Leading Edge Power Outage Communications using Interactive Maps
Keith Skelton, Accenture |
| In the winter of 2006-2007, British Columbia was faced with one of the most severe storm seasons in recent history, which was with five major storms. In the spring of 2007, the Outage Communication Initiative was started. One of their initiatives was to enhance outage information online by providing a web based outage mapping solution to the public. Developed later that year, the solution presents useful, visual, accurate storm information in a timely manner to mitigate the impacts of an outage. |
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Local Government SDIs in a Modern Web Delivered Architecture
Jon Polay, eSpatial Inc. |
| This talk looks at the emerging drive towards development & deployment of integrated information systems for local government organisations. By using modern geospatial technologies including the business reasons & trends behind this drive, the key technologies, challenges encountered including interoperability with other GIS technologies & how this relates to SDI principles. A number of live examples will be used of systems delivered to UK local government deployments. |
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STAR: an OGC Standards Compliant Virtual Globe and GeoWeb Hosting Platform for Commercial Enterprise
Russell Huff, Waterstone Environmental Hydro & Eng |
| STAR is a standards compliant GeoWeb platform enabling users to create geographically based mash-ups of independent web services, in the moment, for decision support. The client side of the system is based on a freely available, highly extensible, virtual globe capable of consuming any OGC compliant service. The server side of the system is also OGC compliant based on Minnesota Mapserver and PostGIS in conjunction with a W3C standards compliant security model. |
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TomuDB: Heterogenous and Multi-Resolution Database for Urban Sensor Information
Niwat Thepvilojanapong, Tokyo Denki University |
| For urban information collected by sensor networks, we have developed a distributed database called TomuDB. Nodes of TomuDB can be accessed via web services and are connected with each other on an Internet overlay and collaboratively queries to another that is likely to answer the queries. Each query includes the requirement of resolution. |
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