Forging links seminar in Southampton
Ordnance Survey is pleased to announce a special Terra future seminar to highlight the important role geographic information (GI) has to play in the development of linked data over the Web.
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Listen to keynote speeches at Terra future 2009
We are pleased to announce that you can now listen to the keynote speeches by Lord Puttnam and Charles Leadbeater can now be viewed online. Simply visit the 'About Terra future' page and click on your chosen presentation to start it.
We're on LinkedIn!
We're on LinkedIn! Please search for the Terra future group and join the debate online!
Agenda now available
The agenda for both days of the Terra future conference has now been unveiled.
Eco-car parks up for Terra future
An experimental car with geographic information at the heart of its engine management system is to appear at the Terra future conference.
Driving Innovation with Geographic Information
As part of the activity leading to the Terra future event on the 24th and 25th of February 2009 the H-I Network - www.h-i.com - hosted a workshop entitled Driving Innovation with Geographic Information.
Rolling out the carpet for Terra future 2009
The European Sustainability Director of InterfaceFLOR, the worldwide leader in the manufacture of residential and commercial carpet tiles, is confirmed as a keynote speaker at Terra future 2009.
Speakers confirmed for Terra future 2009
Charles Leadbeater, one of the world’s most influential creative thinkers and author of the book We Think: mass collaboration, not mass production is to give the opening keynote speech at Terra future 2009.
Group Session Results
Delegates formed a number of discussion groups with equal numbers from each community in a facilitated discussion around practical joint uses of linked data and GI.
Some of the discussions:
"Administrative units such as Wards, and Local Authority areas etc vary over time, but do not change their unique ID. Therefore users can attribute statistics to an incorrect geographical area. ONS (Office for National Statistics) are tackling this problem with a new system of admin area identifiers but the issue remains for any stats which should be related to previous geographical areas. One solution may be to set up a series of geographical areas for specific epochs, and also link stats to the time epoch they belong to."
Emergency response Application
- Business rates
- Electoral register
Building Information Application
- Walking routes
- Blue Plaque
- Roads
- Restaurants
Where can I recycle plastics?
- Geography - Plastics - Environment Agency
- Display locations and administrative bodies
- Where can I recycle, what types of plastics I can recycle there.
- Service and opening times
- Post code information
- Links to administrative bodies
- Route planning informations
- Information on specifications of different plastics
Pollution Information
- Information about pollution specific to the area Address, ward, Local Authority Area
Tell me about my great great grandmother
- Where did they live
- The school or college they may have attended
- Where did they live?
- Link to datasets such as - Criminal records, military records, wills, local archives, parish records, trade unions, census data, British library, newspapers, general registry office, births deaths and marriages, electoral roles.
School Selection
- Address, headmaster, league table reports, specialist subject details.
- Safe routes,
- Type of school
- Displays number of teachers and pupils and other schools within radius.
Health Improvement Application
- Links to hospitals and GPs
- Smoking related morbidity statistics
- Transport use by mode
- Information about open spaces for outdoor activities
- Link to local authority
- Suggestions for health improvement and links to other health improvement sites
After the idea generation for potential applications, the barriers which people detailed in the building these applications were discussed and some of the key barriers are detailed in the issues.pdf
