Google Maps are one of the most useful applications for mobile devices. Google Maps is relatively fast and easy to use. Apple has preinstalled an Google Maps application on their iPhone. For all people, who do not have a flat-rate contract with their provider and want to have full benefit of Google Maps, there is an nice little Tool called “Maps Offline” where you can download parts of Google Maps data for your iPhone.

The tool can be installed on the iPhone easily (only the Jiggy Framework is needed. Once installed, the users can download maps about various areas. The size of these areas only depending on the iPhone memory itself. In some cases this could be very useful, considering that the city area of Berlin requires 100 MB for the satellite photograph and 40 MB for the map.

Personally, I cannot varify this information because I’m not an owner of an iPhone. Maybe someone can give feedback on this.

» Maps Offline downloaden

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Today and Tomorrow (14th and 15th april) I’m at the ProGIS Conferenece 2008 which takes place in Villach.

The topic is: “Advanced ICT to cope with the challenges of agriculture, forestry and environment.”

I’m looking forward to hear some interesting topics about GIS and agriculture and hopefully meet some people of the GIS industry. If there is something interesting, I hear in one of the talks I will try to post some hints.

Programm Monday:

09:00       Welcome address

09:20       Food security, bioenergy and climate change: Cahllenges for spatially detailed integrated multidisciplinary research
DI Günther Fischer, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA)

09:40       Main issues and concerns in the implementation of FAS in EU Member States
Vincenzo ANGILERI, European Commission JRC-Institute for the Protection and the Security of the Citizen, Ispra (IT)

10:10       Spatial data infrastructure (INSPIRE)
Karen Fullerton, European Commission - JRC-SAI, Italy

10:20       Vision of the Farm of tomorrow
WERNER, A./ DREGER F./ SCHWARZ J., Leibniz-Zentrum für Agrarlandschaftsforschung (ZALF) e. V. Gemany

10:50        FAS - needed demands of farmers and farm entrepreneurs
DI M. HARDEGG, Gutsverwaltung Hardegg, Austria

11:20       Coffee Break

11:50       GIS supporting agriculture, forestry and environment - the holistic approach
Walter MAYER, PROGIS Software Austria

12:10       SaRAM - awareness, know-how transfer, training - a necessity
Walter MAYER, PROGIS Software Austria

12:30       Lunch break

14:00       Geographical data: Private data supplier – what is the difference?
Dr. Matthias BACHMANN. GeoContent GmbH Germany

14:20       Logistics and automatic order processing – the core competence of machine cooperatives best practise
Dieter OTT, Bundesverband der Deutschen Maschinenringe e.V. Germany

14:50        Biomass Logistics with “mobGIS” best practise
Christian WEISS Maschinen- und Betriebshilfsring Schwandorf e.V.

15:20        Coffee Break

15:50        Farm Advisory Service as a business partner: a new integrated approach based on Progis solutions”
Arman MANUKYAN, marketing director, PROGIS Software,  Austria

16:10        Integrated Water Management with Sensors and Telemetry
Dr. Bernhard PACHER, ADCON TELEMETRY GMBH, Austria

16:30        CO2 & Energy balance a new dimension in farm management
EULENSTEIN, F. /WERNER, A Leibniz-Zentrums für Agrarlandschaftsforschung (ZALF) e. V. Gemany

16:50        FOMUMIIS - ecological evaluation and risk management best practise
Prof. A. PITTERLE, ForCERT and University of Natural Resources and applied life science, Vienna, Austria

18:00        End

18:00 - 19:30 Side meeting on “precision farming” for selected participants

20:00       Dinner with culture in the background

Program Tuesday:

09:00        WinGIS the European GIS-solution, news and updates
B. AIGNER, GIS-Developer, PROGIS software Austria

09:20        DokuPlant, the modular agro-software tools for farmers and advisors
R. WRITZL, Agro-expert, PROGIS Software, Austria

09:40        PROGIS logistic system: mobGIS + mobJOB
Chr. PIRKER, logistics expert  PROGIS Software, Austria

10:00        WinGIS-Internet solutions and the WinGIS Developer Environment
B. AIGNER,GIS-Developer, PROGIS software Austria

10:20        Community management based on WinGIS
W. SPREITZHOFER, TWS Datensysteme Ges.m.b.H, Austria

10:40               Coffee Break

11:10        Utility mananagment based on WinGIS development environment best practise
DI Werner REITERER, X-matic, Austria

11:30        Forest inventory and Forest management based on WinGIS plus applications best practise
DI Christian BENGER, forest consultant and owner of Forstgut Wallersberg Austria

11:50        Real estate cadastre in Romania based on WinGIS technology best practise
Alin PFANDL, S.C. Pfandl, gisromania, Romania

12:10        Numerical addressing in the city of Aleppo with the Arabic version of WinGIS best practise
Prof. Sami Makdisi, Kaplo Eng. Syria

12:30        HuntGIS for KETTNER a WinGIS based tool for planning and monitoring hunt-territories best practise
R. WRITZL, Agro-expert, PROGIS Software, Austria

12:40        Lunch break

14:00        TRUST Centers - a necessity to be organized
Dr. Peter MÜLLER AgriFoodAdvisors, Germany

14:20        External drivers influencing the farm of tomorrow
Karel CHARVAT WirelessInfo – Virtual Research Laboratory (Living Lab) Czech Republic

14:40        WinGIS based Fire-brigade management best practise
A. TRATTLER,  MDAI, Germany

15:00        Food traceability and documentation tbd
Burkhard Fabiszisky, Transparent Goods Gmb, Gemany

15:20        Coffee Break

15:50        The situation in agriculture in CEE/CIS-countries
Arman MANUKYAN, marketing director, PROGIS Software,  Austria

16:10        The situation in agriculture in MENA-countries
Dr. Alaa Ezz, CEEBA Cofederation of Egyptian European Business Association, Egypt

16:30        From Agro/Forestry to food, biomass, environment – growth markets
Markus Nickl, Austria

16:50        Technology for growth - Megatrends

Walter MAYER, PROGIS Software Austria

17:10        Discussion

17:50        End

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