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Sad news from one of the biggest Open Source map client frameworks: The mapbuilder community decided to stop developing the framework, as announed in this post. This is mostly due to the fact, that OpenLayers got so popular and the overlap between those two projects got so significant, that there does not seem to be [...]

The Universities of Münster, Bremen and Buffalo have announced a new joint international research training group on semantic integration of geospatial information, starting October 2008:
With this International Research Training Group (IRTG), we address 
problems arising when integrating geospatial information from 
multiple sources to reason and support decisions about the 
human environment. These problems are situated in the overall 
research challenge of supporting effective geospatial reasoning 
across age and cultures. The common scientific thread of the 
entire program is the ambition to create computationally 
tractable solutions to problems of semantic integration.
The program offers 6 PhD and 2 post-doc positions. If you want to join us in Münster (or the group in Bremen), have a look at the details (PDF).