Oct 25 - Harnessing the Spatial Data Explosion
We live in a world where vast troves of new information are being captured every day: smartphones double as data collection devices; social media applications aggregate geographically encoded mood swings; collectively tagged photos lead to new spatial data; global volunteers charting unmapped cities in the face of disasters or create new historical climate models from old ship logs; and cheap hardware is hacked to monitor trees, air quality or collect new aerial photography sets. This information is increasingly being put to the test in disaster relief, scientific analysis, historical research, government and private sector planning and operations support as well as environmental and social advocacy.
But can we conceive a situation where all of this data is vetted and validated for accuracy, flows freely and transparently among volunteers, expert users, government agency staff, and private sector servers? What would that take? Is it even possible or desirable? This conversation features speakers representing four different corners of the crowdsourcing geo data world including crisis responders, social media data crunchers, hardware hackers and sensor data collectors and citizen science enablers. They will talk about some of their experiences with collecting data, extolling lessons learned, warnings, upshots, pitfalls in their processes and how their data can be better operationalized by more and more users in both known and unanticipated ways.
South Court Auditorium
Stephen A. Schwarzman Building
The New York Public Library
5th Avenue & 42nd Street
4:00-6:00 p.m.
Tuesday, October 24, 2013
Visit GISMO for full details.
Registration for the 2013 NYGeoCON is Now Open!
Registration is now open for the 2013 NYGeoCON being held on November 12th-13th in beautiful Saratoga Springs, NY!
NYGeoCON begins on the evening of November 11th with a networking reception at 7 pm. The first full day of the conference features a keynote presentation by Jack Levis of UPS. Jack appeared in the Penn State´s "Geospatial Revolution" series? http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=nMrhuKoE3cI Jack serves as the Senior Director of Process Management for UPS. Jack will talk about the process of integration of technology (GIS) into their operations systems and how that has improved their service as well as reduced their costs. In this era of having to justify the role GIS can play in your organization, we thought that Jack would provide some unique insights for the attendees.
Also, that morning´s plenary session will feature NY´s first Geographic Information Officer (Bill Johnson) providing input on what´s happening around New York through his State of the State presentation. This will give everyone a chance to see who is doing what around the State and then network with the professionals involved afterward to find out the details on their projects.
The remainder of the day will be divided into two multi-track sessions with invited speakers. Topics under consideration now include GIS in the cloud, use of UAV´, crowd sourcing data, enhanced LiDAR, and web mapping services. That evening will be highlighted by a net working reception and numerous other after hours activities.
Day two will feature presentations submitted by GIS professionals around the State. In addition, networking opportunities with your peer GIS professionals from around the State will be provided throughout the conference as well as after hours as you walk through one of New York's most beautiful cities.
As the 2013 NYGeoCON is the only statewide GIS conference in New York this year, we encourage you to take advantage of it. It is easily accessible via I-87 (exit 15) or via the Amtrak Saratoga Springs station; it provides great opportunities to network with your peers from around New York; and it has great content to meet your training needs!
NYC Tech in Government conference to host Geosymposium
We got the go-ahead to hold a 9/11 Geosymposium concurrently with New York City's Technology in Government conference, to be held in November. Stay tuned for details, but it looks like we will have a full day of presentations on Day Two of the conference, November 16. GovTech will be handling registrations and logistics for us. More details to come.
ESRI's Jack Dangermond to Host WWW.WWW
WWW.Wow. Where else could you find
TED founder Richard Saul Wurman, Yo Yo Ma, Herbie Hancock and
ESRI's Jack Dangermond all in one place? It's the WWW.WWW Conference, currently planned for September 18/20, 2012.
The conference website describes it as:
WWW.WWW will be a gathering of the greatest, most interesting & curious minds in the world engaged in immersive & improvised conversation. It will celebrate the 21st century while drawing attention to the new patterns & convergences effecting our health & that of our planet.
A unique un-conference that pairs two incredible and unique minds in a single venue. No presentations. No schedule. Just 100 interesting people and 50 conversations.
Richard Saul Wurman, who also founded
TEDMED and the
eg conferences, and coined the term information architect, is himself a M.Arch graduate who has been exploring the themes of design and place and livable urban environments since the sixties, so it is fitting that ESRI president and fellow mapping pioneer, Jack Dangermond should host the conference. You will recognize other great names associated with the event incuding glass artist
Dale Chihuly, who will create an installation for the event and
SEED Media Goup's Adam Bly as Science Curator. SEED was an original creator of what was to become one of my all-time favorite
MOMA shows,
Design and the Elastic Mind.
With conversations interlaced with threads of improvised music, I won't want to miss WWW.WWW, so I've already added it to my calendar. The event will be streamed live to multiple locations and the talks will also be available via a yet-to-be-released, multi-platform tablet application.
Watch
http://www.thewwwconference.com for details.
2nd Annual NYCArc User Group Symposium
pollacks@fdny.nyc.gov
Please join us at the 2nd Annual NYC Arc User Symposium on Friday, June17th, 2011 at the 26 Federal Plaza Conference Center!
There is no cost to attend but registration is required.
Please register at: NYCArc User Group Symposium - ESRI Registration
http://events.esri.com/info/index.cfm?fuseaction=seminarRegForm&shownumber=14674
Registration is filling rapidly so please register soon! Doors will open at 8am. Symposium will begin at 9 am.
Speakers include:
* Keynote: Matthew Ericson, Deputy Graphics Director at The New York Times
* Dave Kraiker, US Census Bureau
* Mark Christiano, National Park Service - Gateway National Recreation Area
* Jim Hall, NYC Department of Education
* Brenden Duffy, MTA Long Island Railroad
* Jarlath O'Neil-Dunne, University of Vermont, Spatial Analysis Laboratory
Lightning Talks by:
* Chris Goranson, NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene
* Sam Wear, Westchester County GIS
* Matt Knutzen, New York Public Library
* Liz Barry co-founder, TreeKIT; director urban environments, Public Laboratory; adjunct faculty Columbia, Parsons, Pratt
NYS GeoSpatial Summit website and online registration now open!
From Michael Crino:
Hi Folks,
Details on the upcoming NYS GeoSpatial Summit, to be held June 16th, 2011 at the Welch-Allyn Lodge in Skaneateles, NY are now posted on the Summit website at
www.nygeosummit.org. Register online today to reserve your attendance at this very special event. Registrations will be limited to the first 200 people. Thanks to a grant from the US Geospatial Intelligence Foundation, we have been able to roll back the registration fee to the 2008 level. Early registration (until June 1st) is just $85 and includes outstanding food service prepared by the Lodge's in-house chef for the day. A special student rate is also available for the first 20 students to register. You won't want to miss the evening reception on June 15th at the Lodge where you can mingle with our speakers and enjoy world-class acoustic guitar music, wine tasting, hors d'oevres, cooked-to-order pasta, and a special screening of the GeoSpatial Revolution videos with introductions and background stories by Adena Schutzberg.
Don't miss out – register today!
Mercator Society Lecture, April 26
Matt Knudson invites you to attend an upcoming lecture of the Mercator Society.
http://www.nypl.org/events/programs/2011/04/26/toward-national-cartography-american-mapmaking-1782-1800
For details and to RSVP, email Matt at
or call him at 212-930-0562.
Toward a National Cartography:American Mapmaking, 1782-1800
Michael Buehler, of Boston Rare Maps, will address the development of mapmaking in the United States in the years immediately after the American Revolution. That period saw the emergence of a cartography that was distinctly American, different in goals, subject matter, methods, iconography and aesthetics. Michael will focus on core features of this new American cartography, particularly how American maps reflected the ambition and optimism characteristic of the early Republic, as Americans sought to transform the landscape in the service of their economic and political goals. The talk will be illustrated with examples and vivid stories from his "Toward a National Cartography" exhibit now on view at the Harvard Map Collection.
Tuesday, April 26, 2011
5:30-6:00 Reception
6:00-7:30 Lecture
Margaret Liebman Berger Forum, Room 227
The New York Public Library
Stephen A. Schwarzman Building
Fifth Avenue and 42nd Street
