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<div>MIT GIS Services is hosting the following workshop and presentation in January. </div>
<div>You can register for these workshops at: </div>
<div>bit.ly/GIS2-IAP-2011</div>
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<div><b>Getting started with Google Maps API and Google Fusion Tables </b></div>
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<li>Thursday, January 20, 12-3 pm, location: 4-231 Users should bring their own laptops</li><li>speaker: Mano Marks, Google Geo Developer Advocate</li></ul>
<div>The Google Maps API is the most used mapping API in the world, currently on over 350,000 websites around the world. Google Fusion Tables is a modern data management web application making it easy to host, manage, collaborate on, visualize, and publish
data tables online. Together, they make a powerful mapping platform, allowing people to easily upload data, and publish it on a map. This workshop will provide an introduction to using the Maps API and Fusion Tables, and then provide a hands-on walk through
of both the API and Fusion Tables. There will be something for both beginning and advanced developers. Participants should have a basic knowledge of JavaScript.</div>
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<div><b>Virtual Cities of the Future and the Past</b></div>
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<li>Monday, January 24, 11 am - 12 pm, Location: 4-231 </li><li>speaker: Paul Cote has been Geographic Information Systems Specialist and lecturer at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design since 1993.</li></ul>
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<div>Google Earth and Microsoft Bing3D have demonstrated the utility of broad-scale 3d city models as a referencing frame for all sorts of urban information, yet these commercial approaches to city modeling are not so useful as a means of documenting the changing
form of the city historically or as a means of bringing together ideas of the future form of cities. This talk will present several projects that exploit city models as a means of sharing ideas about the future and past. We will look briefly at the ways that
we can exploit Google Earth as a means of organizing information about the future and past, and then focus on a data model for developing temporally deep metropolitan models as part of a collaborative inter-city information infrastructure.</div>
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<div>Cheers,</div>
<div>Lisa</div>
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<div>Head, GIS Services, MIT Libraries</div>
<div><a href="http://libraries.mit.edu/gis/">http://libraries.mit.edu/gis/</a></div>
<div>617-258-5598</div>
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