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GISMO Meeting Tomorrow

The next GISMO meeting is tomorrow, May 11th from 12:00pm-2:30pm at the Fund for the City of New York, 121 Sixth Avenue, 6th Floor, New York, NY. Michael Schill of the NYU Furman (Real Estate) Center will discuss the NY Times 2/6 Exposure of New Web site www.nychanis.com. Anyone interested in geographic information systems software is welcome to attend. No need to RSVP. Lunch is provided by the Fund.

The next meeting is Thursday, July 15: Discussion on future of GIS/GISMO/NYC/NYS.

For additional details please see the GISMO website at http://www.geo.hunter.cuny.edu/gismo.

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GIS: upcoming meetings

I just posted a bunch of upcoming meetings to the GISMO website. Additional details are in the GISMO calendar.

Events through May:

Thursday, April 29, 5:00pm: GGSA Spring Lecture Series
Hunter College, North Building in room 1022, New York, NY
“Lost Geographies and Failed Globalization: From Versailles to Iraq”
Neil Smith, Distinguished Professor of Anthropology, CUNY Graduate Center

Wed, May 5, 5:00pm: GGSA Spring Lecture Series
Hunter College, North Building in room 1022, New York, NY
“Tips and Tools for Color Symbolization for Mapping and Visualization”
Cynthia Brewer, Associate Professor of Geography, The Pennsylvania State University

Tuesday, May 6 at 9:00am: LIGIS: Long Island GIS Spring Meeting
Brookhaven National Laboratory, Brookhaven, NY
See www.ligis.org for details.

Tuesday, May 11 at 12:00pm: GISMO General Meeting
Fund for the City of New York
Michael Schill, NYU Furman (Real Estate) Center will discuss the NY Times 2/6 Exposure of New Web site www.nychanis.com

Friday, May 21, 2004 at 3:30 PM: Landmarks Preservation Commission
Public Hearing Room, Municipal Building at 1 Centre Street (at the corner of Centre Street and Chambers Street), 9th Floor, New York, NY.
The Archaeology Department will be hosting a guest lecture titled, “Recreating the Historical Topography of Manhattan Island.” Use the north entrance. Please bring photo ID for entrance to the Municipal Building.

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Geographic Information Systems at the WTC

I recently wrote in my blog welcome message about a book project on the use of mapping technology in 9/11 rescue & recovery efforts. I’m moving this off the welcome message because I am going to start to write it. There are a lot of great resources on the mapping efforts at Pier 92 in New York City available at the GISMO website:

Yahoo! Groups : gismonyc Links

Directions Magazine has a great map gallery at their site:

Directions Magazine: Map Gallery of GIS Community Response to 9/11

Even National Geographics Magazine picked up the story, interviewing some of the members of GISMO:

National Geographic Magazine: Geographica: Mapping Disaster: Cartographers Aid Workers at Ground Zero

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Community Information Technology Initiative

Here is a new initiative I am working on with the Municipal Art Society. The Community Information Technology Initiative at http://www.myciti.org/ is an online mapping program being used by five pilot New York City Community Boards to aid in community planning, development and emergency management. I am having a great time with this project! In fact, in honor of GIS Day, I had the pleasure of attending a NYC Council hearing where they issued a proclamation recognizing the importance of Geographic Information Systems to the city and presented official copies to several organizations that I am affiliated with, including GISMO, a user group, the Municipal Art Society and NYPIRG’s C-MAP initiative.

The website that I am working on for the American Museum of Natural History is coming along well. There was a meeting on Friday that I couldn’t attend, but word was that the directors only had criticized the content, not the design. I did get a chance to sit down with the department head today and it seems to be on track. Yay!

By the way, I’m still waiting for that Turkish recipe. Maybe I’ll have to scout around Epicurious.com….