Welcome to the BCS Geospatial SG

The Geospatial SG aims to provide a focus for all things geospatial in the BCS. In particular, to provide a forum within the BCS for information exchange and debate on geospatial technology, issues, opportunities, and best practices. The group also aims to provide a means through which the BCS and its members can become active participants in the field of geospatial technology, industry, and standards.

Membership is free to BCS Members. Non-BCS members are charged £35/year. Details about joining the group can be found here.

Make Mashups Correct, Complete, Relevant and Revisited

By: andrew

Start: 08/09/2008 - 18:00

End: 08/09/2008 - 20:00

Location(s)

BCS London

1st Floor, The Davidson Building 5 Southampton Street

London, WC2E 7HA

Jonathan Lowe will be giving a presentation based one he gave at this years Where 2.0, titled "A Data Source to Make Mashups Correct, Complete, Relevant and Revisited"

Jonathan Lowe

Giswebsite LLP

Open Source Geospatial & The OSGeo Foundation

By: andrew

Start: 22/01/2009 - 18:00

End: 22/01/2009 - 20:00

Location(s)

BCS London

1st Floor, The Davidson Building 5 Southampton Street

London, WC2E 7HA

Jo Cook will give a presentation about the Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo) http://www.osgeo.org/ in a joint event hosted by the BCS Open Source Specialist Group (OSSG) and BCS Geospatial Specialist Group. Further details to follow….

*NB* This event is free and open to members and non-members alike, but registration is required. If you would like to attend this event please register by sending an email to GSG.Event@Googlemail.com. As usual there will be opportunities for networking and refreshments will be provided before and after the event.

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Geospatial Applications In Government

By: andrew

Start: 04/11/2008 - 18:00

End: 04/11/2008 - 20:00

Location(s)

BCS London

1st Floor, The Davidson Building 5 Southampton Street

London, WC2E 7HA

Mark Bishop of MapInfo will be giving a presentation on the subject of Geospatial Applications In Government. More details to follow...

NB This event is free and open to members and non-members alike, but registration is required. If you would like to attend this event please register by sending an email to GSG.Event@Googlemail.com. As usual there will be opportunities for networking and refreshments will provided before and after the event.

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Scaling Oracle Spatial - Powerpoint Presentation Now Available

By: andrew

John Abel of Oracle UK gave a very well received presentation to the BCS Geospatial Specialist Group on the subject of 'Scaling Oracle Spatial using Real Application Cluster'. A full review will follow, but for now you can download the Powerpoint Presentation.

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UK Geospatial Mash-Up 2006

By: andrew

20th October 2006 saw the first AGI/OGC/BCS Geospatial Mash-Up event. Hosted at the Ordnance Survey’s Business Centre the event was a successful mix of informal presentations, user participation, networking opportunities and panel discussions.

Steve Coast of OpenStreetMap at the BCS

By: andrew

September 24th saw Steve Coast of OpenStreetMap give a presentation outlining the motivation and technology behind OpenStreetMap, an open, collaborative project which aims to provide free geographic data. A pdf and mp3 of Steve’s presentation can be found here.

AGI/BCS/City University Event

By: andrew

Dr David Mountain and Andrew MacFarlane gave two presentations at a joint BCS / AGI / City University event on June 22nd, 2006. The event was hosted by City Universities’ giCentre.

Unstructured Data - Joint BCS DMSG/DAMA UK Meeting.

By: andrew

As part of a day-long BCS DMSG/DAMA seminar on the topic on Unstructured Data, BCS Geospatial SG Vice-Chair Dan Rickman gave a presentation entitled ‘Geospatial Unstructured Data’. You can download his presentation slides here

Inaugural Geospatial SG Meeting

By: andrew

An extremely well attended meeting saw the launch of the Geospatial Specialist Group. The groups’ chairman Iain Cooke, gave a presentation outlining the groups’ objectives, which was followed by a presentation by the Association for Geographic Information (AGI).

The events’ keynote speaker was Ed Parsons, CTO at the Ordnance Survey. Ed gave an interesting and entertaining presentation highlighting the role geospatial technology plays both within the Ordnance Survey and society as a whole.