Technical SIG
Geographical Information Systems is ubiquitous throughout our everyday lives. Whilst many of us are aware of the more visible elements there are far more hidden applications yielding significant influence over our lives on a daily basis. Regardless of the visibility and scale of impact on our lives, they all reliant on the unseen underlying technology and data.
The Technical Special Interest Group of the AGI strives to provide a technically minded forum and community within the AGI. It is critical that professional users have an understanding of the underlying technology, its principles, its potential and its limitations. Only when armed with this deeper understanding are you able to make fully informed decisions.
The aims of the Technical SIG are:
- to build a community utilising social network sites, existing technical resources and organised events.
- to act as a forum for developing technical awareness and maximise the spread of knowledge and understanding in the aim of realising the greater potential of Geographic Information across all disciplines.
Details of recent and forthcoming Technical SIG events are provided in these pages. Over the coming months more content will be added.
The Technical SIG is coordinated by a small steering committee comprising members from public and private organisations including academics, vendors, developers and GI practitioners.
Committee members
Chair - Mike Saunt
Secretary - Iain Burnell
Membership Coordinator - Andrew Thompson
Event Organiser - Andy Cox
Web Coordinator - Chris Ewing
If you would like to join the AGI Technical SIG, please forward your name and contact details to Mike Saunt, at mikesaunt@astuntechnology.com
Upcoming Events
Augmented Reality Evening Lecture - 31st May 2012
Register for this free for members event here
AGI / OGC Interoperability Day - Open Government and Open Standards - 22nd June 2012
Register for this FREE event here
Past Events
AGI Cymru Open-Source Event - 13th March 2012
Presentations from this event can be downloaded from here
AGI Evening Lecture on Linked Data – 23rd February 2012
AGI Members met at the AGI offices on Thursday 23rd February 2012 for an evening lecture given by John Goodwin (Ordnance Survey) on Linked Data and Location.
The event was attended by over 50 people and the lecture was widely praised. John covered an introduction to linked data and its relevance to location, and focussed on challenges around constructing linked data for geographic and spatial information. Examples were given on work being done at Ordnance Survey and the UK Location Programme, along with possible implications for INSPIRE.
You can find the lecture from the event at the link below.
Linked Data and Location Lecture - John Goodwin
Linked Data Event - 22nd November 2011
AGI Technical SIG members met at the AGI offices on Tuesday 22nd November to talk about and try out Linked Data.
Mike Saunt and Chris Ewing provided an overview of Linked Data and what it means to the UK GeoCommunity.
There was then a short hands-on workshop with attendees playing with real Linked Data examples.
You can find presentations from the event in the links below.
If you missed this event, don’t worry! A new #TechSIG event is planned for early 2012 provisionally titled “Linked Data Part II”. Watch this space!
Linked Data: An Overview - Chris Ewing
Linked Data: Technical Workshop - Mike Saunt
