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| AGI Scotland Annual Conference 2013  Organisation is now underway for our 2013 conference.
This will be held in Glasgow on the 27 February. We will be
distributing venue details and booking information in due course,
please hold this date in your diary.2013 is going to see a new and exciting format for the AGI events programme, designed to improve and widen content. This event will be the first in the series and contain multiple streams, a bit like a mini AGI GeoCommunity Conference. Further details about the series is online and the call for papers is now open. The event is a great opportunity to come and find out about the latest developments in the Scottish GI arena and develop your own professional knowledge. Most of all, this is a members event. We would welcome any input or thoughts you may have about what you would like to see. For further details on the AGI Scotland Conference, please contact Abigail Page. AGI Council Elections for the year 2013  An
election is currently underway to fill six (6) seats on AGI Council
that will become vacant at the end of 2012.Eight (8) candidates have been nominated. Because the number of nominations received has exceeded the number of places available, an election will now be held from Monday 5th November and Noon on Friday 16th November 2012. Two of the nominations are from the Scottish Membership. Abigail Page (Central Scotland Forest Trust) and James Reid (EDINA), both current members of the AGI Scotland Executive Board, are looking for your support. To vote you must be a paid-up, current member of the AGI (this includes named corporate members). You will need to enter your name and membership number for verification purposes when voting. If you have lost your membership number please contact AGI on 020 7347 5640 or email info@agi.org.uk. The Personal Election Statements of the candidates are available here. Electronic voting is available or if you would like to vote by post, further details are on the AGI website. Edinburgh Earth Observatory seminars 2012/13  Now in its eighth year, the University of Edinburgh School of GeoSciences has kicked-off another year of its successful Edinburgh Earth Observatory seminar series. This informal series combines research seminars with talks of professional interest and is open to students and staff across the University and beyond, together with professionals in the field working in Edinburgh and other parts of Scotland. Supported by the Association for Geographic Information in Scotland (AGI Scotland) as a professional seminar series, it aims to be inclusive and broad-ranging. The theme this year is ‘Past and Future GIS: Underground, Overground and Above Ground’. We look at Visualising Cities and their Transport Networks both past and future including London, this being the year of the 2012 London Olympics, and finally we include a number of 'local heroes' working with a range of Earth Observation data and GIS techniques here in Edinburgh. Each event is followed by informal GeoDrinks, which all members are welcome to attend even if you cannot make the seminar. Follow this link for further information AGI Social Event: Geo-Drinks Glasgow, 26 November NThis is an informal, social networking event in a Central Glasgow bar, organised by the AGI & sponsored by Forth Valley GIS. This event follows the Ordnance Survey One Scotland Mapping Agreement (OSMA) seminar, but is open to everyone and offers and excellent opportunity for networking and knowledge transfer across the full spectrum of geospatial disciplines - including GIS, mapping, CAD, surveying, BIM, Location Intelligence and more. When: From 4pm Monday 26 November, 2012 Where: Waxy O'Connor's, 44 West George Street, G2 1DH (Next to Queen Street Station) Why attend? As we know, 'Geo' and Location-based technologies and solutions are now not the preserve of GIS Professionals alone. Location-aware smartphone apps, geo-coded 'Tweets', crowed-sourced mapping and easy-to-use web maps are now in mainstream ICT and available to all. The AGI wants to embrace and encourage this cross-over and the new opportunities this brings to geospatial professionals. So take a break from your virtual social networks and develop your real professional and social network, both within our own discipline and the wider 'Geo' industries The event is free, but please register your attendance online. |
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| Forthcoming AGI Scotland Events for 2012 Humanising Archaeological GIS Prof. Gary Lock, Emeritus Professor of Archaeology, University of Oxford Institute of Geography, School of Geosciences, Drummond Street, Edinburgh Friday 23 November 2012, 4pm AGI Social Event: GeoDrinks Edinburgh This is an informal social event organised by AGI Scotland following the AGI Scotland EEO Seminar. This event is intended to encourage networking and knowledge transfer across the full spectrum of geospatial disciplines - including GIS, mapping, CAD, surveying, BIM, Location Intelligence and more. Library Bar, Teviot Row House, Edinburgh Friday 23 November 2012, from 5.30pm AGI Social Event: GeoDrinks Glasgow This is an informal, social networking event in a Central Glasgow bar, organised by the AGI & sponsored by Forth Valley GIS. Waxy O’Connor’s, 44 West George Street, Glasgow Monday 26 November 2012, from 4pm AGI Scotland Annual Conference 2013 This event will be held on Wednesday 27 February in Glasgow. Booking will open shortly, please save the date. |
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