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[Arnulf Christl]

Tomasz Adamczewski wrote:
> Dear Bob, dear Paul,
> I apologize for not having decoded the DWH abbreviation I used in my posting.
> 
> DWH means DataWareHouse.
> 
> Yours,
> Tomash

Hi,
i would suggest to also have a look into service oriented architecture 
design. Probably some will heavily object but in my understanding DWH is 
a sort of very mature concept that is extended or even replaced by SOA. 
Look into the OGC http://www.opengeospatial.org for all kinds of 
documents and links from the heavily technical spec to the cookbook. 
Cool to fill bibliographies.

Regarding communities: Adam Luks added some polish text fragments to the 
Mapbender homepage http://www.mapbender.org. Michel Garand in 
Frankfurt/Oder uses MapServer in the OdraGIS project. Check out 
http://www.multimediaplan.at, it is not a techno place but makes heavy 
use of MapServer in planning contexts and has many projects and 
contacts, maybe these are good starting points.

Best regards,
Arnulf.

>>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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