New to the List

[Bob Basques]

Tomasz,

First off, what is "DHW" , I get a couple of hit in GOOGLE about it 
concerning Housing and Health & Welfare. But that's it.

What type of data is it that you are trying to render?

bobb



Tomasz Adamczewski wrote:

>Dear Friends,
>
>My name is Tomasz Adamczewski, I am an Assistant Lecturer and a Research
>Faculty Member and Ph.D. Candidate at the Department of Information
>Technology of the Karol Adamiecki Higher School of Economics in Katowice,
>Poland.
>
>My doctoral project, whose working title reads: "MapServer as a Tool
>Supporting Data Analysis in Data Warehouses. Towards New Applications of DM
>Solutions Open Source Geospacial Rendering Software," focuses upon the
>application of the software developed by your Community as an interface
>supporting the analysis of DWH data for such purposes as index analysis,
>asset management, marketing, etc. So far, the problems concerning GIS-DWH
>integration have been addressed by a highly limited number of scientists and
>IT specialists (e.g.: INCO-COPERNICUS Project No. 977091 – a cooperative
>project between Technical University Vienna, Czech Technical University
>Prague; Lumare GIS, Ltd.; Technical University of Kosice, University GH
>Essen, and VEGA, Ltd.,  completed in 2001, and Japanese projects). It is
>especially in the context of the application and implementation of Open
>Source tools for such purposes that very little has been published.
>
>I would be very grateful for your kind assistance in becoming acquainted
>with what has been done in the field by Community members; I will appreciate
>any published materials (pdf, electronic or other), backchannel e-mail
>exchange or any information concerning possible partcipation in conferences
>organized by Community members as well as instructions on how to contribute
>projects to the future Foundation.
>
>New to the group, I would like to humbly ask for initial guidance concerning
>the netiquette and customs of the Community.
>
>With all my best regards,
>
>Tomash
>(Tomasz Adamczewski)
>Department of Information Technology
>Karol Adamiecki Higher School of Economics
>ul. 1 MAJA 50
>40-287 KATOWICE
>POLAND
>tadamcz at ae.katowice.pl
>
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