Dear All, GIS-IDEAS 2006 Symposium is scheduled to be held in Ho Chi Minh City (HCMC), Vietnam from 9-11 November, 2006. The conference is jointly organized by Japan-Vietnam Geoinformatics Consortium (JVGC) and Institute of Environment and Resources (IER-VNU HCMC) and will be held at Rex Hotel located in the heart of HCMC. More information about the conference is available at http://wgrass.media.osaka-cu.ac.jp/gisideas06/ Looking forward to your active participation and hoping that the conference will be a big success. Kindly pass this information to all persons that you may think would be interested in the Symposium. Pre-registration and abstract submission can be done from the conference web-site. The organizers of GIS-IDEAS 2006 are seeking support from sponsors,exhibitors advertisers. Please see the details in the conference website. Looking forward to seeing many of you at GIS-IDEAS2006 Raghavan ------------ Prof. Venkatesh Raghavan Osaka City University University Coordinator JVGC