Archive for February, 2009

Open Post Doc Position at ifgi Sensor Web Group

Tuesday, 24. February 2009

The University of Münster (Germany) offers a senior researcher position at the Institute for Geoinformatics (http://www.ifgi.de) to coordinate the work of the Sensor Web & Simulation Lab (http://swsl.uni-muenster.de).
The working group’s research is focused on the building blocks of the geosensor web and distributed geoprocessing. We are actively contributing to OGC’s standardization process and are conducting […]

Deutschlandkarte

Sunday, 22. February 2009

The weekly German newspaper Die Zeit (English Wikipedia entry) has a nice column called Deutschlandkarte – map of Germany. Every week, the column presents visually appealing maps on no-so-common topics such as distribution of organic famers, gas pipelines to Germany and statistics on the number of stolen bikes per city (no wonder Münster is number […]

Open Source conferences in 2009

Wednesday, 11. February 2009

There is are a bunch of local conferences, but the three below seem to be the most popular one.
First Open Source GIS UK Conference in Nottingham, UK - 22 June 2009. This conference is organized by the Centre for Geospatial Science of the University of Nottingham and aims at a broad audience ranging from industry […]