GeoForAll UrbanScience CityAnalytics
Welcome to "Geo for All" Urban Science and City Analytics Thematic
Chairs: Chris Pettit (Australia) and Patrick Hogan (USA)
The mail list will be geoforall-urbanscience@lists.osgeo.org
With the "Geo for All" Urban Science and City Analytics thematic group established, the chairs of this are now the contact points for any new initiatives, ideas in this theme and the mailing list becomes the first point of contact for the new members and all members can use the list for collaborating on building subject specific collaborations.
This way we can make sure it is scalable and meets local/region requirements/needs.All ideas welcome.
Who in our network is doing what related to this theme?
- your name here
- summary of what you are doing
- Phillip Davis, GeoAcademy
- The GeoAcademy is using QGIS 2.8 to provide Massively Open Online Courses through the Canvas Network to students around the globe for free. We currently enroll 4,000 students in our March 2015 cohort.
- Patrick Hogan, NASA World Wind Project Manager
- Building open source virtual globe technology meant to stimulate innovative solutions managing geospatial data, whether open or proprietary.
These are the 'CitySmart' app categories, feel free to expand (use-cases next):
1. elevation data 2. place names 3. buildings 4. utilities 5. parks 6. wetlands 7. creeks 8. streams 9. rivers 10. habitats for native and invasive species 11. rights of way 12. street systems 13. storm drainage 14. water distribution systems 15. power distribution systems 16. waste water systems 17. parcel information 18. building permits 19. construction zones, etc.
Technologies in our network that are available for addressing these needs
- NASA World Wind (Java, iOS and Android, Web version on its way), http://goworldwind.org/
- GeoMoose
- QGIS
Key research questions
Other ideas for a network grant proposal
- Universities and university management are like small towns. Perhaps an educational connection here is to have multiple universities work together on building platforms for managing university infrastructure? -- Charlie Schweik