GISMO (the local chapter of the NY State GIS Association) is hosting a GIS job fair on Wednesday November 14, 2018 at Hunter College CUNY. The fair runs from 1pm to 5pm and is located in the Hunter College West Building. For more information and to register visit http://www.gismonyc.org/events/upcoming/.
The library has recently purchased updated data from the China Data Center: the 2015 edition of the China City Statistical Indicators with Maps. Data is provided in point and polygon shapefiles and in a tabular Excel format for Prefecture-level and County-level cities. Cities in China differ from the North American model, in that they represent areas that contain both urban and rural components and they cover the country in it's entirety. The point shapefiles represents the center of the urbanized area, while polygon files represent the entire administrative or legal area. Provinces are the 1st-level administrative sub-divisions of China, Prefectures are the 2nd-level, and Counties are the 3rd.
The data includes several demographic and socio-economic indicators, many for the prefectures and fewer for the counties. You can view an index of the available variables and files on the China Data Center Datasets page. The data is copyrighted for educational, non-commercial use and our license permits us to share the data only with current Baruch students, faculty, and staff. Current members of the Baruch College community can email us (using your CUNY email address) to request access to specific files.
Registration is now open for the fall semester’s GIS (geographic information systems) Practicum, Introduction to GIS Using Open Source Software (featuring QGIS). The sessions will be held in the GIS Lab at Baruch College:
- Friday Oct 26th
- Friday Nov 16th
The day-long workshop runs from 9am to 4:30pm. Current CUNY graduate students, faculty, and staff, and full-time Baruch undergrads are eligible to register. Advance registration is required; the fee is $30 and includes a detailed tutorial manual and a light breakfast. Participants must bring their own laptop with QGIS 2.18 pre-installed in order to take the class. Visit the GIS Practicum page to learn more and to register: http://guides.newman.baruch.cuny.edu/gis/gisprac.