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The Center for Geospatial Science (CGS) and the Service-Oriented Software Research Network (SOSoRNET) are organizing a workshop about Geospatial Web Services. It will be held at the CGS in Nottingham from 16-17 June 2008. It is meant to get insights into key research activities in the field of Geospatial Web Services, but also to give […]

This year’s GI-days conference (16-17 June), held in Muenster, Germany, is focusing on Interoperability and spatial processing in GI applications. The conference program has just been released and it seems, that Processing Services are one of the major topics. Two separate sessions are held on WPS. Additionally there will be workshops on Wednesday, which also […]

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.

JTS and GEOS are the backbone of most Open Source GIS applications. JTS is a java-based API implementing the Simple Features Specification and providing a lot of feature analysis tools. GEOS is the geometry engine for the PostGIS database. So a review of the history of such prominent pieces of GI-libraries is really worthy to […]

For the AGILE workshop about Test-bed for geospatial web service interoperability which was held last week before the AGILE conference, I prepared with Bastian Schaeffer, MSc. student from the University of Muenster, a Web Processing Service demo. The demo client is based on udig and allows the user to integrate different remote sources (WFS & […]

I got around this question about REST and OGC Services, while writing a paper. And I am still struggeling in two ways with the question. First way, are my conclusions right and second, is this really a relevant question?
But first a short introduction. The term REST stands for Representation State Transfer and was coined in […]

Sven and me are working in an European-funded project called SWING. The acronym stands for Semantic Web services Interoperability for Geospatial decision making, which requires a good bit of imagination. Actually, the acronym derives from the song It Don’t Mean A Thing (If It Ain’t Got That Swing) by Duke Ellington, which makes more sense […]

A look at the proceedings of the most important conferences in geographic information science reveals the disappearence of a topic that has been at the core of our discipline from the first day: GIS. Apparently, we either know everything about GIS, or researchers simply got bored with the topic and turned to other, more interesting […]

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.

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 […]