Story maps

The Esri Insider blog posted a short, but well-linked, piece this morning on the origins of the Story Map template. I especially liked the bees.

Campus water parks

Sorry that I missed this when it first came out, but earlier this fall the NY Times ran a feature on campuses adding water parks as amenities for students. Amazing.

Happy GIS Day

Today is GIS Day, the happiest day of the GIS year. There will be lots of #GISDay tweets and GIS parties all around the world to celebrate.

Last week Burlington County College had a great GIS Day celebration, a bit early.

Today Rutgers will celebrate at 5pm in the Alampi Room at the IMCS building. 


If only GIS Day could be every day of the year.

Kontos Memorial Kiosk

The Star-Ledger has provided some nice coverage of the work that Rick Lathrop and Brian Curry have undertaken to memorialize Charlie Kontos. Charlie was a great presence at CRSSA but most notable contribution was his research into the return of fishers to the northern forests of New Jersey.

Healthy Landscapes Talk at BCC GIS Day

For GIS Day at Burlington County College these papers were mentioned:

• Tang, X., P. Ohri-Vachaspati, J. K. Abbott, R. Aggarwal, D. Tulloch, and K. Lloyd. 2014. “Associations between Food Environment around Schools and Professionally Measured Weight Status for Middle and High School Students,” American Journal of Preventive Medicine (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25343730).
• Ohri-Vachaspati, P., K. Lloyd, D. DeLeia, D. Tulloch, N. Petlick, D. Martinez, M. Yedidia. 2013. “A Closer Examination of Measures of Food and Physical Activity Environments as They Relate to Childhood Obesity,” Preventive Medicine, 57: 162–167 (http://www.rwjf.org/en/research-publications/find-rwjf-research/2013/05/a-closer-examination-of-the-relationship-between-children-s-weig.html). 
• DeWeese, R., M, J. Yedidia, D. Tulloch, P. Ohri-Vachaspati. 2013. "Neighborhood Perceptions and Active School Commuting in Low-Income Cities," American Journal of Preventive Medicine, 45(4): 393–400 (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24050414).

Also, some readers may want to check out one or more of these map-heavy reports that Caroline Phillipuk helped make:

Ohri-Vachaspati, P., D. Tulloch, N. Petlick, D. Martinez, M. Yedidia. 2010. Food Environment Maps Chart Book, Camden: The New Jersey Childhood Obesity Study.  Rutgers Center for State Health Policy. (http://www.cshp.rutgers.edu/Downloads/8400.pdf) 

Ohri-Vachaspati, P., D. Tulloch, N. Petlick, J. Chou, M. Yedidia. 2010. Physical Activity Environment Maps Chart Book, Camden: The New Jersey Childhood Obesity Study.  Rutgers Center for State Health Policy. (http://www.cshp.rutgers.edu/Downloads/8540.pdf)

Ohri-Vachaspati, P., D. Tulloch, N. Petlick, D. Martinez, M. Yedidia. 2010. Food Environment Maps Chart Book, Newark: The New Jersey Childhood Obesity Study.  Rutgers Center for State Health Policy. (http://www.cshp.rutgers.edu/Downloads/8420.pdf)

Ohri-Vachaspati, P., D. Tulloch, N. Petlick, J. Chou, M. Yedidia. 2010. Physical Activity Environment Maps Chart Book, Newark: The New Jersey Childhood Obesity Study.  Rutgers Center for State Health Policy. (http://www.cshp.rutgers.edu/Downloads/8550.pdf)

Ohri-Vachaspati, P., D. Tulloch, N. Petlick, D. Martinez, M. Yedidia. 2010. Food Environment Maps Chart Book, New Brunswick: The New Jersey Childhood Obesity Study.  Rutgers Center for State Health Policy. (http://www.cshp.rutgers.edu/Downloads/8440.pdf)

Ohri-Vachaspati, P., D. Tulloch, N. Petlick, J. Chou, M. Yedidia. 2010. Physical Activity Environment Maps Chart Book, New Brunswick: The New Jersey Childhood Obesity Study.  Rutgers Center for State Health Policy. (http://www.cshp.rutgers.edu/Downloads/8560.pdf)

Ohri-Vachaspati, P., D. Tulloch, N. Petlick, D. Martinez, M. Yedidia. 2010. Food Environment Maps Chart Book, Trenton: The New Jersey Childhood Obesity Study.  Rutgers Center for State Health Policy. (http://www.cshp.rutgers.edu/Downloads/8460.pdf)

Ohri-Vachaspati, P., D. Tulloch, N. Petlick, J. Chou, M. Yedidia. 2010. Physical Activity Environment Maps Chart Book, Trenton: The New Jersey Childhood Obesity Study.  Rutgers Center for State Health Policy. (http://www.cshp.rutgers.edu/Downloads/8570.pdf)

Ohri-Vachaspati, P., D. Tulloch, N. Petlick, D. Martinez, M. Yedidia. 2010. Food Environment Maps Chart Book, Vineland: The New Jersey Childhood Obesity Study.  Rutgers Center for State Health Policy. (http://www.cshp.rutgers.edu/Downloads/8480.pdf)

Ohri-Vachaspati, P., D. Tulloch, N. Petlick, J. Chou, M. Yedidia. 2010. Physical Activity Environment Maps Chart Book, Vineland: The New Jersey Childhood Obesity Study.  Rutgers Center for State Health Policy. (http://www.cshp.rutgers.edu/Downloads/8580.pdf)

You may know Caroline more for her work in promoting the early GIS Days:

Warm Cookies

The award for most interestingly named civic NGO of the day is "Warm Cookies of the Revolution."

Maps are getting smarter

Slate has a lengthy new piece up by Daniel Gross describing the new seven wonders of the modern world. Wonder #2 is the dynamic map, which describes how changes in mapping are now changing everything else we do. Geography matters.

Where is the next Brooklyn?

The Atlantic investigates different answers to this important question of our day.

Location Powers

OGC is hosting a meeting next month that sounds fascinating. Location Powers will be a smart cities meeting in Tokyo, Japan that focusing "on understanding the location and place needs of a Smart City." It seems very geodesign-ish, but is more focused on the specific applications within the urban setting.