NEMO 22nd Annual Meeting

2008 Map Competition / Entry Deadline: May 16, 2008

2008-04-29T15:03:00.006-05:00

An Invitation to Mapmakers in the Northeast

The competition has been established both to honor mapmakers in the Northeast and to promote map making and best practices.

Categories

Best Design in Small Format Thematic Map
Best Design in Large Format Thematic Map
Best Animated/Interactive Map
Other (available to the judges for any entries that do not fit into the other three categories)

Criteria

Each map will be judged based on:

The exhibition of professional design standards with respect to:

Typographic style and placement
Use of color
Design

Innovative and unique aspects, whether in data modeling, in the combination of data sets, or in mapping unmapped phenomena

Guidelines

Four maps per entry should be sent to Cynthia Dietz by the deadline, May 16, 2008 at 5pm, accompanied by a NEMO 2008 Map Competition Entry Form. Maps created for hard-copy publishing should be submitted on hard copy media. Please email Cynthia Dietz at cynthia.dietz@stonybrook.edu with questions regarding the competition.

Winning maps will be displayed on the NEMO website, and winners will receive awards presented at the NEMO Annual Meeting to be held in Chester, Vt. on June 5-6, 2008. The decision of the judges is final.

Map Judges

The judges include Michael Siegel of Rutgers University, Joe Stoll of Syracuse University, and Doug Williamson of Hunter College.

Entrants should complete the following information:

Title of Entry:

Description of design objectives, and special features of the map entry:

Company/Institution:

Name of entrant:

Address:

City/State/Zipcode:

Office Phone:
Home Phone:
FAX:
E-mail:

Please indicate with your entry that you understand that winning entries will be displayed
on the NEMO website. No entries will be returned.

Entrant signature:____________________________ Date:_____________________

EPA Region 2 GIS Tour: 6/08/07

2007-06-12T15:19:00.001-05:00

Harvey Simon, Grace Smith
Have large server room
EPA Region 2 covers New York, New Jersey, Puerto Rico, U.S. Virgin Islands
The reason NY was chosen to cover Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands is because it has the fastest and most number of direct flights to those areas
~1000 employees
Use ArcGIS 9.2, XTools Pro extension, Oracle Spatial

New York Public Library (NYPL) Tour: 6/8/07

2007-06-12T15:18:00.001-05:00

Matthew Knutzen, Alice Hudson, and Nancy Kandoian
Renovations of The Lionel Pincus and Princess Firyal Map Division took nine months.
Office space added in the staff area
Gold and colors were revealed once the ceilings were cleaned. There is a “PL” on the ceiling to represent Public Library.
The ceilings were so dirty because in the past the windows would be open, and the library is on a very busy corner, so all of the air from the city came in and coated the ceiling.
Wireless was added to the reading room, and wires were run underground. The tiles had to be lifted one-by-one to get the wires underneath.

Panel: Issues Related to GIS Portals (e.g., NEMO, Long Island, Oceans, etc.) vs. GIS Clearinghouses

2007-06-12T15:14:00.000-05:00

6/07/07 Moderated by Maurie Caitlin Kelly

Greg Bonynge: University of Rhode Island

Presented, “A Brief Introduction to Clearinghouses & Portals for Geospatial Data Networks”
Rhode Island GIS (RIGIS): http://www.edc.uri.edu/rigis/
National Geospatial Technology Extension Network (NGTEN)
Clearinghouses:

Distributors of geospatial data and information
Host the content they distribute
Range from small (conservation organization’s GIS database) to large (state GIS clearinghouse)
Often distribute a collection contributed by many partner organizations

Portal and clearinghouse policies and standards vary widely
Need to efficiently find clearinghouses (keyword search, word of mouth)
Portals (e.g., Geodata.gov):

Source that links to a clearinghouse (or a site with data and/or information)
Save user time by collecting records of where data are stored, and putting the records into a catalog to search

Conservation GeoPortal by the Conservation Commons (http://www.conservationmaps.org/index.jsp)
Portal content varies by geography, media type, content topics, and searching capabilities
Portals have challenges:

Quality control
Technology (can be simple or complex)
Value of portal dependant on breadth and quality of content contributors

Portals do not take data ownership from others, the owners stay the owners

T. Wangyal Shawa: Princeton University

Presented, “Services, Collection Development, and Dissemination Methods”
GIS in libraries can be classified into two categories:

Basic GIS service

General access to GIS data on CDs
Links to online datasets
Access to GIS software packages

Advance/In-Depth GIS consultation service

GIS reference service
Data searching
Data conversion
GIS analysis
Mapping
Etc.

Princeton University provides in-depth consultation service; provide workshops, help patrons with analysis, conduct one-on-one meetings
Collection Development:

Each institute has own collection development policy
Digital map and geospatial data are different—need to learn how to develop the collections
At Princeton, most disciplines use geospatial or location-based data
Core-data, base-data, or reference-data are GIS data that are needed most by GIS users to create their own data
Coverage at Princeton is at the world level

Global Mapping Industries: Christian group, have language data
Dissemination Method:

How to give access to data and maps that were purchased, donated, or received through the Federal Depository Library Program (FDLP)
How to design a system that will allow the library to integrate different forms of geographic information and make them accessible online from the interface
How to help researchers who are in the field and want to access data online, and store and share data with their groups
Princeton users Spatial Direct/FME
They are using ArcSDE and Microsoft SQL server software to test project that will allow researchers to access, store, and create metadata, and share the data with fellow researchers
Within each group, someone will become the administrator and have full access to the database, while others in the group will only be able to view

He has started a pilot project with three groups
Challenges of introducing a service:

Convincing administration and researchers
Storage and back-up space issues
Work with system administrator
Writing Memorandum of Understand (MOU) letters

Mark Becker: CIESIN

Presented, “Geospatial Data Portals Licensing, Use, and Re-distribution”
http://beta.sedac.ciesin.columbia.edu/wdc (World Data Center)
They build datasets themselves
Developed Gridded Population of the World (from Census Data to vector to raster database)
Building a Web mapping service: Ionic Red Spyder Software
Another CIESIN Portal: http://nin.nbii.gov/portal/server.pt
Northeast Information Node (NIN)
They are working very hard to integrate different resources
Invasive Plant Atlas of New England (IPANE) from the University of Connecticut is a NIN partner: http://www.conservationmaps.org/index.jsp
Goals related to rights management

Support re-distribution, re-use data
Create happy users

Data licensing issues

Time consuming
Confusing language
Difficult to track/maintain records
Separate from the data
Not really machine-readable

Have many permissions issues
Creative Commons: www.creativecommons.com (CC)

Machine-readable
CIESIN is using CC licensing
Now adding CC license to maps they create and disseminate

Efforts to promote access to data through open journals and journals devoted to data
Efforts to create science commons

Creative Commons, Science Commons project: http://sciencecommons.org
CODATA—Global Information Commons for Science Initiative: http://www.codata.org/wsis/GlobalInfoCommonsInitiative.html

Harvey Simon: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Region 2

At Friday’s tour, they will do demos on how they handle data in ArcSDE
Few examples to help with metadata
EPA Metadata Editor Version 2
National Park Services metadata tool set
ArcScript
http://geodata.epa.gov/tools.html

Panel: Successes in Optimizing Geospatial Access, or What ArcIMS has Meant for Geospatial Access

2007-06-12T15:00:00.000-05:00

6/07/07 Moderated by Jeremiah Trinidad-Christensen

Keith Jenkins: Cornell University, CUGIR
Spoke about CUGIR http://cugir.mannlib.cornell.edu

All datasets have metadata and are downloadable
All data are free
6700 datasets (geospatial) from ~11 different providers
Data providers are responsible for data, CUGIR is responsible for metadata
Data are .shp, .e00, .asc, .tif
CUGIR does not change data
Have “active” and “passive” providers

“Active” providers contact CUGIR to ask to have their data in CUGIR
“Passive” providers are contacted by CUGIR to have their data in CUGIR

Decide whether to keep older datasets that have been updated
CUGIR allows three different ways to find data

Browse
Select Area
Search

Not a Web mapping application, but static HTML image maps (HTML Image Mapper-?)
Created from Vector GIS data (batch-processed)
Simple, functional, reliable; don’t need to worry about an IMS going down
Don’t have aerial photos
Can save multiple datasets into a basket and download the zip file (automatically downloads metadata for user)
People weren’t interested in knowing what was newly entered into the catalog, so they decided not to have a link to that on the home page
Users may not know if the data they want is by quad or county, so it doesn’t make sense to have them select their area by choosing one of those

John Callahan: University of Delaware

Spoke about geospatial data at the University of Delaware
University of Delaware uses ArcGIS, which is used by 45+ departments and research centers
http://www.udel.edu/gis
Is pushing Open Source Software
Have statewide orthoimagery, landsat imagery, other imagery as needed
All raw data on the shared file server in Research & Data Management Service (RDMS) GIS research lab
Can be taken out on portable hard drives
Have an orthophotos index viewer
Have ArcIMS & WMS image services for each year for orthophotos (finds they run better than a catalog)
Delaware DataMIL (http://datamil.delaware.gov/) offers state framework data and topographic maps
Have U.S. Census data and University of Delaware campus data
Most people use mapping sites for viewing data
Many use Web for downloading data
Many use ArcGIS Desktop
Some request data on DVDs and/or hard drives
Few people request data in special formats (Geography Markup Language (GML), MapInfo)
Almost none (on campus) use Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC)

Dave Siegel: Harvard University

Harvard Geospatial Library (HGL) http://peters.hul.harvard.edu:8080/HGL/jsp/HGL.jsp
Presented, “Optimizing Access via ArcIMS, Portals, and the Desktop”
Infrastructure for cataloging, storing, and distributing geospatial data
ArcIMS is a metadata catalog based on FGDC
Raster and vector data
Everything in HGL is georeferenced
Log4J (an open source tool) allows them to track users and gather statistics
Not all files are in the same projection; they rely on ArcGIS to take those files and bring them into a common projection
Have a full-time FGDC metadata cataloger
Have a library portal, Web interface
HOLLIS, Harvard’s Library Catalog, provides Internet links http://hollis.harvard.edu/
If a map isn’t georeferenced, it is stored as JPEG2000
Allow a custom map service
Usability issues are a constant struggle (it isn’t like Google Maps)
They are looking to create an OGC-compliant service

Rick Lathrop: Center for Remote Sensing and Spatial Analysis at Rutgers University

Presented, “Web-Based Geospatial Data Visualization”
Not trying to be a one-stop shop
Work with ArcIMS to get the data out there
No need for GIS software for all users
Users wanted to be able to go in and have querying capabilities
Had problems with zonal summary statistics
They work with vector and raster data
With JavaScript, the delineated polygons become hotspots (when hovered, population data for the cities appear)
Using Google Earth and Google Maps because there is an end-user familiarity with the interface
Want to get customized information out to the users, not just data

Panel: Metadata Creation and Import

2007-06-12T14:53:00.000-05:00

6/07/07 Moderator: David Bertuca

Eric Glass: Columbia University

Spoke about Federal Geographic Data Committee (FGDC) and the Content Standard for Digital Geospatial Metadata (CSDGM). http://www.fdgc.gov/

FGDC was approved on 6/8/94
2^nd version of FGDC (FGDC-STD-001-1998) was approved in 1998
CSDGM identifies three purposes

Maintain an organization’s investment in geospatial data
Provide information to data clearinghouses and catalogs
Provide information needed to process and interpret data transferred from another organization

Eric’s position was started because of exponentially growing geospatial data at Columbia; they are in the process of creating a catalog with geospatial data and metadata
There are 7 major sections of the FGDC standard

With compound elements composed of other compound elements
Only federal agencies are required to follow the “mandatory if applicable” standard
Section 1: Identification Information (could pass as a short metadata record)

Includes: what’s in the dataset, dataset name, who created it, date, how it can be used
Columbia uses Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH) for place keywords (use any other keywords)

Section 2: Data Quality Information

Addresses issues of general quality of the dataset
Data providers should work this into the metadata

Section 3: Spatial Data Organization Information
Section 4: Spatial Reference
Section 5: Entity and Attribute Information

What information is included, how it is encoded

Section 6: Distribution Information

How can the data be obtained?

Section 7: Metadata Reference Information

How was it created?

FGDC metadata is extensible (extensions and profiles)
Columbia University Spatial Catalog (password protected)

http://gis.columbia.edu/data.html

Keith Jenkins: Cornell University

Spoke about metadata editors
Works with the Cornell University Geospatial Information Repository (CUGIR) as the GIS Librarian (used to be the Metadata Librarian)
Works with geospatial metadata in xml form
http://geology.usgs.gov/tools/metadata

CNS = Chew & Spit

Pre-parser for formal metadata (in FGDC standard)
Corrects the indentations (“use with care”)

MP = Metadata Parser (?)

Command-line program
Compiler for formal metadata
Checks the syntax against FGDC CSDGM

Oxygen, XMetaL (example of generic XML editors)
CUGIR uses Oxygen 8.1
Checks for a lot of things to make sure the data are correct
Has schema-aware capabilities and diff (shows differences)
Search and replace across multiple files
Color-code xml
Workflow

CNS (if starting with .txt file)
MP
Oxygen
MP (to double check)

John Scialdone: Center for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN)

Spoke about International Standardization Organization (ISO) metadata standards
He hasn’t dealt much with ISO standard, he is used to FGDC

ISO & TC (Technical Committee) 211 www.isotc211.org/

ISO 19115 (introduction in 2003) www.iso.org/

Putting together metadata content and relationships
Establishes metadata terminology and accessibility (22 core elements)

7 mandatory elements
15 conditional elements (if applicable, provide information)

ISO 19115-2

Extensions for imagery and gridded data
Is being drafted

ISO 19139

Schema, implementation derived from 19115 format

North American Metadata Profile (NAP)

U.S., Canada, Mexico
Each member nation can craft own profile of ISO 19115 with the requirement that it includes the 22 core elements

ISO 19115 has some similar fields as CSDGM (some do not match)
ArcCatalog 9.1 does not provide ISO fields for input
http://www.iso.org
http://www.isotc211.org
http://www.fao.org
www.fao.org/geonetwork/srv/en/main.home
INTA National Institute for Aerospace Technology http://www.crepad.rcanaria.es/metadata/en/index_en.htm

Edith Konopka: New Jersey Office of Information Technology (OIT) and Office of GIS (OGIS)

Spoke about metadata for raster mosaics
A raster mosaic with no metadata loses a lot of its quality
Raster view is made up of grids with values

Aerial photographs
Satellite images
Orthophotos

Typical files specify location of upper left corner, cell size, number of rows, number of columns, bit depth
List value for each cell
Large rasters usually stored by some data compression
With lossy JPEGS, if being re-compressed, original quality isn’t restored
Many raster datasets start out as unlocated images (scanned maps, aerial photos)
Georeference and orthorectify
Metadata needs to state whether image was geolocated and how it was done
Creating a mosaic (rasters can overlap or have gaps)

Metadata need to state how mosaic was created, what software was used, how overlaps and/or gaps where dealt with

Need cell registration to have images line up (raster matches grid of mosaics)
Raster pyramids allow for more efficient display
Follows 7 sections of FGDC-STD-001-1998

1: crucial for catalogs
2: detailed information from data producer
3: elements differ from vector data
5: applicable, but brief

May also want the Remote Sensing Extensions (FGDC-STD-012-2002)

Good if collection is large (hundreds of thousands of images)

8 mandatory subsections of section 1 (out of 14 subsections)
Need thesaurus as ISO 19115 Topic Category

Good for GIS data catalogs and Geospatial One Stop harvesting

Some data should be repeated in section 1
Spatial Data Organization Information is brief for raster images, as is Entity Information
Resolution refers to cell size for raster images
More often than not, distributors of raster data are not those who created the data
Require complete info from mosaic creator.
Edith recommends: FGDC metadata workbook @

http://www.fgdc.gov/metadata/documents/workbook_0501_bmk.pdf and FGDC Metadata Quick Guide @ http://www.fgdc.gov/metadata/documents/MetadataQuickGuide.pdf

John Callahan: University of Delaware

Spoke about metadata for map services
He runs the state of Delaware Clearinghouse
Received several FGDC cap grants
Data really need metadata
Delaware is using ESRI GIS Portal Toolkit (moving to 3.1)
Online form, upload xml file, use ArcCatalog to get metadata published (or edited)
FGDC CSDGM created before Web map services
ISO doesn’t address the issues
Need to know where map service is coming from, then change software needed to read it
Take .kmz files, change .kmz to .zip, then view all .kml files in Google Earth
Metadata is only metadata, a textual description of maps
Delaware (GPT v3) supports: ArcIMS, OGC WMS, WFS, WCS Services

Other services need to be documented as Document, Application, Geographic Service,

Geographic Activity
Required for all map services

Content type

Live Data & Maps

ESRI tags (they use ArcIMS)

No requirement on documenting individual layers or attributes consumed by service
Where is the future? There are lots of questions that need to be answered.

2007 Northeast Map Organization Map Competition Awards!

2007-06-11T17:05:00.001-05:00

21^st NEMO Map Competition Awards

Category	Winner!	Map Title
Best Overall	Angus McCusker	Mt. Mansfield Hiking Trail Map
Best Cartographic Design: Small Format	Steve Signell	Documented Terrestrial & Aquatic Invasive Plant Species
Best Cartographic Design: Large Format	Angus McCusker	Mt. Mansfield Hiking Trail Map
Best Interactive presentation	Sohyun Park	Ithaca Fire Department: Gorge Rescue Map: Six Mile Creek
Best Analytical Presentation	Jens Hilke	Wildlife Corridors and Suitability in Vermont
Best Data Integration	Gregory Fiske	The Albertine Rift: Protected Area Watch
Most Unique	Gregory Fiske	The Albertine Rift: Protected Area Watch
Best Overall Graduate Student Map	Joel Caplan	Parole Officer Caseload Distribution [color version]

Postings of the winning maps and mapmakers will be posted on the NEMO website (www.northeastmap.org) soon!

How the British Mapped the Province of New York, 1720-1775

2007-06-08T16:29:00.000-05:00

David Allen’s presentation on How the British Mapped the Province of New York, 1720-1775 provided us with a peek at some of his current research into the history of New York maps. He begins in 1720 with Cadwallader Colden, who was Surveyor General of NY from 1720-1725. Between his service and that of his 2 sons, the Coldens were Surveyors General from 1720-1775. Colden was probably the 1^st to realize that the Hudson, with portages to lakes Ontario and Erie, could allow the British to take control of the fur trade from the French. David then introduced the two main types of mapping of particular importance to the British in early New York: military and property. Later in his presentation he spoke about the influence of John Campbell, the Earl of Loudoun on the accuracy of maps. Campbell was sent by the British as General Braddock’s replacement. Campbell knew the army needed better maps and so had the British Army make maps.

David used several old maps to demonstrate techniques he is using to compare and analyze maps. He uses Adobe Photoshop to simplify coloring (e.g., reduce to black and white, or blue and white) and then to overlay maps for easy comparison. Applying this technique enabled him to show several versions of the way the Hudson and Mohawk rivers were mapped over time, the influences prior maps had on later maps, etc.

Another analysis tool David uses is Map Analyst, which is a free program (available online: http://mapanalyst.cartography.ch). Map Analyst allows you to compare old maps to modern maps. With it you can match locations on modern maps with the old maps and create displacement vectors and circles of uncertainty. With maps analyzed using Map Analyst and marked with circles of uncertainty, David illustrated the increasing degree of accuracy on maps of the Hudson and Mohawk Rivers. He also provided the historical background to explain the differences among the maps.

David’s presentation, particularly the use of new technology tools to analyze old maps, was a great finish to a day filled with technical information. The challenges David faces in finding the information about who made which maps, based on what previous maps, using which method and why actually drives home the importance of issues we discussed earlier in the day such as collecting and preserving, creating metadata, and managing digital rights and access!

Coordinates - Call for Contributors

2007-06-08T14:04:00.000-05:00

David Allen, editor of Coordinates, the online journal of the Map and Geography Round Table, American Library Association, encouraged NEMO attendees to submit papers for publication.

Coordinates can be found online at http://www.sunysb.edu/libmap/coordinates.htm

Mapping the News

2007-06-08T13:21:00.000-05:00

Matthew Ericson, Deputy Graphics Director at the New York Times and our dinner Keynote speaker Thursday night, spoke to us about Mapping the News. In creating maps and other graphics, Matt’s goal is to help readers better understand the news, especially in cases where geography relates to the stories being reported. He explained that there are 6 full-time map makers at the NY Times, with about 20 other graphics people who work on other informational and diagrammatic graphics, as well as statistical presentations of data.

Research for the maps is, of course, done on deadline. Information and data sets for the maps and graphics are drawn from a number of different sources. While they do get much of their core or base data (e.g., census data) from government agencies, they mostly draw upon identified experts, wire services, reporters in the field, graphics editors sent out on assignment, and the best data-modelers. A graphics coordinator is assigned to each major desk at the paper, and there is a good exchange of ideas between editors. Sometimes the graphic is created to illustrate a specific story; sometimes the graphic comes first and the story develops from there.

In response to questions about the software he uses, Matt explained that the more data-driven a map is, the more likely it will be done with GIS software. In many instances the initial plotting is done with GIS (ArcView) software, and then Adobe Illustrator is used to clean up the image and add additional graphics. They also use Natural Scene Designer, especially to produce shaded relief maps.

Matt presented a variety of examples from the NY Times to illustrated the different ways he produces maps and other informational graphics. He used the paper’s coverage of Hurricane Katrina in particular to demonstrate how exactly the data sets, reporters’ coverage, news wire services, and other information sources are brought together to create the story that we see when it is published.

When asked about how they check the accuracy of maps after they have been produced, Matt explained that they pass maps (e.g., emailed as a pdf file) back to the reporters covering the areas the maps portray and ask them to verify that the portrayal is correct. In other cases they might use in-house or known experts on the topic to check the accuracy. They always try to work with the best, most accurate data sets they can find, or that their reporters and graphics editors can gather in the field.

GIS software is also used by Matt to uncover patterns that might otherwise remain unseen, and in doing so actually find new stories. One specific example of when GIS uncovered data for a story was in regard to the places in Atlanta where evacuees from New Orleans moved - it was unexpected to see that evacuees were moving to more affluent areas in Atlanta than those where they had lived in New Orleans. Interestingly enough, in this case the graphical representation was not the best way to present the information as a story. Another example where GIS uncovered the data, and again where the data was not presented graphically, was a demographic comparison of the New Orleans neighborhoods that were hit hard by Katrina compared to those that were not.

Matt stressed the importance of honest portrayal of the news, i.e., the goal of finding the best and most accurate way to present data to the reader. He used several renditions of red state-blue state/Bush-Kerry maps as examples of how the graphical representation of the data can look misleading, and he discussed exploring different presentation methods to find the one that most accurately portrayed Bush-Kerry voting by county.

Matt’s presentation gave us a great in-depth look at the background data for, and creation of, many of the maps we have seen recently in the NY Times. We got a good feel for the amount of time that goes into making these maps, the methods for gathering data or locating the best data sets, and the attention given to the honest and accurate portrayal of data while at the same designing to maintain reader interest (especially for stories that appear over a long span of time, such as the coverage of Katrina). Thanks, Matt!

EPA Tour

2007-06-08T07:34:00.001-05:00

The slides that will be part of the EPA Region 2 GIS Tour on Friday. the slides are at:

http://gisworkgroup.org/download/EPA_R2Tour.ppt

Harvey Simon
simon.harvey@epa.gov

Ready for Lunch?

2007-06-06T11:20:00.000-05:00

Lunch spots near our meeting locations:

Near F.I.T.

Restaurant	Location	Specialties
Whole Foods Market	250 Seventh Ave. at 24^th	Organic foods
Pita Hut	23rd and 7^th towards 8^th	Middle Eastern foods
Sirtaj	26^th and 6^th and Broadway	Indian Curry
Pret a Manger	1384 Broadway between 34^th and 35^th Streets	Natural food
Cosi	32^nd between Madison & Fifth, 32^nd between Broadway and Fifth	Sandwiches on fabulous bread
Hale and Hearty Soups	462 7th Ave. between 34-35^th Streets	Three daily specials
Dimple	30^th between 5^th and 6^th	Vegetarian Indian food and ginger tea
Pepe Giallo	Tenth between 24^th-25^th	Mozzarella, tomato, basil and arugula sandwich
Manhattan Heroes	27^th and 7th	Heroes

Near the New York Public Library

Restaurant	Location	Specialties
Crestanello	42^nd St. & Fifth	Quick, elegant Italian Coffee Shop
Food Court	Grand Central Terminal	Great for rainy days
Bryant Park Café	Behind Library	Not so fast sit down service
Witchcraft Kiosk	Bryant Park at 6^th	Caterers for our brunch
Zeitinz	40^th St. between 5^th and 6^th	Good take-out near park
???	40^th St. and 6^th Ave.	Local eat-in/take-out chain
Pret a Manger	5^th Ave. and 42^nd St.	Natural food
Cosi	6^th Ave. between 41^st and 42^nd Streets	Sandwiches on fabulous bread
SoupMan	4 E. 42^nd St. and 5^th	World renowned soup
Hale and Hearty Soups	42^nd & 6^th	Three daily specials
Chipotle	150 E. 44^th St.	Industrial chic Mexican grill

FIT dorm check-in

2007-06-06T08:48:00.001-05:00

For those of you staying in the FIT dorms, here is some updated check-in info:

Check-in is 9am-5pm. Late check-in is from 6pm-11:00pm. After 11:00PM the group leader will be in charge of all members checking in.

Please ask for Joey Schaljo or Sumintra Bipram (Sumintra is the Summer Housing Coordinator, Direct: 212-217-3943 ).

Alumni Hall
210 West 27 th Street
New York , NY 10005
1 st Floor

Get Ready NYC - NEMO is Coming!

2007-06-04T13:23:00.000-05:00

The June 7, 2007 Annual Meeting activities will happen at the Fashion Institute of Technology, while the June 8th events will be at the NY Public Library, Room 117.

For additional info and links to the preliminary program check out the Meeting page on the NEMO website

GIS Services and MAP2PDF

2007-06-03T18:28:00.000-05:00

GIS Services will have a table set up at the NEMO Conference next week in NYC to answer questions on MAP2PDF.

MAP2PDF provides a means for distributing GIS data to non-GIS users by leveraging the popular Adobe® Acrobat® PDF with a portable mapping format (GeoPDF) to create and publish layered Georegistered maps.

By exporting the data to a GeoPDF GIS professionals can distribute GeoPDFs to non-GIS users who utilize Adobe Reader® enabling them to:

view maps;
turn layers on and off;
query attributes;
display coordinates; and
create redlines and notes.

Notes and redlining can be distributed for review and/or incorporated back into the master GIS database, all without the need for non-GIS users to have GIS applications, databases, or any knowledge of how they work.

Anyone who is interested can request an evaluation copy by contacting Bill Timmins at info@gisservices.net .