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Esri Resources for Online Teaching and Learning

Learn ArcGIS—Access a wonderful collection of short, focused lessons and learning paths. These can be searched by topic (e.g., mapping, field operations, spatial analysis) or by product (e.g., ArcGIS Online, ArcGIS Pro). Esri Training—Search web courses...

Design with Nature Now - Conference Report

June 21-22, 2019, University of Pennsylvania The University of Pennsylvania’s School of Design recently opened a new research institute, the McHarg Center for Urbanism and Ecology. Fifty years after McHarg’s seminal book Design with Nature was published...

Geocoding and Mapping Historical Places

By: Yuying Yuan For researchers who study history, historical geography or other relevant academic fields, there may be some cases when they have a large number of data of historical places but cannot make the most use of them due to lack of efficient...

Notes on the CGA Annual Conference 2018

Illuminating Space and Time in Data Science was held at Harvard University, April 25th and 26th, 2017. AUDIO recordings available here. The 2018 Research Conference of Harvard’s Center for Geographic Analysis examined the convergence between geographic...

Mapping Bears Ears National Monument

Considerable controversy surrounds the areas designated for protection in Southeastern Utah, which have culminated in two Presidential Proclamations. The first proclamation (Dec 28 th, 2016), was made by President Barack Obama, who had been petitioned in...

PeriodO Project Update

PeriodO Advisory Committee Meeting Update (2017-09-25) http://perio.do meeting notes: Lex Berman The PeriodO project has developed methods for organizing, comparing, searching and – most importantly – referencing named historical periods as linked data...

World-Historical Gazetteer Project

http://whgazetteer.org/ Agenda (PDF) Supported by the National Endowment for Humanities September 8-9, 2017, University of Pittsburgh Summary: Hosted by Principal Investigator, Ruth Mostern (History, Univ of Pittsburgh), this was the inaugural meeting of...

FOSS4G 2017 Report

FOSS4G 2017 Boston Conference Report: Lex Berman Conference Proceedings (forthcoming): http://scholarworks.umass.edu/foss4g/ The international conference on Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial was held at Harvard CGA and the Seaport Hotel, from...