What is special about Geospatial?

The 5th International Symposium on LBS and TeleCartography takes place in the Residence of Salzburg (The Knight’s Hall and the Conference Hall), where W. A. Mozart performed his first concert before the court of Schrattenbach at the age of six.

Highlights of the Conference were of course the keynote talks:

• Spatial Awareness of Digital Artefacts (A. Ferscher, University of Linz)
• People as Sensors: Urban Visibility Through Collective Location Services (E. Beinat, University of Salzburg)
• Realtime Geography (J. Strobl, University of Salzburg)
• 3D Location Awareness on the Internet for Search, Navigation and e-Commerce (F. Leberl, Graz University of Technology)
• Creating Context Based Services for Mobile Users (J. Koski, Nokia Gate5, Germany)

You can download the extended Abstracts of the Conference. But there were also several other interesting talks in the area of LBS, here some impressions:

I think all in all about 150 to 200 people from Australia, Asia, Europe and the USA attended this conference organized by Salzburg Resarch. The 6th Symposium on LBS & Telecartography will take place in Nottingham, England in September 2009.