Related links
EuroSpec (http://www.eurogeographics.org/eng/03_projects_eurospec.asp)- EuroSpec is the overarching structure to the many EuroGeographics activities contributing to implementing the vision of full interoperability of the Reference Information produced and distributed by the National Mapping and Cadastral Agencies (NMCAs).
- This is one of the forums, in which the GiMoDig results are exploited
RISE (http://www.eurogeographics.org/eng/03_RISE.asp)
- Reference Information Specifications for Europe (RISE), funded by the 6th Framework Programme, will be a core project under EuroSpec.
- This is one of the projects, in which the GiMoDig results are exploited
INSPIRE (http://inspire.jrc.it/)
- The initiative intends to trigger the creation of a European spatial information infrastructure that delivers to the users integrated spatial information services. These services should allow the users to identify and access spatial or geographical information from a wide range of sources, from the local level to the global level, in an inter-operable way for a variety of uses. The target users of INSPIRE include policy-makers, planners and managers at European, national and local level and the citizens and their organisations. Possible services are the visualisation of information layers, overlay of information from different sources, spatial and temporal analysis, etc.
- This is one of the process, in which the GiMoDig results are exploited
Hypergeo (http://www.hypergeo.org)
- Hypergeo is a shared costs project supported by the IST programme at the European Commission - DG INFSO
- HYPERGEO project : geographic information for mobile users
ODIN (http://www.odinproject.org)
- Geographic Distributed Information Tools and Services for the Mobile Information Society
AGENT (http://agent.ign.fr)
- The purpose of AGENT was to produce an innovative map design software based on multi-agent technology
- AGENT was a research and development project funded by the ESPRIT programme (ESPRIT 24939). It started on the 1st of December 1997 and it has been closed since the 5th of December 2000
WebPark (http://www.webparkservices.info)
- Geo-information for mobile users in protected areas
- WebPark focuses on providing visitors of protected and recreation areas with location-aware services
PARAMOUNT (http://www.paramount-tours.com)
- Public SAfety & CommeRcial Info-Mobility Applications & Services in the MOUNTains
- Funded within the European Commission IST fifth framework program with the main objective to develop a prototype for an info-mobility service for mountaineers and hikers
AmbieSense (http://www.yellowmap.de/ambiesense/)
- Ambient and context-sensitive information systems for mobile users essence
INSPIRE (http://www.ec-gis.org/inspire/)
- The INfrastructure for SPatial InfoRmation in Europe initiative (INSPIRE) aims at making available relevant, harmonised and quality geographic information for the purpose of formulation, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of Community policy-making.
GETIS (http://www.pcigeomatics.com/getis/)
- Geo-processing networks in a European Territorial Interoperability Study
GINIE (http://www.ec-gis.org/ginie/)
- GINIE - Geographic Information Network In Europe
- The overall aim of the GINIE project is to establish and promote a European strategy for Geographic Information
CRUMPET (http://www.ist-crumpet.org/)
- Creation of User-friendly Mobile services Personalised for Tourism
- The overall aim of CRUMPET is to implement, validate, and trial tourism-related value-added services for nomadic users
LoVEUS (http://loveus.intranet.gr/)
- Location aware Visually Enhanced Ubiquitous Services
- The aim of the LoVEUS project is to provide European citizens with ubiquitous services for personalised, tourism-oriented multimedia information related to the location and orientation within cultural sites or urban settings, occasionally enriched with relevant advertisements
EULIS (http://www.eulis.org/)
- Within the eContent Programme of the European Union, national land registries with computerised systems have started a co-operation in a project called European Land Information Service (EULIS).
- TourServ is developing a mobile solution for Alpine Tourism and combines geographical 3D information with actual offers for visiting tourist.
GUIDE http://www.guide.lancs.ac.uk/overview.html
- Guide is a context-sensitive mobile multimedia support for city visitors
TomTom (http://www.tomtom.com/)
- TomTom gives travelers all over the world local information, personal navigation tools, entertainment and assistance with foreign languages while on the move.
IMAGE (http://www.image-project.com/image/index.html)
- The IMAGE project (Intelligent Mobility Agent for complex Geographic Environments - IST 2000-30047) will provide citizens and travellers on their move with mobile, personalised, location based information on available services, guidance how to reach them and a way to book and pay for the service and the journey there.)
VATGI (http://www.vatgi.org/)
- The VATGI (Value Added Thematic Geo-Information) project aims to establish a standard for the exchange of thematic Geo-Information between the public sector and multimedia publishers.
Deep Map (http://www.eml-development.de/english/Research/Memory/1)
- Deep Map aims to develop information technologies that can handle huge heterogeneous data collections, complex functionality and a variety of technologies, but are still accessible for untrained users.
Wayflow
- ...eine Idee der Rhein-Main-Region
- (in German) http://www.wayflow.de/_region/region.htm
- (in English) http://www.wayflow.de/_news/news.htm
Stadtinfokoeln http://www.stadtinfokoeln.de
- Mobilität im Ballungsraum.
Heywow http://www.heywow.de/index.html
- Heywow ist eine Systemarchitektur um neuartige Mobilfunkdienste anzubieten. Bei diesen Diensten kann es sich um mobiles Internet-Surfen handeln, Tourismusdienste wie elektronische Stadtführungen, Unterhaltungsdienste, ortsbezogene Informationsdienste, und natürlich vieles mehr.
Georama Project http://www.georamaproject.net
- Web based GEO-navigational portal providing information mapping services to the countryside tourism community
Useful technologies and specifications
Apache XML Project (http://xml.apache.org)- xml.apache.org is a collaborative software development project dedicated to providing robust, full-featured, commercial-quality, and freely available XML support on a wide variety of platforms.
- GEOS (Geometry Engine - Open Source) is a C++ port of the Java Topology Suite (JTS).
- The Java Topology Suite is a Java API of 2D spatial predicates and functions.
- Industry-driven, open XML data exchange standard that addresses the needs of private and public land development professionals, software/hardware producers, and service vendors.
- OGC is an international industry consortium of more than 220 companies, government agencies and universities participating in a consensus process to develop publicly available geoprocessing specifications.
- The Geography Markup Language (GML) is an XML encoding for the transport and storage of geographic information, including both the spatial and non-spatial properties of geographic features.
- The vision for the OpenLS Initiative is the successful provision and integration of geospatial data and geoprocessing resources into the location services and telecommunications infrastructure.
- PostGIS adds support for geographic objects to the PostgreSQL object-relational database.
- This specification defines the features and syntax for Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG), a language for describing two-dimensional vector and mixed vector/raster graphics in XML.
- This document defines two mobile profiles of SVG 1.1. The first profile, SVG Tiny, is defined to be suitable for cellphones; the second profile, SVG Basic, is suitable for PDAs.
- The Extensible Markup Language (XML) is the universal format for structured documents and data on the Web.