Happy New Year!

Governmental Open Source Software Resource Center

Geospatial opensource tools and freely available spatial data for local governments - HUNAGI Conference hosted by MoARD in Budapest on 25th February 2010

To join the Governmental Open Source Software Resource Center forum please click the header.
The preliminary program of the HUNAGI Conference will follow asap here:

UNSDI NL NCO Newsletter 2009 Nr2 published

Mr.Jan Cees Venema, Head of the UNSDI NL NCO wrote in the Newsletter 2009/2 today:
"In this Newsletter I will briefly inform you on the status of the UNGIWG-UNSDI developments, the status of the UNSDI developments in the Netherlands and some info on the participation of UNSDI-NCO in the FAO/ITC e-consultation and the availability of ITC's GEONETCast Toolbox.
Furthermore we have embarked on the use of social network tools such as Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook and YouTube. The respective links can be found on our www.unsdi.nl home page. New subscriptions to this Newsletter can be made and more news can be found at the www.unsdi.nl/news page." For details and register for subscription please visit the site by clicking on the header.

Season's Greetings from HUNAGI

Report of the ICA Commission Cartography and Children chaired by TL Bandrova and JJ Reyes Nunez

From our dail mail:

"Dear Friends and Colleagues,

Annexed to this  short message you can find the 11th Newsletter of our Commission, with information about our activities and meeting in ICC 2009 in Santiago de Chile.

We wish all of you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!!!

Temenoujka and Jesus" 
(To see the Annex, please click on the header - RFG)

Temenoujka Lubenova BANDROVA Associate Professor Department of Photogrammetry and Cartography University of Architecture, Civil Engineering and Geodesy 1, Chr. Smirnenski Blvd. 1046 Sofia Tel: +359 887 83 27 02 Fax: +359 2 866 22 01 bandrova_fgs@uacg.bg BULGARIA

José Jesús REYES NUÑEZ Associate Professor Department of Cartography and Geoinformatics Eötvös Loránd University Pázmány Péter sétány 1/A, Budapest, H-1117 Tel: +36 1 372 2975 Fax: +36 1 372 2951 jesus@ludens.elte.hu HUNGARY

EUROGI President Mauro Salvemini has been elected as founding member of the OGC Global Advisory Board

From our daily mail. Prof. Mauro Salvemini informed recently the members of EUROGI:
"it is my pleasure to share with you the message just received from Mark E. Reichardt President & CEO of OGC informing me that I have been selected as a founding member of OGC Global Advisory Council.
The Global Advisory Council was chartered earlier this year to help better inform the Board of Directors and the OGC membership of strategic issues and opportunities for attention by the OGC process. Critical to the success of the Council process will be to establish representation from all regions of the globe. This will improve to Consortium's understanding and ability to
act on regional strategic needs and opportunities. "
OGC, the Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc is a non-profit, international, voluntary consensus standards organization that is leading the development of standards for geospatial and location based services.

Two important Event in Bulgaria in June 2010.

From our aily mail. Assoc.Prof Dr. Temenoujka Bandrova wrote to the members of the ExCom of ISDE the Call for Action for further dissemination:

International Cartographic Association and

University of Architecture, Civil Engineering and Geodesy, Sofia, Bulgaria Invite you to participate in

3rd International Conference on Cartography & GIS

Incorporating the International Cartographic Association Regional Symposium for Central and Eastern Europe and

SEMINAR WITH EU COOPERATION ON EARLY WARNING AND DISASTER / CRISES MANAGEMENT

15-20 June 2010, Nessebar, Bulgaria

The International Society for Digital Earth

Invite you to participate in

DIGITAL EARTH SUMMIT 2010

12-14, June, 2010, Nessebar, Bulgaria

Important Dates

January 10, 2010 - Deadline of Abstract submission

January 30, 2010 - Notification of Acceptance

February 28, 2010 - Payment of early registration fee

May 1, 2010 - Paper submission and regular registrations

Contacts:

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Temenoujka Bandrova

University of Architecture, Civil Engineering

and Geodesy

1, Chr. Smirnenski Blvd. 1046 Sofia,

BULGARIA

Fax: +359 2 866 22 01

Tel: +359 887 83 27 02

e-mail: cartography@abv.bg

For up-to-date information please,

visit the conference website at:

http://www.cartography-gis.com/

http://www.Cartography-GIS.com/digitalearth
Notice: these events do not have temporal conflict with the date of the 4th INSPIRE Conference scheduled for Krakow in the second half of June next year (RFG)

Link to the official Press Release on the SDI Best Practice Award Conference

From our daily mail. Ms. Swetlana Fast (TU Darmstadt) wrote in her letter:
"Thank you very much for your contributions to the SDI Best Practice Award Conference held in Turin last week.
Please find enclosed the press release about the conference and the list of the winners for your information. Please feel free to distribute it among your contacts, mailing lists and in the press. In the case if you publish articles, papers etc. about results related to the Award or eSDI-Net+ activities, we would highly appreciate if you send us a copy of your publication or link to the according website.
The press release has been published at the project website in the news section under http://www.esdinetplus.eu/news/archive.html#1 . You can find more details about the Award in the Get involved section under http://www.esdinetplus.eu/get_involved/award_2009.html .
Thank you very much for your efforts."

The 24th European Conference on Object-oriented programming

ECOOP 2010
Maribor, Slovenia
21-25 June, 2010
For more information please click on the header to visit the relevant webpage document at
http://ecoop2010.uni-mb.si/images/CALL_FOR_PAPERS.pdf

Central Asia GIS Conference - GISCA 2010

Central Asia GIS Conference - GISCA 2010
Water: Life, Risk, Energy and Landuse
May 27-28, 2010 - Bishkek, Kyrgyz Republic
The Austria-Central Asia Centre for GIScience at the Kyrgyz State University of Construction, Transportation and Architecture, and the Centre for Geoinformatics (Z_GIS), University of Salzburg, Austria are proud to announce the:
4th GIS-in-Central-Asia Conference - GISCA 2010. The main objectives of this conference are to bring together GIS academics, researchers and practitioners in the Central Asian countries and encourage international cooperation and knowledge exchange in GIS education. Geographic Information Science and Technologies have evolved into a key instrument for managing our societies, environments and infrastructures, as well as individuals’ daily lives. Continued success of this development depends on cooperation across disciplines, open information policies and a highly educated workforce. The GISCA series of conferences aims at building a Central Asian network of GIS professionals supporting the sustained development of this region into an environmentally friendly, secure and prosperous society.
In 2010, GISCA is focused on the main theme of WATER:
* Life: WATER for drinking and agriculture
* Risk: WATER posing a threat to settlements
* Energy: WATER for renewable hydropower
* Landuse: WATER controlling regional landuse
Particularly due to climate change, increasing pressure on resources, regional conflicts and social dynamics, quality and quantity of water supply are critical factors in developing our societies. GIScience offers an indispensable set of instruments for managing the water cycle.
Information and Registration:
http://gisca10.aca-giscience.org
Press Contact:
Dagmar Baumgartner
Public Relations
University of Salzburg | Z_GIS Centre for Geoinformatics
Hellbrunnerstr. 34 | 5020 Salzburg | Austria
phone: + 43 (0) 662 8044 5224
fax: +43 (0) 662 8044 182
> www.zgis.at

Presentations of the recent Stockholm Meeting on PSI & Re-use

The presentation of the Stimulation PSI Reuse: European Progress Meeting held in Stockholm on 24th November 2009 can be downloaded from the Epsiplatform website by clicking the header.

EUROGI General Board Meeting in Torino

Subjects discussed:
Impact of personal changes in the Organisation (Secretary-general leaves for a position R+D director at IGP by 1st December 2009.
Report on activities and financing (approved)
Report on the UN acknowledgement of EUROGI relevance
New membership applications (Slovenia approved)
Action plan and priorities
Next meetings (ExCom in Innsbruch early February, General Board Meeting in Brussels, late March next year)
Acknowledgement of the results achieved by eSDI-NET+ project and the European SDI Best Practice Conference hosted by Regione Piemonte.

The 12 selected of the 135 European SDI Best Practice Award Contest participations

First day of the European SDI Best Practices Award Conference completed

Agenda of 26th November 2009 completed so far:
9.30 Registration of participants
10.00 Opening and welcome Sergio Conti (Regione Piemonte)
10.10 eSDI-Net+, Network for cross border dialogue Joachim Rix (eSDI-Net+ Coordinator)
10.30 Results of the European Sub-national SDIs Analysis Francois Salgé (EUROGI/AFIGEO)
Historical flashback
Mauro Salvemini (EUROGI)
11.00 Coffee break
11.30 First session: Institutional and organizational aspects Franco Vico (AMFM GIS Italia)
Presentations of pre-selected SDIs
- Centre Régional de l'Information Geographique (CRIGE) (France)
- GDI Nordrhein-Westfalen (Germany)
- Infrastruttura per l’Informazione Territoriale (IIT) della Lombardia (Italy)
Discussion
13.00 Lunch
14.30 Key note speaker: Prof. Bas Kok past President, GSDI Association
15.30 Second session: Users
Robin Waters (RSW Geomatics Ltd.), Gabor Remetey (HUNAGI)
Presentations of pre-selected SDIs
- IDEC Infraestructura de Dades Espacials de Catalunya (Spain)
- X BORDER GDI (The Netherland)
Discussion
16.40 Coffee break
16.55 Third Session: Technological aspects
Artur Krawczyk (AGH University) and Franco Vico on behalf Danny Vandenbroucke (SADL / K.U.Leuven R&D)
- Presentations of pre-selected SDIs
- Forth Valley GIS (UK)
- SNIG - Sistema Nacional de Informação Geográfica (Portugal)
- IDERIOJA: Infraestructura de Datos Espaciales del Gobierno de La Rioja (Spain)
Discussion
18.30 Conclusion of the works Joachim Rix (eSDI-Net+ Coordinator)

eSDI-NET+ Consortium Meeting hosted by the Regione Piemonte

Dr. Eva Klien, chair of the WP5 on Sustainability deliver her report for discussion. Image: HUNAGI Visuals resource, 2009

EUROGI EMM Conference on European SDI Best Practice Award starts tomorrow

Icon of Torino, the Mole Antonelliana, site of the EUROGI EMM Social evening. Image: HUNAGI Visuals resource, 2009

VGI Research positions at JRC

Lago di Como, NE of Ispra Ispra. Image taken yesterday HUNAGI Visuals resource, 2009

From our daily mail:

"VGI Research positions at JRC

Spatial and temporal analysis of integrated quantitative and qualitative information

http://ies.jrc.ec.europa.eu/uploads/fileadmin/Documentation/Open_Calls/H06%20300932.pdf

Spatial and temporal analysis of integrated quantitative and qualitative information

http://ies.jrc.ec.europa.eu/uploads/fileadmin/Documentation/Open_Calls/H06%20300933.pdf

More general information about terms and conditions are available: http://ies.jrc.ec.europa.eu/call-for-grantholders

Dr. Max Craglia European Commission, Joint Research Centre, Institute for Environment and Sustainability, Spatial Data Infrastructures Unit T.P. 262, I-21027 Ispra (VA), Italy Tel: +39 0332 78 6269 Fax: +39 0332 78 6325 e-mail: massimo.craglia@jrc.ec.europa.eu

URL: http://sdi.jrc.ec.europa.eu

International Journal of Spatial Data Infrastructures Research

http://ijsdir.jrc.ec.europa.eu/ "
In the presentation of Robin Waters and the SG of HUNAGI tomorrow, the change of the role of the users of GI will be also emphasized by the unprecedently emerging VGI trend populating geotagged informations worldwide in the billions magnitude.
In this context the Workshop jointly organised by the UCSB, Los Alamos National Lab and the Vespucci Initiative devoted to this topic should be mentioned and for references revisited at:
http://www.ncgia.ucsb.edu/projects/vgi/products.html  
The European speaker who delivered a presentation on "SDI vs VGI" in 2007 was the same Prof. Max Cralia of DG JRC, Editor-in-chief of IJSDR, who will be the keynote speaker here in Torino tomorrow at the EUROGI Conference "European SDI Best Practices Award".

HUNAGI flyer prepared for the EUROGI EMM in Turin

The 2-page, up-to-date flyer of HUNAGI can be downloaded here
Front side:  Mission goal, objectives, international relations, activities in the past 12 months
http://www.fomi.hu/hunagi/pdf/2004/Flyer9nov26a.pdf  
Rear side: members of HUNAGI according to sectors Visibility on the web, access data http://www.fomi.hu/hunagi/pdf/2004/Flyer9nov26b.pdf 
The latest e-Newsletter of HUNAGI can bedownloaded by clicking the header.

Subjects: ISDE Joined the Group of Earth Observations

Prof. Guo Huadong, Secretary General of ISDE. Image: HUNAGI Visuals resourcey, 2007

From our daily mail. Prof. Wang Changlin, Director of the Secretariat of ISDE wrote in his recet letter:

"At the 6^th plenary session of the Group of Earth Observations (GEO) held in Washington DC on November 17, 2009, the International Society for Earth Observations was accepted to be a participating organization of the GEO, together with International Union of Geological Sciences. The above announcement was made by Dr. José Achache, GEO Secretariat Director at the plenary session. Total 7 organizations including for AIT, CUAHSI, EMWIS TU, ILTER, ISDE, IUGS, and SMEBD applied for being members of the GEO’s Participating Organizations, and the final decision was made at the GEO Executive Committee meeting one day before the Plenary session. In addition, 3 country members joined the GEO this year, which made GEO’s constitution of 83 country members and the European Commission, as well as 58 participating organizations.              

At the opening ceremony of the 6^th International Symposium on Digital Earth held in Beijing, Dr. José Achache gave a presentation, and mentioning that ISDE had not participated in GEO’s activities, and wish ISDE could make contributions to GEO. Thereby, Prof. Guo Huadong wrote a letter to GEO Secretariat, and on behalf of ISDE submitted a proposal of being a member of the GEO’s participating organizations. The acceptance of ISDE to GEO will strengthen ISDE’s international recognition, and enable ISDE to participate into GEO’s events. For ISDE, it should  implement the GEOSS 10 years strategic plan and accept GEO's Cape Town Declaration in 2007. 

The next GEO’s ministerial summit and plenary session will be held in Beijing next year. For more information of GEO VI in Washington please refers to the report: http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/group-on-earth-observations-meets-in-washington-to-strengthen-access-to-data-and-information-on-biodiversity-forest-carbon-and-other-global-issues-70289572.html .

...

Best regards

Wang Changlin, Prof. Dr.

Secretariat Director, International Society for Digital Earth
Assistant Editor, International Journal of Digital Earth
Center for Earth Observation and Digital Earth, Chinese Academy of Sciences"

Community Data Collection supports Nature Conservation in Hungary

Volunteer data collectors help the Nature Conservation using Google map based solution for geotagging observation of rare or endangered specimen. Some of the gathered data will feed the Nature Conservation Information System called TIR (www.tir.hu). The concept and implementation were provided and enabled by the Ministry of Environment and Water Management.

Hungarian delegation at the ICA Conference in Santiago de Chile

Left to right: Jesus Reyes (ELTE), Pokoly, Béla (FVM), Zentai, László, Hargitai, Henrik (ELTE BTK), Gede, Mátyás (ELTE), Tóth, Katalin (DG JRC IES SDI) Image courtesy by Prof.László Zentai

Final Program of the European SDI Best Practice Award Conference

For the latest programme received today can be downloaded by clicking on the header.

INSPIRE Forum - a network for interested individuals established by Paul Smits of DG JRC

To join, please click on the Header.
Today, a Hungarian INSPIRE Interest Group has been established at the webpage of the INSPIRE FOrum to serve as forum for the experts of the Hungarian SDICs, LMOs and beyond...

VESTA-GIS Meeting hosted by the Institute of Land Development, Faculty of Geoinformatics WHU at Székesfehérvár today

A link to the program and participants will follow asap

Humboldt Reviewer and Advisory Board Meeting hosted by the Fraunhofer Institute in Darmstadt

Dániel Kristóf of FÖMI delivered an overview of the project. Image: HUNAGI Visuals resource, 2009
More information by clicking on the header.

European SDI Best Practice Awards 2009 - EUROGI Extended Member Meeting in Turin, Italy

European SDI Best Practice Awards 2009

Learning from Best Practices

Turin, Italy

26th and 27th November 2009

AGENDA – 26th November 2009

9.30 Registration of participants

10.00 Opening and welcome Sergio Conti (Regione Piemonte)

10.10 eSDI-Net+, Network for cross border dialogue Joachim Rix (eSDI-Net+ Coordinator)

10.30 Results of the European Sub-national SDIs Analysis Francois Salgé (EUROGI/AFIGEO)

Mauro Salvemini (EUROGI)

11.00 Coffee break

11.30 First session: Institutional and organizational aspects Franco Vico (AMFM GIS Italia)

Presentations of pre-selected SDIs

- Centre Régional de l'Information Geographique (CRIGE) (France)

- GDI Nordrhein-Westfalen (Germany)

- Infrastruttura per l’Informazione Territoriale (IIT) della Lombardia (Italy)

Discussion

13.00 Lunch

14.30 Key note speaker To be confirmed

15.10 Second session: Users Gabor Remetey (HUNAGI)

Robin Waters (RSW Geomatics Ltd.)

Presentations of pre-selected SDIs

- IDEC Infraestructura de Dades Espacials de Catalunya (Spain)

- X BORDER GDI (The Netherland) Discussion

16.10 Coffee break

16.30 Third Session: Technological aspects Danny Vandenbroucke (SADL / K.U.Leuven R&D)

Artur Krawczyk (AGH University)

- Presentations of pre-selected SDIs

- Forth Valley GIS (UK)

- SNIG - Sistema Nacional de Informação Geográfica (Portugal)

- IDERIOJA: Infraestructura de Datos Espaciales del Gobierno de La Rioja (Spain)

Discussion

18.00 Conclusion of the works Joachim Rix (eSDI-Net+ Coordinator)

Gala Dinner

AGENDA – 27TH NOVEMBER 2009

9.00 Registration of participants

9.15 Opening and welcome Joachim Rix (eSDI-Net+ Coordinator)

9.20 INSPIRE and the importance of regional SDIs Max Craglia (JRC)

10.00 Forth Session: Thematic SDIs Bastiaan van Loenen (Delft University of Technology)

Presentations of pre-selected SDIs

- Norway Digital-ND (Norway)

- National Land & Property Gazetteer and National Street Gazetteer (UK)

- SIG Pyrénèes (France)

- Plansystem.dk (Denmark)

Discussion

11.30 coffee break

12.00 Explanation of Award Criteria Ian Masser (Senior Consultant)

12.20 Presentation of Best Practices Awards Ian Masser (Senior Consultant)

Krister Olsen (European Commission)

12.40 Conclusions and Next Steps Joachim Rix (eSDI-Net+ Coordinator)

13.00 Lunch

Conference venue

Centro Incontri della Regione Piemonte, corso Stati Uniti 23 – 10128, Turin, Italy

Gala Dinner

Mole Antonelliana – Museo Nazionale del Cinema, via Montebello, 20 – Turin, Italy

Contact

ESDI-Net+ Project Local Organizer

Technische Universität Darmstadt, GRIS, Regione Piemonte

Darmstadt, Germany Turin, Italy

coordinator@esdinetplus.eu turin@esdinetplus.ue

Joachim Rix Patrizia Nazio

Phone +49 6151 155 221 Phone +39 011 4324282

Swetlana Fast Arianna Ros

Phone +49 6151 155 405 Phone +39 011 4323913

Minden fontos információ lehívható a címsorra kattintással.

Stimulating PSI Re-use - 1st ePSIplatform Meeting in Stockholm

From our daily mail. Federico Morando of the LAPSI project wrote recently:

"Dear All,

you are probably already aware of this PSI related meeting; in any case, I think that it may be appropriate to use our mailing list to share this kind of invitations and/or calls.

Thanks and best regards,

Federico Morando

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Subject:        [Epsiplatform.newsletter] Registration Open - ePSIplatform Meeting 1 – Stimulating PSI Re-use: European Progress

Date:   Tue, 10 Nov 2009 06:47:51 +0000

From:   ePSIplatform Newsletter

*Dear Colleagues,*

*Date:* Tuesday, 24 November 2009 (one day)

*Location and Venue*: Aula Magna, Auditorium, Stockholm University, Sweden

This is the first of four meetings the ePSIplatform is hosting for the PSI community which will focus on issues, strategies, actions and information sharing to stimulate PSI re-use.  

*We hope that you can participate and contribute to the discussion and debate – share your experience and information either from the perspective of a PSI re-user or PSI holder.*

*What are the Meeting Objectives?*

To consider:

  * recent actions by the Swedish Government to improve the

    implementation of the re-use of public sector information

    framework by the summer of 2010

  * pragmatic initiatives taken by other Member States and public

    sector bodies to raise awareness and facilitation of the re-use of

    PSI

*What will be Debated and Discussed?*

  * lessons from the Swedish Government initiatives

  * advantages of pragmatic solutions that have been used across Europe

*Overarching Goal?*

  * To assess whether these lessons are transferable and could be

    adopted across Europe

*Meeting Programme*

Access the Meeting Programme

http://www.epsiplatform.eu/news/events/epsiplatform_meeting_1

The Meeting Programme includes updates from the European level, from Sweden and Spain followed by sessions on PSI regulation and pragmatic approaches adopted toward advancing PSI Re-use across Europe.

  * Part 1:  Setting the Scene

  * Part 2:  Focus on European and Member State Updates

  * Part 3:  Focus on Competition Law and Regulators

  * Part 4:  Focus on Pragmatic Issues Moving the PSI Re-use Agenda

    Forward

*Meeting Participants:*

  * Policy makers

  * Researchers and practitioners

  * PSI holders

  * PSI re-users

  * Digital Activists

*Registration*

  * Advance registration is required. There is no registration fee.

  * To register for the meeting or for more information: contact the

    European PSI Platform Team by email info@epsiplus.net

    info@ePSIplus.net> or mary.gianoli@mdrpartners.com

    mary.gianoli@mdrpartners.com>

Regards, Rob Davies

European PSI Platform <http://www.epsiplus.net/> (http://www.epsiplatform.eu/)

Europe's One-Stop Shop on Public Sector Information (PSI) Re-use

____________________________________________________________________________

Visit the European Public Sector Information (PSI) Platform for more information about the one-stop shop portal.  http://www.epsiplatform.eu/

Please do not reply to this email message.  Should you want to unsubscribe to the ePSIplatform newsletter or notification options, or to deactivate your password at any time, please send a message to carol.usher@mdrpartners.com carol.usher@mdrpartners.com>

Contact: Rob Davies, European PSI Platform rob.davies@mdrpatners.com rob.davies@mdrpatners.com>

The European PSI Platform is funded under the European Commission’s eContentplus programme <http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/activities/econtentplus/index_en.htm>

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Federico MORANDO

Managing Director & Research Fellow

NEXA Center for Internet & Society

Politecnico di Torino - DAUIN

Corso Duca degli Abruzzi, 24

10129 TORINO - ITALY

tel.: +39 011 564 5954

fax: +39 011 564 7216

mob: +39 339 7507974

mail: federico.morando@polito.it

web: http://nexa.polito.it

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Epsiplatform.newsletter mailing list

Epsiplatform.newsletter@lists.epsiplatform.eu

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lapsi-members mailing list

lapsi-members@server-nexa.polito.it

https://server-nexa.polito.it/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/lapsi-members "

It should be mentioned, HUNAGI is involved both the LAPSI project as consortium member and HUNAGI SG is invited correspondent of the ePSIplatform project.