Nachdem das Ausscheiden von Steve Coast, dem Initiator von OpenStreetMap, einiges an Spekulationen in der Blogosphäre verursacht hatte, meldete er sich auf seinen Blog nun persönlich zurück: I’m working at Microsoft andRead More…
WHO’s Public Health Mapping and GIS Programme, Part 1
Many organizations and even countries now consider spatial data as one of their assets for development. This is due to the reason that it identifies geographic location of features and boundaries onRead More…
Presentation of M. Goodchild: From Community Mapping to Critical Spatial Thinking
On Nov. 17 2010, as part of National Science Foundation’s Distinguished Lecture series, the world-renowned geographer Michael Goodchild discusses the changing face of GIS. He discusses how individuals are using distributed, real-timeRead More…
ISPRS booklet: Geoinformation for Disaster and Risk Management: Examples and Best Practices
As part of the celebrations to mark the centenary of foundation of International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ISPRS) in July, 1910, a booklet produced by the Joint Board of GeospatialRead More…
OGC Videos Highlight GEO’s progress implementing GEOSS
The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®), as part of its lead role in the Architecture Implementation Pilot for the Global Earth Observation System of Systems (GEOSS), announced videos showing the remarkable progress thatRead More…
3D Digital Landscape Models – A Second EuroSDR Workshop
From 2D Cartographic to 3D Topographic Data – hosted by Landesamt für Vermessung und Geoinformation Bayern, Munich, Germany from 29th to 30th November 2010
Announcement: Technology, institutions and development: Perspectives from economics, anthropology and geography on agrarian change
DIME Workshop, Max Planck Institute of Economics, Jena, Germany, February 18-19, 2011
Attendees from 67 countries converge at 12th GSDI Conference
The Global Spatial Data Infrastructure – GSDI 12 World Conference took place in Singapore from 19 to 22 October 2010. The partners organizing this conference included the GSDI Association, the Permanent CommitteeRead More…
OGC Seeks Comments on Sensor Observation Service Candidate Standard
The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) seeks public comment on the candidate OGC Sensor Observation Service (SOS) Standard Version 2.0. The SOS candidate interface standard is designed to provide access to sensor observations,Read More…
Benoît Mandelbrot im Alter von 85 Jahren verstorben
Benoît Mandelbrot, Mathematiker und Denker, mag Vielen als Entdecker der „Apfelmännchen“ und als Author des Buches „Die fraktale Geometrie der Natur“ bekannt sein. Er verstarb am 17. Oktober 2010 in Cambridge, Massachusetts.Read More…