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A Monthly Publication of the CGA at Harvard University August 2018
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The CGA will be teaching a Basic Introduction to GIS workshop September 7th in the Northwest Building in Cambridge. The workshop is free for Harvard affiliates and open for anyone to attend. For more information and to register visit the Workshop webpage.

ABCD-GIS Presentation August 23rd Dr. Bernd Resch will present Human-centred Geoinformatics - Sensing and Analysing Urban Geographies. Talk abstract coming soon, at this webpage.

Geography Colloquium October 4th. Dr. Kelly O'Neill will present at the first Colloquium of the 2018-2019 academic year. Talk title and abstract coming soon, at this webpage.

Global Mapper and Geographic Calculator software are available for Harvard users through a grant from Blue Marble Geographics. Read more and download the software.

CGA Website Now Using OpenScholar As of August 15, 2018 the CGA website will use OpenScholar as a web host. The new website will reduce the sections and navigation options for simplicity's sake. All of the legacy content will be searchable. See the new look website.

HARVARD GIS COMMUNITY NEWS

Conference: Linked Pasts IV will be held in Mainz, Germany December 11 - 13, 2018. Read more

Job: Tenure track position in GIS at Texas A&M University Department of Geography. Read more

NEWS ON GIS RESEARCH AND SERVICES

Feedback Requested from the Census Bureau from 2020 data users. [Federal Register]

Improving Geospatial Data Search [GIS Lounge]

Mexican Election Map [Univision]

Blockchain for Geo-location [Howtotoken]

Where Cities Detain Immigrants [Citylab]

Street Orientations Graph for Anywhere in the World [Mapbox]

Federal Wildfires in the Western US (1980 - 2016) [Geospatial Training Services]

The Longest Swim Live web map | BBC article

Geo-JSON Leaflet Workflow [LexBerman]

China Launches High-Resolution Earth-Observation Satellite [ASM]

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

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