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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

http://urbandesignweek.org/by-the-city/reports/submit

By the City/For the City invites you to partipate in design for a better New York City. The Institute for Urban Design presents an application that maps ideas for the City submitted by individual website users. By the City/For the City is a “digital placemaking app” designed by PPS: Project for Public Spaces as part of Urban Design Week to be held on September 15-20.

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

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

(via Lee Ilan)

Was delighted to wake up to WNYC’s interview with Jack this morning.

Check out the story about the “new kid on the block”, and ask him questions about Queens! http://beta.wnyc.org/articles/wnyc-news/2010/jul/19/passion-all-things-queens/

Congratulations, Jack, and good luck!

…and if they are texting while driving the bomb into the building maybe we can give them another ten….ooo, ooo, can we get them on tax evasion too?

Despite some concern, I doubt that a map site would be charged for providing access to publicly available information. I haven’t read the legislation though, but it would seem to open the field for extending sentences on a number of other technical “accessories” that could become a civil liberties issue. Could a defendant get additional time for using a phone to see if the person is home? Or for reading their twitter/foursquare feed?

(via Tom Lowenhaupt)

From Louisiana USA –

http://www.nola.com/politics/index.ssf/2010/05/house_oks_bill_to_strengthen_p.html

House OKs bill to strengthen penalties for ‘virtual map’ crimes
By Ed Anderson, The Times-Picayune
May 25, 2010, 7:30AM
A Senate bill to toughen penalties for crimes committed with the aid of Internet-generated “virtual maps,” including acts of terrorism, won quick approval Monday in the House.

By an vote of 89-0, lawmakers approved Senate Bill 151 by Sen. Robert Adley, R-Benton, sending the measure back to the Senate for approval of clarifying amendments made by a House committee.

Adley’s bill defines a “virtual street-level map” as one that is available on the Internet and can generate the location or picture of a home or building by entering the address of the structure or an individual’s name on a website.

Rep. Henry Burns, R-Haughton, who handled Adley’s bill on the House floor, said that if the map is used in an act of terrorism, the legislation requires a judge to impose an additional minimum sentence of at least 10 years onto the terrorist act.

(via Jack Eichenbaum)

Experimental Geography debuts in New York this summer at a moment when human engagement with geographic phenomena — from earthquakes to oil spills — is markedly on our minds. The exhibition explores the distinctions between geographical study and artistic experience of the earth, as well as the junctures where the two realms collide. Experimental Geography features new practice in a wide range of mediums, including sound and video installations, photography, sculpture, and experimental cartography, created by nineteen artists or artist teams. Exhibition curator Nato Thompson states, “Experimental Geography considers numerous aesthetic approaches that emerge from interpreting space as a cultural phenomenon. As the artists and researchers in this exhibition comfortably move between discursive territory from geography, to urban planning, to cartography to art, so too should the audiences.”

Date:
June 24, 2010 – August 27, 2010

College:
CUNY Graduate Center

Address:
365 Fifth Avenue
Manhattan

Building:
The Graduate Center

EXPERIMENTAL GEOGRAPHY PANEL DISCUSSION
Tuesday, July 20, 6.00PM
Issues of artistic engagement with the earth’s surface will be explored in this panel discussion with Experimental Geography exhibition curator Nato Thompson, artists Lize Mogel and Trevor Paglen, and David Harvey, social theorist and Distinguished Professor of Anthropology at The Graduate Center, CUNY.

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Phone:
212-817-7392

Website:
http://www.gc.cuny.edu/events/art_gallery.htm

Admission:
Free

Steve Romalewski posted notes on NYC GIS Summit 2010 at

http://spatialityblog.com/2010/05/24/notes-from-nysgissummit2010/

Feel free to post any comments, different opinions, more detailed feedback if you attended.

Also check out Steve’s post about a new feature in Google Maps

GISMO Summer Session – Wed 28 July (3-5pm)

Hi, Folks-

Quick note to say GISMO is lined up for a summer meeting at FCNY on Wed 28 July
from 3-5pm. I will also “reserve” space at Antartica for a post-meeting social.
(details on program later this week)

The Nature Conservancy has produced a lovely hardcover Atlas of Global Conservation. An interactive version is available at http://www.nature.org/atlas/.