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A Monthly Publication of the CGA at Harvard University NOVEMBER 2015
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New Members at CGA

CGA welcomes new members who just joined us in the past few days:

New Versions of CityEngine and eCognition Available

These two software's are now available for Harvard ID holders. To download and install click here.

GIS for the Humanities and Social Sciences Workshop

This full-day workshop to be held December 4, 2015, offers hands on instruction on learning and applying several GIS and mapping techniques commonly used by those practicing in the Humanities and Social Sciences. The workshop will include discussion and interactive exercises aimed to contextualize the usage of geography and maps for each participant's individual research or teaching interests. For more information and to register.

2016 CGA Spring Conference Topic Announced

The CGA is pleased to announce our annual spring conference will be "Space, Place, and Geographic Thinking in the Humanities" for 2016, to be held April 28 and 29. This conference is aimed at bringing humanists together with geospatial technologists and theorists, reviewing current status, achievements, lessons learned, unmet needs, challenges, potentials and perspectives of applying geographic analysis in the humanities. For more information and to register.

CGA's Monthly GIS Presentations-come join the discussion

  • ABCD-GIS Presentation Series
    "Using Predictive Mapping and Crowdsourced Data Mining to Help Solve Geospatial Problems", presented by Sam Birnbaum and Todd Bacastow of Digital Globe, November 5th 2015, 12:00pm-1:00pm.
  • GIS Colloquium
    November colloquium to be announced
HARVARD COMMUNITY GIS NEWS

Harvard Integrates 3D Campus Maps with ArcGIS

Harvard's Planning and Project Management (HPPM) group manages 660 buildings across several campuses worldwide. HPPM has made extensive use of both 2D and 3D GIS to aid this management effort. Now, many of these maps have been shared publicly through ESRI's ArcGIS Online platform. Read the full article.

Cities Research Opportunities in Brazil - Lunch Workshop Nov 9th

Sponsored by the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, this initiative is inviting all Harvard faculty, students and affiliated researchers with an interest in Urban Studies to participate. A lunch workshop is being held on November 9th (12pm - 2pm) to introduce the project and research opportunities available. RSVP is required. Details on the Rockefeller Center website.
CONFERENCES, CALLS, EVENTS & EMPLOYMENT

Research Assistant Position

The Harvard research group for Climate Change, Education, and Economic Opportunity is looking for a research assistant with statistical and GIS software experience. Applications are due November 8th. For more information and to apply..

NEWS ON GIS RESEARCH AND SERVICES

Interactive Underground Railroad Map

Escape from Mercator

Web Map Analytics From ESRI

Monthly Territorial History of the USA

Afghanistan and Pakistan Earthquake Updates and Maps

Washington D.C. Live Transportation Map

Tolkien's Annotated Map of Middle-Earth

The CGA Newsletter is published monthly. Editor of this issue is Jeff Blossom.

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