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Reflections on GeoWeb 2009

By Galdos, on August 6th, 2009%

Don Murray looks back on this year’s GeoWeb conference, shares his thoughts about the event and the different talks that he attended, and makes the slides from his presentation available.

James Fee, who presented a technical session on the Thursday titled “Enableing the GeoWeb with Small Organizations”, published a review of the conference on his blog in the post “A Hot Time at GeoWeb 2009.”

. . . → Read More: James Fee reviews GeoWeb 2009

GeoWeb 2009 review by Stuart Rich

By Galdos, on August 4th, 2009%

Stuart Rich, one of the presenters, posted an entry “Review of the GeoWeb 2009 Conference” on his blog, Spatial Explorations. Stuart presented one of the technical session on the Friday, titled ”Leveraging Complimentary Models for Geospatial Representations of Buildings.”

. . . → Read More: GeoWeb 2009 review by Stuart Rich

Re-thinking the Space Race

By Galdos, on July 27th, 2009%

With all of the deserved celebration this week on the 40th anniversary of Apollo 11, I think it is good time to look at these events in a wider context, and to perhaps challenge our conventional views of expansion and . . . → Read More: Re-thinking the Space Race

GeoWeb 2009 – Cityscapes

By Galdos, on July 22nd, 2009%

Next week is GeoWeb 2009 – Cityscapes – the little conference about collaboration and sharing information about the world around us. As I noted in the previous blog (“Wither the World”) the point of this conference is a serious one. . . . → Read More: GeoWeb 2009 – Cityscapes

Whither the world

By Galdos, on July 17th, 2009%

Whither the world. It is hard at times not to be pessimistic. The world, our world, is admittedly finite. The illusion of expansion and of conquering frontiers, a hangover from the European expansion (the great reconnaissance) and their subsequent temporary . . . → Read More: Whither the world

DIGGS version 1.0a schema review completed

By Galdos, on July 10th, 2009%

Galdos was one of two consultants contracted to carry out an independent review of DIGGS version 1.0a and provide recommentations. The objectives of the review work are summarized on the DIGGS website.

Points and Coordinates

By Galdos, on June 23rd, 2009%

The point in this blog posting has been made previously but I believe that it merits repeating, namely that points in a point space (e.g. surface of the earth, or on a model of the surface of the earth) are . . . → Read More: Points and Coordinates

City of Vancouver to make data open and accessible where possible

By Galdos, on June 16th, 2009%

Vancouver city council has endorsed the principles of making its data open and accessible to everyone where possible, adopting open standards for that data and considering open source software when replacing existing applications.

The CBC News article “Vancouver mulls making . . . → Read More: City of Vancouver to make data open and accessible where possible

Datum – What’s in a name?

By Galdos, on June 8th, 2009%

Overview

A great deal of discussion has taken place in the OGC and ISO TC/211, over the past several years, with respect to coordinate reference systems. Much of this discussion has been confusing, and many of the ideas discussed are . . . → Read More: Datum – What’s in a name?

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