WhereGroup

These and other questions are discussed in our meta level orientation meetings titled "Quo Vadis GIS?". QuantumGIS, uDig, GeoServer WFS-T, MapStorer and SANY are terms which have come up in discussions recently.

We keep you tuned to the right channels and make sure that you get a thorough overview of what is going on.

Program

09:00 Introduction
An informal setting to begin with helps to feel at ease and motivates discussion. Each attende introduces herself and describes where she comes from, what she does and what she hoped to learn.

09:45 Welcome note
An introductory note gives an overview to the topics of the day and makes a snapshot of the meeting at that moment. This is valuable to structue discussion and helps summarize the goals of the meeting.

10:00 Free and Open Source GIS projects - Spatial IT software overview
An overview of the latest version software available for all domains.

10:45 Quo Vadis Desktop GIS
What potential have current Open Source Desktop GIS packages, an overview of what is knew in JUMP, Quantum GIS, uDIG and Thuban. What are the advantages of each and which is the best for your individual question.

Digitalizing and analysis functionality, cartographic and hardcopy output are demonstrated and evaluated.

11:30 Pause

11:45 MapGuide Open Source
The well renowned company Autodesk has developed the all new Web Mapping Environment MapGuide Open Source and licensed it as GNU LGPL software thus donating it to the Open Source community.

Obviously this produces questions:

12:30 Mittagspause

13:30 OGC, ISO, OSGeo - Background
International organizations like OGC, ISO and more recently the OSGeo Foundation have influence on the development of the market. What interest drives them, who defines new standars and maintaines existing ones that will for years structure impact our daily wordk scope? 

An introductory presentation gives a management summary of how OSGeo (Open Source Geospatial Foundation) und OGC (Open Geospatial Consortium) are structured and in what ways customers, service provider and developers can profit and collaborate with these organizations.

WFS und WFS-T - Interaktivity for Online Maps
Two software packages, the GeoServer and UMN MapServer are presented with an overview of their capabilities. But more interesting is what the WFS can do for your map application. The WFS can be the fancy animator of your map and at the same time interface to your enterprise spatial data.

15:30 SensorGIS
SensorGIS ist eine Kombination aus drahtlosen Sensornetzwerken, Datenbanken und WebGIS. Ein SensorGIS ist in der Lage, Geodaten in Echtzeit aus der Umwelt zu beziehen, zu speichern und zu visualisieren. Kleinste Sensoren messen u.a. Temperatur, Luft- oder Bodenfeuchte, Erschütterung und Druck.
Mobile SensorGIS-Knoten werden in Form von drahtlosen Sensornetzwerken
zusammengeschaltet, die sich autark miteinander vernetzen, Daten sammeln und diese Informationen zu einem zentralen Knoten transportieren. Die von Sensoren ermittelten Daten werden per Funk untereinander ausgetauscht. Diese Möglichkeit Datenpakete an eine Datenbank zu übertragen, eröffnet für die Datenakquisition für GI-Systeme ungeahnte Möglichkeiten.

16:00 Abschlussdiskussion