GIS Open 2006 organised by College of Geoinformatics, University of West Hungary

Tamás Prajczer of GeoX Ltd. in action. Image: HUNAGI Visual Resources


GIS Open 2006 Conference devoted to "e-Public Administration" was a showcase of the recent Hungarian developments.

Székesfehérvár, 16-17 March

Organised by Prof.Béla Márkus of the College of Geoinformatics, University of West Hungary by the 10th occasion, the rich program of the conference include presentations in the following topics
Legislation framework and Government:
Amendment of the Law on Land registration according to the e-Public Administration (N.Berczi, Deputy State Secretary MoARD)
The core tasks related to e-Public Administration (A.J.Németh, Z.Sikolya, MoIC)
Modernisation of the Land Administration and the e-Public Administration (D.Szendrő, DLAG MoARD)
Advances in the Digital Cadaster (S.Simon, National Cadaster Program Public Benefit Company)
National Spatial Data Infrastructure Program (S.Mihály, FÖMI)
National Spatial Data Infrastructure Strategy - present stage of the document elaborated by the Interministerial Task Force (G.Remetey-Fülöpp, DLAG MoARD/HUNAGI)
Impact of the EU INSPIRE initiative (P.Lévai - G.Iván, FÖMI)
Digital Land Office (S.Tóth, DLAG MoARD)
Operation of the Land Office Network's Change Monitoring and Messenger Service (P.Zalaba, DLAG MoARD)
New services launched using the Land Office's TAKARNET data and document transmission network (Z.Weninger, FÖMI)
Hungarian Digital Orthophoto Program based on the Aerial Surveys of 2000 and 2005 & Digital Topography
(P.Winkler, FÖMI)
CORINE Land Cover Databases for the Environment (G.Büttner, FÖMI RSC)
Remotely Sensed Data and Know-how for use by the Government (G.Csornai, FÖMI RSC)
Re-use of Public Sector Information: EU Directive and implementation in Hungary (Z.Forgács, FÖMI)
The nature of the Hungarian metadata services and their conformity with the standards (T.Vass, FÖMI - T.Prajczer, GeoX)
GNSS ground infrastructure - present stage and hot issues (T.Borza, FÖMI SGO)
Industry Panel
presentations by Z.Varga oo Sokkia products, T.Á.Érsek on Thales products, C.Bartha onLeica products, G.Nagy on Trimble products and Z.Vincze on ASP for Local Governments.
Additional Application-oriented presentations incude
Digital map services at the Capital Land Office (S.Karkuska, CLO )
Cross-border: Digital Street-name Database behind the state border (G.Nyögéri - T.Prajczer, GeoX)
Trends, experiences and achievements in the application of GIS (G.Domokos, ESRI Hungary) e-Public Administration related GIS projects supported by EU F.Dely Geoview) Sustainable development and e-Public Administration (L.Dimen - I.Ienciu)
Eco-environmental modeling in Hungarian-Chinese bilateral framework (T.Jancsó - A. Guszlev)
The full program of the event including papers presented can be found at:
http://www.geo.info.hu/gisopen