Piotr Pachół

GIS user, trainer and manager Open source for geospatial tester, translator and promoter Python and SQL programmer (especially for geospatial)

Main activities

 * Collecting, processing, managing and sharing geospatial data
 * Topographic data updating
 * Supervision of topographic database management system
 * Creating and publishing metadata

Personal interests

 * Generalization and visualization spatial data
 * Georeferenced data classification
 * Creating Python and SQL scripts to automate calculations and map generation or to analyze and verify spatial data.

Localization (Polish translation)

 * Geonetwork opensource - Polish localization of Geonetwork
 * gvSIG - Polish localization of gvSIG
 * CatMDEdit - Polish localization of CatMDEdit
 * ISOMetadataEditor

Software evaluating

 * Evaluating of open source software in metadata domain - as a part of CASCADOSS Project

Software testing

 * QGIS
 * gvSIG
 * PostGIS
 * GeoKettle
 * Kosmo
 * GeoServer

Promoting open source

 * Presentations:
 * The project gvSIG. Software for various applications - V Silesian Convention of Computer Science and Administration, Szczyrk 2015
 * FOSS localization - step by step (with Milena and Robert) - Conference "Free software in geoinformatics" Wrocław 2010
 * Localization of selected FOSS4G desktop packages - state and some remarks (with Milena and Robert) Geoinformatics FCE CTU, Prague 2010
 * Free software in metadata domain - Conference "Official geoinformation in internet – opportunities and expectations", Wisła 2007


 * Co-organization of conferences and sessions conected with open software for GIS

Training in open source domain

 * Tutoring and supervision of students in practical part of their master's theses, which have been also done using open source software

Contact

 * piotrpachol@gmail.com


 * Member of Poland OSGeo Chapter