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The International Conference on Advanced Geographic Information Systems & Web Services will take place in Cancun, Mexico (February 1-6, 2009). The goal of the International Conference on Advanced Geographic Information Systems & Web Services, GEOWS 2009, is to bring together researchers from the academia and practitioners from the industry in order to address fundamentals of advances in geographic information systems and the new applications related to them using the Web Services. The conference seeks contributions presenting novel research in all aspects of techniques and technologies applied to geographic information systems and Web Services. Topics of special interest (but not limited to) are: Web services and geospatial systems; Web mapping services interfaces; Spatial data infrastructure; Web services interoperability, distributed simulations and sensor webs, etc. See the web site of the conference for more information: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2009/GEOWS09.html

Alvaro Anguix writes "From 1st to 5th December 2008, Valencia will play host to the 4th gvSIG Conference in the Valencia Conference Centre. This event is organized by the Regional Ministry of Infrastructure and Transport (CIT). The Open Geospatial Consortium Meeting and the Eclipse Day event will be celebrated at the same time. The objective is to consolidate them as the benchmark forum for open source GIS projects, to create a framework for defining open source and interoperable GIS standards and to create a conference where experiences can be shared among FLOSS communities.

The 4th gvSIG Conference aims to make the most of the growth of this technology and bring together experts, scientists, institutions, companies and students thanks to the support of the authorities, universities and participating companies, without whose help this project and the organization of these event would not be possible.
The 4th gvSIG Conference is the setting for one of the many planning meetings organized by the Open Geospatial Consortium’s Technical Committee and the international Eclipse Day event too. The aim of the first one is to facilitate the exchange of ideas in an open source technology environment. The theme of the international Eclipse Day event, on 2nd December, will be “Modeling Technologies and CASE tools”.

The website will be available in a few days. There you will find all the information regarding the conference.

Regards,
The 4th gvSIG Conference organization comitee."

Chris Spagnuolo writes "I'm blogging live from Where 2.0. For highlights and commentary on the sessions as they are rolling, check out my blog at www.chrisspagnuolo.com." Chris offers nice short summaries and related links. See also other Where 2.0 coverage mentioned today.

If you would like to tap into the Where 2.0 information flow, it's being Twittered (just follow Where2008) and a backchat is on IRC at freenode.net on #where2008. Also, at least one blogger is blogging live. Here's a few of the keynotes: http://blog.johnmckerrell.com/2008/05/13/where-20-michael-howard-nokia/, http://blog.johnmckerrell.com/2008/05/13/where-20-geocommons/. Sure, the information isn't all that valuable, but if you didn't flip for the cost of the airfare, it's better than nothing!

Dr. Thierry Badard writes "The 2nd International Workshop on Mobile Geospatial Augmented Reality (http://regard.crg.ulaval.ca) will be held in Quebec City, Quebec, Canada, from the 28-29th of August 2008. It follows the great success of the first edition that took place in Banff, AB, in 2006. This second edition will be the opportunity to pursue the discussions and reflections initiated between the geospatial and augmented reality communities. This year, the mobile game community will also be targeted by the workshop." The rest of the announcement below.

Nick Black writes "We’re pleased to announce that registration for the State of the Map 2008 is now open. Go to this page to sign up. The State of the Map is OpenStreetMap's conference — covering all aspects of using and producing open geodata. Speakers at last year's conference included Google's Ed Parsons, Multimap founder Sean Phelan as well as a host of OSMers, including Steve Coast, Barry "bouncing maps" Crabtree and many more. This year's conference is taking place in Limerick, Ireland on the 12th and 13th July 2008 with even more home-brew-GPS-slippymap-bicyclemapping fun than last year."

Open Source Boot Camp (OSBOOTCAMP) is an industry driven mini-conference aimed at outreach and awareness of open source software. OSBOOTCAMP6/GEOCAMP2008 will now cover Geospatial software in June 2008. Industry experts present will talk on web mapping, GIS analysis, OSGEO projects and more. This will be a two day event focusing on open source geospatial software at the Carleton University Campus, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.