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ESRI User Conference 2008 Report – Plenary Session
By Susan Smith
Jack Dangermond,President, ESRI |
This year’s ESRI User Conference opened with president Jack Dangermond presenting a number of awards.
First off was the “Making a Difference Award,” issued to Rosario Giusti de Perez and Ramon Perez of Grupo ESRI de Venezuela for their work on analyzing urban poverty in Venezuela culminating in the book they wrote of the experience: Analyzing Urban Poverty: GIS for the Developing World.
Dirk Kempthorne, Secretary, Department of the Interior |
Secretary Dirk Kempthorne, U.S. Department of the Interior also received the award, and outlined some of the jobs he does to “make a difference,” such as deciding whether to name polar bears an endangered species, using GIS to help make that decision.
He also announced that the Department of the Interior will be making their entire archive of Landsat data available to the public via the internet by the end of the year at no cost. Kempthorne also created the Geospatial Advisory Committee, and Jack Dangermond is on that advisory board. A new Geospatial Information Officer (GIO) will enforce geospatial in all nine Interior bureaus.
The Enterprise Application Award was awarded to Mohamed Abd El-Wahab Hamouda, director of Planning and Projects at CGIS, Centre for GIS, State of Qatar. The President’s Award was bestowed upon Jim Querry, director of Enterprise GIS, Division of Technology, City of Philadelphia.
For other award presentations, see the UC blog
The environment was brought up by Kempthorne and remained a thread woven through the conference this year. Changes in our sustainability are evident in the impact on the natural world, noted Dangermond, in the climate, biodiversity, natural resources, energy, economy and security.
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Jack Dangermond’s keynote wove concern for our “rapidly changing world” which is increasingly driven by population growth and human action – in with how we abstract our world, reason about the world, how we organize and communicate, which led to GIS changing the way we work. From there, GIS creates more sustainable action, by raising awareness, saving resources, improving efficiency and making better decisions.
GIS implementations follow three basic patterns: desktop, server and federated. These three patterns are the foundation for web GIS.
Web GIS involves harnessing all that is the web with GIS and making it part of the infrastructure. Dangermond offered a view of the future, in which GIS professionals will implement this infrastructure.
They will author and service GIS knowledge, offering high quality maps, 3D visualization, analysis and models, data management workflows, authoritative content, and rich web applications. They will construct libraries of shared GIS services that will reach both GIS professionals and those not involved with GIS.
The foundation of it is the geodatabase which organizes and manages geo data. One ingredient of the geodatabase is a rich comprehensive, information model, which supports any type of data. It also has scalable storage environments. Mr. Dangermond said that the geodatabase is as easy to use as shapefiles, and has extensive capabilities.
John Calkins gave a “Top Ten Countdown” list of timesavers for ArcGIS Desktop,
ArcInfo, ArcEditor, ArcView and ArcReader 9.3 for desktop productivity which culminated as a result of user comments:
10. Bookmarks are much easier to access. The Bookmark Manager has been redesigned so you can arrange them in the order your want., can update the extent of an existing bookmark, and can save to a file.
9. Pause Labels – allows users to suspend labels, and turn them on with a single click after navigating through a file.
8. Keyboard Shortcuts – allows users to step through data through time, with the new keyboard shortcut you can hold down the alt key so you can step through the time series, which is good for those who use group layers.
Clip a raster or image to a graphic shape so that you can define a graphic shape or polygon, then use that to extract a DEM underneath.
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7. Transparent Legends – In an example, the transparency is set for a noise level, but the color brightness on the map doesn’t match that on the legend. In 9.3 can simulate the layer transparency and colors match better.
6.Table sorting, aliases and joins, allow you to now use advanced sort options. You have the option to change from field aliases to attributes of parcels, when you perform table join, and you’ll see field aliases are persistent.
5. Reverse geocoding finds addresses using a geocode locator that you can find on the map and label it with the correct address. This can be used to add addresses.
4. Convert graphics to features – Select graphics and they will be automatically converted with all those symbology and attributes intact.
3. Identify shortcuts and HTML popups – In 9.3 you can use identify tools, identify buildings, and navigate to update symbology.
2. HTML popup enables dialogs, updates as you navigate around the map and gives you different options for how you look at your attribute information.
1. Focus on software quality. The most sought after feature, which will eliminate random crashes with an error reporting system like that which you see in Microsoft. In 9.3, you can automatically and anonymously indicate to the development team that the system has crashed.
On the development team, a significant change is the crash reporting system. When you send an error report it tells where the crash occurred. Calkins said: “We compare it against all known issues. We scan and if we find a match we mark it as occurring more frequently. If it’s a new issue, it’s sent to a programmer to work on it. If you’re a developer we have a way to identify if it’s your software or our software that is causing the problem.”
ArcGIS Desktop Leverages the Web
ArcGIS Online is the center of this effort. The recent agreement between ESRI and Microsoft will give ESRI ArcGIS users will have access to the robust mapping and imagery content provided by the Microsoft Virtual Earth platform inside ArcGIS Desktop and ArcGIS Server. Having Virtual Earth seamlessly integrated into ArcGIS 9.3 Desktop, will give ArcGIS users the ability to easily add base maps, perform data creation, editing, analysis, authoring, and map publishing with one-click access. The base map and image service will be fed through ArcGIS Online to users.
Users can also serve data out through ArcGIS Online via KML streams and can access geodatabase attributes which are embedded inside KML. Demonstrating “Using and Sharing Data on the Web” was Damian Spangrud, who noted that ArcGIS Online contains many other layers including high resolution imagery, and adds context and details to GIS information. ArcGIS 9.3 adds more subscription services.
In fact, Virtual Earth data is being used as a subscription service for ArcGIS Online, offering access to street maps and aerial imagery.
ESRI has also worked with spatialized Adobe PDF files and can output PDFs at the layer level. In 9.3 ESRI has worked closely with Adobe to improve export/import capability and can embed geodatabase attributes inside PDF and display coordinate information within your map.
ArcGIS Desktop Extensions include the following:
Spatial analysis
Network analysis
3D analysis and visualization - enhancements for Arc Globe and the whole 3D environment –
3D analytics – geoprocessing tools in 2D used primarily – in 9.3 many 3D tools have been incorporated that have been exposed for developers at the API level; at 9.4 they will be exposed for other users.
Michael Parkin, MIT, Department of Facilities “Using 3D Analyst at the Campus”
Perhaps one of the more enlightening demonstrations was that given by Michael Parkin, showing how at MIT they look at their spaces in 3D, including lights and hydrants, trees, buildings and textures. MIT comprises 12 million square feet of floor space, “more floor space than acreage,” according to Parkin. “MIT has lots of labs and offices and classrooms. Being able to view data this way has allowed planners to make more informed decisions about space.”
One of the first things they did was to create a geocoder to analyze information, for example, where permit holders were in a parking lot, they could calculate distances from permit holders to their destinations, and were then able to relocate permit holders in closer lots.
The department can get estimates of populations during day or evening, which is good for emergency response, among other things. “We liked this idea so much we took it to Boston to do “urban ring analysis.” By selecting rooms in a corridor that might be impacted by traffic on an adjacent road, they could analyze what uses of the building could be impacted by traffic. “Being able to use our GIS inside our buildings is giving us valuable tools for planning MIT of the future,” said Parkin.
ArcGIS Server 9.3
As virtually any client can be “wrapped around” it, ArcGIS Server has been used for many things: as a mapping server like ArcIMS, others are using it to support mobile applications, to plug the server into an enterprise system like SAP, and for spatial data infrastructure, or data replicated into a large enterprise database. It is also used as a fusion center where the GIS data from hundreds of cities and counties can be integrated into a single server to implement replication, integration, and fusing for GIS emergencies like hurricanes, etc.
Mashups involves taking multiple services and being able to mash them up and republish them, and providing various overlays of data in a lightweight environment as part of web GIS
In talking about ArcGIS as a fusion center, Dangermond referred to the new Flex flash environment, a free open source framework from Adobe for building and maintaining expressive web applications that deploy consistently on all major browsers, desktops, and operating systems.
In ArcGIS 9.3 the following of features have been introduced:
- Improved web map and ADF – added plotting, support for map tips and easier map navigation,
- Better caching – can update based on changes in geography
- Image integration with addition of new image service and dynamic processing
- Easier Web development – Flex, Silverlight, JavaScript, REST – Web 2.0
- Mobile applications
- More DBMS’s – SQL Server 2008, PostgreSQL, DB2 ZOS (IBM’s mainframe OS)
- Security and logging – role based security
- Standards Support – continued support by many standards organizations
- Metadata Services – a metadata toolkit, geoportal toolkit – metadata access to search engines like Google supports.
- Backwards compatibility – 9.2 clients can work with 9.3 geodatabases, also able to work with 9.2, 9.1, 9.0 which will affect your ability to work with technology over time.
ArcGIS also supports mobile applications such as ArcGIS Desktop and ArcGIS Engine, ArcPad for general purpose, and a new addition, ArcGIS Mobile, a server based solution connecting knowledge with people in the field, but also connecting people in the field.
If you have a Windows Mobile 5 or 6 device email Email Contact or see the UC blog for more information.
ArcGIS Server also integrates imagery and supports workflows for collections, management, production and exploitation.
In disseminating imagery data, Dangermond points to a new image service from ITT Visualization that allows users to provide images very quickly and make it a part of the entire GIS vision.
Presenters Peter Becker and Mark Romero showed how the Bavarian Forest Service and the Hamburg Fire Department are using ArcGIS Server to tightly integrate imagery within a complete GIS. Bavaria has a number of different image services covering their area – LIDAR data, DTM, slope map, aspect map, tree canopies, tree heights, shaded relief. ArcGIS Server removes the requirements to re-generate images, and all adjustments such as orthorectification, pan sharpening, and automated feature extraction, are made using ITT ENVI’s application.
WMS returns the images as pictures, while WCS returns the actual data values. In another presentation, Image Server is used to orthorectify Pictometry’s oblique imagery server and displays it in ArcMap, offering oblique imagery and measuring heights of buildings on the fly.
GeoEye is developing image search tools for people to find and select images that are in ESRI’s library today.
The free technology, ArcGIS Explorer, is intended to make GIS available for everyone. According to Dangermond, ArcGIS is increasingly including content as part of product strategy, now delivered as online services, technical support, education, education services, and a growing services partner network.
Glimpse of ArcGIS 9.4
Euan Cameron, development product lead on ArcGIS 9.4, Andy MacDonald, and Doug Morthenthaler gave a sneak preview of some of the features to be expected in 9.4.
ArcMap will have a new interface with upgraded icons, and more than 60 colors. The Table of Contents hides itself automatically, and there are improvements to the rendering engine used in desktop applications, such as
- draw dynamic labels while panning and zooming
- integrated searching within the application framework
- feature classes
- streamlining the way you interact with the application
- email file directly to someone in the organization
- Improvements to editing include:
- streamlining feature editing
- improving selection
- enhancing editor to work with layers
- streamlining feature editing
ArcGIS Server 9.4 looks forward to the following features:
- display performance – new rendering engine for services
- labels placed dynamically with every redraw
Molly Paterson, K-12 Education Award Winner |
This year’s K-12 Education Award was awarded to Molly Paterson, sixth grade graduate from Flynn Park Elementary School, St. Louis, MO for her GIS work investigating the demographics of University City, MO where her family had lived for generations. She followed patterns of income and education in certain areas of the city and tracked how those changed over time. Her mentor on this project was Bob Coulter, director of Missouri Botanical Garden’s Litzinger Road Ecology Center.
Peter Raven, President, Missouri Botanical Gardens
Recently some experts have begun to tell us that we need to expose ourselves and our children to nature, to be in touch with nature. This view has come into vogue, when naturalists for hundreds of years-- Thoreau, Emerson, John Muir, Aldo Leopold, have said the same things perhaps in different ways. Perhaps the need for conservation which has always been there, is even more critical now and presses against the public sensibility. And yes, as far as I can tell, it’s imminently essential to have a deep connection with nature, and perhaps I and others have not expounded on this truth for fear of thundering herds of tourists trampling on our favorite wild places.
Peter Raven, president, Missouri Botanical Garden |
Peter Raven, president of the Missouri Botanical Gardens, brought the profound message of urgency of including nature in our lives to ESRI this year. Perhaps because he runs a botanical garden which is a quiet, manmade testament to nature, a space made for nature to take hold and create its own relationships, he does not seem afraid to invite people to join him there, and in other such places. He encouraged the audience to find a botanical garden or zoo to volunteer at, or to in some way protect wild places near their homes.
What is extraordinary is that this man has spent a lifetime studying plants and their relationships. The Botanical Garden maintains the largest database of plant life in the world.
But perhaps more urgently, Raven entreated his audience to take note of the fact that “no place on earth is unaffected by your actions.” The world is changing more rapidly than ever before and we need to use every tool at our disposal to protect the environment. “Without living things on earth our life wouldn’t have meaning,” stated Raven. “I’ve been inspired by nature all of my life.”
Raven has been with the Botanical Gardens for 38 years, in which the Gardens have managed dried specimens of plants with GIS, built 38,000 families of plants and a knowledge of plants in databases. They have applied GIS to the management of living resources as well as to data.
Raven reminded his audience that “our existence depends upon the living world. 10,500 years ago, humans had the ability to grow crops, grow livestock and at that time 3 million people inhabited the world.”
The importance of plants is ever-present – corn, wheat and rice provides 60% of the world’s calories. All food comes directly or indirectly from plants.
When we live in cities, Raven noted that we forget about ecosystems. “The regulation of soil loss, flows of surface water, climate change, pollination, come to us free in nature.”
Children, he said, gain “inspiration in nature to help guide them to adulthood.”
What Raven has to say speaks volumes:
- 97 of China’s major cities are over polluted.
- We are harvesting herbs at a rate that can’t be sustained.
- A world population of 6.7 billion people puts an enormous pressure on the globe. “It is a combination of the number of people in the world, and the amount we consume,” said Raven. “We consume 30 to 40 times what rural Indonesians consume, when you consider population.”
Habitat destruction contributes to a loss of food supply, species extinction, invasive species and diseases. Climate change threatens species and causes rising temperatures all over the world which already have profound consequences on communities in nature. “We don’t know how rapidly communities in nature are changing, they will first lose their individual characteristics, and then their resilience,” warned Raven.
Trish Consiglio, research scientist for the Missouri Botanical Garden, spoke about Tropicos, the largest database of plant life in the world that she manages.
The database includes a virtual rare book library for which they use ArcGIS Server. In it, they have mapped 725 records of species. In order to protect species, she said they must record each species’ richness and environmental factors. They are also looking at the effect of climate change on species. “Species need to evolve and track in order to survive,” said Consiglio.
To be good gardeners, Raven added that people need to know where areas of richness are. He encouraged the audience to work with areas locally in their communities, such as gardens, zoos and museums.
He charged everyone with reducing personal consumption and working toward reducing global warming. “We need to make the shift to renewable energy as fast as we can,” he said, noting that the U.S. depends more on other countries than any other country, and we take 25% of the world’s resources.
Twice he quoted Gandhi, noted here:
“The world provides enough for every man’s need but not for every man’s greed.”
“We must become the change we want to see in the world.”
Top News of the Week
DigitalGlobe, a provider of high resolution satellite world imagery products and services, unveiled ImageAtlas 4.0, the newest version of its online store for high-resolution digital earth imagery. ImageAtlas 4.0 enables companies in real estate, civil engineering, government, insurance, GIS and public safety to easily and affordably access on-demand satellite and aerial images of specific locations, properties and neighborhoods. The principal new feature of ImageAtlas 4.0 is the inclusion of georeferencing files with all downloaded images that allow easy integration into other mapping applications such as GIS programs and Google Earth.
Acquisitions/Agreements/Alliances
ITT Visual Information Solutions, a wholly owned subsidiary of ITT Corporation, announced that it has signed distribution agreements with 23 independent companies, covering over 30 countries worldwide, for its leading image processing software product, ENVI. Under these authorized distribution agreements, distributors will make the ENVI family of image processing and analysis products available to a growing number of professionals who rely on geospatial imagery and the information it provides for a variety of remote sensing and GIS applications including planning, defense and intelligence, resource management, and research.
Pictometry International Corp., a leading provider of geo-referenced aerial image libraries whose proprietary technology is used globally to capture oblique image libraries, announced a powerful new alliance with First American Proxix Solutions, a subsidiary of the First American Corporation, which combines Pictometry's 3-D like Intelligent Images(TM) with the most accurate location technology available today. The result is Pictometry MatchPoint API.
Announcements
The First American Corporation announced that its First American Spatial Solutions (FASS) business unit has reached the 100 million parcel mark as part of an ongoing effort to create a national parcel database.
ERDAS Inc. announces ERDAS APOLLO 2009, a new generation Geospatial Business System that eliminates the walls between GIS, photogrammetry and remote sensing, extending geospatial data to business applications throughout an organization.
Many geospatial data providers and those in the public sector and civil engineering, oil, gas and land management industries work with a wide variety of geospatial data types distributed across departments, offices and regions. ERDAS APOLLO solves the business problems associated with managing and serving large volumes of geospatial data located and distributed across an organization. An alternative to existing market solutions, ERDAS APOLLO simplifies the utilization of vector, raster and terrain data. Supporting numerous geospatial data formats, ERDAS APOLLO seamlessly integrates with existing GIS environments and business applications.
Orion Technology, a Division of Rolta Company Ltd., announced that the latest release of its flagship product OnPoint, version 6.2, marks the introduction of the OnPoint Software Developer Kit (SDK) to OnPoint’s growing capabilities. Along with the arrival of enhanced thematic mapping, OnPoint SDK is the perfect compliment for GIS development in today’s ever changing marketplace, and is only available with the latest version of Orion’s OnPoint.
Adapx announced Capturx support for ArcGIS 9.3, new customers, and the exhibit schedule for the 2008 ESRI User Conference at the San Diego Convention Center. Capturx for ArcGIS Desktop is a fully integrated GIS software solution that electronically enables paper-based field mapping with a digital pen and standard paper for government, utilities, engineering, natural resources, and numerous other industries. The company also unveiled a new product to help emergency teams quickly collect and share information from the scene of disasters. (Editor's note: see press release entitled, "Adapx Unveils Capturx Disaster Response Kits")
NAVTEQ, a global provider of digital map data for location-based solutions and vehicle navigation, featured an array of customer presentations at the 2008 ESRI International User Conference in San Diego, CA. NAVTEQ is again a Gold Sponsor of the ESRI International User Conference, the Federal Reception and the Transportation Industry Special Interest Group.
Autodesk, Inc. announced that it has donated the source code for CS-Map coordinate system technology to the open source community and is seeking to establish it as part of an official OSGeo Foundation project for coordinate reference systems. The contribution represents Autodesk's third major contribution to the open source community, following its MapGuide Open Source and Feature Data Object (FDO) Data Access Technology donations.
Pictometry International Corp., a provider of georeferenced aerial image libraries whose proprietary technology is used globally to capture oblique image libraries, introduces a new self hosting option for the Pictometry Web Solution suite of products. Pictometry Web Solutions products include Pictometry Online (POL) and Pictometry Simplicity Online (PSOL), both of which are web-based versions of Pictometry’s Electronic Field Study (EFS) software.
New Products
ITT Visual Information Solutions, a business of ITT Corporation (NYSE: ITT), announced the newest release of its premier geospatial image processing and analysis software, ENVI. The new release, ENVI 4.5, allows professionals to integrate geospatial imagery into geographic information system (GIS) workflows by providing users with the ability to share data seamlessly between ENVI and ESRI’s ArcGIS, the world's leading GIS software.
AWhere, Inc. announced a new location intelligence solution for the Consumer Packaged Goods Industry, CPG Vision. The solution allows users to see store level sales performance alongside key consumer trends, demographics and other store performance indicators.
Blue Marble Geographics is very pleased to announce the release of a new all-in-one Geospatial Data Definition and Transformation Desktop. With this release, Blue Marble combines the power of a new version of their raster tool, Geographic Transformer 6.0, with a new version of the Geographic Calculator, which allows users to work seamlessly with all of the features of both the Geographic Transformer and the Geographic Calculator in a single interface, on a combined license.
TatukGIS is pleased to announce availability of the free Arc2TatukGIS plug-in for porting existing GIS projects from ESRI ArcGIS to TatukGIS software products. ArcGIS users can download and use this plug-in which will install within an ArcGIS environment. The exported TatukGIS project can be opened and used in any product supporting the TatukGIS project file, which means the free TatukGIS Viewer, TatukGIS Editor, TatukGIS Internet Server, and any custom application developed with the TatukGIS Developer Kernel (SDK).
Latitude Geographics has released a new version of its popular Geocortex Essentials software that delivers full support for ESRI’s ArcGIS Server 9.3.
Geocortex Essentials 1.4 offers more than just basic ArcGIS Server 9.3 compatibility. In addition to ASP.NET script callbacks, Geocortex Essentials 1.4 introduces full support for MS AJAX partial postbacks incorporated as part of ArcGIS Server 9.3.
At the annual ESRI International User Conference, DigitalGlobe announced the release of ImageConnect: Global, the most extensive online collection of high-resolution International imagery available in the world. This new offering provides instant online access to 30.5 million sq km2 of premium imagery with in-depth coverage of 36 countries worldwide, much of which is not available through other web services or commercial portals. This new subscription service provides GIS professionals with a direct plug-in to a consistent source of accurate, high-resolution global imagery constantly updated with new images collected from DigitalGlobe's sub-meter constellation of high-resolution satellites and aerial networks.
TerraGo Technologies, the visionary provider of tools, technology and know-how for building collaborative geospatial applications (GeoApps), announced the latest release of its flagship product Map2PDF for ArcGIS, version 4.0. TerraGo’s Map2PDF for ArcGIS solution expands the capabilities for ESRI users to create optimized GeoPDF files and to access the TerraGo Toolbar, the industry standard for geospatial data consumption that is used by more than 250,000 GIS professionals and non-GIS users worldwide.
Events
| 2008 Society for Conservation GIS Conference | |
| Date: | August 12 - 15, 2008 |
| Place: | Asilomar Conference Grounds
Monterey, CA USA |
| Be part of a community focused on conserving natural resources and cultural heritage with GIS. Join ESRI at the Society for Conservation GIS Annual Conference, where GIS users will gather to explore how geospatial technology is addressing contemporary issues facing conservation efforts at all levels. Discover solutions and share your ideas during this active, enriching forum that focuses on our changing world.
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| Sanborn LIDAR seminar series | |
| Date: | August 14, 2008 |
| Place: | Albany Marriot Airport
189 Wolf Road, Albany, NY 12205 USA |
| Please be our guest! Sanborn would like to invite you to our first annual LiDAR Seminar Series–featuring a brief introduction into the basics of LiDAR, it's latest technological developments, and a comprehensive overview on application trends. We will also be hosting a live software demo for customizable 3D and cross section viewing.
We are very excited and are confident your attendance will bring you nothing less than a valuable, informative experience. There is no charge to attend this event and a continental breakfast will be included. I would like to announce the location and time for the last two seminar events. The seminar in Albany NY will take place on August the 14th from 8-11 AM |
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| 2008 Accela user conference | |
| Date: | August 19 - 22, 2008 |
| Place: | Las Vegas, NV USA |
| Start making plans now to join us next August at the exciting Venetian Hotel Resort Casino in Las Vegas. Join hundreds of Accela users and staff, government leaders, and special guests for an educational and fun-filled opportunity to connect with the people, products, and trends at the forefront of the government technology industry.
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| Map Asia 2008 | |
| Date: | August 19 - 21, 2008 |
| Place: | Kuala Lumpur Convention Centre (KLCC)
Kuala Lumpur , Malaysia |
| The Asia and Pacific region is the largest developing region in the world in landmass, population and aggregate income. Its 48 countries have nearly three fifth of the worlds total population. Each country in the region abounds in rich natural capital and has comprehended the true potential of Geospatial information in leveraging this capital to its utmost economic viability.
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| URISA's 4th Caribbean GIS Conference | |
| Date: | August 25 - 29, 2008 |
| Place: | Ritz Carlton,
Seven Mile Beach,, Grand Cayman, USA |
| URISA is now accepting abstract submissions for its 2008 Caribbean GIS Conference. Share your expertise, gain visibility, and enhance your professional growth. You are invited to share your knowledge with others who strive to improve our world through the use of information technology.
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| Map Africa 2008 | |
| Date: | August 25 - 26, 2008 |
| Place: | Room No 211, Van Der Sterr Building
Rhodes Avenue, Mowbray 7705 Private Bag x10, Cape Town, South Africa |
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Map Africa 2008 is the 3rd Annual African Conference & Exhibition on Geospatial Information, Technology & Applications. The conference promises to provide a platform to all stakeholders - Researchers, Users, Technology Developers, and Policy Makers to discuss, deliberate, exchange knowledge, experiences and collaborate for benefit of all in the Geospatial domain. The conference aims to strengthen the African Community in the adaption and usage of geospatial technologies for planning and development activities.
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| 2008 NSGIC Annual Conference | |
| Date: | September 7 - 11, 2008 |
| Place: | Keystone Conference Center
Keystone, CO USA |
| The National States Geographic Information Council (NSGIC) is an organization committed to efficient and effective government through the prudent adoption of geospatial information technologies (GIT).
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| 2008 Incident Management Summit | |
| Date: | September 11 - 12, 2008 |
| Place: | Radisson SAS Hotel
Amsterdam, Netherlands |
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The 2008 Incident Management Summit was instigated by the Ministerie van Verkeer en Waterstaat who have dedicated their time and energy into making this event the most prestigious and forward thinking geo-spatial platform for European transport management. It brings together many of the world's foremost geo-infrastructure experts, high ranking public sector delegates representing governmental agencies from across the whole of Europe and globally trusted solution providers who will be on-site and available to offer cutting edge technology designed specifically for this arena. |
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-- Susan Smith, GISCafe.com Managing Editor.