Monday Morning (July 26, 2010 – 9:00am – 12:00pm)

GeoWeb 101 – An Overview of GeoWeb: The What, Why & Where of GeoWeb
Ron Lake (Galdos Systems Inc.)
Room 1200
Do you have a clear understanding of the GeoWeb? Do you know where it is headed? Can you see business opportunities? Do you see it impacting the delivery of government services? What is the GeoWeb anyway? Is it more than Virtual Globes? What standards and technologies does GeoWeb include ? How does BIM fit in? What is the connection between SDI and the GeoWeb? What is new about neogeography? Everything to always wanted to know about the GeoWeb but were afraid to ask, GeoWeb 101 is the perfect introduction to GeoWeb 2010 – Going Real Time.

ESRI Flex and AIR GeoSpatial Boot Camp
Duane Nickull (Adobe Systems, Inc.) & Mansour Raad (ESRI)
Room 1300
This is a course for those who wish to learn how to program ESRI based map applications using Adobe Flex and AIR technologies. The ubiquity of the free Flash player amongst mobile and web enable devices makes it one of the most desired technologies for development. In this course, you will get hands on training from basic Flex applications to advanced map creation in one day.

Authentication in Geospatial Federations - Challenges and Solutions
Andreas Matheus (University of the Bundeswehr) & Martin Kyle (Sierra Systems)
Room 1500
This workshop will illustrate the challenges that exist in applying SAML to the context of OGC Web Services; it will also propose solutions that include commonly available OGC client software—using the WMS as an example. We will structure the challenge of implementing OGC Web Services within an Identity Federation by separating existing scenarios according to the so called Federation and Portal Flow model. The workshop will close by outlining the implications to standardization and software development, based on the proposed the scenarios that we walk through.NOTE: We recommend that participants have good understanding of the SAML 2.0 standard (including SAML 2.0 Profiles and Bindings specification).

Introducing an Extensible Geospatial Simulation & Collaborative Platform
Mike Geertsen (Depiction, Inc.)
CN Strategy Room 2800
Depiction 1.2 is web-enabled desktop software that puts powerful GIS, simulation and collaboration tools in the hands of the individuals who know their communities best, whether trained professionals or “mapping-novices”. Depiction enables anyone to imagine, depict and share interactive geospatial scenarios –natural disasters, urban growth, logistical challenges and more. This workshop will explore the key features of Depiction, from its online and offline simulation tools to its customization and real-time collaboration abilities. NOTE: All workshop attendees will receive a complimentary full license of the Depiction software, a $199 value. Requires Windows XP, Vista or Windows 7.

Monday Afternoon (July 26, 2010 – 1:30pm – 4:30pm)

Building a Modern Mapping/GIS Stack with No Software Costs
Steven Citron-Pousty (ICF Jones & Stokes)& Paul Ramsey (OpenGeo)
Room 1300
You have seen all those cool mapping application, both on the desktop and on the web, and want to make some of your own nifty mapping applications. This workshop will give you all the tools you need to build a complete GIS Web mapping stack using a selection of free and open source tools. We will take that some shape files and put them into PostGIS. From there we will view, edit, and quickly analyze the data with open source GIS desktop tools. Moving onward and upward we will then set up GeoServer to serve this same data from PostGIS as KML as well as raster images. We will use WorldWindJava and Google Earth to interact and view the KML data. From there we will use GeoWebCache to cache tile layers from GeoServer. Finally, to build a web application we will use OpenLayers, to combine our custom tile or kml data with either Google Maps or OpenStreetMap coverage. The workshop will include instructions for moving from one step to the next. We will demonstrate some of the advanced features, showing how to build Web 2.0 type applications. My goal is to show you the steps to go from your spatial idea to mapping application, leaving you with a path to follow after you leave GeoWeb. We will be installing the software on windows or mac machines with all the software predownloaded.

Displaying New Features in Google Earth
Mano Mark (Google)
Room 1500
NOTE: This workshop was originally listed as “Google Earth API - Creating High Quality Applications and Tours” but it has been changed to the present description. Google Earth is the world’s most popular application for displaying geographic data. In the latest version of Google Earth, 5.2, Google added several new features for getting your geographic data in Google Earth, including improved GPX import, better support for vector and raster data import, and a new elevation profile mechanism. Come learn about the new features and get hands on experience converting your data to KML. Bring your shapefiles, high res raster data, and GPX files and a laptop. The first half of the workshop will be demonstrations. The second half will be a hands-on workshop. If you don’t have Google Earth Pro installed on your machine, download and install the 7 day trial just before the workshop so you can try out all the new features.

SDI Architectures – From Concept to Realization
David Burggraf & Darko Androsevic (Galdos Systems Inc.)
CN Strategy Room 2800
The workshop will explain the major architectural concepts and components of a Spatial Data Infrastructure implementation and its base technologies. The SDI implementation presented introduces and Event Driven Service Oriented Architecture (ED/SOA) design to realize a spatial service bus acting as a federated spatially aware autonomous data sharing infrastructure. This adaptive, agile and scalable system achieves its flexibility through its Peer-to-Peer network topology and a dynamic Publish/Subscribe/Notify service infrastructure for real-time data sharing. The presentation will include an introduction of important aspects of an SDI such as federated security measures and metadata management as enabling technologies to achieve a true System Wide Information Management or SWIM.