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font-family:Arial'><a
href="http://geowebconference.org/students-academia/contest-information">http://geowebconference.org/students-academia/contest-information</a><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>GeoWeb 2008 Student Contest <br>
To advance the development of the GeoWeb, a contest is underway which is
open to all full time students attending an educational institution anywhere in
the world. The objective of the contest is to materially advance the development
of the GeoWeb with either a theoretical solution or a piece of
software (all software must be open source and free of any royalties or other
encumbrances). <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>To help students prepare their submissions for the GeoWeb
2008 student contest, here are a few ideas. These are simply suggestions and
using these ideas or not, will have no influence on the decision of the judges.<br>
Develop software or solve a theoretical problem to:<br>
Generate 3D models for Google Earth, Virtual Earth etc. from CAD drawings
automatically. <br>
To enhance position measurement inside a building. <br>
Integrate Google or Virtual Earth with Second Life. <br>
Generalize from large scale to small scale in 2D and 3D. <br>
Generate GML (observations) from KML and KML (by styling) from GML. <br>
Validate geography and topology automatically using a rule based mechanism. <br>
To visualize the content of an ebRIM (OASIS) registry. <br>
Develop visualization mechanisms for travelogues. <br>
Use wavlets to integrate geometry, coverages and observations. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Students may submit a registration of an abstract of their
proposal at any time (see link above). Note that both registration and final
submissions are due and must be submitted no later than May 15, 2008.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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