Piotr Pachół

GIS user, trainer and manager Open source for geospatial tester, translator and promoter

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

Localization (Polish translation)

 * Geonetwork opensource - Polish localization of Geonetwork
 * gvSIG - In cooperation with other translators
 * CatMDEdit
 * ISOMetadataEditor

Testing software

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

Promoting open source

 * Presentations:
 * 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 Workshop, 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