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Yahoo! is currently running an invitation-only beta test for it’s Fire Eagle location broker. The idea is as simple as useful: Fire Eagle takes your current location as input from different services or applications and passes them on to other services or applications. To locate yourself, the Fire Eagle web site, services like plazes.com, or […]

This just came through the FreeGIS Mailinglist:
The 52°North Open Source Initiative hereby issues a call for entries for the 52°North Student Innovation Prize for Geoinformatics.
The aim of this innovation prize is to encourage students to make a contribution to the development and practical realization of innovative concepts in the field of geoinformatics. The competition is […]

The demos here at Google I/O today made me seriously think about installing Windows on my Mac for the very first time. The reason: Google Earth API. Putting Google Earth into your browser just like Google Maps, with full hardware acceleration. Only on Windows (FF2+, IE6/7) for now, Mac and Linux are announced to be […]

For some reason, we have not yet advertised the Network of Young Researchers in GISc here that we started for last year’s GI-Days conference. Feel free to join the network for an exchange on topics of interest to starting academics in GIScience, and don’t let the young deter you – young at heart is also […]

Google announced yesterday that KML is now an official OGC standard. With this step, KML has taken yet another step in a remarkable “career”: originally developed by Keyhole (hence the name Keyhole Markup Language) for their product Earth Viewer, the format was adopted by Google for Google Earth, which was developed based on the Keyhole […]

The Institute for Geoinformatics here at University of Münster is looking for a new Junior Professor, this time with tenure track. So if you are looking for a job - here is the advertisement.

Somehow, I have missed the OGC press anouncement, or will there be none? Whatever, the WPS has been released as an implementation specification at OGC after a long trail. All the documents are available through here. The schemas can be also downloaded from here.
Just in time, 52north released a new version of the 52n […]

This was originally intendend to be a live blog from the ongoing OGC TC Meeting in Paris, but live blogging relies on an internet connection. And as usual on conferences, wireless has been promised but fails in the moment it is needed. Anyway, I managed to get online somehow.
This is my first TC Meeting, and […]

Geospatial semantics is an emerging research theme in the domain of geographic information systems and spatial databases. The first edition of the conference GeoS 2005, November 29-30, 2005, Mexico City, Mexico www.geosco.org/geos2005.htm was highly successful. We have received about 50 submissions, from which 15 regular and 4 short articles have been published in Volume 3799 […]

For the GI Days 2007 here at the IFGI I am responsible for providing a platform which supports the always important networking between the participants. This is actually nothing you would normally care about: socialising happens by itself, and you can’t really force someone into it. The only thing you can do is providing the […]