free LiDAR Seminars

The New England Chapter of the Urban and Regional Information Systems Association (NEURISA) is presenting three speakers on several different uses of LiDAR (Light Detection and Ranging) technology for different mapping needs. Seminars offered in Hartford, CT on April 29, and Davners, MA on April 30. http://www.neurisa.org/events/lidar.html

Geomatica Special Issue Call for Papers

This Special Issue of the Geomatica publications is focusing on Volunteered Geographic Information.  Deadline for submission is June 1.  Read the flyer:

http://isites.harvard.edu/fs/docs/icb.topic533305.files/Calls/Geomatica_SpecialIssue_06_01_09.pdf

URISA GIS in Public Health Conference

The Urban and Regional Information Systems Association (URISA)’s second annual GIS in Public Health Conference will be held June 5-8 in Providence, Rhode Island:

http://www.urisa.org/conferences/health

Conference on Advances in GIS

17th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic  information Systems (ACM GIS 2009) provides a forum for original research contributions covering all conceptual, design, and implementation aspects of GIS ranging from applications, user interface considerations, and visualization down to storage management and indexing issues.

Date: November 4-6, 2009 in Seattle, WA, USA

Deadline for abstract submission: June 18, 2009.

http://isites.harvard.edu/fs/docs/icb.topic533305.files/Calls/ACMGIS_06_09.pdf

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NEWS ON GIS RESEARCH AND SERVICES

Population Calculator

A neat tool that allows the user to draw a polygon anywhere, and a population summary is returned:

http://resources.esri.com/help/9.3/arcgisserver/apis/javascript/arcgis/demos/geoprocessor/gp_zonalstats.html

SpatialWiki

A collaborative product to create, store, and share geospatial information.

http://silverlight.idvsolutions.com/

Google Map Maker

Allows anyone to input geographic data for others to use, and possible inclusion into Google Maps:

http://www.google.com/mapmaker

Martian Cartography

Some neat Mars maps made by the European Space Agency:

http://www.esa.int/SPECIALS/Mars_Express/SEMOI5O2UXE_3.html

The Evolution of Geospatial Technology

An article titled: “The Evolution of Geospatial Technology Calls for Changes in Geospatial Research, Education and Government Management” featured by Directions Magazine:

http://www.directionsmag.com/printer.php?article_id=3092

Real-Time Boston / Cambridge Shuttle Bus Locations

http://masco.transloc.com/index.php

Next Generation Geospatial Information

This new book covers many topics.  Click below for a preview:

http://books.google.com/books?id=mVZLg-TYcZYC&dq=Next+Generation+Geospatial+Information:+From+Digital+Image+Analysis+to+SpatioTemporal+Databases&printsec=frontcover&source=bl&ots=DW9PzOeOt-&sig=BMGcadgtZ3k-u-VS3cs8N1Nl78s&hl=en&ei=iSbRSabXHOLelQfc0rnRCQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=5&ct=result#PPP1,M1

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CENTER FOR GEOGRAPHIC ANALYSIS NEWSLETTER 
April 2007 
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HIGHLIGHTS

• ABCD Talk on Open Source GIS
• Harvard and Local Team to Build Sensor Network
• Combining Science and Economic Models to Inform Climate Policy
• ESRI Users Conference
• Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial Conference
• NASA Starting CosmoCode, an Open Source Project for Space Mission Software
• Super Vision at the Institute for Contemporary Arts
• United Nations Builds GIS Portal
• Google Tool for Creating Maps

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CGA NEWS

ABCD Talk on Open Source GIS software 
Ben Lewis of the Center for Geographic Analysis will give a talk entitled “Free and Open Source GIS Technology: We’ve Got the Whole World in Our Hands”. Open Source GIS has played a significant but often behind the scenes roll in the evolution of GIS. In the past couple years, developments in the broader IT world have changed the field of GIS and made Open Source more important and more visible. This talk will give an overview of important projects and also take a look at related phenomena such as the maturation of Open GIS Standards, the mass deployment of free web-based tools and APIs, and the sponsorship of Open Source GIS by large software companies.

Tracking Analyst to be Terminated 
CGA is planning to terminate the ArcGIS Tracking Analyst Extension by July 31st, 2007 due to low usage in the past years. This extension is a joint product between ESRI and a third party, therefore requires an additional $500/yr maintenance fee in addition to the standard site license maintenance fee. If you need this extension for the next billing cycle (August 1st 2007 - July 31st 2008), please email contact@cga.harvard.edu before the end of June.

ArcTutor Tutorials Available for Download on the CGA Website 
This data is now on the T drive when students log in to one of the HMDC lab machines, under the “ArcTutor” folder.

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HARVARD GIS COMMUNITY NEWS

Harvard and Local Team to Build Sensor Network 
Harvard University, BBN Technologies, and the City of Cambridge have begun a four-year project to install 100 wireless sensors atop streetlights in Cambridge, Mass., creating the world’s first city-wide network of wireless sensors. Sponsored by the National Science Foundation, the project is open-source, meaning it could eventually be accessible to researchers worldwide for everything from gathering meteorological data to monitoring traffic conditions and noise pollution. http://www.seas.harvard.edu/newsandevents/pressreleases/040507_City_Sense.html

MIT’s Museum Without Walls Project 
Alan Doyle of MIT is heading up a project to build a platform for “Location-based Story Telling”. The project has completed an early prototype. http://museum.mit.edu/mwow

Combining Science and Economic Models to Inform Climate Policy 
The Harvard Center for the Environment is sponsoring a talk as part of the Atmospheric Sciences Seminar entitled: “Integrated Assessment of Global Climate Change: What can we learn from coupled models of Science and Economics to help inform climate policy and future technological investments?” The speaker is Ronald Prinn of MIT, and the talk will be held April 27th 12:00 to 1:00 at Pierce Hall 100F, 29 Oxford St. http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=67187030

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CONFERENCES

American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing 
From the program: “Following the theme of Identifying Geospatial Solutions, this Conference will have an outstanding set of technical presentations on all aspects of imaging and geospatial information.” May 6-11, Tampa Floridahttp://www.asprs.org/tampa2007/index.shtml

O’Reilly Where 2.0 
From the program: “Now in its third year, the Where 2.0 Conference is where the grassroots and leading edge developers building location aware technology intersect with the businesses and entrepreneurs seeking out location apps, platforms, and hardware to gain a competitive edge.” May 29-30, San Jose California.http://conferences.oreillynet.com/where2007/

ESRI Users Conference 
From the program: “The ESRI UC is unlike any other event. It’s the largest conference in the world devoted to GIS.” June 18-22, San Diego, California http://www.esri.com/events/uc/index.html

Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial 2007 
From the program: “The annual Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial (FOSS4G) conference brings together the people who create, use, and support open spatial software. No other event brings together members of the open source development, open data creation, and open standards promotion communities like FOSS4G.” September 24-27, Victoria Canada. http://www.foss4g2007.org/

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NEWS ON GIS RESEARCH AND SERVICES

NASA Starting CosmoCode, an Open Source Project for Space Mission Software 
From a recent Wired article, “The software project is part of CoLab, an effort to invite the public to help NASA scientists with various engineering problems. The space agency is also digging into its files from previous missions and releasing code that until now remained behind closed doors. Together, these projects are creating a sort of SourceForge for space.”
http://www.wired.com/science/space/news/2007/04/cosmoscode_0409 
http://colab.arc.nasa.gov/cosmoscode

Super Vision at the Institute for Contemporary Arts 
A new exhibit at the ICA in Boston may be of interest to spatial people. From the program: “New technologies have pushed the limits of the visible world, allowing us to see almost anything–from the elemental particles of matter to the far reaches of outer space. Both what can be seen and how we are able to see are being radically transformed in ways that have profound implications for advanced science, global politics, and everyday life.”http://www.icaboston.org/exhibitions/exhibit/supervision/

United Nations Builds GIS Portal Tool Kit 
GeoNetwork Open Source, developed by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) looks like it has become an powerful platform for building web-based GIS systems. http://www.fao.org/geonetwork/srv/en/main.home

Google Tool for Creating Maps 
Google released MyMaps, tools which make it possible to build map mashups without programming.http://maps.google.com/help/maps/userguide/index.html

Flash Earth 
This is a great Flash-based tool by Paul Neave for exploring the globe using the major map providers Yahoo, Microsoft, Ask, and Google, as well as current NASA imagery. http://www.flashearth.com.

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Event Title: CGA系列专题讨论—GIS在中国研究中的应用

Location: CGIS Knafel K345

Language: Chinese

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Topic

2:00-2:10

Wendy Guan

介绍 Introduction

2:10-2:25

Xin Lao

基于人口迁移网络的中国城市体系演化研究设想 A Research Idea: The Research on China’s Urban System Evaluation Based on the Internal Migration Network (Download PPT slides)

2:25-2：40

Guibo Sun

A Built Environment Natural Experiment: Exploring the Influence of Changes to the Built Envrionment on Walking Behavior within a University Campus (Download PDF slides)

2:40-2:55

Haibin Zhu

宋元明清时期东南地区进士人才涌现的地域差异及其背景研究 (Download PPT slides)

2:55-3:10

Yongqin Guo

历史GIS的宏观与微观应用- 民国铁路航运比较与明清县级保甲地图的空间分析 (Download PPT slides)

3:10-3:30

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