The 25th annual conference of the Geoscience Information Consortium (GIC) is held at the Geological Survey of Slovenia (6th floor), Dimiceva ulica 14, Ljubljana, Slovenia.
The explosion of computing driven location based applications in the past few years has revolutionized the way we live and work. Computing technologies, such as cloud computing, business intelligence, spatial database server, and high-performance computing, play key roles in geospatial technologies and applications. More importantly, since everything in the computer network has its own location, all of them are related to geospatial technologies and applications. Like the hottest term “.com” in the late of 90’s, “.geo” would be another hottest term and field in the coming decades.
* Identifying the aspects that contribute to integration and interoperability: Technological, political and cultural
* Global standards and developments for open geospatial practices, architectures and interfaces
* Standard based web services - the potential for government and military use at planning and operational levels
* Developing a fully interoperable data sharing strategy
Mark Reichardt
President
Open Geospatial Consortium
