OS Trumped
Just returned from a pleasant day at the RGS-IBG annual conference. An event well worth attending as its mellow and covers a range of subjects. However it is largely colonised by human geographers, a strange breed. Thats not for want of the RGS trying to get physical geographers involved... Time will tell.
Anyway the OS are one the of the primary (platinum?!) sponsors of the RGS (along with Land Rover and Rolex from memory). So the map of the venue, and how to get to it, prominantly displayed on the back cover of the abstracts naturally used
Open Street Map data. Nice one!
posted on: Fri, 29 Aug | path: /meetings | permanent link to this entry
1st year field trip to Swansea
I've just got back from our first year geography field trip to the Gower Peninsula. Designated the first Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty in 1949, development is limited and so it is relatively unspoilt and quite wild....
posted on: Sat, 05 Apr | path: /meetings | permanent link to this entry
Free Our Data @ Kingston
OK, well its not quite the Free Our Data Campaign roadshow, but Charles Arthur, Technology Editor at the Guardian and one of the campaign founders, was speaking at Kingston last week. I would love to say that his talk was excellent, well founded and thoroughly thought provoking, but unfortunately I was ill and my colleague Ken was covering for me. However Charles apparently did stimulate quite a bit of discussion which he mentions here. So yes, we will be able to post the video once its been processed (and I'll be watching it!).
posted on: Mon, 18 Feb | path: /meetings | permanent link to this entry
IGS British Branch Meeting
I attended the International Glaciological Society's British Branch meeting a couple of weeks ago at the School of Geosciences in Edinburgh....
posted on: Mon, 24 Sep | path: /meetings | permanent link to this entry
DEMs, castle coffee and dodgy wifi
I've recently returned from a trip to the Geography Department at the University of Durham where I gave two research seminars on some of my close-range remote sensing and DEM visualisation work....
posted on: Sat, 22 Sep | path: /meetings | permanent link to this entry
In a galaxy far far away....
I was speaking at the Society of Cartographers - 43rd Annual Summer School this week (gentle introduction to spaceborne DEMs) and whilst only there for the day, a thoroughly relaxed and pleasant affair it was too....
posted on: Fri, 07 Sep | path: /meetings | permanent link to this entry
DMT Meeting and themes
So the reason for going to the US was to attend DMT07 which is principally aimed at geologists and cartographers from state geological surveys, although this year there were representatives from the UK, Czechoslovakia and Japan....
posted on: Thu, 24 May | path: /meetings | permanent link to this entry
Long live the Car
Well if the Chinese are wedded to their phones, then the Americans are wedded to their cars. I had forgotten just how much space there is in American cities, and Columbia is no different....
posted on: Sun, 20 May | path: /meetings | permanent link to this entry
Mistaken Identity
I'm actually presenting at Digital Mapping Techniques this week, hence the flight out of Gatwick, via Philadelphia, to Columbia (South Carolina)....
posted on: Sun, 20 May | path: /meetings | permanent link to this entry
Train Ticket Price Increases
There seems to have been much written on the recent train ticket price increases. Whilst some fares remain protected (to an extent), others do not....
posted on: Sat, 03 Feb | path: /meetings | permanent link to this entry
Planetary Geosciences, Geological Society
I've just spent a couple of days at the Geological Society in Picadilly at a conference on Planetary Geosciences....
posted on: Thu, 09 Nov | path: /meetings | permanent link to this entry
China: Shopping Experiences
Had some time to go around a couple of shopping malls today and, again, an interesting experience. Supermarkets are very much like they are here, except with some local differences....
posted on: Fri, 25 Aug | path: /meetings | permanent link to this entry
Chinese Hosting
So far this week I have found the Chinese to be warm, friendly and very hospitable. They are genuinely interested in talking to you, finding out about western culture and discussing their own....
posted on: Thu, 24 Aug | path: /meetings | permanent link to this entry
Chinese KAPping
I took the Dopero 125 kite out with me to Wuhan to demonstrate KAPping to our hosts at the China University of Geosciences (yes, a whole university of over 25,000 students just doing geoscience!)...
posted on: Wed, 23 Aug | path: /meetings | permanent link to this entry
China: First Experiences
I wasn't sure quite what to expect of "China". Stepping off the plane in August you are immediately hit with the heat....
posted on: Sun, 20 Aug | path: /meetings | permanent link to this entry
Heathrow Security
An interesting experience on a flight to Beijing today. Not having travelled internationally for a while, and with the heightened security after terrorist alerts in London, I wasn't sure what to expect....
posted on: Sat, 19 Aug | path: /meetings | permanent link to this entry
Free Our Data Public Debate
I attended an RSA public debate on access to data collected by public bodies. This was co-sponsored by The Guardian as part of their Free Our Data campaign....
posted on: Tue, 18 Jul | path: /meetings | permanent link to this entry
BGRG Annual Conference
I've just returned from an exhausting three days at the British Geomorphological Research Groups Annnual Conference in Loughborough....
posted on: Sun, 02 Jul | path: /meetings | permanent link to this entry
Ravens Ait - a haven on the Thames?
I had a day at Ravens Ait this week which is located on an island in the Thames between Hampton Court Palace and Kingston upon Thames....
posted on: Sat, 10 Jun | path: /meetings | permanent link to this entry
AGI Education Lecture: Professor Dave Unwin
I attended an evening lecture last week organised by the AGI (hosted by UCL) as part of their "education" series....
posted on: Mon, 29 May | path: /meetings | permanent link to this entry
SoTL 2006
I've just returned from two days at the London Scholarship of Teaching and Learning conference. Whilst I firmly believe in delivering module materials to enable students to learn better, and am interested in trialing new methodologies, I have never actually attended a teaching and learning conference before....
posted on: Fri, 19 May | path: /meetings | permanent link to this entry
AGI 2006
Just a quick reminder to those that are unware; the AGI Conference and Exhibition has moved from Chelsea Village to the Business Design Centre in Islington. As a result, the date has moved from October to 12-14th September. Entry to the exhibition is free and the new (stylish) location should providing a fitting backdrop to this expanding event. Kingston University continues its decade tradition of providing high quality training in the completely new Solutions Centre. Watch this space for more details!
posted on: Wed, 17 May | path: /meetings | permanent link to this entry
AGI Open Source in GIS SIG
I was at an AGI organised SIG on open source software in GIS today. This was an excellent low key event that was (sadly) primarily attended by representatives from commercial GIS companies, with a smattering from academia....
posted on: Thu, 27 Apr | path: /meetings | permanent link to this entry
Elevation Models for Geoscience
I presented at the Elevation Models for Geoscience one-day meeting at the Geological Society last week....
posted on: Sat, 01 Apr | path: /meetings | permanent link to this entry
Giles Lane from Proboscis
My third year class (Contemporary Issues in GIS) had a talk today from Giles Lane of Proboscis. Giles has a strong arts background and is driven by enabling communities to make innovative use of mobile technology. He has been involved in this sector since the late 1990s and, somewhat unusually, has worked with business, government and academia. And some of the technology deployed has involved the development of bespoke kit to support a variety of platforms for input (PDA, smartphone, interactive TV, web browser). Yet the focus is not technology led, but community led. My class certainly found this unusual and challenged their preconceptions about the the people and uses of GIS.
posted on: Mon, 27 Feb | path: /meetings | permanent link to this entry
SPLINT Meeting
I attended a meeting today at the Royal Geographical Society on SPatial Literacy IN Teaching (SPLINT)....
posted on: Fri, 24 Feb | path: /meetings | permanent link to this entry
SoC Publication
I've just had a paper published in the Bulletin of the Society of Cartographers following my presentation at their conference last summer. In the paper I outline the scope of open access journal publication, focusing on the Journal of Maps within the cartographic domain. The latter part of the paper provides further insight in to the use of Creative Commons licensing at JoM, as well as third-party copyright issues pertaining to the incorporation of data in maps published by JoM. Please see here for further details.
posted on: Sun, 15 Jan | path: /meetings | permanent link to this entry
AGI: Inter-planetry Presentation
I will providing an introductory seminar/practical at the AGI Conference, Chelsea Village, London (9-10 November 2005) entitled Inter-planetry remote sensing: landform mapping on Mars. These sessions take place in the trade exhibition space which has free entry; however you do need to register in advance at the above website.
posted on: Tue, 01 Nov | path: /meetings | permanent link to this entry
GRADE Project at EDINA
I have been involved in a project at EDINA (funded by JISC) concerning the scoping of geospatial data repositories (GRADE). Scoping is the central aim here and the project is combining expertise in copyright, digitial repositories and catalogueing. I have been asked to input at an early stage through the provision of "use-case" examples in the application of geospatial data. These will be used as a "test-bed" from which more general working models can be developed in data usage.
The meeting this week brought all the project members together. A full on day where I was able to present the initial results from my report. Expect to see some interesting results over the next 19 months!
posted on: Fri, 30 Sep | path: /meetings | permanent link to this entry
Society of Cartographers
I was speaking in the last session at the Society of Cartographers Annual Summer School (Cambridge) this week....
posted on: Mon, 12 Sep | path: /meetings | permanent link to this entry
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