This is a gentle reminder of the 15 February 2014 deadline for abstract/paper submission to the ISPRS/IGU Joint Conference on Geospatial Theory, Processing, Modelling and Applications. The ISPRS/IGU Joint Conference will take place 6-8 October 2014 in Toronto, Canada. For more information on the conference and call for papers, http://www2.isprs.org/paper-submission.html
I would like to warmly welcome Victoria Rautenback from the University of Pretoria, South Africa who has joined our working group executive in the position of secretary. Victoria has been an active member of the working group attending meetings, workshops and publishing peer reviewed papers for which she has presented findings at ISPRS conferences. Her research focuses on the use of 3D geovisulaization and visual analytics for spatial planning in South Africa. With her current PhD studies she aims to…
This joint conference to be held in Toronto Canada 6-8th October is the 2014 ISPRS Technical Commission Mid-term Symposium held in conjunction with the 16th IGU Spatial Data Handling Conference. Our Working Group will be organizing sessions on Geographical Visualization and Virtual Reality and we encourage you to submit papers. There are refereed and non-refereed paper streams with the best papers be selected for the following special issue journals: ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing ISPRS International Journal of…
The NASA World Wind Virtual Globe Europa Challenge has commenced along the theme “Inspiring Solutions For A More Sustainable World”. The task is to build an application that serves the INSPIRE Directive and uses NASA’s open source virtual globe technology, World Wind. Team entries can be made under the university and professional project streams. Winners will be hosted at the 2014 FOSS4G-Europe in Bremen, Germany, 15-17 July and at the INSPIRE Conference in Denmark, 16-20 June. For more info visit…
Towards the end of the year (and as 2014 began crawling), we’ve seen a number of map and visualization reviews online. Instead of making another one, we decided to ‘bookmark’ them here for you, i.e. here’s a list of five places that offered the ‘year in review’ (in no particular order): Wired’s Map Lab created a gallery of “The Most Amazing, Beautiful and Viral Maps of the Year“. There are 15 of them. Gizmodo selected “13 Best maps of 2013….
St. Andrews Uni in Scotland is recruiting *two* permanent lecturers, one in Remote Sensing and the other in Spatial Statistics. In case you are interested or would like to distribute the news, here’s more information: https://www.vacancies.st-andrews.ac.uk/ViewVacancy.aspx?enc=mEgrBL4XQK0+ld8aNkwYmJWWxMKOiBDV0FXX11DI5Gyh87NmhZxOIPcmw3RH0FTg9bJ0o0AhSm43tkkCKTCzd7+WGpvfSNLeJX4KGnkoR1uSGPdD0vLhrPoyyyiDMfvQ
Currently at the CRC-SI conference and Julian Carver, Land Information New Zealand has just presented a really good use of visualisation for communicating the vision for the rebuilding the City of Christchurch. Christchurch was devastated by earthquakes in Sept 2010 and Feb 2011, the later killing 185 people with an overall estimation of $40 billion dollars of damage.
These days everyone can make maps (or can they?) 🙂 Here are some sensible tips about making maps, if you find the temptation in you and you are not quite sure what you are doing. It doesn’t cover the entire cartography education but it’s a great start, aptly called “unrequested map tips” (it’s entertaining too!): 20 Unrequested Map Tips, Part I http://uxblog.idvsolutions.com/2013/10/20-unrequested-map-tips-part-1.html 20 Unrequested Map Tips, Part II http://uxblog.idvsolutions.com/2013/11/20-unrequested-map-tips-part-2.html
This position is for an outstanding early career academic (post-doc) with a strong grounding in geographic information science and a specialization in geovisualization or geovisual analytics. You will work in a new research project, RISER: Resilient Information Systems for Emergency Response. RISER is developing new technologies and information systems capable of capturing, collating, and communicating timely and relevant information, even in the extreme and unexpected circumstances surrounding an emergency. In this position, your responsibilities will be conducting independent and collaborative…