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We are pleased to announce that the first Open Source Geospatial Lab in Wales is established at the GIS Research Unit at the University of South Wales. The GIS group at University of South Wales has been established for over 25 years and its research activity and outputs has given it an international reputation. It has developed highly successful lines of GIS research, as well as introducing new areas of activity and new collaborations. Notable progress has been made in areas such as accessibility modelling,landscape visualisation, spatial data generalisation, population estimation modelling and GIS-based optimisation techniques. Staff within the Centre have published over 100 papers in peer reviewed journals and Academic staff in the group are Programme Committee members for a number of UK and International conferences. The GIS Research Unit will become part of the ICA-OSGeo Lab network of over 50 laboratories world-wide. This is in recognition of the unit’s on-going use and development of Free and Open Source GIS technology in teaching, research and consultancy. A particular focus is on the use of such technologies in the areas of health service planning, environmental management and the emergency services. The lab will be directed jointly by Dr. Mark Ware and Prof. Gary Higgs. More details at http://gis.research.southwales.ac.uk/news/en/2013/nov/04/ica-osgeo-lab/ OSGeo is a not-for-profit organisation founded in 2006 whose mission is to support and promote the collaborative development of open source geospatial technologies and data. ICA is the world authoritative body for cartography and GIScience. ============================================================= When we started this education initiative in Sep 2011 our vision was to establish 5 labs in 5 years and we are very happy to see the rapid expansion of our initiative.Thanks to everyone who made this possible. Also as we have crossed the 50th lab , we now have set a new target to establish 500 labs around the world in the next 5 years (by Nov 2018) to rapidly expand geospatial education and opportunities for wider community and we are looking forward to working with you all on this. Best wishes, Suchith Dr Suchith Anand Nottingham Geospatial Institute Nottingham Geospatial Building University of Nottingham NG7 2 TU Tel: (0)115 82 32750 http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/~lgzwww/contacts/staffPages/SuchithAnand/Suchith%20Anand.htm http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/ngi/research/geospatial-science/geospatial-science.aspx http://elogeo.nottingham.ac.uk/ http://ica-opensource.scg.ulaval.ca/ http://opensourcegeospatial.icaci.org/ Be part of "Geo for All" http://www.geoforall.org Leading Open Geospatial Science through ICA Commission on Open Source Geospatial Technologies Mission - Building up Open Source, Open Standards, Open Data research for bridging the digital divide