Tomorrow the GIForum starts and the day after tomorrow AGIT 2008 begins. I will submit a poster presentation with the topic “Scenario Visualisation and Comparison for Spatial Decision Support” as coauthor. You can see the poster below.
Click on the image to get a larger view. I’ll try to post some articles during the AGIT.
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Nokia is planning opening up Nokia Maps for the Desktop and synchronizing information between desktop and mobile phone. Therefore they are working on a browser frontend for their maps and navigation service Nokia Maps, which is optimized for the PC. The user should be able to plan a route on the PC and is shown the information on the mobile after synchronizing. I can be assumed that Nokia Maps will be embedded into the Ovi-platform. Currently the product is under development and will not be available before fall 2008.
In general it can be said that Nokia make a lot of effort providing geospatial solution for the mobile world. Nokia has announced to deliver 35 to 40 million mobiles, which have built-in GPS chips.
[via: golem.de]
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Today the shipping of ArcGIS 9.3 starts. To find a list of all improvements ESRI is providing a pdf document with new features. Also a video is available shows some new function of ArcGIS 9.3. Visit following link to see the presentation.
Video: http://esri.com/flashmedia/arcgis_desktop_93/arcgis_desktop_93.html
[via: esri.com]
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The Carinthian University of Applied Sciences has introduced a Web 2.0 Social Media Award, where Blogs, Video- and Photoportals could be presented.
I applied with this blog for the contest and was affirmatively surprised that I won a great price. I was honored with the 2nd place at the FH Summertime 2008 event.
I’d like to seize the change and thank the Jury which consits of Markus Lipp (GF Kleine Zeitung DIGITAL), Markus Miklautsch (EDV-ART), Petra Antenreiter (PR/Marketing FH Kärnten), Christian Müller (GF Webwerk), Ed Wohlfahrt (PR und Social-Media-Berater), Karin Stefitz (FH Kärnten). Additional congratulations to the other two winners of the Award.
Link: http://socialmedia.fh-kaernten.at/
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About four days ago (21.06.2008) ESRI joined Youtube with a profile. At esritv they want to publish official ESRI company videos. Here you can see one video which gives an introduction about ArcGIS Server.
For sure the videos are commercially oriented and sometimes structured like an advertiment but it also contain some useful information how to use ESRI systems.
Link to Pofile: http://youtube.com/user/esritv
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Geogames is an event with the objective to apply Geoinformation playfully. The pupils should learn to use GIS to solve tasks of everyday’s life. Four different station with topics about Geography, GIS, etc. give an insight where these technologies are used. Students from the Carinthian University of Applied Sciences (CUAS) support pupils in their tasks and at each station.
The event is organized by the CUAS and the federal state government of Carinthia.
On the homepage the pupils will see their walking routes as GPS tracks.
When: 25.06.2008, 8:30 a.m
Where: FH Kärnten | Europastraße 4 | A-9524 Villach/St. Magdalen
Official Site: www.geogames.at
Announcement: http://www.fh-kaernten.at/cms/stg-geo/news_3212.htm
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What are the best mobiles for LBS? To answer this questions I have taken four phones from different manufactures and compared them. In my opinion following issues are important if you want to use a mobile for LBS applications:
Maybe there are some more criteria to rate phones for their LBS suitability.
Phones |
HTC P3700 |
Nokia N96 |
Iphone 3G |
SE Xpedia |
| buid-in GPS | A-GPS
|
A-GPS
|
A-GPS
|
A-GPS
|
| Screen Size | 2.8″, 640×480
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2.8″, 240×320
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3.5″, 480×320
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3.0″, 800×480
|
| Internet. Conn. | GPRS/EDGE/HSDPA/HSUDA
|
GPRS/EDGE/HSDPA
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EDGE/HSDPA
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GPRS/EDGE/HSDPA/HSUDA
|
| Prize (EUR) | 485
|
TBA | TBA | TBA |
| Size | 102×51x11.5
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103×55x20
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115×62x12.3
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110×53x17
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| Batery (sp/by) | 270min/385h
|
150min/200h
|
300min/300h
|
TBA
|
| OS / HCI |
Windows Mobile 6.1
|
Symbian S60
|
MacOS X
|
Windows Mobile 6.1
|
| Ranking |
2 |
4 |
1 |
2 |
I know this is a very limited evaluation. But for this four phones my winner is the iPhone 3G because of the great suitability and the mobile MacOS X SDK.
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Thematic Mapping Engine (TME) enables you to visualise global statistics on Google Earth. The primary data source is UNdata. The engine returns a KMZ file that you can open in Google Earth or download to your computer.
The goal of this project is to investigate and show how geobrowsers can be used for thematic mapping. It is initialised by a master’s thesis in Geographical Information Science at University of Edinburgh.
It is really a helpul tool to ceate a impressive thematic map very fast. The only problem until now is that you have no possibility to use your own statistical data.
Source: http://thematicmapping.org
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Adobe will release their new version of the Acrobat family soon. One of the new features is the integration of spatial data and maps in PDF.
Now it is possible to create and share PDF maps by importing geospatial files that retain metadata and coordinates. For this reason Adobe is working together with ESRI. Acrobat user can enable everyone with the free Adobe Reader to measure and comment on geospatial enabled PDF maps.
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Now Firefox 3 is official available. You can download the browser now on the Mozilla website. There are a lot of great inprovements since version 2. One of these improvements is the “Smart Location Bar” as shown in the figure.
Link: http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox
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