Survey of key GI players within Europe - EC GI & GIS Portal

environments, and the economic value of GI, it has been involved with many pan-European projects
such as ETeMII, GISMO, and Panel-GI.
The centre for geographical data processing at the University of Salzburg (ZGIS) (www.zgis.at/) has
been in existence since 1988 at the Institute for geography and applied geo-computer science at the
University of Salzburg. The most important activities performed by ZGIS are training, research and
development, development of international relations and organising trade conferences.
The GIScluster (www.giscluster.at) is an interesting model for the supply of GI products and services.
It is a collaboration amongst companies that offer a broad selection of know-how and services around
the GIS chain of added value. The group of firms with 140 collaborators originated in 1999 in the
course of the Initiative Digital Media of the County Salzburg.
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