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EFGS 2018 Conference Helsinki, Finland
The European Forum for Geography and Statistics (EFGS) is pleased to invite you to the 11th conference on the integration of geography and statistics. The motto of this year’s conference is “Finding the Future together”. The conference will take place at Marina...
read moreSCORUS Conference 6-8 June 2018 – Final call for Papers
GUS – SCORUS Conference 2018 “NEW SCALE – NEW NEEDS – NEW STATISTICS” is jointly organised by Statistics Poland (GUS), the International Association for Official Statistics (IAOS) Standing Committee of Regional and Urban Statistics (SCORUS) and the Organization for...
read moreKeynote speakers confirmed for EFGS 2018
We are delighted to announce keynote speakers for EFGS 2018 as Toni Ahlqvist, Julien Grunfelder and Ed Parsons. We look forward to welcoming our guest speakers in Helsinki. Toni Ahlqvist (Ph.D.), Professor of Regional Development and Policy at the University of...
read moreEFGS 2017 conference presentations available
We would like to inform that EFGS 2017 conference programme with all presentations are available at https://www.efgs.info/conferences/efgs/efgs-2017-conference-dublin-ireland/
read moreMeeting of the EFGS President with members of the EuroGeographics in Brussels and talks about cooperation of two communities
On March 22nd–23rd Janusz Dygaszewicz, President of the EFGS attended the “Open data European Location Services workshop” and the „Joint Policy Knowledge Exchange Network and Business Interoperability Knowledge Exchange Network” meeting, which took place in Brussels....
read moreA walk to the park?
An updated working paper presents a methodology that takes into account the spatial distribution of both population and green areas throughout the cities' territory, and produces indicators on the proximity of the green areas to the urban population. To obtain...
read morePassenger rail accessibility in Europe’s border areas
Cross-border cooperation in the EU addresses the needs of border areas and has been helping to remove obstacles between them for more than 25 years already. To support this policy, quantitative evidence needs to be developed, especially in the areas of transport...
read moreThe OGC announces a new standard that improves the way information is referenced to the earth
The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) has approved the Discrete Global Grid System (DGGS) as OGC Abstract Specification. The goal of DGGS is to enable rapid assembly of spatial data without the difficulties of working with projected coordinate reference systems. The...
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