GIS & Sustainable Development Conference in Tunisia

The Fifth Session of the International Conference Geotunis 2010

The Tunisian Association of Digital Geographic Information is organizing the fifth session of the International Conference Geotunis 2010, in cooperation with several scientific institutions and companies related to GIS and remote sensing. The conference, which will run from November 29 to December 3, 2010, will focus on the use of GIS and remote sensing in achieving sustainable development. Participation is open to all those who are involved in GIS, remote sensing and related sciences.

Links
* For further background: www.geotunis.org.
* To present a working paper: Paper Registration.
* To participate in the Geotechnologic Fair: Fair Registration

You can also contact the organizing association at:
atigeo_num [at] yahoo [dot] fr

Tunisian Association of Digital Geographic Information
25 Avenue Habib Bourguiba 1001 Tunis Tunisia
Tel : (00216) 71 256 068
Fax: (00216) 71 255 881
www.atign.org.tn

2010 ACM Call for Papers and Workshop Proposals

The 18th ACM (Association for Computing Machinery) SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information System 2010.

Conference Date: November 2-5, 2010
LOCATION: San Jose, CA, USA.

Submission Deadline for papers: June 24, 2010
Submission Deadline for Workshops: May 15, 2010

See for more in details: http://acmgis2010.cs.ucsb.edu

Selected papers and workshops will be published in the conference proceeding and appear in the ACM Digital Library.

Suggested topics include but are not limited to: Cartography and Geodesy, computational Geometry, Earth Observation, Geographic Information Retrieval, Location Privacy, Data Sharing and Security, Photogrammetry, Spatial Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery, and more.

US ZIPScribble Map

Here's a fun project from Robert Kosara, a computer science professor from UNC Charlotte and the author of the Eager Eyes blog. Professor Kosara writes:

What would happen if you were to connect all the ZIP codes in the US in ascending order? Is there a system behind the assignment of ZIP codes? Are they organized in a grid? The result is surprising and much more interesting than expected.

The result of this endeavor is what he calls the ZIPScribble map (he adds that it was inspired by another fun project called "zipdecode," available here). The initial black-and-white version is below; click through to Eager Eyes and see the full color results.

New Online Food Atlas

USDA's newest web-based mapping tool, "Your Food Environment Atlas," provides highly detailed information on local food environments adn health outcome, including grocery store access and diseas and obesity prevalence. See the site at http://www.ers.usda.gov/foodatlas.

See the full press release for more.