It’s interesting to see what’s being done with web maps these days: http://mapstory.org. Tell your story with maps, whether it’s the settlement history of North America or the development of the New York subway system. The underlying technology is http://www.geonode.org, a solution that sees itself as a Geosolutions Content Management System.

In addition, the day was all about the QGIS project, which has just released the new version 2.0. An overview of the new features can be found here: http://www.slideshare.net/nathanwoodrow/all-the-new-cool-stuff-in-qgis-20. QGIS is now much more than just a desktop GIS, because with QGIS-Server and the QGIS client based on OpenLayers and GeoExt, there is now a solution for a complete SDI.

Very interesting for all those whose fingers have been twisted when creating SLDs so far is the possibility to save QGIS map styles as SLD and thus use them directly in GeoServer, for example.

The 1st conference day was rounded off with the Social Event. From a culinary point of view, the evening was all about English, Irish, Scottish and Welsh cuisine and ended with British comedy.