The Melbourne Open GIS event is on again at 6pm on this Thursday the 29th of September at the OpenHub.   Melbourne Open GIS is a forum to discuss open standards and interoperability in GIS. The meetings bring together professionals from geospatial and other disciplines in a casual environment for some presentations, informal discussions, […]

  First up is an update on last week’s reports of the Times Comprehensive Atlas of the World’s reduction of Greenland’s Ice cover by 15% (it's closer to 1%).   Spatially Adjusted have a post entitled “The Guide to What Was Important at FOSS4G for People Who Didn’t Go to FOSS4G 2011”, which probably gives […]

  Dr Nagaraj Shivaramaiah from the Australian Centre for Space Engineering Research has won the US Institution of Navigation’s Parkinson Award for outstanding new research, marking the first time that an Australian entry has won.   Dr Shivaramaiah’s doctorate, for the School of Surveying & Spatial Information Systems at the University of New South Wales, […]

  AAM will host the first Australian Geocortex User Conference in Melbourne from 10–11 October at Citadines on Bourke Street, Melbourne.   The workshop will outline the benefits of using Geocortex within the workplace and will demonstrate how Geocortex can provide simple and effective solutions to their web mapping requirements.   AAM's Geocortex Product Manager, […]