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- Had a look at http://local.live.com/
- Installed and had another look at World Wind (1.3.5.)
- Interoperability Day (OGC and AGI Linked Event)
- Nice chat with Zoe from British Waterways who manages their GIS :)
- Speeker slides will be on the AGI website
- http://inspire.jrc.it/
- Norways SDI
- US SDI
- They know how important this is and I expect they are developing something pretty open
- The talk mainly outlined the need and enevitability of an Open Spatial Data Infrstructure
- Of course not all of a national SDI is going to be open for all use
- Restrictions for emergency situation and national security
- Restrictions for government use
- Majority open for all
- What level of service must they offer?
- UK SDI
- Maps on tap
- Steve Peters
- Alec Walker
- Department for Government and Local Communities (formerly ODPM)
- QinetiQ developed the solution
- DGLC is the "department of place"
- I tried but could not get a login
- Hopefully Steve Peters will open a dor for me
- IDEE Geoportal
- Danish National Survey and Cadastre
- Kort and Matrikelstyrelsen
- Thorben
- Asked a question of the pannel to try and help:
- The question was to identify if research was being done into the development of national SDI. INSPIRE is doing this within Europe, but is best practice being identified and used to its fullest? Does spain have the most open SDI? Is it also the most advanced SDI?
- I am of the opinion that the Spanish SDI is
- open
- advanced
- interoperable
- Is its advanced state due mainly to its open nature?
- Do I percieve it being advanced because I cannot access yet the others?
- What lessons can be learned from this?
- Was it based on another open SDI? The Australians and Canandians are making similar SDI?
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- OGC Technical Committee Meeting
- Emailed Linda See with possible items for the SoG newsletter
- Louis Hecht showed me Openstreetmap when I showed him my sketch up
- Louis says it was made by a bunch of guys riding around on mountain bikes and is all free data
- We had a nice discussion about computer games :)
- Made a very basic Google Sketch Up of a the School of Geography for Google Earth (Release 4 - BETA)
- Nice chat with Bruce Gittings :)
- http://www.geoweb.org
- Looks interesting but am already planning to go elsewhere...
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- OGC Technical Committee Meeting
- GISOLVE Portal
- Emailed Paul and Mark about MoSeS portal development
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- OGC Technical Committee Meeting
- MetroQuest
- Closed source software for SimCity type planning
- Looks good but very little detail and not open...
- GeoRSS
- Cool! Sort out some examples on personal website...
- GeoAPI Working Group
- Semantics is the study of language meaning.
- QED Quite Easily Done HoHo!
- Identified the N8 Northern Way Universities
- Integrating digital libraries and electronic publishing in the DART project
- Gordon Dahlquist
- Brian Hoffman
- David Millman
- DSpace Project
- Fedora Project : An Open-Source Digital Repository Management System
- Ian Turton processed the 1991 household SAR by swapping in close matching Individual SAR records for household individuals
- I'm not sure what the differences in 1991 and 2001 SAR data is...
- Was the household SAR for individuals in 1991 as it is in 2001?
- this is one way to ensure SAR records have the same variable definitions
- an alternative to using a staitistical method to disaggregate a variable
- this is also a way to create extra synthetic households from which we can select (impute/boost sample)
- Using China Grid increases risk of a release of confidential information?
- KML bus routes from Leeds
- Not a bad first attempt... When all the stops are on it will be much better. When this is linked with timetable etc it will be good!
- http://www.geograph.org.uk/
- http://en.know-center.at/geoweb/
- http://schemas.opengis.net/gml/3.1.1/
- Unavailable for SOCMED06
- Asked Dianna Smith if she would collect details on the following for me:
- 2006-09-14 10:40-11:00 Room 108 Does distance matter? Geographical variation in the use of general practice out-of-hours services J TURNBULL et al
- 2006-09-14 12.55-13.15 Room B8 The impact of internal migration on population health in Scotland D BROWN et al
- 2006-09-15 10:40-11:00 Room B8 Who get missed out in a longitudinal study based on the census? D O’ REILLY et al
- OGC Technical Committee Meeting
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- Great! Got access to ncess.ac.uk machine so can change MoSeS Web Pages at NCeSS :)
- Great! Together with Paul we solved the coordinate transformation system rendering problem :)
- Great! Together with Paul we solved the coordinate transformation system rendering problem :)
- Great! Paul has solved the Sakai build failure problem that has haunted me for a year... For some reason the build.properties file has to be in the Windows home directory, rather than the sakai source directory or maven home directory... Not sure that the documentation is clear about this, but anyway, now we are running :) Nice one Paul and many thanks Xiaobo :)
- MoSeS meeting with Paul to sort out GeoTools rendering of UK shapefile data...
- Managing Uncertainty in Dynamic Socio-economic Systems: An Application to UK Uplands meeting with Mette and Nanlin
- Nanlin, Mette, Andy
- Getting started with Agent Based Modelling in Geography
- Use interviews to identify priorities and guide the model development
- It is not reasonable to expect a general model for all the issues to be constructed
- The project on the whole are aware that they need to make some decisions about the issue for each case study and stick with it
- I explained that my involvement on the project was now on a voluntary basis and that the main forums for getting expert advice from me are MASS and CCG meetings
- Nanlin's main contact for GIS work is now Brian Irvine
- Prepare MoSeS progress report for Mark...
- Nightmare! Servers gone down due to electrical fault...
- Prepare MoSeS progress report for Mark...
- MoSeS meeting
- MoSeS coding...
- Perhaps should look not to control (constrain) by age but optimise and use CASUV004 (single year age upto 75 then grouped) for optimisation.
- Visited my friend and mentor Stan Openshaw :) Great to see you Stan :)
- Sorted travel and accomodation for upcoming OGC and AHRC meetings
- The Rise and Fall of CORBA. ACM Queue vol. 4, no. 5 - June 2006 by Michi Henning, ZeroC
- MoSeS coding - back to handling the Household SAR...
- AGEH is more of a problem than first thought given the way it has been aggregated. I think Jianhui Jin has done some work on changing the data to give single years of age based on some form of maximum likelihood. It might be better for us to use this re-worked data, or incorporate what Jin has done in MoSeS. In the meantime I will work on a rough composite aggregation that allows as much of the age profile to be controlled (constrained) to as seems reasonable.
- An example of the problem. AGEH is for 2 year bands from 0-2 upwards to 80+. So we are a bit stumped on aggregating to any single year age e.g. 15 (although that can be merged in age groups 10-15 for CAS data readily). For other age groups like 25-29 we have more of a problem. We can consider subsdituting AGEH 24-27 or 26-29 or we can group 20-59 for CAS as this fits with aggregates of those aggregations. I prefer to implement the latter of these for a control (constraint) and hope that the age profile comes out in the wash (optimisation)...
- Can we use the following in MoSeS? For further information see CDU website
- Mosaic UK household classification - Mosaic UK is a market-leading consumer segmentation product. It classifies all 24 million UK households into 11 groups, 61 types and 243 segments, and is updated annually.
- Median Household Income - Experian has used a multi-stage process to create models that predict personal and household income. Using data from a number of surveys, including MORI's Financial Tracking Survey, models have been developed to predict personal income for a number of standard employment types. These were then accumulated to create household income based on the composition of the household.
- Population Projections - Using methodologies developed in accordance with JICPOPs (Joint Industry Council for Population Standards), Experian have produced contemporary estimates, as well as five-year and ten-year projections of resident populations split by gender and age.
- Seems like the MoSeS demo at SC2006 is to go ahead :)
- Produced Version 0.1.0 of Review Page
- Produced Version 0.0.1 of Andy Turner's OGC Page
- MoSeS coding - back to handling the Household SAR...
- Still having trouble with ssh to one of the ncess machines... Emailed Tobias again... Nothing to do with Tobias, my PC needs a new IP address! IT are on the case...
- Event of interest: 2nd International Conference on Geosensor Networks (GSN'06) October 1 - 3, 2006, Boston, USA
- Replied to Mark Baker's email about VRE II... Need to think some more about this...
- MoSeS coding - back to handling the Household SAR... Can't help feeling this is a big waste of time... Why can't we access the individual records? Why have the inidivual records been aggregated? In particular with the HSAR the AGEH variable is very annoyingly aggregated differently to the ISAR and other Age CAS tables? The organisation that makes decisions on how to aggregate these data seems to be wasting resources...
- Having trouble with ssh to one of the ncess machines... Tobias helping out...
- MoSeS Meeting
- The Data Documentation Initiative
- Introduced to Sarah who has come to lecture in the school of geography on critical aspects (by Stuart Hodkinson). We had an interesting conversation around the conscious unconscious actor processors and fuzzy thinking. She is a geographer but is not willing to admit it yet. She has a clear understanding of the fuzzy nature of interactions.
- Stuart mentioned that the CIA or Pentagon might be funding or developing research on online social networks
- In a subject where large scale commercial enterprise leads a way, other than banging their heads against the floor, how do university researchers manage to be involved in ground breaking research?
- One need is for organisation and collaboration throughout the academic community
- Yet individual players in commercial/industry sector outwith the academic sector may be massive in comparison and with much larger available resources
- Arguably there is a need to collaborate between different sectors and bring together government, industry and academic research towards common problem focussed goals
- Some greater level of coordination should reduce the amount of wasted resource and duplication of research
- Globalization and World Cities - Study Group & Network
- GeoInfomratics article:Open Source and Open Standards in Geospatial Technologies: Two Kinds of Open Come Together Nice one!
- RELU: Sustainable Uplands: Managing Uncertainty in Dynamic Socio-Economic Systems: An Application to UK Uplands: Co-Investigator Meeting 2006-06-14
- Moorland fire at South Crossland (South Crosland sp?), near Huddersfield, on evening 2006-06-11
- It is imperative that we develop spatial UK scale high resolution geographic maps of the regions we are interested in to answer spatially
- Where are
- uplands?
- moorland?
- white peak?
- dark peak?
- peat?
- moorland?
- blanket bog?
- semi water saturated uplands?
- limestone uplands?
- areas used
- for grazing?
- water farming?
- forestrey?
- Where are areas are abandoned to agricultural/land use?
- Where are the uses/animals etc... that cross over and use uplands?
- Seasonal variability in use and characteristics
- What resolution do we need to use?
- Where are where are there not stakeholder networks?
- What are the issues of temporal change?
- At different times in history moorland has been used for different things as climate has been very different e.g. Dartmoor
- Potential Input data
- Land cover 2000
- DEMs
- Aerial photographs
- For the peak district
- focus on an area called dark peak
- S3 boundary for the dark peak is available
- this does not include lowlands
- Brian will produce a new boundary for the area of interest
- What spatial and temporal resolutions and scales are we interested in, are the data at, and what is feasible?
- Clarification of my involvement is required
- Need to know if any resource is coming my way for involvement in this project
- The original plan was that a significant (50%) involvement of my time would be for this project
- When I took the MoSeS job I downgraded this involvement
- Now the situation is that no resources is allocated for my involvement
- This situation has come about as at one time it was expected that my involvement would be mutually beneficial for MoSeS and this project, but this may not still be the case
- Joe is to speak with Mark Birkin as my staff manager to clarify this
- I still want to be involved and provide expert guidance and attend meetings, but this will happen without a propper allocation of resource
- Mette ABM
- Major issues
- Demographic change (Is this still important?)
- CAP reform
- Climate Change, Carbon Balance and burning
- Land use change and management
- Recreation
- Traditional farming
- What about the water framework directive?
- What about Wildlanding, Military and energy farming uses?
- Choice of Study Sites
- Mark took notes on flipchart also for this part of the meeting
- Logic
- Are we looking for similar catchments?
- Are we looking for very different catchments?
- Yes, in the proposal this was our concern so that we could generalise UK uplands
- Are we focussing on hot topics or key issues?
- Yorkshire Water
- Keen to get involved in a small catchment study
- Interested in a radical approach
- Interested in other stakeholder opinions
- Yorkshire Dales, Teesdale (Northern Pennines and North Yokshire Moors?)
- Manager of Yorkshire Dales National Park keen to get involved
- Interested in pressure of recreation
- North Pennines Heritage Trust
- Various work on these areas involved members of the group
- Scotland
- Different political system
- More uplands in Scotland than elsewhere
- Estates versus National Trust
- Biophysical differences
- Origianlly chose Galloway to deal with forestry and fishing
- Southern uplands is favourite site to choose in Scotland
- Preference for 3 sites
- Peak District
- Yorkshire Dales/Northern Pennines/Teesdale/Eden)
- Galloway
- Preparation for Staff Review meeting...
MoSeS coding... MSOA aggregation... Data cooking... Results presentation...
- Email Valentina publication details... done!
- Preparation for Staff Review meeting tomorrow...
- Great lunch! Thanks Paul :) Good to meet you Nick :)
- MASS meeting cancelled... Nevermind!
- MoSeS coding... MSOA aggregation... Data cooking... Results presentation... Version 2 results are pretty good it turns out... Just mapped LLTI at OA and MSOA level and the results are very pleasing and interesting... Clearly we should be using cartograms for displaying these data... I wonder if Mark will change his mind...
- Started off the day with some mapping... I've not made a geographic map for too long...
- Leeds Humanities Research Institute Meeting 2006-06-07
- 14 of us
- Richard Morris
- Steve Carver
- Ian Lawson
- Joe
- ...
- Convenor to email
- I am to help set up the virtual organisation
- The Landscape Research Centre
- Domonic
- The three A's of Archaeology
- General need to quantify and qualify archaelogy
- Dots on maps
- Archaeological sampling and inference is generally poorly done
- Need help with GPR and geophysical techniques
- JSP and server side is much better if were going to support mobile client
- Flood modelling
- Ground levels change, so does drainage direction...
- Work on vale of Pickering
- Image analysis
- 30 years of aerial photogrphy
- Lidar
- Multi-spectral
- Stuff not on the web as bastards with metal detectors would be all over it!
- Demographic assumptions of the last n millenia do not hold!
- Scale and density of medieval pickering is far higher than anything thought of before
- Discussion
- Data
- Ordnance Survay mastermap successor needed?
- Major leaps in historical understanding are being made
- The reckoning Jars with the conventional wisdom ando the established academics are attacking this research
- Archaeological record might help calibration past climate change
- Technology
- Grid computing
- Security 3As
- Authentication, Authorisation, Access
- Issues of portal creation
- Google Earth
- Geographical Data Mining
- Neural net pattern detection
- Archaelogist are getting more of an idea about what scales are interesting
- Stakeholders
- Conflicts of land use and archaeology common
- Need to set up a virtual organisation
- Need to go away and meditate
- Funding
- AHRC landscape funds available
- Project Ideas
- Permanent active laboratory need £20 million
- Emailed EGC
- As my old geography teacher might say "long live socio-economical-political-physical geography!" believe it or not, his name was Mr Green and he specialised in India and explaining the physical evolution and biosystems and the effects of resources on people... A geographer indeed, bridging the divide between the social and physical sciences.
- On a less serious note, I hope you're enjoying the BBC Climate Chaos season as much as me :) The debate is hotting up... I chanced upon the following which you might find interesting: http://cosmicvariance.com/2006/06/04/the-entire-planet/
- Shoot me down in a blaze of glory! We're all human, we're all physical and we're all going to die! Hahahahahahahaha... where is my plane ticket...
- Sorry I've not been joining you of late, they have my nose to the gridstone trying to sculpt something beautiful from UK human population data... It's like trying to sculpt with powder (sigh)! Anyway, I'm sure you'll be pleased to know you're all in the model...
- MoSeS coding... MSOA aggregation... Data cooking... This is taking longer than I had hoped... Done CASKS008... Done CAS001... Done CAS002...
- Emailed Paul about GIS technology...
- Emailed Paul and Mark MSOA data for Leeds...
- http://cosmicvariance.com/2006/06/04/the-entire-planet/
- MoSeS coding... MSOA aggregation...
- ASAP Breakfast 2006-06-05
- Phil, Mark, Kirk, Diana, Alison, Dan, Graham, John, Helen, Andy Turner
- Signiture on bottom of emails
- I put forward my preference for a minimalistic signature which points to the senders Web Home Page
- This should not annoy list mail
- This will keep long threads where there is much exchange a little shorter
- It should also encourage people to keep web pages up-to-date
- Emailed thanks to Wouter for RBPAM talk 2006-06-01 and reminded him about Andy Nelson and CIAT CGIAR friends
- One page leaflet discussion
- Phil doesn't like the current content and has also fed ideas back to linda (I fed back too!)
- We want something sooner than the rest of the school (for an upcoming population geography conference)
- Want something glossy?
- Upcoming population geography conferences in Liverpool
- Launch
- Still need names and contact details
- I still don't really know who they want to come to this
- Discussed venues
- Bretton Hall suggestion went down like a lead balloon
- Provisional date 2006-10-04
- Suggested tying it in with the School Seminar, but we're too late as the seminar program is now fixed
- Where do the attendees/invitees live?
- This is an interesting geographical study in its own right!
- I suppose the university knows where all its employees live...
- Social science and medicine conference in Leeds in September
- Diana knows about this (I didn't find a web page)
- John described some goings on with ESRC
- Evelyn Bacher(sp?) from Kluwer is coming to talk with John and Mark about ASAP journal
- CIDER 3 year appointment RA grade 6 and 7 needed
- Evelyn who visited last week enjoyed her visit and will be back in September
- MoSeS coding... Household SAR data handler... running tests... done!
- Brainstorm with Rodolfo on visibility analysis... He has not thought about convex slopes... Clearly there are other problems...
- Brainstorm with Alona on data analysis... Boxplots are good first step...
- Need to test if changes to toGreyScaleImage() are correct
- I am to go to OGC meeting in Edinburgh
- Registered for the Grid ad hoc
- RBPAM meeting and follow brainstorm
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