September 2009

2013-09-10

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September 2009

HIGHLIGHTS

· Harvard GIS Institute Winter Session

·         Geographic Information Sharing Tool

·         ArcGIS Layer Files Available

·         IDRISI Taiga Upgraded

·         China Wind Power Article in Science

·         GeoProcessing 2010

·         AAG-CSG Student Paper Competition

·         GSDI Small Grants Program Call for Proposals

·         Overseas GIS Analyst Positions Open

·         World Freedom Atlas

·         Global Flood Map

·         GPS Visualizer

·         Open Source GIS on a USB Drive

·         ArcGIS Time Analysis Tool

·         Map Projection Distortion Visualization Tool

·         Google Earth Trainers Workshop

·         More…

CGA NEWS

Harvard GIS Institute Winter Session

The CGA will offer our two-week intensive training program in GIS on January 4 - 15, 2010. The program is designed for Harvard graduate students, post-doctoral fellows, and faculty who want to learn spatial analysis and apply GIS methods in their research. No previous GIS experience necessary. Application deadline is October 15, 2009.  More info and to apply online:

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

Geographic Information Sharing Tool

The CGA’s Geographic Information Sharing Tool (GIST) was developed to facilitate browsing, creating, sharing, and downloading geographic information using the freeware version of GoogleEarth as the client software.  The URL has recently been updated:

http://chgis.hmdc.harvard.edu/gist/

ArcGIS Layer Files Available

For ArcGIS users on the Harvard network, the ESRI Data and Maps 2008 dataset can be accessed by simply loading one layer in ArcMap that loads the data from an SDE server.  No data downloads necessary.  The layer files can be downloaded after logging in first at:

http://gis.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword=k235&pageid=icb.page190080

IDRISI Taiga Upgraded

This remote sensing software has recently been upgraded to version 16.03, and is available for download after logging in at:

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

More info on Taiga:

http://www.clarklabs.org/products/index.cfm

HARVARD GIS COMMUNITY NEWS

China Wind Power Article in Science

Harvard researchers who have collaborated with CGA in the past are featured in the cover story of Science magazine.  Science magazine cover:

http://www.sciencemag.org/content/vol325/issue5946/cover.dtl

The Article:

http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/short/325/5946/1378

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CONFERENCES

GeoProcessing 2010

The Second International Conference on Advanced Geographic Information Systems, Applications, and Services will be held February 10-15, 2010 in St. Maarten, Netherlands Antilles.  Paper abstract deadline is October 5.  More details, and to submit an abstract:

http://www.iaria.org/conferences2010/CfPGEOProcessing10.html

AAG-CSG Student Paper Competition

The Cartography Specialty Group (CSG) of the Association of American Geographers has announced the 2010 Honors Student Paper Competition to be presented at the AAG Annual Meeting in Washington DC on April 14-18, 2010. The competition is open to students at all academic levels.  Deadline for submission is October 14, 2009. http://isites.harvard.edu/fs/docs/icb.topic533305.files/Calls/CFA_CSGHSPC_10_14_09.pdf

NEWS ON GIS RESEARCH AND SERVICES

GSDI Small Grants Program Call for Proposals

The Global Spatial Data Infrastructure Association has announced its Small Grants Program for the year 2009-10.  Specifically awards will be given for spatial data infrastructure or Earth Observation Science related activities in economically disadvantaged nations. The application deadline is October 1, 2009. Awards are $2500 USD in cash and/or contributed volunteer professional services for the project.

http://www.gsdi.org/newslist/posts/newspostpage?PK_ID=152

Overseas GIS Analyst Positions Open

The U.S. State Department Humanitarian Information Unit is seeking GIS Analysts for 2 positions overseas. Read the two position announcements:

http://isites.harvard.edu/fs/docs/icb.topic533305.files/Jobs/AFRICOM_Position.pdf

http://isites.harvard.edu/fs/docs/icb.topic533305.files/Jobs/PACOM_Position.pdf

World Freedom Atlas

A geovisualization tool for global freedom, democracy, human rights, and good governance.

http://freedom.indiemaps.com/

ArcGIS Explorer

The latest version of the free ArcGIS Explorer GIS visualization software has been released, and contains many tools and data that enable rich visualizations and map making capability. More information and to download:

http://www.esri.com/software/arcgis/explorer/index.html

Global Flood Map

An interactive web map displaying global flood conditions with different levels of sea level rise.

http://globalfloodmap.org/

GPS Visualizer

Do it yourself online mapping for GPS users.

http://www.gpsvisualizer.com/

Open Source GIS on a USB Drive

With high capacity, fast USB drives and advances in programming it is now possible to carry a fully featured desktop and web-based GIS in your pocket:  https://launchpad.net/portable-gis

ArcGIS Time Analysis Tool

This extension to ArcMap is the product from a National Science Foundation grant applied toward developing  a GIS-based analytical time-geographic   framework for physical and virtual activities.  Project website, and download the extension:

http://web.utk.edu/~sshaw/NSF-Project-Website/default.htm

Map Projection Distortion Visualization Tool

An interactive website where one can change map projections for a global map, and view the resulting distortions:

http://www.btinternet.com/~se16/js/tissot.htm

Google Earth Trainers Workshop

A workshop for Google Earth trainers will be held on 25 October, 2009 at AfricaGIS 2009 in Kampala, Uganda.  Registration deadline is September 30.  To register:

http://africagistrainers.earthoutreach.org/

GPS for Asthma

http://www.geoplace.com/ME2/dirmod.asp?sid=&nm=&type=MultiPublishing&mod=PublishingTitles&mid=13B2F0D0AFA04476A2ACC02ED28A405F&tier=4&id=2B4A5A6E51F0489F9CDAF2B229A61C49

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October 2012

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October 2012

HIGHLIGHTS

Post-Doc position open at the CGA – Apply today
CGA Speakers & Events: Seminars, Geography Colloquium, ABCD-GIS Presentation
CGA Learning Opportunities: GIS Institute, GIS for Humanists & quick training workshops
Join the CGA’s ArcGIS Online Community & see WorldMap implementations
CGA Software, Products & Services – a sampling
Conferences, Calls, Events & Employment:
Hurricane Sandy Crisis Map; US Presidential Election Interactive Maps
News on GIS Research and Services
GIS Day is Wednesday, November 14^th!

CGA NEWS

Esri’s Jack Dangermond spoke at Harvard this week

Jack Dangermond is a pioneer in the development of geographic information systems as tools for envisioning and engaging urban environments and landscape architecture. A graduate of the Harvard GSD (MLA ‘69), in 1969 he founded the Environmental Systems Research Institute (Esri) to research and create mapping and data analysis technologies for environmental design. Esri is now recognized as the world leader in the development of GIS software integral to industries and urban design across the globe. He stopped in to see people at the CGA and GSD while he was here this week and presented at the EMR 21 course “Mapping Our World”.

CGA mentioned in “LETTER FROM THE DEAN”

“Situated within IQSS, the University-wide Center for Geographic Analysis (CGA) provides GIS infrastructure and services. In January 2012, CGA released version 1.0 of WorldMap, an open-source common platform for the integration of spatial data from diverse sources. With funding from HILT, the center is developing a new General Education course that will use GIS and WorldMap to introduce students to contemporary map design and GIS spatial analysis.” View entirety of Dean’s Annual Report.

Call for Applications: Harvard CGA Post-Doc Position

The position: Post Doctoral Research Associate at the Center for Geographic Analysis (CGA), Harvard University is now open. The primary responsibility of the appointee is to design and implement new spatial reasoning curricula at Harvard College and other schools at Harvard University. The successful candidate will interact with several different faculty members to customize new instructional content. S/he will provide instructional support in four distinct manners: 1) designing new geographic modules for diverse courses, 2) preparing learning materials, 3) training teaching assistants, and 4) providing learning support, including technical support in classrooms and tutorial environments. View more details on our employment page.

Call for Visualizations: Fisher Prize in GIS

The CGA is inviting “geographic visualization” submissions for our annual spring conference. These submissions may be in poster, video, 3d model, interactive website, or another format that can be set up in exhibit space. This year’s conference is “Creating the Policy and Legal Framework For A Location–Enabled Society” and will take place May 2-3, 2013. All registered attendees are invited to participate in the poster and video contest. The deadline is not until Friday, April 26 so this is a reminder to use this semester’s coursework for your submission. Learn more on our Fisher Prize pages.

CGA Events in November:

CGA Special Seminar

We will host a special seminar on Monday, November 5 @ 4:00 to 5:30 PM in the CGIS Knafel Building, room K354. Leif Isaksen, Lecturer in Digital Humanities, Deputy Director of the Web Science Doctoral Training Centre, University of Southampton, will speak about “Pelagios and Google Ancient Places: a Sea-change in Linked Ancient Data”.

Harvard Geography Colloquium

November’s Geography Colloquium will be held on Wednesday, November 7 @ 12 noon to 1:30 PM in the CGIS South building, room S050. Paul Cote, Geographic Information Systems Specialist @ Harvard Graduate School of Design will speak about “Information Ecology vs Entropy: Cybernetic Infrastructure for Place-Based Research”. Learn about our Geography Colloquium series.

GIS Day: ABCD-GIS Presentation

November’s ABCD-GIS talk will be held on Wednesday, November 14 @ noon in Room K262 of the CGIS Knafel building at 1737 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA. Presenter Carl Nylen from Esri will present “ArcGIS Online & Esri Maps for Office.” View information about our ABCD-GIS presentation series

GIS Day: New York Times Presentation

We will host a special presentation on Wednesday, November 14 @ 1:30 PM in Room K262 of the CGIS Knafel building at 1737 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA. Presenters Archie Tse and Jeremy White from the New York Times will present “Mapping the 2012 U. S. Presidential Election.”

GIS Day: Ignite Spatial Boston 4

Ignite Spatial Boston 4 will be held on Wednesday, November 14 from 6:30 – 9:30 PM in Tsai Auditorium, CGIS South Building, Harvard University 1730 Cambridge St Cambridge, MA. At the events Ignite presenters share their personal and professional passions, using 20 slides that auto-advance every 15 seconds for a total of just five minutes. Register to attend and/or Submit a proposal to present.

New Software Available:

We now have ArcGIS Business Analyst version 10.1, both data and software. Esri’s business data gives you the best information to conduct trade area analyses and research current and future business opportunities. Get information about businesses by location and industry classification codes. Also access data on banking, crime, cable, shopping and traffic. Email us to request it.

Join the CGA’s ArcGIS Online Community

Create interactive maps and apps and share them easily with the public or a private group. Share your live maps and data on blogs, social media posts, or via custom apps. Do this quickly and easily with nothing to install or setup. Access a rich collection of basemaps, demographic maps, image services, and data. These maps are a great foundation for your work and are created only from the authoritative content from commercial data providers and the GIS user communities around the world. Read more on our ArcGIS Online page.

WorldMap News

BostonMap

BostonMap is an instance of the CGA’s WorldMap platform. It was built to assist academic research and teaching as well as the general public, and supports discovery, investigation, analysis, visualization, communication and archiving of multi-disciplinary, multi-source and multi-format data, organized spatially and temporally. It is a part of the new Boston Area Research Institute website and is being presented to the City of Boston. The CGA has developed “jump to” connectors to bridge between BostonMap and City of Boston GIS systems.

Twitter Feed:

The image at right is an image of a heatmap of tweets within the USA that include the word “ain’t ”. Those data were taken from 15.1 million geocoded tweets collected over period Jan. 25 to Feb. 13, 2012 This is just one of many ways people use our WorldMap platform. Explore and upload your own data to the WorldMap platform: http://worldmap.harvard.edu/

CGA Learning Opportunities:

GIS Institute Call for Applications – deadline extended to 10/30

Twice per year, the CGA offers a two-week program of intensive training in geographic information systems (GIS). It is offered in January and June, and meets daily for two weeks, 9:30 am to 5:00 pm. The program is designed for Harvard graduate students, post-doctoral fellows, and faculty who want to learn spatial analysis and apply GIS methods in their research. No previous GIS training required, but you must have familiarity with MS Office and Internet usage. Read more and register online.

GIS for Humanists Workshop Call for Applications

This full-day workshop will be held on Thursday, 12/06. It offers hands on instruction in basic GIS tools and techniques for Humanists addressing an array of questions for both their own research interests and class pedagogy. Learning will be framed around specific tasks and results as well as the technologies to achieve, document, and analyze those findings. Instruction will include basic tools and software, GPS devices, Google Earth marking and measurements, WorldMap, and Introductory ArcGIS. Read more and register online.

Free Two-Hour GIS Workshops:

Remaining Sessions this semester:

How to Create Google Maps Mashups: 11/02 in Cambridge
Open Source Desktop GIS with Quantum: 11/09 in Cambridge
Worldmap Training: 11/16 in Cambridge
ArcGIS Online & Esri Maps for MS Office: 11/30 in Cambridge
5. Getting the Most out of Google Earth: 12/07 in Cambridge

Check out some CGA Products:

· Digital Atlas of Roman and Medieval Civilization (DARMC)

The Digital Atlas of Roman and Medieval Civilization (DARMC) makes freely available on the internet the best available materials for a Geographic Information Systems (GIS) approach to mapping and spatial analysis of the Roman and medieval worlds. DARMC allows innovative spatial and temporal analyses of all aspects of the civilizations of western Eurasia in the first 1500 years of our era, as well as the generation of original maps illustrating differing aspects of ancient and medieval civilization. A work in progress with no claim to definitiveness, it has been built in less than three years by a dedicated team of Harvard undergraduates, graduate students, research scholars and one professor, with some valuable contributions from younger and more senior scholars at other institutions. http://cga-3.hmdc.harvard.edu/darmc/

China Historical GIS (CHGIS)

The CHGIS project has produced a comprehensive series of datasets related to the administrative geography of Chinese History. The data layers include nationwide coverages (for the years 1820 and 1911), and time series (for the Dynastic period from 221 BCE to 1911 CE). The administrative features include Provinces, Circuits, Prefectures, and Counties as they changed over time. Supplemental datasets include G.W. Skinner regional systems, Buddhist sites, features from historic Russian maps of China, Tibetan townships, modern gazetteer layers for each province, and many others. http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~chgis

Check out some CGA Services:

· Plotting & Scanning of documents up to 42” wide

The CGA offers large format map and poster plotting services on our HP DesignJet Z6100 plotter. We can plot posters of any length, in color. We also have a large format color scanner, capable of scanning documents up to 42 inches wide at high resolution. Both these services are available for Harvard use. Email us to request use of this hardware.

· GPS Devices free for your use

The CGA maintains GPS devices which can be checked out on a first-come first-served basis by people with a Harvard affiliation. We offer a wide range of devices: accuracy varies from 10-meter to sub-meter, and features vary from camera-equipped to PDA to Bluetooth, etc. We’ll even train you on how to use your own smart phone as a GPS device. View our devices on our GPS page.

CONFERENCES, CALLS, EVENTS & EMPLOYMENT

CFP: 12th International Symposium on Web and Wireless GIS - deadline 10/30

CFP: TransNav 2013 – deadline 10/31

CFP: Special GIScience Research Session @ Esri UC - deadline 11/09

CFP: AAG: Integrated Natural Disaster Reduction and Sustainable Development in China - deadline 11/14

CFA: Esri and PCI Geomatics Natural Resources Imagery Grants - deadline 11/16

CFP: Call for Photos for GIS Day

Event: NEARC 2012: November 11-14

Event: GIS & Spatial & Spatial Thinking in the Undergraduate Curriculum: Nov 16-18

November Conferences in GIS (a sampling):

Understanding Land, People and Environment: Research and Teaching perspectives in Geography: November 10-11 in Bucharest , Germany
NEARC 2012: November 11-14 in Rockland, ME
GIS & Spatial & Spatial Thinking in the Undergraduate Curriculum: Nov 16-18 @ Bucknell University

Employment Opportunities in GIS in New England:

CT: GIS Internship
CT: Open Space and Natural Resource Agent
MA: GIS Post-Doc @ the CGA
ME: Director Earth Resources Information
ME: Urban Watershed Coordinator
NH: Dartmouth College: postdoc opportunity
VT: GIS Teaching Fellows @ Middlebury

View details and non-local positions on our employment page.

NEWS ON GIS RESEARCH AND SERVICES

Hurricane Sandy Crisis Map

Historical Electoral Votes by State and US Historic Presidential Election interactive maps.

Hubway Cyclist Visualization Challenge:- submit your visualization of their data before 11/01 and win!

Boston Area Research Institute uses the CGA’s WorldMap platform

How Do People Lean Politically in Pivotal Swing States?

The Apple Maps Debate and the Real Future of Mapping (Harvard Business Review article)

5 reasons location is the smartphone’s killer map

Esri Joins Amazon in the Cloud

Cool use of WebGL (you need to run this in Chrome browser)

Gemma allows you to build up maps with layers from many sources - MapTube, SurveyMapper, OpenStreetMap

GIS: The backbone of homeland security

Privacy vs. political marketing in the age of big data

Spatial Explorer of Religion

Global World History ATlas

Civil War Battles mapped

Annotating historical maps

How Google Builds Its Maps—and What It Means for the Future of Everything

Ambitious Indian mapping project

Google Street View for Coral Reefs

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October 2011

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October 2011

HIGHLIGHTS

• Business Analyst Available for Install

• GIS For Humanists Workshop

• CGA Workshops Rescheduled

• Information Session on GIS programs for students at Environmental Systems Research Institute (ESRI)

• WorldMap Map Warper Online Georeferencing Tool

• January GIS Institute Application Deadline: 10/23

• Expeditions and Discoveries Map Collection Added to Harvard Geospatial Library

• ArcGIS Service Pack 3 Available for Download

• Explore Harvard’s Changing Campus

• Fellowships in the History of Cartography

• TeachSpatial.org

• The Invention of GIS

• Spatial Statistics Lectures

• Webinar: Top 5 Skills You Need to be Successful in a GIS Career

• Geospatial Technology Competency Model

• Gesture Control for Google Earth Article

CGA NEWS

Business Analyst Available for Install

The ESRI Business Analyst for ArcGIS 10 software is now available for all Harvard affiliates to install.  This software provides user friendly access to a data package that includes over 12 million business locations and 6,000 shopping centers current as of January 1, 2010.  Over 2,000 census variables for 2010 and projected to 2015 are also included.  Instructions on how to install Business Analyst are described here: http://hvrd.me/qMkFsQ (login required to view the document). For lab managers that want to install the BA data and software in their labs, please contact us at: contact@help.cga.harvard.edu

GIS for Humanists Workshop

This two day workshop to be held December 15 and 16, 2011, offers hands on instruction in basic GIS tools and techniques for Humanists addressing an array of questions for both their own research interests and class pedagogy. Short research overviews by Harvard scholars who are using GIS in the Humanities will encourage discussion on how GIS can enhance and indeed transform research. Registration is limited to 30 participants.  Registration deadline is November 15, 2011. No previous GIS experience is necessary. Learn more and apply online here: http://gis.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword=k235&pageid=icb.page445564

CGA Workshops Rescheduled

The GPS workshop scheduled for 10/14 has been rescheduled to Friday, October 28, 1 – 4:30 p.m. in the Science Center room B-09.  Also, the Remote Sensing workshop date has been changed to Friday, November 18, 2011.  For more information and to sign up: http://gis.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword=k235&tabgroupid=icb.tabgroup131738

Information Session on GIS programs for students at Environmental Systems Research Institute (ESRI)

This session will be held October 20, 2011 from 4:00pm – 5:00pm in room S-153 of the CGIS South building at 1730 Cambridge St.  The session will feature Michael Johnson, University Programs Manager at Esri, who will introduce the student programs (internship and student assistantship) and recent graduate job opportunities at Esri.  He will also provide feedback on student resumes if asked for, job searching/application tips, and resources to help in seeking jobs in the GIS industry. Michael manages the University Recruitment, Internship, and Student Assistantship Programs at Esri. More information is available at: http://www.esri.com/students

WorldMap Map Warper Online Geo-referencing Tool

The CGA Map Warper http://warp.worldmap.harvard.edu/ is a new WorldMap http://worldmap.harvard.edu tool for digitally aligning/rectifying/geo-referencing scanned historical or other kinds of maps such as satellite or aerial photography images.  Visitors can browse already rectified maps or upload their own maps and georeference them.  Any rectified image can then be exported as GeoTIFFs or as web services such as WMS which can be copy/pasted into a WorldMap Map. Here’s how: http://bit.ly/psMQgt.  As with the rest of WorldMap, the georeferencing tool is open source software and available for anyone to use.

January GIS Institute Application Deadline: 10/23

The October 23 deadline to register for this 2 week intensive training course in GIS is rapidly approaching.  For more information and to register:

http://gis.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword=k235&pageid=icb.page322426

HARVARD GIS COMMUNITY NEWS

Expeditions and Discoveries Map Collection Added to Harvard Geospatial Library

HGL has added more than 50 historic maps that were digitized as part of the Open Collection Program’s Expeditions and Discoveries project: http://ocp.hul.harvard.edu/expeditions/

These maps show a variety of places, and include global maps as well as maps of Central and South America, the Pacific and the Arctic.  View and download the maps at HGL: http://hgl.harvard.edu

NEWS ON GIS RESEARCH AND SERVICES

ArcGIS Service Pack 3 Available for Download

This Service Pack contains performance improvements, maintenance fixes, translation updates and includes all updates delivered since ArcGIS 10.0 was released. Download it here: http://bit.ly/n0pJzI

Explore Harvard’s Changing Campus

http://harvardmagazine.com/375th/changing-campus

Fellowships in the History of Cartography

The Harley Fellowships - the only one of their kind in Europe - provide support of up to four weeks (normally at GBP 400 per week) for those, from any discipline, doing the equivalent of post-graduate level work in the historical map collections of the United Kingdom.  The closing date for applications is November 1

^st

.  For more information and to apply:

http://www.maphistory.info/harley.html

TeachSpatial.org

Resources for spatial teaching and learning: http://www.teachspatial.org

The Invention of GIS

This video and story touches on how the Laboratory for Computer Graphics at the Harvard Graduate School of Design contributed to the invention of modern day GIS:

http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/multimedia/the-invention-of-gis/

Spatial Statistics Lectures

Lectures by Professor Luc Anselin of Arizona State on 6 common spatial statistics used are available for viewing here: http://geodacenter.org/eTalks/

Webinar: Top 5 Skills You Need to be Successful in a GIS Career

http://bit.ly/nC6FpE

Geospatial Technology Competency Model

http://www.careeronestop.org/competencymodel/pyramid.aspx?geo=Y

Gesture Control for Google Earth Article

http://www.ij-healthgeographics.com/content/10/1/45

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October 2010

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…

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

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

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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HIGHLIGHTS

GIS Training Workshops Underway
Lecture on Darfur Groundwater Study with Remote Sensing Updated Time
Visualizing Time and Space - Presentation by Dr. Andreas Kunz
Business School now has ArcGIS Business Analyst Software
Volunteered Geographic Information Workshop
2008 ESRI User Conference Call for Presentations
Paper on Volunteered Geography
Geographic Attention “Hotmap” Article
MIT’s Real Time Rome Project
NASA to Digitize Space Imagery
More…

CGA NEWS

GIS Training Workshops Underway
Two full sessions of our non-credit workshop “GIS Basics with ArcGIS” have been taught, and more will be scheduled if desired. Upcoming workshops include: “Getting the Most out of Google Earth”, “Wrangling Data into Maps”, and “Making Sense out of Spatial Data”. Click below for workshop descriptions, dates, and registration.
http://gis.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword=k235&pageid=icb.page71692

Lecture on Darfur Groundwater Study with Remote Sensing Updated Time
The Committee on African Studies presents a lecture titled “Groundwater Basins in Darfur and Surrounding Desert” by Farouk El-Baz. The updated time for this presentation is: Tuesday, October 16th at 5:30 - 7:15 in Case Room S020, on the CGIS concourse level at 1730 Cambridge St.

Visualizing Time and Space – Presentation by Dr. Andreas Kunz
Co-sponsored by the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies and the CGA, Dr. Andreas Kunz will present “Visualizing Time and Space: HGIS Germany as an Online-Resource for German and European History”. The presentation will be on Monday, October 22, 4:15 p.m. – 6:00 p.m., in the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies Garden Room, at 27 Kirkland Street in Cambridge. Directions to the Center:
http://www.ces.fas.harvard.edu/about/directions.html

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HARVARD GIS COMMUNITY NEWS

Business School now has ArcGIS Business Analyst Software
The CGA has recently coordinated with the Harvard Business School to install ArcGIS business analyst software in the Baker Library. The software is on the RR1 machine, located right next to the reference desk. The business analyst package is designed to give the novice GIS user the ability to perform sophisticated business analysis using a rich dataset that includes demographic, store location, store type, and sales information.

CONFERENCES

Volunteered Geographic Information Workshop
Volunteered geographic information (VGI) occupies a substantial and growing presence on the web - some examples include geotagged Wikipedia entries, OpenStreetMap, and Flickr. To date there has been little investigation into this collaborative phenomenon, so the National Center for Geographic Information and Analysis, Vespucci Initiative, and Los Alamos National Laboratory are collaborating to put together a two day workshop. The workshop will be held in Santa Barbara, CA, December 13-14, 2007, and will focus on such topics as: How does VGI get validated, and assigned metadata? Can VGI be framed within the larger domain of sensor networks? What limitations are imposed on VGI by access to modern communications? CGA staff member Ben Lewis will be attending.
http://www.ncgia.ucsb.edu/projects/vgi/

2008 ESRI Users Conference Call for Presentations
The ESRI users conference is the largest conference in the world devoted to GIS, and will be held August 4 – 8 of 2008. Registration deadline for the conference is in June of 2008, but the deadline for presentation submission is quickly approaching: November 2, 2007.
http://www.esri.com/events/uc/index.html

GITA 2007 Oil and Gas Conference Experiences Record-Breaking Attendance
This industry specific conference recently held September 24 - 26 continues to grow, recently experiencing a 2nd consecutive increase in attendance.
http://spatialnews.geocomm.com/dailynews/2007/oct/09/news3.html

NEWS ON GIS RESEARCH AND SERVICES

Paper on Volunteered Geography
What drives people to voluntarily add geographic information to public websites? The paper “Citizens as Sensors: The World of Volunteered Geography” written by Michael F. Goodchild reviews the realm of volunteered geographic information.
http://www.ncgia.ucsb.edu/projects/vgi/docs/Goodchild_VGI2007.pdf

Geographic Attention “Hotmap” Article
“Hotmap: Looking at Geographic Attention” by Danyel Fisher explores how people use online maps, and what geographic areas and features are of interest / use. Quantifying and analyzing results are presented in the form of heatmaps; maps that assign colors based on values at each point on the map.
http://research.microsoft.com/~danyelf/publications/fisher_infovis_hotmap.pdf

MIT’s Real Time Rome Project
Real Time Rome is a project at Massachusetts Institute of Technology that uses data from cell phones, buses, and taxis in Rome to better understand urban dynamics in real time.
http://senseable.mit.edu/realtimerome/

NASA to Digitize Space Imagery
NASA is planning to archive and catalog space imagery, photographs, historic film and video, and make it all publicly available online.
http://www.archive.org/iathreads/post-view.php?id=144937

MetaCarta Announces Local Alerts Services
Alerts regarding news, events, stories, classified ads, and more for a specific locality can be sent directly to a user with a new service offered by MetaCarta.
http://www.marketwire.com/mw/release.do?id=772850

Google Maps Mashup
Google Map mash-up showing US worker deaths in 2007 by the Committee on Education and Labor, US House of Representatives.
http://edlabor.house.gov/issues/workerdeaths.shtml

How much is location technology worth?
Large telemarketing and information technology firms have recently been buying up GIS companies for high prices. Read the latest at:
http://www.directionsmag.com/article.php?article_id=2566&trv=1

Google My World
It looks like Google will be coming out with a 3D social network, which may be tied to their existing Maps, Earth, and SketchUp applications.
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070924-google-testing-my-world-for-launch-later-this-year.html

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October 2008

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HIGHLIGHTS

CGA Now Offers Plotting Services
CGA’s New Asus PDA GPS
ESRI ArcLogistics 9.3 Available
November GIS Presentations
New Data Layers in HGL
Northeast Arc Users Group Conference Report
GIS Best Practices Free e-book
SPACE Instructional Development Awards
ArcGIS Online Services
GIS in Your Mouth
Center for Spatial Studies at UCSB Article
Google Maps on the T-Mobile G1 Phone
CINeSPACE Cultural Visualizer
Spatial Wiki Beta

CGA NEWS

CGA Now Offers Plotting Services

The CGA now offers plotting of large format maps or posters for Harvard ID holders. For more information, see the Plotting Services topic on the right side of our Technical Support page:

http://gis.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword=k235&pageid=icb.page137934

CGA’s New Asus PDA GPS

The CGA has recently purchased an Asus MyPal 696 personal digital assistant (PDA) handheld computer enabled with GPS for use by any Harvard Affiliate. The device runs Windows Mobile 6.0, and is loaded with ArcPad 7.1 for mapping features and collecting attributes in shapefile format. Locational accuracy is typical of recreational devices, 5 – 10 meters. View it’s availability on our GPS Loan Calendar at:

http://gis.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword=k235&tabgroupid=icb.tabgroup7643

And email us at: contact@help.cga.harvard.edu. to reserve it.

ESRI ArcLogistics 9.3 Available

This software package is a Routing and Scheduling solution for Fleet Management. It comes with newer street data for North America and Europe. For questions and to install this software please contact us: contact@help.cga.harvard.edu.

November GIS Presentations

The CGA is hosting the presentation “A Scientific Management Model for Geographic Information Sciences (GIS)” by Dr. Carmen Reyes, General Director of CentroGeo (Mexico) on Monday, November 17^th. The CGA and ABCD-GIS working group are hosting the presentation “Case Studies of the Utilization of GIS for Watershed Environmental Management in Asia” by Dr. Akiyuki Kawasaki, a CGA and SEAS visiting scholar on Wednesday, November 19^th. For more details see the fliers:

Reyes:
http://isites.harvard.edu/fs/docs/icb.topic35229.files/Carmen_Reyes_11_17_08.pdf

Kawasaki: http://isites.harvard.edu/fs/docs/icb.topic35229.files/Akiyuki_Kawasaki_11_19_08.pdf

HARVARD GIS COMMUNITY NEWS

New Data Layers in HGL

Harvard Geospatial Library has added the following data to its collection for Harvard users:

India SoilMap includes all suborders, groups and sub-groups of soil, physiography, parent material, surface texture, soil depth, particle size and location:

http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.gisdata:011548158

Landscan gridded population database, 2006:

http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.gisdata:011584245 



And for public access:

The Des Barres Atlantic Neptune: scanned, georeferenced historic charts of the coast and harbors of New England by Joseph F.W. Des Barres, 1781.  http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.gisdata:011308171

Available in non-georeferenced form also:

http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:1271002

CONFERENCES

Northeast Arc Users Group Conference Report

Jeff Blossom of CGA recently attended this regional event held in Hyannis, MA. Read his conference report:

http://isites.harvard.edu/fs/docs/icb.topic133949.files/NEARC_Conf_Report_2008.pdf

The NEARC website:

http://www.northeastarc.org/index.html

NEWS ON GIS RESEARCH AND SERVICES

GIS Best Practices Free e-book

A series of articles done for ArcNews have been assembled into a free e-book titled GIS Best Practices: Essays on Geography and GIS.  All essays are by academics and focus on different areas and topics.

http://www.esri.com/library/bestpractices/essays-on-geography-gis.pdf

SPACE Instructional Development Awards

The Spatial Perspectives on Analysis for Curriculum Enhancement(SPACE) program is accepting applications from faculty at four-year universities for awards up until November 1, 2008. These awards are for instructional development of program activities for spatial thinking in undergraduate social science education. See the call for applications:

http://www.csiss.org/SPACE/workshops/2008/award/SPACE-Award-Announcement-2008-2009.pdf

More about SPACE: http://www.csiss.org/SPACE/

ArcGIS Online Services

With the ArcGIS Desktop release 9.3, users can add premade basemap and thematic layers into ArcMap via an ESRI’s online service.  Many are available for free, and some more detailed layers are available for purchase:

http://www.esri.com/software/arcgis/arcgisonline-services/index.html

GIS in Your Mouth

An article on GIS and dentistry:

http://www.directionsmag.com/article.php?article_id=2882&trv=1

Center for Spatial Studies at UCSB Article

This ArcNews article by Michael Goodchild talks about this new Center, and a new approach to teaching Geography:

http://www.esri.com/news/arcwatch/1008/spatial-at-ucsb.html

Google Maps on the T-Mobile G1 Phone

http://googlemobile.blogspot.com/2008/10/google-on-android-maps.html

CINeSPACE Cultural Visualizer

http://www.directionsmag.com/article.php?article_id=2885&trv=1

Spatial Wiki Beta

Create and share custom maps, and view shared geography at this new website:

http://www.spatialwiki.com/

An article about the site:

http://www.directionsmag.com/article.php?article_id=2908&trv=1

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October 2009

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HIGHLIGHTS

· CGA Updated FAQ Page

· Scanned Historic City Maps added to Harvard Geospatial Library

· Digital Social Science Fair

· Dynamic Spatial Modeling in a GIS - eSeminar Series

· New England URISA One Day Conference

· ESRI Space-Time Modeling Workshop

· AggData Geographic Business Listings

· Google Maps Thematic Gradient Control

· NASA World of Change

· Geographic Information for the Indoors

· Where the Buffalo Roamed

· Augmented Earth Maps

· Enhanced Global Elevation Data

· Make a Map Website

· Medical Marijuana Mashup Map

· Cellphones as a Spatial Platform

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CGA NEWS

Updated FAQ Page

CGA has updated our technical GIS Frequently Asked Questions page to include a search by topic function:

http://gis.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword=k235&pageid=icb.page190078

HARVARD GIS COMMUNITY NEWS

Scanned Historic City Maps added to Harvard Geospatial Library

Additional items recently added to HGL include scanned historic maps of the following cities:  Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Milwaukee, Madison, Kansas City, St. Louis, Denver, Los Angeles, Seattle, Portland (Oregon), Quebec City; Louisbourg, Halifax and Port Royal (Nova Scotia); Mexico City,  Havana, Dublin, Amsterdam, Brussels,  Berlin, Dresden, Hamburg, Leipzig, Nuremberg, Copenhagen, Gibraltar, Lisbon, Madrid, Barcelona, Rome, Moscow, Jerusalem, Beijing, and Tokyo.  Also recently added to HGL is a global oil pipeline data created by the Center for Geographic Analysis.  Harvard Geospatial Library website:

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

Digital Social Science Fair

This event will be held on November 4

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 from  2 - 5 pm, in the  CGIS South building at 1730 Cambridge Street in room  030 and the atrium area on the concourse level.   Co-hosted by the Academic Technology Group and the  Division of Social Science, all Harvard faculty, staff, and students are welcome to attend. 



There will be exhibits and presenters from the Libraries, the Bok  Center, Instructional Media Services, the Division of Continuing  Education, FAS IT, the Center for Workplace Development, the Institute  of Quantitative Social Science, the Collection of Historical  Scientific Instruments, the Peabody Museum, the Office for Scholarly  Communication, the Office for Sponsored Research, Harvard Catalyst, the Center for geographic Analysis and several others.  For more information:

http://www.iq.harvard.edu/events/node/2066

CONFERENCES

Dynamic Spatial Modeling in a GIS - eSeminar Series

The University Consortium for Geographic Information Sciences is sponsoring a series of electronic seminars, freely available for anyone to attend.  There will be 6 seminars between October 28 and December 2.  For more details:

http://www.wun.ac.uk/ggisa/seminars/autumn09_programme/index.html

New England URISA One Day Conference

The New England Chapter of the Urban and Regional Information Systems Association is sponsoring a one day conference on November 18

^th

 titled “Trends in Making Integrated Information More Accessible” to be held in Sturbridge, MA.  For more information and to register:

http://www.neurisa.org/events/program20091116.html

ESRI Space-Time Modeling Workshop

This workshop in Redlands, CA on February 22 – 23, 2010 will feature keynote presentations, lightning talks, and small group discussions, as well as opportunities for informal brainstorming with leading geospatial thinkers and implementers.

http://www.esri.com/news/releases/09_4qtr/space-time-modeling.html

NEWS ON GIS RESEARCH AND SERVICES

AggData Geographic Business Listings

A source for free and purchasable geographic data oriented toward business locations.

http://aggdata.com/

Google Maps Thematic Gradient Control

http://googlegeodevelopers.blogspot.com/2009/08/gradientcontrol-making-thematic-mapping.html

NASA World of Change

This website features a series of satellite images documenting how our world has changed over the last decade in yearly increments.

http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Features/WorldOfChange/index.php

Geographic Information for the Indoors

The company Micello is producing a “Google maps for the indoors” to help people navigate indoor spaces:

http://www.smartertechnology.com/c/a/Technology-For-Change/Charting-the-Final-FrontierGoogle-Maps-for-Indoors/

Micello’s website:  http://www.micello.com/

Where the Buffalo Roamed

A McDonald’s restaurant density map, and analysis identifying the point furthest from any restaurant.

http://www.weathersealed.com/2009/09/22/where-the-buffalo-roamed/

Augmented Earth Maps

Combining earth visualization software with live, dynamic video from cities:

http://www.cc.gatech.edu/cpl/projects/augearth/

Enhanced Global Elevation Data

The freely available and widely used NASA Shuttle Radar Topographic Mission (SRTM) global elevation data has been processed to interpolate elevations across previous “no-data” voids.  More on the improved dataset, and to download:

http://srtm.csi.cgiar.org/

Make a Map Website

This website launched by ESRI enables anyone to make a quick web map that can be embedded in a web page.  Map content consists of seven different U.S. census demographic layers. Free, and easy to use:

http://mapapps.esri.com/create-map/index.html 



Medical Marijuana Mashup Map

Medical dispensaries in the Sacramento, CA area that are licensed to sell:

http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?hl=en&ie=UTF8&msa=0&msid=103680464430902088550.000476519416299708ad7&ll=38.577876,-121.442843&spn=0.160626,0.13796&source=embed

Cellphones as a Spatial Platform

Google’s open source android operating system for cell phones is being used to build cheap, powerful, hand held GIS systems by Raytheon:

http://www.forbes.com/2009/10/19/android-google-military-technology-wireless-raytheon.html?partner=technology_newsletter

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CGA NEWS

New GIS/RS Specialist
CGA just added a new staff member - Dr. Yongping Zhao. He was hired to fill the vacancy left by Anders Hopperstead. Yongping comes to Harvard from the Kuwait Institute for Scientific Research, where he was a GIS Specialist for three years. Yongping has a B.S. in photogrammetry, a M.S. in remote sensing, and a Ph.D. in GIS. In the past 16 years, Yongping has led or participated in over a dozen GIS projects in environmental and socio-economic applications which were funded by Kuwait, UNDP, UNEP, NASA, FGDC, Canada or China. His expertise ranges from 3D & Virtual Reality GIS, digital photogrammetry, remote sensing, metadata and standardization, geospatial analysis, and environmental and socio-economic data modeling. He has published over 30 research papers in peer reviewed journals and proceedings. The addition of Yongping will strengthen CGA staff?s technical capacity, especially in the area of remote sensing research support.

New Contents on CGA Website
Audio-visual presentations of the Technical Workshops at the 26th Annual ESRI International User Conference are now available online to users with a Harvard ID. There are over 200 presentations, each over an hour in length, covering most subjects of ESRI products as well GIS basic concepts and application examples. http://isites.harvard.edu/fs/docs/icb.topic34492.files/2006_ESRI_conference_movies/session-list.html

Back issues of CGA newsletters are now available on the website: http://www.gis.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword=k235&pageid=icb.page22830

If you find it hard to navigate the CGA website, please try the Site Map, a one-page index of where to find what information: http://www.gis.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword=k235&pageid=icb.page23201

Undergraduate Research Scholars Program
The Center for Geographic Analysis as a member of the Institute for Quantitative Social Science is inviting applications for an undergraduate research scholarship. Selected recipients will work on GIS related projects with the CGA staff and sponsoring faculty members. For details please visit http://www.iq.harvard.edu/Funding/Undergrads/.

Remote Sensing Technology and Applications Workshop
The Center for Geographic Analysis (www.gis.harvard.edu) jointly with the Harvard University Center for the Environment (environment.harvard.edu) and the Sigma Xi Harvard Chapter (www.sigmaxi.org) will host a Remote Sensing Technology and Applications Workshop, most likely in early December 2006. Detailed information will be distributed as a special issue of the newsletter soon.

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HARVARD GIS COMMUNITY NEWS

GIS and Public Health Seminar
Chuck Croner from CDC will be giving a talk entitled “Exciting Dimensions of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and Public Health: Contributions and Future Directions” on Thursday, October 26, 2006 from 12:30 - 1:30 P.M at Harvard School of Public Health, Kresge Building, Room 708. Details are at http://isites.harvard.edu/fs/docs/icb.topic34492.files/announcements/croner_session_description.pdf. Dr. Croner is the editor of the electronic newsletter “Public Health GIS News & Information” http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/about/otheract/gis/gis_publichealthinfo.htm

Workshop on Atlantic History
The Geography of Atlantic History, 1500-1825 – A Workshop of the Atlantic History Seminar, Harvard University, November 4, 2006 http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~atlantic/geography.html

Share License Costs
Do you need a license for GeoExpress from LizardTech which can compress images into MrSID or JPEG 2000 formats? CGA and the University Planning Office are looking for partners to share the cost of such licenses. Please email contact@cga.harvard.edu if you would like to participate. For more information on GeoExpress, visit http://www.lizardtech.com/products/geo/

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GIS INDUSTRY NEWS

Microsoft Virtual Earth has recently released user collection capabilities available from local.live.com. Users are able to generate personalized maps using basic collection, drawing and annotation tools. It is to encourage non-mapping users to contribute their local knowledge about the community and the world. Examples are at http://www.passthepoi.com. These collections can be shared to your friends or to the pubic. Microsoft has funds to support ideas on making this collection functional for teaching or research. The RFP may be out in a few weeks at http://dev.live.com/virtualearth.

Social Explorer (www.socialexplorer.com) provides web access to historical census data for the United States from 1940 to 2000 through the use of interactive maps and reports.

Community Walk is a website that allows people to create and share maps with Google Map: http://www.communitywalk.com

MetaCarta has some commercial tools and services for finding geographic information from traditional text documents, web pages, and other information sources, and map them: http://www.metacarta.com/

Conference Reminders
The deadline for submitting an abstract to the 2007 ESRI International User Conference is October 20, 2006. http://www.esri.com/events/uc/papers/callforpapers.html

The deadline for submitting an abstract to the 2007 AAG Annual Meeting is November 9, 2006. http://www.aag.org/annualmeetings/SF2007/call4papers.cfm

The International Cartographic Association (ICA) workshop on Geospatial Analysis and Modeling - Spatial Structure and Dynamics of Urban Environments, 12-13 July 2007, Athens, GA, USA http://www.ggy.uga.edu/people/faculty/xyao/Workshop2007/

For Your References
This is an article summarizing web-based GIS technology status:
http://www.geoplace.com/uploads/OnlineExclusives/internetmapping.asp

This is a research article on accuracy of commercial geocoding: assessment and implications: http://www.epi-perspectives.com/content/3/1/8

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November 2012

HIGHLIGHTS

CGA Spring Conference
GIS Day Presentation Videos
Esri ArcGIS 10.1 Service Pack 1 Released
GSD Exhibition: “Cartographic Grounds“
Final two-hour GIS workshops for this semester
GIS for Humanists Workshop on December 6th
Students: use this semester’s work in the Fisher Prize competition

CGA NEWS

CGA Spring Conference:

“Creating the Policy and Legal Framework for a Location–Enabled Society”

Thursday and Friday, May 2-3, 2013

CGIS Tsai Auditorium, 1730 Cambridge St. Cambridge MA

Location matters. Energy, sustainable agriculture, biodiversity, natural hazards, traffic and transportation, crime and political instability, water quality and availability, climate change, migration and urbanization – all key issues of the 21st century – have a location component. Critical geographic thinking, understanding and reasoning are essential skills for modern societies, and geospatial technologies for location based data collection, management, analysis and visualization have developed rapidly in recent decades. Today, these technologies are widely applied in routine operations in large corporations, entrepreneurial businesses, government agencies, non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and the social media of our daily lives. They save cost, improve efficiency, increase transparency, enhance communication, and help solve problems. Location-enabled devices are weaving “smart grids” and building “smart cities;” they allow people to discover a friend in a shopping mall, catch a bus at its next stop, check surrounding air quality while walking down a street, or avoid a rain storm on a tourist route – now or in the near future. And increasingly they allow those who provide services to track, whether we are walking past stores on the street or seeking help in a natural disaster.

Read more and register on our conference page. http://gis.harvard.edu/conference

Call for Visualizations: Fisher Prize in GIS

The CGA is inviting “geographic visualization” submissions for our annual spring conference. These submissions may be in poster, video, 3d model, interactive website, or another format that can be set up in exhibit space. Harvard students can participate in the Fisher Prize competition for excellence in GIS. The deadline is not until Friday, April 26 so this is a reminder to use this semester’s coursework for your submission. Learn more on our Fisher Prize pages.

Esri ArcGIS 10.1 Service Pack 1 (SP1) Released:

Esri is pleased to announce that ArcGIS 10.1 Service Pack 1 (English only) is now available to download. This service pack provides maintenance fixes, performance improvements, software enhancements, and translation updates; all of which will improve the quality of your ArcGIS system. We recommend that you download and install this service pack at your earliest convenience. See details on what’s included.

Harvard Geography Colloquium

December’s Geography Colloquium will be held on Wednesday, December 5 @ 12 noon to 1:30 PM in the CGIS South building, room S050. Jie Tian, Assistant Professor in GIS at Clark University, will speak about “Modeling the Environment Using Modern Geospatial Approaches”. Learn about our Geography Colloquium series.

ABCD-GIS Presentation

On December 19 CGA research fellow Toshi Seto will present “The Role of the Neogeography for Geospatial Information Sharing: the Case Studies of the Crisis Mapping Project and the FOSS4G Community in Japan” in room S050 of CGIS South at 12 noon. Learn about our GIS Presentation Series.

Free Two-Hour GIS Workshops:

ArcGIS Online & Esri Maps for MS Office: 11/30 in Cambridge
2. Getting the Most out of Google Earth: 12/07 in Cambridge

GIS for Humanists Workshop Call for Applications

Recent Presentations @ the CGA:

Archie Tse and Jeremy White from the New York Times presented on November 14:

Mapping the 2012 U. S. Presidential Election

Carl Nylen from Esri presented on November 14:

ArcGIS Online & Esri Maps for Office

Paul Cote presented on November 7:

Information Ecology vs Entropy: Cybernetic Infrastructure for Place-Based Research

Leif Isaksen presented on November 5:

Pelagios and Google Ancient Places: A Sea-change in Linked Ancient Data“

Bernd Resch presented on November 5:

Live Geography – real time monitoring as a multidimensional research challenge in Geographic Information Science

Mei-Po Kwan presented on October 22:

Advances in Geographic Information Science for Social Science and Health Research

Carl Steinitz presented on October 3 :

Ways of Designing and The Roles of GIS

GSD Exhibition: Cartographic Grounds: Projecting the Landscape Imaginary

The current exhibit in the lobby of the Graduate School of Design is cartographic. Cartographic Grounds: Projecting the Landscape Imaginary reconciles the precision and instrumentality of the plan with the geographic and territorial implications of the map. In light of the ascendance of “mapping” and data visualization in design culture, and the privileging of abstract forces and flows, the exhibition reimagines the projective potential of cartographic practices that afford greater proximity to the manifestation and manipulation of the ground itself. On view through December 19 in Gund Hall.

Check out some CGA Products:

Rwanda Genocide Memorials

Professor Jens Meierhenrich of Harvard’s Department of Government, in cooperation with CGA, launched an interactive website in support of a multi-year project on genocide memorials in Rwanda. By showcasing original geographic, ideographic, and photographic data collected in the field, the website provides a fascinating glimpse into the ongoing project, and affords a heretofore unavailable, GIS-aided perspective on the spatial dimensions of memory in the wake of collective violence. http://www.genocidememorials.cga.harvard.edu/

Surgical Safety Web Map

CGA created a web map for the Harvard School of Public Health researchers involved with the World Health Organization “Safe Surgery Saves Lives” challenge. The goal of this challenge is to improve the safety of surgery around the world by defining a core set of safety standards that can be applied in all WHO member countries. The web map is a Google mashup, featuring participating organizations, hospitals, a global surgical rate map, and more.
http://maps.cga.harvard.edu/surgical_safety

Geographic Location Finder

Click, drag, and drop the red marker on any location. The updated latitude, longitude coordinates of its location are displayed. Copy and paste these coordinates into any application you want.
http://maps.cga.harvard.edu/gpf

CONFERENCES, CALLS, EVENTS & EMPLOYMENT

Event @ Harvard:

Title: Will “Big Data” Yield Big Insights about Human Society?

Friday, November 30, 2012

http://iacs.seas.harvard.edu/events

CFP: Esri Education GIS Conference - deadline 12/07

CFP: Forensic GIS: The Role of Geospatial Technologies for Investigating Crime and Providing Evidence - deadline 12/14

CFP: Call for Workshop Proposals: USGIS Symposium - deadline 12/15

CFP: A special issue on geospatial analysis of volunteered geographic information with Computers, Environment and Urban Systems - deadline 12/30

CFP: IGU 2013 Kyoto Regional Conference - deadline 01/15

Local Position: Part-time GIS Technician for the City of Cambridge IT Department

NEWS ON GIS RESEARCH AND SERVICES

ESRI is using the Harvard Election Data Archive as the basis for their national map of the electorate. This archive contains data on election results, voting behavior, and electoral politics, with particular focus on the United States. The core data for the archive are state, county and district level election returns for all recent state and federal elections in the United States. Stephen Ansolabehere of Harvard and Jonathan Rodden of Stanford collaborated to create the Stanford Election Atlas webmap. This atlas reveals the locations of Democratic and Republican strongholds, and highlights the most contested, evenly divided neighborhoods.

How population density affected the 2012 presidential election:

Thanks to Andy Woodruff of the always interesting Bostonography for the shapefile of the election results.

Pointillist data map shows the changing face of Texas

What the election map would have looked like if only white men could vote

Mastering Iron: The Struggle to Modernize an American Industry, 1800-1868

“Anne Kelly Knowles brings a new approach to our understanding of American iron-making by coupling geography with the history of technology in a new book titled Mastering Iron: The Struggle to Modernize an American Industry, 1800-1868”

Esri mapped 2012 US Presidential Election National Results

North Atlantic Population Project

Using Digital Maps To Study Disaster Preparedness and History – NPR

To Boldly Go Where No Map Has Gone Before

How will Declining Federal Budgets Impact the Geospatial Market?

DigitalGlobe, GeoEye plan smaller satellite fleet

International Geographic Congress 2012: The World is Catching Up to the U.S. in Applied Geography

Data Basin

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November 2011

HIGHLIGHTS

• GIS for Humanists Workshop 12/15

•    CGA Announces Curriculum Support for Professors

•    GIS Institute

•    Undergraduate GIS Camp

•    2012 Fisher Prize for Excellence in GIS

•    Remote Sensing Workshop Rescheduled for 12/9/2011

•    ESRI StreetMap Premium Europe 2011 Available

•    WorldMap Update

•    Applied Computational Science Challenge

•    Harvard Geospatial Library Additions

•    Video of Graduate School of Design Event: Geographic Representation Now

•    Call for Participation: Catalyzing Research on Geographies of Broadening Participation

•    Call for Applications - Summer Academy 2012

•    ESRI Virtual Campus Web Courses

•    Geospatial Challenge – Win Free Imagery

•    Road Casualties Map

•    Heart Study Suggests Place Matters

•    CartoDB Geoapp Development

•    Downloading Census Data for use in ArcGIS Tutorial

•    Article: Cartography, Redefined

•    Lecturer in Geographic Information Science Position Open at Tufts

•    Geospatial Programmer Job Open at Yale

CGA NEWS

GIS for Humanists Workshop 12/15

This two day workshop to be held on 12/15 and 12/16 for Harvard affiliates only has two spots open.  The workshop offers hands on instruction in basic GIS tools and techniques for Humanists addressing an array of questions for both their own research interests and class pedagogy.  For more information and to sign up:

http://gis.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword=k235&pageid=icb.page445564

CGA Announces Curriculum Support for Professors

As of Fall 2011, the CGA now offers extensive curriculum support services. The primary objective is to expand the presence of spatial reasoning and geospatial content within the Harvard curriculum. We work primarily with professors and teaching fellows to integrate spatial concepts into their courses. We offer five core support services:

·         New Curriculum

·         Online Learning Resources

·         WorldMap Training

·         Custom Map Design

·         Guest Lectures

If you envision a service that does not fit within these categories, we’d love to hear about it! Learn more on our Curriculum Support page:  http://bit.ly/sGLWr9

GIS Institute

This program is designed for Harvard graduate students, post-doctoral fellows, and faculty who want to learn spatial analysis and apply GIS methods in their research.  It is two weeks of GIS lecture and training 9 – 5, next offered January 2 – 13 of 2012.  Two spots are currently open.  For more information and to register:

http://gis.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword=k235&pageid=icb.page322426

Undergraduate GIS Camp

In January the CGA offers a four-day non-credit workshop during Optional Winter Activities Week (OWAW)for Harvard undergraduates titled “Spatial Thinking and Analysis with GIS”. It meets daily from 9:30 am to 6:00 pm and the deadline to register is Wednesday, December 7th at midnight.  For more information and to register:

http://gis.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword=k235&pageid=icb.page445565

2012 Fisher Prize for Excellence in GIS

The competition for the Howard T. Fisher Prize for Excellence in GIS offers an opportunity to Harvard students, including both undergraduates and graduates in good standing, to submit their work in geographic information science and be considered for a Prize of $500 in each of the designated categories for that academic year. The prize is open to any student whose primary enrollment is in a school at Harvard University during either semester of that school year. The Prize submission, review, and selection process will be held in conjunction with the CGA’s Spring conference: “Re-Mapping Africa: From Humanities to Health”.  More on the Fisher Prize:

http://gis.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword=k235&pageid=icb.page190018

A one page Fisher Prize Flier:

http://isites.harvard.edu/fs/docs/icb.topic41761.files/Call_for_Posters_and_Videos_2012.pdf