 When a domain is relatively new, the terminology is often imprecise, and many different words many be coined and used by different organizations and individuals with none of them realizing that they are talking about essentially the same thing. This is substantially true for the use of Digital City and SDI as applied to urban environments. |
 The TCU Place conference hall in the center of Saskatoon, Canada was the location of the Agri-Trend 2009 Farm Forum Event held November 18 and 19. With about 1200 leading farm producers from across the Canadian prairies in attendance, this year's theme was 'Harvest A World of Ideas.' |
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 Photogrammetry continues to evolve and today the study of photogrammetry remains important. Armin Gruen has previously served as Head of the Chair of Photogrammetry at the Institute of Geodesy and Photogrammetry, Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zuerich, Switzerland. V1 Magazine editor Jeff Thurston interviewed him recently to learn about his life long passion of photogrammetry, the beginnings of what would become the CyberCity company and his work as one of the original members of the Board for Digital Earth.
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UK Smart Utility Summit, Dec. 8-10, London, UK
National Seminar on Land Use Planning for Agricultural Development, Dec 10, Uttar Pradesh, India
GeoTunisia '09, Dec 16-20, Tunis, Tunisia
6th Intl Conference on Environmental, Cultural, Economic and Social Sustainability, Han 5-7, Cuenca, Ecuador
GeoDesign Summit, Jan. 6-8, Redlands, Calif.
Map India, Jan. 19-21, Gurgaon, India
Second International Conference on Management of Natural Resources, Sus Dev and Ecology, Dec. 15-17, West Cape, South Africa
South Carolina GIS Conference, Jan. 25, Columbia, S.C.
SPAR 2010, Feb. 8-10, The Woodlands, Texas
ESRI Federal User Conference, Feb. 17-19, Washington, D.C.
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The Fourth Part of the World: The Race to the Ends of the Earth, and the Epic Story of the Map That Gave America Its Name (2009)
By Toby Lester
In 2003, the Library of Congress paid $10 million for the only existing copy of the 1507 map that was the first to show the New World and call it America. Lester traces the map's journey to America over the next century in a majestic tribute to a historic work.
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Green Metropolis (2009)
By David Owen
The environmental movement's disdain for cities and fetishization of open space, backyard compost heaps, locavorism and high-tech gadgetry like solar panels and triple-paned windows is, he warns, a formula for wasteful sprawl and green-washed consumerism.
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By Christopher Alexander
The second of three books published by the Center for Environmental Structure to provide a "working alternative to our present ideas about architecture, building, and planning,"
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