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.