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 First Open Source GIS UK Conference Webcasts
In
June of this year Nottingham University hosted the First Open Source
GIS UK Conference. The aims of the event included hearing presentations
from government, academic, industry and policy makers on open source
geospatial technologies, providing a platform to network and develop
ideas for future collaborative work in open source GIS, developing an
understanding of current developments in open source GIS and enabling a
focus for open source GIS research. One hundred and fifty delegates
represented 17 countries. Co-chair Dr. Suchith Anand reports that
webcasts of the program are available for free online and invites the
community that could not attend to view them.
Witness
Geospatial trends shaping today's IT industry: mobile platforms, crowd
sourcing, clouds, standards, open source and Spatial
Data Infrastructures, at a significant international conference.
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Location-based services are maturing and
the focus for many is monetization. Rotterdam-based AND Mapping's CEO
Maarten Oldenhof will provide his perspective on the geospatial market
and Examiner.com's CFO Marc Kiven will look at how the media landscape
is changing in a world of iPhones and new delivery platforms. Don't
miss the insights these forward looking experts will offer at LI 2009.
Follow Location Intelligence 2009 on Twitter at #li09!
Reduced registration still available! The deadline
to register for $499 is today, Monday, Sept. 14. Use code b7d88a8e. Each
week, registration will go up $100 so take advantage of this special
registration rate today! Register now!
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Books
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 Research Trends in Geographic Information Science
In
June/July 2008 the Institute for Geoinformation and Cartography at the
Vienna University of Technology organized a scientific colloquium in
this city, where 15 well-known scientists presented their ideas on
research for the upcoming decade. This book contains papers prepared by
the participants as well as by other researchers. The 18 papers in this
book reflect the opinion of a core group of geoinformation scientists
about future research topics. Dealing with these topics poses multiple
research questions for the coming years. Springer, 2009.
 Weaving Services and People on the World Wide Web
Ever
since its inception, the Web has changed the landscape of human
experiences on how we interact with one another and data through
service infrastructures via various computing devices. This
interweaving environment is now becoming ever more embedded into
devices and systems that integrate seamlessly on how we live, both in
our working or leisure time. For this volume, King and Baeza-Yates
selected some pioneering and cutting-edge research work that is
pointing to the future of the Web. Based on the Workshop Track of the
17th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW2008) in Beijing, they
selected the top contributions and asked the authors to resubmit their
work with a minimum of one third of additional material from their
original workshop manuscripts to be considered for this volume. After a
second-round of reviews and selection, 16 contributions were finally
accepted. From Springer, 2009.
 The Implementation and Effectiveness of GIS in Secondary Education: Geographic Information Systems in Education
Some
educators consider GIS to be one of the most promising means for
implementing educational reform. However, GIS technology has been
adopted by only 1% of American high schools. This research describes
the geographic and curricular extent to which GIS technology and
methods are being implemented in secondary education in the USA,
explains why and how GIS is being implemented, and assesses the effects
of GIS-based lessons on teaching and learning. A national survey of
1,520 high schools provided primary data to explain the extent of the
implementation. A set of experiments and case studies provided primary
data for assessing the effects of GIS. From VDM Verlag, 2009.
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SPONSOR ZONE
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How DigitalGlobe and Intermap Benefit from Oracle Spatial (registration required)
Directions Media Webinar Series - Sponsored by Oracle Does
your organization manage a lot of spatial data? Learn how two major
spatial data vendors use Oracle Spatial tools to help. You will derive
three valuable insights from this webinar: 1) how Oracle Spatial adds
management of imagery, 3D data, and more to Oracle Database's standard
location data management, query and development capabilities; 2) how
organizations can easily download the latest satellite imagery via Web
services to support more effective planning and better business
decisions; and 3) how DEM data can be managed cost-effectively in an
enterprise database and leveraged to add value in a variety of business
applications.
Tutorial: Discover the Tools and Skills Needed to Location-enable Enterprise Oracle Deployments (registration required)
Directions Media Webinar Series - Sponsored by NAVTEQ
NAVTEQ
and Oracle present this webinar to help attendees discover the
software tools and skill set needed to location-enable enterprise
Oracle deployments using NAVTEQ data. This instructional tutorial
covers the following: the Oracle components used in mapping solutions;
out-of-the-box maps for the Oracle environment from NAVTEQ; how to
integrate demographic and business data stored in Oracle with maps; how
maps add business value to your Oracle applications; and how JSP and
SQL APIs from Oracle make creating powerful Web mapping applications
easy.
Microsoft and IDV Solutions at Work for the Enterprise (registration required)
Directions Media Webinar Series -
Sponsored by Microsoft
The
Virtual Earth platform - now Bing Maps for Enterprise - is a critical
component of the Microsoft geospatial story, enabling public sector
agencies to serve up data in a manner that allows users to better
visualize, understand and ultimately to act on them in a more timely
fashion, while simultaneously cutting costs and delivering clear value
to their constituencies. Visual Fusion from IDV Solutions combines with
Bing Maps, SharePoint and other Microsoft technologies to create a
visual mashup platform, empowering organizations to unite data from
otherwise incompatible sources - enterprise data stores, Web feeds,
spreadsheets and more - into rapidly-built, interactive and
collaborative applications that provide a single view of the data.
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