Friday 14th June 2013
09.30 Coffee (Old Library) 10.00 Welcome (Room 2.13) Bruce Gittings (University of Edinburgh) 10.10 Session: Applications in Local Government Chair: Anne Altringham (Scottish Borders Council) Exploiting the Web to provide citizen services to Edinburgh Mike Steven (City of Edinburgh Council) Using GIS methods to create a cadastral map for local government in Chile Esteban Soto-Marquez (Universidad Tecnolica Metropolitana, Chile) 11.10 Coffee 11.30 Session: Forests and Remote Sensing Chair: Iain Woodhouse (University of Edinburgh) Forestry Commission use of Remote Sensing - Updating the National Forest Inventory Christine Brown (Forestry Commission) Using Satellite Radar to describe the Structure of a Tropical Pine Woodland Dimitris Michelakis (University of Edinburgh) 12.30 Lunch 14.00 Session: The World of GIS Chair: Neil Stuart (University of Edinburgh) Everything is Spatial: An Recent Graduate's Insight into Geo-Entrepreneurship Paul Georgie (GeoGeo Solutions) An Auld Gowk's Guide to the GIS Workplace Mike Adam (Consultant) 15.15 Tea 15.45 Session: Moving into the Future Chair: Bruce Gittings (University of Edinburgh) DIY crowd sourcing georeferenced data Tom Armitage (EDINA) Who Moved My Cheese?: A retrospective on the changing nature of GIS Chris Barber (ESRI) 16.45 Open Forum Chair: Bruce Gittings (University of Edinburgh) 17.30 Close FRIDAY EVENING: From 6.00pm Pear Tree (opp. Appleton Tower) 7.30pm 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 to make sure its on if weather poor) 26 Cameron March (by Cameron Toll Shopping Centre) Bring Meat (if you want to) and Booze. Sausages, salads, rolls and other basics provided.