A New Generation of USGS Maps

USGS announced a new series of digital topographic maps, called US TOPO, that will be produced a 3-year cycle for the entire U.S. For more information, see at http://www.doi.gov/news/09_News_Releases/120309.html.

The USGS also released a new National Map Viewer for viewing and access to the data layers and the US Topo Products produced by the USGS. See the Map viewer at http://nationalmap.gov/viewers.html.
(source: maps-l).

Photos of GIS Day 2009 @ Fenwick Library

I hope you enjoy these pictures. Thanks for coming to our 7th GIS Day Open House Event.

Come to GIS Day @ Mason: November 18

Please join us as Mason celebrates this year's GIS Day, Nov. 18, 2009! You can view specific presentations and the event schedule for GIS Day @ Mason at http://infoguides.gmu.edu/gisday.

Speakers will include faculty from Mason's Department of Geography and Geoinformation Science (GGS) and others from academia, industry and government. The GIS Center at Fenwick Library will also have an open house and demonstration event, with refreshments, from 11:00am - 3:00pm.

GIS Day is a grassroots international event that encourages GIS users to open their doors to showcase real-world applications of GIS technology. It began in 1999 and has been celebrated by more than 10,000 organizations in over 80 countries. You can follow the official Twitter feed for GIS Day, which shares information about GIS Day events all over the world.

Hope to see many of you Wednesday, November 18!

GEOProcessing 2010: Call for Papers

has been issued. The deadline for submission: October 12, 2009

Conference Date: February 10-15, 2010
Location: St. Maarten, Netherlands Antilles.
See the general program at http://www.iaria.org/conferences2010/GEOProcessing10.html.

GIScience 2010: Call for Papers

has been issued for the Sixth International Conference on Geographic Information Science. Fundamental research findings and emerging topics across the all sectors of GIScience are welcomed. See the deadline for submission at http://www.giscience2010.org.

Date: Sept. 14-17, 2010
Location: Zurich, Switzerland

2009 URISA/GIS in Transit Conference

DATE: November 16-18, 2009
Location: St. Petersburg, Florida

See the registration and program information at http://www.urisa.org/gis_transit.

GIS@Fenwick Workshop

resumes starting Sept. 16. Please check the schedule to learn basics of ArcGIS and how to apply this tool to your research.

The 17th International Conference on Geoinformatics

will be held in Fairfax, VA on August 12-14.
The conference check-in/information desk will be open at
Aug. 11, 3:00-9:00 pm, Fairfax Mariott at Fair Oaks Hotel Lobby
Aug. 12, 7:00am-5:40 pm, Johnson Center-Ground Floor
Aug. 13, 8:00am-5:40pm, Johnson Center-Ground Floor
Aug 14, 8:00am-12:00pm, Johnson Center-Ground Floor

Please see the conference Web site at: http://www.geoinformatics2009.org &
the full program at: http://www.geoinformatics2009.org/download/Geo2009_Final_Program.pdf

The Keynote Speakers include Michael Goodchild, John Townshend, Mark Richardt, Zhenka Willis.

Please join this exciting event held locally!!

2009 URISA/NENA Addressing Conference

will be held in Providence, RI on August 4-6. The conference is for GIS professionals, addressing coordinators, and emgergency response specialists. Registration is open now and see more at http://www.urisa.org/conferences/Addressing/Info.

Google Earth Heads to the Moon

NASA and Google Earth just released a new image-set of Moon images via the Google Earth Viewer. Included are:
*Take tours of landing sites
*View 3D models of landed spacecraft
*Zoom into 360 degree photos to see astronauts' footprints
*Watch rare TV footage of the Apollo missions

GeoFRED

is a mapping tool that displays economic indicators (unemployment, labor forces, income, education, etc) on the national, state, county, MSA, and BEA level. Data coverage ranges from mid 1970s to present. It's a handy reference tool at http://geofred.stlouisfed.org/.

Call for Papers, Tutorials, Panels

GEOProcessing 2010: The Second International Conference on Advanced Geographic Information Systems, Applications, and Services.

Submission Deadline: September 10, 2009
Conference Date: February 10-15, St.Maarten, Netherlands Antilles

Selected papers will be published in IARIA Journals: http://www.iariajournals.org
See the Website for more details: http://www.iaria.org/conference2010/GEOProcessing10.html

Topics included are Geo-spatial fundamentals, Geo-spatial Web Services, GIS, Geo-spatial simulation and visualizaton, Geo-modeling, Digital cartography data, Earth Geo-observation, Geo-sensing, Geo-spatial domain applications, and Managing geo-spatial data.

North Korean Economy Watch thru Google Earth

Please take a look at North Korean Economy Watch site if you have not seen it yet. The creator and editor is our own GMU student, Curtis Melvin (a Ph.D student in Economics). The site provides easy access to geographic information on N. Korea's economic issues that have hardly revealed to many of us so far.

"Compiling public maps, interviews, innovative analysis, and elbow grease, the editor of this site has also created the most comprehensive mapping of North Korea that publicly exists today. You can download it onto Google Earth." See a Wall Street Journal article highlighting his work.

Geotube

Geotube, http://geovideos.gliggo.com/ is a new site for collection of Geography videos from YouTube & other online sites. You can add your own favorite Geography videos. Please check it out. (source: maps-l).

Toxmap: Environmental e-health map

Toxmap displays EPA's 2007 TRI (Toxic Release Inventory)data on interactive mode and includes the mapping of superfund sites and other chemical environmental health data. See more about Toxmap at http://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/factsheets/toxmap.html. Explore also Toxnet (Toxicology Data Network), a collection of databases for health and environemntal professionals. Source: National Library of Medicine.

Interactive Map showing Immigration...

Please explore this map site to see how a foreign born group settled across the U.S.:
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2009/03/10/us/20090310-immigration-explorer.html?hp