André M. Winter   Short personal record Talks, publications and workshops Scientific and professional activities, including career Other activities Interests Other data Contact

Short personal record

• 19.12.1972 Born at Ulm, Germany
• 1979 - 1983 Elementary school at Vienna
• 1983 Move to France, elementary school (CM2) at Cavalaire, Southern France
• 1984 - 1988 Collège Gérard Philipe at Cogolin
• 1988 - 1992 Lycée du Golfe de Saint-Tropez at Gassin
• 1992 Baccalauréat in France, afterwards relocating to Austria
• 1993 Inscription at the Institute of Geography at University of Vienna
• 1994 Emphasis on cartography
• 1998 Preliminary studies on the diploma entitled "maps and geospacial information on the Internet, using the valid standards of HTML4 and JavaScript1.3, with a practical off-line example"
• 1999 - 2000 Changes in the field of work of the diploma to more client-side vector representation. The work is supervised by Lorenz Hurni, professor for cartography at the Federal Technical School of Zurich (ETH)
• End of 2000 Approbation of the diploma (german: "Internetkartographie mit SVG" PDF 1.3mb; the technical part is available in english: Vector-based Web Cartography: Enabler SVG).
• Jan. 2001 Diploma examination.
• Jan. 2002 Relocating to Götzens, Tyrol, Austria

Talks, publications and workshops

Lang.	Title	Date	Location	Talk	Publication	Workshop
EN	"Taking Strand Maps from Print to Interactive SVG: Challenges and Lessons Learned"	06.08.2007	Talk at SVG Open 2007 Conference and Exhibition , Keio University, Japan (with Dr. Francis Molina)	HTML
DE	"Internetkartographie mit intelligenten Client-seitigen Anwendungen"	30.05.2006	Talk at "Z_GIS Geoinformatik-Kolloquium", Techno-Z, University of Salzburg, Austria	ODP
DE	"Internetkartographie mit SVG"	20-24.03.2006	5th SVG workshop at University of Applied Sciences Berlin, Germany (with Nicole Ueberschär and Jürgen Schweikart)			HTML
DE	"Visualisieren von Geodaten mit SVG im Internet"	02.2006	Book discussing the use and benefits of SVG for maps, Volume I of 2: "Einführung, clientseitige Interaktion und Dynamik", Wichmann/Hüthig, 2006, ISBN 3-87907-431-3. (with Nicole Ueberschär)		INFO
EN	"Mapping with SVG and ECMA-Script, the client side view"	15.08.2005	4th Workshop at SVG Open 2005 Conference in Enschede/Netherlands. (with Nicole Ueberschär)			INFO
DE	"Internetkartographie mit SVG - Karten grenzenlos skalierbar"	14-18.02.2005	SVG workshop at University of Applied Sciences Berlin, Germany (with Nicole Ueberschär and Jürgen Schweikart)			HTML
DE	"Tirol Atlas - das Informationssystem im Internet mit speziellen Jugendseiten"	04.10.2004	Article in: "Jahresbericht 2001/2002 der Innsbrucker Geographischen Gesellschaft". (with Marion Rabl and Klaus Förster)		PDF
DE	"SVG für die Webkartographie - Aktuelles und Zukünftiges"	26-27.09.2003	Talk at the "WebMapping Symposium 2003", Hasso-Plattner-Institut, University of Potsdam, Germany (with Nicole Ueberschär, Georg Held and Andreas Neumann)		HTML
EN	"Tirol Atlas: An SVG based online Atlas Information System"	17.07.2003	Talk at SVG Open 2003 Conference and Exhibition , Westin Bayshore, Vancouver, Canada (with Klaus Förster)		HTML
DE	"Tirol Atlas: Ein Datenbank gestütztes und Vektor basiertes Atlas-Informationssystem im Internet"	04.07.2003	Aricle in: "AGIT-Tagungsband", Salzburg 2003. (with Johannes Ruedisser, Armin Heller, Klaus Förster, Angela Dittfurth and Bernhard Gstrein) Published in: "Angewandte Geographische Informationsverarbeitung 15. Beiträge zum AGIT-Symposium Salzburg 2003", Strobl/Blaschke/Griesebner (Ed.), Wichmann, Heidelberg 2003, ISBN 3-87907-392-9.		PDF
EN	"Tirol Atlas - A cross national data-base driven and vector based Atlas Information System"	06.06.2003	Talk at "Veranstaltungskalender Geomatik", ETH Zurich, Switzerland	SVG
DE	"Tirol Atlas - Länderübergreifende datenbankgestützte vektorbasierte Rauminformation im Internet - Erster Themenschwerpunkt: Tourismus"	31.05.2003	Talk at "51. Deutschen Kartographentag", Kurhaus Bad Krozingen, Germany (with Nicola Fankhauser)	PDF
EN	"Webmapping with Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG): Delivering the promise of high quality and interactive web maps"	05.2003	Article in Maps and the Internet (Series International Cartographic Association), M.P. Peterson (Ed.), Elsevier, 2003, ISBN: 0-08-044201-3 (with Andreas Neumann)		INFO
EN	"Tirol Atlas - Cross national DB-driven and vector based Atlas Information System"	24.05.2003	Talk at WWW2003, The Twelfth International World Wide Web Conference, Budapest Kongreszussi Központ, Hungary (with Klaus Förster)	SVG
DE	"Länderübergreifende datenbankgestützte vektorbasierte Rauminformation im Internet"	25.02.2003	Workshop at COPR 2003, "8. internationales Symposion zur Rolle der Informationstechnologie in der Stadt- und Regionalplanung sowie zu den Wechselwirkungen zwischen realem und virtuellem Raum", Vienna University of Technology, Austria (with Josef Aistleitner)	SVG
DE	"Internetkartographie mit SVG - Karten grenzenlos skalierbar"	10-14.02.2003	Workshop at the University of Applied Sciences of Berlin, Germany (with Nicole Ueberschär and Jürgen Schweikart)			HTML
DE	"Der Tirol Atlas: Der länderübergreifende Tirol Atlas: Datenbankgestützte vektorbasierte Rauminformation im Internet"	26-27.09.2002	Talk at web.mapping.2002, University of Applied Sciences of Karlsruhe, Germany (with Klaus Förster)	SVG	PDF
DE	"Das Web auf neuen Pfaden, SVG und SMIL: Grafik und Animation fürs Web"	09.2002	Article in: c't (german computer magazine) 20/02, page 218 (with Andreas Neumann and Peter Sykora)		JPG
EN	"The Atlas of Tyrol - A database-driven map application based on SVG"	15-18.07.2002	Talk at the first SVG-conference worldwide: SVG Open / Carto.net Developers Conference (with Klaus Förster) Workshop "Creating Interactive SVG-Based Maps" (with Martin Galanda und Klaus Förster) Co-Organisation of the conference	SVG	HTML	SVG
DE	"Symposium Länderübergreifende Rauminformation: Interreg-Projekt Tirol Atlas"	12.04.2004	Talk at Innsbruck University, Austria (with Marie-Helen Resl and Klaus Förster)	INFO
DE	"Webmapping mit SVG: Werkzeuge, Arbeitsabläufe, aktuelle Tendenzen"	10.2001	Talk at web.mapping.2001, University of Applied Sciences Karlsruhe, Germany (with Tobias Dahinden and Andreas Neumann)		PDF
DE	"Aktuelle Webtechniken und deren Anwendung in der thematischen Kartographie und der Hochgebirgskartographie"	09.2001	Talk at the 50th Deutschen Kartographentag 2001 at Berchtesgaden, Germany (with Lorenz Hurni and Andreas Neumann)		PDF
EN	"Time for SVG - Towards high quality interactive web-maps"	08.2001	Talk at ICA Congress, Bejing, China (with Andreas Neumann)		PDF
EN	"SVG - Scalable Vector Graphics, A future cornerstone of the WWW-infrastructure"	08.2001	Paper presented at the XML-User-Group (with Andreas Neumann)		PDF
DE	"SVG - Scalable Vector Graphics. Ein zukünfiger Eckstein der WWW-Infrastruktur"	08.2001	Talk at UGRA, Zurich, Switzerland (with Andreas Neumann)		PDF
FR	"La cartographie en mode vectoriel sur le Web en XML : les possibilités de SVG"	24-26.04.2001	Talk at Géo-évènement 2001, Carrousel du Louvre, Paris, France (with Andreas Neumann)	PPT
DE	"SVG und Internetkartographie", "XML und SVG"	16-17.11.2000	Talk and workshop at la web.mapping.2000, FH Karlsruhe, Germany (with Andreas Neumann)		PDF
DE	"Hochqualitative Kartographie im WWW - mit Hilfe von SVG nun möglich"	10-12.10.2000	Talk at "Geodätische Woche 2000", Potsdam, Germany (with Andreas Neumann)
DE EN FR	"Vector-based Web Cartography: Enabler SVG"	2000	Online Paper (avec Andreas Neumann)		HTML

Scientific and professional activities, including career

• Talks, publications and workshops
• (see above)
• Honorary activities
• 2008 Reviewing bei www.svgopen.org 2008
• 2005 Co-organisation and reviewing at www.svgopen.org 2005.
• 2003 Reviewing at www.svgopen.org 2003.
• 2002 Co-organisation and Reviewing at www.svgopen.org 2002.
• 2000 Start of www.carto.net, a forum for cartography and internet.
• Paid work
• since 2006 Teacher in distance learning at the University of Salzburg: UNIGIS.
• since 01.2005 Freelance cartographer and Internet developer.
• since 2004 Partner of Carto.at, Hafner Kartographie, Visual Geoinformation and customised solutions for mapping in the fields of tourism.
• since 2004 Partner of Vectoreal, a Web2.0 solutions company providing superior Web application development services for enterprise clients.
• 2004 - 2005 Development and support for the web sites of Green parties in Tyrol: Götzens and Bad-Häring.
• 2002 - 2004 Member of the Tirol Atlas Team working on the iterface of the Tirol Atlas, the corporate design and the navigation. Later development of the kids section.
• 2002 - 2004 Teaching at Institut of Geography of the University of Innsbruck.
• 2002 Consulting for Freytag&Berndt, Vienna, Austria.
• 2000 - 2001 End user support for digital products, conception and elaboration of requirements specifications for Multimedia-CD-Roms at Freytag&Berndt, Vienna, Austria.
• 1999 - 2000 Interactive atlas for an exhibition with participation of the DÖW. The interactive maps are part of a bigger multimedia project of the exhibition (offline). With those maps are shown the stations of Austrian Jews in Vienna and Europe during the 1940ies. All functions realisied with javascript.
• 1998 - 2000 Concept, creation and maintenance of WWW pages with JavaScript functionality at Manz Ed. and LehrerInnen InformationsSystem Austria (both german educational editors).
• 1998 Creation of a spatial joint land use map of whole Vienna without street-information on the basis of block data using Arc/INFO and PERL (with Martin Galanda).
• 1998 Hiking maps for the outdoor guide "Wanderparadies Niederösterreich", Csaba Szépfalusi, Pichler Ed., ISBN 3-85431-181-8. Approximately 50 maps were created using the 1:200000 Austrian map as a base and adding the paths with a vector oriented software (example).
• 1997 - 1999 Digitizing the cadastre of the city of Vienna (MD-ADV) with Arc/INFO. After digitizing, the data needed to be manipulated for ordering. Other digitizing projects were located in Lower Austria, one of them was the digitizing of the "2. Wiener Hochquellenleitung" (the main water pipe supplying Vienna).
• Summer 1996 Field work participating in the elaboration of the geographic database of the streets of Vienna for Navigation Technologies Ltd. (former European Geographic Technologies Ltd.), managing data for car navigation by GPS.
• 1996 - 1999 Tutorials held at the computer cartography lab of the Institute of Geography of the University of Vienna (Student support, System administration, Internet administration, project conduction).
• 1996 - 1999 Concept, creation and maintenance of the homepages of the Institute of Geography and the computer cartography lab (those pages are in german and changed since my work there).
• 1995 - 1997 External representation concept of the institute for geography: creation and realization of the visiting cards and the writing paper layout of the institute (example) (with Andreas Neumann).

Other activities

• Honorary activities
• 1994 - 1999 Student support in the context of the student association for geography.
• 1997 - 1999 Member of several executive commissions of the Institue of Geography, University of Vienna.
• 1999 Involvement at the youth section of the Austrian alpine club ÖTK.
• 2004 Participation at the Green Party Götzens.
• More or less honorary activities.
• 1999 - 2000 Civil service at Documentation Centre of Austrian Resistance DÖW (documents the nazi crimes of the war-years and the current agissemants of xenophobe groups).

Interests

• Alexandra.
• My son Nicolas, born 08.12.2001 in Innsbruck, Austria.
• Outdoor-activities like hiking, camping, backcountry skiing.
• Travelling.
• Music.
• Photography.
• WWW.
• Cavalaire.

Other Data

• Nationality Austria, E.U.
• Languages German and French are both native languages. Good English. Knowledge of Spanish.
• Driving licence A + B.
• Education Mag.rer.nat.

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