Geosciences Network (GEON)project portal.

Review of Harm de Blij's overview of geography and globalization.

Discovery, integration, management, and visualization of geoscience data with the goal of improving our understanding of the processes that have shaped the earth and our environment over time will be highlighted at the Geoinformatics 2008 Conference. Globalization of geoinformatics based research and education in support of meeting societal challenges will be a significant theme for the conference. The Conference provides an international forum for researchers and educators from earth and planetary sciences, and information technology/computer science to present new data, data analysis or modelling techniques, visualization schemes or technologies as they relate to developing the cyberinfrastructure for the geosciences.

n this paper I describe the approach we took to solving several issues we encountered while writing an application that visually tracks municipal-maintenance vehicles over a map in real-time. The application uses client-side scripting inside an SVG file to relay the information gathered by the server from the GPS units. The main difference with existing systems is that this application runs over the internet, and the vehicles move in real-time while you watch them