• Last Call for Registration: Dynamic Mapping of Secondary Cities Workshop
• The NSF Spatiotemporal Hybrid Cloud Service
• GIS Site License Software Upgrade (For Harvard Affiliates Only)
• CGA's Monthly GIS Presentations
• Esri UC 2016
• Call for Papers: CyberGIS'16
• Global Merchant Fleet Map
• The Uprooted
• US Commuter Map
• More...

A 1.5-day workshop is scheduled for the Mapping Secondary Cities for Resiliency, Human Security, and Emergency Preparedness project sponsored by the NGA and State Department. The project is managed by CGA visiting scholar Dr. Melinda Laituri, who is working with the team to plan an international workshop at Harvard on June 14-15 this year. This day and half workshop will focus on open source geospatial tools and technologies for mapping Secondary Cities. The aim of the workshop is to bring together organizations and individuals involved in innovative mapping activities and solutions for emergency preparedness, resiliency planning, and urban sustainability. Secondary Cities are rapidly growing urban areas that are regional hubs for commerce, services, and governance in developing countries that are often inadequately planned for future development and growth. The workshop will open with a half-day session to provide a hands-on venue to explore and assess online, open sources tools for mapping and creating geospatial date for cities. The full day sessions will include: 1) Secondary Cities overview; 2) Case studies of dynamic city data collection; 3) Interactive assessment session of tools as linked to emergency preparedness, resiliency planning, and urban sustainability; 4) Solutions/Lessons learned. See more information and register (for free) here.

The Spatiotemporal Hybrid Cloud Service (SHCS) is a hybrid cloud computing environment built from multiple cloud systems including OpenStack, Eucalyptus, and Amazon Web Services. The facility is built and operated by the NSF SpatioTemporal Innovation Center. To use the service, please apply here.

• ArcGIS for Desktop 10.4.1
• ArcGIS Pro 1.2
• Esri Business Analyst for Desktop 10.4.1
• ArcPad 10.2.3
• Esri City Engine 2015.2

Fei Carnes of the CGA will be in attendance at the Esri User Conference happening June 27- July 1 in San Diego to learn about new trends and emerging technologies in the field of GIS. Harvard GIS users are encouraged to submit questions (if any) through this web form regarding Esri products to be shared with their developers at the conference.

Call for Papers: CyberGIS'16

The Third International Conference on CyberGIS and Geospatial Data Science will take place July 26 - 28, 2016 in Urbana, IL, USA. CyberGIS'16 will include an international research symposium that will bring together foremost researchers, practitioners, and educators to share their expertise and knowledge in cyberGIS, geospatial data science, and related fields. The submission deadline is June 10, 2016 at 11:59pm CDT. Read more

Global Merchant Fleet Map

The Uprooted

US Commuter Map

Mapping the Creatures Living Beneath Our Feet

History on Ice

NASA Maps Show How Fast New Orleans Is Sinking

Six Maps that will Make You Rethink the World

Facebook Live Map

Demographic Classification of US Neighborhoods

Mapping the History of the World

What's the Date of an Old Map

Why the Opioid Epidemic Affects All of US

Explore How the World is Mapped by OpenStreetMap Contributors

Hydro Hierarchy Maps River Systems in the USA

The CGA Newsletter is published monthly. Editors of this issue are Fei Carnes and Jeff Blossom.