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The ICA Working Group on Incremental Updating
and Versioning held it’s fourth annual meeting at the
Bundesamt für Kartographie und Geodäsie (BKG) in Frankfurt am
Main, Germany, on 14 and 15 October 2002. This took the form
of a joint workshop sponsored by the
ICA
with the International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote
Sensing’s (ISPRS) Intercommission WG II/IV (systems for
automated geo-spatial data production and updating from
imagery) and the Eurogeographics Research and Development
Forum. Twenty delegates from 12 countries participated in
this, the Third Joint Workshop on the Incremental Updating and
Versioning of Spatial Data Bases, which consisted of
theoretical and practical papers, with lively discussions
during and after the presentations. We would like to thank
very much Prof-Dr Dietmar Grũnreich, the President of BKG, for
his hospitality and his generous offer to host future meetings
of the Working Group. We would also like to thank very much
the staff at BKG who helped with all the arrangements,
especially Dr Andreas Busch.
It became clear that as incremental updating
and versioning are critical aspects of spatial database
maintenance, they should be looked at holistically. We
revisited the concepts of incremental updating and versioning
that were drawn up at our previous workshop in Beijing, China,
and will flesh them out over the next few months as part of
the Working Group’s work. We intend publishing these concepts
and best practices as our second publication, prior to the 22nd
International Cartographic Conference (ICC) in A Coruña,
Spain, in July 2005.
Our first book, proposed during the 20th
ICC in Beijing, is currently in preparation and aims to
reflect the current status of the practice and theory of
incremental updating and versioning. We hope to release this
book at the 21st ICC in Durban, South Africa, in
August 2003. We plan to have a three day workshop just before
the ICC in Durban, where we will concentrate on elaborating on
the concepts and best practices of incremental updating and
versioning. Provisionally, the 4th joint workshop
on the Incremental Updating and Versioning of Spatial Data
Bases will take place in Durban near the venue for the ICC,
from Friday 8 to Sunday 10 August 2003.
Details of the Working Group, the workshops and
our progress may be found on our Web site at:
http://geo.haifa.ac.il/nicaupdt
Ammatzia Peled
Antony Cooper
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