For the official course webiste, please click here.
Fall 2013: MW 11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m
Maps are often the most effective way to stimulate spatial reasoning and provoke new understandings about our world’s phenomena. This course introduces contemporary map design, geographic informations systems (GIS) and spatial analysis; our emphasis will be on the concepts and techniques that empower new spatial insights into our world.
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Fall 2013: Th 1:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.
This seminar will use mapping as a methodological technique to examine social and environmental issues. Students will be expected to use mapping software to examine spatial data for a location and topic of their choice for their final paper. Weekly discussions will be conducted in class on various mapping related topics. References will range from books like “How to lie with Maps” to current journal articles examining the use of GIS in social science.
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CENTER FOR GEOGRAPHIC ANALYSIS NEWSLETTER
August 2013
HIGHLIGHTS
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CGA NEWS
CGA Receives NEH Award for WorldMap Development
The CGA received a $320K award from the National Endowment for the Humanities’ Digital Humanities Implementation Grant for its proposal “ Extending WorldMap to Make It Easier for Humanists and Others to Find, Use, and Publish Geospatial Information”. The principal investigators are Peter Bol and Suzanne Blier and proposal was supported by technical staff at the Center for Geographic Analysis, especially Ben Lewis, who is the chief architect and project manager of WorldMap project, as well as by administrative staff at the Institute for Quantitative Social Science.
This 2-year project will enhance the current WorldMap platform to make it easier for the users to find and use a key class of interactive maps called “map services” which are hosted by servers around the world, (including WorldMap itself). Currently estimated in the millions, there is no complete index for such services. This work will allow users from any online mapping application to be able to search for and use these map services as interactive map layers.
For more information, please see the NEH award announcement: http://www.neh.gov/divisions/odh/grant-news/announcing-6-digital-humanities-implementation-grant-awards-july-2013 ; Information about the current WorldMap: http://about.worldmap.harvard.edu;
Maps and Mapping Class Open for Enrollment
The FAS General Education class EMR21 “Maps and Mapping” will be offered again this fall, co-taught by Matthew Wilson (CGA) and Charles Waldheim (GSD), along with teaching fellows Jeff Blossom (CGA) and John Davis (GSD). Watch the video trailer or visit the course website (login required) for more information. The class will meet M and W from 11 – 12am in Harvard Hall 102. The class is also cross listed in the Graduate School of Design as SES-05344.
TweetMap Updated Hourly
TweetMap (http://worldmap.harvard.edu) is now being updated hourly. We are harvesting and archiving geo-tweets (about 6 million per day). Let us know if you need access to particular days for your research.
GIS Site License Software Upgrade/Renewal: For Harvard Affiliates only
ArcGIS 10.2: http://gis.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword=k235&pageid=icb.page542036
Google Earth Pro License renewed: The license are available until July 29,2014
To download Google Earth Pro: http://www.google.com/earth/download/gep/agree.html
To Request the license key: please contact CGA.
ERDAS 13.0: http://gis.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword=k235&pageid=icb.page189839
ENVI 50 sp3: http://gis.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword=k235&pageid=icb.page189839
Idrisi Selva 17.02: no change in software since March 2013, but the license path file was updated in July 2013 http://gis.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword=k235&pageid=icb.page189839
Google Map API for Business 3.13 (released) and 3.14 (experimental)
https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/javascript/basics#Versioning
Esri Demographic and lifestyle Data 2012 Updates
The following data is available in the HMDC computer lab in CGIS Knafel K026 (T:\Data_and_Maps_for_ArcGIS2012\Data_for_Education_Programs_2012). It may be copied to a local or network hard drive or used in the lab:
Esri 2012-2017 Updated Demographics
2006 -2010 American Community Survey
The data is for educational use only, and is presented in file geodatabase format at all levels of geography (state, county, census tract, block group, place, and ZIP code), for the entire U.S., and can be used in ArcGIS for Desktop, ArcGIS for Server, or other display/analysis software.
CGA’s monthly GIS presentations – come join the discussion (free lunch)
“The paradox of China 2.0: Freedom within the great firewall and growing networked authoritarianism in the People’s Republic of China” by Professor Daniel Sui, Ohio State University. September 27th, 3:30 – 5:00pm, in Room K354 of CGIS Knafel at 1737 Cambridge St.
GIS Presentation Series (ABCD-GIS)
“ EastView Geospatial’s Cloud Based Data Platform” by Matthew Tabaka, ESRI. September 18, 2013. Noon – 1:00 pm in Room S050 of the CGIS South building at 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA.
CGA Staff Reports on geospatial events: Digital Humanities, ESRI and Google
Read the conference reports from CGA staff from the Digital Humanities 2013, ESRI International Users Conference , and Google Geo for Higher Education conferences.
A Placenote Project – IPSIE’s Collective Mapping
http://isites.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword=k95683&pageid=icb.page609820
It requires a HUID login.
New CGA Affiliates
Please welcome new CGA affiliates and interns: Xin Lao, Yongqin Guo, and Tommy O’Connell. http://gis.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword=k235&pageid=icb.page447877
HARVARD GIS COMMUNITY NEWS
Using Informatics to Promote Health Equity Conference
This event will be held on Monday, September 16th, 2013, at the Harvard Medical School, and will explore the use of informatics in conducting population-based, clinical, and quality of care research. Sessions will provide an overview of a range of informatics platforms, spotlight specific research methods, and focus on the use of informatics to address racial, ethnic, SES, and geographic health disparities.
View the agenda: http://catalyst.harvard.edu/pdf/Disparities/Informatics_Health_Equity_Agenda.pdf
For more information and to register: http://catalyst.harvard.edu/programs/disparities/
CONFERENCES, CALLS, EVENTS & EMPLOYMENT
Call for Applications: Advancing the Spatially Enabled Smart Campus
The Center for Spatial Studies at UC Santa Barbara will host this specialists meeting about the smart campus on December 11-12, in Santa Barbara, CA. The application submission deadline is September 27, 2013. http://gis.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword=k235&pageid=icb.page190138
To know more about this meeting: http://www.spatial.ucsb.edu/events/ASESC/
Call for Papers: 2014 AAG Annual Meeting
AAG Annual Meeting is an interdisciplinary forum open to anyone with an interest in Geography and related disciplines. It is hosted by the Association of American Geographers (AAG), a nonprofit scientific and educational society founded in 1904. For more than 100 years the AAG has contributed to the advancement of geography. It will be held on April 8-12, 2014 in Tampa, Florida. However, all abstracts for the 2014 meeting must be submitted by December 3, 2013. Early registration ends on October 23, 2013. Read the Call for Papers and Abstract Guidelines .
StoryMap Challenge
NEURISA and Esri are challenging you to tell stories through the medium of web mapping by using story maps. The top three story maps will receive cash prizes: first place, $250; second place, $200; and third place, $150. Participants must bring their own laptop, digital pictures, and creativity; Esri will provide the rest. The contest runs from 8:30 AM to 4:30 PM on Monday, Sept. 16th, at theGIS-Pro event in Providence, RI. Refreshments will be provided. Click here to register. For more information about the concept and for inspiration, visit http://storymaps.esri.com
NEWS ON GIS RESEARCH AND SERVICES
Is Security Sustainable?
Article by 2013 CGA Conference speaker Jeremy W. Crampton of the University of Kentucky, recently published in Environment and Planning D: Society & Space:
http://www.envplan.com/openaccess/d3104com.pdf
2013 Esri International User Conference Proceedings
Check out the papers and presentations from GIS professionals at the Esri User Conference: http://proceedings.esri.com/library/userconf/proc13/index.html
And Esri technical workshop presentations at http://proceedings.esri.com/library/userconf/proc13/tech-workshops.html
NYC Taxlot-level Landuse Data Free Download
http://www.nyc.gov/html/dcp/html/bytes/applbyte.shtml#mappluto
Mapping Arms Data (MAD) Globally 1992- 2011
http://balder.prio.no/armsglobe2/index.php
Also an accompanying BBC video interviewing the director of the research institute which produced the map: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-23822086
Map of Continental US Rivers
This project is to use tiled vector data into a web map. The source code is open to use. View the map: http://www.flickr.com/photos/nelsonminar/8747607969/in/set-72157633504361549
Circle Tube Mapping for New York Subway
Animation of Satellite Imagery over Time
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2013/05/a-picture-of-earth-through-time.html
Drought Mapping in Western US
http://graphics.latimes.com/storyboard-new-mexicos-drought-problem/
Visit Every Sovereign State without Flying
http://www.theodysseyexpedition.com/maps/MegaMap.html
25 Years Time-lapse Map of Pipeline Spills in US
http://www.biologicaldiversity.org/campaigns/americas_dangerous_pipelines/index.html
Massachusetts Water Usage and Cost Mapping
http://www.boston.com/yourtown/specials/water/massachusetts_water_usage_map/
Nationwide Stream Tracing Dynamic Map by USGS
http://nationalatlas.gov/streamer/Streamer/welcome.html
Cities below Future Seas in US
http://www.climatecentral.org/news/sea-level-rise-locking-in-quickly-cities-threatened-16296
Russian Meteor Dust Plume Visualization
World Radiation Mapping
http://gamma.tar.bz/maps/main/
OpenTreeMap for Tree Mapping
It is open source software for building tree maps, and it also offers Ios and android apps for field data collection.
Editors of this issue are Fei Meng and Jeff Blossom.
The CGA Newsletter is published monthly.
See the Archive of Previous Newsletters
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Digitial Humanities 2013 Lincoln, Nebraska
Conference Report - Lex Berman (Download PDF of Report)
The DH conference gathers a number of national and regional groups under an international umbrella, the AHDO (Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations). The annual meeting covers a wide range of topics, dealing with the digitization, encoding, classification, analysis, and scholarship related to any number of humanities topics. There is a strong emphasis on the use of XML and TEI for encoding documents, on tools for scholarly analysis of texts and images, and a lesser focus on data visualization, including mapping. However, there seems to be a growing interest in the DH community related to geographic, and especially historical-geographic information modelling, for which the sessions were full to standing room only. An outcome of the meeting is the formation of SIG (special interest group) on space and place, as well as space and time, which has a proposed name of geo-humanities SIG.
Fortier Prize for best student paper: Mapping Homer’s Catalog of Ships. Ben Jasnow, Courtney Evans (Univ of Virginia).
See also the panel session on Space and Time in Digital Humanities.
Notable Papers on digital scholarship, geography and space-time issues:
Wed Jul 17th
Digital Textual Studies, Social Informatics, and the Sociology of Texts: With a Case Study in Early Digital Medievalism. Grant Leyton Simpson. [previous paper]
Practical Interoperability: The Map of Early Modern London and the Internet Shakespeare Editions. Martin Holmes, Janelle Jenstad.
Coding Media History. Eric Rutledge Hoyt.
Scientific Visualization for the Digital Humanities as CLARIN-D Web Applications. Thomas Zastrow, Erhard Hinrichs, Marie Hinrichs, Kathrin Beck.
Visualizing Uncertainty: How to Use the Fuzzy Data of 550 Medieval Texts? Stefan Jänicke
Fine-tuning Stylometric Tools: Investigating Authorship and Genre in French Classical Theater. Christof Schöch.
Thu Jul 18th
MESA and ARC, developing disciplinary metadata requirements in a multidisciplinary context. Dot Porter.
Prosopography in the time of Open data: Towards an Ontology for Historical Persons. John Bradley.
A catalogue of digital editions. Greta Franzini.
Collation on the Web. Desmond Schmidt.
Computing Place: Naturehoods in large US Cities. Karl Grossner.
CULTURA: Supporting Professional Humanities Researchers. Eoin Bailey, Mark Sweetnam, Micheál Ó Siochrú , Owen Conlan.
The Science Fiction of Science: Collaborative Lexicons and Project Hieroglyph. Edward Finn.
Fri July 19th
A Community Fab Lab: Introduction to Making. Robert E. McGrath.
Text to Image Linking Tool (TILT). Desmond Schmidt.
TXM Platform for analysis of TEI encoded textual sources. Serge Heiden, Alexei Lavrentiev.
Text Encoding, the Index, and the Dynamic Table of Contexts. Susan Brown, Nadine Adelar, Stan Ruecker, Stefan Sinclair, Ruth Knechtel, Jennifer Windsor.
ChartEx: a project to extract information from the content of medieval charters and create a virtual workbench for historians to work with this information. Helen Petrie, Sarah Rees Jones, Christopher Power, Roger Evans, Lynne Cahill, Arno Knobbe, Michael Gervers, Robin Sutherland-Harris, Adam Kosto, Jon Crump.
eResearch Tools to Support the Collaborative Authoring and Management of Electronic Scholarly Editions. Roger Osborne, Anna Gerber, Jane Hunter.
Modeling Time, Dates, and Periods for Historical Geographic Data. Lex Berman.
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Course supported with PlaceNote, interactive web-map annotation system.
From a historian’s perspective, the use of GIScience and technology in the study of history holds the promise of an integration of historical and geographic modes of analysis. The national geographic information systems (GIS) that provide extensive coverage of changes in administrative structures over time provide important support for GIS-enabled historiography. Other parts of the cyberinfrastructure necessary to support collaborative research in a digital environment are now beginning to emerge, but a world-historical gazetteer, an essential tool for linking historical data to mapped places, has yet to be developed.
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CENTER FOR GEOGRAPHIC ANALYSIS NEWSLETTER
August 2013
HIGHLIGHTS
More …
CGA NEWS
CGA Receives NEH Award for WorldMap Development
The CGA received a $320K award from the National Endowment for the Humanities’ Digital Humanities Implementation Grant for its proposal “ Extending WorldMap to Make It Easier for Humanists and Others to Find, Use, and Publish Geospatial Information”. The principal investigators are Peter Bol and Suzanne Blier and proposal was supported by technical staff at the Center for Geographic Analysis, especially Ben Lewis, who is the chief architect and project manager of WorldMap project, as well as by administrative staff at the Institute for Quantitative Social Science.
This 2-year project will enhance the current WorldMap platform to make it easier for the users to find and use a key class of interactive maps called “map services” which are hosted by servers around the world, (including WorldMap itself). Currently estimated in the millions, there is no complete index for such services. This work will allow users from any online mapping application to be able to search for and use these map services as interactive map layers.
For more information, please see the NEH award announcement: http://www.neh.gov/divisions/odh/grant-news/announcing-6-digital-humanities-implementation-grant-awards-july-2013 ; Information about the current WorldMap: http://about.worldmap.harvard.edu;
Maps and Mapping Class Open for Enrollment
The FAS General Education class EMR21 “Maps and Mapping” will be offered again this fall, co-taught by Matthew Wilson (CGA) and Charles Waldheim (GSD), along with teaching fellows Jeff Blossom (CGA) and John Davis (GSD). Watch the video trailer or visit the course website (login required) for more information. The class will meet M and W from 11 – 12am in Harvard Hall 102. The class is also cross listed in the Graduate School of Design as SES-05344.
TweetMap Updated Hourly
TweetMap (http://worldmap.harvard.edu) is now being updated hourly. We are harvesting and archiving geo-tweets (about 6 million per day). Let us know if you need access to particular days for your research.
GIS Site License Software Upgrade/Renewal: For Harvard Affiliates only
ArcGIS 10.2: http://gis.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword=k235&pageid=icb.page542036
Google Earth Pro License renewed: The license are available until July 29,2014
To download Google Earth Pro: http://www.google.com/earth/download/gep/agree.html
To Request the license key: please contact CGA.
ERDAS 13.0: http://gis.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword=k235&pageid=icb.page189839
ENVI 50 sp3: http://gis.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword=k235&pageid=icb.page189839
Idrisi Selva 17.02: no change in software since March 2013, but the license path file was updated in July 2013 http://gis.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword=k235&pageid=icb.page189839
Google Map API for Business 3.13 (released) and 3.14 (experimental)
https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/javascript/basics#Versioning
Esri Demographic and lifestyle Data 2012 Updates
The following data is available in the HMDC computer lab in CGIS Knafel K026 (T:\Data_and_Maps_for_ArcGIS2012\Data_for_Education_Programs_2012). It may be copied to a local or network hard drive or used in the lab:
Esri 2012-2017 Updated Demographics
2006 -2010 American Community Survey
The data is for educational use only, and is presented in file geodatabase format at all levels of geography (state, county, census tract, block group, place, and ZIP code), for the entire U.S., and can be used in ArcGIS for Desktop, ArcGIS for Server, or other display/analysis software.
CGA’s monthly GIS presentations – come join the discussion (free lunch)
“The paradox of China 2.0: Freedom within the great firewall and growing networked authoritarianism in the People’s Republic of China” by Professor Daniel Sui, Ohio State University. September 27th, 3:30 – 5:00pm, in Room K354 of CGIS Knafel at 1737 Cambridge St.
GIS Presentation Series (ABCD-GIS)
“ EastView Geospatial’s Cloud Based Data Platform” by Matthew Tabaka, ESRI. September 18, 2013. Noon – 1:00 pm in Room S050 of the CGIS South building at 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA.
CGA Staff Reports on geospatial events: Digital Humanities, ESRI and Google
Read the conference reports from CGA staff from the Digital Humanities 2013, ESRI International Users Conference , and Google Geo for Higher Education conferences.
A Placenote Project – IPSIE’s Collective Mapping
http://isites.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword=k95683&pageid=icb.page609820
It requires a HUID login.
New CGA Affiliates
Please welcome new CGA affiliates and interns: Xin Lao, Yongqin Guo, and Tommy O’Connell. http://gis.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword=k235&pageid=icb.page447877
HARVARD GIS COMMUNITY NEWS
Using Informatics to Promote Health Equity Conference
This event will be held on Monday, September 16th, 2013, at the Harvard Medical School, and will explore the use of informatics in conducting population-based, clinical, and quality of care research. Sessions will provide an overview of a range of informatics platforms, spotlight specific research methods, and focus on the use of informatics to address racial, ethnic, SES, and geographic health disparities.
View the agenda: http://catalyst.harvard.edu/pdf/Disparities/Informatics_Health_Equity_Agenda.pdf
For more information and to register: http://catalyst.harvard.edu/programs/disparities/
CONFERENCES, CALLS, EVENTS & EMPLOYMENT
Call for Applications: Advancing the Spatially Enabled Smart Campus
The Center for Spatial Studies at UC Santa Barbara will host this specialists meeting about the smart campus on December 11-12, in Santa Barbara, CA. The application submission deadline is September 27, 2013. http://gis.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword=k235&pageid=icb.page190138
To know more about this meeting: http://www.spatial.ucsb.edu/events/ASESC/
Call for Papers: 2014 AAG Annual Meeting
AAG Annual Meeting is an interdisciplinary forum open to anyone with an interest in Geography and related disciplines. It is hosted by the Association of American Geographers (AAG), a nonprofit scientific and educational society founded in 1904. For more than 100 years the AAG has contributed to the advancement of geography. It will be held on April 8-12, 2014 in Tampa, Florida. However, all abstracts for the 2014 meeting must be submitted by December 3, 2013. Early registration ends on October 23, 2013. Read the Call for Papers and Abstract Guidelines .
StoryMap Challenge
NEURISA and Esri are challenging you to tell stories through the medium of web mapping by using story maps. The top three story maps will receive cash prizes: first place, $250; second place, $200; and third place, $150. Participants must bring their own laptop, digital pictures, and creativity; Esri will provide the rest. The contest runs from 8:30 AM to 4:30 PM on Monday, Sept. 16th, at theGIS-Pro event in Providence, RI. Refreshments will be provided. Click here to register. For more information about the concept and for inspiration, visit http://storymaps.esri.com
NEWS ON GIS RESEARCH AND SERVICES
Is Security Sustainable?
Article by 2013 CGA Conference speaker Jeremy W. Crampton of the University of Kentucky, recently published in Environment and Planning D: Society & Space:
http://www.envplan.com/openaccess/d3104com.pdf
2013 Esri International User Conference Proceedings
Check out the papers and presentations from GIS professionals at the Esri User Conference: http://proceedings.esri.com/library/userconf/proc13/index.html
And Esri technical workshop presentations at http://proceedings.esri.com/library/userconf/proc13/tech-workshops.html
NYC Taxlot-level Landuse Data Free Download
http://www.nyc.gov/html/dcp/html/bytes/applbyte.shtml#mappluto
Mapping Arms Data (MAD) Globally 1992- 2011
http://balder.prio.no/armsglobe2/index.php
Also an accompanying BBC video interviewing the director of the research institute which produced the map: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-23822086
Map of Continental US Rivers
This project is to use tiled vector data into a web map. The source code is open to use. View the map: http://www.flickr.com/photos/nelsonminar/8747607969/in/set-72157633504361549
Circle Tube Mapping for New York Subway
Animation of Satellite Imagery over Time
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2013/05/a-picture-of-earth-through-time.html
Drought Mapping in Western US
http://graphics.latimes.com/storyboard-new-mexicos-drought-problem/
Visit Every Sovereign State without Flying
http://www.theodysseyexpedition.com/maps/MegaMap.html
25 Years Time-lapse Map of Pipeline Spills in US
http://www.biologicaldiversity.org/campaigns/americas_dangerous_pipelines/index.html
Massachusetts Water Usage and Cost Mapping
http://www.boston.com/yourtown/specials/water/massachusetts_water_usage_map/
Nationwide Stream Tracing Dynamic Map by USGS
http://nationalatlas.gov/streamer/Streamer/welcome.html
Cities below Future Seas in US
http://www.climatecentral.org/news/sea-level-rise-locking-in-quickly-cities-threatened-16296
Russian Meteor Dust Plume Visualization
World Radiation Mapping
http://gamma.tar.bz/maps/main/
OpenTreeMap for Tree Mapping
It is open source software for building tree maps, and it also offers Ios and android apps for field data collection.
Editors of this issue are Fei Meng and Jeff Blossom.
The CGA Newsletter is published monthly.
See the Archive of Previous Newsletters
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HIGHLIGHTS
CGA NEWS
WBUR Article On Boston Urban Conditions Data
Article on the Boston Area Research Initiative (BARI) use of customer relationship management (CRM) data to create maps of Boston’s urban condition using WorldMap: http://www.wbur.org/2013/07/03/big-data-boston.
Update on the Out of Eden Walk: Walking Jeddah
Jeff Blossom of the CGA continues to work with the Out of Eden Walk team on a variety of cartographic products. Here is an update on the walk progress: http://www.outofedenwalk.com/map-room/walking-jeddah/.
New CGA Affiliates
Please welcome the new CGA affiliates Haifeng Zheng, Molly Ariotti, Alex Wei, and Paul Cote: http://gis.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword=k235&pageid=icb.page447877.
HARVARD GIS COMMUNITY NEWS
Harvard Medical School Health Equity Conference
This conference promotes the use of informatics to conduct population health, clinical, and quality of care research with the goal of eliminating racial, ethnic, SES, and geographic health disparities. The conference will be held 8:00am – 12:30pm on Monday, September 16, 2013 in the Rotunda Room, Joseph B. Martin Conference Center: http://www.mfdp.med.harvard.edu/calendar/2013/september/events/sep16.html
To pre-register, click here.
CONFERENCES, CALLS, EVENTS & EMPLOYMENT
Call for Papers: 2013 ACM Health GIS Conference
The International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems will be held in conjunction with the 21st ACM SIGSPATIAL conference on November 5, in Orlando, FL. The paper submission deadline is August 20, 2013: http://healthgis.tamu.edu/.
Satellite Data Access Competition
To have a chance at obtaining satellite imagery for research purposes you can submit an application to http://greenermaps.com/academic-competition/.
Health GIS Conference
An Esri conference on health will be held October 14-16, in Cambridge at the Cambridge Hyatt Regency. There is an early bird discount for registrations before July 12: http://www.esri.com/events/health.
NEWS ON GIS RESEARCH AND SERVICES
Great Britain’s Ordnance Survey Makes Map Services Available
The Ordinance Survey is making access to some of its data available for download via the OS OpenData program https://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/opendatadownload/products.html. OS OpenData is a portfolio of 11 digital datasets of Great Britain produced by OS. They are made available for non-commercial use (free) and commercial use (paid).
Mapping the Boston Globe
This site shows on a map the places on the earth the Boston Globe has stories. Be patient as it can take time to load http://globe.mediameter.org/.
Spam Filter for Disaster Response Mapping
Article on http://irevolution.net/2013/07/29/spam-filter-for-disaster-response/.
Global Vegetation Map
http://www.businessinsider.com/the-first-global-map-of-vegetation-from-the-proba-v-satellite-2013-7
Two New Global Map Services for OpenStreetMap
http://www.openmapsurfer.uni-hd.de/
http://openmapsurfer.uni-hd.de/scale-determinator.html
Mapping Beach Pollution in the US
http://www.theatlanticwire.com/national/2013/07/americas-most-feces-polluted-beaches-mapped/66885/
US National Coastal Hazards Map
http://www.naturalcapitalproject.org/CoastalHazard_WebPortal.html
Mapping an Invisible Slum
US Place Names Translated
http://a.tiles.mapbox.com/v3/slate.truenames/page.html#2/4.4/-6.5
Zip Turns 50
An article on the zip code: http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2013/07/01/197623129/the-zip-code-turns-50-today-here-are-9-that-stand-out. Quiz: What is the smallest zip code in the country?
New Book: Spatial Mathematics: Theory and Practice though Mapping
By Sandra Arlinghaus and Joseph Kerski: http://www.crcpress.com/product/isbn/9781466505322
Mnemonic device for latitude longitude
Use What3Words to identify locations down to the nearest 2 meters http://what3words.com/.
Image Data Search Tool
Online tool provided by allows one to search and find best available high resolution imagery to purchase: http://imagehunter.apollomapping.com/.
Editors of this issue are Fei Meng and Ben Lewis.
The CGA Newsletter is published monthly.
For previously published issues please visit: http://gis.harvard.edu/newsletter
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This tool for ArcGIS version 10 allows for the input of an unlimited number of origin/destination latitude, longitude pairs in CSV format, and calculates the distance between the origin and destination for each pair using the great circle distance formula (the shortest distance between 2 points on earth). Created by CGA intern Brian Bettenhausen. Download it (120KB zip). updated 10/29/10
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