The LADS blog notes a recently published book by Krzysztof Kolodziej and Johan Hjelm titled Local Positioning Systems: LBS Applications and Services. Kris did some work at OGC in the past few years and I met up with him at the Location Intelligence Conference in April.

OGC President Mark Reichardt wrote the preface, which includes this paragraph:

The 9th AGILE International Conference on Geographic Information Science titled “Shaping the Future of Geographic Information Science in Europe” was held April 20-22, 2006 in Visegrád, Hungary. The organizers already have the papers on the website in PDF and several touch on OGC-related topics.

The whole list is available, but these stood out in a quick review:

Special interest SDIs to support business processes - standards in precision agriculture

Are Geospatial Catalogues Reaching their Goals? - how to make catalogues more useful

LandVoyage, a mapping website aimed at real estate and other users, today announced it offers its data stores via WMS. The company, which is actually for sale, until recently required subscribers to use its own proprietary interface to view and query maps and imagery. The release notes that "ESRI ArcView (3.x, 8.x and 9), MapInfo Professional, AutoCAD (Map and Map 3D), Intergraph GeoMedia " can be used as clients, but notes sometimes additional software will be required.

A new version of the the UN Food and Agriculture Organization's spatial data catalogue FAO GeoNet is up an running. The website "provides agricultural information to decision-makers, allowing them to access satellite imagery, interactive maps and spatial databases from FAO, WFP, CGIAR and others" according to a press release.

The site includes a metadata search tool (I believe is uses OGC Catalog Services) as well as an interactive map viewer. The latter supports WMS and ArcIMS servers.

Two of the people behind GeoRSS have started a new blog covering the topic. The GeoRSS website is good place to start exploring how to geospatially enable RSS feeds.