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Some posts ago Carsten was wondering about the missing proposals for a standardized way for map annotations. Here is a suggestion to utilize ontologies to add these annotations. Sounds like a great idea, Ontologies (written in OWL in this case) do not constrain you to specific properties. If you like, you are able to enrich […]

The 9th AGILE conference on Geographic Information Science will be held in Visegrád, Hungary, this week. This year’s topic is Shaping the future of Geographic Information Science in Europe. The papers that will be presented from thursday to saturday are already available for download, so if you discover anything you don’t want […]

While scanning through digg or other tech-news resources, I get sometimes the impression that a lot of people spend their free time (ok, I suppose it’s actually during their job) with map tools like Google Earth. These ‘Spotters’ scan every meter of the earth’s surface. There might always be something weird, which no one […]