CEBIT fair Hannover

  • Posted on: 6 February 2013
  • By: feringa

Every year the Geoinformatics Master Degree students pay a visit to the CEBIT fair in Hannover (Germany). The Dutch representative of the Hannover Fair (Hannover Consultancy BV) supports us by donating free tickets for the fair. For this year there are far more tickets than needed. For those who are interested to go, follow the link to register and download a free ticket: http://www.cebit.de/en/promo?uxhv2.

The CeBIT is the world's largest and most international computer expo. The trade fair is held each year on the Hanover fairground, the world's largest fairground, in Hanover, Germany, and is considered a barometer of the state of the art in information technology. This year the fair takes place from March 5 till March 9.
CeBIT is the international forum where professionals come to evaluate industry trends and discover the latest technology products and solutions.

CeBit exhibits products and services in categories such as:

  • CeBIT lab - Research + Development for Innovative ICT
    Ambient Intelligence, D Technologies, Applied Research, Corporate Research, Basic Research, Internet of Things & Services and Web 3.0 and more...
  • CeBIT pro - Professional ICT
    Digital Learning Solutions, Business Communications & Networks, Open Source Solutions, Professional Output, Virtualisation, Internet Solutions and more...
  • CeBIT gov - ICT Solutions for the Public Sector
    Cloud Computing, eGovernment, eEducation, Geoinformation systems, Homeland Security/Disaster Prevention and more...
  • CeBIT life - ICT Solutions for Consumers
    Web & Media, Smart Home, games and more...
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geoinformation
research
IT
Internet
Open Source
communication

Proving a point: animated cities

  • Posted on: 2 February 2013
  • By: köbben

For those that were in the discussion at the research meeting: The two cities whose size is data-dependent and controlled by a slider, done in pure HTML5 (no external JS libs needed):

The version shown here works in most browsers (expect possibly IE < 7). An even more elegant version we have [link to stand-alone version] uses HTML sliders (lovely things, a complete slider with one line of HTML) but that works currently only in Safari, Chrome, Opera or Webkit. The one working in FireFox uses a little extra Javascript... You can look at the HTML source to find only some SVG & HTML and about 12 lines of Javascript... Surely we should be able to teach this to our students....?
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javascript
Web applications

How about a Mercator Puzzle

  • Posted on: 31 January 2013
  • By: morales

The Google Maps API has a new function called Draggable Polygons. To illustrate its functionality, they have created a simple game where you are task to place 15 polygons, representing countries, in the right location. Since the geodesic property to the polygons has been set to true, their shapes change accordingly as you move them over the
map.

Try your luck or better say your geography knowledge here: The Mercator Puzzle

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mercator

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