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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 […]

Two more days until this year’s GIScience conference starts - for the first time in Europe, here in Münster. Since some (maybe even all) of this blog’s authors are going to be there, you can expect lots of news from the world of geographic information science on gisblog.net during the next few days.

For those of you dealing with semantic interoperability in the geospatial domain, similarity measurement is certainly one of the most important research topics. The Similarity-Blog provides interesting thoughts and ideas plus a pretty comprehensive overview of literature in that field (most of the references with direct links to the PDFs), so it is definitely worth […]

The working group of Prof. Krüger here at ifgi has a great demo movie for their technology for mobile map interaction. The basic idea is to use a mobile device with a camera which scans a classic paper map. On the display of the device, additional information is then projected on this scanned image, such […]

Yesterday was the application deadline for this years’ Google Summer Of Code. Two fellow students and me decided to take part with the idea of a plugin for uDig. Map annotation is already a big topic here in this blog. Carsten wrote his thesis about argumentation maps, which brings this issue even a step […]

EE Times reports on the latest activities in Microsoft’s research labs in the context of Virtual Earth. They are currently working on a technology called Sense Web, which is planned to be included in Virtual Earth within the next few months. What Sense Web does is basically the integration of live data gathered from different […]

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 […]

I just discovered an interesting article on the Geospatial Semantic Web Blog about Semantic Web Services and their importance to the movement of the Semantic Web. The author states, that the Semantic Web could exist without the notion of Semantic Web Services.
Looking at the evolving importance of Web Processing Services (OGC just released a discussion […]

Time geography was presented by Torsten Hägerstrand in his 1970 paper What about people in regional science? For the first time, a scientist was looking at movement in space on an individual level. Until then, regional scientists were merely looking at the movement of big groups of people. His basic idea was to create space-time […]

Since communication with OGC works so well, I would like to utilize this and post a question that has been on my mind since my diploma thesis in 2004:
Is there an OGC standard for map annotations?
There are two discussion papers heading into this direction that I know about (there might be more that I don’t […]