On Tuesday of SIGGRAPH 2007, the ACM SIGGRAPH Carto Project held a Birds-of-a-Feather session to report on 2007 activities and to demonstrate future projects underway. This year's session was extended to a two hour event where technical updates were provided in the first hour and applications using Google Earth were presented in the second hour.  As the Carto Project is a collaborative effort with the International Cartographic Association (ICA)'s Commission on Visualization and Virtual Environments and the X3D GeoSpatial Working Group of the Web3D Consortium, reports on these were also provided. This year, the X3D GeoSpatial Working Group highlighted its efforts to develop X3D Earth.  More details about X3D Earth efforts can be found at http://www.web3d.org/x3d-earth/meetings/Siggraph2007CartoBof/.

The specific agenda items of the ACM SIGGRAPH Carto BOF Session at SIGGRAPH 2007 are noted below.  Special thanks to Dean Johnson of Western Michigan University for suggesting the idea and helping me to organize the second hour of Google Earth Applications.

Plans are underway of the Carto BOF to meet at SIGGRAPH 2008 so see you all next year.

Theresa-Marie Rhyne, ACM SIGGRAPH Carto BOF Director

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ACM SIGGRAPH Carto BOF Session at SIGGRAPH 2007
Tuesday, August 7th, 12:30 - 2:00 PM
Room 29B of the San Diego Convention Center

Reports on Cartographic Visualization:

Update on ACM SIGGRAPH Carto Project & ICA Commission on Visualization & Virtual Reality Efforts  - T.M. Rhyne

X3D Technical Requirements - Don Brutzman

Planet 9 Studios Demonstration- David Colleen

What is happening with Google Earth KML - Michale Jones

-- End of Technical Update Session

Demonstrations of Google Earth Applications

Civil War Trails: A new form of mash-up linking historical documentation, gigapixel panoramas, and Google Earth - Laura Tomokiyo

Urban Planning Application with Google Earth - Gerd Hesina

Application and testing of a pilot Google Earth visualization system for South Haven, Michigan - Dean Johnson

-- End of Applications Presentations

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