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Subject: Re: MAPS-L Digest - 6 Feb 2009 to 9 Feb 2009 (#2009-26)
Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2009 12:46:47 -0500
From: Amanda Henley <[log in to unmask]>
To: Maps, Air Photo & Geospatial Systems Forum <[log in to unmask]>
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Hi Kathleen,
Temperature and precipitation are usually provided in mean values. If
your patron wants median values, they may have to determine them using
daily data.
CGIAR-CSI CRU-TS 2.1 Climate Database is global and has daily values.
http://cru.csi.cgiar.org/
I hope this helps,
Amanda
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There are 4 messages totalling 223 lines in this issue.
Topics of the day:
1. graduate study at California State University, Long Beach
2. Looking for Global Climate Data with median temperature and rainfall
3. Photocartographies Announcement and call for entries
4. Job Posting for map/GIS cataloger position in VA
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Date: Mon, 9 Feb 2009 08:12:12 -0600
From: Maps-L Moderator <[log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]>>
Subject: graduate study at California State University, Long Beach
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Subject: graduate study at California State University, Long
Beach
Date: Mon, 09 Feb 2009 01:22:44 -0800
From: Christine M. Rodrigue, Ph.D. <[log in to unmask]
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Organization: Geography, California State University, Long Beach
To: Maps, Air Photo & Geospatial Systems Forum
<[log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]>>
Please share this announcement with promising undergraduates who are
considering master's studies in cartography, GIS, and remote sensing.
The Department of Geography at California State University, Long Beach,
is inviting Fall 2009 applications for its highly successful M.A.
program. Three of our graduate students have won the College of Liberal
Arts Outstanding Thesis Award and one of these was the campus nomination
to the Western Association of Graduate Schools as its best thesis!
Since 2005, 23 students have completed their theses (out of roughly
40-45 under active supervision). We have a solid track record in
sending students on to Ph.D. programs, and our alumni are in demand and
enjoy excellent career paths (with virtually all in geography-related
professional, managerial, and technical positions).
We have a strong program in cartography and GIS and a large and
successful alumni community in the geospatial techniques. Two new
faculty will be joining us this fall as well. Hyowon Ban's research
lies in cartography, geovisualization, and GIS modelling of uncertainty
and inherently fuzzy concepts in urban morphology. Jacqueline Mills'
work addresses GIS applications in emergency management and the ethical
issues presented by geocoded data.
Applications should be completed by 15 April. Detailed instructions on
application may be found at
http://www.csulb.edu/geography/graduateinvitation.pdf . A flyer
summarizing the highlights of our program may be accessed at
http://www.csulb.edu/geography/geoma09.pdf (and we would be most
grateful if you would consider posting this flyer for students to see).
Thank you for your time and assistance.
Chrys Rodrigue, Graduate Advisor, Geography, CSULB
http://www.csulb.edu/geography/
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Date: Mon, 9 Feb 2009 08:12:25 -0600
From: Maps-L Moderator <[log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]>>
Subject: Looking for Global Climate Data with median temperature and
rainfall
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Subject: Looking for Global Climate Data with median
temperature and
rainfall
Date: Sun, 8 Feb 2009 17:53:01 -0800 (PST)
From: [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]>
To: Air Photo Maps-L <[log in to unmask]
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Hello all,
I'm working with a researcher who wants to locate a GIS layer that
has climate data reported in median (not mean) temperature and
rainfall per month. This could be a polygon layer such as that on
the Global GIS data disk from USGS/AGI (which reports it in means)
or a point layer(s). Alternatively, we could generate a point layer
of stations if we have the data by lat and long of measuring station.
Any assistance would be appreciated.
Thanks in advance,
Kathy Stroud, Map/GIS Librarian
Biological/Agricultural Sciences and Map Services, Shields Library
100 NW Quad Ave.
Davis, CA 95616-5292
530-752-5248
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Date: Mon, 9 Feb 2009 09:08:22 -0600
From: Maps-L Moderator <[log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]>>
Subject: Photocartographies Announcement and call for entries
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Subject: \\Photocartographies\\//Announcement and call for
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Date: Mon, 9 Feb 2009 14:51:58 +0000
From: Brian Rosa <[log in to unmask]
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*//Announcement and call for entries//*
<http://goog_1234025601132>
/Photocartographies: Tattered Fragments of the Map/
<http://thelimitsoffun.org/photocartographies>
Submission Deadline: March 31, 2009
Exhibition Opens in Los Angeles on May 16
Photography and cartography are entwined in similar processes of subject
orientation that structure our experience of social, environmental and
virtual landscapes. A map is not a representation so much as a system of
propositions. This exhibition reveals mapping itself as a generative
process of knowledge creation, a liberatory method for re-imagining and
re-imaging our world, its built and natural environments, and the
relationship between space and place.
Independent curators Adam Katz (Los Angeles) and Brian Rosa (Mexico
City) seek submissions of 2D images and artworks that play with the map
as an epistemological tool. Appropriate work includes cartographies that
use photography as well as photographs that employ a cartographic
vocabulary (location, territory, scale). The exhibition will emphasize
an interdisciplinary approach to a broad spectrum of visual culture – we
welcome submissions from social scientists, urbanists, and designers as
well as artists.
Images should be sent by email to [log in to unmask]
<mailto:[log in to unmask]>
<mailto:[log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]>>
Include "Photocartographies" in the subject
Preferred .jpg or .pdf
No more than 10 images
No more than 5mb of attachments per email
Please include a brief introduction, artist statement or relevant links
online
*More about the Exhibition*
Maps are tied to a history of authority, scientific rationality and
use-value, masking the underlying subjectivity and biases of their
creation. Practical application, satellite-based navigation, the
disciplines of geography and, more recently, urban planning, have
popularized and proliferated map imagery while helping to cement an aura
of unassailable cartographic objectivity. Maps have become ubiquitous
tools in our daily lives, and are traditionally identified in accordance
with a few simple assumptions: they are graphic representations of
spatial relations and their creators are technicians bound to graphic
systems that reflect a physical reality. However, the true nature of
maps is one of distortion, beginning with their projections of
three-dimensional surfaces onto two-dimensional frames, and compounded
by territorialization, a habit of identifying, naming and claiming. Maps
are image-objects in which different conceptions and configurations of
time and space are created, not just charted.
In 1858 Gaspard Felix Tournachon executed the first aerial photographs
from a hot air balloon tethered above the Paris skyline. In turn, Baron
Haussmann employed this omniscient view to redesign the city, combating
its perceived disorder. Over the last 150 years, people have used
zeppelins, airplanes, and satellites to photographically capture and
archive every piece of our globe with increasing accuracy and frequency.
More recently, public access to maps, as well as the access to their
means of production, have been greatly enabled by photo
reproduction—most notably with the prevalence of digital information
tools such as Google Earth and online mapping sites spurred by satellite
imagery. Borges' story of mapping the entire Kingdom1
<http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=ddxt89gh_17dbk522ds#sdendnote1sym> with
exactitude may seem improbably complete. And yet, maps can never escape
being part of the world their creators try to represent. Like the
photographic image, "The map does not reproduce an unconscious closed in
upon itself; it constructs the unconscious"2
<http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=ddxt89gh_17dbk522ds#sdendnote2sym> by
coding power, politics, and aesthetics. All maps are still projections,
and all territories are maps.
1 <http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=ddxt89gh_17dbk522ds#sdendnote1anc>
Borges, J.L. "Of Exactitude in Science." /A Universal History of
Infamy/, Penguin Books, London, 1975.
2 <http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=ddxt89gh_17dbk522ds#sdendnote2anc>
Deleuze, Gilles, and Felix Guattari. /A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism
and Schizophrenia. /U of Minnesota Press, 1987.
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Date: Mon, 9 Feb 2009 11:53:47 -0600
From: Maps-L Moderator <[log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]>>
Subject: Job Posting for map/GIS cataloger position in VA
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Subject: Job Posting for map/GIS cataloger position in VA
Date: Mon, 09 Feb 2009 12:35:40 -0500
From: Paige Andrew <[log in to unmask]
<mailto:[log in to unmask]>>
To: [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]>
Forwarded upon request of June Crowe:
Opening for an experienced map cataloging Librarian/Geographer in
Northern Virginia. Experience should include cataloging of GIS data.
Foreign language and security clearance desired. Start date mid-April
2009. Salary commensurate with experience. For more information please
contact Bill Crislip at [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]>
<mailto:[log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]>> tel 540
840 0562.
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