Wednesday, March 16, 2011

Upcoming Events: GISMO meeting Wed March 23, 2-4:30pm

Join us for the next GISMO Meeting at the Fund for the City of New York - 121 Avenue of the Americas, 6th Floor (west side Avenue of the Americas/6th Avenue between Broome & Watts Streets)

Mark Your Calendar for Wednesday 23 Mar from 2-4:30pm

Alan Leidner - Information Broker, Northeast Region/US Department of Homeland Security - will present as well as give a live demonstration of DHS Earth.

Doors Open at 1:45pm
Pay on your own social to follow -- 4:45pm at Antarctica Bar/287 Hudson Street
http://www.antarcticabar.com/Directions.html

Upcoming GIS Events - April

American Planning Association National Planning Conference
April 9-12, 2011
Boston, Massachusetts
http://www.planning.org

GITA Geospatial Solutions Conference
April 10-13, 2011
Grapevine (Dallas), Texas
http://www.gita.org

GIS/SIG 20th Annual Spatial/Digital Mapping Conference
April 12, 2011
Burgundy Basin Inn
Pittsford, New York
Get the details on the Conference page
http://www.gis-sig.org/conference.html

posted by Noreen Whysel @ 1:05 PM 0 comments

NY Time's Japan Interactive Earthquake Map

The New York Times' Interactive Map of the Damage from the Earthquake in Japan:

http://www.nytimes.com/packages/flash/newsgraphics/2011/0311-japan-earthquake-map/index.html?hp

I was able to locate the towns where my friend's brother is teaching English (center of quake zone but far from the nuclear plants, very little structural damage, no casualties) and where my daughter's camp friend's family lives (quite a bit south of Tokyo, out of quake zone).

On a cheerier note, a friend pointed me to this T-shirt on Treadless.com combining Eisenlohr's projection with an image of radio broadcast signal. This is an entry for Oceanic Preservation Society T-shirt Challenge. Theme: Singing Planet. Really neat design.

http://causes.threadless.com/singingplanet/subs/#/submission/1009/

Noreen

posted by Noreen Whysel @ 12:59 PM 0 comments