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Standards set by the OGC usually lack simplicity. They are specified by and for the business world. This is of course perfectly valid: Web services are normally used for B2B transactions. But due to too many companies taking part in the standardisation process, results usually are an agglomeration of ideas, rendering the standards too complex […]

We have set up a page for conferences that might be of interest for people working in the field of geographic information science. If you want us to add your conference to the lis, just drop us a line!

Just to make those of you who cannot attend GIScience a bit envious of the participants: There is a Flickr Set with some pictures of last night’s gala dinner at Nordkirchen castle.

Krysztof Janowicz gave a talk entitled “Towards a Similarity-Based Identitiy Assumption Service for Historical Places” at GIScience yesterday. The slides for he used are now online over at his Similarity Blog.

I just heard a really interesting talk by Antony Galton and James Hood here at GIScience. They developed a model for vague spatial information. For instance, it is hard to define the boundaries of central London. What we do know though is that central London lies inside greater London, and that the most important subway […]

GIScience kicked off here in Münster today with a series of five workshops. I joined the one on The Cognitive Approach to Modeling Environments (CAME), and one of the most interesting topics for discussion was brought up by Clare Davies from Ordnance Survey: Is there actually another spatial task than wayfinding that most people […]

Two more days until this year’s GIScience conference starts - for the first time in Europe, here in Münster. Since some (maybe even all) of this blog’s authors are going to be there, you can expect lots of news from the world of geographic information science on gisblog.net during the next few days.

Just a short notice, at Thursday some talks of the foss4g conference will be accessible as live streams. For more information visit the Foss4g2006 website. Enjoy!

For those of you dealing with semantic interoperability in the geospatial domain, similarity measurement is certainly one of the most important research topics. The Similarity-Blog provides interesting thoughts and ideas plus a pretty comprehensive overview of literature in that field (most of the references with direct links to the PDFs), so it is definitely worth […]