First Open Source GIS UK Conference - 22 June 2009

13 October 2008, 5:43pm

The University of Nottingham and Open Source Geospatial Foundation are happy to announce the First Open Source GIS UK Conference on 22nd June (Monday), 2009 at the University of Nottingham. Tyler Mitchell, Executive Director of Open Source Geospatial Foundation will deliver the keynote presentation.

The key aims of this conference are:

(i) to hear presentations from government, academic, industry and policy makers on open source geospatial technologies

(ii) to provide platform to network and develop ideas for future collaborative work in open source GIS

(iii) to understand current developments in open source GIS

Contributions are invited in the following topic areas

# State of the Art developments in Open Source GIS
# Open Source GIS in Education
# Interoperability and standards - OGC, ISO/TC 211
# Open Source GIS application use cases: Government, Participatory GIS, Location based services, Health, Energy, Water, Climate change etc
# Web processing services
# Open architectures, open data
# Case studies of open source implementations
# Open Source GIS Internationalisation and Localisation
# Using Open Source GIS with proprietary software
# Transition to Open Source GIS
# Open Source GIS business models
# Open Source GIS implementation and deployment case studies
# Sensor Web enablement
# Hands-on workshops on using and developing open source GIS tools

More details of the conference including details of registration will be informed soon. The conference website will be activated on January 15, 2009. Any one interested to be involved in the conference please email Suchith Anand.

Dr Suchith Anand
Centre for Geospatial Science
Sir Clive Granger Building
University of Nottingham
Tel: (0)115 846 8408
e-mail: Suchith.Anand@NOTTINGHAM.AC.UK

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