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First Open Source GIS UK Conference presentations
30 April 2009, 10:52am
The excellent line up of accepted presentations for The First Open Source GIS UK Conference is now published at the link below.
The key aims of OSGIS 2009 are:
1. to hear presentations from government, academic, industry and policy makers on open source geospatial technologies
2. to provide platform to network and develop ideas for future collaborative work in open source GIS
3. to understand current developments in open source GIS
PLENARY SPEAKERS:
# Tyler Mitchell (Executive Director, Open Source Geospatial Foundation)
# Professor William Cartwright (President of the International Cartographic Association)
# Szabolcs Szekacs (European Commission, Informatics Directorate-General, IDABC)
OSGIS UK 2009 Workshops:
o Mapwindow - Dr Daniel Ames (Idaho State University,USA)
o Introduction to gvSIG as desktop GIS/SDI client - Alvaro Anguix (IVER Technologas de la Informacion, Spain)
o Workshop on Perl, Python, Ruby- Professor Ari Jolma (Helsinki University of Technology, Finland )
o Open source tools for support across the GI data lifecycle: from creation to delivery - James Reid (EDINA) & Jo Cook (Oxford Archaeology)
We look forward to welcoming you to Nottingham for an interesting conference and discussions in this exciting research theme. Please contact me for any information required.
Dr Suchith Anand
Centre for Geospatial Science
Sir Clive Granger Building
University of Nottingham
Tel: (0)115 846 8408
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