http://www.gisblog.net Geospatial Information Science - Trends, Tools & Technologies Wed, 27 Jan 2010 15:59:16 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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 ... http://www.gisblog.net/news/ordnance-survey-to-provide-free-maps/ The Open Source GIS UK Conference at the Center for Geospatial Science (CGS) of the University of Nottingham (UK) was the first of its kind. It was held in June 2009. The CGS now put some efforts in publishing the presentations as webcasts on the conference website. The webcasts can ... http://www.gisblog.net/open-source/osgis-uk-2009-webcasts/ 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. http://www.gisblog.net/news/back-online/ 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 ... http://www.gisblog.net//open-post-doc-position-at-ifgi-sensor-web-group/ 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 ... http://www.gisblog.net//deutschlandkarte/ 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 ... http://www.gisblog.net//open-source-conferences-in-2009/ 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. http://www.gisblog.net//open-street-map-edits-2008/ CC-Comic by Geek and Poke. I'm not sure whether this is related to what Tobler had in mind... http://www.gisblog.net//lbs/ Sad news from one of the biggest Open Source map client frameworks: The mapbuilder community decided to stop developing the framework, as announed in this post. This is mostly due to the fact, that OpenLayers got so popular and the overlap between those two projects got so significant, that there ... http://www.gisblog.net//mapbuilder-is-dead/ The Universities of Münster, Bremen and Buffalo have announced a new joint international research training group on semantic integration of geospatial information, starting October 2008: With this International Research Training Group (IRTG), we address  problems arising when integrating geospatial information from  multiple sources to reason and support decisions about the  human environment. These problems are situated in the overall  research challenge of supporting effective geospatial reasoning  across age and cultures. The common scientific thread of the  entire program is the ambition to create computationally  tractable solutions to problems of semantic integration. The program offers 6 PhD and 2 post-doc positions. If you want to join us in Münster (or the group in Bremen), have a look ... http://www.gisblog.net//phd-and-post-doc-positions-in-new-irtg/