What is special about Geospatial?

As mentioned in this post, Intergraph is trying to merge the functionality of their public safety CAD (computer aided dispatch), their G/Technology suite (used for utility and communication networks), and the GeoMedia platform.

It could be that:

• GeoMedia Public Works Manager
• GeoMedia Transaction Manager

will not be enhanced any more, because their funcionality will be covered somewhere else (e.g G!NIUS). A rough date for this integration is not available.

One further news: Intergraph released a press release (June 4) announcing their support for Microsoft’s SQL Server 2008 spatial enhancements.

Link: http://www.intergraph.com

Conference: http://www.intergraph2008.com

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One of the Geoweb highlights of the year, the Where 2.0 conference, is over. But the next event starts today: WhereCamp.

WhereCamp is the unconference for geohackers and WhereCampWiki is where it all goes down. We will be using the wiki as the centralized place for communicating all of the final information about WhereCamp. WhereCamp is like a BarCamp with focus on location and geoweb.

One of the major sponsors of WhereCamp is Google and this year it takes place at the GooglePlex in Mountain View, CA.

Link: http://wherecamp.pbwiki.com/

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Today I got the official program of the AGIT conference 2008 in Salzburg. This year they celebrate 20 years “Network for Geoinformatics“. The symposium will be on 2nd until 4th of July.

Some highlights are:

• Geoinformation and Education
• Computer oriented Geology
• Geospatial Management of Emergency Situations
• ESRI User Group Austria
• SAGA GIS User Group
• OSGEO Day

More information can be found at agit.at

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The Mobile and Web-based Information Systems Group of Salzburg Research and the Cartography & Engineering Geodesy Research Groups of the Vienna University of Technology are pleased to present the 5th International Symposium on LBS & TeleCartography in cooperation with the ICA Commissions on Maps and the Internet & Ubiquitous Mapping and the International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing WG II/5 on Communication and Visualization of Spatial Data to be held from

Wednesday, 26th to Friday, 28th November, 2008 at the Salzburg Residenz, City of Salzburg, Austria.

The symposium will bring together experts from around the world to present the latest research results and developments with focus on Location Based Services in the fields of Cartography, Geoinformation, Computer Sciences, Telecommunication, Geodesy, and Geomedia Techniques.

Organizers

• Mobile and Web-based Information Systems Group, Salzburg Research Forschungsgesellschaft mbH.
• Cartography Research Group, Vienna University of Technology
• Engineering Geodesy Research Group, Vienna University of Technology

Co-Organizers

• ICA Commissions on Maps and the Internet & Ubiquitous Mapping
• ISPRS WG II/5 on Communication and Visualization of Spatial Data
• IAG WG 4.1.2 on Indoor and Pedestrian Navigation
• Centre for Geoinformatics (Z_GIS) at Salzburg University

Call for Contributions

Contributions from the fields of Cartography, Geoinformation, Computer Science, Ubiquitous and Pervasive Computing, Telecommunication, Geodesy, Geomedia Techniques, etc. should address, but are not limited to current topics of

• Location Based Service
• Wayfinding and Navigation
• Smart Environments and Active Landmarks
• Pervasive Technologies for LBS
• Cartographic Theories and Techniques
• TeleCartography (Map based LBS)
• Mobile and Ubiquitous Mapping
• 3D-Mapping, Virtual and Augmented Reality
• Location Based Media Technologies
• Personalization & Adaptive Methods
• Positioning Methods
• Modelling of Spatial Environments for LBS
• Location Based Sensor Networks
• Location Based Collaboration

Extended Abstracts (max 1000 words) can be submitted to present visionary ideas, work in progress and preliminary research results, whereas Full papers (max 6000 words) should present substantial results. Full papers will be reviewed by the members of the scientific committee. Full papers will be published in an upcoming book on Locations Based Services & TeleCartography and/or in a special edition of the Journal on LBS.

NEW: LBS 2008 Showcases

LBS & TeleCartography 2008 should become a live LBS experience for all attendees! Thus, the committee is seeking for real-world showcases of location-based services. Submissions for outdoor as well as indoor LBS Showcases are welcome. Applying organizations or companies should submit an abstract description of the LBS Showcase and the mode of experiencing the showcase (app. 2 pages). The LBS Showcase Committee will select the most innovative showcase submissions for live demonstration. During the symposium the best LBS 2008 Showcase will be elected by the audience.

Official Conference Information

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Google had given away new presents at the Open Source Developer Conference in Taiwan. Last weekend the participants got paper notebooks with the title “Google Earth”. If you toggle this block, the photo on the cover is changing - from the whole earth to Googleplex. There are some intemediate steps which should represent the zoom levels simmilar to Google Earth. There are 5 or 6 zoom levels while toggling.

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