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GeoWeb 2008: Local to Global
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The theme for the GeoWeb 2008 conference is Infrastructure: Local to Global. To advance the development of the GeoWeb, they are sponsoring a contest, which is open to all full time students attending an educational institution anywhere in the world. The objective of the contest is to materially advance the development of the GeoWeb with either: a theoretical solution or a piece of software (All software must be open source and free of any royalties or other encumbrances).
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GeoWeb 2007 Wrap-Up
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Held in Vancouver, Canada on July 23-27 2007, here's the stories collected discussing the GeoWeb 2007 conference. Let's start with the official press release highlighting the successes of the conference. Then there's Peter Batty who provides his detailed report on the GeoWeb 2007 conference. All Points Blog links to a interview with Ron Lake, an organizer of the event. And previously discussed, there's the article on the value of GIS professionals in the context of geospatial democratization. Finally, Ogle Earth links to
the collection of the presentations videos, encouraging readers to see Google's Vint Cerf's talk. From Peter's entry: "In his introductory comments, Ron Lake said that in past years the focus of the conference had primarily been on what the web could bring to "geo", but that now we were also seeing increasing discussion on what "geo" can bring to the web - I thought that this was a good and succinct observation."
Reviews: The Economist on the GeoWeb and More
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A mix of last month news and some more recent; the Spatial Miscellany blog discuss and links to The Economist long and interesting generic article on the GeoWeb, virtual globes and webmapping: "Here the neogeographers, as mash-up enthusiasts are known, have crossed into the terrain of “geographic information systems” (GIS), the fancy software tools that are used by governments and companies to analyse spatial data. Geobrowsers are still quite primitive by comparison, but are much easier to use. [...] Taken further, the result could end up being a sort of extrasensory information awareness, annotation and analysis capability in the real world. “When that happens”, says Mr Jones, “then the map is actually a little portal on to life itself.” The only thing that can hold it back, he believes, is the rate at which society can adapt." Here's a new review of the book The Geospatial Web (previous review in related stories below). And finally, All Points Blog discussing the momentum the term "GeoWeb" is gaining.
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