Welcome to GeoCyber!

GeoCyber is a idea that explicates information flowing on the Internet is forming virtually spaces, as well as the virtual spaces sometimes reflect to physical places. Due to prevalence of Web 2.0, people are easier to create and share data on the Web. The social network services enable people to communicate and collaborate with other. In such virtually social network activities, some virtually spaces implicitly have been created. An example is Flickr that is a photo-sharing platform. People can upload photos for sharing their friends. This is virtually a photo demonstration room. However, if these photos had been annotated on geo-tags, they can be displayed on the map. When people surf these photos on the map, these photos report the places. It bring social network from the virtual spaces to physical places, as well as the social network in geographic context makes people every-day practices to share in a convenient way.

I am a PhD candidate of Faculty of Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation, University of Twente, as well as a research assistant for Institute of Information Science, Academia Sinica. My research topic mainly focuses on semantically integration of user-generated data and public domain geospatial data via geospatial ontology. Over past five years, I also dedicated on open geospatial technologies of OGC such as GML (Geography Markup Language), WMS (Web Map Service), WFS (Web Feature Service). Moreover, I also concentrates to development of Open Source GIS. Some friends of mine and I collaboratively founded a Taiwan chapter of OSGeo in 2007. This local foundation not only concerns open source GIS but also the issues of open geospatial data.If you're interested to join us, please don't hesitate to inform me. More information can be found in my blog.