Friday 7th June 2002
09.30 Coffee (Room 2.01)
10.00 Welcome (Room 2.13)
10.10 Session: Bringing the People to GIS, or GIS to the People?
Chair: Sara Revell (Mott MacDonald)
Breaking the Boundaries: Integrating 150 years of Census Data
Ian Gregory (University of Portsmouth)
Bringing Location Based Services to Market - Pitfalls and Pleasures
David Halsey (Informed Solutions)
11.10 Coffee
11.30 Session: New Frontiers
Chair: Iain Woodhouse (University of Edinburgh)
Taking Master Map into the Third Dimension
Sarah Smith (Ordnance Survey and UCL)
Bridging the Gap - Delivering Customisable Teaching Materials to
Enhance Utilisation of Geographic Data
Emma Sutton (Data Library, University of Edinburgh)
12.30 Lunch
14.00 Session: Sleight of Hand with Maps and Images
Chair: Neil Stuart (University of Edinburgh)
Lies, damned lies and choropleth maps
Mike Forster (GeoWise)
Seeing is believing, or is it?
Tim Malthus (University of Edinburgh)
15.00 Tea
15.20 Session: Interacting with the User
Chair: Bruce Gittings (University of Edinburgh)
Beyond GIS and all that rubbish
Murray Roden (ESRI)
Practical interfaces to ecological data: Possibilities and Issues
David Howes (Compliance Services International, USA)
16.20 Open Forum
Chair: Fiona Bruce (Ordnance Survey)
17.20 Close
FRIDAY EVENING: From 6.00pm Pear Tree (opp. Appleton Tower)
8.00pm Restaurant (Ti Amo, South Bridge)
c.10.30pm Brass Monkey (Drummond Street)
SATURDAY EVENT: From 3.00pm 'til v.late BBQ at Bruce's House (Tel: 667 0184)
26 Cameron March (by Cameron Toll Shopping Centre)
Bring Meat and Booze. Sausages, salads, rolls and other basics provided.