GISRUK 2008 IS NOW OVER
GISRUK 2008 was hosted by UNIGIS UK at the Manchester Metropolitan University from 2-4 April 2008.
POST CONFERENCE INFORMATION
Thanks to everyone who contributed to a very successful GISRUK conference at the Manchester Metropolitan University. We hope you found the event useful and enjoyable.
GISRUK 2008 PRIZEWINNERS
Congratulations to the following GISRUK 2008 prize-winners:
- AGI Prize for best paper: Jason Dykes for the paper "Exploring Volunteered Geographic Information to Describe Place: Visualization of the 'Geograph British Isles' Collection" by Jason Dykes, Ross Purves, Alistair Edwardes and Jo Wood.
Prizes for Best Papers presented by Students are:
- 1st (Sponsored by CadCorp) Anna Mason for "Surveying by motion tracking: tha application of GIS, camera tracking and animation software to model 3D subterranean landscape from video imagery" by Anna E mason and Jonathon Raper
- 2nd (Sponsored by Edina and GIScRG) Craig Foot for "Mind the Gap: Reuniting the Tube network with underlying spatial themes" by Craig Foot and Pragya Agarwal
- 3rd (Sponsored by GIScRG) Sarah Goodwin for "Do local information systems hide the bigger picture? An analytical approach to measuring the strength of local boundaries" by Sarah Goodwin and Jason Dykes
CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS
The papers given at the conference are now available to download as pdf files and can be found on the Proceedings page:
CONFERENCE PHOTOS
A collection of photos taken during the conference can be viewed in the Photo Gallery at:
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GISRUK CONFERENCES
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