From jsanz at osgeo.org Thu Jun 11 00:22:57 2015 From: jsanz at osgeo.org (Jorge Sanz) Date: Thu, 11 Jun 2015 09:22:57 +0200 Subject: [OSGeo-Announce] ACM SIGSPATIAL 2015 Call for papers Message-ID: ******************************************************* 23rd ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems (ACM SIGSPATIAL 2015) November 3-6, 2015 -- Seattle, Washington, USA ******************************************************* Call for Research, Industrial, Systems, Demonstration and Vision papers http://sigspatial2015.sigspatial.org/ Abstract Submission: 16 June 2015 (midnight PDT) Paper Submission: 23 June 2015 (midnight PDT) Acceptance Notification: 25 August 2015 The ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems 2015 (ACM SIGSPATIAL 2015) is the twenty-third event in a series of symposia and workshops that began in 1993 with the aim of bringing together researchers, developers, users, and practitioners in relation to novel systems based on geo-spatial data and knowledge, and fostering interdisciplinary discussions and research in all aspects of geographic information systems. The conference provides a forum for original research contributions covering all conceptual, design, and implementation aspects of geospatial data ranging from applications, user interfaces, and visualization to data storage and query processing and indexing. The conference is the premier annual event of the ACM Special Interest Group on Spatial Information (ACM SIGSPATIAL). Researchers, students, and practitioners are invited to submit their contributions to ACM SIGSPATIAL 2015. Suggested Geospatial-related topics include but are not limited to the following: - Big Spatial Data - Cartography and Geodesy - Computational Geometry - Computer Graphics Applications - Computer Vision Applications - Distributed and Parallel Algorithms - Earth Observation - Geographic Information Retrieval - Geospatial Architectures and Middleware - GPU and Novel Hardware Solutions - Human Computer Interaction and Visualization - Image and Video Understanding - Location-Based Services - Location Privacy, Data Sharing and Security - Mobile Systems and Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks - Object Tracking and RFIDs - Performance Evaluation - Photogrammetry - Similarity Searching - Spatial Analysis and Integration - Spatial and Spatio-Temporal Data Acquisition - Spatial Data Analytics - Spatial Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery - Spatial Data Quality and Uncertainty - Spatial Data Structures and Algorithms - Spatial Data Warehousing, OLAP, and Decision Support - Spatial Information and Society - Spatial Modeling and Reasoning - Spatial Query Processing and Optimization - Spatio-Social Data Management and Analysis - Spatio-Temporal Data Analysis - Spatio-Temporal Data Management - Spatio-Temporal Sensor Networks - Spatio-Temporal Stream Processing - Spatio-Textual Searching - Standardization and Interoperability - Storage and Indexing - Traffic Telematics - Transportation - Urban and Environmental Planning - Visual Languages and Querying - Web and Real-Time Applications Paper Format: Manuscripts should be submitted in PDF format and formatted using the ACM camera-ready templates available at http://www.acm.org/sigs/pubs/proceed/template.html It is important that previous related work (especially appearing in prior editions of the ACM SIGSPATIAL Conference and the ACM SIGSPATIAL workshops/symposia) be appropriately cited. All submissions will be refereed for quality, originality, and relevance by the Program Committee. Accepted papers will be considered for "Best Paper Award." Research Papers: Authors are invited to submit full, original, unpublished research papers that are not being considered for publication in any other forum. Submissions are limited to 10 pages. In addition to the regular full-length papers, the Program Committee may accept some for poster presentation of the central idea for which a maximum of 4 proceedings pages will be allowed - append "(Poster Paper)" to the title as is appropriate. Industrial Experience and Systems Papers: Authors are invited that describe original industrial experiences, challenges, and applications, as well as systems to be presented during the conference. Industrial Experience and Systems paper submissions are limited to 10 pages - append "(Industrial Paper)" or "(Systems Paper)" to the title as is appropriate. Accepted Industrial Experience and Systems papers will appear in the conference proceedings. Demonstration Papers: Authors are invited to submit demo papers describing original demonstrations to be presented at the conference. Submissions are limited to 4 pages - append "(Demo Paper)" to the title. Accepted demo papers will appear in the conference proceedings. Vision Papers: Authors are invited to submit vision papers describing visionary ideas to be presented at the conference. Submissions are limited to 4 pages -- append "(Vision Paper)" to the title. Accepted vision papers will appear in the conference proceedings. The Computing Research Association's Computing Community Consortium (CCC) is sponsoring awards for the top three papers (first prize $1000, second prize $750, and third prize $500 awarded as travel grants) under their CCC Blue Sky initiative (http://www.cra.org/ccc/visioning/blue-sky). Authors are encouraged to submit vision papers that are "open-ended, possibly *outrageous* or *wacky*, and present new problems, new application domains, or new methodologies that are likely to stimulate significant new research." Presentation: At least one author per accepted paper, poster, vision, industrial paper, or demo must register and attend the conference to present the accepted submission. Otherwise, the accepted submission will not appear in the published conference proceedings or in the ACM Digital Library version of the conference proceedings. Programming Contest: The ACM SIGSPATIAL CUP 2015, with prizes, is a geospatial-focused algorithm competition. ### See http://sigspatial2015.sigspatial.org/ for further details ### Follow ACMGIS @ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/groups?home=&gid=4162155 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1450681355222657/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/FarnoushBK/lists/acm-sigspatial-gis From b.j.kobben at utwente.nl Sun Jun 14 03:20:19 2015 From: b.j.kobben at utwente.nl (b.j.kobben at utwente.nl) Date: Sun, 14 Jun 2015 10:20:19 +0000 Subject: [OSGeo-Announce] OSGEO Journal 14 (FOSS4G2914 proceedings) published Message-ID: Volume 14 of the OSGeo Journal [1] has just been published. This issue comprises five research papers selected from the submissions to the Academic Track of FOSS4G 2014, which took place in Portland (Oregon,USA), from 8 to 13 September 2014. [1] - https://journal.osgeo.org/index.php/journal/issue/viewIssue/35/6 Yours truly, ________________________________________________________________________ FOSS4G 2014 Academic Track http://2014.foss4g.org/ojs/index.php/foss4g2014 Questions & remarks to the Academic Track Chairs: drs Barend K?bben - b.j.kobben at utwente.nl Prof. Dr. Franz-Josef Behr - franz-josef.behr at hft-stuttgart.de From jsanz at osgeo.org Fri Jun 19 01:00:12 2015 From: jsanz at osgeo.org (Jorge Sanz) Date: Fri, 19 Jun 2015 10:00:12 +0200 Subject: [OSGeo-Announce] GDAL/OGR 2.0.0 released Message-ID: Hi, On behalf of the GDAL/OGR development team and community, I am pleased to announce the release of GDAL/OGR 2.0.0. GDAL/OGR is a C++ geospatial data access library for raster and vector file formats, databases and web services. It includes bindings for several languages, and a variety of command line tools. http://www.gdal.org/ The 2.0.0 release is a major new feature release with the following highlights: * GDAL and OGR driver and dataset unification: http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki/rfc46_gdal_ogr_unification * Support for curve geometries: http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki/rfc49_curve_geometries * Support for OGR field subtypes (boolean, int16, float32): http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki/rfc50_ogr_field_subtype * RasterIO() improvements : resampling and progress callback http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki/rfc51_rasterio_resampling_progress * Stricter SQL quoting: http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki/rfc52_strict_sql_quoting * OGR not-null constraints and default values: http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki/rfc53_ogr_notnull_default * OGR dataset transactions: https://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki/rfc54_dataset_transactions * Refined SetFeature() and DeleteFeature() semantics: https://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki/rfc55_refined_setfeature_deletefeature_semantics * OFTTime/OFTDateTime millisecond accuracy: https://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki/rfc56_millisecond_precisio * 64bit histogram bucket count: https://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki/rfc57_histogram_64bit_count * 64-bit integer fields and feature IDs : https://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki/rfc31_ogr_64 * New GDAL drivers: - BPG: read-only driver for Better Portable Graphics format (experimental) - GPKG: read/write/update capabilities in the unified raster/vector driver http://gdal.org/drv_geopackage_raster.html - KEA: read/write driver for KEA format http://gdal.org/frmt_kea.html - PLMosaic: read-only driver for Planet Labs Mosaics API http://gdal.org/frmt_plmosaic.html - ROI_PAC: read/write driver for image formats of JPL's ROI_PAC project http://www.gdal.org/frmt_various.html#ROI_PAC - VICAR: read-only driver for VICAR format http://www-mipl.jpl.nasa.gov/external/vicar.html * New OGR drivers: - Cloudant : read/write driver for Cloudant service http://gdal.org/drv_cloudant.html - CSW: read-only driver for OGC CSW (Catalog Service for the Web) protocol http://gdal.org/drv_csw.html - JML: read/write driver for OpenJUMP .jml format http://gdal.org/drv_jml.html - PLScenes: read-only driver for Planet Labs Scenes API http://gdal.org/drv_plscenes.html - Selaphin: read/write driver for the Selaphin/Seraphin format http://gdal.org/ogr/drv_selafin.html * Significantly improved drivers: CSV, GPKG, GTiff, JP2OpenJPEG, MapInfo, PG, SQLite * Upgrade to EPSG 8.5 database * Fix locale related issues when formatting or reading floating point numbers More complete information on the new features and fixes in the 2.0.0 release can be found at: http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki/Release/2.0.0-News The release can be downloaded from: * http://download.osgeo.org/gdal/2.0.0/gdal200.zip - source as a zip * http://download.osgeo.org/gdal/2.0.0/gdal-2.0.0.tar.gz - source as .tar.gz * http://download.osgeo.org/gdal/2.0.0/gdal-2.0.0.tar.xz - source as .tar.xz * http://download.osgeo.org/gdal/2.0.0/gdalautotest-2.0.0.tar.gz - test suite * http://download.osgeo.org/gdal/2.0.0/gdal200doc.zip - documentation / website As there have been a few changes to the C++ API, and to a lesser extent to the C API, developers are strongly advised to read : https://svn.osgeo.org/gdal/branches/2.0/gdal/MIGRATION_GUIDE.TXT Best regards, Even -- Spatialys - Geospatial professional services http://www.spatialys.com From jsanz at osgeo.org Thu Jun 25 10:40:43 2015 From: jsanz at osgeo.org (Jorge Sanz) Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2015 19:40:43 +0200 Subject: [OSGeo-Announce] OSGeo-BE is an official local OSGeo chapter Message-ID: The local active OSGeo members from Belgium are proud to announce the birth of the Belgian local Chapter. Belgium is, as a country divided in at least 3 speaking languages and 3 official languages. The active OSGeo community members today are either active in the OSGeo.nl, the OSGeo.fr or in several OSGeo communities. The Belgium chapter will actively work on the promotion of open source Geo solutions and the continuation of all the good work based on the existing software stacks. Together with the Belgian eco-system of administrations, industry and schools, we want to build a more open world. On 29 October, 2015, we will organise a first FOSS4G-BE and announce the birth of the (legal) organisation to the Belgium public. You want to leave us a message or join us ? You can find us on the wiki[1] or on the Belgian mailing list[2]. [1] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Belgium [2] http://lists.osgeo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/belgium Dirk Frigne -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: