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Here & There: A horizonless projection in Manhattan

Carsten Keßler — Thu, 27 May 2010 11:25:35 +0000

New blog of SWSL @ Institute for Geoinformatics

Theodor Foerster — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 14:35:06 +0000

Ordnance Survey to provide free maps

Carsten Keßler — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 09:38:46 +0000

UK prime minister Gordon Brown announced in a meeting with Tim Berners-Lee that Ordnance Survey will provide free online maps, reports the Guardian’s Free Our Data initiative. Although Brown only mentions it in a side note (and he does not actually use the term), this is one of the first biggest success stories of volunteered geographic information (VGI), as one of the main reasons to release these data free of charge was the success of Ordnance Survey projects involving citizens contributions to bike accident and crime maps, for example.

[OS press release — Prime Minister’s office press release — via]

OSGIS UK 2009 webcasts

Theodor Foerster — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 12:07:11 +0000

Back online

Carsten Keßler — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 11:33:35 +0000

You might have noticed that we have been offline for a couple off weeks due to our move to a new server. Pretty much everything should be working again now, so please let us know if you come across any problems.

Open Post Doc Position at ifgi Sensor Web Group

Carsten Keßler — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 14:50:49 +0000

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 several exciting projects in this area.

Check out details about the job offer here:
http://swsl.uni-muenster.de/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/job-offer-swsl-post-doc.pdf

Deutschlandkarte

Carsten Keßler — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 15:07:46 +0000

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 one in this category). It’s all in German, but the maps in the archive are definitely worth a look, even if you do not understand the text.

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Open Source conferences in 2009

Theodor Foerster — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 10:13:55 +0000

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 to research.

OGRS 2009: International Opensource Geospatial Research Symposium in Nantes, France - 8-10 July 2009. This conference seems to have more a research focus and the accepted papers are published as a Springer book.

FOSS4G 2009: Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial in Sydney, Australia - 20-23 October 2009. Truly the biggest conference this year for open source software in the geospatial domain.

Please choose the one, which suites you best.

Open Street Map Edits 2008

Carsten Keßler — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 08:47:11 +0000

OSM 2008: A Year of Editsby ItoWorld is a very impressive and appealing visualization of all the edits made on Open Street Maps in 2008. Some hi-res stills from the CC-licensed video are available on Flickr.

LBS

Carsten Keßler — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 22:04:36 +0000

CC-Comic by Geek and Poke. I’m not sure whether this is related to what Tobler had in mind…