Pacific Islands Chapter

Pacific Islands Chapter of OSGeo
Welcome to the Pacific Islands Chapter of Open Source Geospatial Foundation OSGeo, started on November, 9 2012, Fiji Time.

Introduction
Open Source for geospatial software has been advocated here in the Pacific Islands region for over a decade. The GIS/RS Special Interest Group of the Pacific Islands Chapter of Internet Society GIS/RS SIGhas been instrumental in the promotion of Open Source spearheaded by the Pacific Applied and Geoscience Commission (SOPAC) by making source code available to its Stakeholders starting with the GIS for Utilities Project in 1997. Since then the GIS/RS community in the Pacific Islands region have been thriving and active with Open Source sessions/discussions during the Pacific Islands GIS/RS annual conference GIS/RS Conference.

Objectives
The Pacific Islands Chapter, facilitates the advancement of open source for geospatial software, technologies and usage in the Pacific Islands region by:


 * Sharing source code, data, information, problems and solutions among users
 * Operation of a mailing list https://groups.google.com/d/forum/pic-osgeo (Temporary)
 * Encouraging the creation of national users groups
 * Organizing meetings, training/workshops and work towards a regional Pacific Islands OSGeo Chapter conference
 * Monitoring open source for geospatial software, technologies and usage

Members - Special Interest Group (SIG)

 * Aporo Kirikava (Cook Islands Police) - RAROTONGA
 * Conway Pene (University of the South Pacific (USP)) - FIJI
 * Dominic Afuyave (PNG Power Ltd (PPL)) - PAPUA NEW GUINEA
 * Edwin Liava'a (CheSpatial) - FIJI
 * Etuate Cocker (University of Auckland, NZ) - TONGA
 * Gordon Denty - (Solomon Islands Electricity Authority (SIEA)) - SOLOMON ISLANDS
 * Naomi Jackson - (Secretariat of the Pacific Community (SPC), Applied Geoscience and Technology Division (SOPAC)) - FIJI
 * Nomeneta Saili - (Electricity Power Corporation (EPC)) - SAMOA
 * Robinson Woods - (Freelance GIS/RS Consultant) - SOLOMON ISLANDS
 * Sachindra Singh - (Secretariat of the Pacific Community (SPC), Applied Geoscience and Technology Division (SOPAC)) - FIJI

Updates and Current Developments

 * PostGIS, Geoserver, QGIS Desktop, WMS, WFS-T at Samoa Electricity Power Corporation (EPC)
 * Development of Open Source lecture/course material using QGIS at the University of the South Pacific (USP)
 * Customization of QGIS Desktop at SPC Applied Geoscience and Technology Division (SOPAC)
 * Development/Deployment of Geonode at SPC Applied Geoscience and Technology Division (SOPAC) SOPAC Pacific Risk Information Systems (PaRIS)
 * Integrated Solution for Utilities using Linux, PostGIS/PostgreSQL, QGIS Desktop, QGIS Server, WMS, WFS-T, QGIS Cloud at CheSpatial
 * Linux, PostGIS, QGIS Desktop at Solomon Islands Electricity Authority (SIEA)
 * Linux, PostGIS, QGIS Desktop at PNG Power Ltd (PPL)
 * Mapping component of tikiwiki CMS using Google map's API by 'Etuate Cocker

Links

 * GIS/RS SIG
 * GIS/RS Conference