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Harvard Map Collection Opens Help Desk
Need help with making maps & using spatial data? Want to talk through your idea for a mapping based project? Have a question about using GIS or finding the right method for your task? Drop by the Harvard Map Collection help desk hours to get answers! Or...

Mapping History Workshop Oct. 30 and 31
Mapping is an effective tool for reconstructing the past, which reveals the spatial relationships that stimulated cultural, social and political change over time. In this workshop for Harvard affiliates, we will introduce digital tools and workflows for...

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...

NSF I/UCRC Renewed Spatiotemporal Innovation Center for Phase II
The NSF I/UCRC Spatiotemporal Innovation Center is recently renewed for the next five years, entering its Phase II from March 2019 to 2024. The two joint sites for Phase II are George Mason University and Harvard University, with potential new sites...

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...

GIS Internship Opportunity with Anchor QEA
Anchor QEA, an environmental science and engineering consulting firm, is seeking a summer intern in the Boston office. The intern will help the GIS team with their data library as well as assist with other GIS tasks using ESRI ArcGIS. Application deadline...

Call for Papers on Urban Crime Mapping and Analysis Using GIS
This special issue of the International Journal of Geo-Information will feature research on crime analysis, modeling, and mapping. This new collection of papers aims to contribute to the contemporary research agenda on spatial and temporal crime-related...

Mapping Related Talks This Week
Book talk: The Future is Asian by Dr. Parag Khanna features multiple geographic visualizations. See the full event details. Mapping at the Margins: Regionalism in Early Arabic Atlases by Dr. Zayde Antrim explores mapping models from Arabic manuscripts...

ArcGIS Security Update
As part of improving ArcGIS Online security, Esri requires TLS 1.2 connections for ArcGIS Online services. If you use ArcGIS Desktop software to connect to ArcGIS Online for base map or other services, please check your desktop software version and take...

GIS Education in India
For a week In November of 2018 the CGA’s Jeff Blossom was in India teaching cartography and GIS workshops as part of the Out of Eden Walk project. Over a week’s time Jeff gave the following lectures and hands on workshops: Creating Maps – A 50 minute...