Conference

BE Conference 2008

Conference

Start:

Wed, 2008-05-28 (All day)

End:

Fri, 2008-05-30 (All day)

Event URL:

http://www.bentley.com/en-US/Community/BE+Conference/?BI=homepageheader&V=becon0...

June '08 OGC Technical Interoperability Day

OGC Event

Start:

Tue, 2008-06-03 (All day)

End:

Tue, 2008-06-03 (All day)

Location:

GeoForschungsZentrum Potsdam (GFZ)
Haus H
Telegrafenberg 326
14473 Potsdam, Germany

Sponsors:

Hosted by:

Schedule of Meetings:

Times Item 09:30 - 09:50 Keynote Mark Reichardt: Open Standards opening Markets.How joint global development of geospatial standards in the OGC supports market development and hence benefits its members. 09:50 - 10:10 Martin Klopfer: How to work with OGC (FP7, joint projects etc.) 10:10 - 10:30 Thomas Kolbe / Carsten Roensdorf: SIG3D and CityGML 10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break with discussion and online presentations (SIG 3D) 11:00 - 12:30 EU Project with OGC Engagement ORCHESTRA / SANY: Demos, Identified Requirements, Discussion 12:30 - 13:30 Lunch-Break 13:30 - 14:30 Rainer Häner, GFZ: GITEWS - SWE based sensor integration in the German Indonesioan Early Warning System RISE/HUMBOLDT (tbc): Experiences with OGC, Requirements,Discussion 14:30 - 15:00 Coffee Break with discussion and online presentations (SIG 3D) 15:00 - 16:30 CityGML & SIG3D (Moderation: Angela Czerwinski)‏:

Angela Czerwinski (Department of Geoinformation Uni Bonn): Statewide 3D SDI with CityGML in North Rhine-Westphalia
Falko Liecke (Senate Department Berlin): Spatial Data Infrastructure Berlin: The 3D City Model
Janine Pantzer (City of Düsseldorf): Düsseldorf - traffic simulation with municipal CityGML geodata
Dieter Becker (City of Cologne): CityGML allows cooperation between economie and administration
Karl-Heinz Häfele (Research Center Karlsruhe): CAAD-GIS Interface - Conversion of IFC Models into CityGML Models
Hans-Ulrich Mohl (City of Stuttgart): Stuttgart3D CityGML at the municipality.

16:30 - 17:00 Final Panel Discussion: How to better use OGC as a communication hub for European R&D as well as BD issues. 17:00 - open SIG3D SIG 3D Partywith sponsored drinks & food and online demonstrations

Accommodations:

Mercure Hotel Potsdam City
Lange Bruecke 14467 POTSDAM - GERMANY

Tel : (+49)331/2722
Fax : (+49)331/2720233

Reservation of 60 rooms in Hotel Mercure. To get the preferred rates, you will need to call or fax your reservations to the hotel directly. Please ask for the GFZ block.
(80€ Single -95€ Double per night including breakfast).

Registration:

Registration is free of charge and is required for this event.

Please Register here .

Local Information and Travel:

GFZ local information

Nearest Airport - BERLIN TEGEL AIRPORT (TXL)

FOSS4G 2008 - Cape Town, South Africa

Conference

Start:

Mon, 2008-09-29 (All day)

End:

Sat, 2008-10-04 (All day)

Event URL:

http://conference.osgeo.org/index.php/foss4g/2008

Event:

GITA GIS Conference

Conference

Start:

Sun, 2009-04-19 (All day)

End:

Thu, 2009-04-23 (All day)

Event URL:

http://www.gita.org

Event:

6th VESPUCCI SUMMER INSTITUTE ON GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SCIENCE

Conference

Start:

Mon, 2008-06-09 (All day)

End:

Fri, 2008-06-20 (All day)

Event URL:

http://www.vespucci.org

Details:

Tuscan hills overlooking Florence, Italy

Week 1: “Geo-sensor web”, leaders include Mike Botts, Antonio Camara
Week 2: “GI Science supporting Virtual Globes”, leaders include Gilberto Camara, Mike Goodchild, Ed Parsons

Vespucci sessions are intense, highly-interactive events bringing together senior+junior minds, in a relaxing, productive atmosphere.

More info on registration and/or sponsorship:

http://www.vespucci.org

OGC's OWS-5 Demonstration

OGC Event

Start:

Fri, 2008-03-28 (All day)

End:

Fri, 2008-03-28 (All day)

Location:

The Westin St. Louis
811 Spruce Street
St. Louis, MO 63102 USA

Sponsors:


US National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency	Northrop Grumman Information Technology-TASC

Schedule of Meetings:

(Tentative) 8:30 – 9:00: OWS-5 Overview and Summary 9:00 – 9:15: GML Application Schema Processing and UGAS Tool Updates (GPW) 9:15 – 9:30: Data Views Implementation in ebRIM Catalog (GPW) 9:30 – 9:50: Workflow Architecture and Conflation (GPW) 9:50 – 10:00: IEEE 1451 and in-situ sensors10:00 – 10:15: Georeferenceable Imagery – Workflow:10:15 – 10:30: Georeferenceable Imagery – Clients10:30 – 10:45: Break10:45 – 11:00: Earth Observation11:00 – 11:15: WCPS and others11:15 – 11:45: CITE11:45 – 12:00: KML 112:00 – 12:15: KML 212:15 – 12:30: Fed Geosync

Accommodations:

OGC has a Room Block at:

The Westin St. Louis
811 Spruce Street
St. Louis, MO 63102 USA
(314) 621-2000

The Room Rate for this block is $169.00 (single or Double), and are exclusive of applicable state and local taxes. which are currently 14.991% per room, per night, and are subject to change without notice. There are a limited number of hotel rooms for Saturday night, March 22, and your preferred room type for this night might not be available.

You can call the hotel directly +1 (314) 621-2000 or reserve your room online

The Cut-off date for accepting reservations into this block is 03/03/08. Reservations made after this date will be accepted on a space and rate available basis (Note: on 9 January 2008 the rates for the rooms during this meeting were quoted at $229).

Registration:

If you plan on attending, please contact Greg Buehler @ gbuehler at opengeospatial.org.

Local Information and Travel:

The Closest International Airport in the Lambert - St. Louis International Airport (STL).

View a local map with tons of great information :

the light rail line from the airport to the hotel (Metro Two-Hour Pass from Lambert Airport $3.50, Seniors [65+] $1.75)for those that don't want to rent a car. Regular metrolink fare from locations other than the airport are One-Ride Ticket $2.00 - Seniors $1.00
also provided locations of interest. Mostly those within walking distance of a metrolink stop or the hotel. Some locations however, you'd really need a car. Most of them have a link to their web site for menus, music schedules, etc.