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Department of Geography and Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis
University College London
1-19 Torrington Place
London WC1E 6BT
United Kingdom
 
Email: p.longley@geog.ucl.ac.uk
Phone: +44 (0) 20 7679 1782
Fax: +44 (0) 20 7813 2843
http://www.casa.ucl.ac.uk/people/Paul.htm
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Dear Tony,
could you please forward this information to the LUTR-SIMPLE list?
Also, the deadline for the submission of proposal under the Policy-orientated research is March 13.
Is there an "action plan" from the SIMPLE group?

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Dear colleagues
On 5 February there will be an Information Day in Brussels on Sustainable Energy and Transport.
One of the areas that will be discussed is the Policy oriented research area 3.2 (The development of tools, indicators and operational parameters for assessing sustainable transport and energy systems performance) which Carlo Sessa mentioned in a previous email as one of the opportunities for LUTR-SIMPLE projects within FP6. The Information day is free. Anyone in the proximity of Brussels willing to participate and share information with the rest of the list?

Best Regards

Elena Besussi



http://dbs.cordis.lu/cgi-bin/srchidadb?CALLER=NHP_EN_NEWS&ACTION=D&SESSION=&RCN=EN_RCN_ID:19568

CORDIS Database: NEWS
Search name: FP6
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FP6 sustainable energy and transport information day
Record Control Number : 19568
Date : 2003-01-17
Category : Event
General Information :
The Directorate General for Energy and Transport is organising an
information day for the first call for proposals under the Sixth
Framework Programme in the areas of sustainable energy systems and
sustainable transport on 5 February in Brussels.
The event will deal specifically with the call for proposals in the
areas of sustainable energy systems and sustainable transport,
which were published on 17 December 2002.
The day will begin with an introductory overview concerning
proposal submission, evaluation and the framework's new instruments,
followed by parallel sessions which will cover the following areas:
- Sustainable energy systems: Short and medium term impact;
- Policy oriented research: The development of tools, indicators
and operational parameters for assessing sustainable transport and
energy systems performance;
- Cost-effective supply of renewable energies: Large-scale
integration of renewable energy sources into energy supplies;
- Maritime navigation and information services: Maritime transport
coordination platform;
- Alternative motor fuels;
- Sustainable surface transport: Accident analysis and injury
analysis road infrastructure safety;
- Sustainable surface transport: Freight transport corridors and
city logistics;
- Aeronautics and space programme.
Participants will have an opportunity to discuss these areas and an
area will be available for making contacts with potential partners.
Participants are invited to register for this information day
before 22 January.
Text :
Remarks :
Data Source Provider : European Commission
Document Reference : Based on an event announcement
Programme Acronym : FRAMEWORK 6C, FP6-INTEGRATING, FP6-AEROSPACE, FP6-SUSTDEV
Subject Index Codes : Energy Storage, Energy Transport, Energy Saving, Renewable Sources
of Energy
Contact Person : To obtain a registration form and for further details about the
event, please contact:
Cdric Dumortier
Fax: +32 2 295 4349
E-mail: tren-fp6@cec.eu.int
http://europa.eu.int/comm/dgs/energy_transport/rtd/6/index_en.htm
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Elena Besussi
Researcher
Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis
University College London
1-19 Torrington Place London WC1E 6BT
[t] 44 (0) 20 7679 5921
[f] 44 (0) 20 7813 2843
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Look at our "All new web site" at http://www.casa.ucl.ac.uk/
 Colleagues, Following consultation with Heads of Departments last year, a new Policy governing 'Conflicts of Interest' has come into effect from the beginning of this year. The broad principles of the Policy apply to all staff, but the Policy applies specifically to all Academic staff, Honorary and Emeritus staff and Academic related staff of AR5 and above with with immediate effect. The Policy can be found on-line at: http://www.ucl.ac.uk/finance/finance_pages/coi_policy.htm The new policy also describes new arrangements for the Annual Disclosure of Interests, to be submitted at the end of each academic year. A reminder will be sent to all staff at the beginning of July. All questions and comments relating to the new Policy should be directed to: conflicts-secretary@ucl.ac.uk Jeff Skinner Commercial Director. 3 Lppe ::FREE MORTGAGE QUOTE::

A5cQVRy0pKk8agTe46E 9922MdSE5-070zuMv2718CvES5-538onkW6837eCfj3-046oEGK7320uhqy1-l57 ok, i will do it now. -----Original Message----- From: Mike Batty [mailto:mbatty@geog.ucl.ac.uk] Sent: 27 January 2003 13:14 To: Sonja Curtis Subject: RE: FW: Study Assistance Scheme/short external training courses can you go to my machine and log on - to my email password f6256abad and then send me the file on the desktop called template.doc which is the signatures in it - you might email this to yourself too thanks Mike At 12:35 27/01/2003 +0000, you wrote: >Thanks, not sure I have it. > >2 more meetings this week: > >Wednesday 11.30-12.00: Maria Attard and John Adams >Friday 10-11: Muki > >Let me know if you want me to change them. > >Sonja > >-----Original Message----- >From: Mike Batty [mailto:mbatty@geog.ucl.ac.uk] >Sent: 27 January 2003 11:29 >To: Sonja Curtis >Subject: Re: FW: Study Assistance Scheme/short external training courses > > >Ok - can you add my digital signature if you have it > >Mike > >At 11:18 27/01/2003 +0000, you wrote: > >Mike, > >I've received a form from Valerie Crees for me to apply for funding to >cover > >a course on Director. > >If you're happy for me to apply the form requires your signature. > > > >Thanks > >Sonja > > > > > >-----Original Message----- > >From: Valerie Crees [mailto:v.crees@ucl.ac.uk] > >Sent: 27 January 2003 11:12 > >To: Sonja Curtis > >Subject: Re: Study Assistance Scheme/short external training courses > > > > > > > > > >Dear Sonya, > > > > > > > >The Study Assistance Scheme supports employees who wish to undertake > >degree or doctorate programmes, professional qualifications or other > >nationally approved vocational qualifications that are related to their > >area of work. > > > >This course will probably fall under the Short External course funding > >which is discretionary. You will need to complete a Short External Course > >application form (see attached) and as soon as Judith Taylor decides how > >much you can receive I will let you know. > > > > > > > >Many thanks > > > > > > > > > >Valerie Crees > > > > > >At 15:45 13/01/03 +0000, you wrote: > > >Dear Valerie > > > > > >I am writing to ask what the procedure is to apply for the UCL study > > >assistance scheme for a short course. I work in the Centre for Advanced > > >Spatial Analysis as an administrator and web designer, I have recently > > >created 3 websites for CASA and the next project I am hoping to complete >is > > >an interactive CD-rom of CASA's work. This would be created using > > >Macromedia Director 8.5 and I am seeking funding for a 3 day course which > > >costs #250 per day. This is a link to the course outline: > > >http://www.biblio-tech.net/training/scheduled/director8_intro.html > > > > > >I would be grateful if you could let me know how I could proceed with an > > >application. > > > > > >Many thanks > > > > > >Sonja Curtis > > >Administrator > > >CASA > > >UCL > > >1-19 Torrington Place > > >London WC1E 7HB > > > > > >t. 020 7679 1813 > > >f. 020 7813 2843 > > >e. s.curtis@ucl.ac.uk > > >w. www.casa.ucl.ac.uk > > > > > > > > > >--------------------------------------------- > >Valerie Crees > >EPD Programme Assistant > > > >Staff Development & Training > >Department of Education & Professional Development (EPD) > >University College London > >EPD Programme Office > >1-19 Torrington Place > >London > >WC1E 6BT > > > >tel: +44 (0)20 7679 1909 > >fax: +44 (0)20 7679 1715 > >e-mail : v.crees@ucl.ac.uk > >web: http://www.ucl.ac.uk/epd/sdtu/ > > > >Study Assistance Scheme: http://www.ucl.ac.uk/epd/sdtu/sas/information.htm > > > >SDT Booking Form: http://www.ucl.ac.uk/epd/sdtu/bookingform.htm > > > >------------------------------------------------------ > > > > > > > >As part of my ESRC Fellowship, I am spending February, March and early >April in Ann Arbor Michigan, working with Yichun Xie at Eastern Michigan >University and the Complexity Group at the University of Michigan. I will >be back and forth to UK but cannot attend meetings. I will deal as usual >with all CASA correspondence by email but please call Sonja >(s.curtis@ucl.ac.uk) or Sarah (s.sheppard@ucl.ac.uk) on any matter. When I >get to Ann Arbor I will update this signature. >__________________________________________________________ >Mike Batty >Director, Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis >University College London, 1-19 Torrington Place London WC1E 6BT >[t] 44 (0) 207 679 1781, [f] 44 (0) 207 813 2843 >__________________________________________________________ >CASA web site http://www.casa.ucl.ac.uk/ As part of my ESRC Fellowship, I am spending February, March and early April in Ann Arbor Michigan, working with Yichun Xie at Eastern Michigan University and the Complexity Group at the University of Michigan. I will be back and forth to UK but cannot attend meetings. I will deal as usual with all CASA correspondence by email but please call Sonja (s.curtis@ucl.ac.uk) or Sarah (s.sheppard@ucl.ac.uk) on any matter. When I get to Ann Arbor I will update this signature. __________________________________________________________ Mike Batty Director, Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis University College London, 1-19 Torrington Place London WC1E 6BT [t] 44 (0) 207 679 1781, [f] 44 (0) 207 813 2843 __________________________________________________________ CASA web site http://www.casa.ucl.ac.uk/ thank you! you'll need to log off whilst I log on. you can have a go with this office gossip quiz I made at the weekend if you like: http://www.art-studio.freeserve.co.uk/office_gossip/ Wednesday 29 January | 5-6pm | Basement Lecture Theatre | 1-19 Torrington Place Ray Harris: The role of satellite radar data for agricultural fraud detection An important component of sustainable agriculture is the improved management of the resources used in agriculture: these resources include water, agro-chemicals and financial resources. As management strategies improve and become more explicit there is a greater need to detect those in the agriculture sector who are not following formal guidelines, that is those who are carrying out fraudulent activities. This paper addresses two major ways in which satellite radar data can be used to help detect fraud in the agriculture sector: (1) the identification of fields growing particular crops, and (2) the identification of the illegal use of water for irrigation purposes. For further details of seminars in this series please visit: http://www.casa.ucl.ac.uk/lectures/seminars2.html Lecture changes Please note the following changes to previously advertised lectures. Apologies for multiple postings.


6.30pm Wednesday 29 January 2003
Archaeology Lecture Theatre, Gordon Square W1
The Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL. Constructing Realities Lecture Series

Andrew Whalley
Transparency

Andrew Whalley is a director at Nicholas Grimshaw and Partners who has worked on many recent projects including the new Eden Centre in Cornwall. He is an expert on the use of glass and other transparent materials in architecture, including active glazing.


6.30pm Wednesday 19 February 2003
Archaeology Lecture Theatre, Gordon Square W1
The Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL. Constructing Realities Lecture Series

Professor Chris Wise and Ed McCann
Experiments in Enginerdling - a new engineering

Chris Wise and Ed McCann are from Expedition Engineering and Imperial College. Their work is based on the premise that creative design and engineering theory are inextricably linked.


 Special Notice ? Rogues and Vagabonds

Special Notice

Please note change of date from 19 March to 2 April 2003


7.00pm for 7.30pm Wednesday 2 April 2003
Upper Refectory, University College London
"Rogues and Vagabonds"
Annual dinner for Alumni of the Bartlett
The principal speaker will be Paul Finch OBE HonFRIBA on the subject of "Tall Storeys". Paul Finch OBE HonFRIBA is editorial director of the Architects' Journal, Architectural Review, and their publisher, Emap Construct. He is deputy chair of Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment, and chair of CABE's design review committee.
If you like to attend, please email/RSVP the organiser Azhar via
azhar@azhararchitecture.com
70 Gainsford Street, London SE1 2NB, tel: 0207 357 8703

This event is supported by UCL Alumni
 Hi Brent,

There are a few turtle commands worth looking into that you may find useful:
    stamp-at xcor ycor color
    stamp-towards angle distance color
    ask-patch-at xcor ycor [list of commands]

Also, StarLogo does support its own variety of loops.  Read about:
    loop [list of commands]    (does list of commands forever)
    every number [list of commands]    (does list of commands forever every (number) seconds)
    repeat number [list of commands]    (does list of commands number times)


I think that my (perhaps naive and untested) approach would be to use
    towards-nowrap xcor-of (turtle 2) ycor-of (turtle 2)
to get the angle from the calling turtle's (xcor, ycor) to the second turtle's (xcor, ycor), assuming you don't want the graph to wrap around the edges.

Then I would use
    distance-nowrap xcor-of (turtle 2) ycor-of (turtle 2)
to get the distance from the calling turtle.

Then I would set a counting variable to 0
Then I would repeat (distance-nowrap) times
    stamp-towards (towards-nowrap) counter (color)
    (increment the counter)

If you think it would be easier to draw with hidden turtles, try the "hatch" turtle command.  You shouldn't have to "create" more turtles after setup because you can always "hatch" them as needed while the project is running.

Hope this helps,
Corey



Brent Capps wrote:
I am doing an analysis of network relationships between turtles. To make the network visible, I'd really like to draw lines between turtles who share a network path. This ought to be trivial, but it's not. From my reading of the StarLogo commands, it appears that the only way to draw a line is for a turtle to put its pen down while moving from point A to point B. But what I really want to do is to draw a line between the turtles at point A and point B without moving the turtles themselves, because the position of the turtles is important to the problem that I'm studying, so I don't want to move them once they've find a resting spot.

I considered creating a hidden turtle at point A, then moving it to point B with its pen down, then instructing it to die after it arrives at point B. It seems in keeping with the decentralized nature of StarLogo that the network should draw itself. Unfortunately, turtles can't create turtles; only the observer can create turtles. Having the observer draw the network is really messy, given that StarLogo seems to lack any equivalent to C's for() or while() iteration loops.

There must be an easier way to do this...?
Brent

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Brent Capps
Online Education Administrator
Oregon Master of Software Engineering Program
http://www.omseonline.org

 Claudia: Thanks for this. I'll get back to you in a day or so about this - I need to check some things with Mike Batty first. Thanks, Paul. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Claudia Naber" To: "'Paul Longley'" Sent: Wednesday, February 19, 2003 10:09 PM Subject: bibliographies > Dear Paul, > Thanks for Chapter 1. We are moving right along. > Will we keep bibliographic material at the end of each chapter? It seems > obvious, but wanted to double check with you. > > Also, how about Contributors at the back of the book? That is the > convention used in literary anthologies and, as such, sets a precedent worth > emulating. Let me know your thoughts. > > Thanks. > Claudia > > Claudia Naber, Editor > ESRI Press > www.esri.com/esripress > > Mike: Some small things about the book, principally concerning presentation: 1. Can you email me what you think is the definitive contents list, with any 'part' partitions that you think should be retained in the book? We're up on Claudia's deadline on this. 2. There are three options concerning references: (a) just have references at the end of the chapters (we did this in the Geocomputation book, but it can make it look a bit like conference proceedings; (b) just have a single consolidated list at the end (like we did in the 1996 Spatial Analysis book) - this conceals unequal bibliography lengths, though this time we have tried to standardise this; or (c) do both (like we did in BB2). I have no strong preferences, but am inclined to (c) as first choice, then (b) second - but I can easily be persuaded on this. 3. I had thought that we would have the contributor research interests and home pages in the front of the book - this is the convention I'm most familiar with. Let me know what you think. If you can give me some time horizon for the Epilogue it would be helpful as well. Paul. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Claudia Naber" To: "'Paul Longley'" Sent: Wednesday, February 19, 2003 10:09 PM Subject: bibliographies > Dear Paul, > Thanks for Chapter 1. We are moving right along. > Will we keep bibliographic material at the end of each chapter? It seems > obvious, but wanted to double check with you. > > Also, how about Contributors at the back of the book? That is the > convention used in literary anthologies and, as such, sets a precedent worth > emulating. Let me know your thoughts. > > Thanks. > Claudia > > Claudia Naber, Editor > ESRI Press > www.esri.com/esripress > > You may have gathered that I'm engaged in a spot of Densham bashing - yesterday's GIS exam board was cancelled basically because he had not marked his January exams and projects, and when I asked Kam about him yesterday he just smiled and said that he had never met him and had not received replies to the several emails that he had sent him. This isn't good enough. If you get a moment, could you email John Ward and ask where his seminar abstract is? Sonja and I have asked umpteen times and it is the only gap on the Web. Thanks, Paul. ----- Original Message ----- From: "mike batty" To: "kampanart Piyathamrongchai" Cc: ; Sent: Wednesday, February 19, 2003 6:47 PM Subject: your stuff > The power point looks good - I guess you have given it now. I think you are > getting on Ok but much of your outline is quite similar to your proposal > before you came. I would like to see you work more on two areas > > 1. how to link CA with the traditional geographic techniques and models in > diffusion and also in central place theory which is your focus > > 2. the data base - how to get RS data into a form for CA models and also > how to get geodemograhic data into the same form. > > A key issue in your work is to get the model to the point where we can > calibrate it. This has not been done much in CA models as yet but we are > doing some work here at Michigan in building a very detaield data base of > An Arbor which will be synthesis of physical pixel data on environmental > things, with parcel data which is property based and then census data which > is block group and tract based. All will come together at the level of the > cell. And we will be using quite a lot of techniques which have been sued > elsewhere to construct synthetic data sets and also to smotth disaggregate > and so on the data from parcels and tracts into pixels > > The work I did with Claudia Almedia when she was in CASA last year and is > one of our working papers is also relevant and coming out in CEUS. > > So basically I think we need a direction of the research into data fairly > soon and one into modelling. the review of CA models etc also needs to be > worked upon in parallel > > The power point looked good - I will get back to you on other things you > sent me - talk with Junior also about what he has been reviewing and also > with paul torrens whose work is coming together quite a lot in terms of his > PhD now > > Mike > > > > ___________________________________________ > I am in Ann Arbor Michigan for the next two months > at CEITA (EMU) and U Michigan > ___________________________________________ > Michael Batty > Director, CASA, University College London > 1-19 Torrington Place, London WC1E 6BT, UK > ___________________________________________ > See the CASA web site http://www.casa.ucl.ac.uk/ > > I think this attachment speaks for itself. Any interested colleagues should get the full information from ESRC and then speak to me. Richard -----Original Message----- From: peg-college-admin@grange.esrc.ac.uk [mailto:peg-college-admin@grange.esrc.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Jennifer Edwards Sent: 19 February 2003 09:45 To: Peg-college@esrc.ac.uk Cc: adrian.alsop@esrc.ac.uk Subject: [Peg-college] VCS - Professorial Fellowship Scheme Dear College Members, Please find attached a letter from our Chief Executive regarding a new initiative from ESRC which we hope will be of interest to you. Should you require any further information please do not hesitate to contact Ann Jeffcott (details provided in the correspondence). regards Jennifer Jennifer Edwards Politics, Economics and Geography Team Economic and Social Research Council Polaris House North Star Avenue Swindon SN2 1UJ E-mail:Jennifer.Edwards@esrc.ac.uk Tel:01793 413017 Fax: 01793 413010 Attachment Converted: "c:\program files\qualcomm\eudora\attach\Professorial Fellowship Scheme Letter.doc" Dear Professor Batty Thank you very much for your reviewing the research proposal as mentioned. As you can imagine, we receive many more grant applications than can be approved. However, your comments will be very helpful to evaluate the project that can ultimately be funded. We highly appreciate your effort. Sincerely yours, B. Glinz Secretary to Dr. Leszek Reinhard Office of the Vice President for Research ETH Zentrum HG E 43.1 CH-8092 Zrich Phone: +41 1 632 20 83 Fax: +41 1 632 11 84 mailto: glinz@sl.ethz.ch -----Ursprngliche Nachricht----- Von: mike batty [mailto:mbatty@geog.ucl.ac.uk] Gesendet: Mittwoch, 19. Februar 2003 19:23 An: F&W_Research-Commission Cc: m.batty@ucl.ac.uk Betreff: review of LR TH-13.4: 2003-1 Dear Dr. Reinhard Here is my review of the DAPHNE proposal. Its is fundable in my view Sincerely Mike Batty ___________________________________________ I am in Ann Arbor Michigan for the next two months at CEITA (EMU) and U Michigan ___________________________________________ Michael Batty Director, CASA, University College London 1-19 Torrington Place, London WC1E 6BT, UK ___________________________________________ See the CASA web site http://www.casa.ucl.ac.uk/ Last year you handled 125 papers single handed. If you could possibly get two good editors who would take say 20 papers apiece each year I would have thought life would be good! With EPA and Antipode I do all the admin for all editors - it's very easy with email. It also ensures that things get done and into the central system and if I had any worries I could contact you. If an editor receives hard copy of a paper direct (and is overseas) I email them the prepared refereeing form and they send them direct. I think if Helen was to be asked to up her rate of papers, it would be difficult if she ran her own show. Nigel hives off papers that come in to him to other editors and I send abstract/references/whole paper, similar to the system we are using now. Hope this might help in your discussions with Helen. Best wishes Ros In message <5.2.0.9.0.20030219160558.03413e18@mail.geog.ucl.ac.uk>, mike batty writes >yes its very sad as he was a very nice bloke even though he wasnt so >hot as an editor - anyway I guess now is the time for me to sort out >the board etc. I m seeing helen C in ann arbor here in week or two and >willl discuss - we need a new active co editor and I still ahve steve >carver as a possibility > >Mike > >At 07:55 AM 2/19/2003 +0000, you wrote: > > >>I think this looks absolutely fine - and you've done a great job. >>It can't have been easy. A bit sobering that he was only a year >>older than me! >> >>Best wishes Ros >> >>In message <5.2.0.9.0.20030218144923.00a7ae20@mail.geog.ucl.ac.uk>, >>mike batty writes >>> >>> >>>___________________________________________ >>>I am in Ann Arbor Michigan for the next two months >>>at CEITA (EMU) and U Michigan >>>___________________________________________ >>>Michael Batty >>>Director, CASA, University College London >>>1-19 Torrington Place, London WC1E 6BT, UK >>>___________________________________________ >>>See the CASA web site http://www.casa.ucl.ac.uk/ >>> >>>[ A MIME application / msword part was included here. ] >> >>-- >>Ros Whitehead >>19 Dunstarn Lane >>LEEDS LS16 8EN UK >>Tel +44 (0)113 267 8868 >>Fax +44 (0)113 230 1851 >> > >___________________________________________ >I am in Ann Arbor Michigan for the next two months >at CEITA (EMU) and U Michigan >___________________________________________ >Michael Batty >Director, CASA, University College London >1-19 Torrington Place, London WC1E 6BT, UK >___________________________________________ >See the CASA web site http://www.casa.ucl.ac.uk/ -- Ros Whitehead 19 Dunstarn Lane LEEDS LS16 8EN UK Tel +44 (0)113 267 8868 Fax +44 (0)113 230 1851 Dear Tony, Thank you for your statement of interests concerning the identified tasks. in addition to my previous e-mail I can say that Buck Consultants International is willing to participate in 1.6.3. (Global Change and Ecosystems), Task VIII.2.C: Innovative methods and tools. Best regards, Paul van de Lande -----Original Message----- From: Tony May To: a.henry@stratec.be; Adrian.gurney@arup.com; adrian.strain@leeds.gov.uk; amonzon@dumbo.caminos.upm.es; andersk@infra.kth.se; anke.heilemann@ils.nrw.de; ase.svensson@tft.lth.se; aurora.ruiz@ineco.es; Bernadette.oregan@ul.ie; BMATTHEW.its-all@its.leeds.ac.uk; bruno.villavecchia@ama-mi.it; caratti.pietro@feem.it; claude.noel@equipement.gouv.fr; cresme@cresme.it; d.banister@ucl.ac.uk; daniela.carvalho@tis.pt; david.blackledge@ttr-ltd.com; derek.quinn@leeds.gov.uk; dsc@davidsimmonds.com; e.besussi@ucl.ac.uk; e.van.latum@novem.nl; edward@phys.um.edu.mt; eric.ponthieu@cec.eu.int; evelyne.sauvage@langzaamverkeer.be; finlayh@tcd.ie; goslika@igpik.waw.pl; graham.riley@leeds.gov.uk; h.duchateau@stratec.be; hm@toi.no; herbert.kemming@ils.nrw.de; ide@meap.co.uk; idussutour@polis-online.org; irachieru@isis-it.com; j.p.steadman@ucl.ac.uk; jo.baker@ttr-ltd.com; jonesp2@westminster.ac.uk; JWHALLEY.its-all@its.leeds.ac.uk; JWHITHAM.its-all@its.leeds.ac.uk; kari.lautso@ltcon.fi; kari.rauhala@vtt.fi; koren@rs1.sze.hu; kostas.zografos@hermes.aueb.gr; kristine.verachtert@isro.kuleuven.ac.be; ks@spiekermann-wegener.de; kurt@ess.co.at; lars@infra.kth.se; lauri.virrankoski@ltcon.fi; Lene.Herrstedt@atkinsglobal.com; martinci@uniroma3.it; m.batty@ucl.ac.uk; m.martens@inro.tno.nl; m.tomassini@sta.roma.it; margaret.omahony@tcd.ie; marjo.kasanko@jrc.it; mark.robinson@sheffield.ac.uk; marta.papetti@ama-mi.it; martino@trttrasportieterritorio.it; mc4634@mclink.it; mc7920@mclink.it; md1536@mclink.it; mgualdi@isis-it.com; Michael.Walsh@dtlr.gsi.gov.uk; mrt@meap.co.uk; mw@irpud.rp.uni-dortmund.de; mw@spiekermann-wegener.de; negrenti@casaccia.enea.it; npaulley@trl.co.uk; oekostadt@EUnet.at; operations@velomondial.net; ovidiu.romosan@k.ro; p.hanocq@ulg.ac.be; papa@vergina.eng.auth.gr; patricia.gout@ils.nrw.de; paul.lande@bciglobal.com; Paul.Pfaffenbichler@tuwien.ac.at; Remi.Dormois@equipement.gouv.fr; Robert.koebl@tuwien.ac.at; rosario@tis.pt; s.gayda@stratec.be; s.marshall@ucl.ac.uk; sander.kooijman@bciglobal.com; SSHEPHER.its-all@its.leeds.ac.uk; STEAD@OTB.TUDelft.nl; stig.franzen@cit.chalmers.se; t.zunder@shef.ac.uk; tacomdiv@wanadoo.fr; tmay@its.leeds.ac.uk; transplus@socialdata.de; transplus@socialdata.de; tuuli.jarvi@vtt.fi; ucft696@ucl.ac.uk; uwe.schubert@wu-wien.ac.at; VittorioT@econ.univ.trieste.it; vlastos@survey.ntua.gr; lswan@bxl-ccre.org; h.duchateau@stratec.be Sent: 7-2-2003 20:04 Subject: FP6 tasks Dear colleagues, I attach a note of the information which I have received on interests in nine FP6 tasks which are relavant to SIMPLE. As you will see, Carlo Sessa, Jo Baker and I are meeting on Thursday to discuss these further. Please let us know before then if you are interested in participating, or are seeking partners. Please send your replies to all of us, since I cannot guarnatee that we will all be able to pick up all messages during our travels next week. Tony May <> <> Mike: I've amended this a bit to make it more of a reject r. I'll attach the letter so Sonja can put it on the electronic file. Best wishes Ros Content-Type: application/msword Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="Peponis decision 20 feb 03.doc" Content-Description: Peponis decision 20 feb 03.doc Content-MD5: 2/77ItxGxUv+R8PRtOmY8Q== Attachment Converted: "c:\program files\qualcomm\eudora\attach\Peponis decision 20 feb 03.doc" In message <5.2.0.9.0.20030219154915.033f61e0@mail.geog.ucl.ac.uk>, mike batty writes >hefty revision needed > >Mike > >At 08:15 AM 2/17/2003 +0000, Ros Whitehead wrote: > >>Peponis >> >> >> >>Content-Type: application/msword >>Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="Peponis draft dec 17 feb 03.doc" >>Content-Description: Peponis draft dec 17 feb 03.doc >>Content-MD5: kkzz1aA/9wN07G04gVeF4A== >> >> >> >> >>Content-Type: application/msword >>Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=Earl1129121.doc >>Content-Description: Earl1129121.doc >>Content-MD5: rRGqvf/0j1JuryLWZwhWfg== >> >> >> >> >>Content-Type: application/msword >>Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=Timmermans2129121.doc >>Content-Description: Timmermans2129121.doc >>Content-MD5: NEKApWKyHJXqW5WwdRd/Fg== >> >> >> >> >>Content-Type: application/msword >>Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=Shiode3129121.doc >>Content-Description: Shiode3129121.doc >>Content-MD5: lVRQ8Ye7yENcJp678C3A1w== >> >> >> >> >>Content-Type: application/msword >>Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=Boots4129121.doc >>Content-Description: Boots4129121.doc >>Content-MD5: cWTz8CBZfgoqWv9Zu29w3w== >> >> >> >> >>Content-Type: application/octet-stream >>Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="Peponis paper 13 dec 02.pdf" >>Content-Description: Peponis paper 13 dec 02.pdf >>Content-MD5: Qe3RHHo6iOGudijT2K90mA== >> >> >>-- >>Ros Whitehead >>19 Dunstarn Lane >>LEEDS LS16 8EN UK >>Tel +44 (0)113 267 8868 >>Fax +44 (0)113 230 1851 > >___________________________________________ >I am in Ann Arbor Michigan for the next two months >at CEITA (EMU) and U Michigan >___________________________________________ >Michael Batty >Director, CASA, University College London >1-19 Torrington Place, London WC1E 6BT, UK >___________________________________________ >See the CASA web site http://www.casa.ucl.ac.uk/ > >[ A MIME application / msword part was included here. ] > -- Ros Whitehead 19 Dunstarn Lane LEEDS LS16 8EN UK Tel +44 (0)113 267 8868 Fax +44 (0)113 230 1851
Dear Colleagues:
 
I append the current version of the proposal for our Institute. I hope that as many of us as possible will be able to meet in Geomatic Engineering tomorrow afternoon at 2.30pm (the code on the door is now 1409). However, if you are unable to attend, please feel free to email Dave Chapman any further comments (cc'ing them to Paul Cross and I - though I will be off-line tomorrow morning).
 
Many thanks!
 
Paul Longley.
 
Professor Paul Longley
Department of Geography and Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis
University College London
1-19 Torrington Place
London WC1E 6BT
United Kingdom
 
Email: p.longley@geog.ucl.ac.uk
Phone: +44 (0) 20 7679 1782
Fax: +44 (0) 20 7813 2843
http://www.casa.ucl.ac.uk/people/Paul.htm
 Attachment Converted: "c:\program files\qualcomm\eudora\attach\UCL_Institute_200203.doc" did it arrive with stamps on it or not? Sonja -----Original Message----- From: mike batty [mailto:mbatty@geog.ucl.ac.uk] Sent: 19 February 2003 18:39 To: Sonja Curtis Subject: Re: FW: air mail yes it probably is - andy thesis is here now Mike At 09:38 AM 2/19/2003 +0000, you wrote: >the problem is with Royal Mail not the postroom, it seems > >-----Original Message----- >From: Paul Blake [mailto:paul.blake@ucl.ac.uk] >Sent: 19 February 2003 08:31 >To: 'Sonja Curtis' >Cc: Stephen Shine; Peter Daybell >Subject: RE: air mail > > >Sonja, > >Thank you for this useful information. Have passed this to Steve Shine the >Post Room Manager so he too is aware of these occurrences. > >For your information overseas mail from UCL is not as is with the UK mail >franked here in the Post Room. We send our overseas mail through Royal Mail >using a kilo weight means of payment. Items are weighed and costed at a >bulk rate by kilo rather than by individual item. The items are franked by >Royal Mail at their overseas terminal. > >It is important that we are informed of errors and problems such as yours >and again thank you - as you are a customer of mine I am a customer of Royal >Mail and expect service standards. > >I would be grateful if on occasions you are aware - or indeed any of your >colleagues, that full details are passed immediately to me so that I can >take up these matters with Royal Mail. > >Kind regards > >Paul > >Paul Wm Blake >Portering & Mail Services Manager >Facilities Services >University College London >Tel: 020 7679 1840 >Mail to: paul.blake@ucl.ac.uk >-----Original Message----- >From: Sonja Curtis [mailto:s.curtis@ucl.ac.uk] >Sent: 18 February 2003 17:38 >To: paul.blake >Cc: s.sheppard >Subject: air mail > > >Dear Paul > >I'm a little concerned that post being sent to America from the UCL >post-room is being despatched without any postage/franking/stamps. > >The post collected from the CASA out-tray had airmail stickers on them, but >there have now been 4 reports of mail arriving in America with no postage on >it. I'm surprised it even arrived at all to be honest, 2 did go astray for >over 6 weeks and then finally got delivered. > >As the Director of CASA is on sabbatical in the US we will be sending >airmail more frequently during the coming weeks and obviously it is a worry >because some of the documents are very important. > >I thought I should bring this to your attention. > >Thanks > >Sonja Curtis >Administrator >CASA >UCL >1-19 Torrington Place >London WC1E 7HB > >t. 020 7679 1813 >f. 020 7813 2843 >e. s.curtis@ucl.ac.uk >w. www.casa.ucl.ac.uk ___________________________________________ I am in Ann Arbor Michigan for the next two months at CEITA (EMU) and U Michigan ___________________________________________ Michael Batty Director, CASA, University College London 1-19 Torrington Place, London WC1E 6BT, UK ___________________________________________ See the CASA web site http://www.casa.ucl.ac.uk/ Mike, Did you realise that MTG was on the telly the other night (BBC2) trying to sell his flat in the Barbican and move to a house in Bath - one of these Property ladder / Home Improvement programmes.. Very amusing - though I'm not quite sure what possessed him to do it! Steve Mike Sarah and I are having to trawl through all the SCATTER receipts from day one and copy everything to send to Stratec. Most of them are here, except 2 BOL receipts. I wondered whether you saved your email confirmation of your orders anywhere in your email? The ones missing are: 20/2/02 1031061053 #55.70 14/3/02 1031093370 #28.84 It would be helpful if you could find them. This of course means they will have the titles of all of the books put through on SCATTER, hope this won't be a problem! Thanks Sonja Curtis Administrator CASA UCL 1-19 Torrington Place London WC1E 7HB t. 020 7679 1813 f. 020 7813 2843 e. s.curtis@ucl.ac.uk w. www.casa.ucl.ac.uk Dear All Could research group leaders or individual course convenors please notify me of the teaching they will be offering next year to undergrads. I need as much detail as possible including course titles, which term the course will be offered and names of all course teachers. Please could I have this information by the 28th Feb for discussion by the Teaching Committee. Thanks Lyn ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Lyn Hollyman Teaching Programmes Administrator Department of Geography UCL 26 Bedford Way London WC1H 0AP Tel: 020 7679 5531 Fax: 020 7679 7565 email: L.Hollyman@geog.ucl.ac.uk ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Jill Dando Institute of Crime Science, in association with the Association for Geographic Information, the National Criminal Intelligence Service, the Police IT Organisation, and the University College London Centre for Applied Spatial Analysis will be hosting the UK's first National Crime Mapping Conference at the University of London(Institute of Education) on the 26th - 27th March 2003. 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vG7e2 4983kfzl7 Mike I think you're right about not including an editorial as well. I thought it was a very nice tribute to Mike. I know how difficult it is to write, having done John's. I'm really glad we didn't get round to sacking him. I hadn't realised he was so ill and would have felt even worse when I heard he'd died. Good luck with the search for a new co-editor. Jan ----- Original Message ----- From: "mike batty" To: "jan Schubert" Cc: ; Sent: Wednesday, February 19, 2003 10:20 PM Subject: mike breheny > jan - > > I think it probably best if we dont do an editorial as well as the obituary > in the next issue. As I have written it it would be a bit over the top for > me to write another two pages - it should fit on two pages quite > comfortably in fact. > > So I am enclosing the final one for your perusal and perhaps you could get > this one set up. If you really feel I need to do an editurla as well then I > will do so - its easy enough - but I thought that it might be appropriate > just to run the obisturay - > > It is attached and I am also attaching the photo again to bother our > freeserve and to your pion email. > > Mike > > ___________________________________________ > I am in Ann Arbor Michigan for the next two months > at CEITA (EMU) and U Michigan > ___________________________________________ > Michael Batty > Director, CASA, University College London > 1-19 Torrington Place, London WC1E 6BT, UK > ___________________________________________ > See the CASA web site http://www.casa.ucl.ac.uk/ If anyone is wishing to form up consortia for these two calls then we are keen to play a role. We're busy with another IP proposal and can't take a lead role but please contact us to take part. We explicitly wish to look at integrating freight and industry stakeholders into governance of transport/cities at a local level. --- Thomas Zunder Urban Freight Unit - ARRC 217 Portobello Sheffield S1 4DP +44 114 222 0159 t.zunder@shef.ac.uk www.ufu.shef.ac.uk Thanks for clearing the pending files. I think the only outstanding one is: 130/12Pouriafar/Taghvaee 8/2/03 email brief details 10/2 Fax to Buffalo Can you let me know what you want to do with it. I'm very good at writing polite 'not suitable for this journal' type of letters. It's always good to suggest other journals which might be interested (even if they won't be!) Best wishes Ros -- Ros Whitehead 19 Dunstarn Lane LEEDS LS16 8EN UK Tel +44 (0)113 267 8868 Fax +44 (0)113 230 1851 EVERYBODY'S GOT AN OPINION...
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Harry Richardson The James Irvine Chair of Urban and Regional Planning School of Policy, Planning and Development University of Southern California LOS ANGELES CA 90089-0626 ----- Original Message ----- From: Christine Bae Date: Wednesday, February 19, 2003 6:56 pm Subject: Re: ARS REVIEW > Dear Mike: > > Thank you for your valuable comments, and so quickly! We will pass them on to the > authors. > > Best Regards > > Harry and Christine > > CH Christine Bae, Assistant Professor > Urban Design and Planning > University of Washington > Gould 410, Box 355740 > Seattle, WA 98195-5740 > Tel: (206) 616-9034 > Fax: (206) 685-9597 > > > On Wed, 19 Feb 2003, mike batty wrote: > > > Dear Christine > > > > here is my review attached - the paper, in my view, needs quite > a bit of > > work to make it more intelligible but I think after fairly major > surgery it > > is probably publishable > > > > > > Sincerely > > > > Mike > > > > > > > > ___________________________________________ > > I am in Ann Arbor Michigan for the next two months > > at CEITA (EMU) and U Michigan > > ___________________________________________ > > Michael Batty > > Director, CASA, University College London > > 1-19 Torrington Place, London WC1E 6BT, UK > > ___________________________________________ > > See the CASA web site http://www.casa.ucl.ac.uk/ > > Mike, more on FP6. The CHAST project, in which we are involved with Patrizia, goes under task 5 (Cultural Heritage and Tourism) of Priority 8.3.6 (The protection of cultural heritage and associated conservation strategies). Before forming a definitive consortium, Patrizia needs to know if CASA is already involved in another proposal under the same task and area. In my records, I don't have any other CASA involvement in this area, but maybe you know better. Maybe CASA is involved via the Centre for the Sustainable Heritage? The main problem is that the Commission would reject proposal where a partner participates in different consortia competing in the same research area. Can you let us (Patrizia and me) know? Thanks Elena At 11:11 18/02/2003 -0500, you wrote: >I got this - also is there an angle involving our centre for sustainable >heritage in the bartlett that we should be thinking about viz CHast etc > >Mike > >At 07:52 PM 2/17/2003 +0000, patrizia riganti wrote: > >>Please, let me know if you received my email asking, among other >>things, to have a chat with Elena tomorrow afternoon.= 3/3.30pm/ >>Anyhow i attach the file summarising the IP project development >>again. >> >>Patrizia >>---------------------- >>Dr. Patrizia Riganti >>Lecturer in Architecture >>School of Architecture >>Queen's University Belfast >>2-4 Lennoxvale >>Belfast BT9 6BY, Northern Ireland >>tel (direct): +44 28 90 27 4257 >>fax: +44 28 90 68 2475 > >___________________________________________ >I am in Ann Arbor Michigan for the next two months >at CEITA (EMU) and U Michigan >___________________________________________ >Michael Batty >Director, CASA, University College London >1-19 Torrington Place, London WC1E 6BT, UK >___________________________________________ >See the CASA web site http://www.casa.ucl.ac.uk/ Dear Professor Batty, I am an economist at Royal Holloway, and recently am analyzing the geography of UK industry. I wonder if you could help with a query (a former UCL student suggested I contact you). I need to convert some 8000 UK postcodes (e.g. "BN18 0SR") to latitudes and longitudes, and am trying to find a way to do the conversion. Do you have any ideas about how this postcode to lat/lon conversion might be done? Thanks so much for any help you can provide. Best Regards, Ken Simons -- Senior Lecturer; Chairman, Network of Industrial Economists Department of Economics, Royal Holloway, University of London, Egham, Surrey TW20 0EX, UK Phone: +44 1784 443909 Fax: +44 1784 439534 Email: K.Simons@rhul.ac.uk (or KenSimons@alum.mit.edu) Web: http://www2.rhul.ac.uk/~uhss021/ Name: W32/Lovgate-A Aliases: WORM_LOVGATE.A Type: Win32 worm Date: 20 February 2003 A virus identity file (IDE) which provides protection is available now from our website and will be incorporated into the April 2003 (3.68) release of Sophos Anti-Virus. At the time of writing Sophos has received just one report of this worm from the wild. More information about W32/Lovgate-A can be found at http://www.sophos.com/virusinfo/analyses/w32lovgatea.html Download the IDE file from http://www.sophos.com/downloads/ide/lovgatea.ide Download a ZIP file containing all the IDE files available for the current version of Sophos Anti-Virus from http://www.sophos.com/downloads/ide/ides.zip Read about how to use IDE files at http://www.sophos.com/downloads/ide/using.html --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, email: notification-unsubscribe@lists.sophos.com For additional commands, email: notification-faq@lists.sophos.com Dear Hui and Mike, Many thanks for considering me as a potential participant. My October schedule looks clear (unless David thinks otherwise :-), And I am certainly interested in taking part in the workshop you plan to organise. My connection here in Tokyo is not particularly reliable, but I will catch up on this front once I return to London next Tuesday. Thanks again for your consideration. Cheers Naru -----Original Message----- From: Hui Lin [mailto:huilin@cuhk.edu.hk] Sent: Thursday, February 20, 2003 2:41 PM To: David Mark; mike batty Cc: marc-armstrong; maceachren; narushige Shiode; m.batty Subject: Re: Interest in being involved in a workshop this coming October in Hong Kong on Visualisation and GI Science Dear Friends, October will be the good time for you to visit Hong Kong and China. Here we have several groups of Chinese scholars working on "virtual geographic environments and cooperative spatial analysis". We are interesting the progresses made in your labs and centers. We are looking forward to meeting you and learning from you. Cheers. Hui Lin Joint Laboratory for GeoInformation Science The Chinese University of Hong Kong Shatin, NT, Hong Kong Tel: (852)-26096010 Fax:(852)-26037470 Email: huilin@cuhk.edu.hk ----- Original Message ----- From: "David Mark" To: "mike batty" Cc: ; ; "narushige Shiode" ; ; Sent: Thursday, February 20, 2003 11:50 AM Subject: Re: Interest in being involved in a workshop this coming October in Hong Kong on Visualisation and GI Science > Thanks, Mike and Hui, I am honored to be included! I am definitely > interested in the workshop, and right now my October schedule is wide > open. > > Thanks, > David > > On Wed, 19 Feb 2003, mike batty wrote: > > > Hui Lin of the Chinese University of Hong Kong is proposing a workshop on > > visualization in GI science to be held in Hong Kong at his center this > > coming October 2003. He has funds I believe to invite about 6 US/UK based > > scholars, and together with myself, we have been discussing what format > > such a workshop might take. I thing a number of Chinese scholars might also > > be invited although the workshop would be fairly small - no more than 20 or > > so. > > > > We have been in touch about this before but planning has been a little > > delayed. We are now in a position to proceed. Do you have an interest in > > attending such a workshop with a view to assessing the state of the art in > > this area ? > > > > If so could you let me and Hui know as soon as you can. > > > > Many Thanks > > > > Mike Batty and Hui Lin > > > > > > > > To: Alan (from Penn State) > > MIke (CASA) > > David (NCGIABuffalo) > > Naru (NCGIA Buffalo) > > Marc Amstrong (Iowa) > > > > > > > > > > ___________________________________________ > > I am in Ann Arbor Michigan for the next two months > > at CEITA (EMU) and U Michigan > > ___________________________________________ > > Michael Batty > > Director, CASA, University College London > > 1-19 Torrington Place, London WC1E 6BT, UK > > ___________________________________________ > > See the CASA web site http://www.casa.ucl.ac.uk/ > > > > > > Dear Tony and colleagues, thank you for keeping us informed and for the work done so far. We are sorry for writing so late to your request for interest in the calls and consortia and we hope that our interests can still be added to the Projects mentioned. Here are the interests of Agenzia Mobilit e Ambiente (Local Agency of the City of Milan) Priority 8.1 - Policy-orientated research Task 1 - Indicators in support of the EU thematic strategy on sustainable development of the urban environment Priority 8.1 - Policy-orientated research Task 3 - Impact assessment of community policies in view of medium and long-term planning towards sustainability Sub-priority 1.6.3 - Global Change and Ecosystems Task VIII.2.b) - Indicators Sub-priority 1.6.3 - Global Change and Ecosystems Task VIII.2.c) - Innovative methods and tools Sub-priority 1.6.3 - Global Change and Ecosystems Task VIII.2.d) - Integrated modelling and quantitative tools development and application Priority 1.6.2 - Sustainable Surface Transport 1.6.2. - Research domain 1.10 Best regards Marta Papetti Marta Papetti Agenzia Mobilit e Ambiente S.r.l. via Beccaria 19 20122 Milano Phone +39-02-88467304 fax. +39-02-88467349 marta.papetti@ama-mi.it Hi Mike I did all 4 searches, nothing under variance, but here are the screen grabs of the other search results. THe only one that fits the dates is the hernan one. I tried to zip the file to send to you but its 32MB. So I've attached a screen grab of the contents of that folder. Let me know what you want me to send.. Sonja -----Original Message----- From: mike batty [mailto:mbatty@geog.ucl.ac.uk] Sent: 19 February 2003 23:06 To: sonja Curtis Cc: rui Carvalho; narushige Shiode Subject: can you see if you can find something for me Sonja on supernova under 80 gb drive under the folder mike, there will be a folder called something like hernan or stanley or population or variance try searching on hernan*.doc or on stanley* or on population* and see what you can find - I am looking for some files about population modelling with some guys from boston and new york they were created before april 2001 in fact they were probably created sometime in the year 2000 so if you restricted the search to say November 1999 to March 2001 you may well find something - if you do it will be in a folder with some geeky postscript files done in that scientific language see what you can find and then email me Mike ___________________________________________ I am in Ann Arbor Michigan for the next two months at CEITA (EMU) and U Michigan ___________________________________________ Michael Batty Director, CASA, University College London 1-19 Torrington Place, London WC1E 6BT, UK ___________________________________________ See the CASA web site http://www.casa.ucl.ac.uk/ Attachment Converted: "c:\program files\qualcomm\eudora\attach\hernan-search.gif" Attachment Converted: "c:\program files\qualcomm\eudora\attach\population-search.gif" Attachment Converted: "c:\program files\qualcomm\eudora\attach\stanley-search.gif" Attachment Converted: "c:\program files\qualcomm\eudora\attach\contents-of-hernan-pop.gif" Dear Prof. Batty, Thank you for your email of Tuesday 18 February, and that of Sonja Curtis the following day. I would be happy to arrange a time for Carol Tullo, the Controller of HMSO to telephone you so that she may conduct a Conversation with a Purpose as outlined in my previous email. The ideal day would be next Thursday (27 February), perhaps late in the afternoon. If you would like to indicate a specific time she will try to phone you as close to then as is possible. As regards the initial meeting, if you are appointed we shall make sure that you are consulted, or at least informed, as to the date (this will be a role for the Chair of the Panel). If you were able to attend that would be ideal, but if not we would understand and we would look forward to meeting you at the next meeting, which would be in the early summer. I look forward to hearing from you. Yours, Thomas Papworth. -----Original Message----- From: mike batty [mailto:mbatty@geog.ucl.ac.uk] Sent: 18 February 2003 17:11 To: Papworth Thomas - HMSO - Cc: sonja Curtis; m.batty@ucl.ac.uk Subject: Re: Crown Copyright Advisory Panel Dear Mr Papworth I am in fact only in the US until 14th April and thus would be available for the Panel from then on. It is even possible that I could attend a meeting of the panel in March if it were between 13th and 18th as I am back in London then. So I dont think my being unable to attend a first meeting is a problem assuming it is not a problem with you and it is entirely possible that I can make such a meeting if I reconfigure my diary. Much will depend on that for the first meeting but rest assured that I am available and based on London permanently and simply spending two months here doing research Sincerely Mike Batty At 04:23 PM 2/18/2003 +0000, you wrote: >Dear Prof. Batty, > >Thank you for your application to be an Expert Member of the nascent Crown >Copyright Advisory Panel. I am pleased to confirm that you have been >provisionally short-listed for membership. Naturally membership will be >dependent upon your availability to attend meetings. I understand that you >are currently working in the United States, but that you are due to return >in April. We hope to hold the first meeting of the Panel in late March or >early April, and then hold 3-4 meetings a year from then on. Your inability >to attend the initial meeting would not represent an impediment to your >being a member of the panel, however, as long as you were available for >future meetings. However, the Cabinet Office is not in a position to >reimburse you for international travel expenses, and consequently if you >were to still be based in the US, or were other commitments to impinge upon >your availability, we would prefer to keep your records on file and perhaps >consider your membership when your diary is more clear. > >Assuming, however, that you will be available (at least later in the year if >not in late March/early April), the next stage of the process is that Carol >Tullo, the Controller of HMSO, would need to hold a Conversation with a >Purpose with you to determine your eligibility for membership, and also to >determine which applicants will be best suited to the aims and requirements >of the panel. > >We hope to have completed these conversations by the end of March. It is not >necessary that you meet the Controller in person, and therefore we suggest >that a telephone conversation would be the best means of achieving our aims. >We will therefore contact you during the next week to arrange a suitable >time for the Controller to telephone you. I do not appear to have a >telephone number for you in the US, however, and would be grateful if you >would provide one. > >We look forward to speaking to you soon. > >Yours, > >Thomas Papworth >Regulation Policy Manager >HMSO >Cabinet Office >Ground Floor >7 St James's Square >London SW1Y 4JU > >Tel 020 7276 5216 >Fax 020 7276 2661 > >Her Majesty's Stationery Office - delivers access and reuse of government >information through innovative e-services at www.hmso.gov.uk > > > ****************************** >The Cabinet Office's computer systems may be monitored and communications >carried on them recorded, to secure the effective operation of the system >and for other lawful purposes. > > > ___________________________________________ I am in Ann Arbor Michigan for the next two months at CEITA (EMU) and U Michigan ___________________________________________ Michael Batty Director, CASA, University College London 1-19 Torrington Place, London WC1E 6BT, UK ___________________________________________ See the CASA web site http://www.casa.ucl.ac.uk/ PLEASE NOTE: THE ABOVE MESSAGE WAS RECEIVED FROM THE INTERNET. 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I will be wanting to go monday

I will get this sorted ASAP

Dan

 mike batty <mbatty@geog.ucl.ac.uk> wrote:

In fact if you are thinking about travel then this will probably relate a
bit to what days you are working - so I supose you will work sunday if you
travel monday - let me know dates when you have them

Dad

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Dear Mike -- I'm passing the attached on to you for E+P(B). Greg Hornby has done an excellent job relating cellular automata and design -- in his case for tables. I've looked at the paper closely and talked to Greg about it. I hope your reviewers will agree and that it will be included in the pages of E+P(B) soon. How's everything else there? It would be nice to meet up again for a beer. Best regards -- George Attachment Converted: "c:\program files\qualcomm\eudora\attach\hornby_epb03.pdf" Thanks Corey, Seth, and Kent -- the 'hatch' command was the missing piece of the puzzles, I was expecting some variation on 'create-turtles'.

I managed to get the simulation to draw the networks; unfortunately, since the grandularity is so coarse (drawing whole patches rather than single-pixel lines) the network looks like a blob, and it's impossible to make out any detail.

Following Seth's pointer, I see that NetLogo has the same problem. Given the applicability of small-world networks to agent-based simulation, it seems a shame that there isn't a better way to show network relationships between turtles. I can satisfactorily show individual network links, but showing the entire network is a mess.

One thing I would like to comment on:

Also, StarLogo does support its own variety of loops.  Read about:
    loop [list of commands]    (does list of commands forever)
    every number [list of commands]    (does list of commands forever every (number) seconds)
    repeat number [list of commands]    (does list of commands number times)

You can construct a for() structure by combining a repeat[] with a counting variable, but synthesizing a while() structure would seem to require a goto statement of some sort to terminate the loop. I can't figure out how you'd construct a while() loop from the available commands in StarLogo. Suggestions?

Brent

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If your turtles need to be on a more coarse grid for your application, just change your code to treat a 16x16 array of patches as a chunk for that purpose, or some such. Just realize that the playfield gets saved when you save the application, and that a high resolution playfield makes for a huge save file; you might want to resize and re"chunk" it by hand before saving, if you aren't saving an image in the playfield as part of your application (like the traffic demo does). xanthian. _______________________________________________ starlogo-users mailing list starlogo-users@media.mit.edu http://education.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/starlogo-users Untitled Document
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13/03/03 - Lean construction project experience - London
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This might be of interest. Aharon Kellerman -----Original Message----- From: D.R.F.Walker@lboro.ac.uk [mailto:D.R.F.Walker@lboro.ac.uk] Sent: Thursday, February 20, 2003 5:17 PM To: rsge774@UVM.HAIFA.AC.IL Subject: GaWC INTELLIGENCE Number 12 Update of the Globalization and World Cities (GaWC) Network * We have reached a minor milestone: GaWC Research Bulletins have passed the century mark. This is a good time to remind recipients of GaWC-i that this service of posting pre-publication papers is available to all researchers of cities in globalization. Conditions are set out at: http://www.lboro.ac.uk/gawc/publicat.html * There have been 8 Research Bulletins since the last GaWC-i RB 94 "Introduction (World Cities in Poor Countries)" http://www.lboro.ac.uk/gawc/rb/rb94.html By Josef Gugler RB 95 "World City Topologies" http://www.lboro.ac.uk/gawc/rb/rb95.html By Richard Smith RB 96 "A World Geography of Global Media Cities" http://www.lboro.ac.uk/gawc/rb/rb96.html By Stefan Krtke and Peter Taylor RB 97 "Beyond Friedmann's World City Hypothesis: Twenty-Two Urban Arenas Across the World" http://www.lboro.ac.uk/gawc/rb/rb97.html By Ben Derudder, Peter Taylor, Frank Witlox and Gilda Catalano RB 98 "Generating Data for Research on Cities in Globalization" http://www.lboro.ac.uk/gawc/rb/rb98.html By Peter Taylor RB 99 "Local Activity Patterns in a Global City - Analysing the Political Sector in Washington, DC" http://www.lboro.ac.uk/gawc/rb/rb99.html By Ulrike Gerhard RB 100 "Going for Gold: Globalizing the Olympics, Localizing the Games" http://www.lboro.ac.uk/gawc/rb/rb100.html By John Short RB 101 "Emerging Nodes in the Global Economy: An Introduction" http://www.lboro.ac.uk/gawc/rb/rb101.html By Daniel Felsenstein, Eike Schamp and Arie Shachar The following Research Bulletins have been revised: RB 77 http://www.lboro.ac.uk/gawc/rb/rb77.html RB 88 http://www.lboro.ac.uk/gawc/rb/rb88.html RB 91 http://www.lboro.ac.uk/gawc/rb/rb91.html * One further GaWC Practioner Brief has been posted: Practitioner Brief 5 "The Rise of Frankfurt? A Comparison between London and Frankfurt" http://www.lboro.ac.uk/gawc/rb/pracbr5.html By Jon Beaverstock, Michael Hoyler, Kathryn Pain and Peter Taylor * There are two new projects that have started since the last GaWC-i At Loughborough University (Geography): Project 31: "Network Analysis of World City/Global Service Firms Data: an Exploratory Investigation" http://www.lboro.ac.uk/gawc/projects/projec31.html Funded by: Fonds voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek (http://www.fwo.be) Researchers: Ben Derudder and Peter Taylor At Virginia Tech (Metropolitan Institute): Project 32: "The Global Connectivity of US Cities: a Study of its Importance and Policy Relevance for 'Lower-level' Cities" http://www.lboro.ac.uk/gawc/projects/projec32.html Funded by: The Brookings Institution Researchers: Rob Lang and Peter Taylor * The GaWC Report for the Corporation of the City of London (Project 21) has been published: Peter Taylor, Jon Beaverstock, Gary Cook, Naresh Pandit and Kathryn Pain "Financial Services Clustering and its Significance for London". This is available from the City of London Corporation at http://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/business_city/research_statistics/research_pu bli cations.htm * GaWC research has attracted press coverage across the world but we are only now beginning to try and systematically record it. If recipients of GaWC-i come across reference to GaWC research in their local city newspapers please inform Michael Hoyler (michael.hoyler@urz.uni-heidelberg.de). A new section has been opened: GaWC Media Coverage http://www.lboro.ac.uk/gawc/media.html * Some people have found it difficult to unravel the relationships between the various quantitative data and analyses to be found as Datasets and in Research Bulletins. To clarify, a short guide is provided through the 'New Visitors' gateway: A Brief Guide to Quantitative Data Collection at GaWC, 1997-2001 http://www.lboro.ac.uk/gawc/guide.html By Peter Taylor * The GaWC Annual Lecture The fifth lecture in this series took place at Loughborough University on January 13th 2003. David Wallace (Vice-Chancellor of Loughborough University) introduced Peter Charlton of Clifford Chance (the largest law firm in the world) who spoke on 'The globalization of law'. This is the first time we have had a practitioner deliver the lecture. A summary and power point presentation can be found at http://www.lboro.ac.uk/gawc/rb/al5.html * There are two upcoming international conferences with GaWC sessions. At the AAG Annual Meeting, New Orleans, March 5th to 8th "Globalising Cities" Convenors: John Short University, Maryland at Baltimore County (jrs@umbc.edu) and Paul Knox, Virginia Tech (knox@vt.edu) Friday 7th March in the Hyatt Regency Hotel For further details see http://convention.allacademic.com/aag2003/schedule.html At The RGS-IBG 2003 Conference, London, September 2nd to 5th "Globalization and World Cities: Theorising World Cities, Peopling World Cities" Convenors: Phil Hubbard, Loughborough University (p.j.hubbard@lboro.ac.uk) and Alan Latham Southampton University(a.latham@soton.ac.uk) Thursday, 3rd September at Kensington Gore. For further details see http://www.rgs.org/category.php?Page=mainresearch * Announcing a new suite of taught MSc programmes at Loughborough University for 2003-04: MSc in Globalization and World Cities MSc in Financial Globalization MSc in Global Transformations MSc in Globalization, Development and Difference Details can be found at: http:/www.lboro.ac.uk/departments/gy/postgraduates/msc_pages/index.html Or contact Jon Beaverstock directly at j.v.beaverstock@lboro.ac.uk There are also postgraduate research opportunities for 2003 at Loughborough; details can be found at http://www.lboro.ac.uk/departments/gy/postgraduates/pgopps.html Or contact Jon Beaverstock (j.v.beaverstock@lboro.ac.uk) Caroline Nagel (c.r.nagel@lboro.ac.uk) or Peter Taylor (p.j.taylor@lboro.ac.uk) directly. ______________ * Please forward this message to colleagues who might be interested in GaWC * If this message was forwarded to you and you would like to receive further information about GaWC please contact d.r.f.walker@lboro.ac.uk * On the other hand let d.r.f.walker@lboro.ac.uk know if you are no longer interested in this area of research. Proposal Number: 0318319 PI: Alan T. Murray Institution: Ohio State Univ Res Fdn Title: Collaborative Research: Modeling Spatial Change in Urban Structure to Achieve Sustainability PIN: 478396 NOTE: You will not receive a paper copy of this proposal unless you request it through FastLane as directed below. Dear Dr. Batty: The quality of the awards selected for support by the National Science Foundation depends greatly on the critical judgments of expert reviewers. I hope you will help us evaluate the proposal listed above by providing comments about each project. The two Merit Review Criteria used are: 1) What is the intellectual merit of the proposed activity? And 2) What are the broader impacts of the proposed activity? Please provide detailed comments on the quality of this proposal with respect to each of the two NSF Merit Review Criteria, noting specifically that proposal's strengths and weaknesses. In some cases the proposal may cover a number of different research areas, so there may be aspects of a given proposal that fall outside your immediate expertise. In these instances please provide comments in detail for areas in which you feel comfortable doing so, although you are also welcome to provide any general remarks where you feel it is appropriate. Also note that some reviews require additional review instructions. If necessary, these are included in one or more attachments. Suggestions for additional reviewers are appreciated, and are especially important if you are unable to review the proposal. Note that if the applicant has recently had NSF support, we also request your comments on the results from that support. Your comments will be most helpful, especially if you are able to provide them within a month. If a brief delay in responding is necessary, I would rather receive your review a little late than not at all. However, if you cannot review the proposal, think that you might have a conflict of interest, or if your review is likely to be long delayed, please notify me. All proposals should be destroyed after your review is finished. As part of NSF's effort toward a paperless proposal and award system, we ask that all reviews be submitted via FastLane. The procedure is as follows: To access the proposal: (1) Go to the Proposal Review window on the FastLane web page: https://www.fastlane.nsf.gov/jsp/homepage/prop_review.jsp (2) Enter the requested information(proposal number, your last name, and your PIN, which is given above). (3) From the Proposal Review Window click on "Download/Save Proposal" to download proposal and print from a printer at your location or "View proposal" to see the proposal electronically. To request a hard copy of the proposal be sent to you: (1) From the Proposal Review Window click on "Print Proposal at NSF and Mail" option. (2) Follow directions on the screen. (3) Note confirmation number for your request to NSF. To prepare and submit your review: (1) From the Proposal Review Window click on "Prepare Review". Continue to follow the instructions on the screens. You can Copy and Paste into the review form from your usual word processing program. Complete instructions on review submission are on the FastLane web page at http://www.fastlane.nsf.gov. Full information on the Merit Review Criteria, and guidance on avoiding conflicts of interest and on protecting confidentiality are also available on the FastLane web page at http://www.fastlane.nsf.gov/a5/A5Crit_Conflict_Conf.htm Please note that the Principal Investigator will receive an anonymous copy of your review. If you have questions, please contact me. Thank you very much for your help. Your review is important to NSF's evaluation of the proposal, and as feedback to the investigator submitting the proposal. We very much appreciate the time and thought that go into preparing reviews. Sincerely, Richard J. Aspinall raspinal@nsf.gov Phone: (703) 292 8754 Attachment Converted: "c:\program files\qualcomm\eudora\attach\special74ltr.rtf" Hi Mike Quick question with large ramifications... How sympathetic are you towards other peoples deviant children? I've have had in the back of my mind for a while, that I should cover my back with regard to these applications for cash to carry out the research abroad. This has been hammered home, by a knock back this week. That the current state of the proposal is totally different, and I think I little better than the one submitted in January for the knock back, is only slight relevant. The upshot, is that I can't afford to have too many knockbacks. So, back to the question. I want to live and study in Spain. If the proposal as it is, is of interest to you, and we were to submit it for funding for money to carry out the research in the UK, with you as PI, and me as peasant, but with "fieldwork" written in to it, and were successful, would you be willing to extend the time allotted to the "fieldwork", with the proviso I reported for duty from time to time? all the best Dan p.s., I obviously think you are open to such cheeky questions otherwise I wouldn't ask, but if you aren't then apologies. -- _________________________________________ Daniel J. Herron Department of Earth Sciences University College London Gower Street, London, WC1E 6BT, UK Tel: (0044) 07761941243 _________________________________________
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      Defra is in the process of commissioning a series of research reviews in order to clarify the evidence supporting  rural policy.  These reviews are intended to identify the nature and extent of problems in rural areas, the rationale for intervention and effectiveness of options and the research gaps that need to be filled.  The results of these projects will feed into the review of the Rural White Paper and the 2004 government spending review.  One of the research reviews covers the effect of demographic change and migration on rural areas and the implications for rural policy and we are seeking expressions of interest in this project by 5pm Friday 7 March.   A project brief, expression of interest form and Defra's standard terms and conditions for economic research can be found on our website at the following location: http://www.defra.gov.uk/esg/evaluation/projects/

We apologise for this very tight deadline and the very tight timetable for the work itself but these are unavoidable, given the time critical nature of the policy need. Given this, we recognise that it may be necessary to refine the scope of the review (either at the outset or after the interim report) or to divide the work into two or more distinct elements.  We would welcome responses on this basis. Please direct your response using the attached expression of interest form directly to Chris.Gibbins@defra.gsi.gov.uk
 Dear Mike: I am following up on Robin's email and working on a schedule of activities during your visit and confirming the content of the flyer that will be used to advertise your talk. As Robin had indicated, we will be delighted to cover two nights of hotel accommodation. We can also offer a small honorarium ($500) or use the money to reimburse some of your travel expenses. If you can confirm date of arrival, I can follow up with making hotel reservations and so on. I've proposed three alternative titles for your talk so that it will be more accessible to a general audience (which may not know about PPGIS) My suggested alternatives are: A) Participatory GIS and Visualization: New Directions for Urban Planning B) Participatory Planning and Visualization Using Digital Spatial Multimedia C) Visualization Using Multimedia: New Directions in Urban Planning The original title you'd suggested was: "Visualization, Multimedia and PPGIS in Urban Planning" Here's the schedule that I have come up with so far... Arrival Sunday (March 23rd) ? Monday (March 24th) Morning - 9 AM to Noon - Overview of GCUDV Lab activities - meet with Laxmi Lunch - 12 Noon to 2 PM with Robin, other colleagues (to be determined) Afternoon 2 PM to 3 PM -meet with UPP director Charlie Hoch 3 PM to 4 PM - free, preparation time for lecture presentation 4 PM to 5.30 PM - presentation Reception Dinner with small group Tuesday (March 25th) Individual informal meetings with colleagues Perry, Boyce, Shiffer, etc. I am also hoping for a 1 hour time slot during the day so that you can meet with a few of us focused on Planning/Visualization so we can explore collaborative project ideas and learn more about CASA Evening Milwaukee - departure 5.08 train, arrives in Milwaukee 6.45 PM We look forward to hearing from you, Best, Laxmi Attachment Converted: "c:\program files\qualcomm\eudora\attach\mike batty v1.jpg" Dear Mike: I am following up on Robin's email and working on a schedule of activities during your visit and confirming the content of the flyer that will be used to advertise your talk. As Robin had indicated, we will be delighted to cover two nights of hotel accommodation. We can also offer a small honorarium ($500) or use the money to reimburse some of your travel expenses. If you can confirm date of arrival, I can follow up with making hotel reservations and so on. I've proposed three alternative titles for your talk so that it will be more accessible to a general audience (which may not know about PPGIS) My suggested alternatives are: A) Participatory GIS and Visualization: New Directions for Urban Planning B) Participatory Planning and Visualization Using Digital Spatial Multimedia C) Visualization Using Multimedia: New Directions in Urban Planning The original title you'd suggested was: "Visualization, Multimedia and PPGIS in Urban Planning" Here's the schedule that I have come up with so far... Arrival Sunday (March 23rd) ? Monday (March 24th) Morning - 9 AM to Noon - Overview of GCUDV Lab activities - meet with Laxmi Lunch - 12 Noon to 2 PM with Robin, other colleagues (to be determined) Afternoon 2 PM to 3 PM -meet with UPP director Charlie Hoch 3 PM to 4 PM - free, preparation time for lecture presentation 4 PM to 5.30 PM - presentation Reception Dinner with small group Tuesday (March 25th) Individual informal meetings with colleagues Perry, Boyce, Shiffer, etc. I am also hoping for a 1 hour time slot during the day so that you can meet with a few of us focused on Planning/Visualization so we can explore collaborative project ideas and learn more about CASA Evening Milwaukee - departure 5.08 train, arrives in Milwaukee 6.45 PM We look forward to hearing from you, Best, Laxmi Attachment Converted: "c:\program files\qualcomm\eudora\attach\mike batty v11.jpg" Mike, it took me about 8 months but I've eventually received a sign of life from the European Environmental Agency which has sent me the password to unlock the Corine Land Cover database that I downloaded in June 2002! You can see some of it at: http://www.casa.ucl.ac.uk/scatter/citieslanduse.html (the web page is not a "work of art" but it's there just to show what corine is and also the differences we are dealing with in the SCATTER project. See for instance the difference between Rennes and Brussels) Anyway, now we have a landcover dataset covering the whole of Europe at a 100X100 mt resolution with 44 landcover classes. It is based on remote sensed images which date back to a period from 1989 to 1994. Update is in progress with landcover for 2000 but I'm not confident we are going to see any result soon. But we can still use it for some analysis for ESPON (fragmentation of landuses, densities, urban form). dear Xiaojun I am attaching my review of this manuscript - needs quite a bit of wrk but it is salvageable Sincerely Mike I am in Ann Arbor Michigan for the next two months at CEITA (EMU) and U Michigan ___________________________________________ Michael Batty Director, CASA, University College London 1-19 Torrington Place, London WC1E 6BT, UK ___________________________________________ See the CASA web site http://www.casa.ucl.ac.uk/ Attachment Converted: "c:\program files\qualcomm\eudora\attach\PERS-review.doc" Attachment Converted: "c:\program files\qualcomm\eudora\attach\UrbanIssueReviewForm1.doc" Dear Dr. Batty, Many thanks for the review. It will be very helpful for us to determine the suitability of papers to be included in the Special Urban Issue. Best wishes, Xiaojun Yang -----Original Message----- From: mike batty [mailto:mbatty@geog.ucl.ac.uk] Sent: Thu 2/20/2003 12:37 PM To: Xiaojun Yang Cc: m.batty@ucl.ac.uk Subject: RE: Manuscript Review (99-031B) dear Xiaojun I am attaching my review of this manuscript - needs quite a bit of wrk but it is salvageable Sincerely Mike I am in Ann Arbor Michigan for the next two months at CEITA (EMU) and U Michigan ___________________________________________ Michael Batty Director, CASA, University College London 1-19 Torrington Place, London WC1E 6BT, UK ___________________________________________ See the CASA web site http://www.casa.ucl.ac.uk/ ___________________________________________ I am in Ann Arbor Michigan for the next two months at CEITA (EMU) and U Michigan ___________________________________________ Michael Batty Director, CASA, University College London 1-19 Torrington Place, London WC1E 6BT, UK ___________________________________________ See the CASA web site http://www.casa.ucl.ac.uk/ Mike, So is it just a email that cant be read.. or cant you read any (at which point u wont get this!).. If its something else send me your email login details and I'll try to clear it from my account here. Andy - what are you doing stressed? Thought u went away to write your book in peace....

Dear Mr. Sonja,

I've gone through CASA website. Congratulations for your intensive and brilliant work. Many important research projects, but considering the possibility of a short visit (June 23, 24 and 25th), SPRAWLSIM Project, SCATTER Project, and PROPOLIS Project call most attention.

I have downloaded some working papers in order to be better informed and prepared for the visit. I also noticed that Joana Prado is studying at CASA. We've taken our master programme at the same university here in Porto Alegre. I'll try to contact her.

I must include, as soon as possible in my finantial aid application, a declaration from CASA, informing that CASA accepted me for a technical visit, specifying the three day visit programme related to those projects. It can be sent by e-mail.

Thank you very much for your attention and consideration.

Sincerely,

Cláudio Ugalde

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February 20, 2003

CONTENTS

Finding and Mapping Shuttle Debris: A Report from the Field
More on Columbia Mapping
GIS and Lobbying
Innovative Organizations
GIS Books Find New Home

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FINDING AND MAPPING SHUTTLE DEBRIS: A REPORT FROM THE FIELD
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By David Allen

Editor's note: David Allen, GIS Manager at the City of Euless, Texas shared his experiences on the ground aiding in the Columbia debris mapping and collection. I appreciate his contribution in the field and his willingness to share his story, which follows.

On Tuesday, Feb 4th, a call went out for GPS operators to report to the Forest Resources Institute (FRI) at Stephen F. Austin University in Nacogdoches, Texas. About 40 GPS operators with equipment showed up the next day. Some were deployed to San Augustine County and some to Nacogdoches County.

There were three ways that debris was being found.

Two of the methods involved helicopter surveys. On Saturday and Sunday, NASA had done flyovers in a helicopter to look for debris. Large pieces spotted from the air were photographed and later plotted on digital orthophotos. Analysts extracted long/lat coordinates and entered them into a GPS unit. Searches on the ground in the area would use GPS to navigate to the piece. Some of the large tanks and structural parts were found this way. I read a story that [Space Imaging's] IKONOS had provided satellite imagery from about 3 hours after the disaster, but we never saw these images in the field teams. Instead, we worked from images produced by the State of Texas Department of Information Resources in 1997. They flew the entire state and provide these free on the Internet. The FRI lab was experienced in using these images and had them on hand.

Also from the flyovers, they were able to spot areas of concentrated debris. These areas were located on the digital orthophotos and 1000-meter search grids were laid out. Surveyors were sent into the field to mark the corners of the search grids, then searchers were deployed to those areas to do a systematic walk-through. I was on this team for 4 days. We would form a line about 20 people long, spaced about 15 to 20 feet apart. Then we would walk the search area, picking up debris. Then we would move the line over and sweep a new area. It was slow and the brush was very thick, but we were surprisingly thorough. This type of searching is ongoing.

The third way that they were finding debris was through the 1-800 number shown on the news. People would call in a report and the information would be taken down. Then a Department of Public Safety (DPS) State Trooper and a GPS operator would drive out to the site to gather information and collect the debris. This was a cushy job for the GPS operators because you got to ride in a heated car instead of slogging through the thicket in the rain and sleet. I got to do this on my last day of searching.

Originally the call was for sub-meter GPS units, but we soon discovered that the tall pines were blocking too much signal to get a good reading. Handheld Garmin and Magellan units were doing fine in the tree cover. A representative from Trimble, onsite to provide technical assistance, explained that the sub-meter units filter out weak and reflected signals so that the units can achieve the desired accuracy. Since the less accurate handheld units aren't as discriminating, they will use "bad signals" to find a location. The Trimble GeoExplorers were performing very well because they have a sliding scale that can be used to control the signal filtering. It goes from "Productivity" to "Precision". We could set these about halfway up the scale and get 5-meter readings in the thicket, much better than the 30-meter readings we were getting from the Garmins and Magellans.

The bottom line was that although these units weren't as accurate, they were more practical. These less accurate units are now in full deployment. The search teams have them and all DPS Troopers have them. By Saturday, Feb 8th, the need for GPS units had been met. [The editor notes: An article in the Fort Wayne News-Sentinel explains that the higher end GPS receivers', "level of accuracy wasn't needed for the grid boundaries, so the Fort Wayne surveyors borrowed from Texas colleagues' more mobile GPS equipment that could locate a position within 3 meters."]

The Forest Resources Institute and the Hues GIS Lab (both at Stephen F. Austin University) have been working with NASA, the FBI, and the NTSB to plot all the debris. Eventually, this can be used to create an animation of how the pieces fell. But, right now they are looking at the concentrations of debris not to see what's there, but what's missing. If they see that one search area contains debris mostly from the rear of the Shuttle, then they can look at an inventory of hazardous parts and see what hasn't been found. That information, in turn, will be used to alert the field teams to search for those types of parts.

The Shuttle carried a surprising amount of hazardous materials. In the morning briefings, they would show us photos of tanks, cylinders, bolts, panels, etc., that either contained some nasty chemicals or were explosive. A fuel cell had been found in our area and we did find many explosive bolts. Mostly, we were finding structural pieces and tiles, all scorched from re-entry.

Nacogdoches County Deputy Tim Burton led my crew. He let us know what was expected from us, and we all worked hard. The group was comprised of law enforcement personnel, fire department personnel, and specialty technical people like GPS and HAM radio operators. Because of that, we were a more disciplined team than some of the teams that went out comprised mostly of local civilians.

It was an honor to be included on Deputy Burton's team. We were diligent in our efforts; and although it was very hard work we all felt that the job we were doing was very important, not only to NASA, but to the families of the astronauts.

The FEMA command post in Nacogdoches is no longer seeking volunteers. The forestry service has sent their emergency response team that normally deals with forest fires to the site, so they have about 1200 people on the ground.


MORE ON COLUMBIA MAPPING
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While I appreciate all the media coverage of contribution of GIS/GPS technologies to tracking Shuttle debris, there have been some unfortunate errors.

An article from The Colony Courier-Leader had this quote from the Colony's GIS Coordinator: "'Part of the shuttle recovery project is to map the location of debris,' he said. 'The more accurately they could plot the debris the better, so they put out a request for help from anyone with (Global Positioning Satellite) equipment capable of sub-meter accuracy and the expertise to go along with it.'" GPS was correctly written out as Global Positioning System, just one paragraph above.

The Orlando Sentinel in an article about the contributions of the Stephen F. Austin State University's Forest Resources Institute notes, "The Forest Resources Institute already had been using much of the Global Information System technology to create detailed analyses of the very forests into which much of the shuttle debris disappeared."

GIS AND LOBBYING
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This week I read about Local Officials for Transportation, a coalition of about a dozen national organizations including the National Association of Counties (NaCO), the American Public Works Association and others. The group will lobby the U.S. Congress regarding several recommendations when the Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century (TEA-21) comes up for reauthorization this year.

Also in the lobbying department, I read of Dean Kamen, inventor of the Segway "scooter" who, according to Wired, hired scores of lobbyists who went out to convince state legislatures to rewrite their laws to permit his scooter to operate on their sidewalks.

This made me think about lobbying in general and lobbying with regard to geospatial technology in particular. I confess that lobbying and GIS never meant much to me until I was at an OGC meeting where the head of the Spatial Technology Information Association (STIA) gave a presentation. STIA is a lobbying group. Then, I got invited to the Management Association for Private Photogrammetric Surveyors (MAPPS) lunch at the ASPRS conference last spring and learned that they are a very effective lobbying group, though they use the term "advocacy" on the organization's website.

Recall too, that at National States Geographic Information Council (NSGIC) meeting last fall, STIA lead Fred Corle joined Jack Dangermond in suggesting an aggressive push for geospatial to Congress. I don't know if anything came of that. And of course, there is more personal lobbying, such as Dan Elroi describes in his newsletter about a trip to Capitol Hill.

Do other GIS related organizations take on advocacy roles? GITA now has a GeoSpatial Leadership Coalition (GLC) that tries to weave organizations together and push forward a National Spatial Data Infrastructure (NSDI). The Federal Geographic Data Committee (FGDC) provided funding for GLC.

URISA, to date, has focused on educating its own users, rather than on policy per se. Still, initiatives have focused on the role of surveyors, privacy, and addressing issues. The Open GIS Consortium (OGC) focuses on interoperability, and has not actively lobbied on any issues. The organization is however a member of STIA.

Much advocacy in the geospatial arena, I think, is coming from the NaCOs and NSGICs of the world. While these organizations mostly serve members, they also take stands. NaCO, while not explicitly a geospatial organization, has goals that include ensuring "that the nation's 3066 counties are heard and understood in the White House and the halls of Congress." After a few years of building GIS awareness (including an extensive GIS grant program) NaCO has a policy statement on GIS Interoperability. NSGIC's website notes that organization's commitment to NSDI, but also says, "NSGIC reviews legislative and agency actions, promotes positive legislative actions, and provides advice to public and private decision-makers."

INNOVATIVE ORGANIZATIONS
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This week brings the second installment of our new monthly feature, Innovative Organizations. The goal is to highlight geospatial services organizations that have new ways of performing their work, managing their personnel, or serving their clients. Our goal is two-fold: first to recognize those breaking new ground in GIS, and second to share creative ideas to move our industry forward.

The organization I want to introduce is the Comprehensive Planning Department of Redmond, Washington. Kim Dietz is a GIS Programmer/Analyst who's been with the department for 6 years. Dietz knows all about interns. She started her career as one in the City of Allentown, Pennsylvania, eventually becoming the GIS Coordinator for that city. I asked Dietz to share some of her experiences with, and observations about, interns.

You suggested that many BS geography graduates in your area don't yet have all the skills needed to step into an entry-level GIS job. Many return to community colleges for further study. Why is that? What do they study at the community college?

Undergraduate students have the book knowledge but lack to tools to apply it. They may only understand the "how-to" when they obtain "hands-on." That experience is typically gained through certificate programs provided at the community college or extension programs of statewide institutions.

Those students with some "hands on" behind them often become interns with your department. When you hire students from the community college as interns, what type of work do you have them do?

I put them to work immediately, on their own, with inventories and data development. Typically they work with geographic data and participate in the full design of data structures and the population of the resulting database.

How do you manage interns? Do they work alongside full-time employees? Do they have extra supervision?

I want the intern to work alongside me. I do not have the time, within a normal 6-month internship, to train on the steps of using software. Interns become fulltime members of staff and are expected to attend weekly division meetings and deliver status reports on their projects. They are allowed and encouraged to take ownership of their work.

At Redmond, I have offered interns projects such as street annotation development, annexation history inventory, and shoreline bulkhead inventory that included sunny, summer kayak trips. None of this information was previously available within the City's GIS data banks.

Currently we combine the internship program within the Planning department to be that of a Planner with GIS experience. The success rate is astounding with these individuals participating at the public outreach level and acting as key elements in presentations to the general public as well as the Planning Commission and City Council.

I understand that you invite your interns to join you at local GIS group meetings and introduce them to prospective employees in the public sector. When did you begin doing that? How are the results? Do you recommend this over using the Web or other methods for finding permanent employment?

When interns express their wishes to continue in GIS and to seek employment in the local market, I suggest one method. I invite them to attend a Central Puget Sound GIS Users Group (CPSUG) meeting and to introduce themselves along with a short presentation of project deliverables, including maps. CPSUG was founded by the first President of NWCAMA, now WAURISA, and has been up and running for more than three years, with more than 300 members. Regularly scheduled monthly meetings bring together between 30 to 60 members for presentations, workshops and demonstrations.

Because CPSUG, along with other area associations, has over the years provided ample venues in which members get to know each other, a tight family style network has been generated. The new interns or graduating students must find a role for themselves in this family and in a limited market.

Having spent several years with this user group and two years on the board of WAURISA, I have again and again preached that those interested in breaking into the field of GIS must simply "get out there" in any manner that they may find or create for themselves. Repeatedly, I have offered various positions to those that inquire so that they may establish themselves with a portfolio of work examples and make their face/name known in a small community.

Therefore, the items of advice that I would present to any graduating class of GISers is to offer their services in the communities of their interests, become members of associations, attend all possible gatherings, and do some type of work for free. Yes, none of this will pay off the school loan but it will open the doors to a career of satisfaction and a multitude of choices. And finally, get hands-on experience. Even if you do it on your own with free software and free data in your basement at night - it counts! And I'll hire you simply for ingenuity.

Have you kept interns on in your department or do they move on?

My position was created from an intern position. This occurred prior to my joining the City, but 3 interns filled the role before 1997. Since then I have worked with 3 interns who have succeeded in obtaining full-time positions locally.

How might the GIS education system change so that the extra step of community college study might be avoided?

I feel strongly that internships should be required during the 4th year. However, extra work needs to be taken by the student to acquire the necessary tool kits or hands-on skills. It might be possible for those students to obtain or even create roles in which they are learning and using desktop GIS.

Volunteer positions are readily available if one performs the necessary research and makes the correct connections. This is becoming more and more important in a limited market. Jobs do not magically open since GISers of today are not quite ready to retire or to leave. Some people in this local region have simply thought-up a use for GIS, found the software through begging or free downloads, and then started generating a product. Entrepreneurs or basement hermits, it is these people that are now managing fully functioning businesses and delivering quality products each day, even though they could not find a job upon graduation.


 

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GIS BOOKS FIND NEW HOME
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Thanks to all for their mini-essays on why their local schools should be recipients of two of the ESRI Press' latest titles on GIS in education.

Barbara B. Cooper, LPLS at Hawaii Electric Light Company, explained that while Hawaii is a paradise, the schools could use some help. The two volumes are on their way to Hawaii, from the two feet of snow here in Boston.

LETTERS
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Dan Beardslee, PLS of Erlandsen and Associates, Inc. adds another suggestion on marketing ideas for our industry:

"I read with interest the article on marketing GIS. It's a tough sell, I'll tell you that, and the ideas expressed in the article are interesting. However, to really understand 'selling the invisible' whoever wrote the article should read Harry Beckwith's books."

The editor notes: Just to be clear, I wrote the article in GIS Monitor. Charles Stein wrote the original article in the Boston Globe. And, I used my holiday Amazon gift certificate to get Mr. Beckwith's book.

Alvin L. Hanks, Principal at Chesapeake Analytics Corporation, also had some additions to the marketing article.

"Excellent article, and I would generally agree with your five key points as central issues to be understood in marketing, I would suggest a couple of other variables.

"1. There has long been a mantra in marketing called 'focus,' although perhaps not well understood. Superficially it says stay tuned in and don't become distracted. The real reason to focus is because to really understand your market you need many details about: the buyer (customer profile), budgeting cycle, business processes, technical matters including particular language/terms, etc. The simple fact is it's hard to keep track of these varied but relevant details for more than 3-4 market sub-sectors. Thus 'focus.' (Although nothing's perfect, e.g., IBM almost lost the PC market by 'focusing' on big iron.)

"2. I also like to use a model I learned from the writings of Gary Hamel and C. K Prahalad, CF Competing for the Future, Harvard BSchool Press 1994. Of particular interest is their discussion (in subsequent papers) of 'intersections of change.' The thesis here is that by viewing and understanding trends in certain related arenas one can 'see the future first.' Specifically in the GIS and spatial data industry, we are particularly affected by trends in: enabling technology, government regulation, geopolitical issues (e.g. off-shore labor costs), demographics, general economic conditions, etc. Understanding drivers and trends in these areas gives us the best opportunity to predict market trends in GIS.

"3. Jack Dangermond likes to discuss the evolution of GIS from the individual, to projects, to the enterprise and eventually to societal GIS. I suggested to Jack that this reminded me of running shoes. The simple analogy is to any product that becomes generally adapted to a mass market, going from a small group of users to a broad consumer based demand. The bell curve description of a market's rate of adaptation best illustrates this, as the obvious large demand, read 'dollars,' is the central part of the curve. The market will grow as the various uses and applications of GIS evolve into the society at large.

"4. For a discussion of the role that the Internet might play in the GIS industry please see my paper An eCommerce Business Strategy is not Necessary, It's Mandatory, published in the proceedings of the ASPRS St. Louis conference."

POINTS OF INTEREST
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The five-pound per day congestion charge for London drivers began this past Monday. An Indian company, Mastek provided the software application to monitor non-payment. The job requires monitoring a 21-square-kilometre congestion charging zone visited by an estimated 40,000 vehicles an hour every weekday. The company competed against London-based Logica to win the contract. A ring of cameras monitor the boundary of the city and tease out license plates. The system waits until midnight for payment, and if it is not received, reports the offender's plate number to the Britain's Driving Vehicles Licensing Authority. The Authority then sends out penalty notices and waits for money to roll in. The organization expects some 30 million pounds in fines. The master software, designed and tested in India, is built on .NET.

A BBC article suggests that congestion at the rings edge will drive down housing prices. Meanwhile, those who live in the ring will capitalize on a 90% discount on the charge. All the gory details about the boundary, how to pay (phone, text messaging, convenience stores) and who gets a break (busses, the disabled, emergency vehicles, etc.) are provided at the BBC.

Woz knows geography matters. Wired reports that Steve Wozniak, aka Woz, co-founder of Apple and current CEO of Wheels of Zeus is moving because his existing home is in a wireless dead zone. He's moving across town, to another property he owns, which has GSM reception.

Anthony J. Pryor, who's Godseye project is now tied into GeoURL (mentioned in GIS Monitor a few weeks ago), has its roots at ArsDigita University, an experimental school put together by an MIT professor, Philip Greenspun. Godseye is another attempt to weave geography into the Internet and search engines. While I applaud the creativity, without an open standard, I don't expect this type of work to take off in any meaningful way.

Bentley's added an afternoon session to many of its World Tour dates. The session focuses on Building Information Modeling (BIM), what the company calls the next evolution of CAD for the building industry. BIM, Bentley suggests, is upgrading the way that architects, engineers, contractors, and facility managers work and collaborate. I'll share what I learned at the Bentley World Tour event in Boston next week.

I erred in reporting on Leica's new Airborne Laser Scanner. The new model is the ALS50. I apologize for the error.

The Seattle Post-Intelligencer reports that Lizardtech laid off about ten employees, including the vice president of engineering and vice president of business development this week. That brings the company down to 38 employees from a high of 200 in 2001. The company has raised more than $40 million in venture capital since its launch in 1992.

The New York Times describes a prototype "personal awareness assistant" - a wearable computer with microphones, earbuds, and a GPS. The idea is to save conversations, time and location stamp them for future use. The most interesting fact from the article, "The average person probably speaks for only about 10 minutes a day," Dana Le, an Accenture researcher said. "You could record your entire audio life on a couple of terabytes."

A federal judge in Albany, N.Y. granted SRC the right to have indpendent auditor examine MapInfo's books to investigate whether the company paid appropriate fees to SRC. Since the lawsuit and countersuit filed in November, the judge dismissed two claims and part of a third claim. SRC dropped one voluntarily. Discovery is expected to end in April.

The Albany Business Review reported on the MapInfo stockholders meeting in Troy on Wednesday. Basically, CEO Cattini asked investors to stick with the company through these rough times. Chairman Cavalier pleaded, "Bear with us, give us some slack. We won't let you down." The company does have one thing going for it: many of its competitors are fading. The article points out that where once MapInfo had 13 competitors for the likes of a Vodafone contract, now there are three or four.

This bit of "geography elimination" comes from The Harrow Report (thanks to Jim for recommending it). It turns out you can upload your digital pictures to the Wal-Mart website, and have them printed at whichever store in the country you'd like. I think Kinkos and other printing chains do that, too, but this solution is very consumer friendly. Where else might this lead?

Quote of the Week: Phil Young, an Northern Illinois Research scientist in geography who's heading up the management of a $900,000 value grant from Intergraph, looks at the grant this way. "It's not really selling out. The fact that we bear that name doesn't mean we carry just their software. They are giving us something that we couldn't afford to get on our own. We would be doing the research anyway. We consider ourselves software neutral. We don't say one piece of software is better than another."


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The American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ASPRS) announced that Eastman Kodak Company will sponsor the International Educational Literature Award (IELA), an award to improve library holdings in universities overseas on geospatial topics. The total value of this award is over $1,500 and includes ASPRS books and periodicals. Want to apply? "Application is by special application form."

The Open GIS Consortium's (OGC) biennial election of directors has been completed. Newly elected directors are Jeffrey K. Harris, Deputy, Space Systems Company, Lockheed Martin; Mr. Bert J. Jarreau, Chief Technology Officer, National Association of Counties; Roberta Balstad Miller, Director, Center for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN), and Senior Research Scientist, Columbia University; Dr. Robert Moses, President and CEO, PCI Geomatics; and Mr. James R. O'Neill, TASC President, Northrop Grumman Information Technology.

The Open GIS Consortium, Inc. (OGC) recently presented the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) with the first annual OGC Vision Award. Lt. Gen. Robert B. Flowers, Commanding General of the USACE, accepted the award. This award recognizes the outstanding contribution the USACE has made to the organization and growth of OGC, an international public/private partnership working to make geographic information and services openly accessible across multiple platforms and devices.

Editor and Publisher reports that the New York Times Syndicate is planning to launch the National Geographic Map Service. But first, the Syndicate is offering a special package of five maps tied to the possible war with Iraq.

Two intelligence agencies will this week begin beta testing a solution from MetaCarta and ESRI. Government Computer News reports the unnamed product went beta development last week and will ship in March. MetaCarta and ESRI announced a relationship last week.

URISA has approved a slate for officers for election. Some top-notch folks are in the running for president: Kathrine Cargo, GIS Project Manager for the Orleans Parish Communications District in New Orleans, Louisiana; Thomas Conry, GIS Manager for Fairfax County, Virginia; Fred Halfen, Regional Vice President of Ayres Associates in Madison, Wisconsin; Steve Kinzy, Regional Manager of ESRI's St. Louis Office in St Charles, Missouri; Susan Carson Lambert, Intergovernmental Advisor for the U.S. Geological Survey in Frankfort, Kentucky; and Lisa Lubeley, GIS Manager for the City of Escondido (California) Engineering Department. URISA members will be mailed the 2003 election ballot in May, with each candidate's position statement and vision for URISA, with completed ballots due at URISA Headquarters by June 27, 2003.

Indus International, Inc. a provider of enterprise asset management (EAM) solutions, announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire the Global Energy and Utility Solutions (GEUS) business unit of Systems & Computer Technology Corporation.

The Commonwealth of Virginia began initial distribution of high-resolution digital orthophotography products created under the Virginia Base Mapping Program (VBMP) to counties and cities across the state. The VBMP orthophotography contract is being managed for the Virginia Geographic Information Network (VGIN) by VARGIS, of Herndon, VA. The orthophotography product will be licensed to all governments and public sector organizations in Virginia at no cost.

Several announcements were made at a recent meeting of Ordnance Survey and its partners. All partners will be invited to join a dedicated communications channel to enhance the development of products and the management of product lifecycles. Ordnance Survey is also offering its partners more Web-based services, enhanced pre- and post-sales support, and the opportunity to be accredited consultants.

Metamend announced it has created an address extraction technology that can read a website, extract geographical data, then determine if the website has a relevant physical presence as well as an online one. This is basically geocoding for websites, and it comes with a monthly price tag.

Laser-Scan signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with leading professional services consulting firm, Sinclair Knight Merz (SKM) to develop its presence in Australia.

IDELIX Software Inc.'s management and shareholders have committed 50,000 options at $0.70 per share to Science World, a science museum in British Columbia. The gift is tax deductible.

Brian Lantz, vice president and advisor of homeland security for MapInfo was recognized as one of Fast Company magazine's "Fast 50" Champions of Innovation for efforts that led to the creation of MapInfo's Homeland Security Program. Winners are selected from online submissions by Fast Company readers.

Visual Studio Magazine presented its annual Readers' Choice Awards Monday during Fawcette Technical Publications VSLive! 2003 San Francisco conference. These awards, chosen by Visual Studio Magazine's readers, included a win for ESRI's MapObjects which took the Imaging & Graphics Readers' Choice Award.

SoftStar and OleMap have launched a mobile location-based game, @ Life, with FITEL, Taiwan. The aim of the game is for players to achieve the ultimate goal of being a millionaire. Location becomes a key theme of the games, as different locations will affect player's ability in attaining his or her goals, such as where to eat and where to work. Gee-just like real life!

PlanGraphics, Inc. reported a net loss of $291,257 on revenue of $1,649,639 for the quarter ended December 31, 2002, as compared with net income of $37,934 on $2,120,218 a year prior.

Analytical Surveys, Inc. (ASI) announced financial results for its first fiscal quarter ended December 31, 2002. First quarter revenues were $4.3 million versus $5.6 million in the same period a year ago. The Company reported a first quarter net loss available to common shareholders of $817,000, or 99 cents per diluted share, versus net earnings of $4.0 million, or $5.80 per diluted share, in the first quarter last year.

MapInfo announced that MapInfo miAware 2.0, a mobile location services platform, adheres to Mobile Location Protocol specifications set by the Location Interoperability Forum (LIF), which is now part of the Open Mobile Alliance (OMA). The product also supports the Open GIS Consortium's OpenLS-proposed specifications.

MapInfo has a statement about the Slammer virus on its website.

The International Journal of Health Geographics has just published TerraSeer's study of cancer patterns on Long Island, New York. The studies include the application of several statistical approaches, including one new one--polygon wombling. Researchers found no relationship between air toxics and breast and colorectal cancer, but there was a siggnificant spatial association between exposure to air toxics that are known to cause lung cancer with the pattern of lung cancer cases.

Intergraph Mapping and Geospatial Solutions and the Intergraph GeoSpatial Users Community (IGUC) today announced the inaugural Geospatial Achievement Awards program. The worldwide competition recognizes Intergraph users for use of GIS in government, military, transportation, utilities, and application programming areas.

Microsoft announced that MapPoint mobile partners (Intrado, Action Engine, Clarity and HP) have built LBS services with MapPoint .NET. These will be shown at the upcoming 3GSM World Congress.

SiRF Technology, Inc. announced it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Enuvis, Inc. SiRF is particularly interested in the company's patented UrbanGPS Assisted-GPS (A-GPS) technology.

Leica Geosystems and Loyola Enterprises announced a distribution agreement for the sale and service of Leica Geosystems' GPS/GIS and GPS Reference Station products in Virginia.

The AP reports that Ivan Getting and Bradford Parkinson received the Charles Stark Draper Prize for inventing and implementing GPS. The engineering prize is its field's equivalent of the Nobel Prize.

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The National Imagery and Mapping Agency recently awarded Harris Corp. a potential 10-year, $750 million contract to supply geospatial and imagery-derived products for the Global Geospatial Intelligence (GGI) program. Federal Computer Week reports that this is part of the CLEARVIEW contracts signed with DigitalGlobe and Space Imaging earlier this year.

Wanadoo, a French ISP, selected Tele Atlas as the map data provider for its portals and its nearly nine million active customers. The deal with Wanadoo Maps makes Tele Atlas the leading map supplier to the French Internet market.

The U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) made few changes to its rules for the use of UWB (ultrawideband) technology after considering some petitions for change. One suggested the technology would interfere with GPS signals.

Spot Image, a French company operating the SPOT satellites, has signed a channel partnership agreement with IMAGEM granting it exclusive rights to market SPOT products and services in Brazil.

According to Mark Cittani, MapInfo's CEO the Australian Capitol Territory Emergency Services Bureau (ESB) and the New South Wales Rural Fire Service (RFS) will soon adopt a MapInfo-created bushfire-modelling system. The system relays data gathered from aerial surveys to bushfire crews on the ground via mobile devices such as cellular phones.

Geographic Data Technology, Inc. announced it has been selected as the prime source of mapping information for Appian Logistics Software Inc.'s route planning and geocoding software and services.

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ESRI announced that ArcSDE 8.3 is now shipping. Released simultaneously for IBM DB2 and Informix, Microsoft SQL Server, and Oracle, ArcSDE 8.3 contains updates for MapObjects-Windows 2.2, ArcSDE CAD Client, ArcSDE C API, and ArcSDE Java API.

TruePosition is shipping its new location product, based on U-TDOA (Uplink Time Difference of Arrival) called "The Finder." This location methodology relies on technology located in cellular operator base stations, and determines a mobile phone's location by precisely measuring and then comparing the exact time at which a cellular signal reaches each of the stations. By providing location technology to wireless carriers in 12 cities, TruePosition is leading the largest deployment in the United States of location technologies in support of the United States' enhanced 9-1-1 mandate.

MapInfo Corporation and Ordnance Survey announced MapInfo HealthPro, a product to help Primary Care Trusts (PCTs), Strategic Health Authorities, Regional Health Authorities and Health Observatories meet the government's NHS modernization targets. HealthPro will be available in March 2003.

Hitachi Software Global Technology, Ltd. (HSGT) announced the release of its updated CAD Client for Version 2.6 of its GIS platform, Any*GIS.

Bentley Systems, Incorporated, announced the release of its V8 Generation products, some 100 of them. The company also announced its "Power" Products, build on it PowerDraft, 2D platform. The first product out is PowerMap which includes a range of editing, clean-up, and thematic mapping tools, file import for a range of common geo-oriented formats, flexible coordinate system support, automated reference file transformation, and integrated high performance imaging. Bentley PowerMap offers ODBC connectivity as well as querying of Oracle Locator/Spatial data. No details on how this product works with MicroStation Geographics were available. I vaguely recall Bentley mentioning a "lower end" vertical line some years ago.

A limited edition Iraq Planning Map has just been published by the United States National Imagery and Mapping Agency (NIMA), and is available through East View Cartographic. Other maps of that area are also available.

CMT announced the release of PC-GIS 3.2 and its availability at no cost. The company suggests its "equivalent to ArcView 3.x."

The National Imagery and Mapping Agency (NIMA) released to the public three special reference maps of Baghdad, Iraq, and the Middle East. NIMA produced these maps as tools to help its public affairs office and other government public affairs offices in their efforts to discuss issues with the media and public that might be related to the areas depicted. Hardcopies will be available after February 24 through USGS.

Tele Atlas and Wayfinder provide an off-board, up-to-date navigation solution. Voice instructions, pictures, and maps guide the user as he drives or walks.

Intergraph Mapping and Geospatial Solutions announced Version 5.1 of the GeoMedia product suite which will add enhanced capture and editing functionality, batch plotting, and advanced layout tools, enterprise-wide style guide support, Tablet PC support, and enhanced Oracle support. The enhanced GeoMedia suite of products for the desktop and the Web will be available during the first half of 2003. Intergraph is now shipping version 5.1 of GeoMedia and GeoMedia Professional.

DMTI Spatial released CanMap Streetfiles V7.0 and CanMap RouteLogistics V7.0.

Data Directions announced the release of its MapInfo extension, Workspace Catalog, a workspace management tool. A free demo is available.

GenaWare announced planned support for the GenaMap suite of spatial tools and core GIS software on Linux ready IBM eServer pSeries systems.

WIND, a mobile provider in Italy, has announced a WAP GPRS mapping service. It provides color maps, directions and searches for businesses. The service costs 4 cents per Kbyte downloaded, including tax. In addition, for subscribers, there is a 15 percent discount for more than 10 Kbytes downloaded in a single connection.

ImageLinks announced the availability of its TrueTerrain visualization/simulation data sets covering five of the world's current areas of political interest - Iraq, Afghanistan, Turkey, Qatar, and the Korean Peninsula.

Maptech now offers two solutions to get maps on to a handheld which hosts a GPS. Outdoor Navigator allows downloads from a collection of more than 62,000 USGS topo maps and NOAA nautical charts. It's a subscription solution. Pocket Navigator works with Maptech CD-ROMs (Terrain Navigator (topo maps) or Digital ChartKit (nautical charts)) and allows download to the devices from a CD. Both products support Palm and PocketPC devices. The company also offers GPS hardware.

Autodesk Location Services, a division of Autodesk, Inc. announced the fourth major release of Autodesk LocationLogic, a carrier-class software platform for location-based services (LBS).

Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency data is now downloadable.

Events
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European Space Imaging (EUSI), established in December 2002 as Space Imaging Inc.'s newest regional affiliate, held its first reseller meeting on February 14, 2003, in Munich, Germany.

URISA and the IAAO wiill host the 7th Annual Integrating GIS & CAMA Conference in Columbus, Ohio, March 30-April 2, 2003. Early registration ends March 12.

ESRI will host its annual Business Partner Conference on March 22-25, 2003, at the Wyndham Hotel and Palm Springs Convention Center in Palm Springs, California.

Education
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ESRI Virtual Campus presented a training seminar on GIS Day last year aimed to teach participants how to implement community geographic information system (GIS) projects. The free seminar, originally broadcast on November 20, 2002, is now available as a free recorded presentation that can be viewed at any time.

ESRI is offering workshops to highlight new features that ArcGIS 8.3 gives to ArcEditor and ArcInfo users. The day-long workshops will be held across the United States in March and April. There is a fee to attend.

ImageSat offers high-resolution (1.8m) panchromatic images for free to Universities and Research - one per project for selected projects.

Hires and Appointments
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Tele Atlas NV announced the opening of a Detroit office and the addition of Jonathon B. Husby, senior sales manager for navigation. Husby was formerly with DENSO Corporation.

GeoConcept SA, European leader in Geographic Information Systems (GIS), announces today the opening of GeoConcept International Software SA Switzerland, its Swiss subsidiary.

eSpatial announced the appointment of David Miller as chief operating officer (COO) at the company. Mr. Miller joins eSpatial from Sepro Telecom, where he held the position of Chief Operating Officer and Chief Technology Officer.

Matt Davis has been appointed Assistant Regional Office Manager at ESRI-Boston. Davis returns to ESRI after working for EMERGE for several years as General Manager.


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Fax:- +44 (0)20 7679 7502 Dear All, It appears that some of you did not receive the email (see below) with the Agenda for today's meeting together with an invitation to the APRIL/NERC Modelling meeting of 4th March. Due to ill health I have been working from home and it appears that my ic dial facility, when interrupted, has aborted many of my emails in mid stream. Please accept my sincere apologises for this and for any confusion this has caused. We have set the date for the next meeting for June 25th, Helen's office however, there are several other meetings taking place before that time where there will be an opportunity to discuss current projects etc. The programme for the APRIL/NERC Modelling meeting will be despatched shortly, with over 70 delegates (list of speakers attached) already registered, the subgroup on the 2004 EU Conference is being convened shortly so please let Helen know if you wish to be involved and she has not already been in touch with you.The DAPPLE User group have two meetings arranged. DAPPLE enquiries should be directed to those named at the foot of the progress report presented at Wednesday's meeting (attached). The first field campaign is scheduled for 28 April - 23 May. Please disseminate the report within your organisation where appropriate. We are in talks with ESRC about LARCI and the late autumn meeting for local authorities (ALG). If anyone wants to be directly involved in the organisation of that meeting please let me know. Details of small project funding received by the Environment Group was presented (attached) and further funding opportunities are currently being pursued. Full minutes of the meeting will be despatched shortly. Please let me know if there are any other issues from the Agenda or minutes that I update you on. Again, my sincere apologises. Best wishes, Linda UNDELIVERED EMAIL Dear All, I attach the Agenda for the meeting of 19th together with minutes of the previous meeting. Also attached is an invitation to the APRIL/NERC Urban Modelling Meeting to take place at Imperial on 4th March, 2003. Would you all kindly circulate the invitation to members of your own organisation who might be interested. Additionally, there are two other attachments offering funding for student projects in the Thames Esturary and I would be grateful if you would also kindly circulate these as appropriate. Best wishes, Linda <> <> <> <> <<2002-3 TERF projects 2.doc>> <> <> <> Attachment Converted: "c:\program files\qualcomm\eudora\attach\Agenda 19th Feb 2003.doc" Attachment Converted: "c:\program files\qualcomm\eudora\attach\Minutes of 31.10.021.doc" Attachment Converted: "c:\program files\qualcomm\eudora\attach\APRILmodelMtg303c 27.1.02f.v..doc" Attachment Converted: "c:\program files\qualcomm\eudora\attach\Thames Estuary Research Forum (TERF) 1.htm" Attachment Converted: "c:\program files\qualcomm\eudora\attach\2002-3 TERF projects 2.doc" Attachment Converted: "c:\program files\qualcomm\eudora\attach\DAPPLE Update for APRIL.doc" Attachment Converted: "c:\program files\qualcomm\eudora\attach\Income 2002-2003.doc" Attachment Converted: "c:\program files\qualcomm\eudora\attach\UAQM 16.2.02 SPEAKERS.doc" Paul & Mike,

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This should be my final powerpoint presentation. I have increased some points that you have given me. For this weekend, I need to practise for making sure I can present properly on next Wednesday. I will inform you about the comments and other things within the seminar event.
 
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 Attachment Converted: "c:\program files\qualcomm\eudora\attach\first_present_casa.ppt" Mike, Just to let you know I have sent a copy of my application to Sonja Curtis but am still waiting for a reference from University before I can send the original off to the Registry Office at UCL. Hopefully should come start of next week. I put down a research area as how urban simulations can help improve public participation in the planning process. I felt I would like to develop the previous work I had done and Paul said this would be fine. Cheers, Dan Bulmer Margret, I like this product very much and think it would be a great addition to our curriculum; however, the academic pricing is prohibitive. We can't afford to add it to our teach lab. I think they are being shortsighted in not providing realistic academic pricing. G. William Page, Ph.D., AICP Professor Department of Urban & Regional Planning University at Buffalo, The State University of New York Hayes Hall, 3435 Main Street Buffalo, NY 14214 716-829-2133 ext 208 gpage@ap.buffalo.edu -----Original Message----- From: Margaret Bryant [mailto:mbryant@VT.EDU] Sent: Thursday, February 20, 2003 9:11 PM To: PSS-L@LISTS.UAKRON.EDU Subject: CommunityViz Have any of you had experience using the CommunityViz software? I am considering purchasing it, but it is pretty expensive. I would like to know what other people's experience has been. It has been commercially available for a year now, but I have not seen much discussion of it. _____________________________________________ Margaret Bryant, Ph.D. (mbryant@vt.edu) Assistant Professor Department of Landscape Architecture Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University Hello Mike The only thing that happened yesterday was that the spam-checking software was updated on the Geog mail server. The version we were using had fallen well behind that in use at @ucl. It's possible (though not too likely) that the software wrongly identified some of your e-mail as spam. I have not seen any particular problems with the mail server today. Chris. On Thu, 20 Feb 2003, mike batty wrote: > I get aorund 70 messages overnight and feel quite stressed when i cant read > them which is a sign of the times Margaret I suggest that you ask Tom McClintock at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, about his experiences with CommunityViz. He's one of the few people I know who's actually applied it (and other packages such as What if?) to an actual setting, without a great deal of help from the vendors. You can reach Tom at tlmcclin@facstaff.wisc.edu. Dick Klosterman ------------------------------------------------------------ Richard E. Klosterman, Professor Department of Geography and Planning University of Akron Akron, Ohio 44325-5005 Phone: (330) 972-8037 Fax: (330) 972-6080 E-mail: Klosterman@UAkron.edu ------------------------------------------------------------ Attached is the confirmed exam timetable for the May GIS exams. (Note to staff: we will have to pick the exam scripts up from any exam in Caroll Marx Hall (CMX).) Jeremy -- -- ------------------------------------------------------------ -- Jeremy Morley | Dept. Geomatic Engineering, Lecturer- Geographic Info Systems | University College London jmorley@ge.ucl.ac.uk | Gower Street, +44 (20) 7679 2083 Tel (Direct) | LONDON WC1E 6BT +44 (20) 7380 0453 Fax (Dept) | United Kingdom Attachment Converted: "c:\program files\qualcomm\eudora\attach\May examlocations.doc"
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Regarding the web site : would it be possible to insert the time of the last update ?
 
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 URISA's 41st Annual Conference is heading to Atlanta, October 11-15, 2003. This year's conference theme is "Powering Progress Towards Process and Information Integration." The educational program will include content ranging from e-Government and Transportation Systems to Homeland Security and Data Policy Issues. We have recently distributed the Call for Presentations (http://www.urisa.org/2003AnnualConference/Call_for_Presentations/call.htm) and invite abstract submissions for consideration by the Program Committee. Take a moment to read through all of the submission categories. URISA 2003 in Atlanta will challenge participants to better manage, analyze, plan and implement technology for more effective and efficient government operations. All abstract submissions, received by March 21, 2003, will be reviewed and considered for this comprehensive educational program. If you would prefer not to receive further messages from URISA, please reply to this email with the word "unsubscribe" in the subject line. Simon Doyle has applied to be a member of the Crown Copyright Advisory Panel in his capacity as an expert in geographic information. You've been asked to confirm Simon's expertise in the field and to add any other comments. They need the reply by Wed 26th Feb. From Thomas Papworth - email address thomas.papworth@cabinet-office.x.gsi.gov.uk Sarah Sarah Sheppard Administrator CASA UCL 1-19 Torrington Place London WC1E 7HB t. 020 7679 1782 f. 020 7813 2843 e. s.sheppard@ucl.ac.uk w. www.casa.ucl.ac.uk Anyone interested in this area? Maybe she has emailed this more widely. If noone has a specific interest, I can reply, but its a little outside our core area. Lewis ------- Forwarded Message Return-Path: nduta_jk@yahoo.com Return-Path: Received: from mail-b.bcc.ac.uk (mail-b.bcc.ac.uk [144.82.100.22]) by geog.ucl.ac.uk (8.11.6+Sun/8.11.6) with ESMTP id h1KJOiW11265 for ; Thu, 20 Feb 2003 19:24:44 GMT Received: from web40910.mail.yahoo.com by mail-b.bcc.ac.uk with SMTP (PP); Thu, 20 Feb 2003 19:24:45 +0000 Message-ID: <20030220192440.14393.qmail@web40910.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [213.122.61.19] by web40910.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Thu, 20 Feb 2003 19:24:40 GMT Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2003 19:24:40 +0000 (GMT) From: =?iso-8859-1?q?Jackie=20Kariithi?= Subject: Phd Enrollment To: Phil Lewis MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-UCL-Geog-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-UCL-Geog-MailScanner-SpamCheck: not spam, SpamAssassin (score=0.9, required 5, DEAR_SOMEBODY, SPAM_PHRASE_00_01) Content-Length: 663 Dear Dr. Lewis, I'm looking to enrol for a PHD in GIS and Remote sensing and my research would be based on the use of GIS in Ecotourism Planning and management. I would like to make contact with the relevant person in the department and discuss the research opportunities available at UCL and the logical steps to enable me to actually start my research in the near future. I'd very much appreciate it, if you can advise. Kind regards ===== Jackie N.Kariithi nduta_jk@yahoo.com __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Everything you'll ever need on one web page from News and Sport to Email and Music Charts http://uk.my.yahoo.com ------- End of Forwarded Message Dear All, I'm not sure whether this is of interest to anyone in the Department, but if it is then please contact Neil Hattersley or foward onto anyone that may be interested. Thanks, Helene Coleman >X-VirusChecked: Checked >X-Env-Sender: Neal.Hattersley@scottwilson.com >X-Msg-Ref: server-14.tower-22.messagelabs.com!1045831103!64 >Subject: ETRCL Liaison with UCL >Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2003 12:38:08 -0000 >From: Neal Hattersley >To: "h.coleman" >X-UCL-Geog-MailScanner: Found to be clean >X-UCL-Geog-MailScanner-SpamCheck: not spam, > SpamAssassin (Message larger than max testing size) > >Dear Ms Coleman, > >Further to our telecon I attach the material I mentioned. > >Environmental Technology Resource Centre >I am Project Manager of a Business Case Study for the above Centre, >planned to be located at Dagenham Docks in London. I am seeking to >demonstrate/quantify demand for such a centre and its facilities. >As part of its function would be to act as a central source of practical >information on sustainability for business and also to act as a >facilitator between new technologies and their practical application by >industry, It occurred to me that you may be able to assist in my >evaluation work.. The centre would be running in 2006. >I attach a Questionnaire which explains our current thinking about the >project and below there is some <> >contextual background. >thank you for your assistance >regards >Neal Hattersley >Scott Wilson 020 7808 4100 >PLANNING BACKGROUND: >London Development Agency and LB Barking and Dagenham have announced plans >to develop an Environmental Technology Resource Centre for London in the >Dagenham Docks area. >This would be a catalyst for London's first science park and Europe's >first multi-contributor (academic and commercial) centre for the >facilitation of the development of lab tested 'sustainable' research into >commercial application and pilot plant testing. >A full business case and development proposal is currently underway and a >number of organisations have already expressed interest in locating >activities in such a 'centre of excellence'. > In issuing the Consultation Draft of the Dagenham Dock > (DD) Interim Planning Guidance for a Sustainable Industrial Park (SIP) in > December 2002, The London Borough of Barking and Dagenham expresses > commitment to the development of an SIP. The London Development Agency is > working closely with the Council in delivering the vision. > An SIP would represent a 'new generation' manufacturing > centre catering for contemporary needs for new environmental industries, > reuse and recycling. This both acknowledges the profile of existing > industries on the site and also recognises the huge growth potential of > this sector and its employment generating potential across a range of skills. > Some organisations, notably the United Nations > Environmental Programme view the creation of a 'centre of excellence' as > a key facilitator to the creation of a successful SIP. The Greater London > Authority has expressed the desire for London to become a Global > Sustainable City within its London Plan and the creation of an > Environmental Resource Centre for London, a centre of excellence, would > provide a focus for the application of this objective. In the Plan Policy > BR 31 outlines the Mayor's intention to use the Thames and other > waterways as transport corridors in support of Green Industries. Dagenham > Dock is already mentioned in the Plan. > The Preliminary Stakeholder Report for the SIP, produced > in July 2002 identified a substantial level of interest in the concept > and benefits of an SIP. The creation of an Environmental Resource Centre > is a leading edge idea, although following a unique set of circumstances, > an Eco-Industrial Park exists already at Kalenburg in Denmark. Other > proposed sites remain in the early phases of realisation. >This presents an opportunity for London to be a leader, potentially for >Dagenham Docks to be London's first Eco Science Park drawing on and >pooling the ideas and resources of a number of academic institutions to >spearhead the application of new environmental technologies. In order to >progress and grasp the opportunity further robust work is underway >including a critical market assessment, a preliminary business plan for >the delivery and operation of such a centre, a financial assessment and an >initial costed development proposal. > > >Neal Hattersley >Scott Wilson Business Consultancy >12-18 Grosvenor Gardens >London SW1W 0DH >DL: 020 7808 4100 >F: 020 7808 4101 >E: Neal.Hattersley@scottwilson.com > > > >Visit our web site at www.scottwilson.com > >Privilege and Confidentiality Notice. >This e-mail and any attachments to it are intended only for the party >to whom they are addressed. They may contain privileged and/or >confidential information. 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Attachment Converted: "c:\program files\qualcomm\eudora\attach\Business Benefits Quest V2.doc" * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Helene Coleman Environmental Change Research Centre Department of Geography University College London 26 Bedford Way London WC1H 0AP tel: +44 (0)20 7679 7575 (Internal Ext: 27575) fax: +44 (0)20 7679 7565 Dear Mr Papworth Thank you for informing Prof Batty that he has been short-listed for membership of the Crown Copyright Advisory Panel. Mike is currently on sabbatical in the US and will not be back until mid April. However if you contact him by email m.batty@ucl.ac.uk it should be possible for you to arrange a time for a telephone conversation as you suggest. If you have any difficulties contacting him, please do not hestitate to contact myself or my colleague Sonja Curtis to help. Yours sincerely Sarah Sheppard Administrator CASA UCL 1-19 Torrington Place London WC1E 7HB t. 020 7679 1782 f. 020 7813 2843 e. s.sheppard@ucl.ac.uk w. www.casa.ucl.ac.uk Dear Mike,

I hope you are well and enjoying the states! I am now back at work after a very nice holiday.

Just following up on our discussion about possible work, here are some notes about the possible link up with CASA that we talked about briefly before I left:
  • ISP is proceeding with the Pedestrian model for London project on behalf of TfL and everything is going smoothly.
  • Adding Land Use data could be a follow on stage of work on this project, bringing in CASA as a partner. This would involve you getting the data processed (perhaps by Sanjay?)
  • We could put in a project proposal for funding, which would include funds for the CASA involvement as a partner on the project.
In order to do this we need to know the following:
  • How much would it cost to get the land use data converted into GIS format at post code level?
  • Who would do this work within CASA/UCL and how long would it take?
  • Could we actually get access to it now?
If you can let me know what you would need then we can try to get this off the ground.

Kind regards,

Jake



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Dear UCLAUT Member, A lunchtime general meeting to discuss the implications of the government's White Paper on HE will be held on Wednesday 26th February between 1.00 -2.00 pm in the Chadwick Lecture Theatre (adjacent to UCL Front Lodge on Gower Street) A copy of the White Paper is available at: http://www.dfes.gov.uk/highereducation/hestrategy/ The AUT has produced an initial analysis of the White Paper in a special issue of the departmental representatives' newsletter 'The Briefing' which sets out the key issues to provide a basis for discussion. This can be downloaded in .pdf format at: http://www.aut.org.uk/pandp/whitepaper.html or browsed in a web version at: http://www.aut.org.uk/pandp/whitepaper/wp_autconsult.html Note: A number of e-mail discussion groups have been set up which are designed to help AUT get a strong feel for the views of its members prior to writing a formal response to the government's White Paper. The use of such email groups is a new departure for AUT and forms an important strand in a major consultation exercise in response to the White Paper. A link is also provided to six tests put forward by AUT and Natfhe to be met before they will support any proposed changes to the sector. Further information concerning the above items is available at: http://www.aut.org.uk/pandp/whitepaper.html Best wishes, Rob Jones _______________________________ Robert M Jones - AUT Administrator Association of University Teachers University College London Gower Street LONDON WCIE 6BT tel: 0207 679 7230 (24 hrs) fax: 0870 139 0483 e-mail: r.m.jones@ucl.ac.uk websites: (local) http://www.ucl.ac.uk/unions/AUT/ (national) http://www.aut.org.uk/ Association of University Teachers Birkbeck College Malet Street LONDON WC1E 7HX email: rm.jones@unions.bbk.ac.uk website: http://www.bbk.ac.uk/aut Mike There are a lot of changes going on at UCL in HR - right now, and I'm trying to get my head round it all and what it will mean to us. This is a result of a lot of changes in UK employment law coming in in April and UCL being taken to a lot of tribunals. The main thing is that if there is noone on the UCL redeployment database who is suitable for a post - (which is to be set up), then it has to be advertised. This could be on the web. Then we have to go through various procedures in recording the applications for equal opportunities purposes, then interview, with 3 people on a panel who have all been trained by UCL (this will obviously take time) and then appoint someone. This will mean if you have someone in mind for a post then the advert will have to be carefully worded in order that they are the only person who can do the job. I thinkt this will be for any post longer than 3 months and full and part-time. Any appointment has to have a full job description and person specification which has to go to HR and also we have to check they don't have a criminal record (in writing). HR will not employ someone unless all these criteria have been met and as I've found out with the Digital Egypt extra people College are now monitoring and stopping things going through - this by the way has been sorted out. In terms of the US guy this will all be further complicated as he's overseas. I don't think it would have worked him being an academic visitor and a member of staff anyway - I don't think this would be possible, but I'll investigate this further next week. The fee paying issue is irrelevant anyway as I think you can request that to be waived anyway as HOD, so if we can employ him then he could be part-time and the rest of his time just be here. Now don't hold me to anything I've just said - I'm still investigating everything - unfortunately I missed the administrators meeting on all of this this week and have got most of this from Joanna Saxon, but things are changing. I'll let you know what I find out. There are also changes being brought into the financial regulations - the 2 that will affect us - are that expense claims have to be processed within 3 months and for business and staff entertainment we have to name everyone that was wined or dined, or sandwich lunched! Sarah -----Original Message----- From: mike batty in buffalo [mailto:mbatty@geog.ucl.ac.uk] Sent: 14 February 2003 16:11 To: Sarah Sheppard Cc: p.longley Subject: RE: nexsus I would very much like to appoint a guy from here who is a US citizen for half the nexsus and also joana for the other half. This means a work visa. We advertised the nexsus job several times can you see how we can do this most easily - the other issue is - if this US fellow has visitor status can we pay him 20 hours a week. We could pay him visitor status - the Uk fee - and then top him up to 20 hours a week Mike At 01:41 PM 2/14/2003 +0000, Sarah Sheppard wrote: >Mike & Paul > >If Joana is still a student then shouldn't be a problem but if she's wanting >this after she's finished then is - work permit issues etc etc. Also what >are the regulations on her Brazilian money - is she allowed to work? > >For the other half we come into work permit and visa issues if its an >overseas person and having to advertise and explain why they are the best >candidate. > >There are a whole load of new regulations regarding appointing staff coming >in - lots of complicated stuff about equal opportunities, the person >interviewing has to have done a UCL course on interview techniques - I will >look into this all further next week but I have a feeling appointing staff >could get trickier. I've spoken to Paul this morning about advertising all >our posts and studentships and we're going to look into drafting an advert >next week so that when we get the TCS and E-Society contracts signed off we >can go ahead straight away. > >Sarah > >-----Original Message----- >From: mike batty in buffalo [mailto:mbatty@geog.ucl.ac.uk] >Sent: 13 February 2003 18:45 >To: Sarah Sheppard >Cc: p.longley@geog.ucl.ac.uk >Subject: nexsus > > >what about the following > >the nexsus grant split between two half time RAs both foreign - one Joana >from Sept next the other a US citizen - in UCL either a a visitor paying >the 3K fee or as an employee > >Both are foreign unlike Nancy - how easy is it to go down this route ? > >Mike > > > >___________________________________________________ >I am spending Feb, March and April in Ann Arbor MI. I am >currently spending this week at SUNY Buffalo. >___________________________________________________ >Mike Batty >Director, CASA, UCL, 1-19 Torrington Place, WC1E 6BT, UK >___________________________________________________ >Look at our web site to see what we do: www.casa.ucl.ac.uk ___________________________________________________ I am spending Feb, March and April in Ann Arbor MI. I am currently spending this week at SUNY Buffalo. ___________________________________________________ Mike Batty Director, CASA, UCL, 1-19 Torrington Place, WC1E 6BT, UK ___________________________________________________ Look at our web site to see what we do: www.casa.ucl.ac.uk To: Departmental Graduate Tutors cc: Heads of Department Departmental Administrators I would be grateful if you could please remind your graduate students that the deadline for entry into the Graduate School's Annual Poster Competition is: Wednesday 5 March 2003 On-line registration at: http://www.ucl.ac.uk/gradschool/comp/poster We look forward to receiving some excellent entries from your graduate students. 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