GISUpdate Conference - Contact: gisupd@geo.ed.ac.uk

GIS UPDATE '02 PROGRAMME

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.