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Thursday June 7, 4:00 p.m.-5:30 p.m.
at the Stanford Humanities Center
Jean-Luc Pinol, a visiting historian from University of Lyon, will present his current work on an electronic atlas of Paris. Pinol makes extensive use of GIS, employing rare materials gathered from archives and urban planning institutions in his atlas project. He will discuss the effects of [...]

Our next GISSIG event will be May 31, 12:00-1:00 p.m. at the Stanford Humanities Center. Historian Libra Hilde (San Jose State University) and Anthropologist James Holland Jones (Stanford University) will co-present on a cross-disciplinary analysis of The Impact of the American Civil War on Post-War Marriage and Subsequent Widowhood, with a focus on spatial methodologies, [...]

A day and a half of programs have been planned at the ESRI User Conference on different topics related to GIS and archaeology. The User Conference happens once a year in San Diego. This year the dates are June 18-22nd with the archaeology talks featured on Tuesday, June 19th and the morning of [...]

There’s been an interesting discussion on the GIS4LIB list over the last few days about good open source GIS and Web mapping applications. A number of resources were noted that are worth checking out as alternatives to ArcGIS or MapInfo.
Open Source GIS is a Web site dedicated to building a complete of Open Source/free [...]