tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-172802732008-07-16T03:48:09.965-05:00mapzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08311375789856797994noreply@blogger.comBlogger21212532.729864-97.11307This is an XML content feed. It is intended to be viewed in a newsreader or syndicated to another site, subject to copyright and fair use.tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17280273.post-20823098361444190182007-10-25T07:11:00.000-05:002007-10-25T07:23:27.936-05:00

Workshop This Afternoon!! Download Full Workshop Materials View Zohoshow Presentation View Handout View Flyer View Google Maps Demo This has been a whirlwind frantic rush to pull together but just about everything is ready to go for this afternoon's GIS workshop. Should be a great one... Dr. Melanie Sattler, Civil & Environmental Engineering professor, will lead the workshop with a 30 minute

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Helped an engineering student yesterday to display a table with over 500,000 XY coordinates and convert it to a shapefile. The table the student brought was a 2.5 gig CSV file. It gave me some unexpected troubles. The conclusion is that the manipulation of large tables is often times best done using Microsoft Access. Specifically, converting field types for large tables with hundreds of

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[updated 10/05 to include links to free dissertation abstracts and 24-page previews, compliments of UMI Dissertation Publishing at ProQuest. See comments for more info. Thanks Mike!] Here's the latest installment of GIS-related dissertations that have caught my eye. Previous lists include 11/05, 01/06, 01/06, 04/06, 07/06, 10/06, 04/07. (Of course, this is not a comprehensive list...only

mapzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08311375789856797994noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17280273.post-15546606478329439522007-09-30T21:12:00.000-05:002007-09-30T21:13:00.660-05:00

The confirmation is only preliminary at this point, but I am preparing to teach a GIS Librarianship course next summer (2008) for the University of Arizona's School of Information Resources and Library Science. This course will be 100% distance education, so I encourage any library student or librarian out there with an interest in GIS to consider enrolling. I will post more details here as

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GIS projects must be due soon in many of our classes as folks from all over campus are coming into the GIS Lab for assistance with projecting their data. Funny how everyone from different departments and different classes are all focused on the same thing. Wonder if this has any relationship to how women's menstrual cycles sync after living close together? Does this mean the various

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Yesterday's workshop was a success on every conceivable level. We had 30 participants, which in a 27 PC lab is the best. Breakdown was 4 faculty, 12 grads, 8 undergrads, 2 staff, and 4 non-affiliates (City of Arlington intern, couple of investors, and an alumnus). By the 5 minute mark every seat was taken and a noticeable number of people dropped by and left when they saw how crowded it was.

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Workshop Tomorrow!! Download Full Workshop Materials (coming soon) View Zohoshow Presentation View Handout (1st draft) View Flyer Last week, I posted the basic details about this semester's 3 workshops. Well, after a round of late night shifts, the new hotel workshop is just about ready to go. No doubt about it, there is so much data included in this workshop. Everyone will see that I got

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Attended a demonstration of the new Texas River Information Management System (TRIMS) in early September at the Ellison Miles Geotechnology Institute (located in Farmers Branch, TX on the Brookhaven College campus). TRIMS went live in late August. This ArcGIS Server driven web mapping application is a fantastic resource for us here in the Trinity River Basin (North-Central, Central, and into

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I am teaching the spatial analysis course this semester, and the first two projects everyone is working on is based on a suitability site selection exercise. First, they need to identify the best locations for the development of a new Coast Guard facility on the Gulf Coast. Second, they need to develop an ArcMap Model to automate this suitability process. Here is their exercise scenario (

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Our data users are so loving these new online data subscription options available through products such as the Geolytics On-Line Data & Maps and Simply Map. They can hop online, on or off campus, and access the data they need. These products make accessing demographic and business data as accessible as finding journal articles. I had two faculty this past week alone make an effort to let me

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Well folks, our library is making the move and has decided to test the possibility of providing research assistance in Second Life (SL). The pilot project will focus exclusively on GIS research assistance, after which we will examine its outcomes and decide how to proceed. So, starting with the public opening of the new Info International Island tomorrow (Friday, 09/21), anyone needing GIS

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Sho’ah’s (שואה) Lasting Impact: Mapping Jewish Migration: http://gis.uta.edu/maus/ As we did last year with Mapping the Afghan Population in the US ( see background), the Information Literacy Librarian and I teamed up to create a project that will integrate numeric and spatial resources into the freshman English Composition courses. All sections of Freshman Composition I (app. 60) are reading

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First few weeks of the semester have been a rush, and our first GIS workshop is set for next Thursday. From the Superbowl, to air quality, to flipping houses, we're hoping to make a big splash with this semester's workshop lineup. (For previous workshops, see Spring 2006, Fall 2006, and Spring 2007.) Starting last semester, we began co-presenting the workshops with faculty whose research

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Students from an advanced suitability analysis course this summer needed to create a report that specified the percent of the join layer that intersected the target layer. For example, they needed to calculate the percent of each use from a landuse shapefile that intersect each zip code in Texas. I wrote a quick script for the class that generated the report they needed, but the implications are

mapzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08311375789856797994noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17280273.post-5477844439892701162007-08-11T13:53:00.000-05:002007-08-11T15:26:28.634-05:00

This summer I taught a graduate real estate course exploring the ways GIS can be used select foreclosure listings for possible investment. As far as student satisfaction is concerned, this was the most successful real estate course I taught. The course was very tight and practical, and hopefully everyone will go out and make some big bucks with the skills they learned...well, when the market

mapzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08311375789856797994noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17280273.post-37648353845818609982007-04-23T16:17:00.000-05:002007-04-23T16:28:11.393-05:00

Map and Data Services Librarian and Assistant Professor (University of Illinois at Chicago) "The University of Illinois at Chicago Library seeks a dynamic and energetic librarian to provide reference, research consultation/user education services for cartographic material and social science data sets, as well as implementation of GIS applications within the library and the university community."

mapzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08311375789856797994noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17280273.post-32619127226981210922007-04-20T20:38:00.000-05:002007-04-20T21:37:32.535-05:00

Lots and lots of fantastic mapping extensions for the Firefox browser. Which ones, you ask? Well, the 16 extensions listed below. There are also a couple of extensions that allow users to back up all the extensions installed in their browser and package them into one .xpi extension file. The extensions are Firefox Extension Backup Extension and its partner Compact Library Extension Organizer.

mapzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08311375789856797994noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17280273.post-58760924105491362362007-04-18T08:09:00.000-05:002007-04-18T08:10:33.619-05:00

The American Hospital Directory (AHD) now supplements their public hospital data with Google-powered maps. I (and many of our health care researchers) have used AHD for hospital data, but the ability to access and view the hospital data through maps is fantastic and so very useful. Check out their map of the 596 Texas hospitals in their database. Hospitals are broken up into 8 categories:

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Position: GIS Librarian (University of Illinois Library at Urbana-Champaign) "The University of Illinois Library is seeking an energetic and creative person to serve as the lead in the Library's collection and delivery of digital geospatial data and associated geographic information systems (GIS) services. The GIS Librarian will coordinate all aspects of the Library's digital geospatial

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Here's the latest installment of GIS-related dissertations that have caught my eye. Previous lists include 11/05, 01/06, 01/06, 04/06, 07/06, 10/06. (Of course, this is not a comprehensive list...only those I find interesting.) Now, I will continue to link to the ProQuest Digital Dissertations public database, which provides free abstracts and 24 page previews for many dissertations and

mapzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08311375789856797994noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17280273.post-65535116855180351612007-04-13T11:21:00.000-05:002007-04-13T11:21:32.694-05:00

Attended the Association of College & Research Libraries (ACRL) Annual Conference a couple of weeks ago. There were a few mention-worthy poster sessions and vendors related to mapping and datasets and I will outline these here. Poster Sessions Historic Images, Google Maps, and Your Digital CollectionsPresenters:Bartholomew Schmidt, Digital Projects Librarian, Cowles Library, Drake

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Census 2010 is right around the corner, folks. Have been hearing numerous faculty and students anxiously awaiting for fresh new Census data, as the 2000 data has gotten quite stale and the taste of marketing estimates is never as satisfying. However, the joyous party times we experienced during the early 2000's as summary files 3 and 4 were being released are not to be repeated this time around

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Student-Created Map: Oak Cliff Interactive Want to discuss this political science student's work to show an example of the effectiveness of our library's GIS workshop program and our endeavor to create customized tools to increase the access and attractiveness of geospatial resources. Have been working this semester with Charles Jackson, an enthusiastic political science student to develop an

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# Google Map: Redistricting in Texas # Workshop Materials: CD Image (350mb) Held our library's 3rd and final workshop of the semester, entitled Congressional Redistricting in Texas: The Maps & The Demographics. It was a blast as we had 15 students, 4 staff, and 2 faculty members attending. Everyone seemed to have a good time. The 2-hour workshop was organized into three sections. Dr. Jose

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Received a request over the weekend for 1990 Census data on the block level beyond what is currently available through our local holdings. We are purchasing the CensusCD 1990 Blocks from Geolytics, but in the meanwhile this forced me to take some time exploring free historical Census data availability and so here are the results of what I discovered. U.S. Census Bureau Data Files: Census 1980

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