http://www.stanford.edu/group/gissig/cgi-bin/wordpress GIS - Special Interest Group @ Stanford Tue, 28 Apr 2009 21:11:47 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Michal Migurski, partner, technical architect and researcher for the award-winning Stamen Design in San Francisco will come to talk to us about online cartography and the design process behind Stamen's recent mapping projects. Reserve your space! (write to cnc@stanford.edu) Lunch will be served. http://www.stanford.edu/group/gissig/cgi-bin/wordpress/archives/371 OpenStreetMap or OSM (http://openstreetmap.org/) is a free editable map of the whole world. It allows anyone to view, edit and use geographical data in a collaborative way from anywhere on Earth. Sarah Manley from Cloudmade will be our guest and will discuss how and why OSM exists, how to contribute ... http://www.stanford.edu/group/gissig/cgi-bin/wordpress/archives/323 This is a reminder that t he Morrison Institute Winter Colloquium on Population Studies ( http://www.stanford.edu/group/morrinst/c.html ) continues on Wednesday, February 25 , 2009, when Marcia Castro of the Harvard University School of Public Health presents "Improving Malaria Understanding and Control with the Aid of Spatial Analytical Approaches." Diverse types of malaria ... http://www.stanford.edu/group/gissig/cgi-bin/wordpress/archives/277 The next GISSIG lunch meeting will be Monday, March 9 at the Humanities Center. The Use and Abuse of Spatial Analysis in Historical Research Yair Mintzker Ph.D. Candidate, History Department Geballe Dissertation Prize Fellow, Stanford Humanities Center   Recent technological advances such as GIS software and google earth offer historians new, exciting ways for gathering and ... http://www.stanford.edu/group/gissig/cgi-bin/wordpress/archives/267 Peter Birch, Product Manager for Google Earth, will visit us for an informal talk and Q&A, on Tuesday, February 10th, 2009 from 12:30-1:30pm. Location TBD. Please RSVP Carlos Seligo (moth@stanford.edu) if you think you will come, so we can get some idea of the  space we will need for his visit. Peter ... http://www.stanford.edu/group/gissig/cgi-bin/wordpress/archives/119 Karin Tuxen-Bettman, GIS Specialist, Google Earth Outreach (http://earth.google.com/outreach/) Download Slide Presentation Google Earth can improve your outreach and communication with the world, and can effectively impact policy and public understanding of science. But many wonder how to represent their data, and how to get started. Karin will show several compelling examples of visualizing ... http://www.stanford.edu/group/gissig/cgi-bin/wordpress/archives/107 SAP Media X 2009 Winter Lecture Series Wednesday, January 21. 9:00 - 10:00 AM Y2E2 Room 292A Jerry Yang Akiko Yamazaki Environment & Energy Building Communicating the Structure and Evolution of Science Katy B ö rner Indiana University http://scimaps.org/ Cartographic maps of physical places have guided mankind's explorations for centuries. They enabled the discovery of new ... http://www.stanford.edu/group/gissig/cgi-bin/wordpress/archives/103 Thursday Dec 4, 2008 12-1pm Stanford Humanities Center, Board Room Lunch will be provided. Please RSVP (cengel at stanford) Mike Dvorak Researcher, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Atmosphere/Energy Program "Earth, wind, and GRASS: A multifaceted approach to engineering problem solving using open source, free, and cheap GIS" While some expensive commercial GIS software can singlehandedly do nearly ... http://www.stanford.edu/group/gissig/cgi-bin/wordpress/archives/101 Thursday Nov 6, 2008 12-1pm Stanford Humanities Center, Board Room Lunch will be provided. Please RSVP (cengel at stanford) Dan Contreras, Lecturer at the Dept. of Anthropology: "Quantifying Looting - Hybrid Research Using Google Earth and ArcGIS" International response to the problem of looting of archaeological sites has been hampered by the difficulty of reliably ... http://www.stanford.edu/group/gissig/cgi-bin/wordpress/archives/99 For anyone interested in learning more about GIS, UC Berkeley's Geospatial Innovation Facility (GIF) is offering a series of workshops about geospatial technologies. An Introduction to GIS workshop is being offered Wednesday, Oct 29 from 9am-noon. The cost is $153 for non-UC affiliates. A course outline is listed below: Intro to Geographic ... http://www.stanford.edu/group/gissig/cgi-bin/wordpress/archives/97