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As it can be read in the article about this year’s Foss4G in the joint newsletter of the OSGeo Foundation and the Grass GIS team, the next Foss4g (Free And Open Source Software for Geoinformatics) in 2007 will be held in Victoria Canada from 24-27 September. Foss4g is the former MapServer User Conference and turned […]

For those of you in or around Münster in Germany: We will have a special guest at our GI Forum talk series tomorrow, Sara Fabrikant from the University of Zürich. Her talk is entitled Looking through static and dynamic geovisualization displays and will be held at the Institute for Geoinformatics, Robert-Koch-Str. 26-28, 48149 Münster in […]

September 10-12, 2007 in Münster, Germany
http://www.gi-days.de
Topics and target group
The GI-Days 2007 will provide a platform for young researchers worldwide to present their work from all sectors of geographic information science. The range of topics will be comparable to the well established series of GIScience conferences, focussing on emerging topics and basic research findings.
GI-Days 2007 will […]

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!

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 […]

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!

The Joint Research Centre run by the European Comission is launching the International Journal of Spatial Data Infrastructures Research (IJSDIR). The refereed journal will be published free of charge and exclusively on the web. All articles will be published under Create Commons licenses. As the title implies, the journal focuses on papers dealing with SDI […]

Just a short post. I discovered that the list of accepted full papers for the GiScience in Muenster in September is online. Have a look:
http://www.giscience.org/submissions.php?4

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 […]