CENTER FOR GEOGRAPHIC ANALYSIS NEWSLETTER

May 2009

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HIGHLIGHTS

·         ERDAS Software Update

·         ArcGIS 9.3.1 and ArcLogistics Now Available

·         Academic Geography for Sustainability

·         Open Geospatial Consortium 3D Fusion Summit

·         Tufts GIS Course

·         Spatial Decision Support Knowledge Portal

·         China Survey Data Network

·         Data.gov

·         White House Change Map

·         The Geography of Jobs

·         Subway Sparklines

·         ESRI ArcWeb Services Phase Out

·         Google Map Data API

·         London Tube Time Travel Map

·         MassDEP Google Map in Open Layers

·         GeoWebCache for GeoServer

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CGA NEWS

ERDAS Software Update

ERDAS’s Image and Photogrammetry 9.3.2 software suite is now available for download for Harvard ID holders.  This remote sensing, image processing and geospatial information management package is highly enhanced from previous versions.

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

ArcGIS 9.3.1 and ArcLogistics Now Available

CGA has received both the ArcGIS Desktop and Server 9.3.1 software releases from ESRI, and they are now available for download.  Details on what is new with this release:  

http://webhelp.esri.com/arcgisdesktop/9.3/pdf/Whats_New_In_ArcGIS_931.pdf

Download the update:

http://gis.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword=k235&pageid=icb.page222558

The respective version of ArcGIS 9.3 must be already installed before running this update file.

CGA has also received ArcLogistics 9.3 Tele Atlas Q4 2008 data. It is for geocoding and traffic routing with newly registered postal addresses. Please email contact@help.cga.harvard.edu if you are using ArcLogistics 9.3 and need this data update. 

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HARVARD GIS COMMUNITY NEWS

Academic Geography for Sustainability

Dr. George E. Clark, a Harvard University Environmental Research Librarian, published this article for Environment Magazine:   http://www.environmentmagazine.org/May-June%202009/Bytes-mj09.html

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CONFERENCES

Open Geospatial Consortium 3D Fusion Summit

The OGC 3D Fusion Summit is to be held June 23, 2009 at the Stata Center at MIT in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The OGC’s 3-D Information Management Domain Working Group (3DIM WG) has emerged as an important forum activity for the discussion and promotion of the convergence of 3-D visualization, CAD-GIS integration, and Building Information Modeling (BIM). Those stakeholder groups involved with capital facility projects throughout their lifecycle benefit from this forum. In addition, the same standards support scene visualization and decision support systems in defense, intelligence and emergency management. http://www10.giscafe.com/nbc/articles/view_article.php?articleid=694194

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NEWS ON GIS RESEARCH AND SERVICES

Tufts GIS Course

Tufts University is offering an Intro to GIS course this summer.  https://wikis.uit.tufts.edu/confluence/display/GISatTufts/GIS+Courses

Spatial Decision Support Knowledge Portal

The Redland Institute at Redlands University, Redlands, CA, and the Spatial
Decision Support Network recently announced this. http://www.institute.redlands.edu/sds/

China Survey Data Network

The mission of the recently released CSDN is to promote sharing of micro data sets on China among researchers both inside and outside of China. http://141.211.142.28/CSDN_EN/

Data.gov

All sorts of U.S. Federal data available in csv, kml, shape, and other file formats.  http://www.data.gov/

White House Change Map

The White House uses open source mapping software and crowd sourced data to show where change happens:  http://www.whitehouse.gov/change/

The Geography of Jobs

An animated, interactive map showing U.S. job gains and losses 2004 – present.

http://tipstrategies.com/archive/geography-of-jobs/

Subway Sparklines

Map of New York City subway system, graphing use of each station through time. http://transit.frumin.net/subway/spark.php

ESRI ArcWeb Services Phase Out

ESRI is phasing their ArcWeb Services; it is replaced by ArcGIS Online Services.  Info on ArcGIS Online Services:

http://resources.esri.com/arcgisonlineservices/

Google Map Data API

Google recently announced this at the O’Reilley Where 2.0 conference. http://radar.oreilly.com/2009/05/google-launches-maps-data-api.html

London Tube Time Travel Map

http://www.tom-carden.co.uk/p5/tube_map_travel_times/applet/

MassDEP Google Map in Open Layers

Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection has created this web map: http://public.dep.state.ma.us/fish/Search.aspx

GeoWebCache for GeoServer

http://www10.giscafe.com/nbc/articles/view_article.php?articleid=687542

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CENTER FOR GEOGRAPHIC ANALYSIS NEWSLETTER
May 2006
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May 5, 2006
HARVARD RETURNED TO GEOGRAPHY

This past Friday, Harvard Returned to Geography under a bright spotlight. Some say it was Geography that Returned to Harvard. Certainly the presence of the past, present, and next presidents of the AAG showed that at least some geographers were coming to Harvard, if only for a day. The presence of David Maguire and Jack Dangermond from ESRI made clear that this event was not being ignored by the GIS software industry either. But the reality is that our efforts will continue to depend on each one of us in the geographic analysis profession to build on what we have already created, so that geographic analysis will contribute to excellence in teaching and research of many disciplines.

Slide presentations, a poster gallery and video files of speaker presentations will be available on-line. Please check the CGA web site for updates: http://www.gis.harvard.edu

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GIS HELP DESK RESOURCE EXPANDED

When:
Every Monday, 1:30pm - 4:00pm

Where:
Cambridge Campus
Knafel Building , CGIS Main Computer Lab
(Concourse floor of CGIS)
1737 Cambridge Street , First Underground Floor
Cambridge , MA 02138

Longwood Campus
Instructional Computing Facility - Micro Lab
Kresge Building , Lower level
677 Huntington Avenue
Boston , MA 02115

Email: contact@cga.harvard.edu 
(Please email us if you want to make an appointment)

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HOWARD T. FISHER PRIZE IN GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SCIENCE

The deadline for submissions is May 17, 2006. For eligibility and submission requirements please visit:
http://www.gsd.harvard.edu/academic/fellowships/prizes/gisprize/ 
or
http://www.gis.dce.harvard.edu/

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INDUSTRY NEWS

Google buys Sketchup
http://www.gearthblog.com/blog/archives/2006/04/google_makes_sk.html 
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Not Your Old GRASS Anymore (Geographic Resources Analysis Support System)
http://grass.itc.it 
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‘Geocoding’ mapping software goes open-source
http://news.com.com/Geocoding+mapping+software+goes+open-source/2110-1012_3-6064250.html?tag=html.alert 
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MetaCarta Signs Contract with Defense Intelligence Agency
http://www10.giscafe.com/nbc/articles/view_article.php?section=CorpNews&articleid=242921 
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Learning to Think Spatially: GIS as a Support System in the K-12 Curriculum
http://www.nap.edu/catalog/11019.html 
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For more GIS news on-line see:
Directions Magazine http://www.directionsmag.com/ 
GIS Cafe http://www.giscafe.com/

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March 2008 
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HIGHLIGHTS

• CGA Research Support
• Georeferencing Workshop March 21
• Africa Map
• Time Enabled KML Conversion Tool
• CGA on PBS – video clip
• The Tibetan Himalayan Digital Library Presentation
• GeoWeb 2008 Call for Abstracts
• Urban & Environmental Datakit
• World Geography Game
• Google Maplets
• More…

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CGA NEWS

CGA Research Support 
In addition to CGA’s wide variety of services provided, we now offer University-wide assistance for research projects, seminar series and colloquia involving geographic analysis and mapping. Assistance will be granted via an application process, and may consist of any of the following: dedication of staff time, hiring of specialized staff, funding of postdoctoral fellowships, support for graduate students, funds for data acquisition, or whatever may be appropriate. More info at the link below, under the CGA Research Support Policies heading.
http://gis.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword=k235&pageid=icb.page22830

Georeferencing Workshop March 21

WORKSHOP UPDATE: Over 60 people are signed up for the upcoming georeferencing workshop – “Challenges of and solutions for assigning geographic location to digital information - a cross-disciplinary problem,”. Registration is open through Monday, March 17. Visit the link below for online registration.
http://gis.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword=k235&pageid=icb.page24711

POSTER SESSION: Eleven posters will be on display at the workshop showcasing completed or ongoing projects which involve georeferencing or spatial analysis, and more are welcomed. The submission deadline for posters is March 14th. See the flyer for more details:
http://isites.harvard.edu/fs/docs/icb.topic35229.files/georef_poster_3_14_08.pdf

Africa Map 
The Africa Map project addresses a basic problem for all scholarship on Africa that treats where things happen as necessary to understanding how and why they happen: finding places on a map. Numerous Harvard academic departments are collaborating with the CGA on this project, with the following goals: 1) Allow interaction with the best available public data for Africa, 2) See the whole of Africa yet also zoom in to particular places, 3) Accumulate both contemporary and historical data supplied by researchers and make it permanently accessible online, and 4) Work collaboratively across disciplines and organizations with spatial information about Africa in an online environment. More about the project:
http://africamap.harvard.edu

Time Enabled KML Conversion Tool 
Time-Enabled KML Conversion Library (teKML) is a Java API and command line application for converting geodata vector files with time attributes into KML with time elements. When opened in Google Earth V4 or higher, files processed by teKML will automatically enable the Time Bar control, allowing visualization of geographic data as it happens over time. teKML accepts shapefiles and many other vector geographic data types. For more information and to download the tool:
http://gis.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword=k235&pageid=icb.page138037

CGA on PBS – video clip 
The CGA developed materials to geographically represent the genetic history of Harvard Professor Henry Louis Gates Jr., for the PBS documentary “African American Lives 2” segment “The Past Is Another Country”. A portion of this program featured Ben Lewis of the CGA, discussing and demonstrating the mapping he created with Dr. Gates. The 3 minute video excerpt can be found on CGA’s project resume page (link below), under the first topic: Mapping Genetic History.
http://gis.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword=k235&pageid=icb.page138032

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HARVARD GIS COMMUNITY NEWS

The Tibetan Himalayan Digital Library Presentation 
How does digital technology enable new practices and visions in the humanities? What would happen if universities and colleges took to heart distributed knowledge production and publication in this context? David Germano, Associate Professor at the University of Virginia will discuss these questions in a presentation titled “The Tibetan Himalayan Digital Library: Digital Humanities and New Approaches to Area Studies” on Thursday, March 13, 2008 4:00 pm in the Barker Center. Click the link below to see the flier.
http://isites.harvard.edu/fs/docs/icb.topic35229.files/David_Germano_3_13_08.pdf.pdf

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CONFERENCES

GeoWeb 2008 Call for Abstracts 
“Infrastructure: Local to Global” is the theme for this year’s GeoWeb conference. This year GeoWeb is conducting a student contest open to all full time students anywhere in the world. Contestants must submit a theoretical solution or piece of software that advances the use of Geography on the Web. The prize for the winning contestant is an all expenses paid trip to this year’s conference July 21 – 25 in Vancouver, BC, Canada. Student contest:
http://geowebconference.org/students-academia/contest-information 
GeoWeb home

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NEWS ON GIS RESEARCH AND SERVICES

Urban & Environmental Datakit 
The Berkely/Penn Urban & Envrionmental Modeler’s Datakit contains more than 150 downloadable ArcMap-ready shapefiles and raster datasets for the 48 contiguous United States. The data is free to all users, and includes census, transportation, hydrographic, elevation, economic data and more.
http://www.dcrp.ced.berkeley.edu/research/footprint/

World Geography Game 
Can you locate countries? Test your knowledge (and pan/zoom skills):
http://www.gamedesign.jp/flash/worldmap/worldmap.html

Google Maplets 
At Google Maps, anyone can make a customized map. Maplets are tools created by various users that perform things like distance and area calculations, elevation contour generation and much more, all on a Google Map. To see maplets, go to
http://maps.google.com/ click My Maps, and Browse the Directory.

Proximity matters with Google’s “Prediction Market” 
http://blog.wired.com/business/2008/03/etech-google-pr.html

Over 200 Archaeological Sites mapped in KML format 
http://www.anst.uu.se/olofpede/Links.htm

Remote Sensing Quantifies amount of Iraqi Looted Treasure 
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg19726453.200-iraqs-legacy-of-looted-treasures-is-revealed.html

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CENTER FOR GEOGRAPHIC ANALYSIS NEWSLETTER

March 2012

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HIGHLIGHTS

•    2012 CGA Conference Tomorrow, 3/30: Re-mapping Africa in GIS: From Humanities to Health

•    Harvard Geography Colloquium: Friday, April 6th

•    Cartography Workshop

•    ArcGIS Service Pack 4 Released

•    Northern Mesopotamia Settlement Mapping

•    Women in the World Conference

•    Working Digitally With Historical Maps - presentations available

•    ESRI International User Conference Student Assistantship Program

•    The Atlas of Infectious Diseases

•    The International Encyclopedia of Geography

•    WorldMap Blog in The Chronicle of Higher Education

•    Atlas of Global Religions

•    Apple, Foursquare switch from Google Maps to OpenStreetMap

•    Mapping as Medical Investigation article in The Lancet

•    Animated Wind Map

•    Toronto Open Data

•    Mondrian Statistical and Geographic Data Visualization System

•    MapBox Streets Base Map

•    Annals of CPGIS Special Issue on Historical Mapping and GIS Available

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CGA NEWS

2012 CGA Conference Tomorrow, 3/30: Re-mapping Africa in GIS: From Humanities to Health

This conference on Friday, March 30, 2012, brings together scholars on GIS and Africa to share their knowledge and experiences; to explore the potential of geospatial methods in the social sciences, further humanities scholarship by critically engaging GIS methods, and promote interdisciplinary collaborative research in health and humanities in the continent of Africa.

View details and register: http://gis.harvard.edu/conference 

Harvard Geography Colloquium: Friday, April 6th

Dr. Anne Kelly Knowles of Middlebury College will speak on “Geographies of the Holocaust” at the next Harvard Geography Colloquium to be held Friday April 6, 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM in room S050 of the CGIS South building at 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge.  View the abstract here: http://gis.harvard.edu/colloquium

And a New York Times article on Dr. Knowles work: http://nyti.ms/nxz00o

Cartography Workshop

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

ArcGIS Service Pack 4 Released

To download this service pack, go here: http://bit.ly/GAaax1

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HARVARD GIS COMMUNITY NEWS

Northern Mesopotamia Settlement Mapping

Harvard Professor Jason Ur’s research on using satellite imagery to search for ancient settlements was featured in a recent Gazette article: http://hvrd.me/H9yQdP

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CONFERENCES AND EVENTS

Women in the World Conference

This recently held conference sponsored by the Virtue Foundation and Newsweek included celebrities such as Hillary Clinton and Angelina Jolie, and used WorldMap to start building a map of women-focused organizations around the world. See Get in the Map! for Women and Girls: http://womenintheworld.org/index.php/pages/get-on-the-map

Here is the WorldMap for this project that makes use of the new HTML attribute capability to display images and video: http://worldmap.harvard.edu/womenintheworld/

Working Digitally With Historical Maps - presentations available

These presentations from the 2010 American Association of Geographers conference are available here: http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~chgis/gazetteer/aag_2012.html

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NEWS ON GIS RESEARCH AND SERVICES

ESRI International User Conference Student Assistantship Program

Students interested in participating in this program are encouraged to submit their application soon. This is a great opportunity for students interested in geospatial technology to attend the UC for free.  In exchange for helping Esri staff around the conference, students can attend sessions and network with GIS professionals from around the world.  The application deadline is April 6. Complete details are at:

http://bit.ly/GVQoPo

The Atlas of Infectious Diseases

http://www.ndm.ox.ac.uk/atlas-of-human-infectious-diseases

The International Encyclopedia of Geography

http://bit.ly/HeMNt6

WorldMap Blog in The Chronicle of Higher Education

http://bit.ly/wpP69E

Atlas of Global Religions

http://worldmap.harvard.edu/maps/usefulglobal/CYM

Apple, Foursquare switch from Google Maps to OpenStreetMap

Two articles about this:

http://bit.ly/zhbyrO

http://bit.ly/wyVjDw

Mapping as Medical Investigation article in The Lancet

http://bit.ly/H0sy6l

Animated Wind Map

http://hint.fm/wind/

Toronto Open Data

http://toronto.ca/open

Mondrian Statistical and Geographic Data Visualization System

http://rosuda.org/Mondrian/

MapBox Streets Base Map

http://mapbox.com/blog/announcing-mapbox-streets/

Old Maps Online

http://www.oldmapsonline.org

Annals of CPGIS Special Issue on Historical Mapping and GIS Available

For free until April 18th only: http://www.tandfonline.com/r/tagi_hmg

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CENTER FOR GEOGRAPHIC ANALYSIS NEWSLETTER

March 2010

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HIGHLIGHTS

·         Rwanda Genocide Memorials Project

·         Spatial Differentiation of Villages and Local Systems Presentation

·         CGA Earthquake Data Portal Article

·         CGA Spring Conference Material Online

·         ESRI Data and Maps 2010 Available

·         H.T. Fisher Prize Orientation Session

·         Improved Interactive Harvard Campus Map

·         GSDI 12 World Conference

·         Free Seminar: How to Create Better Maps

·         The China Atlas of Population and Change

·         The Remotest Place on Earth

·         Bike Directions on Google Maps

·         World Mega-regions

·         Classic Literature Geographic Visualizations

·         SpatiaLite Spatial Database

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CGA NEWS

Rwanda Genocide Memorials Project

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. The project website:

http://www.genocidememorials.cga.harvard.edu/

Spatial Differentiation of Villages and Local Systems Presentation

Tsunetoshi Mizoguchi, Professor of Geography at the University of Nagoya will present “Villages and Local systems: Spatial Differentiation in the Nobi Core: Villages and Towns in Owari, Central Japan, 1672-1883” on Thursday, April 1 at 4:00-5:30 pm in the Kang Room S050 (Japan Friends of Harvard Concourse) of the CGIS South Building at 1730 Cambridge St.  The event will be moderated by Peter Bol, Harvard College Professor and director of the CGA.  The presentation is co-sponsored by the Reischauer Institute.

CGA Earthquake Data Portal Article

The Harvard Gazette recently wrote an article about CGA’s Haiti and Chile earthquake data portals:

http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2010/03/portals-into-haiti-chile/

Haiti Portal: http://cegrp.cga.harvard.edu/haiti/

Chile Portal: http://cegrp.cga.harvard.edu/chile/

CGA Spring Conference Material Online

CGA’s annual spring conference was successfully concluded on March 13th. The

2010 conference was titled “New Technologies and Interdisciplinary Research

on Religion” and was co-sponsored by the Political Economy of Religion Program

at the Taubman Center of the Harvard Kennedy School. The two-day conference featured 6 panels and 18 presentations by scholars from 13 universities and

4 countries, drawing 60 some attendees from Harvard and beyond. Over a dozen posters were on display in the Friday poster session.  To view presentation slides, posters, a more detailed summary and an attendee’s feedback survey go to:

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

ESRI Data and Maps 2010 Available

CGA has received this updated dataset that includes hundreds of GIS data layers and maps.  The data can currently be accessed and copied from any workstation at the HMDC lab at 1737 Cambridge St., and will be available at the Harvard School of Public Health’s Kresge building labs next week.  For more information contact us at: contact@help.cga.harvard.edu 

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HARVARD GIS COMMUNITY NEWS

H.T. Fisher Prize Orientation Session

An Orientation session will be held on Friday, April 16, 2010, from Noon to 1:30pm at the CGIS North Building, Room K031, 1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge by Lucia Lovison-Golob for all prospective students, both in the undergraduate and graduate categories.  We will discuss issues related to eligibility, requirements, pre-registration and any other questions that students may have. To prospective students: this is a wonderful opportunity for streamline, sharpen and more effectively communicate your work. If you absolutely cannot make this and still have questions, please send email to lovison@post.harvarad.edu. For more details about the H.T. Fisher Prize in GIS, please visit: http://gis.harvard.edu and navigate to Awards & Funding. 

Improved Interactive Harvard Campus Map

The University Planning Office has enhanced the design and functionality of this map:

http://map.harvard.edu/mapserver/campusmap.htm

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CONFERENCES

GSDI 12 World Conference

This conference will be held in Singapore October 19-22, 2010, with a theme of “Realizing Spatially Enabled Societies”.  For more information:

http://www.gsdi.org/gsdi12

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NEWS ON GIS RESEARCH AND SERVICES

Free Seminar: How to Create Better Maps

This ESRI seminar is being offered in Boston on April 7

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.  More info:

http://www.esri.com/events/seminars/bettermaps/index.html

The China Atlas of Population and Change

<I lost the URL to this, can someone please provide it?>

The Remotest Place on Earth

http://www.visualcomplexity.com/vc/project_details.cfm?id=672&index=672&domain=

Other maps from Visual Complexity:

http://www.visualcomplexity.com/vc/ 

Bike Directions on Google Maps

http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2010/03/google-maps-adds-bike-directions/

World Mega-regions

News article:

http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2010/03/23-3

Academic paper:

http://creativeclass.typepad.com/thecreativityexchange/files/florida_gulden_mellander_megaregions.pdf

Classic Literature Geographic Visualizations

http://laphamsquarterly.org/visual/assets_c/2010/03/Spring2010Map-1211.php

SpatiaLite Spatial Database

http://www.gaia-gis.it/spatialite/

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March 2007 
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HIGHLIGHTS

• Report on Spatially Enabling HMDC Social Science Data
• Introduction to the Michigan China Data Center
• Announcing the Environmental Statistics Lecture Series
• CGA Presentations at ABCD
• URISA GIS in Public Health Conference
• Lloyd’s of London to Use Google Earth to Depict Risk Maps
• GE Energy Partners with Oracle
• ESRI Plans to Support Open Source RDBMS at 9.3
• OpenStreetMap Makes Baghdad Mapping Available

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CGA NEWS

Report: Spatially Enabling HMDC Social Science Data 
Last July, Dr. Nicole Alexander, a CGA Visiting Researcher, worked on a HMDC/VDC Users Survey on spatially enabling the social science data sets. Since then, Nicole has been documenting the user requirements gathered, and examining the HMDC data. She will present her findings to HMDC/VDC users on April 10th, 12:00-1:30pm in CGIS South Building (1730 Cambridge St.), the Belfer Case Study room (S020). Lunch will be provided. Please RSVP.

Seminar: Introduction to the China Data Center and the Integration of GIS with China Population Census Data 
The China Data Center at the University of Michigan is an international center for advancing the study and understanding of China. This presentation will give an introduction to the Center and demonstrate China data products, data services, and recent research projects. Projects include statistical data, financial data, spatial data, a survey data network, and the applications of China data in research and education. New toolkits (desktop software and web-based services) will be introduced for advanced spatial data analysis and mapping. Dr. Shuming Bao, China Data Center, University of Michigan will present on Friday, March 23, 11:00am-12:00pm, CGIS Knafel Building (1737 Cambridge St.), Rm. N354.

Guoping Huang and Lex Berman to Present at ABCD TIE Meeting 
Guoping will discuss a project, funded by the Harvard Provost Fund for Instructional Technology, to build a historical spatial database for the class “History 1111: The Fall of the Roman Empire”. The database is created from georeferenced paper maps and other related resources and will give students the freedom to query historical places spatially and interactively. The database is suitable for continuous improvement and adaptation in future teaching and research.

Lex will discuss the Geographic Information Sharing Tool for Google Earth developed with the support of a Harvard Provost Innovation Grant. The tool has been developed to provide faculty and students a means of working with geospatial information in using the free version of Google Earth as the user interface. With Google Earth, users create their own Folders and Placemarks, then save them as KML format files. GIST provides a web-based form that allows users to upload KML files, and also a parser that ingests the features and their coordinates to a relational database. You are welcome to create your own user in the PUBLIC area of the working application at http://gist.fas.harvard.edu . 

The two talks will be on April 2, 12:15 - 1:45 in the Harvard University Lamont Library Forum Room. A light lunch will be provided.

CGA Introduced at LiMIT Program 
Wendy Guan will introduce GIS and CGA services in a break-out session of the Libraries, Museums, and Instructional Technology (LiMIT) Program, March 28, invitation only. For more information contact Mary Spidle, the Project Manager for Academic Computing.

China Historical GIS - Version 4 CDROM Now Shipping 
The latest version of CHGIS is now available on CDROM from http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~chgis/

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HARVARD GIS COMMUNITY NEWS

Announcing the Environmental Statistics Lecture Series 
Announcing Space-Time Statistical Modeling: an introductory lecture series by Michael Stein, Department of Statistics and Center for Integrating Statistical and Environmental Science from the University of Chicago.

• Wed 4/25, 3:30-5, HSPH Kresge G1, simulcast to CGIS N031
• Wed 4/26, 3:30-5, HSPH Kresge G2, simulcast to CGIS N031
• Wed 4/27, 3:30-5, CGIS N354, simulcast to HSPH Kresge G3

Sponsored by:

• Department of Biostatistics, HSPH
• Department of Statistics, FAS
• Harvard University Center for the Environment
• Center for Geographic Analysis
• Generous support from the Harvard University Center for the Environment

Please contact Chris Paciorek for more information.

Street Data Available in Convenient Format 
An alternative to downloading US streets files for the entire US is now available. The Harvard Geospatial Library (HGL) has created a layer file (.lyr) available which can be loaded to ArcMap and which makes the necessary connections to SDE on the HGL server to provide access to the Street Map data. See StreetMapUSA.lyr athttp://www.gis.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword=k235&pageid=icb.page28957

One important note on using the layer file: you must provide the IP address of your machine to HGL to enable this functionality. Contact CGA with your name and IP address, and please allow up to 24 hours for the request to be processed.

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CONFERENCES

URISA GIS in Public Health Conference 
“URISA is pleased to present this new specialty conference, to explore the many uses of GIS for public health access, processes, and decision-making. A dedicated committee of well-known and respected professionals in the field has spearheaded this effort to create a specialty conference to promote sharing of information and networking within the discipline.” http://www.urisa.org/conferences/health The conference begins with full-day preconference workshops, followed by 2 ½ days of educational sessions, exhibits and networking events.
May 20-23, 2007
New Orleans, Louisiana

2007 ESRI Health Conference 
“The ESRI Health GIS Conference provides a forum for you to examine capabilities and opportunities for managing and sharing geospatial data and analysis in a GIS framework for community health programs, health care delivery, hospitals, epidemiology, disease surveillance, health research, and more.” www.esri.com/healthgis 
October 7-10, 2007
Scottsdale, Arizona

Complimentary Seats Available for the ESRI User Conference 
Harvard University has 10 complementary registration seats to the ESRI International User Conference (San Diego, June 18-22, 2007). Please email CGA if you would like to use one. First come, first served.

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NEWS ON GIS RESEARCH AND SERVICES

Lloyd’s of London to Use Google Earth to Depict Risk Maps 
The service being offered features a continuous color scheme that helps draw underwriters’ eyes to areas of greatest risk exposure, plotting this on a map of a territory so that they can take this into account when writing new risks.http://www.lloyds.com/News_Centre/Features_from_Lloyds/Lloyds_uses_Google_Earth_to_prepare_for_the_worst.htm

GE Energy Partners with Oracle 
GE Energy is making a major shift in GIS platform for its Utility market clients by collaborating with Oracle to develop a network design and maintenance application based on Oracle 10g. http://www.directionsmag.com/press.releases/?duty=Show&id=16718&trv=1

ESRI Plans to Support Open Source RDBMS at 9.3 
From the recent Developers Summit in Palm Springs: “ArcGIS Server (ArcSDE technology) will support the PostgreSQL database at the ArcGIS 9.3 release. This will further enhance ESRI’s commitment to make its technology compatible and integrated with Open Source software technologies.” PostGIS will also be supported.

OpenStreetMap Makes Baghdad Mapping Available 
OpenStreetMap, which is building a free and open collaborative map of the world, has the most comprehensive map of Baghdad available. http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Baghdad

Worldmapper Releases Carbon Emissions Map 
You may have seen other proportional maps by Worldmapper. A new map shows global carbon emissions by country:http://www.worldmapper.org/display.php?selected=295. For information on the technology behind these maps, see Mark Newman’s site: http://www-personal.umich.edu/~Emejn/

Remote Controlled Google Earth 
Skype + Unype = Remote Controlled Google Earth. As you zoom and pan in Google Earth, the person at the other end of your Skype phone connection sees what you see. http://www.unype.com/

The 500th Anniversary of the Naming of the Americas by the Waldseemuller Map 
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2007/03/16/18377599.php

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March 2011

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HIGHLIGHTS

•    Japan Sendai Earthquake Data Portal

•    CGA Spring Conference: World Map Training and Poster/Video Contest

•    Call for Submissions: Fisher Prize in GIS at Harvard

•    Post-Doc Position Opening at CGA

•    Conference Summaries

•    Geomorphometry Conference 2011

•    Call for Registration: GEOIDE Summer School

•    USGIF 2011 Scholorship

•    Geography Education Grant Award

•    Middle East Recent Events Animated Map

•    Mining a New West

•    Proposed High Speed U.S. Rail Network Map

•    Zeemap: Create Free Maps

•    National Broadband Map

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CGA NEWS

Japan Sendai Earthquake Data Portal

In response to the Tohoku Earthquake and Tsunami on March 11 the CGA launched a web portal for posting and sharing geographic information and maps of the affected areas.  The website has received thousands of hits per day since it went live a few hours after the earthquake.  Hundreds of datasets are available at the website, and links to many informative web maps:  http://cegrp.cga.harvard.edu/japan/?q=content/home

A Harvard Gazette article on the portal: http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2011/03/a-quake-data-clearinghouse/

Harvard Gazette article on Harvard’s overall earthquake response:

http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2011/03/harvard-pushes-to-aid-japan/

Before and after satellite photos:

http://www.abc.net.au/news/events/japan-quake-2011/beforeafter.htm

Live geocoded tweets from Sendai:

http://sendai.hypercities.com/

CGA Spring Conference: World Map Training and Poster/Video Contest

The annual CGA spring conference “Geospatial Collaboration: New Common Ground” will be held May 6-7 in Cambridge.  Instructor led training sessions will be offered on how to use WorldMap on Saturday, May 7, as part of the conference.  Go here register for the training:

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

WorldMap is a spatial data and mapping application that allows one to use existing data, upload one’s own data, create maps, collaborate with others, and publish for restricted or public viewing.  More on WorldMap: http://worldmap.harvard.edu/

The CGA is also inviting poster and video submissions for inclusion in the video and poster session to be held in conjunction with the conference.  To view the poster and video submission details, and register for the conference, go to our conference page: http://gis.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword=k235&tabgroupid=icb.tabgroup110805

Call for Submissions: Fisher Prize in GIS at Harvard
This year’s Howard T. Fisher award for excellence in Geographic Information Science will include two categories: Poster and Video, with a $500 prize given to the award winner in each category. In addition, the poster and video submissions will be featured at the annual CGA workshop “Geospatial Collaboration: New Common Ground”. Deadline for submittals is Friday, April 29, 2011. View details on our Fisher Prize page.
http://gis.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword=k235&tabgroupid=icb.tabgroup101133

Post-Doc Position Opening at CGA

This two-year position will be responsible for introducing spatial reasoning and geographic analysis into the core curriculum at Harvard College and other schools at Harvard University.  See more details and how to apply for the position at our jobs page:

 http://gis.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword=k235&pageid=icb.page190008

Conference Summaries

CGA members have recently attended the GeoData 2011 NFS Sponsored Workshop and World Historical Dataverse Workshop.  Read the conference reports at our Summaries of Previous GIS Events page:  http://gis.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword=k235&pageid=icb.page190138

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CONFERENCES

Geomorphometry Conference 2011

This conference on “the science of digital terrain analysis” will be held on September 7-11, 2011 on the ESRI campus in Redlands, CA.  Author registration and poster submission deadline is May 15, 2011.  View the website:  http://geomorphometry.org/2011

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NEWS ON GIS RESEARCH AND SERVICES

Call for Registration: GEOIDE Summer School

The 2011 GEOmatics for Informed Decisions Summer School (GSS) will be held at the University of Toronto at Scarborough in Toronto, Ontario, Canada from May 20th to 25th, 2011. The GSS is designed for graduate students and will offer courses in three trendy and innovative fields of Geomatics consisting of: Geomatics and Temporality, Risk Analysis and Management, and Visualization of space.  Spaces are limited and registration will close on May 1st, 2011.

More details and to register: http://www.geoide.ulaval.ca/gsshome.aspx

USGIF 2011 Scholorship

The United States Geospatial Intelligence Foundation (USGIF) is now accepting scholorship applications. For more details and to apply: http://usgif.org/education/scholarships

Geography Education Grant Award

The National Conference on Geography Education Research Committee is accepting proposals for the E. Willard and Ruby S. Miller Geography Education Research Grant, which will be rewarded to help research issues related to geography education for 2011.  Proposals must be submitted by April 8, 2011, and may request up to $4,000 for projects lasting up to 24 months. The deadline for proposal submission is Fri 8 April 2011.  More details at our Grants and Awards page:  http://gis.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword=k235&pageid=icb.page190019

Middle East Recent Events Animated Map

http://www.slate.com/id/2288928/

Mining a New West

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2011/02/23/opinion/20110224_Schulten.html

Proposed High Speed U.S. Rail Network Map

http://www.ushsr.com/hsrnetwork.html

Zeemap: Create Free Maps

http://www.zeemaps.com/

National Broadband Map

http://www.broadbandmap.gov/

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June 2012

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HIGHLIGHTS

• Court Vision NBA Heat Maps
• July ABCD-GIS Presentation: Oracle Database Semantic Technologies and GeoSPARQl
• Business Analyst 2011 Data Available
• QStarz GPS Data Loggers Available
• Arnold Arboretum Launches Mobile Map Applications
• Investigative Reporters and Editors Conference Presentation
• CaGIS Special Issue: Mapping Cyberspace and Social Media
• GIS Teaching Opportunity at Tufts
• Global Research Journals for Education Call for Papers
• Geographic Privacy in the time of Google and Apple
• Layering Tweets over ESRI Web Maps
• Field Data Collection App for iPad
• Longitudinal Census Tract Database
• DoD Drone Activity Map
• US Brainiest Cities Map
• Google Expands 3D Imagery Coverage

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CGA NEWS

Court Vision NBA Heat Maps

CGA visiting scholar Dr. Kirk Goldsberry has developed a novel venue for applying spatial analysis: the court of National Basketball Association games. This project evaluates basketball performance via spatial and visual modalities.

Kirk’s New York Times article and NBA Finals heat maps: http://nyti.ms/MuBZHU

USA Today article: http://usat.ly/KoMaTB

Court vision analytics website: http://courtvisionanalytics.com/

July ABCD-GIS Presentation: Oracle Database Semantic Technologies and GeoSPARQl

The next ABCD-GIS presentation will be on Wednesday, July 18th, from Noon - 1:30, in Room S050 of the CGIS South building at 1730 Cambridge St.  The presentation will be “Oracle Database Semantic Technologies Overview and GeoSPARQL Support” by Matthew Perry of Oracle.  

Business Analyst 2011 Data Available

The CGA has received the 2011 business analyst data which includes thousands of census variables mapped to the 2010 census geographies; business and shopping center locations current as of June, 2011; an updated geocoding service, and more.  The dataset is for use by all Harvard affiliates, it is installed on the T drive of the HMDC computer lab, and can also be obtained by contacting us at contact@help.cga.harvard.edu.

QStarz GPS Data Loggers Available

The CGA now has 10 QStarz GPS data loggers for use by any Harvard affiliate.  These small devices record locations at specified intervals, intended for use by those wanting to map travel patterns and movement.  More information on the device: http://www.qstarz.com/Products/GPS%20Products/BT-Q1000XT-F.htm   Please email contact@help.cga.harvard.edu if interested in using.

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HARVARD GIS COMMUNITY NEWS

Arnold Arboretum Launches Mobile Map Applications

http://arboretum.harvard.edu/mobile-initiatives-at-the-arboretum/

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CONFERENCES AND EVENTS

Investigative Reporters and Editors Conference Presentation

Jeff Blossom of the CGA recently participated on the panel “Finding Stories Within Maps” at the Investigative Reporters and Editors conference held in Boston, MA.  View his presentation here:

http://maps.cga.harvard.edu/ire/IRE_2012_Presentation_Blossom.pptx   

View part 2 of the panel here: http://bit.ly/maps-to-stories

More on this conference: http://www.ire.org/conferences/ire-2012/ 

CaGIS Special Issue: Mapping Cyberspace and Social Media

Mapping cyberspace and social media (such as Twitter, Facebook, weblogs, Flickr, and YouTube) becomes a new research direction for cartographers and GIScientists to visualize and study human thoughts, group behaviors, global issues, and communication theories. With the new media (e.g., the Web and online social networks), scientists can trace geographic and chronological patterns of messages to reveal the diffusion of news, ideas, concepts, and public opinions in response to radical issues, social movements, natural disasters, or epidemic outbreaks. This special issue of Cartography and Geographic Information Science will assemble prominent research papers and discussions from multiple disciplines with the focus on pursuing basic scientific questions as well as the development of new cartographic and visualization methods. July 1 is the deadline to provide an early expression of interest with a draft title and an abstract (300 words) by email to mtsou@mail.sdsu.edu

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NEWS ON GIS RESEARCH AND SERVICES

GIS Teaching Opportunity at Tufts

The Geospatial Technology Services Group at Tufts University is looking for a part-time lecturer for a teaching position in our Geographic Information Science curriculum.  See the full job announcement: http://gis.harvard.edu/employment

Global Research Journals for Education Call for Papers

The Global Journal of Educational Research (GJER) is a multidisciplinary peer-reviewed journal that will be published monthly by Global Research Journals. GJER is currently seeking editor positions, and research articles for publication.  If interested, email GJER at: gjer.submit@globalresearchjournals.org.  More info at GJER’s website: http://www.globalresearchjournals.org/?a=journal&id=gjer

Geographic Privacy in the time of Google and Apple

http://www.schumer.senate.gov/Newsroom/record.cfm?id=337036

Layering Tweets over ESRI Web Maps

https://dev.twitter.com/case-studies/esri-enriches-maps-tweets-and-streaming-api

Field Data Collection App for iPad

http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/fulcrum/id467758260?mt=8

Longitudinal Census Tract Database

http://bit.ly/LzB3Bb

DoD Drone Activity Map

http://publicintelligence.net/dod-us-drone-activities-map/

US Brainiest Cities Map

http://t.co/KtgUqEGl

Google Expands 3D Imagery Coverage*

http://t.co/jeVjYlf7

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March 2009

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HIGHLIGHTS

·         Spatial Temporal Workshop Call for Posters

·         CGA Web Map Services

·         Google Maps, AJAX and PostGIS

·         Harvard Geospatial Library Presentation

·         New Data added to the Harvard Geospatial Library

·         International Journal of Geographical Information Science Call for Papers

·         UCGIS Summer Assembly

·         FOSS4G Call for Papers

·         Doctoral Student Scholarship Opportunity

·         UCGIS Research Award

·         The Shaping of America

·         U.S. Economy Dashboard

·         Historical Aerials

·         California Lawmaker wants to blur Google Earth

·         Patchwork Nation

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CGA NEWS

Spatial Temporal Workshop Call for Posters

The CGA’s Spatial Temporal workshop will be held April 10, 2009.  All Harvard affiliates are invited to attend, and share their work with spatial temporal or spatial analysis in the form of a poster exhibit.  More info on submitting a poster:

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

And the full details and agenda for the workshop:

http://isites.harvard.edu/fs/docs/icb.topic533305.files/Events/2009_SpatialTemporal.pdf

Register online for the workshop:

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

CGA Web Map Services

The CGA has recently created web map services for U.S. Counties, Congressional Districts, and Metropolitan Statistical Areas.  The services are available to be embedded in web map applications, and contain legible labels at the appropriate map scales.  To view and use the services go to our Web Apps page, on the right side:

http://gis.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword=k235&pageid=icb.page222549

Google Maps, AJAX and PostGIS

Displaying geographic information on a Google Map directly from a PostGIS database using AJAX eliminates the need for any map server software, and allows for editing of locations and information.  More details and how to perform this is explained in a blog post by the CGA’s Dave Siegel:

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

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HARVARD GIS COMMUNITY NEWS

Harvard Geospatial Library Presentation

The recently redesigned user interface for the HGL website will be presented in detail by Bonnie Burns of the Harvard Map Collection.  The presentation is scheduled during the March ABCD-GIS gathering, at noon on Wednesday, March 18

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, in room S050 of the CGIS South building at 1730 Cambridge St.

New Data added to the Harvard Geospatial Library

The Collins-Bartholomew World Complete dataset has been added to HGL, with access for all Harvard affiliates.  This publication includes 27 different layers of global base data, and will be updated annually for at least the next three years.  Also, historic maps of Chicago, San Francisco, Providence, Kansas City, St. Louis, Berlin, Rome, Los Angeles, and Seattle have been added.  These georeferenced historic map images are available to the general public for viewing and download. 

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

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CONFERENCES

International Journal of Geographical Information Science Call for Papers

This Special Issue on Information Semantics and its Implications for Geographical Analysis is accepting paper submissions for inclusion, with a March 31st deadline.  More info: 

http://www.cogsci.uni-osnabrueck.de/~isga08/SpecialIssue-IJGIS.pdf

UCGIS Summer Assembly

This meeting is being held in Santa Fe, NM, June 22-23.  Deadline for graduate student paper submission is May 8, 2009.

http://isites.harvard.edu/fs/docs/icb.topic533305.files/Calls/Call_UCGIS_05_09.pdf

FOSS4G Call for Papers

The annualthe Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial conference (FOSS4G) is being held this year in Sydney, Australia October 20-23.  Call for papers is open until June 1

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http://2009.foss4g.org/presentations/

Doctoral Student Scholarship Opportunity

The Vespucci Summer Institute on Geographic Information Science is being held in Florence, Italy in June of 2009.  Scholarship winners will receive tuition, accommodation, and travel expenses.  Applications are being accepted until March 27

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http://isites.harvard.edu/fs/docs/icb.topic533305.files/Calls/Vespucci_2009_June.pdf

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UCGIS Research Award

The University Consortium for Geographic Information Science (UCGIS) 

Research Award is given to the creator(s) of a particularly outstanding research contribution to Geographic Information Science recognized in 2009; but the contribution could have been made at any time prior to and including 2009. Nominations due by Friday, April 17, 2009.  More information:

http://gis.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword=k235&state=popup&topicid=icb.topic533305&view=view.do&viewParam_name=/Calls/call_04_17_09.html&viewParam_fname=

The Shaping of America

A time animated map showing economic indicators.

http://www.theatlantic.com/floridamap/

U.S. Economy Dashboard

Maps showing stimulus amounts and expected job creation by city:

http://news.geocommons.com/obamameter

Historical Aerials

HistoricalAerials.com features multiple aerial photos through time for the U.S.  There is also a handy comparison tool allowing for viewing of two images interactively side by side.  The website:  http://www.historicaerials.com/default.aspx

An article about the website:   

http://www.geoplace.com/ME2/dirmod.asp?sid=&nm=&type=Publishing&mod=Publications%3A%3AArticle&mid=8F3A7027421841978F18BE895F87F791&tier=4&id=F650A3388E904C0BB51B30CFFB19D0FF

California Lawmaker wants to blur Google Earth

http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/03/11/google.earth.censor.california/index.html

Finding Osama bin Laden: An Application of Biogeographic Theories and Satellite Imagery

UCLA researchers put to use biogeographic theories to help find al-Qaeda’s founder.

http://web.mit.edu/mitir/

Patchwork Nation

A series of 2008 election maps and analysis presented by demographic community type, along with the methodology used to create the maps.

http://www.csmonitor.com/patchworknation/

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June 2008 
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HIGHLIGHTS

• China Earthquake Webmap and Data Sharing Portal
• Sichuan University Collaborative Research Opportunity
• Howard T. Fisher Award Winners
• Demographic Mapping Software Evaluation: SimplyMap and Social Explorer
• “Time Series Module for Environmental Image Series” - Presentation
• CGA Contact Email Address to Change July 1
• New Summer Location for HSPH Help Desk
• Garmin eTrex Legend GPS Available
• CAD Training Opportunity
• Map World Forum Call for Abstracts
• GeoWeb 2008 Conference
• Earthscape Mobile
• Google Earth in a Browser Window
• National Geographic Maps Launches National Trails Database
• More…

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CGA NEWS

China Earthquake Webmap and Data Sharing Portal 
In response to a call for volunteer support for damage assessment of the devastating Wenchuan earthquake, staff at the CGA have built a web mapping site, publishing base map and earthquake data from multiple sources on the Internet:
http://cga2.cga.harvard.edu:8399/China_Earthquake 
Also a flyer with more information:
http://isites.harvard.edu/fs/docs/icb.topic35229.files/china_earthquake.pdf

In addition, CGA has created a China Earthquake Geospatial Research Portal:
http://gist.fas.harvard.edu/CEGRP/ 
for information exchanges and sharing. The CEGRP website is a gateway to maps, GIS data, and GIS analysis to facilitate and to share research efforts focused on the recent earthquakes in China. The CEGRP will collect, document, and distribute GIS datasets and related information to assist in the earthquake related research.

The Fairbank Center has committed $10,000 to CGA for enhancing these websites, and we want to hear from Harvard and other interested researchers on what data to add to the site. Please email us at contact@cga.harvard.edu with suggestions.

Sichuan University Collaborative Research Opportunity 
Sichuan University has launched a series of research projects on the Wenchuan earthquake assessment. These researching groups will collect local information, conduct surveys, and are willing to share the information for collaborative studies. Research topics are listed below:

1. Study on the distribution of material aids and capital during earthquake relief.
2. Emergency response in ecological environment management after the earthquake.
3. Damage evaluation of culture heritage and suggestions on recovery.
4. Public health issues in earthquake relief and suggestions.
5. Special issues with civil and commercial law after the earthquake.
6. Study on how to respond to administrative and legal issues after the earthquake.
7. Study on psychological assistance after the Earthquake.
8. Rebuilding the image of the city and tourism.
9. Study on how to use media as a way to console victims.
10. Feasibility analysis on economic recovery and reconstruction after the earthquake.

If there is interest in joining these research projects, contact us at contact@cga.harvard.edu on how to get involved.

CGA Contact Email Address to Change July 1 
The contact email address for CGA will change to contact@help.cga.harvard.edu starting July 1, 2008. To make this change as transparent as possible, all links pointing to the current contact@cga.harvard.edu address will be changed, and emails sent will be forwarded to the new address. The change is being made to accommodate the new RT ticketing system CGA will begin using July 1.

New Summer Location for HSPH Help Desk 
The Monday afternoon HSPH help desk location in the Lower Level microlab of the Kresge building (677 Huntington Ave., Boston) will be changing as of June 9th, 2008. The new location will be Room 206 (2nd floor) in the same building. The microlab is being remodeled; expected completion is late August, 2008. Upon completion the help desk location will move back to the microlab.

Garmin eTrex Legend GPS Available 
Due to the consistent demand for GPS usage, the CGA has acquired another recreational grade GPS device for use by all Harvard ID holders. To reserve the eTrex Legend GPS, email us at contact@cga.harvard.edu. View it’s availability by logging in, and clicking the Google calendar link at:
http://gis.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword=k235&tabgroupid=icb.tabgroup7643

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HARVARD GIS COMMUNITY NEWS

Howard T. Fisher Award Winners 
The CGA and the Committee of the Howard T. Fisher Prize in Geographical Information Science are pleased to announce the awardees for the academic year 2007-2008.

In the undergraduate category:
Anjali Lohani for “Effects of Changes in Land Cover on Water Quality” and
Jeremy Tchou for “Wind Energy in the United States: A Spatial-Economic Analysis of Wind Power”.

In the graduate category:
Amos P. K. Tai for “Regional Differences in the Effects of Climate Change on Air Quality in the United States with a Focus on Particulate Matter Concentrations” and
Miwa Matsuo for “Identifying Employment Centers and Modifiable Areal Unit Problem”.

Congratulations to Anjali, Jeremy, Amos, and Miwa, and thanks to all who submitted entries; it was a record year for submittals. For more about the award winners including their full project submittals, go to:
http://gis.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword=k235&pageid=icb.page23202

Demographic Mapping Software Evaluation: SimplyMap and Social Explorer 
SimplyMap is an on-line application that allows users to create thematic maps of a wide variety of demographic, business and marketing variables for different periods of time. Users can also export data for use in other applications. There is a training video on the site that explains the basics of the application. Harvard has 5 con-current licenses of SimplyMap available now for a trial period ending in mid-July. To evaluate the software, go to:
http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:hul.eresource:simplmap 
HUID login is required.

Social Explorer is an interactive mapping website that contains a free collection of historical census data maps and reports, and five times more data for subscribers. Census data ranging as far back as 1790 is included. Harvard has a subscription to Social Explorer that can be accessed at:
http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:hul.eresource:socialex 
HUID login is required. Non-Harvard users can explore the maps and reports at:
http://www.socialexplorer.com

Please email CGA at contact@cga.harvard.edu with feedback or comments.

Time Series Module for Environmental Image Series - Presentation 
Ron Eastman of Clark Labs will present on this topic at the June ABCD-GIS users group meeting. The presentation will be June 18th, noon – 1:30, in room N354 of the CGIS North building at 1737 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA. Lunch will be provided.

CAD Training Opportunity 
Torcomp Studica is offering training courses Aug 12-14 at Springfield Tech Community College in Springfield, MA. Courses will be offered for Inventor, AutoCAD, Revit, 3ds Max and Maya software. Cost is $129 per day which includes a free copy of the product you’re trained on.
http://www.torcomp.com/training/

CHGIS Mentioned by President Faust in Harvard Worldwide Welcome 
http://www.worldwide.harvard.edu/iws/welcome/index.jsp

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CONFERENCES

Map World Forum Call for Abstracts 
The Map World Forum held in Hyderabad, India February 10 – 13 of 2009 is seeking abstract submittals for papers. Map World Forum is more than just a conference, as it aims to “Converge Ideas and Expand Horizons for Sustainable Planet Earth”. It will explore beyond speeches and discussions to find practical ways to protect the earth and improve people’s lives. Abstracts will be accepted through July 31st, 2008. Submit an abstract at:
http://www.mapworldforum.org/2009/conference/callforabs.htm 
The conference website is:
http://www.mapworldforum.org/2009/index.htm

GeoWeb 2008 Conference 
The annual GeoWeb conference focuses exclusively on the convergence of GIS and the internet, and will be held this year July 21st – 25th in Vancouver, BC, Canada. Early bird discounted registration is open until June 13th.
http://geowebconference.org/

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NEWS ON GIS RESEARCH AND SERVICES

Journal of Geographic Information Sciences Available Online 
The Chinese University of Hong Kong Institute of Space and Earth Information Science has all issues of the Journal of GISciences available at:
http://www.iseis.cuhk.edu.hk/eng/publication/jgis/issues.htm

Earthscape Mobile 
Earthscape Mobile is software in development that puts virtual earth capability on an iPhone, allowing for globe navigation and rotation by tilting the phone. More info and see the demo:
http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/05/26/demo-of-iphone-earth/#comments

Google Earth in a Browser Window 
http://code.google.com/apis/earth/

National Geographic Maps Launches National Trails Database 
http://www10.giscafe.com/nbc/articles/view_article.php?section=CorpNews&articleid=541097

ERDAS Imagine Blog 
http://www.field-guide.blogspot.com/

Google to Launch Large Scale Geo-Services 
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/31/AR2008053101669.html

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