Archives for July 2013

GeoMonday the 2nd – Talk 4: Globooz – distributed responsibility for and benefits from geo-referenced data (presentation material)

Olaf Baeker presented in the last session of the day an approach based on the combination of a newly invented geo-location system with ordinary digital maps. It offers new ways for making local content  globally accessible, helps to find geo-referenced information much easier and allows to get rid of tons of useless search results.

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GeoMonday the 2nd – Talk 3: Personalized Search in LBS and Map Applications with Preference SQL (presentation material)

Florian Wenzel discussed how the Preference SQL system developed at the Chair for Databases and Information Systems at the University of Augsburg can be efficiently employed in LBS to provide such an alternative soft constraint search paradigm with best-matches-only query semantics.

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GeoMonday the 2nd – Talk 2: Why less is more for mobile maps (presentation material)

Marin Todorov discussesed how to better approach building mobile maps and applications featuring geo-information; how to make maps fit in smoothly in a user’s everyday mobile experience.

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GeoMonday the 2nd – Talk 1: Buildings in space, sun in time (presentation material)

Jan Marsch started the 2nd GeoMonday and spoke about his project OSM Buildings – an open source JavaScript library for visualizing 3d building geometry.

Contact with him on Twitter: @OSMBuildings

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