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Temporal and spatial variation of heat-related illness using 911 medical dispatch data.

"Temporal and spatial variation of heat-related illness using 911 medical dispatch data." Environmental research [0013-9351] 109.5 (2009). 600-.

Abstract: Background: The adverse effect of hot weather on health in urban communities is of increasing public health concern, particularly given trends in climate change. Objectives: To demonstrate the potential public health applications of monitoring 911 medical dispatch data for heat-related illness (HRI), using historical data for the summer periods (June 1–August 31) during 2002–2005 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Methods: The temporal distribution of the medical dispatch calls was described in relation to a current early warning system and emergency department data from the National Ambulatory Care Reporting System (NACRS). Geospatial methods were used to map the percentage of heat-related calls in each Toronto neighborhood over the study period. Results: The temporal pattern of 911 calls for HRI was similar, and sometimes peaked earlier, than current heat health warning systems (HHWS). The pattern of calls was similar to NACRS HRI visits, with the exception of 2005 where 911 calls peaked earlier. Areas of the city with a relatively higher burden of HRI included low income inner-city neighborhoods, areas with high rates of street-involved individuals, and areas along the waterfront which include summer outdoor recreational activities. Conclusions: Identifying the temporal trends and geospatial patterns of these important environmental health events has the potential to direct targeted public health interventions to mitigate associated morbidity and mortality. [Copyright 2009 Elsevier]

doi:10.1016/j.envres.2009.03.011

GIS Mapping

The GIS Mapping blog is a place to learn about new and useful applicatiuons of GIS technology in many sectors of industry, business, and science.

Cartography of Protest and Social Changes | Conflux Festival

Cartography of Protest and Social Changes

This panel discussion will take place at Conflux HQ on Sunday, September 14, from 11:00 AM to 1:00 PM.

Project Description::

The spread of global positioning systems, interactive geolocating tools and social networks have ensured that mapping is even more fashionable than the new black.

New technologies have not just freed us from the curse of impossibly difficult to fold and unfold paper maps, they have freed geographical data themselves. At least, that’s what it says on the box. Until recently, the representation of territory was coming “from above”. Maps were conceded exclusively by structures of power. Today instead, they are built by individuals who re-frame the urban space according to new coordinates.

The panel will introduce the work of a new breed of cartographers who know that even the most innocent-looking map has its own agenda and that far from being neutral accessories which would merely help you find your way in urban space, maps are often used as instruments for controlling and shaping beliefs. Conversely, maps can be at the service of protest and social change.

Speakers: Lize Mogel, John Emerson and Brooke Singer.
Moderator: Régine Debatty.

Census Atlas of the United States

* Census 2000 Reports

We are pleased to present the complete content, in PDF format, of the recently published Census Atlas of the United States, the first comprehensive atlas of population and housing produced by the Census Bureau since the 1920s. The Census Atlas is a large-format publication about 300 pages long and containing almost 800 maps. Data from decennial censuses prior to 2000 support nearly 150 maps and figures, providing context and an historical perspective for many of the topics presented. A variety of topics are covered in the Census Atlas, ranging from language and ancestry characteristics to housing patterns and the geographic distribution of the population. A majority of the maps in the Census Atlas present data at the county level, but data also are sometimes mapped by state, census tract (for largest cities and metropolitan areas), and for selected American Indian reservations. The book is modern, colorful, and includes a variety of map styles and data symbolization techniques.

WNYC - The Brian Lehrer Show: Seeing The Numbers: NYC (June 19, 2008)

Seeing The Numbers: NYC

We continue our series with Marc Perry, Chief of the Population Distribution Branch at the U.S. Census, on the new Census Atlas of the United States. This week, we look at some of the NYC-specific maps:

Also, Andrew Beveridge, Professor of Sociology for Social Explorer and chair of the Sociology department at Queens College, helps us flesh out what those maps tell us about New York.

WNYC - The Brian Lehrer Show: Seeing The Numbers: Origins and Diversity (June 12, 2008)

Seeing The Numbers: Origins and Diversity

Each Thursday in June, we are taking a look inside the new Census Atlas of the United States, the first of its kind in almost 100 years. Marc Perry, Chief of the Population Distribution Branch at the Census, helps guide us through some of the maps and trends. Today we look at the changing face of America and an interesting definition of "ancestry."

WNYC - The Brian Lehrer Show: Seeing The Numbers (June 05, 2008)

Seeing The Numbers Each Thursday in June, we take a look inside the new Census Atlas of the United States, the first of its kind in almost 100 years. Marc Perry, Chief of the Population Distribution Branch at the Census, helps guide us through some of the maps and trends.

WNYC - The Brian Lehrer Show: Seeing The Numbers (June 05, 2008)

Seeing The Numbers

Each Thursday in June, we take a look inside the new Census Atlas of the United States, the first of its kind in almost 100 years. Marc Perry, Chief of the Population Distribution Branch at the Census, helps guide us through some of the maps and trends.

City of Memory / Map / Tour / South Asian Tour

tour titled South Asian on City of Memory

City of Memory B; Map

City of Memory

City of Memory is brought to you by City Lore; a not-for-profit organization, founded in 1986 which produces programs and publications that convey the richness of New York City\'s cultural heritage. To find out more information about City Lore and our projects go to citylore.org

stamen design | New Project: MySociety Travel Time Maps

New Project: MySociety Travel Time Maps

Interactive maps of travel time and housing prices in London MySociety, an NGO which builds websites that give people simple, tangible benefits in the civic and community aspects of their lives, came to Stamen with a remit to explore two fascinating datasets: median prices of homes throughout London, and the time it takes to travel from one place to another throughout the city. Travel times from the Department of Transport Both of these datasets are fairly well understood, if not widely available for public consumption in graphic format. We thought that we could add the most value to people's experience of this material if we did two things: provided an exploratory (as opposed to search-based) way to navigate, and also combined the information into a set of interactive pieces that let you explore the various parameters on your own. For example, you may have decided you want to spend £200k on a house, and live within 1/2 hour of your work, and it's simple enough to search for that information. But what if the results that come back aren't quite to your liking, and you can't find a neighborhood that meets those parameters? Normally, you'd have to go back to the beginning, twiddle your search terms one way or the other, and start again. Travel times from the Olympic Stadium By introducing a set of sliders which control travel time as well as median house price displays, we can let you explore the data on your own terms. If you're willing to pay a bit more to live a little closer to work, for example, you can quickly adjust the sliders to reflect those choices, without having to go back to the beginning and start searching all over again. We think this way of interacting with information—exploring as opposed to searching—has alot to recommend it as more and more data moves onto our screens and into our lives.

biomapping

Bio Mapping

Christian Nold
Jan 2004 - ongoing

Bio Mapping is a community mapping project in which over the last four years with more than 1500 people have taken part in. In the context of regular, local workshops and consulltations, participants are wired up with an innovative device which records the wearer's Galvanic Skin Response (GSR), which is a simple indicator of the emotional arousal in conjunction with their geographical location. People re-eplore their local area by walking the neighbourhood with the device and on their return a map is created which visualises points of high and low arousal. By interpreting and annotating this data, communal emotion maps are constructed that are packed full of personal observations which show the areas that people feel strongly about and truly visualise the social space of a community.

How will our perceptions of our community and environment change when we become aware of our own and each others intimate body states?

Developer's Guide - Google Chart API - Google Code

You can now make cloropleth maps in google maps

About Muckety | Muckety.com - See the news with interactive relationship maps

relationships among people via-social network maps

NYPD In The Subways

Accompanying article
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/2008/02/17/2008-02-17_frisky_rides_for_blacks_and_latinos-2.html

Blacks and Hispanics make up 49% of subway riders, yet account for nearly 90% of the citizens stopped and questioned in the subways in the last two years.

EveryBlock: A news feed for your block.

EVERYBLOCK

The easiest way to keep track of what's happening on your block, in your neighborhood and all over your city - like restaurant inspections in North Beach, crimes in the Loop or everything around 475 Kent Ave.

Map Multiple Locations by Address

Map Multiple Locations / Find Address Coordinates

Locate multiple addresses internationally - North America & Europe

Flickr: Places

Explore / Places

The Places project is our way of saying thank you to all our members who’ve taken the time to put their gorgeous photos on a map. Browse the whole globe, from your hometown to your favorite place, or places you’ve never even heard of..

UCL Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis

The Google Map Creator

The Google Map Creator is a freeware application designed to make thematic mapping using Google Maps simpler. The application takes a shapefile containing geographic areas linked with attributes and automatically generates a working Google Maps website from the data. It does this by pre-creating all the necessary files and saving them into a directory. Publishing the map on the web is then just a matter of copying files onto a web server, allowing Google Maps to be used with the majority of ISPs.

SMART - Socioeconomic Mapping and Resource Topography

The Socioeconomic Mapping and Resource Topography (SMART) system provides users a mapping capacity along with resource information about federally-funded programs to address delinquency and crime. Users can create maps and retrieve statistics using the socioeconomic, crime, and resource data provided at various geographic levels, including the state, county, and local levels. Users can also map their own data using addresses they have, bookmark locations, save analyses, and print reports.

Mapping environmental injustices: pitfalls and potential of geographic information systems in assessing environmental health and equity.

Title: Mapping Environmental Injustices: Pitfalls and Potential of Geographic Information Systems in Assessing Environmental Health and Equity

Source: Environmental health perspectives [0091-6765] Maantay yr:2002 vol:110 pg:161

Abstract:

Geographic Information Systems (GIS) have been used increasingly to map instances of environmental injustice, the disproportionate exposure of certain populations to environmental hazards. Some of the technical and analytic difficulties of mapping environmental injustice are outlined in this article, along with suggestions for using GIS to better assess and predict environmental health and equity. I examine 13 GIS-based environmental equity studies conducted within the past decade and use a study of noxious land use locations in the Bronx, New York, to illustrate and evaluate the differences in two common methods of determining exposure extent and the characteristics of proximate populations. Unresolved issues in mapping environmental equity and health include lack of comprehensive hazards databases; the inadequacy of current exposure indices; the need to develop realistic methodologies for determining the geographic extent of exposure and the characteristics of the affected populations; and the paucity and insufficiency of health assessment data. GIS have great potential to help us understand the spatial relationship between pollution and health. Refinements in exposure indices; the use of dispersion modeling and advanced proximity analysis; the application of neighborhood-scale analysis; and the consideration of other factors such as zoning and planning policies will enable more conclusive findings. The environmental equity studies reviewed in this article found a disproportionate environmental burden based on race and/or income. It is critical now to demonstrate correspondence between environmental burdens and adverse health impacts--to show the disproportionate effects of pollution rather than just the disproportionate distribution of pollution sources.

Home - User-friendly Desktop Internet GIS

The User-friendly Desktop Internet GIS (uDig) is both a GeoSpatial application and a platform through which developers can create new, derived applications. uDig is a core element in an internet aware Geographic Information System.

uDig has been developed with a strong emphasis on supporting the public standards being developed by the Open Geospatial Consortium, and with a special focus on the Web Map Server and Web Feature Server standards.

Applied environmental economics : a GIS approach to cost-benefit analysis / Ian J. Bateman, Andrew A. Lovett and Julii S. Brainard.

Bateman, Ian. . Applied environmental economics : a GIS approach to cost-benefit analysis / Ian J. Bateman, Andrew A. Lovett and Julii S. Brainard. [0521809568 (hardback) ] Cambridge, UK ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2003.
Call#: Lippincott Library HD75.6 .B38 2003

Export to KML 2.4.1 - ArcScripts Details

> SUMMARY:
Export to KML is an extension developed for ArcGIS 9.x by the City of Portland, Bureau of Planning. The extension allows ArcGIS users to export GIS data in “keyhole markup language” (KML) format for viewing in Google Earth. Any point, polyline, or polygon dataset, in any defined projection, can be exported. Features can be exported as either 2-dimensional features, or 3D features "extruded" upwards by an attribute or z-value.

Some other features: ability to incorporate ArcMap layer symbology into the exported KML; labeling of point, line, and polygon features; "describe" individual features using the database attributes, store database attributes as "schema" items.

If you come across any bugs or make any improvements, please let me know. I'd highly recommend checking back regularly for updated versions.
> WHAT'S NEW IN VERSION 2.4:
- implements KML version 2.2
- attributes from the GIS database stored in the output KML as "schema" items
- labels and information points can now be vertically offset
- layer and features descriptions can be saved as and imported from files
- a horizontal “shift” (in X/Y coordinates) can now be applied
- bunch of other bug fixes, minor tweaks and improvements

Redraft of the Castello Plan New Amsterdam in 1660 - Yahoo! MapMixer

Redraft of the Castello Plan New Amsterdam in 1660

Harvard Map Collection Digitizes Historic Cambridge and Boston Atlases - HCL News - Harvard College Library

Harvard Map Collection Digitizes Historic Cambridge and Boston Atlases

September 6, 2007 - The Harvard Map Collection's atlases of historic Cambridge have much to reveal about the city and the University's past. Looking at these oversized documents, for instance, one learns that 135 years ago, Harvard students boarded their horses in the University stables where current day John Harvard's Brew House operates and that as of 1903 the John Harvard statue sat, not outside University Hall, but by Memorial Hall. Now the Map Collection has made it easier for those researching local history to use its Boston and Cambridge atlases by digitizing these volumes and making them available online to the public.

“The two kinds of atlases we’ve recently digitized for Cambridge and Boston are called fire insurance and land ownership atlases,” says David Cobb, Curator of the Harvard Map Collection. “They’re unique and very significant, and they really provide far more detail than the regular maps of Cambridge and Boston.”

GIS Class 2007 : GSAPP : Columbia University : google maps vs gis

Introductory summer class on integrating GIS and Goolge Mpas

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GSAPP : columbia university
google maps vs gis an introduction summer '07

Current Syllabus
Week 1 In Class
Week 1 Out of Class
Week 2 In Class
Week 2 Out of Class
Week 2 3D Modeling
Week 3 In Class
Week 3 GPS Handheld Manual
Week 4 : GPS & Making Your Own Point Symbology
Final Mapping Assignment

Spatial Scale and Population Assignment Choices in Environmental Justice Analyses - Prof Geographer, Volume 56 Issue 4 Page 574-586, November 2004

The Professional Geographer

Volume 56 Issue 4 Page 574-586, November 2004

To cite this article: Michael T. Most, Raja Sengupta, Michael A. Burgener (2004)
Spatial Scale and Population Assignment Choices in Environmental Justice Analyses1
The Professional Geographer 56 (4), 574-586.
doi:10.1111/j.0033-0124.2004.00449.x

Abstract

Environmental justice laws protect certain populations against discriminatory actions that may result from a myriad of enterprises, including transportation activities. Previous environmental equity studies examining the effects of transportation-engendered externalities have been criticized on several points, including (1) that the choice of a reference population for comparison to the criterion variable may influence the outcome of research results and (2) that the selection and use of inappropriate methodologies intended to identify and characterize populations may foreordain research outcomes. This article examines the potentially confounding effects of selected spatial scale and population assignment strategies as applied to a study of excessive noise levels at a large Midwestern airport, finding that reported outcomes can vary significantly as a function of methodological choices.

GeoRSS | GeoRSS :: Geographically Encoded Objects for RSS feeds

GeoRSS

This site describes a number of ways to encode location in RSS feeds. As RSS becomes more and more prevalent as a way to publish and share information, it becomes increasingly important that location is described in an interoperable manner so that applications can request, aggregate, share and map geographically tagged feeds.

To avoid the fragmentation of language that has occurred in RSS and other Web information encoding efforts, we have created this site to promote a relatively small number of encodings that meet the needs of a wide range of communities. By building these encodings on a common information model, we hope to promote interoperability and "upwards-compatibility" across encodings.

Flickr: Explore geotagged photos from the People's 311 - New York group on a Map

The people's 311, flickr tagged photos on a map, by Stay Free! magazine

Data Mining: Text Mining, Visualization and Social Media: GigaPixel Images in Google Earth

August 23, 2007

GigaPixel Images in Google Earth

Frank Taylor at the Google Earth Blog has posted a video demonstrating a new layer in Google Earth (v 4.2 required). The layer essentially adds portals to high resolution images on to the map and allows for modal interaction with the image. The interaction starts with a sweep down to the geolocated image which is then aligned with the surrounding 3d space. You can then navigate into the image which is refined like the standard tiling approach seen in mapping sites giving you access to the full gigapixel experience.

Measures of Visual Clutter: Some Intuitions

We have developed and tested two measures of visual clutter: the Feature Congestion measure, and the Subband Entropy measure.

Feature Congestion measure: This measure of visual clutter is based on the common experience of going to put a note on a colleague's desk. If the desk is uncluttered, it's easy to find a place to put the note where we are confident our colleague will notice it. However, if the desk is cluttered, we tend not to be confident they will notice the note, and perhaps will leave the note on a chair so they will spot it.

This suggests that clutter is related to the difficulty in adding an attention-grabbing item to a display. Visual search models typically attempt to predict the difficulty of searching for a particular target among particular distractors. However, our Statistical Saliency Model can easily make the dual prediction of how difficult it would be to add an attention-grabbing item to a display, and what features that item should have in order to draw attention. Our Feature Congestion measure of visual clutter is based upon this model of visual search.

Subband Entropy measure: This measure of visual clutter is based upon the intuition that a scene or display is less cluttered the more "organized" it is, i.e. the more items "group" together perceptually, whether through use of similar colors, or alignment, or other tricks. A related question to ask is to what extent each part of the display or scene is predictable from the rest of the scene? How redundant is the visual information in the scene?

The New York Times > New York Region > Interactive Feature > New York City Transit System Is Crippled by Storm

August 8, 2007
New York City Transit System Is Crippled by Storm

Click on the map for reader comments, audio clips from commuters and photographs from the aftermath of the storm.

MAPublisher 7.x for Adobe Illustrator | Avenza Systems Inc.

MAPublisher 7.5 is the newest version of this powerful suite of plug-ins for Adobe Illustrator that bridges the gap between Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and high-end graphic design for high quality creation, high resolution printing and electronic publishing of maps. Cartographic quality map production is now faster, easier and better. Avenza understands that completing GIS graphics tasks is best performed in the right environment such as a powerful graphics application like Adobe Illustrator. MAPublisher takes you into this environment seamlessly and effortlessly with the right GIS data management tools to facilitate the map production process. Using this fast, intuitive system, your map can transcend the ordinary and become a work of art.

MAPublisher 7.5 combines the best features of GIS with the powerful design environments of Adobe Illustrator CS2 and CS3 to enable native GIS data files to be used as a base for cartographic production. No more scanning and tracing is necessary with MAPublisher.

MAPublisher 7.5 supports the import of the most widely used GIS data formats, including those from ESRI, MapInfo, MicroStation, AutoCAD, Google and the USGS. All GIS data attributes and geographic parameters are maintained during import and are fully accessible and editable during the cartographic process. MAPublisher 7.5 provides dozens of mapping, cartographic and GIS-like tools for working with imported map data within the Adobe Illustrator environment towards the creation of the the highest quality maps possible.

GIS and mapping: Pitsfalls for planners

GIS and mapping: Pitsfalls for planners

Robert B Kent, Richard E Klosterman. American Planning Association. Journal of the American Planning Association. Chicago: Spring 2000. Vol. 66, Iss. 2; pg. 189, 10 pgs

Abstract (Summary)

The widespread availability of geographic information systems (GIS) and computer mapping software allows individuals with little or no cartographic knowledge and experience to prepare maps for planning purposes. While these maps are often satisfactory, they may not serve their intended purposes. Some of the common mistakes that planners make in preparing maps are identified and ways to avoid them are suggested. Some key considerations in map making are introduced and a series of practical tips that will help planners produce more effective maps are offered.

How We Watch the City: Popularity and Online Maps

Microsoft Research

Danyel Fisher

ABSTRACT
One way of conceptualizing physical spaces is to look at
where people notice, remember, or note them. Computer-
assisted methods give us new tools based on implicit, rather
than explicit, data about how users have examined and
travelled online through cities. “Hotmap” is a tool that
visualizes how people have used maps.live.com, an
interactive mapping service, looking at what parts of the
maps they find most compelling.

Hotmap from Microsoft Research

map showing how many times different places have viewed using Microsoft's mapping service

SSRN-Space and the Measurement of Income Segregation by Casey J. Dawkins

Space and the Measurement of Income Segregation

CASEY J. DAWKINS
Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University
Journal of Regional Science, Vol. 47, No. 2, pp. 255-272, May 2007

Abstract:
This paper proposes a new spatial ordering index that that can be used to quantify the dependence of a given pattern of income segregation on the spatial arrangement of neighborhoods. Unlike other spatial measures of income segregation proposed in the literature, the spatial ordering index is less sensitive to the presence of outliers, satisfies the principle of transfers, and is flexible enough to quantify a variety of spatial patterns of segregation. The index can be interpreted in terms of the ratio of two covariances. Properties of the proposed measure are demonstrated using an example from the city of Baltimore, Maryland.

Accepted Paper Series

Suggested Citation

Dawkins, Casey J., "Space and the Measurement of Income Segregation" (2006-07). Journal of Regional Science, Vol. 47, No. 2, pp. 255-272, May 2007 Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=981558 or DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9787.2007.00508.x

Exploring Changes in Income Clustering and Centralization during the 1990s -- Dawkins 26 (4): 404 -- Journal of Planning Education and Research

Journal of Planning Education and Research, Vol. 26, No. 4, 404-414 (2007)
DOI: 10.1177/0739456X06298820

© 2007 Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning
Exploring Changes in Income Clustering and Centralization during the 1990s
Casey J. Dawkins

Urban Affairs and Planning at Virginia Tech, Virginia Center for Housing Research

This article employs a new "spatial ordering index" to describe and explain changes in the degree of income clustering and centralization within U.S. metropolitan areas during the 1990s. The results suggest that while the spatial pattern of household income became more decentralized and less clustered during the 1990s, the patterns established as of 1990 were highly persistent over the decade. Factors associated with metropolitan area size and growth affected changes in both the degree of centralization and the degree of clustering. Although traditional determinants of suburbanization were associated with increases in income decentralization during the 1990s, densely developed cities with an increase in the percentage of white residents saw increases in income centralization during the decade. Furthermore, changes in the patterns observed were shaped by various policy influences, including the number of Low Income Housing Tax Credit units, urban containment policies, and the degree of local government fragmentation.

Key Words: economic segregation • spatial analysis • metropolitan governance • urban containment • growth management

Snapshot: Global Migration - New York Times

JUNE 22, 2007

Snapshot: Global Migration

Nearly 190 million people, about 3 percent of the world's population, lived outside their country of birth in 2005. A look at the flow of people around the globe.

planiglobe - online map creation

You may generate maps interactively at planiglobe. Zoom in and out, search for places and add your own locations to a map.

The ps- and ai-versions (which you can download) are compatible to the PostScript^® level 1 language and the Illustrator^® 7 format, respectively.

These formats are vector based graphic formats which overcome resolution limitations usually found with JPEG or GIF formats. You can select and edit single objects or groups of lines, points or polygons and change graphic attributes such as size and color. Check with you favorite graphics package for the ps- or ai-format support.

Mapbuilder

About Mapbuilder

MapBuilder is a powerful, standards compliant geographic mapping client which runs in a web browser.

GeoTools - Home

GeoTools is an open source (LGPL) Java code library which provides standards compliant methods for the manipulation of geospatial data, for example to implement Geographic Information Systems (GIS). The GeoTools library implements Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) specifications as they are developed, in close collaboration with the GeoAPI and GeoWidgets projects. The capabilities of Geotools are presented in the feature list.

Geotools is used by a number of projects including Web Feature Servers, Web Map Servers, and desktop applications, as is described on this page. Some screenshots of Geotools in action are also available.

Programmers wishing to use GeoTools in their own applications can get more information from the Use page and the User Guide. Developers wishing to extend the GeoTools library can get started on the Develop page and the Developer Guide.

GeoTools releases can be found on the downloads page. The Geotools code base is maintained in a subversion repository.

GeoServer

GeoServer is an Open Source server that connects your information to the Geospatial Web.

With GeoServer you can publish and edit data using open standards. Your information is made available in a large variety of formats as maps/images or actual geospatial data. GeoServer's transactional capabilities offer robust support for shared editing. GeoServer's focus is ease of use and support for standards, in order to serve as 'glue' for the geospatial web, connecting from legacy databases to many diverse clients.

GeoServer supports WFS-T and WMS open protocols from the OGC to produce JPEG, PNG, SVG, KML/KMZ, GML, PDF, Shapefiles and more. More information on specific features of GeoServer can be found here, and some samples of GeoServer in action are in the gallery.

GeoServer is built on Geotools, the same Java toolkit that udig uses. GeoServer is a truly open community, with a well documented and modular codebase, so don't hesitate to get involved.

Get Lost: Artists Map Downtown New York

GET LOST is a collective portrait of downtown New York. Twenty-one international artists were invited to create a personal view of the city and draw a map of downtown New York, uncovering a territory that is both real and imaginary.

GET LOST brings together fictional landscapes, utopian visions, private memories, and obsessive instructions to explore Manhattan, its past, present, and future.

An exercise in emotional geography, GET LOST sketches the coordinates for an endless drift across the streets and myths of downtown New York.

GET LOST is the city as seen through the eyes of: 16beaver group; Francis Alÿs; Cory Arcangel; Jennifer Borns tein; Beth Campbell; Marcel Dzama; Isa Genzken; Inaba and Associates; Dorothy Iannone; Chris Johanson; Christopher Knowles; Terence Koh; Julie Mehretu; Jonas Mekas; Aleksandra Mir; Thurston Moore; Dave Muller; William Pope.L; Lordy Rodriguez; Rirkrit Tiravanija; Lawrence Weiner.

GET LOST is a New Museum production, edited by Massimiliano Gioni.

Beginning Wednesday, June 6, 2007, free copies of GET LOST will be available to the public at the following markers of the downtown scene and cultural organizations around the city: Opening Ceremony (35 Howard Street), Babeland (43 Mercer Street), Bowery Poetry Club (308 Bowery), The Bowery Hotel (340 Bowery), Congee Village (100 Allen Street), Lost City Arts (18 Cooper Square), Freemans Restaurant (Freeman Alley at Rivington Street), Two Boots (155 East 3rd Street), Patricia Field (302 Bowery), Screaming Mimi's (382 Lafayette Street), Joe's Pub (425 Lafayette Street), Artist's Space (38 Greene Street, 3rd Floor), The Kitchen (512 West 19th Street), Sculpture Center (44-19 Purves Street, Long Island City), The Rotunda Gallery (33 Clinton Street, Brooklyn), Bronx Museum (1040 Grand Concourse at 165th Street, Bronx), and the Bedford Cheese Shop (229 Bedford Avenue, Brooklyn). GET LOST can also be found at the New Museum Store at 556 West 22nd Street and at the galleries of participating artists.

CrashStat: Crash Mapping & Analysis

Maps and Tables - Pedestrian Crashes 1995-2001
Maps and Tables - Bicycle Crashes 1995-2001

Virtual LES - vles

Oh hello, it's the Virtual Lower East Side.

What you are witnessing is a ridiculously-realistic virtual version of New York City's Lower East Side, a.k.a. the place where every angst-ridden, music-loving teenager (that means you, or maybe you a few years ago) dreams of running away to. This teensy neighborhood is so brimming over with cool bands, fun hangouts and bars, and pretty people that it can take about ten years to come out the other side once you move here.

So vLES wants to send you there now to give you a head start. You can create a little person and then walk right into faithfully recreated virtual versions of legendary LES venues and see real bands play. And if you're in a band (and who isn't), this is where you can get yourself heard. vLES is going to be so totally the opposite of boring, you don't even know.

WharTown: Categories

WharTown: An Online Guide, For Wharton By Wharton

Google Operating System: Transit Data in Google Maps and Google Earth

from the site -As of today, transit icons on Google Maps are clickable in many locations around the world

Google Mapplets Documentation

Google Mapplets Concepts and Examples

Google Mapplets are mini-applications that you can embed within the Google Maps site. Examples include real estate search, current weather conditions, and distance measurement. Mapplets are Google Gadgets that can manipulate the map using Javascript calls that are derived from the Google Maps API.

Mapplets are currently only available in a special Developer Preview version of Google Maps at:
http://maps.google.com/preview

Mapplets are new, so there may be bugs and slightly less than perfect documentation. Bear with us as we fill in the holes, and join the Maps API discussion group to give us feedback.

Trulia Hindsight - Maps of Properties Through Time

mapping housing trends over time throughout the US

strange maps

a blog of odd maps

Launch: Google Maps adds Street View - Lifehacker

google maps adds street views

OpenStreetMap

OpenStreetMap is a free editable map of the whole world. It is made by people like you.

OpenStreetMap allows you to view, edit and use geographical data in a collaborative way from anywhere on Earth.

Modest Maps

Modest Maps is a BSD-licensed display and interaction library for tile-based maps in Adobe Flash 7+, written in ActionScript 2.0.

Our intent is to provide a minimal, extensible, customizable, and free display library for discriminating designers and developers who want to use interactive maps in their own projects. Modest Maps provides a core set of features in a tight, clean package, with plenty of hooks for additional functionality.

Justice Mapping Center

Mapping studies of criminal justice population concentrations, including adults and juveniles going in and out of prison and jail; people on probation and parole; and, juveniles in detention.
Graphics and other charts of administrative, political, social, educational, and other boundary aggregations, such as school districts, city council jurisdictions, neighborhoods, or police precincts.
Supportive contextual maps of socio-demographics, such as single parent households, disconnected youth, home ownership rates, poverty, income, and many other census bureau statistics.
Maps of other government health and human services, child welfare, and labor populations, such as TANF, Food Stamps, Medicaid, and Unemployment Insurance recipients, as well as Foster Care clients and reports of Abuse and Neglect.
Mapping studies of prison and jail expenditures.
Spider mapping analyses of probation and parole caseload distributions.
Maps of geographic and neighborhood overlaps between criminal justice and other government client populations.
Prisoner reentry mapping studies.
Maps of community institutional networks, such as the location, capacity, and performance of schools, or government institutional networks, such as federally qualified health centers.

Main Page - Spatial Information Design Lab Wiki

The GSAPP Spatial Information Design Lab

Flow Map Layout

Abstract

Cartographers have long used flow maps to show the movement of objects from one location to another, such as the number of people in a migration, the amount of goods being traded, or the number of packets in a network. The advantage of flow maps is that they reduce visual clutter by merging edges. Most flow maps are drawn by hand and there are few computer algorithms available. We present a method for generating flow maps using hierarchical clustering given a set of nodes, positions, and flow data between the nodes. Our techniques are inspired by graph layout algorithms that minimize edge crossings and distort node positions while maintaining their relative position to one another. We demonstrate our technique by producing flow maps for network traffic, census data, and trade data.

Official Google Blog: Stuck in traffic?

Stuck in traffic?

2/28/2007 09:01:00 AM
Posted by David Wang, Software Engineer

There's nothing worse than getting stuck in traffic when you have some place to go, so I'm happy to tell you about a new feature on Google Maps that can help. For more than 30 major U.S. cities, you can now see up-to-date traffic conditions to help you plan your schedule and route. If you're in San Francisco, New York , Chicago, Dallas, or any of the other cities we now include, just click on the traffic button to show current traffic speeds directly on the map. If your route shows red, you're looking at a stop-and-go commute; yellow, you could be a little late for dinner; green, you've got smooth sailing.

We can't make traffic go away, but we hope Google Maps traffic info helps you avoid it whenever possible.

Labels: Google Maps, traffic

The Radical Apple - Opposition in New York City

map of radical-new york

Inside Google Book Search: Books: Mapped

mapping out references to locations in book

Cartifact: Downtown Los Angeles Homeless Map

Downtown Los Angeles is the epicenter of the largest homeless population in the United States.

The Downtown Los Angeles Homeless Map takes raw data about those sleeping on the streets and transforms it into a visual tool for understanding the situation.
Always Changing:

The sequence shows a slice of the map and how population shifts over a ten week period.

Paula Levine

bombing in iraq superimposed onto san fransisco map

outside.in

Welcome to outside.in, the best way to discover the conversations that are going on in your neighborhood—whether that's where you live, where you work, or where you want to be. See what locals are saying right now, and share your own wisdom with your friends and neighbors.

Flickr: The GIS / Maps Pool

photo pool of GIS/Maps from Flickr

The Philadelphia Inquirer

mapping of homicides in philadelphia - jan1 - sept 30th

Digital Sanborn Maps: Pennsylvania

The Penn Library's new subscription to the Digital Sanborn maps: Pennsylvania provides online access to black-and-white reproductions of fire insurance maps produced by the Sanborn Fire Insurance Company for 586 Pennsylvania communities from the late 19th century through the early 1950s. These maps show streets, building outlines, and other improvements and infrastructure for urban communities.

The online collection, arranged in atlas volumes searchable by county, community, and date, covers all major Pennsylvania cities - Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Erie, Allentown, Scranton, Reading, Bristol, Lancaster, Bethlehem, Harrisburg, and Altoona - as well as many smaller places - Scalp Level, Shickshinny, Jersey Shore, Black Lick, and Throop.

Rentometer, by iiProperty: enter an address and get rental comps back!

you rent compared to rentals in the region

Gothamist Labs: Mapping crime

crime reports mapped

no info is given about where/how they get the data

Paula Levine

bombing in iraq superimposed onto san fransisco map

Geological Investigation of the Alluvial Valley of the Lower Mississippi River

maps by harold fisk - 1944

NYC.gov - Mayor's Office of Film, Theatre

map of locations of film scenes in new york city

YouTube - Steven Johnson on THE GHOST MAP

youtube trailer

bITS

Building Information Technology Skills (bITS) among North Philadelphia Youth is a project funded by the National Science Foundation, ITEST Program and sponsored by the Information Technology and Society Research Group of Temple University. It involves the participation of approximately ninety high school students per year over a three-year long program. bITS is carried out year round and includes five hours of instruction each week for twelve weeks each semester. In addition, students participate in a summer intensive workshop.

Jeremy Mennis Homepage: Research: Dasymetric

Environmental Justice
Case Study: Air Toxic Releases in New Jersey
(from Mennis, J. and Jordan, L., 2005. The distribution of environmental equity: exploring spatial nonstationarity in multivariate models of air toxic releases. Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 95(2): 249-268)
Introduction
Geographic information systems (GIS) and multivariate regression are used to analyze socioeconomic inequity in the spatial distribution of New Jersey air toxic release facilities listed in the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) Toxic Release Inventory (TRI).

Architecture and Justice - EXHIBITION GUIDE

EXHIBITION GUIDE- PDF

Architecture and Justice maps criminal justice statistics to make visible the geography of incarceration and return in New York, Phoenix, New Orleans, Wichita, and New Haven, prompting new ways of understanding the spatial dimension of an area of public policy with profound implications for American cities.

Architecture and Justice

The Architectural League presents

Architecture and Justice
September 15—October 28, 2006
The Urban Center, 457 Madison Avenue

Architecture and Justice maps criminal justice statistics to make visible the geography of incarceration and return in New York, Phoenix, New Orleans, Wichita, and New Haven, prompting new ways of understanding the spatial dimension of an area of public policy with profound implications for American cities.

Justice Mapping Center Home

Welcome to the Justice Mapping Center (JMC) website. The JMC is dedicated to helping government better understand its criminal justice resources. Through innovative geographical analyses of prison, jail, parole, probation, and other government agency data, the JMC assists states, counties, and cities in identifying highly concentrated areas and maximizing the benefits of their services in target communities.

ELSE/WHERE: MAPPING

ELSE/WHERE: MAPPING (March 2006) charts the ascendancy of mapping as a powerful interdisciplinary strategy that links people and places, data and organizations, and physical and virtual environments. Featuring 40 essays by writers from the U.S. and Europe and several commissioned projects.

LeadDog Consulting, LLC: Worldwide GIS Mapping

LeadDog creates and maintains GIS street and road maps for Iraq, the Middle East, Africa, Mexico, and the rest of Latin America. We offer GIS and postcode maps for virtually every country in the world.

Win, Lose, Draw: The Great Subway Map Wars - New York Times

Win, Lose, Draw: The Great Subway Map Wars
By ALEX MINDLIN
Published: September 3, 2006

semantically ordered tag cloud - data visualization

from the infosthetics blog - "semantically ordered tag clouds that resemble self-organizing maps. the size of the text & the color brightness of the background represent the frequency of the different terms. this technique has been applied to visualize the keywords present in website favorites, or the tags used by different del.ico.us users for the same web pages."

tags clouds developed by Moritz Stefaner

Free the Maps

Ransom
-Help liberate over 56,000 digital USGS maps. Donate or purchase maps on DVD to meet the ransom demand. Once the $1600 ransom is met, all maps will be handed over to the Internet Archive. The Internet Archive will make every map available for free download forever!

NYPL, Exhibitions at the Science, Industry and Business Library

Places & Spaces: Mapping Science

From April 4, 2006 through August 31, 2006
Healy Hall
Science, Industry and Business Library, 188 Madison Avenue, New York, NY 10016 (directions)
Hours: Tues, Wed, Thurs: 10 to 8; Fri, Sat: 10 to 6

Bikely - Discover and share your favorite bicycle routes

share bike routes via google maps

Flickr: Photos tagged with memorymap

maps/aerial photographs where users contribute information about a map by highlighting an area on the map and adding a description.

Frugal Traveler on the Road - New York Times

Frugal Traveler on the Road
This summer, the Frugal Traveler sets out to hopscotch the globe using low-cost carriers, buses, trains, ferries and your travel tips. Follow his journey here every Wednesday, until the deed is done. See the complete list of articles below the map.

Office Sprawl: the Evolving Geography of Business: Evolving Geography of Business.

Lang,RE . Office Sprawl: the Evolving Geography of Business: Evolving Geography of Business..

onNYTurf: onNYTurf Subway Map Firefox Search Plugin - NYC Subway Google Map Hack

NYC Subway Google Map Hack

onNYTurf Subway Map Firefox Search Plugin

WikiMapia = Wiki Google maps

About WikiMapia
WikiMapia is a project to help describe the whole planet Earth.

How to use
Just move the map to find interesting places, click on rectangles. To add an interesting place or object use Add New link. Small rules: please add places with interest to other people.

New York City Housing and Neighborhood Information System

Like the NIS in Philadelphia, this site provides lots of information about New York at various levels of geographic specificity.

New York City Housing and Neighborhood Information System

Ian Hundley Studio

artists who makes quilts that look like maps.

video interview here - http://www.coolhunting.com/video/archives/2006/05/ian_hundley.php

Mapping the DuBois Philadephia Negro

This blog is dedicated to updates on the research project, Mapping the DuBois Philadelphia Negro. This project is being funded by the University of Pennsylvania Research Foundation and National Endowment for Humanities and is based out of Penn’s School of Design. Our goal is to recreate the foot survey W.E.B. DuBois conducted for his 1899 classic, The Philadelphia Negro, using GIS. Eventually, we will develop a website with interactive mapping, research results, and teaching materials.

ACME Laboratories

Acme Mapper shows DOQ and Topo maps for the US and allows lots of other cool things.

Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc. (OGC)

The Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc. (OGC) is a non-profit, international, voluntary consensus standards organization that is leading the development of standards for geospatial and location based services. Through our member-driven consensus programs, OGC works with government, private industry, and academia to create open and extensible software application programming interfaces for geographic information systems (GIS) and other mainstream technologies. Adopted specifications are available for the public's use at no cost.

OneMap

Our world map is incrementally built by many submissions from various sources.

Secret Bike Maps of New York

Blue Puddle

(Feel free to check it out. It may be a little buggy.)

Overview
Blue Puddle is an interactive online mapping tool developed by an interdisciplinary team of students at the University of Michigan. The Blue Puddle software takes advantage of the Internet´s distributed authorship capabilities to create maps that draw on users´ collective memory and subjective experience of a city. These maps foster the emergence of stories about the city that are more rich than any single author could create.

How It Works
Users can create a map and post images, text, video and audio to points on that map. Other users can make mash-ups by combining two or more maps to create interesting hybrids.

Blue Puddle also offer research grants to community organizations or interested parties. Our grant provides training with a GPS enabled camera and instruction on how to use the software. For more information contact our community coordinator: zcd@umich.edu

The Ghost Map - by Steven Johnson

Brooklyn Botanic Garden: Cherry Blossom Status Map

stamen design | big ideas worth pursuing

Cabspotting

Map Projections Poster

Here are examples of different ways of projecting the Earth's surface and a brief discussion of the pros and cons of each of the methods.

Thematic Maps from The United States Census

The US Census provides thematic maps at various levels of geography and for many data points.

LDEQ Geographic Information Systems

State of Louisiana EPA map-making site.

Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative (ECAI)

Create digital maps that display a wide range of cultural material by using place and time as a common element.

ECAI technical infrastructure illustrates the vision of sharing distributed data and using time enabled mapping tools.

GIS at NITLE: A Geographic Information Systems Initiative

PACSCL Geo History Conference

GIS technology is proving itself to be a valuable tool for organizing data for both the public and private sectors -- for municipal infrastructure maintenance and record-keeping, regional planning, real estate, land use, and tourism. At the same time, scholars are using the technology in disciplines that embrace the humanities, the social sciences, the physical sciences, and medicine.

Now, PACSCL invites current and potential GIS users to gather to think about new uses for a geographic based resource, new users from a range of disciplines, and new ranges of contributors and contributions. The purpose of this symposium is to focus less on the "how" of building a GIS and more on the "why." We will concentrate on finding ways that data from all of these sectors -- when organized with a sense of place and time -- can offer new insights into connections across these disciplines.

Panel discussions in the mornings will be followed by facilitated small group discussions and information sharing in the afternoons. Participants will be grouped according to potential GIS uses (history, social sciences, city/regional planning, human services, public health, etc.) and users (professional affinity groups) for the small group discussions. PACSCL's objectives in hosting this event are to foster increased cooperation among a widened range of current and potential GIS users and to give participants the opportunity to consider issues of how best to work together in the presence of a lively and informed group of colleagues. The results of this symposium will be used to further shape the Greater Philadelphia GeoHistory Network.