GIS Ostrava 2013
Geoinformatics for City Transformations
21st - 23rd
January 2013 
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Workshops and excursions
‘A name is a statement’. Linking real and virtual identity through geodemographics(Prof. Paul Longley, Department of Geography, University College London)
- A name often provides an indication of its bearer’s cultural, ethnic and religious affinity in the real world (Mateos et al 2011), as well as the place in which he or she probably lives (Cheshire and Longley 2012). The first part of this presentation will review our use of names to characterise people and places in over 25 countries worldwide. The work is seen as contributing to the improved specification of geodemographic indicators at a range of spatial and temporal scales.
- The second part of the presentation considers whether and how tokens of virtual identity can be linked to the probable characteristics of people and places. Wider implications for the use of ‘big data’ pertaining to virtual activities are outlined and assessed.
- Cheshire J A, Longley P A 2012. Identifying spatial concentrations of surnames. International Journal of Geographic Information Science, in press.
- Mateos, P, Longley P A, O’Sullivan D 2011. Ethnicity and population structure in personal naming networks. PLoS ONE (Public Library of Science), 6(9) e22943, 1-12.
- Free of charge.
- Tuesday 16:30 – 19:00
Analysis of crime using CrimeStat (Dr. Igor Ivan, Institute of Geoinformatics, Technical University of Ostrava)
- CrimeStat is a spatial statistics program for the analysis of crime incident locations, developed by Ned Levine and Associates under the direction of Ned Levine. This seminar is focused on presentation and demonstration of various basic and more advanced tools provided by the CrimeStat. In the first part of the seminar, the participants will try to describe the spatial distribution of provided data (mean centres, standard deviational ellipse, spatial autocorrelation, Ripley's K statistic etc.). In the second part of the seminar we will use various of tools for spatial modelling of crime, mainly the kernel density estimation but also others.
- 50 EUR, limitation 20 participants (J423), in English (in case of only Czech participants will attend, it will be changed to Czech language)
- Wednesday 13-16
Introduction into Oracle Locator (Dr. Karel Janečka, Department of Mathematics, Section of Geomatics, University of West Bohemia)
- The aim of the seminar is to introduce the Oracle Locator technology and give its possibilities for spatial data maintenance. Oracle Locator is an extension of Oracle database system used for management of spatial data. During the seminar the participants will try to store multidimensional spatial data using the SDO_GEOMETRY object data type and will create a particular spatial index upon such data. Furthermore they will explore the possibilities of Oracle Locator for spatial analysis. The participants will also test the loading of data from shapefile data format. The advantage of Oracle Locator is that this extension is available in Oracle XE. This version of well known database management system is free of charge.
- Required knowledge: The basic knowledge of SQL and relational database systems is recommended.
- 50 EUR, limitation 20 participants (J423), in English (in case of only Czech participants will attend, it will be changed to Czech language)
- Monday 9-12
Sensing the City: Mapping and Analysing London’s Population Data Flows (Dr. James Cheshire, Department of Geography, University College London)
- The presentation will outline some of the ways in which researchers at the UCL Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (CASA) are collecting, analysing and visualising the unprecedented volumes of data pertaining to urban areas. Within CASA such data have been applied to anything from mapping people’s happiness through to their movements on Boris Bikes and the London Underground. Such research has many applications beyond its traditional audience of planners and geographers and it is hoped that this talk will generate some new perspectives.
- Wednesday 9:30-11:00.
Tracing metropolitan growth (Dr. Kiril Stanilov, Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis, University College London)
- The presentation discusses methods of investigating urban growth patterns illustrated with a number of case studies from the UK, USA and Europe. These studies rely on detailed historical data to reconstruct the physical evolution of metropolitan areas over extended periods of time with unusually high level of spatial and temporal resolution. The objective of this research is to understand the main forces shaping the patterns of urban growth. The findings provide support for a hypothesis that the spatial relationships between land uses and the physical environment are remarkably consistent through time. This conclusion suggests the existence of an underlying genetic code of urban growth, which determines the spatial signature of land development regardless of the specifics of historical context.
- Kiril Stanilov is a Marie Curie research fellow at the Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis at University College London and a senior research associate at the Martin Centre for Architectural and Urban Studies at University of Cambridge. He holds a PhD in Urban Design and Planning from the University of Washington. Kiril Stanilov’s research interests are centred on explorations of contemporary patterns of urban growth and change, and the role played by public policies in shaping urban form transformations. His book publications include Twenty Years of Transition, The Post-Socialist City, Suburban Form, and Confronting Suburbanization.
- Tuesday 13:30-15:00.
Sightseeing tour Ostrava (i.e. industrial heritage and architecture, new city centre)
- This sightseeing tour has its start in Poruba, this part of the city was built during the 50s and it is a typical case of socialistic realism. The next stop will be in former German part of the region in the north west part just behind the borders of Ostrava. We will visit also socially problematic localities in the part of Ostrava called Privoz. Former representative part of the city changed its face during last decades. Next stop will be close to one of many areas with typical houses for miners in local mines. We will also see that Ostrava is still partly industrial city with heavy industry. The new city centre will be also one part of our journey as well close industrial heritage of former mine and blast furnaces in Vitkovice. On of the last stops will be in the south part of the city with the biggest population density and typical prefabricated housing blocks. We will finish our journey again in Poruba.
- 10 EUR, in English
- Map
- Wednesday 9-13
Integrated Emergency Centre
- The Integrated Emergency Centre is the regional operational centre of the Moravian-Silesian Region ensuring the national emergency lines 150, 155, 156, 158 and 112. It was opened in 2011 and joined together activities of 15 regional control centres.
- 10 EUR, in Czech
- Wednesday 12:00-15:00
National Transport Information and Control Centre
- This centre is central and operational office providing 24/7 of collecting, processing, publishing and distributing information about the current traffic situation in the Czech Republic.
- 10 EUR, in Czech
- Monday 9:00-12:00