https://wiki.osgeo.org/w/api.php?action=feedcontributions&feedformat=atom&user=SerenacoetzeeOSGeo - User contributions [en]2026-04-10T02:14:50ZUser contributionsMediaWiki 1.35.9https://wiki.osgeo.org/w/index.php?title=OSGeo_Budget_2021&diff=126073OSGeo Budget 20212021-01-15T17:28:46Z<p>Serenacoetzee: /* OSGeo Committees */</p>
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<div>Draft budget for 2021, see [[OSGeo Budget 2020]] and [[Finance Committee#Documents]] for prior years.<br />
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Total Approved Budget for 2020: $220,612 USD<br />
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Total Approved Budget for 2021: TBD<br />
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== OSGeo Board ==<br />
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OSGeo board operates according to our bylaws providing vision and direction for our foundation. The board has also taken on responsibility setting for an annual budget, building partner relationships, sponsorship program and code sprints.<br />
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! Board<br />
! 2020<br />
! 2020 Actual<br />
! 2021 Draft<br />
! Notes<br />
|- <br />
| Admin<br />
| style="text-align:right;" | 2,000<br />
| style="text-align:right;" | 0<br />
| style="text-align:right;" | 0<br />
| Operational expenses including liability insurance, tax filing fees, quickbooks, mail, IRS, bank fees.<br />
|-<br />
| Travel<br />
| style="text-align:right;" | 20,000<br />
| style="text-align:right;" | 0<br />
| style="text-align:right;" | 0<br />
| Travel to main FOSS4G, F2F meeting and regional/representative events<br />
|-<br />
| Partners and Sponsors<br />
| style="text-align:right;" | 2,000<br />
| style="text-align:right;" | 0<br />
| style="text-align:right;" | 0<br />
| Relationship building, attending b2b functions, foss4g/foss4ge/foss4gna/foss4g-asia breakfast meetings. Meetings with sponsors during events<br />
|}<br />
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Total Board Budget for 2020: $24,000 USD<br />
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Total Board Budget for 2021: TBD<br />
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== OSGeo Committees ==<br />
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The following committees have been formed to fulfill out goals as an organization, each committee is provided a mandate, with the chair of the committee represented as an officer of our organization.<br />
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* Code of Conduct Committee<br />
* Conference Committee<br />
* GeoForAll - committee acting as advisory board for the GeoForAll Initiative <br />
* Incubation Committee - committee providing hands-on support for project teams adopting open source principles and practice.<br />
* Marketing Committee - outreach and advocacy support<br />
* Open GeoScience Committee<br />
* System Administration Committee - foundation infrastructure <br />
* UN Committee - committee responsible for our participation in the UN Open GIS program<br />
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|-<br />
! OSGeo Committees<br />
! 2020<br />
! 2020 Actual<br />
! 2021 Requested<br />
! Notes<br />
|- <br />
| SAC<br />
| style="text-align:right;" | 28,350<br />
| style="text-align:right;" | 0<br />
| style="text-align:right;" | 0<br />
| <br />
|-<br />
| Open GeoScience<br />
| style="text-align:right;" | 7,562<br />
| style="text-align:right;" | 0<br />
| style="text-align:right;" | 0<br />
| <br />
|-<br />
| Conference<br />
| style="text-align:right;" | 1,000 <br/> [0]<br />
| style="text-align:right;" | 0<br />
| style="text-align:right;" | 0<br />
| <br />
|-<br />
| Marketing<br />
| style="text-align:right;" | 22,000 <br/> [23,800]<br />
| style="text-align:right;" | 0<br />
| style="text-align:right;" | 0<br />
| <br />
|-<br />
| GeoForAll<br />
| style="text-align:right;" | 5,000 <br/> [8,000]<br />
| style="text-align:right;" | 0<br />
| style="text-align:right;" | 0<br />
| <br />
|-<br />
| UN Committee<br />
| style="text-align:right;" | 6,000 <br/> [9,000]<br />
| style="text-align:right;" | 0<br />
| style="text-align:right;" | 9,000 <br />
| <br />
We would like to request three prizes, each to the value of USD 3,000. The number of prizes and amounts are based on previous years, however, we understand that 2020 was a difficult year and that there could be budget constraints because the conference could not take place.<br />
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We plan to arrange the OSGeo Educational Challenge similarly to that in 2018 [1] and 2019 [2], for which the material is now available on the OSGeo Wiki, see e.g. [3], [4] and [5]. The challenge supports the objectives of the OSGeo UN Committee [6], i.e. promoting the development and use of open source software that meets UN needs and supports the aims of the UN. For various reasons, we were not able to arrange the challenge in 2020, but we are planning to have the next one in 2021. Vicky Vergara has already expressed interest in mentoring a challenge related to developing training material for pgrouting. The other two challenges are planned on topics related to COVID-19 (with QGIS) and Geo Artificial Intelligence (GeoAI), a topic of interest in the UN Open GIS initiative.<br />
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[1] https://www.osgeo.org/foundation-news/osgeo-un-committee-educational-challenge/ <br/><br />
[2] https://www.osgeo.org/foundation-news/2019-osgeo-un-committee-educational-challenge/ <br/><br />
[3] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Training_Material_for_UN_Open_GIS_OpenData <br/><br />
[4] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Training_Material_for_UN_Open_GIS_Spiral_3 <br/><br />
[5] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Training_Material_for_2019_UN_Open_GIS_Challenge_2_-_Open_geospatial_data_and_software_for_UN_SDG_16,_Peace_justice_and_open_institutions <br/><br />
[6] https://www.osgeo.org/initiatives/un-initiative/ <br/><br />
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|-<br />
| Incubation Committee<br />
| style="text-align:right;" | 10,000 <br/> [12,000]<br />
| style="text-align:right;" | 0<br />
| style="text-align:right;" | 0<br />
| No operational budget requested, funds requested strictly to be used to support team/mentor activities towards completing OSGeo incubation requirements.<br/> Board note: Projects under incubation have to ask the Incubation committee for the part of their budget regarding incubation activities.<br />
|}<br />
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Total Committees Budget for 2020: $79,912 USD<br />
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Total Committees Budget for 2021: TBD<br />
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== OSGeo Initiatives ==<br />
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OSGeo initiatives have formed to pursue a specific short term, or long term goal. Initiatives maybe formed by a committee or the board as required. Initiatives are a great way to collaborate with projects, committees and partners.<br />
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* FOSS4G - event series produced in collaboration with the conference committee and local chapters<br />
* GeoForAll - education and research program produced in collaboration with our partners<br />
* Incubation - mentor program for open source projects to be recognized as OSGeo project<br />
* Local Chapters - board outreach initiative establishing regional OSGeo groups for direct grassroots advoacacy<br />
* GSoC - coordinate participation in google-summer-of-code and code-in activities<br />
* Travel Grant Program - provides assistance for attending OSGeo events<br />
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|-<br />
! OSGeo Initiatives<br />
! 2020<br />
! 2020 Actual<br />
! 2021 Requested<br />
! Notes<br />
|- <br />
| FOSS4G<br />
| style="text-align:right;" | 0<br />
| style="text-align:right;" | 0<br />
| style="text-align:right;" | 0<br />
| Managed by Conference Committee. Seed money for 2021 will be allocated by the board when estimate numbers become available.<br />
|-<br />
| Local Chapters<br />
| style="text-align:right;" | 5,000<br />
| style="text-align:right;" | 0<br />
| style="text-align:right;" | 0<br />
| Managed by board, considering putting aside money to help establish local chapters (for logistics, legal advise, kickoff meetings rather than any sponsorship or direct funding)<br />
|-<br />
| GSoC<br />
| style="text-align:right;" | 0<br />
| style="text-align:right;" | 0<br />
| style="text-align:right;" | 0<br />
| Managed by board.<br />
|-<br />
| Travel Grant Program <br />
| style="text-align:right;" | 25,000<br />
| style="text-align:right;" | 0<br />
| style="text-align:right;" | 0<br />
| Managed by Conference Committee. TGP, 50-60% for global event, rest for regional events. LOC's are expected to raise matching funding from sponsors or delegates and provide free conference passes. <br/> Board note: gvSIG can apply for Travel grant here for their event.<br />
|-<br />
| Events and Code Sprints<br />
| style="text-align:right;" | 15,000<br />
| style="text-align:right;" | 0<br />
| style="text-align:right;" | 0<br />
| Managed by the board. Funding to help organize OSGeo Code Sprint and other events (e.g. QGIS User Conference, PostGIS Code Sprint, GRASS GIS Community Sprint etc.) <br/> Board note: List of requested funding on approval inlcudes siglibre + foss4g belgium + gvSIG + GRASS + QGIS + UN events. Others are welcome to ask for funding from this category.<br />
|-<br />
| Community Projects<br />
| style="text-align:right;" | 10,000<br />
| style="text-align:right;" | 0<br />
| style="text-align:right;" | 0<br />
| Managed by the board since community projects do not have an assigned officer to handle their budget. We have around 23-25 projects expected in 2021 (see list below). <br/> Board note: Budgeted approx. 500$ for each project. To be amended if we hit the ceiling of the budget. <br />
|-<br />
| OSGeo4W<br />
| style="text-align:right;" | 4,000<br />
| style="text-align:right;" | 0<br />
| style="text-align:right;" | 0<br />
| Board note: Joint initiative with QGIS.org. Project advised to build a broader volunteer base. Incubation program can be of help in this regard.<br />
|-<br />
| GRASS website<br />
| style="text-align:right;" | 6,000<br />
| style="text-align:right;" | 0<br />
| style="text-align:right;" | 0<br />
| Money that were to be invoiced in 2019 but need to be invoiced in 2020. This is not a roll over of project budget, just an accounting request.<br />
|}<br />
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Total Initiatives Budget for 2020: $65,000 USD<br />
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Total Initiatives Budget for 2021: TBD<br />
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= Projects =<br />
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== OSGeo Projects ==<br />
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OSGeo Projects each have a project steering committee, the chair of which is acknowledged as a foundation officer with spending authority on behalf of their committee.<br />
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Notes:<br />
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* We have reached out (2020) to the projects mailing list with a default suggestion of 2000 for any project that responds<br />
* Projects with a plan may of course ask for increased funding<br />
* This is a budget, representing planned spending in 2021 - actual balance available to each PSC (from fundraising, donations and sponsorship) may be considered when planning.<br />
* If a project did not respond (or runs into an unforeseen expense) please contact the board throughout the year as budgets can be amended<br />
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! OSGeo Project<br />
! 2020<br />
! 2020 Actual<br />
! 2021 Requested<br />
! Notes<br />
|- <br />
| deegree<br />
| style="text-align:right;" | 2,000<br />
| style="text-align:right;" | 0<br />
| style="text-align:right;" | 0<br />
| <br />
|-<br />
| GDAL/OGR<br />
| style="text-align:right;" | 2,000<br />
| style="text-align:right;" | 0<br />
| style="text-align:right;" | 0<br />
| <br />
|-<br />
| GeoMOOSE<br />
| style="text-align:right;" | 2,500<br />
| style="text-align:right;" | 0<br />
| style="text-align:right;" | 0<br />
| <br />
|-<br />
| GeoNetwork<br />
| style="text-align:right;" | 2,000<br />
| style="text-align:right;" | 0<br />
| style="text-align:right;" | 0<br />
| <br />
|-<br />
| GeoNode<br />
| style="text-align:right;" | 2,000<br />
| style="text-align:right;" | 0<br />
| style="text-align:right;" | 0<br />
| <br />
|-<br />
| GEOS<br />
| style="text-align:right;" | 2,000<br />
| style="text-align:right;" | 0<br />
| style="text-align:right;" | 0<br />
| <br />
|-<br />
| GeoServer<br />
| style="text-align:right;" | 5,000<br />
| style="text-align:right;" | 5,000<br />
| style="text-align:right;" | 3,000<br />
| [[GeoServer Budget 2021]]<br />
|-<br />
| GeoTools<br />
| style="text-align:right;" | 5,000<br />
| style="text-align:right;" | 0<br />
| style="text-align:right;" | 0<br />
| <br />
|-<br />
| GRASS GIS<br />
| style="text-align:right;" | 3,000<br />
| style="text-align:right;" | 0<br />
| style="text-align:right;" | 2,500<br />
| [[GRASS GIS Budget 2021]]<br />
|-<br />
| gvSIG<br />
| style="text-align:right;" | 2,000<br />
| style="text-align:right;" | 0<br />
| style="text-align:right;" | 4,000<br />
| Details of the budget at [[GvSIG Budget 2021]]<br />
|-<br />
| Mapbender<br />
| style="text-align:right;" | 2,000<br />
| style="text-align:right;" | 0<br />
| style="text-align:right;" | 0<br />
| <br />
|-<br />
| MapServer<br />
| style="text-align:right;" | 2,000<br />
| style="text-align:right;" | 0<br />
| style="text-align:right;" | 0<br />
| <br />
|-<br />
| Marble<br />
| style="text-align:right;" | 0<br />
| style="text-align:right;" | 0<br />
| style="text-align:right;" | 0<br />
| <br />
|-<br />
| OpenLayers<br />
| style="text-align:right;" | 3,000<br />
| style="text-align:right;" | 0<br />
| style="text-align:right;" | 3,000<br />
| [[OpenLayers Budget 2021]]<br />
|-<br />
| OTB<br />
| style="text-align:right;" | 2,000<br />
| style="text-align:right;" | 0<br />
| style="text-align:right;" | 0<br />
| <br />
|-<br />
| OSGeoLive<br />
| style="text-align:right;" | 2,000<br />
| style="text-align:right;" | 0<br />
| style="text-align:right;" | 0<br />
| <br />
|-<br />
| PostGIS<br />
| style="text-align:right;" | 2,000<br />
| style="text-align:right;" | 0<br />
| style="text-align:right;" | 0<br />
| <br />
|-<br />
| PROJ<br />
| style="text-align:right;" | 1,000<br />
| style="text-align:right;" | 0<br />
| style="text-align:right;" | 0<br />
| <br />
|-<br />
| pycsw<br />
| style="text-align:right;" | 3,200<br />
| style="text-align:right;" | 0 [[Pycsw_budget_2020|(link)]]<br />
| style="text-align:right;" | 0<br />
| <br />
|-<br />
| PyWPS<br />
| style="text-align:right;" | 2,000<br />
| style="text-align:right;" | 0<br />
| style="text-align:right;" | 0<br />
| <br />
|-<br />
| QGIS<br />
| style="text-align:right;" | 5,000<br />
| style="text-align:right;" | 0 <br />
| style="text-align:right;" | 0<br />
| <br />
|}<br />
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Total Projects Budget for 2020: $51,700 USD<br />
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Total Projects Budget for 2021: TBD<br />
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== Community Projects ==<br />
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Community projects act through the board as they do not have a project officer. Board approved $TBD for each project (see Community Projects Initiative above)<br />
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* actinia<br />
* FDO<br />
* GC2/Vidi<br />
* GeoExt<br />
* GeoHealthCheck<br />
* Geomajas<br />
* GeoServer Client PHP<br />
* GeoWebCache<br />
* istSOS<br />
* Loader<br />
* MapGuide Open Source<br />
* Mapfish<br />
* Opticks<br />
* OSGeo4W<br />
* OSSIM<br />
* OWSLib<br />
* pgRouting<br />
* PortableGIS<br />
* Pronto Raster<br />
* pygeoapi<br />
* rasdaman<br />
* TEAM Engine<br />
* ZOO-Project<br />
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Some incubation projects are not yet set up as part of OSGeo community:<br />
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* Oskari<br />
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Some guidance is offered by individual projects below.<br />
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Please note that this table records budget requests, not approved budgets. Community Projects can ask the Board for spending approval (since they do not have a Project Officer) from the approved Community Projects budget. Projects that are also in incubation can ask the Incubation Committee for spending approval from the Incubation Committee approved budget. See notes column for actual budget approval per project.<br />
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! Community Project<br />
! 2020<br />
! 2020 Actual<br />
! 2021 Requested<br />
! Notes<br />
|- <br />
| ZOO-Project<br />
| style="text-align:right;"| 1,250 + 500<br />
| style="text-align:right;" | 0<br />
| style="text-align:right;" | 0<br />
| 2020 Board note: 1,250 USD approved as part of the Incubation Committee budget. 500 USD approved from Community Projects budget. For more budget the project has to complete incubation or/and send a specific request to the board to cover from the Community Projects budget.<br />
|-<br />
| pgRouting<br />
| style="text-align:right;"| 4,000 + 500<br />
| style="text-align:right;" | 0<br />
| style="text-align:right;" | 0<br />
| 2020 Board note: 4,000 USD approved as part of the Incubation Committee budget. Project has to be in incubation to ask for the budget. 500 USD approved from Community Projects budget.<br />
|-<br />
| istSOS<br />
| style="text-align:right;" | 4,000 + 500<br />
| style="text-align:right;" | 0<br />
| style="text-align:right;" | 0<br />
| <br />
|-<br />
| OSGeo4W<br />
| style="text-align:right;" | 4,000 + 500<br />
| style="text-align:right;" | 0<br />
| style="text-align:right;" | 0<br />
| <br />
|-<br />
| pygeoapi<br />
| style="text-align:right;" | 500<br />
| style="text-align:right;" | 322 ([https://github.com/geopython/pygeoapi/wiki/OSGeo-Budget-2020 link])<br />
| style="text-align:right;" | 0<br />
| <br />
|-<br />
| GeoHealthCheck<br />
| style="text-align:right;" | 500<br />
| style="text-align:right;" | 0<br />
| style="text-align:right;" | 0<br />
| <br />
|-<br />
| OWSLib<br />
| style="text-align:right;" | 500<br />
| style="text-align:right;" | 0<br />
| style="text-align:right;" | 0<br />
| <br />
|-<br />
|}<br />
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= Events =<br />
<br />
== Community Events ==<br />
<br />
We have set aside a budget for community events in 2021:<br />
<br />
* Supporting community building events is distinct from the development focused code-sprints below<br />
* We are inviting community members to contact us about events (rather than try and adjust their event to fit into our code sprint guidelines)<br />
* OSGeo is is focused on our outreach goals as an organization as such our primary contribution to events is free software and enthusiasm rather than finical, we use funding to enable our members rather than for sponsorship and visibility.<br />
* Please note our [https://github.com/OSGeo/osgeo/blob/master/board/documents/osgeo_financial_guidance.pdf financial guidance document]<br />
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|-<br />
! Event Request<br />
! 2020<br />
! 2020 Actual<br />
! 2021 Requested<br />
! Notes<br />
|-<br />
| QGIS Developer Meeting and User Conference <br />
| style="text-align:right;" | 3,000<br />
| style="text-align:right;" | 0<br />
| style="text-align:right;" | 0<br />
| <br />
|-<br />
| FOSS4G SotM Oceania Community Day <br />
| style="text-align:right;" | 1500<br />
| style="text-align:right;" | 0<br />
| style="text-align:right;" | 0<br />
| <br />
|}<br />
<br />
== Code Sprints ==<br />
<br />
We have asked project teams for guidance to help set our code sprint budget:<br />
<br />
* Please note our [https://github.com/OSGeo/osgeo/blob/master/board/documents/osgeo_financial_guidance.pdf financial guidance document] ask for event details, budget and fundraising on your part.<br />
* Out priority is to share the risk with organizers allowing access to funds early to book facilities as required<br />
* Code sprint budget is structured carry funds from one event to the next allowing us to hold more code-sprints with a smaller annual budget.<br />
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|-<br />
! Sprint Request<br />
! 2020<br />
! 2020 Actual<br />
! 2021 Requested<br />
! Notes<br />
|-<br />
| OSGeo Code Sprint<br />
| style="text-align:right;" | 0<br />
| style="text-align:right;" | 0<br />
| style="text-align:right;" | 0<br />
| No financial request made, seed money exists from previous years. [[OSGeo Code Sprint 2020|Event planning]] is well under way.<br />
|-<br />
| GeoServer Code Sprint<br />
| style="text-align:right;" | 0<br />
| style="text-align:right;" | 0<br />
| style="text-align:right;" | 0<br />
| <br />
|-<br />
| PostGIS Code Sprint <br />
| style="text-align:right;" | 0<br />
| style="text-align:right;" | 0<br />
| style="text-align:right;" | 0<br />
| <br />
|-<br />
| GRASS GIS Community Sprint <br />
| style="text-align:right;" | 2,000<br />
| style="text-align:right;" | 0<br />
| style="text-align:right;" | 0<br />
| <br />
|}<br />
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= Approval and Amendments =<br />
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* Budget Meeting: [[Board Meeting 2021-01-18]]<br />
* Loomio Motion: <br />
* Amendments: TBD<br />
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[[Category:Budget]]<br />
[[Category:Finance]]</div>Serenacoetzeehttps://wiki.osgeo.org/w/index.php?title=FOSS4G_2018_OSGeo_Booth&diff=116222FOSS4G 2018 OSGeo Booth2018-08-21T19:26:59Z<p>Serenacoetzee: /* Schedule */</p>
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<div>Placeholder for organizing the OSGeo Booth at [[FOSS4G 2018]] in Dar Es Salaam. http://2018.foss4g.org/<br />
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Similar to previous years: [[FOSS4G_2016_OSGeo_Booth | FOSS4G 2016 Bonn]], [[FOSS4G2015_OSGeo_Booth]] Seoul, [[FOSS4G2014 OSGeo Booth]] Portland.<br />
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== Event contact ==<br />
* [[User:Astrid_Emde | Astrid Emde]]<br />
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== Floor Plan ==<br />
* plan will follow soon.<br />
* booth size 10m x 10m<br />
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== Volunteers ==<br />
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* [[User:Astrid Emde | Astrid Emde]]<br />
* [[Jeff McKenna]]<br />
* [[User:Maria | Maria Brovelli]]<br />
* Devotha Laurent<br />
* [[User:Silli | Silvia Franceschi]]<br />
* [[User:Jive | Jody Garnett]]<br />
* [[User:Fjbehr | Franz-Josef Behr]]<br />
* [[User:Gsteinmon|Guido Stein]]<br />
* [[Victoria Rautenbach]]<br />
* [[Serena Coetzee]]<br />
* Add your name<br />
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== Schedule ==<br />
See the schedule for the event. The hours may still change a bit.<br />
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Please sign up. Everyone is welcome.<br />
<br />
{|class=wikitable border="1"<br />
! Day !! Hours !! What !! Booth Team (2-3/slot) !! Special activity <br />
|-<br />
| Wednesday August 29 || 7:00-08:00 || '''Move in / Set up''' || [[Jeff McKenna]], [[User:Fjbehr | Franz-Josef Behr]] ||<br />
|-<br />
| Wednesday August 29 || 8:00-9:00 || pre conference meetings / registration || [[Jeff McKenna]], [[User:Fjbehr | Franz-Josef Behr]]||<br />
|-<br />
| || 9:00-10:40 || conference opening || [[Jeff McKenna]] ||<br />
|-<br />
| || 10:40-11:00 || break || [[Jeff McKenna]] ||<br />
|-<br />
| || 11:00-12:30 || Regular hours || [[Jeff McKenna]] || <br />
|-<br />
| || 12:30-13:30 || Lunch || [[Jeff McKenna]] || <br />
|-<br />
| || 13:30-15:00 || Regular hours || [[Jeff McKenna]] || <br />
|-<br />
| || 15:00-16:00 end day 1 || Regular hours then travel to Gala Party || [[Jeff McKenna]] || <br />
|-<br />
| Thurs August 30 || 8:00-9:00 || OSGeo AGM (Annual General meeting) || ||<br />
|-<br />
| || 9:00-10:00 || Regular hours || [[User:Gsteinmon|Guido Stein]] || <br />
|-<br />
| || 10:00-11:00 || Regular hours || [[User:Gsteinmon|Guido Stein]] || <br />
|-<br />
| || 11:00-11:30 || Tea Breack || [[User:Gsteinmon|Guido Stein]] || <br />
|-<br />
| || 11:30-12:30 || Regular hours || [[User:Gsteinmon|Guido Stein]] || <br />
|-<br />
| || 12:30-13:30 || Regular hours || [[User:Gsteinmon|Guido Stein]] || <br />
|-<br />
| || 13:30-14:00 || Lunch || [[User:Gsteinmon|Guido Stein]] || <br />
|-<br />
| || 14:00-15:30 || Regular hours || || <br />
|-<br />
| || 15:30-16:00 || Tea Break || [[Victoria Rautenbach]] ||<br />
|-<br />
| || 16:00-17:00 || Regular hours || || <br />
|-<br />
| || 17:00-18:00 || Regular hours || ||<br />
|-<br />
| || 18:30-20:00 || Sundowner || ||<br />
|-<br />
| Fri August 31|| 8:00-9:00 || pre conference meetings || ||<br />
|-<br />
| || 9:00-10:30 || Regular hours || ||<br />
|-<br />
| || 10:30-11:00 || Tea Break || [[Victoria Rautenbach]] [[Serena Coetzee]] ||<br />
|-<br />
| || 11:00-12:00 || Regular hours || [[User:Fjbehr | Franz-Josef Behr]] [[Serena Coetzee]] ||<br />
|-<br />
| || 12:00-13:30 || Regular hours || [[Victoria Rautenbach]] [[Serena Coetzee]] ||<br />
|-<br />
| || 13:30-14:30 || Lunch || ||<br />
|-<br />
| || 14:30-15:30 || Regular hours|| ||<br />
|-<br />
| || 15:30-16:30 || Regular hours|| ||<br />
|-<br />
| || 16:30-17:00 || Regular hours & Take down|| [[Jeff McKenna]] ||<br />
|}<br />
<br />
<br />
conference program: http://2018.foss4g.org/<br />
<br />
== Equipment ==<br />
* Roll-Up<br />
* Flyer console <br />
* 1 high table, 2 stools/chairs<br />
* OSGeo flyer, OSGeoLive Postcards<br />
* OSGeo stickers - printed<br />
* OSGeo Flyer - printed<br />
* Banners<br />
* Brochures<br />
* Table runner<br />
* OSGeoLive 12 on USB (16GB, USB 3)<br />
<br />
== Presentations & Activities==<br />
<br />
=== Self-Running ===<br />
* OSGeo Live overview [http://osgeo.github.io/OSGeoLive-presentation/#/ presentation]<br />
<br />
== Other Considerations ==<br />
<br />
* Good reading: Running [http://fromtheinsidelookingin.blogspot.com/2008/10/conference-booths.html Conference Booths]<br />
* [[Operate OSGeo Booth]]<br />
<br />
== Impressions ==<br />
[[Category: FOSS4G2018]]<br />
[[Category: FOSS4G]]<br />
[[Category: Marketing]]</div>Serenacoetzeehttps://wiki.osgeo.org/w/index.php?title=FOSS4G_2018_OSGeo_Booth&diff=116221FOSS4G 2018 OSGeo Booth2018-08-21T19:25:52Z<p>Serenacoetzee: /* Schedule */</p>
<hr />
<div>Placeholder for organizing the OSGeo Booth at [[FOSS4G 2018]] in Dar Es Salaam. http://2018.foss4g.org/<br />
<br />
Similar to previous years: [[FOSS4G_2016_OSGeo_Booth | FOSS4G 2016 Bonn]], [[FOSS4G2015_OSGeo_Booth]] Seoul, [[FOSS4G2014 OSGeo Booth]] Portland.<br />
<br />
== Event contact ==<br />
* [[User:Astrid_Emde | Astrid Emde]]<br />
<br />
== Floor Plan ==<br />
* plan will follow soon.<br />
* booth size 10m x 10m<br />
<br />
== Volunteers ==<br />
<br />
* [[User:Astrid Emde | Astrid Emde]]<br />
* [[Jeff McKenna]]<br />
* [[User:Maria | Maria Brovelli]]<br />
* Devotha Laurent<br />
* [[User:Silli | Silvia Franceschi]]<br />
* [[User:Jive | Jody Garnett]]<br />
* [[User:Fjbehr | Franz-Josef Behr]]<br />
* [[User:Gsteinmon|Guido Stein]]<br />
* [[Victoria Rautenbach]]<br />
* [[Serena Coetzee]]<br />
* Add your name<br />
<br />
== Schedule ==<br />
See the schedule for the event. The hours may still change a bit.<br />
<br />
Please sign up. Everyone is welcome.<br />
<br />
{|class=wikitable border="1"<br />
! Day !! Hours !! What !! Booth Team (2-3/slot) !! Special activity <br />
|-<br />
| Wednesday August 29 || 7:00-08:00 || '''Move in / Set up''' || [[Jeff McKenna]], [[User:Fjbehr | Franz-Josef Behr]] ||<br />
|-<br />
| Wednesday August 29 || 8:00-9:00 || pre conference meetings / registration || [[Jeff McKenna]], [[User:Fjbehr | Franz-Josef Behr]]||<br />
|-<br />
| || 9:00-10:40 || conference opening || [[Jeff McKenna]] ||<br />
|-<br />
| || 10:40-11:00 || break || [[Jeff McKenna]] ||<br />
|-<br />
| || 11:00-12:30 || Regular hours || [[Jeff McKenna]] || <br />
|-<br />
| || 12:30-13:30 || Lunch || [[Jeff McKenna]] || <br />
|-<br />
| || 13:30-15:00 || Regular hours || [[Jeff McKenna]] || <br />
|-<br />
| || 15:00-16:00 end day 1 || Regular hours then travel to Gala Party || [[Jeff McKenna]] || <br />
|-<br />
| Thurs August 30 || 8:00-9:00 || OSGeo AGM (Annual General meeting) || ||<br />
|-<br />
| || 9:00-10:00 || Regular hours || [[User:Gsteinmon|Guido Stein]] || <br />
|-<br />
| || 10:00-11:00 || Regular hours || [[User:Gsteinmon|Guido Stein]] || <br />
|-<br />
| || 11:00-11:30 || Tea Breack || [[User:Gsteinmon|Guido Stein]] || <br />
|-<br />
| || 11:30-12:30 || Regular hours || [[User:Gsteinmon|Guido Stein]] || <br />
|-<br />
| || 12:30-13:30 || Regular hours || [[User:Gsteinmon|Guido Stein]] || <br />
|-<br />
| || 13:30-14:00 || Lunch || [[User:Gsteinmon|Guido Stein]] || <br />
|-<br />
| || 14:00-15:30 || Regular hours || || <br />
|-<br />
| || 15:30-16:00 || Tea Break || [[Victoria Rautenbach]] ||<br />
|-<br />
| || 16:00-17:00 || Regular hours || || <br />
|-<br />
| || 17:00-18:00 || Regular hours || ||<br />
|-<br />
| || 18:30-20:00 || Sundowner || ||<br />
|-<br />
| Fri August 31|| 8:00-9:00 || pre conference meetings || ||<br />
|-<br />
| || 9:00-10:30 || Regular hours || ||<br />
|-<br />
| || 10:30-11:00 || Tea Break || [[Victoria Rautenbach]] ||<br />
|-<br />
| || 11:00-12:00 || Regular hours || [[User:Fjbehr | Franz-Josef Behr]] ||<br />
|-<br />
| || 12:00-13:30 || Regular hours || [[Victoria Rautenbach]] [[Serena Coetzee]] ||<br />
|-<br />
| || 13:30-14:30 || Lunch || ||<br />
|-<br />
| || 14:30-15:30 || Regular hours|| ||<br />
|-<br />
| || 15:30-16:30 || Regular hours|| ||<br />
|-<br />
| || 16:30-17:00 || Regular hours & Take down|| [[Jeff McKenna]] ||<br />
|}<br />
<br />
<br />
conference program: http://2018.foss4g.org/<br />
<br />
== Equipment ==<br />
* Roll-Up<br />
* Flyer console <br />
* 1 high table, 2 stools/chairs<br />
* OSGeo flyer, OSGeoLive Postcards<br />
* OSGeo stickers - printed<br />
* OSGeo Flyer - printed<br />
* Banners<br />
* Brochures<br />
* Table runner<br />
* OSGeoLive 12 on USB (16GB, USB 3)<br />
<br />
== Presentations & Activities==<br />
<br />
=== Self-Running ===<br />
* OSGeo Live overview [http://osgeo.github.io/OSGeoLive-presentation/#/ presentation]<br />
<br />
== Other Considerations ==<br />
<br />
* Good reading: Running [http://fromtheinsidelookingin.blogspot.com/2008/10/conference-booths.html Conference Booths]<br />
* [[Operate OSGeo Booth]]<br />
<br />
== Impressions ==<br />
[[Category: FOSS4G2018]]<br />
[[Category: FOSS4G]]<br />
[[Category: Marketing]]</div>Serenacoetzeehttps://wiki.osgeo.org/w/index.php?title=FOSS4G_2018_OSGeo_Booth&diff=116220FOSS4G 2018 OSGeo Booth2018-08-21T19:22:33Z<p>Serenacoetzee: </p>
<hr />
<div>Placeholder for organizing the OSGeo Booth at [[FOSS4G 2018]] in Dar Es Salaam. http://2018.foss4g.org/<br />
<br />
Similar to previous years: [[FOSS4G_2016_OSGeo_Booth | FOSS4G 2016 Bonn]], [[FOSS4G2015_OSGeo_Booth]] Seoul, [[FOSS4G2014 OSGeo Booth]] Portland.<br />
<br />
== Event contact ==<br />
* [[User:Astrid_Emde | Astrid Emde]]<br />
<br />
== Floor Plan ==<br />
* plan will follow soon.<br />
* booth size 10m x 10m<br />
<br />
== Volunteers ==<br />
<br />
* [[User:Astrid Emde | Astrid Emde]]<br />
* [[Jeff McKenna]]<br />
* [[User:Maria | Maria Brovelli]]<br />
* Devotha Laurent<br />
* [[User:Silli | Silvia Franceschi]]<br />
* [[User:Jive | Jody Garnett]]<br />
* [[User:Fjbehr | Franz-Josef Behr]]<br />
* [[User:Gsteinmon|Guido Stein]]<br />
* [[Victoria Rautenbach]]<br />
* [[Serena Coetzee]]<br />
* Add your name<br />
<br />
== Schedule ==<br />
See the schedule for the event. The hours may still change a bit.<br />
<br />
Please sign up. Everyone is welcome.<br />
<br />
{|class=wikitable border="1"<br />
! Day !! Hours !! What !! Booth Team (2-3/slot) !! Special activity <br />
|-<br />
| Wednesday August 29 || 7:00-08:00 || '''Move in / Set up''' || [[Jeff McKenna]], [[User:Fjbehr | Franz-Josef Behr]] ||<br />
|-<br />
| Wednesday August 29 || 8:00-9:00 || pre conference meetings / registration || [[Jeff McKenna]], [[User:Fjbehr | Franz-Josef Behr]]||<br />
|-<br />
| || 9:00-10:40 || conference opening || [[Jeff McKenna]] ||<br />
|-<br />
| || 10:40-11:00 || break || [[Jeff McKenna]] ||<br />
|-<br />
| || 11:00-12:30 || Regular hours || [[Jeff McKenna]] || <br />
|-<br />
| || 12:30-13:30 || Lunch || [[Jeff McKenna]] || <br />
|-<br />
| || 13:30-15:00 || Regular hours || [[Jeff McKenna]] || <br />
|-<br />
| || 15:00-16:00 end day 1 || Regular hours then travel to Gala Party || [[Jeff McKenna]] || <br />
|-<br />
| Thurs August 30 || 8:00-9:00 || OSGeo AGM (Annual General meeting) || ||<br />
|-<br />
| || 9:00-10:00 || Regular hours || [[User:Gsteinmon|Guido Stein]] || <br />
|-<br />
| || 10:00-11:00 || Regular hours || [[User:Gsteinmon|Guido Stein]] || <br />
|-<br />
| || 11:00-11:30 || Tea Breack || [[User:Gsteinmon|Guido Stein]] || <br />
|-<br />
| || 11:30-12:30 || Regular hours || [[User:Gsteinmon|Guido Stein]] || <br />
|-<br />
| || 12:30-13:30 || Regular hours || [[User:Gsteinmon|Guido Stein]] || <br />
|-<br />
| || 13:30-14:00 || Lunch || [[User:Gsteinmon|Guido Stein]] || <br />
|-<br />
| || 14:00-15:30 || Regular hours || || <br />
|-<br />
| || 15:30-16:00 || Tea Break || [[Victoria Rautenbach]] ||<br />
|-<br />
| || 16:00-17:00 || Regular hours || || <br />
|-<br />
| || 17:00-18:00 || Regular hours || ||<br />
|-<br />
| || 18:30-20:00 || Sundowner || ||<br />
|-<br />
| Fri August 31|| 8:00-9:00 || pre conference meetings || ||<br />
|-<br />
| || 9:00-10:30 || Regular hours || ||<br />
|-<br />
| || 10:30-11:00 || Tea Break || [[Victoria Rautenbach]] ||<br />
|-<br />
| || 11:00-12:00 || Regular hours || [[User:Fjbehr | Franz-Josef Behr]] ||<br />
|-<br />
| || 12:00-13:30 || Regular hours || [[Victoria Rautenbach]] ||<br />
|-<br />
| || 13:30-14:30 || Lunch || ||<br />
|-<br />
| || 14:30-15:30 || Regular hours|| ||<br />
|-<br />
| || 15:30-16:30 || Regular hours|| ||<br />
|-<br />
| || 16:30-17:00 || Regular hours & Take down|| [[Jeff McKenna]] ||<br />
|}<br />
<br />
<br />
conference program: http://2018.foss4g.org/<br />
<br />
== Equipment ==<br />
* Roll-Up<br />
* Flyer console <br />
* 1 high table, 2 stools/chairs<br />
* OSGeo flyer, OSGeoLive Postcards<br />
* OSGeo stickers - printed<br />
* OSGeo Flyer - printed<br />
* Banners<br />
* Brochures<br />
* Table runner<br />
* OSGeoLive 12 on USB (16GB, USB 3)<br />
<br />
== Presentations & Activities==<br />
<br />
=== Self-Running ===<br />
* OSGeo Live overview [http://osgeo.github.io/OSGeoLive-presentation/#/ presentation]<br />
<br />
== Other Considerations ==<br />
<br />
* Good reading: Running [http://fromtheinsidelookingin.blogspot.com/2008/10/conference-booths.html Conference Booths]<br />
* [[Operate OSGeo Booth]]<br />
<br />
== Impressions ==<br />
[[Category: FOSS4G2018]]<br />
[[Category: FOSS4G]]<br />
[[Category: Marketing]]</div>Serenacoetzeehttps://wiki.osgeo.org/w/index.php?title=Serena_Coetzee&diff=115360Serena Coetzee2018-06-14T18:21:43Z<p>Serenacoetzee: </p>
<hr />
<div>[http://www.up.ac.za/cgis Centre for Geoinformation Science], [http://www.up.ac.za University of Pretoria]<br />
<br />
Location: Pretoria, South Africa<br />
<br />
<br />
I lecture in the [http://www.up.ac.za/ggm Department of Geography, Geoinformatics and Meterology]: 'GISc professional practice', 'Research methods' and 'Research project' to Honours students (7th semester) and 'Cartography' to students in the second semester. I am also responsible for geoinformatics in our department, including coordination of postgraduate research. We encourage our students to use open geospatial products or to contribute to these in their research. In a developing country we have limited funds to procure expensive software and data, and the wealth of free online information, virtual communities, access to source code and peer review of source code are very helpful in postgraduate research projects. I have been involved in the academic tracks of the FOSS4G conferences since 2008. My research focuses on the management and maintenance of the ever-increasing volumes of geographic information and the challenges of making the information available and usable. The research is of an interdisciplinary nature, mainly in geoinformatics and computer science. The concept of an SDI (the collection of people technologies, policies and institutional arrangements for facilitating the sharing and use of geographic information) underlies most of my research. My research contributes to understanding and improving SDI practice and theory. Specific research foci are address data, standards, open principles, geoinformatics education and geovisualization. My university web page is [http://www.up.ac.za/centre-for-geoinformation-science/article/1824066/serena-coetzee here].<br />
<br />
<br />
'''Contact'''<br />
<br />
serenacoetzee[at]gmail.com<br />
<br />
<br />
'''Spoken languages'''<br />
<br />
German, Afrikaans, English, Tswana (limited)</div>Serenacoetzeehttps://wiki.osgeo.org/w/index.php?title=Serena_Coetzee&diff=115359Serena Coetzee2018-06-14T18:20:06Z<p>Serenacoetzee: </p>
<hr />
<div>[http://www.up.ac.za/cgis Centre for Geoinformation Science], [http://www.up.ac.za University of Pretoria]<br />
<br />
Location: Pretoria, South Africa<br />
<br />
<br />
I lecture in the [http://www.up.ac.za/ggm Department of Geography, Geoinformatics and Meterology]: 'GISc professional practice' to Honours students (7th semester) and 'Cartography' to students in the second semester. We encourage our students to use open geospatial products or to contribute to these in their research. In a developing country we have limited funds to procure expensive software and data, and the wealth of free online information, virtual communities, access to source code and peer review of source code are very helpful in postgraduate research projects. I have been involved in the academic tracks of the FOSS4G conferences since 2008. My research focuses on the management and maintenance of the ever-increasing volumes of geographic information and the challenges of making the information available and usable. The research is of an interdisciplinary nature, mainly in geoinformatics and computer science. The concept of an SDI (the collection of people technologies, policies and institutional arrangements for facilitating the sharing and use of geographic information) underlies most of my research. My research contributes to understanding and improving SDI practice and theory. Specific research foci are address data, standards, open principles, geoinformatics education and geovisualization. My university web page is [http://www.up.ac.za/centre-for-geoinformation-science/article/1824066/serena-coetzee here].<br />
<br />
<br />
'''Contact'''<br />
<br />
serenacoetzee[at]gmail.com<br />
<br />
<br />
'''Spoken languages'''<br />
<br />
German, Afrikaans, English, Tswana (limited)</div>Serenacoetzeehttps://wiki.osgeo.org/w/index.php?title=OSGEO_at_ISPRS2020&diff=115105OSGEO at ISPRS20202018-05-28T10:02:38Z<p>Serenacoetzee: /* OSGeo volunteers for XXIVth ISPRS Congress */</p>
<hr />
<div>=== OSGeo participation at XXIVth ISPRS Congress ===<br />
<br />
==== About ====<br />
<br />
The [http://www.isprs2020-nice.com/ XXIVth ISPRS Congress] will be 14-20. June, 2020 in Nice, France. OSGeo has [[MOU_ISPRS|MoU]] with ISPRS which includes collaboration and participation in conferences.<br />
OSGeo was invited to organize:<br />
<br />
- a '''Forum on Geo-Open-Science, Geo-Open-Source and Geo-Open-Data'''. The motivation of fora is to encourage strong exchanges between academia, institutions, industry, and users on important structuring subjects. The program built for the fora must cover all aspects of the theme (integrating also policy issues) and not only scientific/technical aspects. <br />
<br />
- a '''OSGeo Pavilion''', where to group open-source companies to give them higher visibility and a stronger impact during the congress.<br />
<br />
==== OSGeo volunteers for XXIVth ISPRS Congress ====<br />
<br />
[[User:Maria|Maria Brovelli]]<br />
<br />
[[User:Helena|Helena Mitasova]]<br />
<br />
[[User:Sanand| Suchith Anand]]<br />
<br />
[[User:kotzino| Dimitris Kotzinos]]<br />
<br />
[[User:Mlennert| Moritz Lennert]]<br />
<br />
[[User:patrick.hogan| Patrick Hogan]]<br />
<br />
[[User:Darshana Rawal| Darshana Rawal]]<br />
<br />
[[User:serenacoetzee| Serena Coetzee]]<br />
<br />
<br />
[[Category:Conference]]</div>Serenacoetzeehttps://wiki.osgeo.org/w/index.php?title=OSGEO_at_ISPRS2020&diff=115104OSGEO at ISPRS20202018-05-28T10:02:17Z<p>Serenacoetzee: /* OSGeo volunteers for XXIVth ISPRS Congress */</p>
<hr />
<div>=== OSGeo participation at XXIVth ISPRS Congress ===<br />
<br />
==== About ====<br />
<br />
The [http://www.isprs2020-nice.com/ XXIVth ISPRS Congress] will be 14-20. June, 2020 in Nice, France. OSGeo has [[MOU_ISPRS|MoU]] with ISPRS which includes collaboration and participation in conferences.<br />
OSGeo was invited to organize:<br />
<br />
- a '''Forum on Geo-Open-Science, Geo-Open-Source and Geo-Open-Data'''. The motivation of fora is to encourage strong exchanges between academia, institutions, industry, and users on important structuring subjects. The program built for the fora must cover all aspects of the theme (integrating also policy issues) and not only scientific/technical aspects. <br />
<br />
- a '''OSGeo Pavilion''', where to group open-source companies to give them higher visibility and a stronger impact during the congress.<br />
<br />
==== OSGeo volunteers for XXIVth ISPRS Congress ====<br />
<br />
[[User:Maria|Maria Brovelli]]<br />
<br />
[[User:Helena|Helena Mitasova]]<br />
<br />
[[User:Sanand| Suchith Anand]]<br />
<br />
[[User:kotzino| Dimitris Kotzinos]]<br />
<br />
[[User:Mlennert| Moritz Lennert]]<br />
<br />
[[User:patrick.hogan| Patrick Hogan]]<br />
<br />
[[User:Darshana Rawal| Darshana Rawal]]<br />
<br />
[[User:SerenaCoetzee| Serena Coetzee]]<br />
<br />
<br />
[[Category:Conference]]</div>Serenacoetzeehttps://wiki.osgeo.org/w/index.php?title=OSGEO_at_ISPRS2020&diff=115103OSGEO at ISPRS20202018-05-28T10:01:39Z<p>Serenacoetzee: /* OSGeo volunteers for XXIVth ISPRS Congress */</p>
<hr />
<div>=== OSGeo participation at XXIVth ISPRS Congress ===<br />
<br />
==== About ====<br />
<br />
The [http://www.isprs2020-nice.com/ XXIVth ISPRS Congress] will be 14-20. June, 2020 in Nice, France. OSGeo has [[MOU_ISPRS|MoU]] with ISPRS which includes collaboration and participation in conferences.<br />
OSGeo was invited to organize:<br />
<br />
- a '''Forum on Geo-Open-Science, Geo-Open-Source and Geo-Open-Data'''. The motivation of fora is to encourage strong exchanges between academia, institutions, industry, and users on important structuring subjects. The program built for the fora must cover all aspects of the theme (integrating also policy issues) and not only scientific/technical aspects. <br />
<br />
- a '''OSGeo Pavilion''', where to group open-source companies to give them higher visibility and a stronger impact during the congress.<br />
<br />
==== OSGeo volunteers for XXIVth ISPRS Congress ====<br />
<br />
[[User:Maria|Maria Brovelli]]<br />
<br />
[[User:Helena|Helena Mitasova]]<br />
<br />
[[User:Sanand| Suchith Anand]]<br />
<br />
[[User:kotzino| Dimitris Kotzinos]]<br />
<br />
[[User:Mlennert| Moritz Lennert]]<br />
<br />
[[User:patrick.hogan| Patrick Hogan]]<br />
<br />
[[User:Darshana Rawal| Darshana Rawal]]<br />
<br />
[[User:Serena Coetzee| Serena Coetzee]]<br />
<br />
<br />
[[Category:Conference]]</div>Serenacoetzeehttps://wiki.osgeo.org/w/index.php?title=FOSS4G_2017&diff=105971FOSS4G 20172017-03-29T14:47:37Z<p>Serenacoetzee: /* Scientific Committee */</p>
<hr />
<div>[[File:Rectangle color 150 350.png|thumb|right|370px|FOSS4G 2017 in Boston, Massachusetts, USA.]]<br />
<br />
Go to the official [http://2017.foss4g.org FOSS4G 2017] event page.<br />
<br />
__TOC__<br />
<br />
== Initial Proposal ==<br />
<br />
Download the proposal PDF: https://svn.osgeo.org/osgeo/foss4g/proposals/2017/FOSS4G2017_proposal_Boston.pdf<br />
<br />
== Local Organizing Committee ==<br />
{| class="wikitable"<br />
|+ style="text-align:left;"|LOC_Members<br />
! style="text-align:left;"|Name<br />
! style="text-align:left;"|Organization<br />
! style="text-align:left;"|Sector<br />
! style="text-align:left;"|Title<br />
! style="text-align:left;"|Location<br />
! style="text-align:left;"|Role<br />
|-<br />
|[[Andy Anderson]]<br />
|Amherst College;<br/>University of Massachusetts Amherst<br />
|style="background-color:#f4cae4;" | Academic<br />
|Academic Technology Specialist;<br/>Adjunct Assistant Professor in Environmental Conservation<br />
|Amherst, Massachusetts<br />
|Chair of Program Subcommittee<br />
|-<br />
|[http://twitter.com/gzambotti Giovanni Zambotti]<br />
|Harvard University<br />
|style="background-color:#f4cae4;" | Academic<br />
|GIS Specialist<br />
|Greater Boston<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
|Patrick Florance<br />
|Tufts University<br />
|style="background-color:#f4cae4;" | Academic<br />
|Associate Director of Geospatial Technology<br />
|Greater Boston<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
|Chris Barnett<br />
|Tufts University<br />
|style="background-color:#f4cae4;" | Academic<br />
|Geospatial Developer<br />
|Greater Boston<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
|[http://twitter.com/guidos Guido Stein]<br />
|AvidGeo & Applied Geographics, Inc.<br />
|style="background-color:#fdcdac;" | Community<br />
|Founder & GIS Analyst<br />
|Greater Boston<br />
|Co-Chair of FOSS4G Boston 2017<br />
|-<br />
|[http://twitter.com/mjfoster83 Mike Foster]<br />
|Maptime Boston & MIT<br />
|style="background-color:#fdcdac;" | Community<br />
|Community Organizer & GIS Specialist<br />
|Greater Boston<br />
|Chair of Workshop Subcommittee<br />
|-<br />
|[http://twitter.com/aledafreeman Aleda Freeman]<br />
|MassGIS/MassIT/Commonwealth of Massachusetts<br />
|style="background-color:#cbd5e8;" | Government<br />
|Web Mapping Services Manager<br />
|Greater Boston<br />
|Chair of Extracurricular Subcommittee; Member Program Subcommittee<br />
|-<br />
|Christian Jacqz<br />
|MassGIS/MassIT/Commonwealth of Massachusetts<br />
|style="background-color:#cbd5e8;" | Government<br />
|Former Director of MassGIS<br />
|Greater Boston<br />
|Member Program Subcommittee<br />
|-<br />
|Carolyn Bennett<br />
|Boston Redevelopment Authority<br />
|style="background-color:#cbd5e8;" | Government<br />
|GIS Manager<br />
|Greater Boston<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
|[http://twitter.com/mt_appgeo Michael Terner]<br />
|Applied Geographics, Inc.<br />
|style="background-color:#b3e2cd;" | Private<br />
|Executive Vice President<br />
|Greater Boston<br />
|Chair of FOSS4G Boston 2017<br />
|-<br />
|[http://twitter.com/wsmitchell Will Mitchell]<br />
|NBT Solutions, LLC<br />
|style="background-color:#b3e2cd;" | Private<br />
|Principal<br />
|Portland, Maine<br />
|On Sponsor Committee<br />
|}<br />
<br />
== Community Committee ==<br />
<br />
=== Past Activities ===<br />
[[FOSS4G 2017/Logo Contest|Logo Contest]]<br />
<br />
== Program Related ==<br />
<br />
==Scientific Committee==<br />
''[[FOSS4G Notes on Academic Track ]]''<br />
; [[User:Simonelanucara|Simone Lanucara]] : Spatial Data Infrastructures, Open Geospatial Consortium interfaces, Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial, Sensor Web Enablement, Semantic harmonization, Data harmonization, Big Data<br />
; [[Helena Mitasova]] : terrain modeling, visualization, GRASS GIS<br />
; [[User:Maria|Maria Brovelli]]<br />
; [[Venkatesh Raghavan]]<br />
; [[Andy Anderson]], Amherst College & University of Massachusetts Amherst : Demographics, Environmental Systems, Geostatistics, Programming, HPC, Education<br />
; [[User:Zia | Mohammed Zia]] : GIS, Web GIS, Vehicle-Routing, Programming, Remote Sensing, Geology<br />
; Marco Minghini : Volunteered Geographic Information, OpenStreetMap, Land Use/Cover, Education<br />
; Darshana Rawal, CEPT University, Ahmedabad, India: Web GIS, GIS, Programming, Geomarketing ,Disaster Management, LBS<br />
; [[Charlie Schweik]], University of Massachusetts Amherst : VGI, Land Use/Cover, Commons-based Peer Production in Open Geospatial, Education<br />
; Kalum Priyanath Udagepola : Digital Globe, GIS Education, Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI), Geospatial BI, Decision Support Systems, Spatial Data Visualization, Remote Sensing, Land Surveying<br />
; [[User:thuygeo|Tuong-Thuy Vu]]: Remote Sensing, Data Fusion, GIS Education, Big data<br />
; Sven Schade, European Commission - Joint Research Centre : Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI), Semantic Web, Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI), Citizen Science, crowd-sourcing<br />
; [[User:Peter Loewe|Peter Löwe]]: Open Science, Data Science, GRASS GIS<br />
; [[Serena Coetzee]], Centre for Geoinformation Science, University of Pretoria, South Africa : spatial data infrastructure, address data, standardization, open principles, GISc education, geovisualization<br />
; Add your name and institution here : And your areas of expertise here<br />
<br />
== Processes ==<br />
<br />
*[[FOSS4G 2017 Committee Member Selection|2017 Committee Member Selection]]<br />
*[[FOSS4G 2017 Session Selection|2017 Session Selection]]<br />
*[[FOSS4G 2017 Keynote Selection|2017 Keynote Selection]]<br />
*[[FOSS4G 2017 Website Updates|2017 Website Updates]]<br />
<br />
== Lessons Learned ==<br />
<br />
*[[FOSS4G 2017 Lessons Learned|FOSS4G 2017 Lessons Learned]]<br />
<br />
<br />
[[Category:FOSS4G2017]]<br />
[[Category:FOSS4G]]<br />
[[Category:Events]]</div>Serenacoetzeehttps://wiki.osgeo.org/w/index.php?title=FOSS4G_2017&diff=105970FOSS4G 20172017-03-29T14:47:09Z<p>Serenacoetzee: /* Scientific Committee */</p>
<hr />
<div>[[File:Rectangle color 150 350.png|thumb|right|370px|FOSS4G 2017 in Boston, Massachusetts, USA.]]<br />
<br />
Go to the official [http://2017.foss4g.org FOSS4G 2017] event page.<br />
<br />
__TOC__<br />
<br />
== Initial Proposal ==<br />
<br />
Download the proposal PDF: https://svn.osgeo.org/osgeo/foss4g/proposals/2017/FOSS4G2017_proposal_Boston.pdf<br />
<br />
== Local Organizing Committee ==<br />
{| class="wikitable"<br />
|+ style="text-align:left;"|LOC_Members<br />
! style="text-align:left;"|Name<br />
! style="text-align:left;"|Organization<br />
! style="text-align:left;"|Sector<br />
! style="text-align:left;"|Title<br />
! style="text-align:left;"|Location<br />
! style="text-align:left;"|Role<br />
|-<br />
|[[Andy Anderson]]<br />
|Amherst College;<br/>University of Massachusetts Amherst<br />
|style="background-color:#f4cae4;" | Academic<br />
|Academic Technology Specialist;<br/>Adjunct Assistant Professor in Environmental Conservation<br />
|Amherst, Massachusetts<br />
|Chair of Program Subcommittee<br />
|-<br />
|[http://twitter.com/gzambotti Giovanni Zambotti]<br />
|Harvard University<br />
|style="background-color:#f4cae4;" | Academic<br />
|GIS Specialist<br />
|Greater Boston<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
|Patrick Florance<br />
|Tufts University<br />
|style="background-color:#f4cae4;" | Academic<br />
|Associate Director of Geospatial Technology<br />
|Greater Boston<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
|Chris Barnett<br />
|Tufts University<br />
|style="background-color:#f4cae4;" | Academic<br />
|Geospatial Developer<br />
|Greater Boston<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
|[http://twitter.com/guidos Guido Stein]<br />
|AvidGeo & Applied Geographics, Inc.<br />
|style="background-color:#fdcdac;" | Community<br />
|Founder & GIS Analyst<br />
|Greater Boston<br />
|Co-Chair of FOSS4G Boston 2017<br />
|-<br />
|[http://twitter.com/mjfoster83 Mike Foster]<br />
|Maptime Boston & MIT<br />
|style="background-color:#fdcdac;" | Community<br />
|Community Organizer & GIS Specialist<br />
|Greater Boston<br />
|Chair of Workshop Subcommittee<br />
|-<br />
|[http://twitter.com/aledafreeman Aleda Freeman]<br />
|MassGIS/MassIT/Commonwealth of Massachusetts<br />
|style="background-color:#cbd5e8;" | Government<br />
|Web Mapping Services Manager<br />
|Greater Boston<br />
|Chair of Extracurricular Subcommittee; Member Program Subcommittee<br />
|-<br />
|Christian Jacqz<br />
|MassGIS/MassIT/Commonwealth of Massachusetts<br />
|style="background-color:#cbd5e8;" | Government<br />
|Former Director of MassGIS<br />
|Greater Boston<br />
|Member Program Subcommittee<br />
|-<br />
|Carolyn Bennett<br />
|Boston Redevelopment Authority<br />
|style="background-color:#cbd5e8;" | Government<br />
|GIS Manager<br />
|Greater Boston<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
|[http://twitter.com/mt_appgeo Michael Terner]<br />
|Applied Geographics, Inc.<br />
|style="background-color:#b3e2cd;" | Private<br />
|Executive Vice President<br />
|Greater Boston<br />
|Chair of FOSS4G Boston 2017<br />
|-<br />
|[http://twitter.com/wsmitchell Will Mitchell]<br />
|NBT Solutions, LLC<br />
|style="background-color:#b3e2cd;" | Private<br />
|Principal<br />
|Portland, Maine<br />
|On Sponsor Committee<br />
|}<br />
<br />
== Community Committee ==<br />
<br />
=== Past Activities ===<br />
[[FOSS4G 2017/Logo Contest|Logo Contest]]<br />
<br />
== Program Related ==<br />
<br />
==Scientific Committee==<br />
''[[FOSS4G Notes on Academic Track ]]''<br />
; [[User:Simonelanucara|Simone Lanucara]] : Spatial Data Infrastructures, Open Geospatial Consortium interfaces, Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial, Sensor Web Enablement, Semantic harmonization, Data harmonization, Big Data<br />
; [[Helena Mitasova]] : terrain modeling, visualization, GRASS GIS<br />
; [[User:Maria|Maria Brovelli]]<br />
; [[Venkatesh Raghavan]]<br />
; [[Andy Anderson]], Amherst College & University of Massachusetts Amherst : Demographics, Environmental Systems, Geostatistics, Programming, HPC, Education<br />
; [[User:Zia | Mohammed Zia]] : GIS, Web GIS, Vehicle-Routing, Programming, Remote Sensing, Geology<br />
; Marco Minghini : Volunteered Geographic Information, OpenStreetMap, Land Use/Cover, Education<br />
; Darshana Rawal, CEPT University, Ahmedabad, India: Web GIS, GIS, Programming, Geomarketing ,Disaster Management, LBS<br />
; [[Charlie Schweik]], University of Massachusetts Amherst : VGI, Land Use/Cover, Commons-based Peer Production in Open Geospatial, Education<br />
; Kalum Priyanath Udagepola : Digital Globe, GIS Education, Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI), Geospatial BI, Decision Support Systems, Spatial Data Visualization, Remote Sensing, Land Surveying<br />
; [[User:thuygeo|Tuong-Thuy Vu]]: Remote Sensing, Data Fusion, GIS Education, Big data<br />
; Sven Schade, European Commission - Joint Research Centre : Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI), Semantic Web, Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI), Citizen Science, crowd-sourcing<br />
; [[User:Peter Loewe|Peter Löwe]]: Open Science, Data Science, GRASS GIS<br />
; [[Serena Coetzee]], University of Pretoria : spatial data infrastructure, address data, standardization, open principles, GISc education, geovisualization<br />
; Add your name and institution here : And your areas of expertise here<br />
<br />
== Processes ==<br />
<br />
*[[FOSS4G 2017 Committee Member Selection|2017 Committee Member Selection]]<br />
*[[FOSS4G 2017 Session Selection|2017 Session Selection]]<br />
*[[FOSS4G 2017 Keynote Selection|2017 Keynote Selection]]<br />
*[[FOSS4G 2017 Website Updates|2017 Website Updates]]<br />
<br />
== Lessons Learned ==<br />
<br />
*[[FOSS4G 2017 Lessons Learned|FOSS4G 2017 Lessons Learned]]<br />
<br />
<br />
[[Category:FOSS4G2017]]<br />
[[Category:FOSS4G]]<br />
[[Category:Events]]</div>Serenacoetzeehttps://wiki.osgeo.org/w/index.php?title=FOSS4G_2017&diff=105969FOSS4G 20172017-03-29T14:46:42Z<p>Serenacoetzee: /* Scientific Committee */</p>
<hr />
<div>[[File:Rectangle color 150 350.png|thumb|right|370px|FOSS4G 2017 in Boston, Massachusetts, USA.]]<br />
<br />
Go to the official [http://2017.foss4g.org FOSS4G 2017] event page.<br />
<br />
__TOC__<br />
<br />
== Initial Proposal ==<br />
<br />
Download the proposal PDF: https://svn.osgeo.org/osgeo/foss4g/proposals/2017/FOSS4G2017_proposal_Boston.pdf<br />
<br />
== Local Organizing Committee ==<br />
{| class="wikitable"<br />
|+ style="text-align:left;"|LOC_Members<br />
! style="text-align:left;"|Name<br />
! style="text-align:left;"|Organization<br />
! style="text-align:left;"|Sector<br />
! style="text-align:left;"|Title<br />
! style="text-align:left;"|Location<br />
! style="text-align:left;"|Role<br />
|-<br />
|[[Andy Anderson]]<br />
|Amherst College;<br/>University of Massachusetts Amherst<br />
|style="background-color:#f4cae4;" | Academic<br />
|Academic Technology Specialist;<br/>Adjunct Assistant Professor in Environmental Conservation<br />
|Amherst, Massachusetts<br />
|Chair of Program Subcommittee<br />
|-<br />
|[http://twitter.com/gzambotti Giovanni Zambotti]<br />
|Harvard University<br />
|style="background-color:#f4cae4;" | Academic<br />
|GIS Specialist<br />
|Greater Boston<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
|Patrick Florance<br />
|Tufts University<br />
|style="background-color:#f4cae4;" | Academic<br />
|Associate Director of Geospatial Technology<br />
|Greater Boston<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
|Chris Barnett<br />
|Tufts University<br />
|style="background-color:#f4cae4;" | Academic<br />
|Geospatial Developer<br />
|Greater Boston<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
|[http://twitter.com/guidos Guido Stein]<br />
|AvidGeo & Applied Geographics, Inc.<br />
|style="background-color:#fdcdac;" | Community<br />
|Founder & GIS Analyst<br />
|Greater Boston<br />
|Co-Chair of FOSS4G Boston 2017<br />
|-<br />
|[http://twitter.com/mjfoster83 Mike Foster]<br />
|Maptime Boston & MIT<br />
|style="background-color:#fdcdac;" | Community<br />
|Community Organizer & GIS Specialist<br />
|Greater Boston<br />
|Chair of Workshop Subcommittee<br />
|-<br />
|[http://twitter.com/aledafreeman Aleda Freeman]<br />
|MassGIS/MassIT/Commonwealth of Massachusetts<br />
|style="background-color:#cbd5e8;" | Government<br />
|Web Mapping Services Manager<br />
|Greater Boston<br />
|Chair of Extracurricular Subcommittee; Member Program Subcommittee<br />
|-<br />
|Christian Jacqz<br />
|MassGIS/MassIT/Commonwealth of Massachusetts<br />
|style="background-color:#cbd5e8;" | Government<br />
|Former Director of MassGIS<br />
|Greater Boston<br />
|Member Program Subcommittee<br />
|-<br />
|Carolyn Bennett<br />
|Boston Redevelopment Authority<br />
|style="background-color:#cbd5e8;" | Government<br />
|GIS Manager<br />
|Greater Boston<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
|[http://twitter.com/mt_appgeo Michael Terner]<br />
|Applied Geographics, Inc.<br />
|style="background-color:#b3e2cd;" | Private<br />
|Executive Vice President<br />
|Greater Boston<br />
|Chair of FOSS4G Boston 2017<br />
|-<br />
|[http://twitter.com/wsmitchell Will Mitchell]<br />
|NBT Solutions, LLC<br />
|style="background-color:#b3e2cd;" | Private<br />
|Principal<br />
|Portland, Maine<br />
|On Sponsor Committee<br />
|}<br />
<br />
== Community Committee ==<br />
<br />
=== Past Activities ===<br />
[[FOSS4G 2017/Logo Contest|Logo Contest]]<br />
<br />
== Program Related ==<br />
<br />
==Scientific Committee==<br />
''[[FOSS4G Notes on Academic Track ]]''<br />
; [[User:Simonelanucara|Simone Lanucara]] : Spatial Data Infrastructures, Open Geospatial Consortium interfaces, Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial, Sensor Web Enablement, Semantic harmonization, Data harmonization, Big Data<br />
; [[Helena Mitasova]] : terrain modeling, visualization, GRASS GIS<br />
; [[User:Maria|Maria Brovelli]]<br />
; [[Venkatesh Raghavan]]<br />
; [[Andy Anderson]], Amherst College & University of Massachusetts Amherst : Demographics, Environmental Systems, Geostatistics, Programming, HPC, Education<br />
; [[User:Zia | Mohammed Zia]] : GIS, Web GIS, Vehicle-Routing, Programming, Remote Sensing, Geology<br />
; Marco Minghini : Volunteered Geographic Information, OpenStreetMap, Land Use/Cover, Education<br />
; Darshana Rawal, CEPT University, Ahmedabad, India: Web GIS, GIS, Programming, Geomarketing ,Disaster Management, LBS<br />
; [[Charlie Schweik]], University of Massachusetts Amherst : VGI, Land Use/Cover, Commons-based Peer Production in Open Geospatial, Education<br />
; Kalum Priyanath Udagepola : Digital Globe, GIS Education, Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI), Geospatial BI, Decision Support Systems, Spatial Data Visualization, Remote Sensing, Land Surveying<br />
; [[User:thuygeo|Tuong-Thuy Vu]]: Remote Sensing, Data Fusion, GIS Education, Big data<br />
; Sven Schade, European Commission - Joint Research Centre : Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI), Semantic Web, Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI), Citizen Science, crowd-sourcing<br />
; [[User:Peter Loewe|Peter Löwe]]: Open Science, Data Science, GRASS GIS<br />
; [[Serena Coetzee]]: spatial data infrastructure, address data, standardization, open principles, GISc education, geovisualization<br />
; Add your name and institution here : And your areas of expertise here<br />
<br />
== Processes ==<br />
<br />
*[[FOSS4G 2017 Committee Member Selection|2017 Committee Member Selection]]<br />
*[[FOSS4G 2017 Session Selection|2017 Session Selection]]<br />
*[[FOSS4G 2017 Keynote Selection|2017 Keynote Selection]]<br />
*[[FOSS4G 2017 Website Updates|2017 Website Updates]]<br />
<br />
== Lessons Learned ==<br />
<br />
*[[FOSS4G 2017 Lessons Learned|FOSS4G 2017 Lessons Learned]]<br />
<br />
<br />
[[Category:FOSS4G2017]]<br />
[[Category:FOSS4G]]<br />
[[Category:Events]]</div>Serenacoetzeehttps://wiki.osgeo.org/w/index.php?title=UnitedNations_Committee&diff=105811UnitedNations Committee2017-03-22T03:11:37Z<p>Serenacoetzee: /* Committee Meetings */</p>
<hr />
<div>== Background ==<br />
The OSGeo Board of Directors met with the UN GIS team at FOSS4G in Seoul, Korea in September 2015. The UN GIS team is very interested in having OSGeo "at the table". Mr. Kyoung-Soo Eom, chief of the UN Geospatial Information Section, has invited OSGeo to be part of a working group on Geospatial Information and Services for Disasters to support the UN migration to Open Source Geospatial software solutions.<br />
<br />
===UN Open GIS initiative=== <br />
"... it is to identify and develop an Open Source GIS bundle that meets the requirements of UN operations, taking full advantage of the expertise of mission partners (partner nations, technology contributing countries, international organizations, academia, NGOs, private sector). The strategic approach shall be developed with best and shared principles, standards and ownership, in a prioritized manner that addresses capability gaps and needs without duplicating efforts of other Member States or entities. The UN OpenGIS Initiative strategy shall collaboratively and cooperatively develop, validate, assess, migrate, and implement sound technical capabilities with all the appropriate documentation and training that in the end provides a united effort to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of utilizing Open Source GIS around the world."<br />
<br />
<br />
===UN Open GIS Initiative Terms of Reference (draft)===<br />
<br />
1. Objectives<br />
<br />
The Objective of the UN Open GIS Initiative is to identify and develop open source geospatial software and services that meet the requirements of UN operations, taking full advantage of the expertise of mission partners including partner nations, technology developed by contributing countries, international organizations, academia, NGOs, and private sector.<br />
<br />
2. Terms of Reference<br />
<br />
These Terms of Reference are effective as of (date) and will be ongoing until terminated by agreement of the Strategic Board (SB).<br />
<br />
3. Membership<br />
<br />
The members of the UN Open GIS Initiative are composed of:<br />
<br />
* Contributors: Any organization who agrees with the objectives of the UN Open GIS and actively contributes to the UN Open GIS Initiative in terms of financial, materials, solutions, technologies, or human resources. The Contributor membership shall be decided by the Strategic Board.<br />
<br />
* Observers: Any individual person or organization who agrees with the objectives of the UN Open GIS and participate in the UN Open GIS Initiative activity. The Observer membership shall be granted by the Strategic Board.<br />
<br />
4. Roles and Responsibilities<br />
<br />
The governance structure of the UN Open GIS Initiative comprises of:<br />
<br />
* Strategic Board:<br />
<br />
* Co-Chairs and Secretariats<br />
<br />
* Technical Advisory Group<br />
<br />
* Requirement Advisory Group<br />
<br />
* Assessment Team<br />
<br />
* Spirals<br />
<br />
4.1 Strategic Board (SB)<br />
<br />
The Strategic Board consists of representatives from each contributor where each contributor nominates one representative to the Strategic Board. The Strategic Board is responsible for deciding goals, strategic planning, creation of new spiral, election of co-chairs, appointment of technical advisory group members, requirement advisory group members, and assessment team members.<br />
<br />
4.2 Co-Chairs<br />
<br />
There are three Co-Chairs, where one Co-Chair is appointed from UN and two Co-Chairs are elected among the Strategic Board members. They chair the Strategic Board meeting and take the responsibility of all UN Open GIS Initiative activities.<br />
<br />
4.3 Secretariat<br />
<br />
The secretariat is made of representatives of the contributors in support of the Co-Chairs and the activities of the UN Open GIS.<br />
<br />
4.4 Technical Advisory Group (TAG)<br />
<br />
The Technical Advisory Group consists of key technical experts from the contributors and specialists, appointed by the SB. This group is responsible for the synchronization of spirals and technical decisions on the UN Open GIS architecture. The TAG will elect one group leader and co-leaders, who organize and moderate the activities of the group.<br />
<br />
4.5 Requirement Advisory Group (RAG)<br />
<br />
The Requirement Advisory Group consists of key experts from UN and the contributors appointed by the SB. This group is responsible for identifying and providing the requirements of geospatial solutions and services for UN operations. The RAG will elect one group leader and co-leaders, who organize and moderate the activities of the group.<br />
<br />
4.5 Assessment Team (AT)<br />
<br />
The Assessment Team consists of key experts from UN and the contributors appointed by the SB. This team defines proper assessment methods and procedures, and carries out assessments of the deliverables. The AT elects one leader and co-leaders, who are responsible for maintaining the activities of the team.<br />
<br />
4.6 Spirals<br />
<br />
Since each goal of the UN Open GIS Initiative is achieved in incremental ways, we operate working group, called Spiral, for each specific goal. New Spirals are created by the SB for specific goals. The SB will designate one leader and co-leaders. The leader and co-leaders will develop a work plan to achieve the goals.<br />
<br />
Annex<br />
<br />
A. Definition of Open Source<br />
<br />
Open Source encompasses two related concepts regarding the way software is developed and licensed. They are codified in the "Free Software" and the "Open Source" definitions. "Free and Open Source Software" refers to software which has been made available under a free software license with the rights to run the program for any purpose, to study how the program works, to adapt it, and to redistribute copies, including modifications. These freedoms enable Open Source software development, a public, collaborative model that promotes early publishing and frequent releases. The Open Source Initiative has developed a set of 10 requirements of any software license that is to be considered an Open Source license under the Open Source Definition.<br />
<br />
B. (March 11, 2016) The Founding Contributors comprises of<br />
<br />
* UN (Headquarter, GSC, Field Mission Teams)<br />
<br />
* GeoSHAPE Project (USA)<br />
<br />
* OpenGeo Suite Project (USA)<br />
<br />
* OpenGDS (Republic of Korea)<br />
<br />
* OSGeo (NGO)<br />
<br />
* GeoForAll (Educational Outreach of OSGeo Foundation)<br />
<br />
* GeoSDI (Italy)<br />
<br />
C. The list of Spirals is as follows;<br />
<br />
- Spiral 1 – UN Open Geo-Portal (March 11, 2016) led by Anthony Calamito<br />
<br />
- Spiral 2 – Capacity Building (May, 2016) led by Maria Brovelli<br />
<br />
- Spiral 3 – Geo-Analysis (March 11, 2016) led by Hae Kyong Kang<br />
<br />
- Spiral 4 – Data Acquisition (March 11, 2016) led by Ki-Joune Li<br />
<br />
D. (October 30, 2016) The initial Strategic Board Members comprises of<br />
<br />
- GeoSHAPE: Juan Hurtado<br />
<br />
- OpenGeo Suite: Anthony Calamito<br />
<br />
- OpenGDS: Ki-Joune Li<br />
<br />
- OSGeo: Massimilliano Cannata<br />
<br />
- Geo4All: Maria Brovelli<br />
<br />
- GeoSDI: Dimitri Dello Bruono<br />
<br />
- UN HQ: Kyoung-Soo Eom<br />
<br />
- UN GSC: Mohamed A. Mohamed<br />
<br />
- UN Missions: Jasenko Udovicic, Kais Zouabi<br />
<br />
E. The Co-Chairs are<br />
<br />
- Juan Hurtado (March 11, 2016)<br />
<br />
- Ki-Joune Li (March 11, 2016)<br />
<br />
- Kyoung-Soo Eom (August 30, 2016)<br />
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F. (August 30, 2016) The Secretariat comprises of<br />
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- Danica Baptist<br />
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- Hae-Kyong Kang<br />
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(Modification History)<br />
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* Initially Drafted by Ki-Joune Li, Aug. 26, 2016<br />
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* Corrected by Danica Baptist, Aug. 26, 2016<br />
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* Corrected at SB meeting, Aug. 30, 2016<br />
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* Corrected by Ki-Joune Li, Oct. 10, 2016 to finalize SB and Secretariats and to reflect the modification of the initiative name<br />
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* Corrected by Ki-Joune Li, Oct. 21, 2016 to reflect the comments from OSGeo members.<br />
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== Goals ==<br />
<br />
* Support the UN's member states and committees through:<br />
** OSGeo's service providers<br />
** the GeoForAll network<br />
* Emphasize to the UN and its members the benefits of the stable OSGeo stack of projects<br />
* Establish communication between the UN-GIS team and the OSGeo community.<br />
* Foster the outreach activities of OSGeo<br />
<br />
== Communication ==<br />
<br />
* a new "UN" mailing list has been created, please subscribe at https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/un and add your name to the list of the committee members at the end of this page.<br />
<br />
== Activities ==<br />
<br />
===October 2015===<br />
* OSGeo has formally expressed interest in joining the [[UN-GGIM-Working-Group]] on Geospatial Information and Services for Disasters <br />
** this was discussed at OSGeo's [[Board_Meeting_2015-10-15]]<br />
** the UN is looking for feedback on the working group's [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/UN-GGIM-Working-Group#Draft_terms_of_reference_.28TOR.29 TOR draft]<br />
<br />
===March 2016===<br />
* OSGeo participated to a UNopenGIS initiative (Brindisi, Italy, 5-10th March 2016) meeting and where formally incorporated in the UN Open GIS initiative as member of the initiative technical committee.<br />
* Call for "UN Training Material". The Material available here: https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/UNTraining<br />
<br />
===April 2016===<br />
* Birth of "Spiral 2: Capacity Building" Working Group under the direction of Maria Antonia Brovelli (OSGeo), Diego Gonzales Ferreiro (UN) and Juan Curtado (US South Command).<br />
* Decision (taking into account UN exigencies) to start the training with QGIS, PostGIS, Geonode, Geoserver, OpenLayers <br />
* Call for volunteers within GeoForAll for revising available tutorials related to QGIS, PostGIS, GeoNode, Geoserver, OpenLayers <br />
<br />
===May - June - July 2016 ===<br />
* Revision and discussions about QGIS, PostGIS and GeoNode tutorials. People contributing: Alberta Albertella, Gregory Giuliani, Scott Hatcher, Ivana Ivanova, Thomas Mueller, Rick Smith, Mike Pumphrey, Vivien Deparday, Ariel Núñez, Paolo Corti, Francesco Stompanato, Dimitris Karakostis, Dilek Emanetoglu, Arun Kumar Muthusamy, Andres Felipe Poveda Sanchez, Stanly Shaji<br />
<br />
===August 2016===<br />
* UNopenGIS governance has been defined and OSGeo and GeoForAll have been incorporated in it: <br />
<br />
Massimiliano Cannata and Maria Brovelli are member of the Strategic Board, Serena Coetzee and Jeffrey Johnson are member of the User Requirement Committee, Jeroen Ticheler and Sanghee Shin are members of the Technical Committee, and Gregory Giuliani member of the Assessment Committee. <br />
<br />
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* A logo contest has been set up and run by OSGeo to brand the initiative (see [[UN_OpenGIS_logo_contest]])<br />
<br />
===September 2016===<br />
* The 19th September 2016 the first UN virtual class of Spiral 2 will start their activity with GeoAcademy QGIS.The virtual class will work using the Beep Platform of Politecnico di Milano, as teaching platform. Tutors of this first course will be:<br />
Thomas Mueller, Rick Smith and Youngok Kang. Alberta Albertella will help in accessing and using the platform (for sharing material, upload files, homework, webconference, blog, etc)<br />
<br />
Four editions of this course will be issued for a total of 72 GIS experts of Operational Field (Peacekeeping Actions) of UN.<br />
The courses will be:<br />
19 September - 18 October 2016<br />
19 October - 18 November 2016<br />
19 November - 19 December 2016<br />
9 January - 8 February 2017<br />
<br />
Volunteers who will be involved are:<br />
Thomas Mueller, Rick Smith, Youngok Kang, Lene Fischer and Kurt Menke.<br />
Volunteers who will be activated if needed:<br />
Darshana Rawal, Ivana Ivanova, Adeymo Ayodele Oba<br />
<br />
===November 2016===<br />
* Second UN openGIS initiative workshops will be held in Seoul 7-11 November<br />
<br />
== Committee Meetings ==<br />
<br />
; Next meeting:<br />
* '''planned for MARCH 27th, tentative time 10 am GMT'''.<br />
* Meeting Planner: https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/meetingdetails.html?year=2017&month=3&day=27&hour=10&min=0&sec=0&p1=179&p2=189&p3=224&p4=22&p5=240&p6=215<br />
Time can be refined taking into account people who are interested in attending.<br />
Please write here: name/main city in your time zone/ mail address / in such a way that I try to plan the best option.<br />
<br />
* Maria Brovelli / Rome / maria.brovelli@gmail.com/<br />
* Cameron Shorter / Sydney, Australia / cameron . sh or ter AT gmail<br />
* Serena Coetzee / Pretoria, South Africa / serenacoetzee@gmail.com<br />
<br />
; Previous meetings:<br />
* [[UN Meeting 2015-11-17]] 16.00 UTC<br />
<br />
== Chairs ==<br />
* [[User:Maxi71|Massimiliano_Cannata]]<br />
* [[User:maria|Maria Antonia Brovelli]]<br />
<br />
== Members ==<br />
* [[Jeff McKenna]]<br />
* [[Jochen Albrecht]] <br />
* [[Bob Basques]]<br />
* [[Massimiliano_Cannata]]<br />
* [[User:Ticheler|Jeroen Ticheler]]<br />
* [[Micha Silver]]<br />
* [[User:GodwinYeboah|Godwin Yeboah]]<br />
* [[User:Assefa|Yewondwossen Assefa]]<br />
* [[User:Nikos|Nikos Alexandris]]<br />
* [[User:AndrewTurner|Andrew Turner]]<br />
* [[Venkatesh Raghavan]]<br />
* [[User:Djay|Gérald Fenoy]]<br />
* [[User:Pmooney|Peter MOONEY]]<br />
* [[User:13scoter|Scott Hatcher]]<br />
* [[User:kotzino|Dimitris Kotzinos]]<br />
* [[User:ElaWoloszynska|Ela Wołoszyńska-Wiśniewska]]<br />
* [[User:Jachym|Jachym Cepicky]]<br />
* [[User:endofcap|Sanghee Shin]]<br />
* [[User:Giulianoramat|Giuliano Ramat]]<br />
* [[User:Gregory.giuliani|Gregory Giuliani]]<br />
* [[User:Till Adams|Till Adams]]<br />
* [[Tanya Haddad]]<br />
* [[User:Maria gridw|Maria Andrzejewska]]<br />
* [[User:rburhum|Ragi Y. Burhum (OSGeo - California / OSGeo Perú)]]<br />
* [[User:darkblue_b|Brian M Hamlin]]<br />
* [[User:Danielkastl|Daniel Kastl]]<br />
* [[User:WernerLeyh|Werner Leyh]]<br />
* [[User:Bruce.bannerman|Bruce Bannerman]]<br />
* [[User:Ortelius|Jeffrey Johnson]]<br />
* [[User:pnaciona|Pericles Nacionales]]<br />
* [[User:Novacite|Junyoung Choi]]<br />
* [[User:dirkf|Dirk Frigne]]<br />
* [[User:pierzen|Pierre Béland]]<br />
* [[User:maria|Maria Antonia Brovelli]]<br />
* [[User:Mikel|Mikel Maron]]<br />
* [[User:Rickasmith|Rick Smith]]<br />
* [[User:Serenacoetzee|Serena Coetzee]]<br />
* [[User:LeneFischer|Lene Fischer]]<br />
* [[User:Darshana Rawal|Darshana Rawal]]<br />
* [[User:Kurt Menke|Kurt Menke]]<br />
* [[User:Tom Mueller|Tom Mueller]]<br />
* [[User:Jbelo|Javier Belo]]<br />
* [[User:Fjbehr|Franz-Josef Behr]]<br />
* [[User:Sanand|Suchith Anand]]<br />
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[[Category:UnitedNations]]<br />
[[Category:Committees]]</div>Serenacoetzeehttps://wiki.osgeo.org/w/index.php?title=User:Serenacoetzee&diff=102826User:Serenacoetzee2016-09-06T07:05:59Z<p>Serenacoetzee: </p>
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<div>''ICA/OSGeo Open Source Geospatial Laboratory'', [http://www.up.ac.za/cgis Centre for Geoinformation Science], [http://www.up.ac.za University of Pretoria]<br />
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Location: Pretoria, South Africa<br />
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<br />
I am the Director of the [http://www.up.ac.za/cgis Centre for Geoinformation Science] at the [http://www.up.ac.za University of Pretoria] in South Africa and I lecture in the [http://www.up.ac.za/ggm Department of Geography, Geoinformatics and Meterology]: 'Spatial databases' and 'GISc professional practise' to Honours students (7th semester), 'Introduction to Geoinformatics' to students in the second semester. At the ''ICA/OSGeo Open Source Geospatial Laboratory'' we present training in QGIS and PostGIS. I encourage my students to use open geospatial products or to contribute to these in their research. In a developing country we have limited funds to procure expensive software and data, and the wealth of free online information, virtual communities, access to source code and peer review of source code are very helpful in postgraduate research projects. I have been involved in the academic tracks of the FOSS4G conferences since 2008. Research interests are geospatial web services, geographic information standards, address data, spatial databases and SDIs. My university web page is [http://www.up.ac.za/centre-for-geoinformation-science/article/1824066/serena-coetzee here].<br />
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<br />
'''Contact'''<br />
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serenacoetzee[at]gmail.com<br />
<br />
<br />
'''Spoken languages'''<br />
<br />
German, Afrikaans, English, Tswana (limited)</div>Serenacoetzeehttps://wiki.osgeo.org/w/index.php?title=User:Serenacoetzee&diff=102825User:Serenacoetzee2016-09-06T07:04:13Z<p>Serenacoetzee: </p>
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<div>''ICA/OSGeo Open Source Geospatial Laboratory'', [http://www.up.ac.za/cgis Centre for Geoinformation Science], [http://www.up.ac.za University of Pretoria]<br />
<br />
Location: Pretoria, South Africa<br />
<br />
<br />
I lecture in the [http://www.up.ac.za/ggm Department of Geography, Geoinformatics and Meterology]: 'Spatial databases' and 'GISc professional practise' to Honours students (7th semester), 'Introduction to Geoinformatics' to students in the second semester. At the ''ICA/OSGeo Open Source Geospatial Laboratory'' we present training in QGIS and PostGIS. I encourage my students to use open geospatial products or to contribute to these in their research. In a developing country we have limited funds to procure expensive software and data, and the wealth of free online information, virtual communities, access to source code and peer review of source code are very helpful in postgraduate research projects. I have been involved in the academic tracks of the FOSS4G conferences since 2008. Research interests are geospatial web services, geographic information standards, address data, spatial databases and SDIs. My university web page is [http://www.up.ac.za/centre-for-geoinformation-science/article/1824066/serena-coetzee here].<br />
<br />
<br />
'''Contact'''<br />
<br />
serenacoetzee[at]gmail.com<br />
<br />
<br />
'''Spoken languages'''<br />
<br />
German, Afrikaans, English, Tswana (limited)</div>Serenacoetzeehttps://wiki.osgeo.org/w/index.php?title=UnitedNations_Committee&diff=102824UnitedNations Committee2016-09-06T07:01:48Z<p>Serenacoetzee: /* Members */</p>
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<div>== Background ==<br />
The OSGeo Board of Directors met with the UN GIS team at FOSS4G in Seoul, Korea in September 2015. The UN GIS team is very interested in having OSGeo "at the table". Mr. Kyoung-Soo Eom, chief of the UN Geospatial Information Section, has invited OSGeo to be part of a working group on Geospatial Information and Services for Disasters to support the UN migration to Open Source Geospatial software solutions.<br />
<br />
===UN Open GIS initiative=== <br />
"... it is to identify and develop an Open Source GIS bundle that meets the requirements of UN operations, taking full advantage of the expertise of mission partners (partner nations, technology contributing countries, international organizations, academia, NGO’s, private sector). The strategic approach shall be developed with best and shared principles, standards and ownership, in a prioritized manner that addresses capability gaps and needs without duplicating efforts of other Member States or entities. The UN OpenGIS Initiative strategy shall collaboratively and cooperatively develop, validate, assess, migrate, and implement sound technical capabilities with all the appropriate documentation and training that in the end provides a united effort to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of utilizing Open Source GIS around the world."<br />
<br />
<br />
== Goals ==<br />
<br />
* Support the UN's member states and committees through:<br />
** OSGeo's service providers<br />
** the GeoForAll network<br />
* Emphasize to the UN and its members the benefits of the stable OSGeo stack of projects<br />
* Establish communication between the UN-GIS team and the OSGeo community.<br />
* Foster the outreach activities of OSGeo<br />
<br />
== Communication ==<br />
<br />
* a new "UN" mailing list has been created, please subscribe at https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/un and add your name to the list of this committee members at the end of this page.<br />
<br />
== Activities ==<br />
<br />
===October 2015===<br />
* OSGeo has formally expressed interest in joining the [[UN-GGIM-Working-Group]] on Geospatial Information and Services for Disasters <br />
** this was discussed at OSGeo's [[Board_Meeting_2015-10-15]]<br />
** the UN is looking for feedback on the working group's [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/UN-GGIM-Working-Group#Draft_terms_of_reference_.28TOR.29 TOR draft]<br />
<br />
===March 2016===<br />
* OSGeo participated to a UNopenGIS initiative (Brindisi, Italy, 5-10th March 2016) meeting and where formally incorporated in the UN Open GIS initiative as member of the initiative technical committee.<br />
* Call for "UN Training Material". The Material available here: https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/UNTraining<br />
<br />
===April 2016===<br />
* Birth of "Spiral 2: Capacity Building" Working Group under the direction of Maria Antonia Brovelli (OSGeo), Diego Gonzales Ferreiro (UN) and Juan Curtado (US South Command).<br />
* Decision (taking into account UN exigencies) to start the training with QGIS, PostGIS, Geonode, Geoserver, OpenLayers <br />
* Call for volunteers within GeoForAll for revising available tutorials related to QGIS, PostGIS, GeoNode, Geoserver, OpenLayers <br />
<br />
===May - June - July 2016 ===<br />
* Revision and discussions about QGIS, PostGIS and GeoNode tutorials. People contributing: Alberta Albertella, Gregory Giuliani,Scott Hatcher,Ivana Ivanova,Thomas Mueller, Rick Smith, Mike Pumphrey, Vivien Deparday, Ariel Núñez ,Paolo Corti,Francesco Stompanato, Dimitris Karakostis, Dilek Emanetoglu, Arun Kumar Muthusamy, Andres Felipe Poveda Sanchez, Stanly Shaji<br />
<br />
===August 2016===<br />
* UNopenGIS governance has been defined and OSGeo has been incorporated in it (Massimiliano Cannata and Maria Brovelli are member of the Strategic Board) and more OSGeo members is going to be incorporated in other governing committees.<br />
* A logo contest has been set up and run by OSGeo to brand the initiative (see [[UN_OpenGIS_logo_contest]])<br />
<br />
===September 2016===<br />
* The 19th September 2016 the first UN virtual class of Spiral 2 will start their activity with GeoAcademy QGIS.The virtual class will work using the Beep Platform of Politecnico di Milano, as teaching platform. Tutors of this first course will be:<br />
Thomas Mueller, Rick Smith and Youngok Kang. Alberta Albertella will help in accessing and using the platform (for sharing material, upload files, homework, webconference, blog, etc)<br />
<br />
===November 2016===<br />
* Second UN openGIS initiative workshops will be held in Seoul 7-11 November<br />
<br />
== Committee Meetings ==<br />
<br />
; Next meeting:<br />
* planned for November 2016, date and time to be decided<br />
<br />
; Previous meetings:<br />
* [[UN Meeting 2015-11-17]] 16.00 UTC<br />
<br />
== Chairs ==<br />
* [[User:Maxi71|Massimiliano_Cannata]]<br />
* [[User:maria|Maria Antonia Brovelli]]<br />
<br />
== Members ==<br />
* [[Jeff McKenna]]<br />
* [[Jochen Albrecht]] <br />
* [[Bob Basques]]<br />
* [[Massimiliano_Cannata]]<br />
* [[User:Ticheler|Jeroen Ticheler]]<br />
* [[Micha Silver]]<br />
* [[User:GodwinYeboah|Godwin Yeboah]]<br />
* [[User:Assefa|Yewondwossen Assefa]]<br />
* [[User:Nikos|Nikos Alexandris]]<br />
* [[User:AndrewTurner|Andrew Turner]]<br />
* [[Venkatesh Raghavan]]<br />
* [[User:Djay|Gérald Fenoy]]<br />
* [[User:Pmooney|Peter MOONEY]]<br />
* [[User:13scoter|Scott Hatcher]]<br />
* [[User:kotzino|Dimitris Kotzinos]]<br />
* [[User:ElaWoloszynska|Ela Wołoszyńska-Wiśniewska]]<br />
* [[User:Jachym|Jachym Cepicky]]<br />
* [[User:endofcap|Sanghee Shin]]<br />
* [[User:Giulianoramat|Giuliano Ramat]]<br />
* [[User:Gregory.giuliani|Gregory Giuliani]]<br />
* [[User:Till Adams|Till Adams]]<br />
* [[Tanya Haddad]]<br />
* [[User:Maria gridw|Maria Andrzejewska]]<br />
* [[User:rburhum|Ragi Y. Burhum (OSGeo - California / OSGeo Perú)]]<br />
* [[User:darkblue_b|Brian M Hamlin]]<br />
* [[User:Danielkastl|Daniel Kastl]]<br />
* [[User:WernerLeyh|Werner Leyh]]<br />
* [[User:Bruce.bannerman|Bruce Bannerman]]<br />
* [[User:Ortelius|Jeffrey Johnson]]<br />
* [[User:pnaciona|Pericles Nacionales]]<br />
* [[User:Novacite|Junyoung Choi]]<br />
* [[User:dirkf|Dirk Frigne]]<br />
* [[User:pierzen|Pierre Béland]]<br />
* [[User:maria|Maria Antonia Brovelli]]<br />
* [[User:Mikel|Mikel Maron]]<br />
* [[User:Rickasmith|Rick Smith]]<br />
* [[User:Serenacoetzee|Serena Coetzee]]<br />
* ''add your name''<br />
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[[Category:UnitedNations]]<br />
[[Category:Committees]]</div>Serenacoetzeehttps://wiki.osgeo.org/w/index.php?title=Opencitysmart&diff=102031Opencitysmart2016-08-08T09:38:01Z<p>Serenacoetzee: /* Who's Who Here? */</p>
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<div>'''Welcome to OpenCitySmart for Urban Infrastructure Management'''<br />
<br />
'''''OpenCitySmart''''' will be a suite of tools to benefit city operations, such as management of urban infrastructure (utilities, traffic, services, etc.). The purpose will be to continually add and advance functionalities serving urban management, for more efficient operations and with ultimate consideration for increasing sustainability and quality of urban life.<br />
<br />
* Chairs: All Cities (on Earth), Chris Pettit (Australia) and Patrick Hogan (USA)<br />
<br />
* Those interested in being part of this global enterprise, please subscribe here http://lists.osgeo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/opencitysmart. Your participation is welcome! Bring a city along with you.<br />
<br />
* We support the 'Open Source Guiding Principles:'<br />
** All material created is made available for all under an Open License<br />
** All material is designed to be extended by others, API-centric, modular componentry. <br />
** All participants aim to reuse, optimize, extend and add new components (in that order :-)<br />
<br />
Our intent here is that we have one powerful '''open platform''' that's easy to add functionalities to and that are easy to share.<br />
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<br />
===What's an '''OpenCitySmart''' ''''''platform'''''' look like?===<br />
[http://nsdinow.org/SDI_Now_02/Technical_Support_files/SDI-Now_v01.pdf A rough draft!] Thank you City of Springfield Oregon, a brilliant guidepost for navigating the OpenCitySmart terrain. <br />
<br />
<br />
== Who's Who Here? ==<br />
*Please let us know of your '''''interest to participate''''' by adding yourself to this list.<br />
*Please identify yourself in one or more categories: '''U''': User/practitioner; '''D''': Developer; '''R''': Researcher/Scientist; '''E''': Educator.<br />
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# [http://www.peter-baumann.org Peter Baumann], [http://www.jacobs-university.de/lsis Jacobs University Large-Scale Scientific Information Systems Research Group]<br />
## Participant categories: D, R, E<br />
## Providing the [http:/www.rasdasman.org rasdaman] Array Database which enables flexible, scalable analysis on massive spatio-temporal sensor, image, simulation, and statistics data based on the open OGC "Big Geo Data" standards suite, WCS (of which rasdaman is Reference Implementation), plus WMS and WPS, and interfacing with a series of clients, such as OpenLayers, QGIS, NASA WorldWind.<br />
# [http://www.linkedin.com/pub/chris-pettit/16/190/4B0 Chris Pettit], UNSW, <br />
## Participant categories: <br />
## Build and use planning support systems for empowering planners, policy-makers and communities in exploring city scale what if scenarios of sustainable, productive and resilient land use futures. <br />
# [http://eco.umass.edu/people/faculty/schweik-charles-m/ Charlie Schweik] and [http://advanced.jhu.edu/about-us/faculty/alexander-stepanov-phd/ Alexander (Sasha) Stepanov], <br />
## Participant categories: R, E<br />
## University of Massachusetts Amherst. Trying to build educational service learning opportunities for students on advanced GIS using our campus as a "testbed." <br />
# [http://www.calu.edu/academics/faculty/thomas-mueller.aspx Tom Mueller], California University of Pennsylvania<br />
## Participant categories: E - Educator<br />
## Similar to Charlie, I want to build educational exercises and service learning opportunities for my students.<br />
# [http://people.eecs.ku.edu/~miller/ Jim Miller], University of Kansas, Computer Science<br />
## Participant categories: D, E (also R in terms of computer science and visualization techniques)<br />
## Using NASA World Wind for several open source geo-visualization efforts, including Lidar and multivariate scalar and vector field visualization.<br />
# [http://www.linkedin.com/pub/brandt-melick/22/869/261 Brandt Melick], Information Technology Department Director, Springfield Oregon USA.<br />
## Participant categories: U<br />
## Manage IT and GIS in support of community development, involving public works, and fire and life safety. Coordinate NSDI exchanges of cadastral, elevation and environmental information between local, state and federal agencies in the Pacific Northwest.<br />
# [http://www.linkedin.com/in/antbeck Ant Beck], University of Nottingham Research Fellow.<br />
## Currently transitioning into CityAnalytics looking at city wide entropy based energy management simulations. Have aspirations for an open, big data environment.<br />
# [http://www.linkedin.com/pub/phillip-davis/9/59/b7b Phillip Davis], GeoAcademy.<br />
## 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 over 4,000 students in our March 2015 cohort.<br />
# [http://www.linkedin.com/in/phogan Patrick Hogan], NASA World Wind Project Manager.<br />
## Participant categories: D, R<br />
## Building open source virtual globe technology meant to stimulate innovative solutions managing geospatial data, whether open or proprietary. <br />
# [http://www.linkedin.com/in/antonipereznavarro Antoni Perez-Navarro], Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, <br />
## Participant categories: R, E<br />
## Currently working on indoor positioning systems. Previously developed the Context Aware Recommender System. In the GIS subjects we use gvSIG and QGIS, and Geomedia as proprietary software. Our students have also developed projects using Open Layers, GeoServer, Google Maps and Open Street Maps.<br />
# [http://www.linkedin.com/in/gconti Giuseppe Conti] <br />
## Participant categories: U, D, R<br />
## Trilogis Srl, Italy. Working on the open standard for indoor/outdoor interoperable location services (http://www.i-locate.eu/) involving multiple cities, hospitals, museums, etc.<br />
# [http://www.linkedin.com/pub/evangelos-mitsakis/6/62/938 Evangelos Mitsakis] <br />
## Participant categories: <br />
## Centre for Research and Technology Hellas - Hellenic Institute of Transport, Greece. Working on climate change adaptation, urban resilience and smart cities, focusing on intelligent transport and mobility.<br />
# [http://www.linkedin.com/in/remetey Gábor Remetey], ''Former'' Secretary-general, Hungarian Association for Geo-information (HUNAGI), <br />
## Participant categories: R<br />
## Strategic planning, implementation and consultancy in geospatial IT, and building contacts at the domestic, regional and global levels for Hungarian GIS and the Earth Observation community.<br />
# [http://www.ege-como.polimi.it/index.php?content=maria_brovelli Maria A Brovelli], Politecnico di Milano<br />
## Participant categories: D, R, E<br />
## Applications of free and open-source spatial analytics to urban context and its development, [http://geomobile.como.polimi.it/ Citizen Science] and [http://geomobile.como.polimi.it/policrowd2.0/ collaborative multidimensional platforms].<br />
# [http://www.linkedin.com/in/ronfortunato Ron Fortunato], President of [http://www.trilliumlearning.com/AmericaBridge/ Trillium Learning LLC]<br />
## Participant categories: U, E <br />
## Custom design and implement Project-Based Learning systems, networked region-wide and at the national scale, and guaranteed to provide a teacher-complimentary '''exciting learning experience''' for students, elementary through secondary education.<br />
# [http://www.xinyueye.com/ Xinyue Ye], Computational Social Science Lab, Kent State University<br />
## Participant categories: D, R, E<br />
## My research focus is open source space-time analysis method development and its socio-economic application, especially on economic inequality, urban development, crime, and social media.<br />
# Andrew Hunter, [http://gisciencegroup.ucalgary.ca GIScience Group], University of Calgary<br />
## Participant categories: R, E.<br />
## Teach GIS, Land Use Planning and Cadastral Studies. Research focuses on the development of interoperable (open source) frameworks for land use planning, land development, and geospatial approaches for enhancing community engagement. <br />
# [http://faculty.itu.edu.tr/demirelha/ Hande Demirel], Geomatics Engineering Department, Istanbul Technical University<br />
## Participant categories: <br />
## Lecturer for undergraduate and graduate students on spatial information systems. Research focus is spatial data acquisition, modelling spatial data, intelligent transportation and impact analysis for smart cities.<br />
# [http://www.aston.ac.uk/eas/staff/a-z/dr-lucy-bastin/ Lucy Bastin], University of Aston and [http://dopa.jrc.ec.europa.eu/content/contacts Joint Research Centre of the European Commission] <br />
## Participant categories: <br />
## Focus: quality issues with geospatial data and VGI, e.g., making best use of cheap, plentiful but variable sensors such as weather stations for urban decision making on, e.g., dynamic routing of gritting trucks. I work on interoperable solutions for communicating data quality , e.g., UncertML and the OGC SWG on user feedback.<br />
# [http://geodacenter.asu.edu/ GeoDa Center] for Geospatial Analysis and Computation, Arizona State University, <br />
## Participant categories: <br />
## Applications of free and open-source spatial analytics and decision support systems to urban modeling and scenario planning (but '''who''' at GeoDa do we contact?).<br />
# [http://ec.europa.eu/jrc/en/person/sven-schade Sven Schade], [http://ec.europa.eu/jrc/ Joint Research Centre] of the European Commission<br />
## Participant categories: <br />
## I am a geospatial information scientist working on knowledge extraction from (big) data by using geospatial analytics capabilities, multidisciplinary interoperability, and open innovation. How can we make data from public, commercial and private sources usable for social good? <br />
# [http://www.linkedin.com/pub/bob-basques/14/8b2/537 Bob Basques], [http://gis.ci.stpaul.mn.us City of Saint Paul], Mn. USA, <br />
## Participant categories: <br />
## My background is in Spatial Information Management for the City of Saint Paul, Public Works, with just under 300,000 residents. Providing access to hundreds of spatial layers, originating from the City, the Metro Region, County, State, and Federal sources to both public and internal users. Big Open Source proponent and developer. <br />
# [http://theconversation.com/profiles/tuong-thuy-vu-120016 Tuong-Thuy Vu], [http://www.nottingham.edu.my/geography School of Geography, University of Nottingham, Malaysia campus].<br />
## Participant categories: <br />
## Big geospatial data analytics with applications to urban environment<br />
# [http://www.meas.ncsu.edu/faculty/mitasova/mitasova.html Helena Mitasova], [http://geospatial.ncsu.edu/osgeorel/ North Carolina State University, Center for Geospatial Analytics], OSGeo REL <br />
## Participant categories: <br />
## Geospatial modeling and visualization for GRASS GIS, simulation of urban growth - incorporation of FUTURES model into GRASS GIS, Tangible landscape: collaborative modeling environment using interactive 3D printed or molded physical models<br />
## The City of Raleigh strives to become a worldwide model for an open source city http://www.raleighnc.gov/open/<br />
# [http://www.linkedin.com/in/ortelius Jeffrey Johnson], Independent Consultant, World Bank GFDRR, <br />
## Participant categories: <br />
## Geospatial Modeling for Disaster Risk Management<br />
# [http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=31094760 Serena Coetzee], [http://www.up.ac.za/cgis Centre for Geoinformation Science], University of Pretoria, South Africa, and [http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=74999697 Samy Katumba], [http://www.gcro.ac.za Gauteng City Region Observatory (GCRO)], South Africa<br />
## Participant categories: R (UP and GCRO), E (UP) <br />
## Open (big) geospatial data in the context of geovisual analytics for smart city planning; SDI for the Gauteng City Region (GCR) with the aim to make it data smart; evaluation of online geovisualization user interfaces <br />
# [http://www.linkedin.com/in/dimitriskotzinos Dimitris Kotzinos], [http://www-etis.ensea.fr ETIS Lab], University of Cergy Pontoise, France<br />
## Participant categories: <br />
## Trajectory mining, data semantics and integration of city data, data analytics with application to urban and domestic environments, personal data management<br />
# [http://geog.ku.edu/xingong-li Xingong Li], Department of Geography, University of Kansas<br />
## Participant categories: <br />
## My research interest in Urban Science and City Analytics is in water infrastructure and smart water use.<br />
# [http://citi.clemson.edu/people/ Patricia Carbajales-Dale], [http://www.clemsongis.org/ Clemson Center for Geospatial Technologies], Clemson University <br />
## Participant categories: <br />
## High Performance Computing for geospatial analytics.<br />
# [http://au.linkedin.com/pub/cameron-shorter/5/398/590 Cameron Shorter], Co-coordinator of http://live.osgeo.org, which packages up ~50 of the best Open Source GIS applications, along with data and quickstarts; <br />
## Participant categories: <br />
## Also geospatial solutions architect at http://lisasoft.com, Sydney, Australia.<br />
# [http://gisc.tamucc.edu/Faculty/rick.html Rick Smith], [http://spatialquerylab.com/ Spatial {Query} Lab] at Texas A&M University - Corpus Christi<br />
## Participant categories: R, E<br />
## Use of mapping technology for emergency response and planning. Update and maintain freely-available university-level FOSS4G curriculum.<br />
# [http://gisc.tamucc.edu/Faculty/mike.html Michael Starek], Geospatial Sensing and Analytics at Texas A&M University - Corpus Christi<br />
## Participant categories: R, E<br />
## My research interest in Urban Science and City Analytics is in the application of emergent geo-sensing techniques for monitoring of the 3D build environment.<br />
# [http://clas.ucdenver.edu/directory/faculty-staff/Rafael-Moreno Rafael Moreno], Department of Geography and Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado Denver. <br />
## Participant categories: E, R<br />
## Incorporation of FOSS4G in Geography and Urban and Regional Planning curricula. Land use planning, natural resources management, GIS science and Technology.<br />
# [http://www.ucdenver.edu/academics/colleges/ArchitecturePlanning/facultystaff/directories/Pages/Individual%20Pages_Planning/Troy_Austin.aspx Austin Troy], Department of Planning and Design, College of Architecture and Plannig, University of Colorado Denver. <br />
## Participant categories: E, R<br />
## Land use policy, environmental planning, GIS, spatial analysis, remote sensing, land use change modeling and simulation?<br />
# [http://www.ucdenver.edu/academics/colleges/Engineering/Programs/Computer-Science-and-Engineering/faculty/Pages/FarnoushBanaeiKashani.aspx Farnoush Banaei-Kashani], Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Colorado Denver. <br />
## Participant categories: E, R<br />
## Big data management and mining, database systems, data-driven decision-making systems<br />
# [http://humanities.usm.my/index.php/discover-us/our-people/staff-directory/42-geography/31-ruslan-rainis Ruslan Rainis], Geoinformatic Unit, School of Humanities, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Penang, Malaysia<br />
## Participant categories: R<br />
## FOSS4G in social sciences & liberal arts curricula, Urban big data, urban spatial modelling.<br />
# [http://people.eng.unimelb.edu.au/winter/ Stephan Winter], Geomatics, The University of Melbourne<br />
## Participant categories: R, E<br />
## Coordinating the Melbourne Urban Connectedness research cluster.<br />
# [http://de.linkedin.com/pub/ingo-simonis/3/145/701 Ingo Simonis], OGC<br />
## Participant categories: U, R, E<br />
## Standardization needs and solutions for Urban Science.<br />
# [http://kr.linkedin.com/pub/junyoung-choi/54/308/986 Junyoung Choi], Spatial Information Office of Korea Land and Housing Corp(Public company) and Spatial Big Data Center at MOLIT, Republic of Korea.<br />
## Participant categories: U, R<br />
## Spatial Big Data for the Smart Cities in Developing Countries, Urban Spatial Measures for UN Sustainable Development Goals(SDGs); UN SDG 11. Making Cities and Human Settlement.<br />
# [http://grel.ist.edu.pk/?People:Dr._Rizwan_Bulbul Rizwan Bulbul], Director of [http://grel.ist.edu.pk Geospatial Research and Education Lab], Institute of space technology, Islamabad, Pakistan<br />
## Participant categories: R, E<br />
## 3D city modeling, 3D reconstruction, Spatio-temporal databases for cities, NSDI<br />
# [https://www.linkedin.com/in/emma-strong-2490728a Emma Strong], Southern Mississippi Planning and Development District (SMPDD)<br />
## Participant categories: U<br />
## I work with the southern 15 counties of Mississippi and all cities and towns contained within. A few cities and counties have advanced GIS, mostly proprietary, but much of the area is rural with little to no GIS budget, so I plan to train myself so I can train others and spread GIS to more areas in the public sector. I think this project can help me to do that.<br />
# [https://www.linkedin.com/in/jaisen Jaisen Nedumpala], Koorachundu Village Panchayat, Kozhikode, Kerala, India.<br />
## Participant categories: U, D, R<br />
## Free and open-source spatial analytics and GIS Development, SDIs suitable for rural local authorities etc.<br />
# [https://www.linkedin.com/in/sudhira Sudhira HS], [http://gubbilabs.in Gubbi Labs], Gubbi, Karnataka, India.<br />
## Participant categories: U, D, R<br />
## Spatial Planning Support Systems, Modelling and Analytics for Urban Planning and Decision-making, Urban Land-use/Land Cover change using Satellite Remote Sensing<br />
# [https://ie.linkedin.com/in/gavin-mcardle-a2666415 Gavin McArdle], [http://www.csi.ucd.ie/ School of Computer Science, University College Dublin], [http://www.dublindashboard.ie/ Dublin Dashboard].<br />
## Participant categories: D, R, E<br />
## Urban Dashboards, Urban Dynamics, Spatial Data Analysis, Human Mobility, Lead Developer of the Dublin Dashboard project working with Dublin City Council.<br />
# [http://gis-management.de Franz-Josef Behr], Stuttgart University of Applied Sciences <br />
## Participant categories: D, R, E<br />
## Strategic consultancy in geospatial IT, utility sector, interoperability, open education, FOSS certification.<br />
# [http://geokoord.com Manuel Hart], Stuttgart University of Applied Sciences <br />
## Participant categories: D, R<br />
## OpenSource GIS Systems, Project Management, Simulations, Software Developement, Client/Server Systems<br />
<br />
== Global Drivers for 'OpenCitySmart' ==<br />
<br />
* EC '''Infrastructure for Spatial Information''' in the European Community, [http://inspire.ec.europa.eu/ INSPIRE]<br />
* US National '''Spatial Data Infrastructure''', [http://www.fgdc.gov/nsdi/nsdi.html NSDI]<br />
* UN '''Spatial Data Infrastructure''', [http://www.ungiwg.org/content/united-nations-spatial-data-infrastructure-unsdi UNSDI]<br />
* UNSDI '''[http://worldwind.arc.nasa.gov/videos/other/final_visualization_facility.avi Visualization]''' for UN Member State briefing<br />
* UN '''[http://citiscope.org/story/2014/comparing-mdgs-and-sdgs#SDGs Sustainable Development Goals]''' (SDG)<br />
* UN “Urban Goal” ([http://citiscope.org/story/2014/comparing-mdgs-and-sdgs#No11 SDG #11]): Make cities inclusive, safe, resilient and '''sustainable''', <br />
* The Brookings Institution: Why we need to think about implementing the '''[http://www.brookings.edu/blogs/future-development/posts/2015/03/03-implementing-sustainable-development-kharas Sustainable Development Goals]'''<br />
* Open Transit Indicators Enable Cities to Design '''[http://www.azavea.com/blogs/newsletter/v10i1/open-transit-indicators-enable-cities-to-design-better-transit-systems/ Better Transit Systems]'''<br />
<br />
== Key Research Questions ==<br />
<br />
* How can we transform cities to be more sustainable, productive and resilient?<br />
** Facilitate the ability for cities to work together in addressing issues all cities must face.<br />
* How can we empower cities, their citizens, community groups, planners, policy and decision-makers to work cohesively in addressing the issues our cities face such that they successfully engage in a sustainable urban future?<br />
** We build an app whose functionalities '''''all''''' cities can '''''share''''' and every city will also own. <br />
** If cities have a way to share solutions they generate for themselves, we address our own needs yet end up serving the interest of all. That's compound interest!<br />
<br />
=='''''The Road Map''''' ==<br />
<br />
* We can thank OGC's "[http://gisuser.com/2015/02/ogc-smart-cities-spatial-information-framework-white-paper-announced/ Smart Cities Spatial Information Framework]" for a good start on defining the problem.<br />
<br />
* We can thank Brandt Melick, Information Technology Department Director, Springfield Oregon USA for putting this [http://www.NSDInow.org/SDI_Now_02/Technical_Support.html OpenCitySmart] app idea into action! Will your city step forward to help lead our shared effort to make cities more productive and more livable? <br />
<br />
* ''' 'OpenCitySmart' App Themes/Data-type''' (feel free to expand):<br />
# [http://inspire.ec.europa.eu/index.cfm/pageid/2/list/7 INSPIRE Data Specifications]<br />
# [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urban_planning Urban Planning]<br />
# [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligent_transportation_system Intelligent Transportation]<br />
# [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_care Health & Medical Services]<br />
# [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergency_service Public Safety & Emergency Services]<br />
# [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_protection Environmental Protection]<br />
# [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Building_automation Intelligent Buildings]<br />
# [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smart_grid Utilities: Smart Grid, Smart Water, Sanitation, etc.]<br />
# [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Location-based_service Location-Based Services]<br />
# [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indoor_positioning_system Indoor Positioning System]<br />
# [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recommender_system Context-aware ''Recommender Systems'']<br />
<br />
* '''Data sharing''' – Cities need to be able to share information with site developers, site constraint specialists (environmental scientists, planners and engineers), utility service providers and regulators. These data sets most often include:<br />
<br />
# [http://inspire.ec.europa.eu/index.cfm/pageid/2/list/datamodels INSPIRE Data Models]<br />
# [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satellite_imagery Imagery] Resolution, 3-inch pixel is preferred, 1-foot pixel less so, 1-meter much less so<br />
# [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cadastre Cadastral] Information: parcel polygons, Rights of Way (ROW), property ownership, assessment and taxation information and property class<br />
# Address Information: house number, street name, City, zip, site location (coordinates) and zoning information<br />
# Jurisdictional boundaries: incorporated areas, city limits, county boundaries, etc., urban growth boundaries, public safety response areas<br />
# [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_elevation_model Elevation] Information: DEM’s (raster), DTM’s (vector), contours and spot elevation points, as well as mass points and break lines <br />
# Waterways and protected areas: wetlands, fish-bearing streams, endangered species habitat, well-head protection zones, etc.<br />
# Infrastructure/utilities: waste-water, storm-water, transportation systems, power, drinking water, etc.<br />
# Structures/facilities: bridges, building foot-prints, complexes, monuments, etc., facility contacts, etc.<br />
# Documents: reference material, procedures, regulations, metadata, etc.<br />
# LiDAR, invaluable data, needing the tools to put it to good use. The City of Springfield has high resolution LiDAR, 8 points per meter. Though they put it to good use, they want even better tools to work with it (i.e., our OpenCitySmart app). <br />
<br />
* '''Challenges''' <br />
<br />
# '''Technical''' e.g. raw data made usable, data dating, accurate geo-reference conversion, unit conversion (i.e., metric/standard), data storage, data security, firewalls, standardized metadata, etc.<br />
# '''Legal''' e.g. investigating and suggesting the required framework to preserve privacy, ensure equity (equality in access to data and computing capacities), protecting IP and copyrights.<br />
# '''Economic''' e.g. creating sustainable Research Infrastructures for the public and private sector, investigate possibilities for Public Private Partnerships.<br />
# '''Social''' e.g. fostering public engagement in 'Big Data,' community participation in evaluation of current practices, data gathering, analysis and privacy issues.<br />
<br />
*'''Social dimension sub-roadmap''' - Any serious roadmap on urban management must consider the social dimension. In this respect, we need to:<br />
<br />
# Identify necessary incentives and natural barriers for participation. How can we organize to meet the needs of the citizens affected? For instance, for academics, it might be how to utilize or create peer-review publication venues for contributed work that can reach the community. For practitioners, can we define the city's key or most pressing needs? For commercial developers, are they in situations where their employer will see contributions to a global effort something they should be doing?<br />
# Identify the intended direct beneficiaries, such as the users, customers, consumers, instead of focusing on producers of data, infrastructure, software and services. Beneficiaries might be: urban planners, city councils, citizens, teachers and students, scientists, and academia, etc. While these intended audiences might partially overlap, all might have different needs and need a different approach for participation.<br />
# Identify and get into contact with representatives of an intended target group, e.g. with champions in digital social innovation, or via associations that are directly connected to these communities, such as citizen associations.<br />
# Engage with these people in order to identify '''their real needs for city analytics.''' This will help to accurately identify requirements, and acquire direct feedback. this should also include them in continuously active review panels.<br />
# Evaluate the impact of proposed development activity, on existing development and on the natural environment. For city development this typically includes estimating how much cut and fill is proposed, how proposed land alteration impacts surface drainage, how proposed structures will connect to city services (waste-water, storm-water, drinking-water, power, etc.), how steep the roads will be (slope for fire trucks), and proximity to wetlands and other protected waters.<br />
<br />
== Technologies Available In Our Network ==<br />
<br />
* [http://webworldwind.org/ NASA Web World Wind] (JavaScript)<br />
* [http://goworldwind.org/ NASA World Wind] (Java, iOS and Android)<br />
* [http://aurin.org.au/projects/portal-and-infrastructure/what-if/ Online What If?] Planning Support System (Web version is now available)<br />
* [http://www.qgis.org/ QGIS]<br />
* [http://i-locate.eu/ i-Locate]<br />
* [http://geomoose.org/ GeoMoose]<br />
* [http://geomobile.como.polimi.it/policrowd2.0/ Policrowd2.0] <br />
* Europa Challenge Open Source Projects [http://eurochallenge.como.polimi.it/projects2015 2015]<br />
* Open Transit Indicators Enable Cities to Design [http://www.azavea.com/blogs/newsletter/v10i1/open-transit-indicators-enable-cities-to-design-better-transit-systems/ Better Transit Systems]<br />
* [http://osgeolab.unimelb.edu.au/ Australia Urban Intelligence Network, AURIN Portal and workbench]<br />
* Arizona State University (ASU) [http://geodacenter.asu.edu/software GeoDa]<br />
** The GeoDa Center for Geospatial Analysis and Computation develops state-of-the-art methods for geospatial analysis, geovisualization, geosimulation, and spatial process modeling, implements them through open source software tools and applies them to policy-relevant research in the social and environmental sciences.<br />
* [http://grass.osgeo.org GRASS GIS]<br />
** Multi-temporal, full 3D GIS research platform with many processing, analytical, modeling and visualization tools relevant to Urban Science and city analytics (lidar-based models, solar energy, viewsheds, networks, water resources, full 3D visualization with animations and many others in the core package, with additional tools, including civil engineering design in add-ons)<br />
<br />
== Natural Partners ==<br />
<br />
* Netherlands Coordination Office, [http://www.unsdi.nl/ United Nations Spatial Data Infrastructure] (UNSDI) <br />
* [http://fossgeo.org/ GeoAcademy] (Phil Davis)<br />
* [http://eco.umass.edu/people/faculty/schweik-charles-m/ University of Massachusetts at Amherst]<br />
* [http://aworldbridge.com/ Trillium Learning - A World Bridge Projects]<br />
* [http://www.ibm.com/smarterplanet/us/en/smarter_cities/overview/ IBM Smarter Cities]<br />
* [http://www.ubmfuturecities.com/author.asp?section_id=234&doc_id=526334&?_mc=MP_IW_EDT_STUB UBM Future Cities] <br />
* Aalborg University Copenhagen, [http://sustainablecities.aau.dk/ Sustainable Cities] Master Programme<br />
* Imperial College London, Intel Collaborative Research Institute (ICRI) for [http://www.cities.io/guiding-principles/ Sustainable Connected Cites]<br />
* ISET Building [http://i-s-e-t.org/resources/working-papers/building-resilience.html Urban Resilience to Climate Change]<br />
* [http://www.100resilientcities.org/pages/100-resilient-cities-challenge 100 Resilient Cities Challenge]<br />
* Rockefeller Foundation [http://www.rockefellerfoundation.org/our-work/initiatives/global-resilience-partnership/ Global Resilience Partnership] [http://www.globalresiliencepartnership.org/blog/2015/02/17/grp-teams-announced/ funding transformative solutions] <br />
* [http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2015/04/19/cities-arent-great-with-data-could-mike-bloomberg-change-that/ Bloomberg to give $42 million to help cities do more with data]<br />
* University of Toronto [http://news.utoronto.ca/u-ts-patricia-mccarney-launches-open-city-data-portal Launches Open City Data Portal]<br />
* University of Toronto [http://www.globalcitiesinstitute.org/ Global Cities Institute]<br />
* University of Toronto [http://www.dataforcities.org/ World Council on City Data]<br />
* [http://geodacenter.asu.edu/ GeoDa Center for Geospatial Analysis]<br />
* [http://aurin.org.au/ Australia Urban Intelligence Network, AURIN]<br />
* [http://geodacenter.asu.edu/software Arizona State University (ASU) GeoD]<br />
* [http://dpcs.uoc.edu/joomla/index.php/about-harosa-kc HAROSA Knowledge Community (KC)] An international network of research groups promoting and developing collaborative e-research on new '''H'''ybrid '''A'''lgorithms for solving '''R'''ealistic r'''O'''uting, '''S'''cheduling and system reliability/'''A'''vailability problems. <br />
* Politecnico di Milano, [http://geomatica.como.polimi.it/index.php?lang=en GEO Lab] (Geomatics and Earth Observations)<br />
* ETIS Lab, University of Cergy Pontoise, France. [http://www-etis.ensea.fr ETIS Lab - MIDI team]<br />
<br />
== OpenCitySmart ''''''The App'''''' ==<br />
<br />
'''The Task'''<br />
<br />
Develop an '''''OpenCitySmart App''''' based on the 'framework' documents mentioned above in the Road Map section.<br />
<br />
The City of [http://www.nsdinow.org/SDI_Now_02/Technical_Support.html Springfield Oregon] has already shown us the way forward. <br />
<br />
Some basic requirements:<br />
* 3D Virtual Globe interchangeable or simultaneous with 2D Map along with Projection Choices <br />
* Imagery & Elevation Import <br />
* Extensible Architecture (Modular Componentry)<br />
* Data Retrieval via REST, WMS, WCS, WFS, GML, User-Defined <br />
* Open Street Map (OSM) Placenames, Boundaries and Roads<br />
* Picking and Decluttering <br />
* Shapefile and KML Import <br />
* Measurement Tools<br />
* Flooding and Line-of-Sight Calculation<br />
* Subsurface Visualization <br />
* Shapes: Placemarks, Path, Polygon, Extruded Polygon, Custom, HTML5-able Balloons<br />
* Volumes (& Shapes), follow terrain or maintain constant elevation above terrain while moving<br />
<br />
<br />
This OpenCitySmart app needs to allow for some early successes so we can get buy-in from 'real' municipalities to work with us and thereby keep value-added precisely on target. This app will have an open API for the menu system, for easy-to-add functionalities. This will allow each city to tailor the OpenCitySmart app for their specific use. This will also allow the world community to continually optimize functionalities and design new ones, whether proprietary or FOSSy.<br />
<br />
<br />
'''Who Will Do This?'''<br />
<br />
We ask academic and other community oriented organizations, such as those listed as [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Opencitysmart#Natural_Partners Natural Partners], to help us with the [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Opencitysmart#The_Road_Map Road Map]. <br />
<br />
<br />
'''Why Do This?'''<br />
<br />
Because there is a world full of urban management need, much of which is identical no matter the city. If you are brave and good, just build it and be a lightning rod for our brighter future. The Region and Theme Chairs will evaluate self-identifying contributions, http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/GeoForAll'''.''' <br />
<br />
<br />
'''Understanding our Changing Planet.'''<br />
<br />
# Historical tracks of hurricanes. <br />
## SLOSH http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/surge/slosh.php<br />
# LiDAR - local communities are using [http://aworldbridge.com/real-time-projects/unmanned-aircraft-systems---2.html UAVs to generate their own LiDAR maps]. Plus several states have LiDAR datasets.<br />
# Biodiversity<br />
## Datasets include:<br />
### Landfire http://www.landfire.gov/<br />
### Crop Scape http://nassgeodata.gmu.edu/CropScape/<br />
### VegScape http://nassgeodata.gmu.edu/VegScape/<br />
# Vulnerability Issues<br />
## Social Vulnerability Index: http://webra.cas.sc.edu/hvri/products/sovi.aspx<br />
## Data sources:<br />
### http://www.cocorahs.org/Content.aspx?page=store<br />
### http://openweathermap.org/<br />
# Possible indexes, include -<br />
## Risk Terrain Model http://rutgerscps.weebly.com/rtm.html<br />
## Flash Flood Potential Index http://www.crh.noaa.gov/images/dmx/hydro/FFPI/FFPI_WriteUp.pdf<br />
## Crisis Mapping and Ushashidid - http://www.ushahidi.com/<br />
<br />
== Lab nearest city and vulnerability threats, lat/long coordinates ==<br />
* Colleagues, please list (1) your name, (2) the city your lab is closest to, (3) the possible threats that city might face in future years related to population growth and/or the effects of climate change (e.g., coastal storm surge, hurricanes, heat islands, inland lack of water, etc.) and (4) your city's lat\long. I'm hoping to map all the cities in our network for a figure for future grant proposals. <br />
** Charlie Schweik, Springfield, MA, hurricanes, heat islands, 42.393578, -72.524696<br />
** Thomas Mueller, Pittsburgh, PA, heat island, increased flooding due to climate change, 40.440625, -79.995886<br />
** Patrick Hogan, Moffett Field, CA, drought, sea-level-rise, 37.42, -122.06<br />
** Antoni Perez-Navarro, Barcelona, Spain, lack of water, drought, flooding, sea-level-rise, 2.173403, 41.385064<br />
** Ela Wołoszyńska-Wiśniewska, Warsaw, Poland, heat island, flooding and flash floods, 21.020, 52.259<br />
** Hande Demirel, Istanbul, Turkey, drought, flash flood, heat island, sea storm surge, 41.0136, 28.9550<br />
** Helena Mitasova, Raleigh, NC, population growth, tornadoes, hurricanes, flash floods, 35.7818,-78.6764<br />
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== OpenCitySmart - important journals ==<br />
* Colleagues, I'm trying to build a list of possible publishing venues for academics on this group for a grant proposal. Please list below any relevant journals our group should be aware of -- especially ones of high impact factor or open access. Thanks - [http://eco.umass.edu/people/faculty/schweik-charles-m/ Charlie Schweik]<br />
** Urban Geography - http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rurb20/current<br />
** PLOS One (open access) - http://www.plosone.org/<br />
** Journal of Spatial Information Sciences (open access) - http://www.josis.org/index.php/josis<br />
** International Journal of Spatial Data Infrastructures Research (open access) - http://ijsdir.jrc.ec.europa.eu/index.php/ijsdir/index<br />
** The Environment and Planning family of journals - http://www.envplan.com/index.html<br />
** '''Colleagues, please add others''', especially ones that are relevant to geo-crowdsourcing, volunteer geographic information, geospatial sensors, geo-analytics, modeling, visualization or decision-support. Also any relevant to open geospatial science education. Thanks!<br />
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== Reference Material ==<br />
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* Lane County, Oregon, Lane Livability Consortium, Data Inventory and Next Steps Report<br />
** http://www.livabilitylane.org/files/Data-Plan.pdf<br />
** http://www.livabilitylane.org/<br />
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* Future Cities, UK Ordnance Survey<br />
** http://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/about/thinking/future-cities/<br />
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* '''''Climate Adaptation''''' Guidebook for Municipalities<br />
** http://www.cmap.illinois.gov/documents/10180/14193/FY13-0119+Climate+Adaptation+toolkit+lowres.pdf<br />
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* Dedeurwaerdere, T. 2014. Sustainability Science for Strong Sustainability. Edward Elgar Publishing. <br />
** http://biogov.uclouvain.be/staff/dedeurwaerdere/book_Sustainability%20Science_EE.pdf<br />
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* How Cities Can Battle '''''Climate Change with Resiliency Planning'''''<br />
** http://www.triplepundit.com/2014/09/cities-can-battle-climate-change-resiliency-planning/<br />
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* ISET Working Paper 3: Planning for '''''Urban Climate Resilience'''''<br />
** http://i-s-e-t.org/resources/working-papers/climate-resilience-paper-3.html<br />
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* USA Federal Policies to Build '''''Climate-Resilient''''' Coastal Regions, Lessons from Hurricane Sandy<br />
** http://resilient-cities.iclei.org/resilient-cities-hub-site/resilience-resource-point/resilience-library/urban-resilience-planning/<br />
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* '''Resilience''': A Bridging Concept or a Dead End? http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14649357.2012.677124<br />
** “Reframing” '''Resilience''': Challenges for Planning Theory and Practice<br />
** Interacting Traps: '''Resilience''' Assessment of a Pasture Management System in Northern Afghanistan<br />
** '''Urban Resilience''': What Does it Mean in Planning Practice?<br />
** '''Resilience''' as a Useful Concept for '''''Climate Change''''' Adaptation?<br />
** The Politics of '''Resilience for Planning''': A Cautionary Note<br />
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* Managing Aging City Infrastructure:<br />
** http://graphics.latimes.com/la-aging-water-infrastructure/<br />
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* Veeckman, C. and van der Graaf, 2015. The City as Living Laboratory: Empowering Citizens with the Citadel Toolkit<br />
** Technology Innovation Management Review (TIM Review). http://timreview.ca/issue/2015/march<br />
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* Wow! A rural town in Italy '''>'''100% sustainable energy:<br />
** http://reregions.blogspot.com/2010/03/varese-ligure-italy.html<br />
** http://cleantechnica.com/2014/01/09/varese-ligure-italy-small-town-high-renewables/<br />
** http://www.ecofriend.com/italian-town-runs-completely-on-renewable-energy.html<br />
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* '''''Sustainable''''' background info:<br />
** Sustainable City, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sustainable_city<br />
** Sustainable Energy, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sustainable_energy<br />
** Sustainable Transport, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sustainable_transport<br />
** Sustainable Living, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sustainable_living<br />
** Urban Agriculture, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urban_agriculture<br />
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* Urban Farming<br />
** Growing Cities, http://www.yesmagazine.org/planet/growing-cities<br />
** World’s Largest Urban Farm, http://www.yesmagazine.org/peace-justice/detroit-community-gardeners-question-hantz-urban-farm<br />
** Growing Home, http://www.yesmagazine.org/new-economy/growing-home-urban-agriculture-in-chicago<br />
** Breaking Through Concrete, http://www.yesmagazine.org/planet/growing-through-concrete-an-urban-farming-roadtrip<br />
** ''Growing Power'' Despite an Urban 'Food' Desert, http://www.yesmagazine.org/issues/food-for-everyone/growing-power-in-an-urban-food-desert<br />
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* Local Grocery<br />
** http://www.cooperativegrocer.coop/articles/2004-01-08/mondragons-eroski-mass-retailer<br />
** http://www.yesmagazine.org/issues/the-new-economy/mondragon-worker-cooperatives-decide-how-to-ride-out-a-downturn<br />
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* Open Source Ecology, ''Do-It-Yourself'' Industrial Equipment<br />
** http://opensourceecology.org/gvcs/gvcs-machine-index/<br />
** http://www.ted.com/talks/marcin_jakubowski<br />
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* Digital Earth | Virtual Nations | Data Cities<br />
** http://dcitynetwork.net/manifesto/<br />
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* Open government, open source city<br />
** http://www.raleighnc.gov/open/<br />
** http://opensource.com/government/13/5/open-data-visual<br />
** http://allthingsopen.org<br />
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[[Category: GeoForAll]]</div>Serenacoetzeehttps://wiki.osgeo.org/w/index.php?title=GeoForAll_UrbanScience_CityAnalytics&diff=83146GeoForAll UrbanScience CityAnalytics2015-03-30T19:10:29Z<p>Serenacoetzee: /* Who's Here? */</p>
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<div>'''Welcome to "Geo for All" Urban Science and City Analytics:''' ''''''CitySmart''''''<br />
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* Chairs: Chris Pettit (Australia) and Patrick Hogan (USA)<br />
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* Those interested in being part of this theme, subscribe here http://lists.osgeo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geoforall-urbanscience. Your participation is appreciated and needed! All ideas are welcome.<br />
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* We support the 'Open Cities Guiding Principles.'<br />
** All material created is made available for all under an Open License<br />
** All material is carefully designed (API-centric modular componentry) so that it can be built upon by others<br />
** All participants aim to reuse, extend and invent material (in that order)<br />
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Our intent here is that we soon will have one or a few '''core platform(s)''' each architected with an open API for functionalities (the menu system). This effort will benefit from a healthy collegial competition, with the best features of each 'competing' platform eventually residing in our collective's decision for a single '''core platform'''.<br />
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== Who's Here? ==<br />
#Please let us know of your '''''interest to participate''''' by adding yourself to this list.<br />
#Please identify yourself as one or more participant categories: '''U - User/practitioner; D-Developer; R - Researcher/Scientist; E - Educator.'''<br />
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* Chris Pettit, University of Melbourne, https://www.linkedin.com/pub/chris-pettit/16/190/4B0<br />
** Participant categor(ies): <br />
** Coordinate the implementation of eResearch tools to support urban researchers across Australia under the auspices of the Australian Urban Research Infrastructure Network (AURIN).<br />
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* Charlie Schweik and Alexander (Sasha) Stepanov, http://eco.umass.edu/people/faculty/schweik-charles-m/<br />
** Participant categor(ies): R, E<br />
** University of Massachusetts Amherst. Trying to build educational service learning opportunities for students on advanced GIS using our campus as a "testbed." <br />
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* Tom Mueller, California University of Pennsylvania, http://www.calu.edu/academics/faculty/thomas-mueller.aspx<br />
** Participant categor(ies): E - Educator<br />
** Similar to Charlie, I want to build educational exercises and service learning opportunities for my students.<br />
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* Jim Miller, University of Kansas, Computer Science, http://people.eecs.ku.edu/~miller/<br />
** Participant categor(ies): <br />
** Using NASA World Wind for several open source geo-visualization efforts, including Lidar and multivariate scalar and vector field visualization.<br />
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* Brandt Melick, Information Technology Department Director, Springfield Oregon USA, https://www.linkedin.com/pub/brandt-melick/22/869/261<br />
** Participant categor(ies): <br />
** Manage IT and GIS in support of community development, involving public works, and fire and life safety. Coordinate NSDI exchanges of cadastral, elevation and environmental information between local, state and federal agencies in the Pacific Northwest.<br />
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* Ant Beck, University of Nottingham Research Fellow, https://www.linkedin.com/in/antbeck<br />
** Currently transitioning into CityAnalytics looking at city wide entropy based energy management simulations. Have aspirations for an open, big data environment.<br />
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* Phillip Davis, GeoAcademy, https://www.linkedin.com/pub/phillip-davis/9/59/b7b<br />
** 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 over 4,000 students in our March 2015 cohort.<br />
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* Patrick Hogan, NASA World Wind Project Manager, https://www.linkedin.com/in/phogan<br />
** Participant categor(ies): U, D, R<br />
** Building open source virtual globe technology meant to stimulate innovative solutions managing geospatial data, whether open or proprietary. <br />
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* Antoni Perez-Navarro, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, https://www.linkedin.com/in/antonipereznavarro<br />
** Participant categor(ies): R, E<br />
** Currently working on indoor positioning systems. Previously developed the Context Aware Recommender System. In the GIS subjects we use gvSIG and QGIS, and Geomedia as proprietary software. Our students have also developed projects using Open Layers, GeoServer, Google Maps and Open Street Maps.<br />
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* Giuseppe Conti, https://www.linkedin.com/in/gconti<br />
** Participant categor(ies): <br />
** Trilogis Srl, Italy. Working on the open standard for indoor/outdoor interoperable location services (http://www.i-locate.eu/) involving multiple cities, hospitals, museums, etc.<br />
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* Evangelos Mitsakis, https://www.linkedin.com/pub/evangelos-mitsakis/6/62/938<br />
** Participant categor(ies): <br />
** Centre for Research and Technology Hellas - Hellenic Institute of Transport, Greece. Working on climate change adaptation, urban resilience and smart cities, focusing on intelligent transport and mobility.<br />
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* Gábor Remetey, Secretary-general, Hungarian Association for Geo-information (HUNAGI), https://www.linkedin.com/in/remetey <br />
** Participant categor(ies): <br />
** Strategic planning, implementation and consultancy in geospatial IT, and building contacts at the domestic, regional and global levels for Hungarian GIS and the Earth Observation community.<br />
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*Maria A Brovelli, Politecnico di Milano, http://www.ege-como.polimi.it/index.php?content=maria_brovelli<br />
** Participant categor(ies): <br />
** Applications of free and open-source spatial analytics to urban context and its development, Citizen Science (http://geomobile.como.polimi.it/) and collaborative multidimensional platforms (http://geomobile.como.polimi.it/policrowd2.0/).<br />
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* Xinyue Ye, Computational Social Science Lab, Kent State University, http://www.xinyueye.com/<br />
** Participant categor(ies): <br />
** My research focus is open source space-time analysis method development and its socio-economic application, especially on economic inequality, urban development, crime, and social media.<br />
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* Andrew Hunter, GIScience Group, University of Calgary, http://gisciencegroup.ucalgary.ca<br />
** Participant categor(ies): R, E.<br />
** Teach GIS, Land Use Planning and Cadastral Studies. Research focuses on the development of interoperable (open source) frameworks for land use planning, land development, and geospatial approaches for enhancing community engagement. <br />
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* Hande Demirel, Geomatics Engineering Department, Istanbul Technical University, http://faculty.itu.edu.tr/demirelha/<br />
** Participant categor(ies): <br />
** Lecturer for undergraduate and graduate students on spatial information systems. Research focus is spatial data acquisition, modelling spatial data, intelligent transportation and impact analysis for smart cities.<br />
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* Lucy Bastin, University of Aston http://www.aston.ac.uk/eas/staff/a-z/dr-lucy-bastin/ and Joint Research Centre of the European Commission http://dopa.jrc.ec.europa.eu/content/contacts<br />
** Participant categor(ies): <br />
** Focus: quality issues with geospatial data and VGI, e.g., making best use of cheap, plentiful but variable sensors such as weather stations for urban decision making on, e.g., dynamic routing of gritting trucks. I work on interoperable solutions for communicating data quality , e.g., UncertML and the OGC SWG on user feedback.<br />
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* GeoDa Center for Geospatial Analysis and Computation, Arizona State University, https://geodacenter.asu.edu/<br />
** Participant categor(ies): <br />
** Applications of free and open-source spatial analytics and decision support systems to urban modeling and scenario planning (but '''who''' at GeoDa do we contact?).<br />
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* Sven Schade, Joint Research Centre of the European Commission https://www.linkedin.com/pub/sven-schade/10/9bb/735, https://ec.europa.eu/jrc/en/person/sven-schade<br />
** Participant categor(ies): <br />
** I am a geospatial information scientist working on knowledge extraction from (big) data by using geospatial analytics capabilities, multi-disciplinary interoperability, and open innovation. How can we make data from public, commercial and private sources usable for social good? https://ec.europa.eu/jrc/<br />
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* Bob Basques, City of Saint Paul, Mn. USA, https://www.linkedin.com/pub/bob-basques/14/8b2/537<br />
** Participant categor(ies): <br />
** My background is in Spatial Information Management for the City of Saint Paul, Public Works, with just under 300,000 residents. Providing access to hundreds of spatial layers, originating from the City, the Metro Region, County, State, and Federal sources to both public and internal users. Big Open Source proponent and developer. http://gis.ci.stpaul.mn.us<br />
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* Tuong-Thuy Vu, School of Geography, University of Nottingham, Malaysia campus, https://theconversation.com/profiles/tuong-thuy-vu-120016 (http://www.nottingham.edu.my/geography).<br />
** Participant categor(ies): <br />
** Big geospatial data analytics with applications to urban environment<br />
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* Helena Mitasova, North Carolina State University, Center for Geospatial Analytics, OSGeo REL http://geospatial.ncsu.edu/osgeorel/, http://www.meas.ncsu.edu/faculty/mitasova/mitasova.html<br />
** Participant categor(ies): <br />
** Geospatial modeling and visualization for GRASS GIS, simulation of urban growth - incorporation of FUTURES model into GRASS GIS, Tangible landscape: collaborative modeling environment using interactive 3D printed or molded physical models<br />
** The City of Raleigh strives to become a worldwide model for an open source city http://www.raleighnc.gov/open/<br />
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* Jeffrey Johnson, Independent Consultant, World Bank GFDRR<br />
** Participant categor(ies): <br />
** Geospatial Modeling for Disaster Risk Management<br />
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* Serena Coetzee, Centre for Geoinformation Science, University of Pretora, South Africa, https://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=31094760 (http://www.up.ac.za/cgis) and Chris Wray, Gauteng City Region Observatory (GCRO), South Africa, https://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=74999697 (http://www.gcro.ac.za)<br />
** Participant categor(ies): R (UP and GCRO), E (UP) <br />
** Open (big) geospatial data in the context of geovisual analytics for smart city planning<br />
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* Dimitris Kotzinos, ETIS Lab, University of Cergy Pontoise, France, https://www.linkedin.com/in/dimitriskotzinos (http://www-etis.ensea.fr)<br />
** Participant categor(ies): <br />
** Trajectory mining, data semantics and integration of city data, data analytics with application to urban and domestic environments, personal data management<br />
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* Xingong Li, Department of Geography, University of Kansas (http://geog.ku.edu/xingong-li)<br />
** Participant categor(ies): <br />
** My research interest in Urban Science and City Analytics is in water infrastructure and smart water use.<br />
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* Patricia Carbajales-Dale, Clemson Center for Geospatial Technologies, Clemson University, http://citi.clemson.edu/people/ (http://www.clemsongis.org/)<br />
** Participant categor(ies): <br />
** High Performance Computing for geospatial analytics.<br />
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* Cameron Shorter, Co-coordinator of http://live.osgeo.org, which packages up ~50 of the best Open Source GIS applications, along with data and quickstarts.<br />
** Participant categor(ies): <br />
** Also geospatial solutions architect at http://lisasoft.com, Sydney, Australia.<br />
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* Rick Smith, Spatial {Query} Lab at Texas A&M University - Corpus Christi, http://gisc.tamucc.edu/Faculty/rick.html http://spatialquerylab.com/<br />
** Participant categor(ies): R, E<br />
** Use of mapping technology for emergency response and planning. Update and maintain freely-available university-level FOSS4G curriculum.<br />
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* Michael Starek, Geospatial Sensing and Analytics at Texas A&M University - Corpus Christi, http://gisc.tamucc.edu/Faculty/mike.html<br />
** Participant categor(ies): R, E<br />
** My research interest in Urban Science and City Analytics is in the application of emergent geo-sensing techniques for monitoring of the 3D build environment.<br />
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== Global Drivers for OSGEO Solutions ==<br />
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* EC '''Infrastructure for Spatial Information''' in the European Community, INSPIRE, http://inspire.ec.europa.eu/<br />
* US National '''Spatial Data Infrastructure''', NSDI, http://www.fgdc.gov/nsdi/nsdi.html<br />
* United Nations '''Spatial Data Infrastructure''', UNSDI http://www.ungiwg.org/content/united-nations-spatial-data-infrastructure-unsdi<br />
* UNSDI '''Visualization''' for UN Member State briefing http://worldwind.arc.nasa.gov/videos/other/final_visualization_facility.avi<br />
* UN '''Sustainable Development Goals''' (SDG): http://citiscope.org/story/2014/comparing-mdgs-and-sdgs#SDGs<br />
* UN “Urban Goal” (SDG #11): Make cities inclusive, safe, resilient and '''sustainable''', http://citiscope.org/story/2014/comparing-mdgs-and-sdgs#No11<br />
* The Brookings Institution: Why we need to think about implementing the '''Sustainable Development Goals'''<br />
** http://www.brookings.edu/blogs/future-development/posts/2015/03/03-implementing-sustainable-development-kharas<br />
* Open Transit Indicators Enable Cities to Design '''Better Transit Systems'''<br />
** http://www.azavea.com/blogs/newsletter/v10i1/open-transit-indicators-enable-cities-to-design-better-transit-systems/<br />
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== Key Research Questions ==<br />
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* 1. How can we transform existing cities or create new cities that are sustainable, productive and resilient?<br />
** Easy, we work together as one species to solve common problems.<br />
* 2. What is the role and opportunity for big data (and small) in the area of analytics, science and visualisation for shaping our cities?<br />
** The data simply awaits our gracious intelligence to do good things with, not for profit, but ''''''for the benefit of all'''''' per NASA's motto, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NASA<br />
* 3. How can we empower citizens, community groups, planners, policy and decision-makers to work cohesively in solving the problems our cities face such that they successfully engage in a sustainable urban future?<br />
** By making this '''''Road Map''''' a reality, '''''all''''' cities will have something they need yet also own. <br />
** This also gives them a way to share back the solutions they discover ''''''for the benefit of all.''''''<br />
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== CitySmart ''''''The Road Map'''''' ==<br />
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* We owe this 'first cut' for our CitySmart app to OGC's "Smart Cities Spatial Information Framework"<br />
**http://gisuser.com/2015/02/ogc-smart-cities-spatial-information-framework-white-paper-announced/ <br />
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* We also heap a world of praise upon Brandt Melick, Information Technology Department Director, Springfield Oregon USA for putting this CitySmart app idea into action! We need to help more cities step forward like this, lead by example! <br />
** '''http://www.NSDInow.org/SDI_Now_02/Technical_Support.html''' <br />
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* We consider a dual push-pull approach: a technology push and an application pull. The push is "People of city X, see this open source app we developed for all of us!"). The pull is "Urban Science and City Analytics experts (Houston), we have a problem! We need your help to design the solution."<br />
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* ''' 'CitySmart' App Themes/Data-type''' (feel free to expand):<br />
# INSPIRE Data Specifications, http://inspire.ec.europa.eu/index.cfm/pageid/2/list/7<br />
# Urban Planning, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urban_planning<br />
# Intelligent Transportation, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligent_transportation_system<br />
# Health & Medical Services, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_care<br />
# Public Safety & Emergency Services, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergency_service<br />
# Environmental Protection, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_protection<br />
# Intelligent Buildings, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Building_automation<br />
# Utilities: Smart Grid, Smart Water, Sanitation, etc., http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smart_grid<br />
# Location-Based Services, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Location-based_service<br />
# Indoor Positioning System (added by Antoni Perez Navarro), http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indoor_positioning_system<br />
# Context-aware ''Recommender Systems'' (added by Antoni Perez Navarro), http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recommender_system<br />
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* '''Data sharing''' – Municipalities need to be able to share information with site developers, site constraint specialists (environmental scientists, planners and engineers), utility service providers and regulators. The following information is requested on a regular basis for a wide variety of location-based solutions, namely (ESRI products, Autodesk products and MSFT Office products such as Excel, Access, etc.). These data sets most often include:<br />
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# INSPIRE Data Models, http://inspire.ec.europa.eu/index.cfm/pageid/2/list/datamodels<br />
# Imagery (3-inch pixel is preferred, 1 foot pixel is less preferred, 1 meter is getting much less preferred)<br />
# Cadastral Information (parcel polygons, Rights of Way (ROW), property ownership, assessment and taxation information and property class)<br />
# Address Information (house number, street name, City, zip, site location (coordinates) and zoning information)<br />
# Jurisdictional boundaries (incorporated areas, city limits, county boundaries, etc.), urban growth boundaries, public safety response areas<br />
# Elevation Information: DEM’s (raster), DTM’s (vector), contours and spot elevation points, as well as mass points and break lines <br />
# Waterways and protected areas: wetlands, fish-bearing streams, endangered species habitat, well-head protection zones, etc.<br />
# Facilities a.k.a. utilities: waste-water, storm-water, transportation systems, power, drinking water, etc. who owns the facility, who maintains the facility, etc.<br />
# Structures/facilities: bridges, building foot prints, complexes, monuments, etc.<br />
# Documents: reference material, procedures, regulations, metadata, etc.<br />
# Lidar, everyone wants it, yet few understand how to put Lidar to good use. The City of Springfield is spoiled with 8 points per meter, and they know what to do with it. Though they still want for better tools to work with it (i.e., our CitySmart app). <br />
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* '''Technical Challenges''' - there are many, here are just a few: raw data made useable, data dating, accurate georeference conversion, unit conversion (metric to standard), data storage, data security, firewalls, standardized metadata, etc.<br />
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* '''Yet to be discussed:'''<br />
** '''Legal challenges''' e.g. investigating and suggesting the required framework to preserve privacy, ensure equity (equality in access to data and computing capacities), protect IPR and copyrights.<br />
** '''Economic challenges''' e.g. creating sustainable Research Infrastructures (RI) for the public and private sector, investigate possibilities for Public Private Partnerships (PPP).<br />
** '''Social challenges''' e.g. fostering public engagement in Big Data (theory, i.e. participation in related debates, and practice, i.e. data gathering and analysis).<br />
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*'''Social dimension sub-roadmap'''<br />
Any serious roadmap on urban science should certainly consider the social dimension. In this respect, we would need a subsequent actions such as:<br />
# Identify in our Who's Who here what categories of participants we are and what are their incentives or barriers for participation. How can we organize to meet the needs of the participants involved? For instance, for academics, it might be how to utilize or create peer-review publication venues for contributed work. For practitioners, can we define their key or most pressing needs? For developers, are they in situations where their employer will see contributions to a global effort something they should be doing?<br />
# Identify the intended direct beneficiaries (aka users, customers, consumers) - instead of focusing on producers of data, infrastructures, software and services. Possible beneficiaries might be: urban planners, scientists/academia, city councils and majors, citizen, young people (pupil and students), etc. While these intended audiences might partially overlap, all might have different needs and need a different approach for participation.<br />
# Identify and get into contact with some representatives of the intended target group, e.g. with champions in digital social innovation and open minded individuals, or via associations that are directly connected to these communities, such as citizen associations.<br />
# Engaging with these people in order to identify '''their real needs for city analytics''', in order to first of all get their requirements, but also to co-develop products, get direct feedback (e.g. be including them in review panels for the NASA WW Challenge), etc.<br />
# Expand from few collaborations into a wider network in which solutions are replicated or adopted for one city after the other - each time customized to the individual needs.<br />
* A couple important topics here that might be useful in future grant proposals. <br />
** First, the idea that we as a group are undertaking "transdisciplinary research around urban science" (Dedeurwaerdere, 2014). According to Dedeuwaerdere (2014: 138): 'Transdisciplinarity implies that the precise nature of the problem... needs to be defined coorperatively by actors from science and the life-world.'<br />
** Second, perhaps we should focus on topics related to '''urban sustainability and resilience''' and the geospatial analytical processes and tools needed to support decision-makers in that capacity? Dedeuwaerdere (2014: 139) defines sustainability as the 'maintenance of capital," and is often used in the context of "environmental sustainability" -- the maintenance or non-declining of natural capital. So one question for our group might be what areas of "urban sustainability" might we want to focus our efforts on? <br />
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* '''Key City Analytic Needs or Needs by our Community above'''. (Add topic entries or your name under existing entries) <br />
** Crime mapping analytics<br />
*** Tom Mueller<br />
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* '''Use-Case: Urban Planning and Site Review''' – Municipalities need to evaluate the impact of proposed development activity, on existing development and on the natural environment. This typically includes estimating how much cut and fill is proposed, how proposed land alteration impacts surface drainage, how proposed structures will connect to city services (waste-water, storm-water, drinking-water, power, etc.), how steep the roads will be (slope for fire trucks), and proximity to wetlands and other protected waters of the state. These data most often include:<br />
** Imagery, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satellite_imagery<br />
** Cadastral, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cadastre<br />
** Elevation, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_elevation_model<br />
** Facilities (structures and utilities)<br />
** Waterways and Flood Maps<br />
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== Technologies Available In Our Network ==<br />
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* NASA World Wind (Java, iOS and Android, Web version on its way), http://goworldwind.org/<br />
* GeoMoose, http://geomoose.org/<br />
* QGIS, http://www.qgis.org/<br />
* i-Locate, http://i-locate.eu/<br />
* Open Transit Indicators Enable Cities to Design '''Better Transit Systems'''<br />
** http://www.azavea.com/blogs/newsletter/v10i1/open-transit-indicators-enable-cities-to-design-better-transit-systems/<br />
* Australia Urban Intelligence Network, AURIN Portal and workbench, http://osgeolab.unimelb.edu.au/<br />
* Arizona State University (ASU) GeoDa, https://geodacenter.asu.edu/software<br />
** The GeoDa Center for Geospatial Analysis and Computation develops state-of-the-art methods for geospatial analysis, geovisualization, geosimulation, and spatial process modeling, implements them through open source software tools and applies them to policy-relevant research in the social and environmental sciences.<br />
* GRASS GIS, http://grass.osgeo.org<br />
** Multitemporal, full 3D GIS research platform with many processing, analytical, modeling and visualization tools relevant to Urban Science and city analytics (lidar-based models, solar energy, viewsheds, networks, water resources, full 3D visualization with animations and many others in the core package, with additional tools, including civil engineering design in add-ons)<br />
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== Potential Partners ==<br />
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* Netherlands Coordination Office, United Nations Spatial Data Infrastructure (UNSDI) http://www.unsdi.nl/<br />
* GeoAcademy (Phil Davis), http://discoverspatial.com/ <br />
* University of Massachusetts at Amherst, http://eco.umass.edu/people/faculty/schweik-charles-m/<br />
* IBM '''Smarter Cities,''' http://www.ibm.com/smarterplanet/us/en/smarter_cities/overview/<br />
* UBM Future Cities, http://www.ubmfuturecities.com/author.asp?section_id=234&doc_id=526334&?_mc=MP_IW_EDT_STUB <br />
* Aalborg University Copenhagen, '''Sustainable Cities''' Master Programme, http://sustainablecities.aau.dk/<br />
* Imperial College London, Intel Collaborative Research Institute (ICRI) for '''Sustainable Connected Cites,''' http://www.cities.io/guiding-principles/<br />
* ISET Building '''Urban Resilience''' to Climate Change, http://i-s-e-t.org/resources/working-papers/building-resilience.html<br />
* 100 '''Resilient Cities''' Challenge, http://www.100resilientcities.org/pages/100-resilient-cities-challenge<br />
* '''Global Resilience''' Partnership Seeks New Ideas on Resilience in Africa, Southeast Asia<br />
** http://www.rockefellerfoundation.org/blog/global-resilience-partnership-seeks-new <br />
** http://www.globalresiliencepartnership.org/blog/2015/02/17/grp-teams-announced/ <br />
* GeoDa Center for Geospatial Analysis, https://geodacenter.asu.edu/<br />
* Australia '''Urban Intelligence''' Network, AURIN, http://aurin.org.au/<br />
* Arizona State University (ASU) GeoDa, https://geodacenter.asu.edu/software<br />
* HAROSA Knowledge Community (HAROSA KC), http://dpcs.uoc.edu/joomla/index.php/about-harosa-kc<br />
* Politecnico di Milano, GEO Lab (Geomatics and Earth Observations) http://geomatica.como.polimi.it/index.php?lang=en<br />
** An international network of research groups promoting and developing collaborative e-research on new '''H'''ybrid '''A'''lgorithms for solving '''R'''ealistic r'''O'''uting, '''S'''cheduling and system reliability/'''A'''vailability problems.<br />
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== CitySmart ''''''The App'''''' ==<br />
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'''The Task'''<br />
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Develop a '''''CitySmart App''''' with your idea for the ''Requirements doc,'' essentially the 'specs' for what this ''Urban Science - City Analytics'', CitySmart app looks like, and will likely be based on information in the 'framework' documents mentioned above in the Road Map section.<br />
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The City of Springfield Oregon has already shown us the way forward, http://www.nsdinow.org/SDI_Now_02/Technical_Support.html'''.''' <br />
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Some basic requirements:<br />
* 3D Virtual Globe interchangeable or simultaneous with 2D Map along with Projection Choices <br />
* Imagery & Elevation Import <br />
* Extensible Architecture (Modular Componentry)<br />
* Data Retrieval via REST, WMS, WCS, WFS, GML, User-Defined <br />
* OSM Placenames, Boundaries and Roads<br />
* Picking and Decluttering <br />
* Shapefile and KML Import <br />
* Measurement Tools<br />
* Flooding and Line-of-Sight Calculation<br />
* Subsurface Visualization <br />
* Shapes: Placemarks, Path, Polygon, Extruded Polygon, Custom, HTML5-able Balloons<br />
* Volumes (& Shapes), follow terrain or maintain constant elevation above terrain while moving<br />
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This CitySmart app needs to allow for some early successes so we can get buy-in from 'real' municipalities to work with us and thereby keep value-added precisely on target. After the Road Map, then what? Then we challenge Earth's FOSSy development community to provide their solution in response to the Road Map. 'Twoud be fine if we could gather a nice award package for that. <br />
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After we (the OSGEO community) evaluate these ‘solutions,’ some will be asked to mashup until in the end we have one OSGEO/FOSS4G/GeoForAll CitySmart app. This app will have an open API for the menu system, for drag-n-drop of functionalities. This will allow each city to tailor the CitySmart app for their specific use. This will also allow the world community to continually optimize old functionalities and design new ones, whether proprietary or FOSSy.<br />
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'''Who Will Do This?'''<br />
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Whoever wants to! We ask academic and other organizations to first help us with the Road Map (the ''Requirements doc''), such as those listed as Potential Partners, http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/GeoForAll_UrbanScience_CityAnalytics#Potential_Partners'''.''' Or just build it! All are welcome! <br />
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'''Why Do This?'''<br />
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Because we can! And more importantly, because there is a world full of urban management need, much of which is identical no matter what urban location we are in. For a little encouragement, how about a NASA crystal bull for the best Road Map, just like for the Europa Challenge, http://eurochallenge.como.polimi.it/''',''' and of course NASA T-shirts. We need YOU (whoever you are) to design the requirements doc and build the for the CitySmart app.<br />
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If you are brave and good, just build it and be a lighthouse guiding our future. If you do this, and no one else does, you get the crystal bull. If others do theirs along with you, then we vote and that winner gets to mash-up the best from what's in the ‘other’ CitySmart apps. We will ask the Region and Theme Chairs to do the voting, http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/GeoForAll'''.''' <br />
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== Reference Material ==<br />
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* Lane County, Oregon, Lane Livability Consortium, Data Inventory and Next Steps Report<br />
** http://www.livabilitylane.org/files/Data-Plan.pdf<br />
** http://www.livabilitylane.org/<br />
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* Future Cities, UK Ordnance Survey<br />
** https://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/about/thinking/future-cities/<br />
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* '''''Climate Adaptation''''' Guidebook for Municipalities<br />
** http://www.cmap.illinois.gov/documents/10180/14193/FY13-0119+Climate+Adaptation+toolkit+lowres.pdf<br />
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* Dedeurwaerdere, T. 2014. Sustainability Science for Strong Sustainability. Edward Elgar Publishing. <br />
** http://biogov.uclouvain.be/staff/dedeurwaerdere/book_Sustainability%20Science_EE.pdf<br />
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* How Cities Can Battle '''''Climate Change with Resiliency Planning'''''<br />
** http://www.triplepundit.com/2014/09/cities-can-battle-climate-change-resiliency-planning/<br />
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* ISET Working Paper 3: Planning for '''''Urban Climate Resilience'''''<br />
** http://i-s-e-t.org/resources/working-papers/climate-resilience-paper-3.html<br />
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* USA Federal Policies to Build '''''Climate-Resilient''''' Coastal Regions, Lessons from Hurricane Sandy<br />
** http://resilient-cities.iclei.org/resilient-cities-hub-site/resilience-resource-point/resilience-library/urban-resilience-planning/<br />
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* '''Resilience''': A Bridging Concept or a Dead End? http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14649357.2012.677124<br />
** “Reframing” '''Resilience''': Challenges for Planning Theory and Practice<br />
** Interacting Traps: '''Resilience''' Assessment of a Pasture Management System in Northern Afghanistan<br />
** '''Urban Resilience''': What Does it Mean in Planning Practice?<br />
** '''Resilience''' as a Useful Concept for '''''Climate Change''''' Adaptation?<br />
** The Politics of '''Resilience for Planning''': A Cautionary Note<br />
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* Managing Aging City Infrastructure:<br />
** http://graphics.latimes.com/la-aging-water-infrastructure/<br />
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* Veeckman, C. and van der Graaf, 2015. The City as Living Laboratory: Empowering Citizens with the Citadel Toolkit<br />
** Technology Innovation Management Review (TIM Review). http://timreview.ca/issue/2015/march<br />
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* Wow! A rural town in Italy '''>'''100% sustainable energy:<br />
** http://reregions.blogspot.com/2010/03/varese-ligure-italy.html<br />
** http://cleantechnica.com/2014/01/09/varese-ligure-italy-small-town-high-renewables/<br />
** http://www.ecofriend.com/italian-town-runs-completely-on-renewable-energy.html<br />
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* '''''Sustainable''''' background info:<br />
** Sustainable City, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sustainable_city<br />
** Sustainable Energy, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sustainable_energy<br />
** Sustainable Transport, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sustainable_transport<br />
** Sustainable Living, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sustainable_living<br />
** Urban Agriculture, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urban_agriculture<br />
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* Urban Farming<br />
** Growing Cities, http://www.yesmagazine.org/planet/growing-cities<br />
** World’s Largest Urban Farm, http://www.yesmagazine.org/peace-justice/detroit-community-gardeners-question-hantz-urban-farm<br />
** Growing Home, http://www.yesmagazine.org/new-economy/growing-home-urban-agriculture-in-chicago<br />
** Breaking Through Concrete, http://www.yesmagazine.org/planet/growing-through-concrete-an-urban-farming-roadtrip<br />
** ''Growing Power'' Despite an Urban 'Food' Desert, http://www.yesmagazine.org/issues/food-for-everyone/growing-power-in-an-urban-food-desert<br />
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* Local Grocery<br />
** http://www.cooperativegrocer.coop/articles/2004-01-08/mondragons-eroski-mass-retailer<br />
** http://www.yesmagazine.org/issues/the-new-economy/mondragon-worker-cooperatives-decide-how-to-ride-out-a-downturn<br />
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* Open Source Ecology, ''Do-It-Yourself'' Industrial Equipment<br />
** http://opensourceecology.org/gvcs/gvcs-machine-index/<br />
** http://www.ted.com/talks/marcin_jakubowski<br />
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* Digital Earth | Virtual Nations | Data Cities<br />
** http://dcitynetwork.net/manifesto/<br />
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* Open government, open source city<br />
** http://www.raleighnc.gov/open/<br />
** http://opensource.com/government/13/5/open-data-visual<br />
** http://allthingsopen.org<br />
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[[Category: ICA OSGeo Lab Network]]</div>Serenacoetzeehttps://wiki.osgeo.org/w/index.php?title=GeoForAll_UrbanScience_CityAnalytics&diff=82769GeoForAll UrbanScience CityAnalytics2015-03-16T11:31:46Z<p>Serenacoetzee: /* Who's Who Here? */</p>
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<div>'''Welcome to "Geo for All" Urban Science and City Analytics:''' ''''''CitySmart/SmartCity''''''<br />
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* Chairs: Chris Pettit (Australia) and Patrick Hogan (USA)<br />
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* Those interested in being part of this theme, please go to the maillist url at http://lists.osgeo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geoforall-urbanscience and subscribe so you can participate. We look forward for your participation in our Urban Science and City Analytics research. All members can use the maillist to collaborate . All ideas are welcome.<br />
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* All participants should support the 'Open Cities Guiding Principles.' (Thanks to Cameron Shorter for this.)<br />
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'''Open Cities - Guiding Principles''' (need a reference for this please)<br />
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* All material created is made available for all under an Open License<br />
* All material is carefully designed (API-centric modular componentry) so that it can be built upon by others<br />
* All participants aim to reuse, extend and invent material (in that order)<br />
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Note that it is eventually desirable to maintain one '''core platform''' architected with an open API for functionalities (menu system), than to have competing platforms. But before we get to that rarefied 'Linux' place, we will benefit from collegial and healthy competition, with the best features of each ending up in the collective's decision for the '''core platform''' finale.<br />
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== Who's Who Here? ==<br />
Please let us know of your '''''interest to participate''''' by adding yourself to this list.<br />
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* Chris Pettit, University of Melbourne, https://www.linkedin.com/pub/chris-pettit/16/190/4B0<br />
** Coordinate the implementation of eResearch tools to support urban researchers across Australia under the auspices of the Australian Urban Research Infrastructure Network (AURIN).<br />
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* Charlie Schweik and Alexander (Sasha) Stepanov, http://eco.umass.edu/people/faculty/schweik-charles-m/<br />
** University of Massachusetts Amherst. Trying to build educational service learning opportunities for students on advanced GIS using our campus as a "testbed." <br />
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* Tom Mueller, California University of Pennsylvania, http://www.calu.edu/academics/faculty/thomas-mueller.aspx<br />
** Similar to Charlie, I want to build educational exercises and service learning opportunities for my students.<br />
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* Jim Miller, University of Kansas, Computer Science, http://people.eecs.ku.edu/~miller/<br />
** Using NASA World Wind for several open source geo-visualization efforts, including Lidar and multivariate scalar and vector field visualization.<br />
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* Brandt Melick, Information Technology Department Director, Springfield Oregon USA, https://www.linkedin.com/pub/brandt-melick/22/869/261<br />
** Manage IT and GIS in support of community development, involving public works, and fire and life safety. Coordinate NSDI exchanges of cadastral, elevation and environmental information between local, state and federal agencies in the Pacific Northwest.<br />
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* Ant Beck, University of Nottingham Research Fellow, https://www.linkedin.com/in/antbeck<br />
** Currently transitioning into CityAnalytics looking at city wide entropy based energy management simulations. Have aspirations for an open, big data environment.<br />
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* Phillip Davis, GeoAcademy, https://www.linkedin.com/pub/phillip-davis/9/59/b7b<br />
** 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 over 4,000 students in our March 2015 cohort.<br />
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* Patrick Hogan, NASA World Wind Project Manager, https://www.linkedin.com/in/phogan<br />
** Building open source virtual globe technology meant to stimulate innovative solutions managing geospatial data, whether open or proprietary. <br />
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* Antoni Perez-Navarro, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, https://www.linkedin.com/in/antonipereznavarro<br />
** Currently working on indoor positioning systems. Previously developed the Context Aware Recommender System.<br />
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* Giuseppe Conti, https://www.linkedin.com/in/gconti<br />
** Trilogis Srl, Italy. Working on the open standard for indoor/outdoor interoperable location services (http://www.i-locate.eu/) involving multiple cities, hospitals, museums, etc.<br />
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* Evangelos Mitsakis, https://www.linkedin.com/pub/evangelos-mitsakis/6/62/938<br />
** Centre for Research and Technology Hellas - Hellenic Institute of Transport, Greece. Working on climate change adaptation, urban resilience and smart cities, focusing on intelligent transport and mobility.<br />
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* Gábor Remetey, Secretary-general, Hungarian Association for Geo-information (HUNAGI), https://www.linkedin.com/in/remetey <br />
** Strategic planning, implementation and consultancy in geospatial IT, and building contacts at the domestic, regional and global levels for Hungarian GIS and the Earth Observation community.<br />
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*Maria A Brovelli, Politecnico di Milano, http://www.ege-como.polimi.it/index.php?content=maria_brovelli<br />
** Applications of free and open-source spatial analytics to urban context and its development, Citizen Science (http://geomobile.como.polimi.it/) and collaborative multidimensional platforms (http://geomobile.como.polimi.it/policrowd2.0/).<br />
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* Xinyue Ye, Computational Social Science Lab, Kent State University, http://www.xinyueye.com/<br />
** My research focus is open source space-time analysis method development and its socio-economic application, especially on economic inequality, urban development, crime, and social media.<br />
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*Andrew Hunter, GIScience Group, University of Calgary, http://gisciencegroup.ucalgary.ca<br />
** Teach GIS, Land Use Planning and Cadastral Studies. Research focuses on the development of interoperable (open source) frameworks for land use planning, land development, and geospatial approaches for enhancing community engagement.<br />
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* Hande Demirel, Geomatics Engineering Department, Istanbul Technical University, http://faculty.itu.edu.tr/demirelha/<br />
** Lecturer for undergraduate and graduate students on spatial information systems. Research focus is spatial data acquisition, modelling spatial data, intelligent transportation and impact analysis for smart cities.<br />
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* Lucy Bastin, University of Aston http://www.aston.ac.uk/eas/staff/a-z/dr-lucy-bastin/ and Joint Research Centre of the European Commission http://dopa.jrc.ec.europa.eu/content/contacts<br />
** Focus: quality issues with geospatial data and VGI, e.g., making best use of cheap, plentiful but variable sensors such as weather stations for urban decision making on, e.g., dynamic routing of gritting trucks. I work on interoperable solutions for communicating data quality , e.g., UncertML and the OGC SWG on user feedback.<br />
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*GeoDa Center for Geospatial Analysis and Computation, Arizona State University, https://geodacenter.asu.edu/<br />
** Applications of free and open-source spatial analytics and decision support systems to urban modeling and scenario planning (but '''who''' at GeoDa do we contact?).<br />
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* Sven Schade, Joint Research Centre of the European Commission (https://ec.europa.eu/jrc/).<br />
** I am a geospatial information scientist working on knowledge extraction from (big) data by using geospatial analytics capabilities, multi-disciplinary interoperability, and open innovation. How can we make data from public, commercial and private sources usable for social good?<br />
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* Bob Basques, City of Saint Paul, Mn. USA (http://gis.ci.stpaul.mn.us).<br />
** My background is in Spatial Information Management for the City of Saint Paul, Public Works, with just under 300,000 residents. Providing access to hundreds of spatial layers, originating from the City, the Metro Region, County, State, and Federal sources to both public and internal users. Big Open Source proponent and developer.<br />
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* Tuong-Thuy Vu, School of Geography, University of Nottingham, Malaysia campus (http://www.nottingham.edu.my/geography).<br />
** Big geospatial data analytics with applications to urban environment<br />
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* Helena Mitasova, North Carolina State University, Center for Geospatial Analytics, OSGeo REL http://geospatial.ncsu.edu/osgeorel/<br />
** Geospatial modeling and visualization for GRASS GIS, simulation of urban growth - incorporation of FUTURES model into GRASS GIS, Tangible landscape: collaborative modeling environment using interactive 3D printed or molded physical models<br />
** The City of Raleigh strives to become a worldwide model for an open source city http://www.raleighnc.gov/open/<br />
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* Jeffrey Johnson, Independent Consultant, World Bank GFDRR<br />
** Geospatial Modeling for Disaster Risk Management<br />
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* Serena Coetzee, Centre for Geoinformation Science, University of Pretora, South Africa (http://www.up.ac.za/cgis) and Chris Wray, Gauteng City Region Observatory (GCRO), South Africa, (http://www.gcro.ac.za)<br />
** Open (big) geospatial data in the context of geovisual analytics for smart city plannnig<br />
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== Global Drivers for OSGEO Solutions ==<br />
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* EC Infrastructure for Spatial Information in the European Community, INSPIRE, http://inspire.ec.europa.eu/<br />
* US National Spatial Data Infrastructure, NSDI, http://www.fgdc.gov/nsdi/nsdi.html<br />
* United Nations Spatial Data Infrastructure, UNSDI http://www.ungiwg.org/content/united-nations-spatial-data-infrastructure-unsdi<br />
* UNSDI '''Visualization''' for UN Member State briefing http://worldwind.arc.nasa.gov/videos/other/final_visualization_facility.avi<br />
* UN '''Sustainable Development Goals''' (SDG): http://citiscope.org/story/2014/comparing-mdgs-and-sdgs#SDGs<br />
* UN “Urban Goal” (SDG #11): Make cities inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable, http://citiscope.org/story/2014/comparing-mdgs-and-sdgs#No11<br />
* The Brookings Institution: Why we need to think about implementing the '''Sustainable Development Goals'''<br />
** http://www.brookings.edu/blogs/future-development/posts/2015/03/03-implementing-sustainable-development-kharas<br />
* Open Transit Indicators Enable Cities to Design '''Better Transit Systems'''<br />
** http://www.azavea.com/blogs/newsletter/v10i1/open-transit-indicators-enable-cities-to-design-better-transit-systems/<br />
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== Key Research Questions ==<br />
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* 1. How can we transform existing cities or create new cities that are sustainable, productive and resilient?<br />
** Easy, we work together as one species to solve common problems.<br />
* 2. What is the role and opportunity for big data (and small) in the area of analytics, science and visualisation for shaping our cities?<br />
** The data simply awaits our gracious intelligence to do good things with, not for profit, but ''''''for the benefit of all'''''' per NASA's motto, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NASA<br />
* 3. How can we empower citizens, community groups, planners, policy and decision-makers to work cohesively in solving the problems our cities face such that they successfully engage in a sustainable urban future?<br />
** By making this '''''Road Map''''' a reality, '''''all''''' cities will have something they need yet also own. <br />
** This also gives them a way to share back the solutions they discover ''''''for the benefit of all.''''''<br />
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== CitySmart/SmartCity '''''Road Map:''''' '' 'First Life' '' ==<br />
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* We consider a dual approach, i.e. complementing a technology push ("People of city X, come and see what a nice open solution we developed for you!"), with an application pull ("Urban Science and City Analytics experts, we have a serious problem, can you help us?").<br />
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* We owe this 'first cut' for our CitySmart app to OGC's "Smart Cities Spatial Information Framework"<br />
**http://gisuser.com/2015/02/ogc-smart-cities-spatial-information-framework-white-paper-announced/ <br />
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* We also heap a world of praise upon Brandt Melick, Information Technology Department Director, Springfield Oregon USA for putting this CitySmart app idea into action! We need to help more cities step forward like this, lead by example! This directly supports both the European INSPIRE Directive, the US NSDI Executive Order and the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs):<br />
** '''http://www.NSDInow.org/SDI_Now_02/Technical_Support.html''' <br />
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* ''' 'CitySmart/SmartCity' App Themes/Data-type''' (feel free to expand):<br />
# INSPIRE Data Specifications, http://inspire.ec.europa.eu/index.cfm/pageid/2/list/7<br />
# Urban Planning, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urban_planning<br />
# Intelligent Transportation, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligent_transportation_system<br />
# Health & Medical Services, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_care<br />
# Public Safety & Emergency Services, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergency_service<br />
# Environmental Protection, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_protection<br />
# Intelligent Buildings, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Building_automation<br />
# Utilities: Smart Grid, Smart Water, Sanitation, etc., http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smart_grid<br />
# Location-Based Services, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Location-based_service<br />
# Indoor Positioning System (added by Antoni Perez Navarro), http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indoor_positioning_system<br />
# Context-aware ''Recommender Systems'' (added by Antoni Perez Navarro), http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recommender_system<br />
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* '''Data sharing''' – Municipalities need to be able to share information with site developers, site constraint specialists (environmental scientists, planners and engineers), utility service providers and regulators. The following information is requested on a regular basis for a wide variety of location-based solutions, namely (ESRI products, Autodesk products and MSFT Office products such as Excel, Access, etc.). These data sets most often include:<br />
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# INSPIRE Data Models, http://inspire.ec.europa.eu/index.cfm/pageid/2/list/datamodels<br />
# Imagery (3-inch pixel is preferred, 1 foot pixel is less preferred, 1 meter is getting much less preferred)<br />
# Cadastral Information (parcel polygons, Rights of Way (ROW), property ownership, assessment and taxation information and property class)<br />
# Address Information (house number, street name, City, zip, site location (coordinates) and zoning information)<br />
# Jurisdictional boundaries (incorporated areas, city limits, county boundaries, etc.), urban growth boundaries, public safety response areas<br />
# Elevation Information: DEM’s (raster), DTM’s (vector), contours and spot elevation points, as well as mass points and break lines <br />
# Waterways and protected areas: wetlands, fish-bearing streams, endangered species habitat, well-head protection zones, etc.<br />
# Facilities a.k.a. utilities: waste-water, storm-water, transportation systems, power, drinking water, etc. who owns the facility, who maintains the facility, etc.<br />
# Structures/facilities: bridges, building foot prints, complexes, monuments, etc.<br />
# Documents: reference material, procedures, regulations, metadata, etc.<br />
# Lidar, everyone wants it, yet few understand how to put Lidar to good use. The City of Springfield is spoiled with 8 points per meter, and they know what to do with it. Though they still want for better tools to work with it (i.e., our CitySmart app). <br />
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* '''Technical Challenges''' - there are many, here are just a few: raw data made useable, data dating, accurate georeference conversion, unit conversion (metric to standard), data storage, data security, firewalls, standardized metadata, etc.<br />
* '''Yet to be discussed:'''<br />
** '''Legal challenges''' e.g. investigating and suggesting the required framework to preserve privacy, ensure equity (equality in access to data and computing capacities), protect IPR and copyrights.<br />
** '''Economic challenges''' e.g. creating sustainable Research Infrastructures (RI) for the public and private sector, investigate possibilities for Public Private Partnerships (PPP).<br />
** '''Social challenges''' e.g. fostering public engagement in Big Data (theory, i.e. participation in related debates, and practice, i.e. data gathering and analysis).<br />
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Any serious roadmap on urban science should certainly consider the social dimension. In this respect, we would need a subsequent actions such as:<br />
# Identify the intended direct beneficiaries (aka users, customers, consumers) - instead of focusing on producers of data, infrastructures, software and services. Possible beneficiaries might be: urban planners, scientists/academia, city councils and majors, citizen, young people (pupil and students), etc. While these intended audiences might partially overlap, all might have different needs and need a different approach for participation.<br />
# Identify and get into contact with some representatives of the intended target group, e.g. with champions in digital social innovation and open minded individuals, or via associations that are directly connected to these communities, such as citizen associations.<br />
# Engaging with these people in order to identify their real needs for city analytics, in order to first of all get their requirements, but also to co-develop products, get direct feedback (e.g. be including them in review panels for the NASA WW Challenge), etc.<br />
# Expand from few collaborations into a wider network in which solutions are replicated or adopted for one city after the other - each time customized to the individual needs.<br />
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* '''Use-Case: Urban Planning and Site Review''' – Municipalities need to evaluate the impact of proposed development activity, on existing development and on the natural environment. This typically includes estimating how much cut and fill is proposed, how proposed land alteration impacts surface drainage, how proposed structures will connect to city services (waste-water, storm-water, drinking-water, power, etc.), how steep the roads will be (slope for fire trucks), and proximity to wetlands and other protected waters of the state. These data most often include:<br />
** Imagery, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satellite_imagery<br />
** Cadastral, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cadastre<br />
** Elevation, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_elevation_model<br />
** Facilities (structures and utilities)<br />
** Waterways and Flood Maps<br />
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== Technologies Available In Our Network ==<br />
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* NASA World Wind (Java, iOS and Android, Web version on its way), http://goworldwind.org/<br />
* GeoMoose, http://geomoose.org/<br />
* QGIS, http://www.qgis.org/<br />
* i-Locate, http://i-locate.eu/<br />
* Open Transit Indicators Enable Cities to Design '''Better Transit Systems'''<br />
** http://www.azavea.com/blogs/newsletter/v10i1/open-transit-indicators-enable-cities-to-design-better-transit-systems/<br />
* Australia Urban Intelligence Network, AURIN Portal and workbench, http://osgeolab.unimelb.edu.au/<br />
* Arizona State University (ASU) GeoDa, https://geodacenter.asu.edu/software<br />
** The GeoDa Center for Geospatial Analysis and Computation develops state-of-the-art methods for geospatial analysis, geovisualization, geosimulation, and spatial process modeling, implements them through open source software tools and applies them to policy-relevant research in the social and environmental sciences.<br />
* GRASS GIS, http://grass.osgeo.org<br />
** Multitemporal, full 3D GIS research platform with many processing, analytical, modeling and visualization tools relevant to Urban Science and city analytics (lidar-based models, solar energy, viewsheds, networks, water resources, full 3D visualization with animations and many others in the core package, with additional tools, including civil engineering design in add-ons)<br />
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== Potential Partners ==<br />
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* Netherlands Coordination Office, United Nations Spatial Data Infrastructure (UNSDI) http://www.unsdi.nl/<br />
* GeoAcademy (Phil Davis), http://discoverspatial.com/ <br />
* University of Massachusetts at Amherst, http://eco.umass.edu/people/faculty/schweik-charles-m/<br />
* IBM '''Smarter Cities,''' http://www.ibm.com/smarterplanet/us/en/smarter_cities/overview/<br />
* UBM Future Cities, http://www.ubmfuturecities.com/author.asp?section_id=234&doc_id=526334&?_mc=MP_IW_EDT_STUB <br />
* Aalborg University Copenhagen, '''Sustainable Cities''' Master Programme, http://sustainablecities.aau.dk/<br />
* Imperial College London, Intel Collaborative Research Institute (ICRI) for '''Sustainable Connected Cites,''' http://www.cities.io/guiding-principles/<br />
* ISET Building '''Urban Resilience''' to Climate Change, http://i-s-e-t.org/resources/working-papers/building-resilience.html<br />
* 100 '''Resilient Cities''' Challenge, http://www.100resilientcities.org/pages/100-resilient-cities-challenge<br />
* '''Global Resilience''' Partnership Seeks New Ideas on Resilience in Africa, Southeast Asia<br />
** http://www.rockefellerfoundation.org/blog/global-resilience-partnership-seeks-new <br />
** http://www.globalresiliencepartnership.org/blog/2015/02/17/grp-teams-announced/ <br />
* GeoDa Center for Geospatial Analysis, https://geodacenter.asu.edu/<br />
* Australia '''Urban Intelligence''' Network, AURIN, http://aurin.org.au/<br />
* Arizona State University (ASU) GeoDa, https://geodacenter.asu.edu/software<br />
* HAROSA Knowledge Community (HAROSA KC), http://dpcs.uoc.edu/joomla/index.php/about-harosa-kc<br />
* Politecnico di Milano, GEO Lab (Geomatics and Earth Observations) http://geomatica.como.polimi.it/index.php?lang=en<br />
** An international network of research groups promoting and developing collaborative e-research on new '''H'''ybrid '''A'''lgorithms for solving '''R'''ealistic r'''O'''uting, '''S'''cheduling and system reliability/'''A'''vailability problems.<br />
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== CitySmart/SmartCity ''Road Map:'' ''''The Challenge'''' ==<br />
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'''The Task'''<br />
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Develop a '''''Road Map,''''' the ''Requirements doc,'' essentially the 'specs' for what this ''Urban Science - City Analytics'', CitySmart app looks like. Some basic requirements:<br />
* 3D Virtual Globe interchangeable or simultaneous with 2D Map along with Projection Choices <br />
* Imagery & Elevation Import <br />
* Extensible Architecture (Modular Componentry)<br />
* Data Retrieval via REST, WMS, WCS, WFS, GML, User-Defined <br />
* OSM Placenames, Boundaries and Roads<br />
* Picking and Decluttering <br />
* Shapefile and KML Import <br />
* Measurement Tools<br />
* Flooding and Line-of-Sight Calculation<br />
* Subsurface Visualization <br />
* Shapes: Placemarks, Path, Polygon, Extruded Polygon, Custom, HTML5-able Balloons<br />
* Volumes (& Shapes), follow terrain or maintain constant elevation above terrain while moving<br />
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The Road Map will likely be based on information in the 'framework' documents mentioned above in the Road Map section:<br />
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* http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/GeoForAll_UrbanScience_CityAnalytics#Urban_Science_-_City_Analytics:_Road_Map. <br />
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This Road Map needs to allow for some early successes so we can get buy-in from 'real' municipalities to work with us and thereby keep value-added precisely on target. After the Road Map, then what? Then we challenge Earth's FOSSy development community to provide their solution in response to the Road Map. 'Twoud be fine if we could gather a nice award package for that. <br />
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After we (the OSGEO community) evaluate these ‘solutions,’ some will be asked to mashup until in the end we have one OSGEO/FOSS4G/GeoForAll CitySmart app. This app will have an open API for the menu system, for drag-n-drop of functionalities. This will allow each city to tailor the CitySmart app for their specific use. This will also allow the world community to continually optimize old functionalities and design new ones, whether proprietary or FOSSy.<br />
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'''Who Will Do This?'''<br />
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Whoever wants to! We ask academic and other organizations to first help us with the Road Map (the ''Requirements doc''), such as those listed as Potential Partners, http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/GeoForAll_UrbanScience_CityAnalytics#Potential_Partners'''.''' All are welcome! <br />
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'''Why Do This?'''<br />
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Because we can! And more importantly, because there is a world full of urban management need, much of which is identical no matter what urban location we are in. For a little encouragement, how about a NASA crystal bull for the best Road Map, just like for the Europa Challenge, http://eurochallenge.como.polimi.it/''',''' and of course NASA T-shirts. We need YOU (whoever you are) to design the requirements doc for the Urban Science - City Analytics, a CitySmart app.<br />
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We need this Road Map to guide us! And we need it before work on the CitySmart app begins, so it can begin well. If your Road Map wins, you get the crystal bull, after you mash-up the best from what's in the ‘other’ Road Maps. We will ask the Region and Theme Chairs to do the voting, http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/GeoForAll'''.''' Or if you are that good, just build it and be a lighthouse guiding our future. <br />
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'''Road Map Done, Then What?'''<br />
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The '''''next''''' challenge, the CitySmart App Challenge, will be for '''''any and all comers''''' to build an app according to the Road Map, one that will put a fresh smile on the face of many municipalities around the world! And something a whole planet can share, so all may reap the benefits of a life in a smarter city. The City of Springfield Oregon has already shown us the way forward, http://www.nsdinow.org/SDI_Now_02/Technical_Support.html'''.''' Are we ready?<br />
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== Reference Material ==<br />
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* Future Cities, UK Ordnance Survey<br />
** https://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/about/thinking/future-cities/<br />
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* '''''Climate Adaptation''''' Guidebook for Municipalities<br />
** http://www.cmap.illinois.gov/documents/10180/14193/FY13-0119+Climate+Adaptation+toolkit+lowres.pdf<br />
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* How Cities Can Battle '''''Climate Change with Resiliency Planning'''''<br />
** http://www.triplepundit.com/2014/09/cities-can-battle-climate-change-resiliency-planning/<br />
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* ISET Working Paper 3: Planning for '''''Urban Climate Resilience'''''<br />
** http://i-s-e-t.org/resources/working-papers/climate-resilience-paper-3.html<br />
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* USA Federal Policies to Build '''''Climate-Resilient''''' Coastal Regions, Lessons from Hurricane Sandy<br />
** http://resilient-cities.iclei.org/resilient-cities-hub-site/resilience-resource-point/resilience-library/urban-resilience-planning/<br />
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* '''Resilience''': A Bridging Concept or a Dead End? http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14649357.2012.677124<br />
** “Reframing” '''Resilience''': Challenges for Planning Theory and Practice<br />
** Interacting Traps: '''Resilience''' Assessment of a Pasture Management System in Northern Afghanistan<br />
** '''Urban Resilience''': What Does it Mean in Planning Practice?<br />
** '''Resilience''' as a Useful Concept for '''''Climate Change''''' Adaptation?<br />
** The Politics of '''Resilience for Planning''': A Cautionary Note<br />
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* Managing Aging City Infrastructure:<br />
** http://graphics.latimes.com/la-aging-water-infrastructure/<br />
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* Wow! A rural town in Italy '''>'''100% sustainable energy:<br />
** http://reregions.blogspot.com/2010/03/varese-ligure-italy.html<br />
** http://cleantechnica.com/2014/01/09/varese-ligure-italy-small-town-high-renewables/<br />
** http://www.ecofriend.com/italian-town-runs-completely-on-renewable-energy.html<br />
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* '''''Sustainable''''' background info:<br />
** Sustainable City, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sustainable_city<br />
** Sustainable Energy, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sustainable_energy<br />
** Sustainable Transport, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sustainable_transport<br />
** Sustainable Living, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sustainable_living<br />
** Urban Agriculture, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urban_agriculture<br />
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* Urban Farming<br />
** Growing Cities, http://www.yesmagazine.org/planet/growing-cities<br />
** World’s Largest Urban Farm, http://www.yesmagazine.org/peace-justice/detroit-community-gardeners-question-hantz-urban-farm<br />
** Growing Home, http://www.yesmagazine.org/new-economy/growing-home-urban-agriculture-in-chicago<br />
** Breaking Through Concrete, http://www.yesmagazine.org/planet/growing-through-concrete-an-urban-farming-roadtrip<br />
** ''Growing Power'' Despite an Urban 'Food' Desert, http://www.yesmagazine.org/issues/food-for-everyone/growing-power-in-an-urban-food-desert<br />
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* Local Grocery<br />
** http://www.cooperativegrocer.coop/articles/2004-01-08/mondragons-eroski-mass-retailer<br />
** http://www.yesmagazine.org/issues/the-new-economy/mondragon-worker-cooperatives-decide-how-to-ride-out-a-downturn<br />
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* Open Source Ecology, ''Do-It-Yourself'' Industrial Equipment<br />
** http://opensourceecology.org/gvcs/gvcs-machine-index/<br />
** http://www.ted.com/talks/marcin_jakubowski<br />
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* Digital Earth | Virtual Nations | Data Cities<br />
** http://dcitynetwork.net/manifesto/<br />
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* Open government, open source city<br />
** http://www.raleighnc.gov/open/<br />
** http://opensource.com/government/13/5/open-data-visual<br />
** http://allthingsopen.org</div>Serenacoetzeehttps://wiki.osgeo.org/w/index.php?title=GeoForAll_UrbanScience_CityAnalytics&diff=82768GeoForAll UrbanScience CityAnalytics2015-03-16T11:31:12Z<p>Serenacoetzee: /* Who's Who Here? */</p>
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<div>'''Welcome to "Geo for All" Urban Science and City Analytics:''' ''''''CitySmart/SmartCity''''''<br />
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* Chairs: Chris Pettit (Australia) and Patrick Hogan (USA)<br />
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* Those interested in being part of this theme, please go to the maillist url at http://lists.osgeo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geoforall-urbanscience and subscribe so you can participate. We look forward for your participation in our Urban Science and City Analytics research. All members can use the maillist to collaborate . All ideas are welcome.<br />
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* All participants should support the 'Open Cities Guiding Principles.' (Thanks to Cameron Shorter for this.)<br />
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'''Open Cities - Guiding Principles''' (need a reference for this please)<br />
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* All material created is made available for all under an Open License<br />
* All material is carefully designed (API-centric modular componentry) so that it can be built upon by others<br />
* All participants aim to reuse, extend and invent material (in that order)<br />
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Note that it is eventually desirable to maintain one '''core platform''' architected with an open API for functionalities (menu system), than to have competing platforms. But before we get to that rarefied 'Linux' place, we will benefit from collegial and healthy competition, with the best features of each ending up in the collective's decision for the '''core platform''' finale.<br />
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== Who's Who Here? ==<br />
Please let us know of your '''''interest to participate''''' by adding yourself to this list.<br />
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* Chris Pettit, University of Melbourne, https://www.linkedin.com/pub/chris-pettit/16/190/4B0<br />
** Coordinate the implementation of eResearch tools to support urban researchers across Australia under the auspices of the Australian Urban Research Infrastructure Network (AURIN).<br />
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* Charlie Schweik and Alexander (Sasha) Stepanov, http://eco.umass.edu/people/faculty/schweik-charles-m/<br />
** University of Massachusetts Amherst. Trying to build educational service learning opportunities for students on advanced GIS using our campus as a "testbed." <br />
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* Tom Mueller, California University of Pennsylvania, http://www.calu.edu/academics/faculty/thomas-mueller.aspx<br />
** Similar to Charlie, I want to build educational exercises and service learning opportunities for my students.<br />
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* Jim Miller, University of Kansas, Computer Science, http://people.eecs.ku.edu/~miller/<br />
** Using NASA World Wind for several open source geo-visualization efforts, including Lidar and multivariate scalar and vector field visualization.<br />
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* Brandt Melick, Information Technology Department Director, Springfield Oregon USA, https://www.linkedin.com/pub/brandt-melick/22/869/261<br />
** Manage IT and GIS in support of community development, involving public works, and fire and life safety. Coordinate NSDI exchanges of cadastral, elevation and environmental information between local, state and federal agencies in the Pacific Northwest.<br />
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* Ant Beck, University of Nottingham Research Fellow, https://www.linkedin.com/in/antbeck<br />
** Currently transitioning into CityAnalytics looking at city wide entropy based energy management simulations. Have aspirations for an open, big data environment.<br />
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* Phillip Davis, GeoAcademy, https://www.linkedin.com/pub/phillip-davis/9/59/b7b<br />
** 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 over 4,000 students in our March 2015 cohort.<br />
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* Patrick Hogan, NASA World Wind Project Manager, https://www.linkedin.com/in/phogan<br />
** Building open source virtual globe technology meant to stimulate innovative solutions managing geospatial data, whether open or proprietary. <br />
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* Antoni Perez-Navarro, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, https://www.linkedin.com/in/antonipereznavarro<br />
** Currently working on indoor positioning systems. Previously developed the Context Aware Recommender System.<br />
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* Giuseppe Conti, https://www.linkedin.com/in/gconti<br />
** Trilogis Srl, Italy. Working on the open standard for indoor/outdoor interoperable location services (http://www.i-locate.eu/) involving multiple cities, hospitals, museums, etc.<br />
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* Evangelos Mitsakis, https://www.linkedin.com/pub/evangelos-mitsakis/6/62/938<br />
** Centre for Research and Technology Hellas - Hellenic Institute of Transport, Greece. Working on climate change adaptation, urban resilience and smart cities, focusing on intelligent transport and mobility.<br />
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* Gábor Remetey, Secretary-general, Hungarian Association for Geo-information (HUNAGI), https://www.linkedin.com/in/remetey <br />
** Strategic planning, implementation and consultancy in geospatial IT, and building contacts at the domestic, regional and global levels for Hungarian GIS and the Earth Observation community.<br />
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*Maria A Brovelli, Politecnico di Milano, http://www.ege-como.polimi.it/index.php?content=maria_brovelli<br />
** Applications of free and open-source spatial analytics to urban context and its development, Citizen Science (http://geomobile.como.polimi.it/) and collaborative multidimensional platforms (http://geomobile.como.polimi.it/policrowd2.0/).<br />
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* Xinyue Ye, Computational Social Science Lab, Kent State University, http://www.xinyueye.com/<br />
** My research focus is open source space-time analysis method development and its socio-economic application, especially on economic inequality, urban development, crime, and social media.<br />
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*Andrew Hunter, GIScience Group, University of Calgary, http://gisciencegroup.ucalgary.ca<br />
** Teach GIS, Land Use Planning and Cadastral Studies. Research focuses on the development of interoperable (open source) frameworks for land use planning, land development, and geospatial approaches for enhancing community engagement.<br />
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* Hande Demirel, Geomatics Engineering Department, Istanbul Technical University, http://faculty.itu.edu.tr/demirelha/<br />
** Lecturer for undergraduate and graduate students on spatial information systems. Research focus is spatial data acquisition, modelling spatial data, intelligent transportation and impact analysis for smart cities.<br />
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* Lucy Bastin, University of Aston http://www.aston.ac.uk/eas/staff/a-z/dr-lucy-bastin/ and Joint Research Centre of the European Commission http://dopa.jrc.ec.europa.eu/content/contacts<br />
** Focus: quality issues with geospatial data and VGI, e.g., making best use of cheap, plentiful but variable sensors such as weather stations for urban decision making on, e.g., dynamic routing of gritting trucks. I work on interoperable solutions for communicating data quality , e.g., UncertML and the OGC SWG on user feedback.<br />
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*GeoDa Center for Geospatial Analysis and Computation, Arizona State University, https://geodacenter.asu.edu/<br />
** Applications of free and open-source spatial analytics and decision support systems to urban modeling and scenario planning (but '''who''' at GeoDa do we contact?).<br />
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* Sven Schade, Joint Research Centre of the European Commission (https://ec.europa.eu/jrc/).<br />
** I am a geospatial information scientist working on knowledge extraction from (big) data by using geospatial analytics capabilities, multi-disciplinary interoperability, and open innovation. How can we make data from public, commercial and private sources usable for social good?<br />
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* Bob Basques, City of Saint Paul, Mn. USA (http://gis.ci.stpaul.mn.us).<br />
** My background is in Spatial Information Management for the City of Saint Paul, Public Works, with just under 300,000 residents. Providing access to hundreds of spatial layers, originating from the City, the Metro Region, County, State, and Federal sources to both public and internal users. Big Open Source proponent and developer.<br />
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* Tuong-Thuy Vu, School of Geography, University of Nottingham, Malaysia campus (http://www.nottingham.edu.my/geography).<br />
** Big geospatial data analytics with applications to urban environment<br />
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* Helena Mitasova, North Carolina State University, Center for Geospatial Analytics, OSGeo REL http://geospatial.ncsu.edu/osgeorel/<br />
** Geospatial modeling and visualization for GRASS GIS, simulation of urban growth - incorporation of FUTURES model into GRASS GIS, Tangible landscape: collaborative modeling environment using interactive 3D printed or molded physical models<br />
** The City of Raleigh strives to become a worldwide model for an open source city http://www.raleighnc.gov/open/<br />
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* Jeffrey Johnson, Independent Consultant, World Bank GFDRR<br />
** Geospatial Modeling for Disaster Risk Management<br />
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* Serena Coetzee, Centre for Geoinformation Science, University of Pretora, South africa (http://www.up.ac.za/cgis) and Chris Wray, Gauteng City Region Observatory (GCRO), South Africa, (http://www.gcro.ac.za)<br />
** Open (big) geospatial data in the context of geovisual analytics for smart city plannnig<br />
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== Global Drivers for OSGEO Solutions ==<br />
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* EC Infrastructure for Spatial Information in the European Community, INSPIRE, http://inspire.ec.europa.eu/<br />
* US National Spatial Data Infrastructure, NSDI, http://www.fgdc.gov/nsdi/nsdi.html<br />
* United Nations Spatial Data Infrastructure, UNSDI http://www.ungiwg.org/content/united-nations-spatial-data-infrastructure-unsdi<br />
* UNSDI '''Visualization''' for UN Member State briefing http://worldwind.arc.nasa.gov/videos/other/final_visualization_facility.avi<br />
* UN '''Sustainable Development Goals''' (SDG): http://citiscope.org/story/2014/comparing-mdgs-and-sdgs#SDGs<br />
* UN “Urban Goal” (SDG #11): Make cities inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable, http://citiscope.org/story/2014/comparing-mdgs-and-sdgs#No11<br />
* The Brookings Institution: Why we need to think about implementing the '''Sustainable Development Goals'''<br />
** http://www.brookings.edu/blogs/future-development/posts/2015/03/03-implementing-sustainable-development-kharas<br />
* Open Transit Indicators Enable Cities to Design '''Better Transit Systems'''<br />
** http://www.azavea.com/blogs/newsletter/v10i1/open-transit-indicators-enable-cities-to-design-better-transit-systems/<br />
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== Key Research Questions ==<br />
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* 1. How can we transform existing cities or create new cities that are sustainable, productive and resilient?<br />
** Easy, we work together as one species to solve common problems.<br />
* 2. What is the role and opportunity for big data (and small) in the area of analytics, science and visualisation for shaping our cities?<br />
** The data simply awaits our gracious intelligence to do good things with, not for profit, but ''''''for the benefit of all'''''' per NASA's motto, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NASA<br />
* 3. How can we empower citizens, community groups, planners, policy and decision-makers to work cohesively in solving the problems our cities face such that they successfully engage in a sustainable urban future?<br />
** By making this '''''Road Map''''' a reality, '''''all''''' cities will have something they need yet also own. <br />
** This also gives them a way to share back the solutions they discover ''''''for the benefit of all.''''''<br />
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== CitySmart/SmartCity '''''Road Map:''''' '' 'First Life' '' ==<br />
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* We consider a dual approach, i.e. complementing a technology push ("People of city X, come and see what a nice open solution we developed for you!"), with an application pull ("Urban Science and City Analytics experts, we have a serious problem, can you help us?").<br />
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* We owe this 'first cut' for our CitySmart app to OGC's "Smart Cities Spatial Information Framework"<br />
**http://gisuser.com/2015/02/ogc-smart-cities-spatial-information-framework-white-paper-announced/ <br />
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* We also heap a world of praise upon Brandt Melick, Information Technology Department Director, Springfield Oregon USA for putting this CitySmart app idea into action! We need to help more cities step forward like this, lead by example! This directly supports both the European INSPIRE Directive, the US NSDI Executive Order and the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs):<br />
** '''http://www.NSDInow.org/SDI_Now_02/Technical_Support.html''' <br />
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* ''' 'CitySmart/SmartCity' App Themes/Data-type''' (feel free to expand):<br />
# INSPIRE Data Specifications, http://inspire.ec.europa.eu/index.cfm/pageid/2/list/7<br />
# Urban Planning, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urban_planning<br />
# Intelligent Transportation, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligent_transportation_system<br />
# Health & Medical Services, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_care<br />
# Public Safety & Emergency Services, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergency_service<br />
# Environmental Protection, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_protection<br />
# Intelligent Buildings, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Building_automation<br />
# Utilities: Smart Grid, Smart Water, Sanitation, etc., http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smart_grid<br />
# Location-Based Services, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Location-based_service<br />
# Indoor Positioning System (added by Antoni Perez Navarro), http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indoor_positioning_system<br />
# Context-aware ''Recommender Systems'' (added by Antoni Perez Navarro), http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recommender_system<br />
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* '''Data sharing''' – Municipalities need to be able to share information with site developers, site constraint specialists (environmental scientists, planners and engineers), utility service providers and regulators. The following information is requested on a regular basis for a wide variety of location-based solutions, namely (ESRI products, Autodesk products and MSFT Office products such as Excel, Access, etc.). These data sets most often include:<br />
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# INSPIRE Data Models, http://inspire.ec.europa.eu/index.cfm/pageid/2/list/datamodels<br />
# Imagery (3-inch pixel is preferred, 1 foot pixel is less preferred, 1 meter is getting much less preferred)<br />
# Cadastral Information (parcel polygons, Rights of Way (ROW), property ownership, assessment and taxation information and property class)<br />
# Address Information (house number, street name, City, zip, site location (coordinates) and zoning information)<br />
# Jurisdictional boundaries (incorporated areas, city limits, county boundaries, etc.), urban growth boundaries, public safety response areas<br />
# Elevation Information: DEM’s (raster), DTM’s (vector), contours and spot elevation points, as well as mass points and break lines <br />
# Waterways and protected areas: wetlands, fish-bearing streams, endangered species habitat, well-head protection zones, etc.<br />
# Facilities a.k.a. utilities: waste-water, storm-water, transportation systems, power, drinking water, etc. who owns the facility, who maintains the facility, etc.<br />
# Structures/facilities: bridges, building foot prints, complexes, monuments, etc.<br />
# Documents: reference material, procedures, regulations, metadata, etc.<br />
# Lidar, everyone wants it, yet few understand how to put Lidar to good use. The City of Springfield is spoiled with 8 points per meter, and they know what to do with it. Though they still want for better tools to work with it (i.e., our CitySmart app). <br />
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* '''Technical Challenges''' - there are many, here are just a few: raw data made useable, data dating, accurate georeference conversion, unit conversion (metric to standard), data storage, data security, firewalls, standardized metadata, etc.<br />
* '''Yet to be discussed:'''<br />
** '''Legal challenges''' e.g. investigating and suggesting the required framework to preserve privacy, ensure equity (equality in access to data and computing capacities), protect IPR and copyrights.<br />
** '''Economic challenges''' e.g. creating sustainable Research Infrastructures (RI) for the public and private sector, investigate possibilities for Public Private Partnerships (PPP).<br />
** '''Social challenges''' e.g. fostering public engagement in Big Data (theory, i.e. participation in related debates, and practice, i.e. data gathering and analysis).<br />
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Any serious roadmap on urban science should certainly consider the social dimension. In this respect, we would need a subsequent actions such as:<br />
# Identify the intended direct beneficiaries (aka users, customers, consumers) - instead of focusing on producers of data, infrastructures, software and services. Possible beneficiaries might be: urban planners, scientists/academia, city councils and majors, citizen, young people (pupil and students), etc. While these intended audiences might partially overlap, all might have different needs and need a different approach for participation.<br />
# Identify and get into contact with some representatives of the intended target group, e.g. with champions in digital social innovation and open minded individuals, or via associations that are directly connected to these communities, such as citizen associations.<br />
# Engaging with these people in order to identify their real needs for city analytics, in order to first of all get their requirements, but also to co-develop products, get direct feedback (e.g. be including them in review panels for the NASA WW Challenge), etc.<br />
# Expand from few collaborations into a wider network in which solutions are replicated or adopted for one city after the other - each time customized to the individual needs.<br />
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* '''Use-Case: Urban Planning and Site Review''' – Municipalities need to evaluate the impact of proposed development activity, on existing development and on the natural environment. This typically includes estimating how much cut and fill is proposed, how proposed land alteration impacts surface drainage, how proposed structures will connect to city services (waste-water, storm-water, drinking-water, power, etc.), how steep the roads will be (slope for fire trucks), and proximity to wetlands and other protected waters of the state. These data most often include:<br />
** Imagery, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satellite_imagery<br />
** Cadastral, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cadastre<br />
** Elevation, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_elevation_model<br />
** Facilities (structures and utilities)<br />
** Waterways and Flood Maps<br />
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== Technologies Available In Our Network ==<br />
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* NASA World Wind (Java, iOS and Android, Web version on its way), http://goworldwind.org/<br />
* GeoMoose, http://geomoose.org/<br />
* QGIS, http://www.qgis.org/<br />
* i-Locate, http://i-locate.eu/<br />
* Open Transit Indicators Enable Cities to Design '''Better Transit Systems'''<br />
** http://www.azavea.com/blogs/newsletter/v10i1/open-transit-indicators-enable-cities-to-design-better-transit-systems/<br />
* Australia Urban Intelligence Network, AURIN Portal and workbench, http://osgeolab.unimelb.edu.au/<br />
* Arizona State University (ASU) GeoDa, https://geodacenter.asu.edu/software<br />
** The GeoDa Center for Geospatial Analysis and Computation develops state-of-the-art methods for geospatial analysis, geovisualization, geosimulation, and spatial process modeling, implements them through open source software tools and applies them to policy-relevant research in the social and environmental sciences.<br />
* GRASS GIS, http://grass.osgeo.org<br />
** Multitemporal, full 3D GIS research platform with many processing, analytical, modeling and visualization tools relevant to Urban Science and city analytics (lidar-based models, solar energy, viewsheds, networks, water resources, full 3D visualization with animations and many others in the core package, with additional tools, including civil engineering design in add-ons)<br />
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== Potential Partners ==<br />
<br />
* Netherlands Coordination Office, United Nations Spatial Data Infrastructure (UNSDI) http://www.unsdi.nl/<br />
* GeoAcademy (Phil Davis), http://discoverspatial.com/ <br />
* University of Massachusetts at Amherst, http://eco.umass.edu/people/faculty/schweik-charles-m/<br />
* IBM '''Smarter Cities,''' http://www.ibm.com/smarterplanet/us/en/smarter_cities/overview/<br />
* UBM Future Cities, http://www.ubmfuturecities.com/author.asp?section_id=234&doc_id=526334&?_mc=MP_IW_EDT_STUB <br />
* Aalborg University Copenhagen, '''Sustainable Cities''' Master Programme, http://sustainablecities.aau.dk/<br />
* Imperial College London, Intel Collaborative Research Institute (ICRI) for '''Sustainable Connected Cites,''' http://www.cities.io/guiding-principles/<br />
* ISET Building '''Urban Resilience''' to Climate Change, http://i-s-e-t.org/resources/working-papers/building-resilience.html<br />
* 100 '''Resilient Cities''' Challenge, http://www.100resilientcities.org/pages/100-resilient-cities-challenge<br />
* '''Global Resilience''' Partnership Seeks New Ideas on Resilience in Africa, Southeast Asia<br />
** http://www.rockefellerfoundation.org/blog/global-resilience-partnership-seeks-new <br />
** http://www.globalresiliencepartnership.org/blog/2015/02/17/grp-teams-announced/ <br />
* GeoDa Center for Geospatial Analysis, https://geodacenter.asu.edu/<br />
* Australia '''Urban Intelligence''' Network, AURIN, http://aurin.org.au/<br />
* Arizona State University (ASU) GeoDa, https://geodacenter.asu.edu/software<br />
* HAROSA Knowledge Community (HAROSA KC), http://dpcs.uoc.edu/joomla/index.php/about-harosa-kc<br />
* Politecnico di Milano, GEO Lab (Geomatics and Earth Observations) http://geomatica.como.polimi.it/index.php?lang=en<br />
** An international network of research groups promoting and developing collaborative e-research on new '''H'''ybrid '''A'''lgorithms for solving '''R'''ealistic r'''O'''uting, '''S'''cheduling and system reliability/'''A'''vailability problems.<br />
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<br />
== CitySmart/SmartCity ''Road Map:'' ''''The Challenge'''' ==<br />
<br />
'''The Task'''<br />
<br />
Develop a '''''Road Map,''''' the ''Requirements doc,'' essentially the 'specs' for what this ''Urban Science - City Analytics'', CitySmart app looks like. Some basic requirements:<br />
* 3D Virtual Globe interchangeable or simultaneous with 2D Map along with Projection Choices <br />
* Imagery & Elevation Import <br />
* Extensible Architecture (Modular Componentry)<br />
* Data Retrieval via REST, WMS, WCS, WFS, GML, User-Defined <br />
* OSM Placenames, Boundaries and Roads<br />
* Picking and Decluttering <br />
* Shapefile and KML Import <br />
* Measurement Tools<br />
* Flooding and Line-of-Sight Calculation<br />
* Subsurface Visualization <br />
* Shapes: Placemarks, Path, Polygon, Extruded Polygon, Custom, HTML5-able Balloons<br />
* Volumes (& Shapes), follow terrain or maintain constant elevation above terrain while moving<br />
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<br />
The Road Map will likely be based on information in the 'framework' documents mentioned above in the Road Map section:<br />
<br />
* http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/GeoForAll_UrbanScience_CityAnalytics#Urban_Science_-_City_Analytics:_Road_Map. <br />
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This Road Map needs to allow for some early successes so we can get buy-in from 'real' municipalities to work with us and thereby keep value-added precisely on target. After the Road Map, then what? Then we challenge Earth's FOSSy development community to provide their solution in response to the Road Map. 'Twoud be fine if we could gather a nice award package for that. <br />
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After we (the OSGEO community) evaluate these ‘solutions,’ some will be asked to mashup until in the end we have one OSGEO/FOSS4G/GeoForAll CitySmart app. This app will have an open API for the menu system, for drag-n-drop of functionalities. This will allow each city to tailor the CitySmart app for their specific use. This will also allow the world community to continually optimize old functionalities and design new ones, whether proprietary or FOSSy.<br />
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<br />
'''Who Will Do This?'''<br />
<br />
Whoever wants to! We ask academic and other organizations to first help us with the Road Map (the ''Requirements doc''), such as those listed as Potential Partners, http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/GeoForAll_UrbanScience_CityAnalytics#Potential_Partners'''.''' All are welcome! <br />
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<br />
'''Why Do This?'''<br />
<br />
Because we can! And more importantly, because there is a world full of urban management need, much of which is identical no matter what urban location we are in. For a little encouragement, how about a NASA crystal bull for the best Road Map, just like for the Europa Challenge, http://eurochallenge.como.polimi.it/''',''' and of course NASA T-shirts. We need YOU (whoever you are) to design the requirements doc for the Urban Science - City Analytics, a CitySmart app.<br />
<br />
We need this Road Map to guide us! And we need it before work on the CitySmart app begins, so it can begin well. If your Road Map wins, you get the crystal bull, after you mash-up the best from what's in the ‘other’ Road Maps. We will ask the Region and Theme Chairs to do the voting, http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/GeoForAll'''.''' Or if you are that good, just build it and be a lighthouse guiding our future. <br />
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<br />
'''Road Map Done, Then What?'''<br />
<br />
The '''''next''''' challenge, the CitySmart App Challenge, will be for '''''any and all comers''''' to build an app according to the Road Map, one that will put a fresh smile on the face of many municipalities around the world! And something a whole planet can share, so all may reap the benefits of a life in a smarter city. The City of Springfield Oregon has already shown us the way forward, http://www.nsdinow.org/SDI_Now_02/Technical_Support.html'''.''' Are we ready?<br />
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== Reference Material ==<br />
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* Future Cities, UK Ordnance Survey<br />
** https://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/about/thinking/future-cities/<br />
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* '''''Climate Adaptation''''' Guidebook for Municipalities<br />
** http://www.cmap.illinois.gov/documents/10180/14193/FY13-0119+Climate+Adaptation+toolkit+lowres.pdf<br />
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* How Cities Can Battle '''''Climate Change with Resiliency Planning'''''<br />
** http://www.triplepundit.com/2014/09/cities-can-battle-climate-change-resiliency-planning/<br />
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* ISET Working Paper 3: Planning for '''''Urban Climate Resilience'''''<br />
** http://i-s-e-t.org/resources/working-papers/climate-resilience-paper-3.html<br />
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* USA Federal Policies to Build '''''Climate-Resilient''''' Coastal Regions, Lessons from Hurricane Sandy<br />
** http://resilient-cities.iclei.org/resilient-cities-hub-site/resilience-resource-point/resilience-library/urban-resilience-planning/<br />
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* '''Resilience''': A Bridging Concept or a Dead End? http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14649357.2012.677124<br />
** “Reframing” '''Resilience''': Challenges for Planning Theory and Practice<br />
** Interacting Traps: '''Resilience''' Assessment of a Pasture Management System in Northern Afghanistan<br />
** '''Urban Resilience''': What Does it Mean in Planning Practice?<br />
** '''Resilience''' as a Useful Concept for '''''Climate Change''''' Adaptation?<br />
** The Politics of '''Resilience for Planning''': A Cautionary Note<br />
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* Managing Aging City Infrastructure:<br />
** http://graphics.latimes.com/la-aging-water-infrastructure/<br />
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* Wow! A rural town in Italy '''>'''100% sustainable energy:<br />
** http://reregions.blogspot.com/2010/03/varese-ligure-italy.html<br />
** http://cleantechnica.com/2014/01/09/varese-ligure-italy-small-town-high-renewables/<br />
** http://www.ecofriend.com/italian-town-runs-completely-on-renewable-energy.html<br />
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* '''''Sustainable''''' background info:<br />
** Sustainable City, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sustainable_city<br />
** Sustainable Energy, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sustainable_energy<br />
** Sustainable Transport, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sustainable_transport<br />
** Sustainable Living, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sustainable_living<br />
** Urban Agriculture, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urban_agriculture<br />
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* Urban Farming<br />
** Growing Cities, http://www.yesmagazine.org/planet/growing-cities<br />
** World’s Largest Urban Farm, http://www.yesmagazine.org/peace-justice/detroit-community-gardeners-question-hantz-urban-farm<br />
** Growing Home, http://www.yesmagazine.org/new-economy/growing-home-urban-agriculture-in-chicago<br />
** Breaking Through Concrete, http://www.yesmagazine.org/planet/growing-through-concrete-an-urban-farming-roadtrip<br />
** ''Growing Power'' Despite an Urban 'Food' Desert, http://www.yesmagazine.org/issues/food-for-everyone/growing-power-in-an-urban-food-desert<br />
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* Local Grocery<br />
** http://www.cooperativegrocer.coop/articles/2004-01-08/mondragons-eroski-mass-retailer<br />
** http://www.yesmagazine.org/issues/the-new-economy/mondragon-worker-cooperatives-decide-how-to-ride-out-a-downturn<br />
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* Open Source Ecology, ''Do-It-Yourself'' Industrial Equipment<br />
** http://opensourceecology.org/gvcs/gvcs-machine-index/<br />
** http://www.ted.com/talks/marcin_jakubowski<br />
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* Digital Earth | Virtual Nations | Data Cities<br />
** http://dcitynetwork.net/manifesto/<br />
<br />
* Open government, open source city<br />
** http://www.raleighnc.gov/open/<br />
** http://opensource.com/government/13/5/open-data-visual<br />
** http://allthingsopen.org</div>Serenacoetzeehttps://wiki.osgeo.org/w/index.php?title=GeoForAll_Global_Educator_of_the_Year_Award_2015&diff=82580GeoForAll Global Educator of the Year Award 20152015-03-09T07:03:35Z<p>Serenacoetzee: </p>
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<div>On the occasion of '''Open Education Week 2015''' http://www.openeducationweek.org/ , '''"Geo for All" community''' http://www.geoforall.org would to like to thank all educators worldwide who have made contributions to open education efforts and being good global citizens by helping spread the benefits of education to all.<br />
<br />
We are very happy to announce the '''nominees for the GeoForAll Global Educator of the Year Award 2015'''. This is an opportunity for us to thank our colleagues for their excellent contributions to Open Education principles in the Geo domain.<br />
<br />
Congratulations to the following individuals or teams who received one or more nominations for the 2015 GeoForAll Global Educator of the Year Award<br />
<br />
In no particular order, the nominees are:<br />
<br />
==INDIVIDUALS==<br />
<br />
- '''Daniel Baldwin''', Costa Rica International Academy, Costa Rica, for his course on “Mapping the Mangroves” [1]<br />
<br />
- '''Phil Davis''', DelMar College, Texas, USA for his ongoing leadership and tireless efforts leading the creation of the GeoAcademy [2]<br />
<br />
- '''Genovevea Laurente''', Consultora Calixto, Uruguay and gvSIG Batovi for the course “Sistemas de Información Geográfica con uso de datos abiertos orientado a la educación,” or in English, “Geographic Information Systems for Education using Open Data” [3]<br />
<br />
- '''Kurt Menke''', Bird’s Eye View GIS, Alburquerque, NM, USA, for his Introduction to Open Source and Web Mapping course he developed for Central New Mexico Community College [4]<br />
<br />
- '''Sterling Quinn''', Pennsylvania State University, Pennsylvania, USA, for his course on “Open Web Mapping” [5]<br />
<br />
- '''Giorgio Zamboni''', Politecnico di Milano, Como campus, Italy for his “PoliCrowd: A Social Network App with NASA World Wind. [6]<br />
<br />
==TEAMS==<br />
<br />
- '''Environmental Information Centre GRID-Warsaw'''; UNEP/GRID Warsaw for their EduGIS Academy [7]<br />
<br />
- '''Open Source Geospatial Laboratory team at ETH Zurich''', Switzerland for their Interactive Web Maps course [8]<br />
<br />
- '''Shashi Shekhar''' and '''Brent Hecht, Computer Science, University of Minnesota, USA''' for their Massive Open Online Course “From GPS and Google Maps to Spatial Computing” [9]<br />
<br />
- '''Lluis Vicens (SIGTE,Spain), Toni Hernandez (SIGTE, Spain), Jeremy Morley (University of Nottingham,UK), Alberto Romeu (Prodevelop) and Jorge Sanz (Prodevelop)''' for their GIS Open Source Summer School at the University of Girona in Spain [10]<br />
<br />
- '''Ricardo Olivira, Raphael Moreno''' - FOSS4G lab, University of Colorado, Denver USA for their PostgreSQL/PostGIS course materials [11]<br />
<br />
- '''Raquel Sosa, Rosario Casanova and Jorge Franco,''' for their gvSIG Educa/Batovi effort in Uruguay [12]<br />
<br />
- '''Kurt Menke''' - Bird's Eye View, '''Nate Jennings''' Urbandale Spatial, '''Jon Van Hoesen''' Green Mtn College, '''Rick Smith''' Texas A&M, and '''Phil Davis''', Delmar College (all in USA) for their GeoAcademy development efforts [13]<br />
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<br />
<br />
All of these individuals and teams should be celebrated for their efforts. Just being nominated is an honour.<br />
<br />
The award committee now has the very difficult task of selecting the GeoForAll Educator of the Year out of this well deserving list of nominees. This year’s selections (possibly an individual and a team award) will be announced at the FOSS4G 2015- Europe "Open Innovation for Europe" conference at Como, Italy in July . Details at http://europe.foss4g.org/2015/ <br />
<br />
Congratulations again to all the nominees and we encourage you to list this nomination honour in your CVs.<br />
<br />
<br />
'''Happy Open Education Week 2015 everyone'''!<br />
<br />
<br />
Sincerely,<br />
<br />
Prof. Charlie Schweik,<br />
<br />
on behalf of the GeoForAll Educator Award Selection Committee:<br />
<br />
Prof. Georg Gartner (President, ICA)<br />
<br />
Jeff McKenna (President, OSGeo)<br />
<br />
Chen Jun (President, ISPRS)<br />
<br />
Prof. Maria Antonia Brovelli (Italy)<br />
<br />
Dr. Xinyue Ye (USA)<br />
<br />
Dr. Luciene Delazari (Brazil)<br />
<br />
Dr. Tuong-Thuy Vu (Malaysia)<br />
<br />
Prof. Venkatesh Raghavan (Japan/India)<br />
<br />
Prof. Ivana Ivánová (Brazil)<br />
<br />
Jeroen Ticheler (The Netherlands)<br />
<br />
Dr. Serena Coetzee (South Africa)<br />
<br />
Prof. Helena Mitasova (USA)<br />
<br />
Anne Ghisla (Germany)<br />
<br />
Patrick Hogan (USA)<br />
<br />
Dr Suchith Anand (UK/India)<br />
<br />
==REFERENCES ==<br />
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[1] https://arabic.oercommons.org/EN/authoring/4247-mapping-the-mangroves-mwl/view<br />
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[2] https://foss4geo.wordpress.com/<br />
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[3] http://ipesvirtual.dfpd.edu.uy/course/category.php?id=81<br />
<br />
[4] http://catalog.cnm.edu/ <br />
<br />
[5] https://www.e-education.psu.edu/geog585/ <br />
<br />
[6] http://geomobile.como.polimi.it/policrowd/<br />
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[7] http://edugis.pl/en/for-teachers/guide<br />
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[8] http://osgl.ethz.ch/osgl/Webmaps.html<br />
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[9] https://www.coursera.org/course/spatialcomputing<br />
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[10] http://www.sigte.udg.edu/summerschool2014/<br />
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[11] http://geospatial.ucdenver.edu/foss4g/training/tutorials<br />
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[12] https://www.fig.net/pub/monthly_articles/January_2013/gvsig_batovi_an_educational_gis.pdf<br />
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[13] https://foss4geo.wordpress.com</div>Serenacoetzeehttps://wiki.osgeo.org/w/index.php?title=GeoForAll_Global_Educator_of_the_Year_Award_2015&diff=82579GeoForAll Global Educator of the Year Award 20152015-03-09T07:02:50Z<p>Serenacoetzee: </p>
<hr />
<div>On the occasion of '''Open Education Week 2015''' http://www.openeducationweek.org/ , '''"Geo for All" community''' http://www.geoforall.org would to like to thank all educators worldwide who have made contributions to open education efforts and being good global citizens by helping spread the benefits of education to all.<br />
<br />
We are very happy to announce the '''nominees for the GeoForAll Global Educator of the Year Award 2015'''. This is an opportunity for us to thank our colleagues for their excellent contributions to Open Education principles in the Geo domain.<br />
<br />
Congratulations to the following individuals or teams who received one or more nominations for the 2015 GeoForAll Global Educator of the Year Award<br />
<br />
In no particular order, the nominees are:<br />
<br />
==INDIVIDUALS==<br />
<br />
- '''Daniel Baldwin''', Costa Rica International Academy, Costa Rica, for his course on “Mapping the Mangroves” [1]<br />
<br />
- '''Phil Davis''', DelMar College, Texas, USA for his ongoing leadership and tireless efforts leading the creation of the GeoAcademy [2]<br />
<br />
- '''Genovevea Laurente''', Consultora Calixto, Uruguay and gvSIG Batovi for the course “Sistemas de Información Geográfica con uso de datos abiertos orientado a la educación,” or in English, “Geographic Information Systems for Education using Open Data” [3]<br />
<br />
- '''Kurt Menke''', Bird’s Eye View GIS, Alburquerque, NM, USA, for his Introduction to Open Source and Web Mapping course he developed for Central New Mexico Community College [4]<br />
<br />
- '''Sterling Quinn''', Pennsylvania State University, Pennsylvania, USA, for his course on “Open Web Mapping” [5]<br />
<br />
- '''Giorgio Zamboni''', Politecnico di Milano, Como campus, Italy for his “PoliCrowd: A Social Network App with NASA World Wind. [6]<br />
<br />
==TEAMS==<br />
<br />
- '''Environmental Information Centre GRID-Warsaw'''; UNEP/GRID Warsaw for their EduGIS Academy [7]<br />
<br />
- '''Open Source Geospatial Laboratory team at ETH Zurich''', Switzerland for their Interactive Web Maps course [8]<br />
<br />
- '''Shashi Shekhar''' and '''Brent Hecht, Computer Science, University of Minnesota, USA''' for their Massive Open Online Course “From GPS and Google Maps to Spatial Computing” [9]<br />
<br />
- '''Lluis Vicens (SIGTE,Spain), Toni Hernandez (SIGTE, Spain), Jeremy Morley (University of Nottingham,UK), Alberto Romeu (Prodevelop) and Jorge Sanz (Prodevelop)''' for their GIS Open Source Summer School at the University of Girona in Spain [10]<br />
<br />
- '''Ricardo Olivira, Raphael Moreno''' - FOSS4G lab, University of Colorado, Denver USA for their PostgreSQL/PostGIS course materials [11]<br />
<br />
- '''Raquel Sosa, Rosario Casanova and Jorge Franco,''' for their gvSIG Educa/Batovi effort in Uruguay [12]<br />
<br />
- '''Kurt Menke''' - Birds Eye View, '''Nate Jennings''' Urbandale Spatial, '''Jon Van Hoesen''' Green Mtn College, '''Rick Smith''' Texas A&M, and '''Phil Davis''', Delmar College (all in USA) for their GeoAcademy development efforts [13]<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
All of these individuals and teams should be celebrated for their efforts. Just being nominated is an honour.<br />
<br />
The award committee now has the very difficult task of selecting the GeoForAll Educator of the Year out of this well deserving list of nominees. This year’s selections (possibly an individual and a team award) will be announced at the FOSS4G 2015- Europe "Open Innovation for Europe" conference at Como, Italy in July . Details at http://europe.foss4g.org/2015/ <br />
<br />
Congratulations again to all the nominees and we encourage you to list this nomination honour in your CVs.<br />
<br />
<br />
'''Happy Open Education Week 2015 everyone'''!<br />
<br />
<br />
Sincerely,<br />
<br />
Prof. Charlie Schweik,<br />
<br />
on behalf of the GeoForAll Educator Award Selection Committee:<br />
<br />
Prof. Georg Gartner (President, ICA)<br />
<br />
Jeff McKenna (President, OSGeo)<br />
<br />
Chen Jun (President, ISPRS)<br />
<br />
Prof. Maria Antonia Brovelli (Italy)<br />
<br />
Dr. Xinyue Ye (USA)<br />
<br />
Dr. Luciene Delazari (Brazil)<br />
<br />
Dr. Tuong-Thuy Vu (Malaysia)<br />
<br />
Prof. Venkatesh Raghavan (Japan/India)<br />
<br />
Prof. Ivana Ivánová (Brazil)<br />
<br />
Jeroen Ticheler (The Netherlands)<br />
<br />
Dr. Serena Coetzee (South Africa)<br />
<br />
Prof. Helena Mitasova (USA)<br />
<br />
Anne Ghisla (Germany)<br />
<br />
Patrick Hogan (USA)<br />
<br />
Dr Suchith Anand (UK/India)<br />
<br />
==REFERENCES ==<br />
<br />
[1] https://arabic.oercommons.org/EN/authoring/4247-mapping-the-mangroves-mwl/view<br />
<br />
[2] https://foss4geo.wordpress.com/<br />
<br />
[3] http://ipesvirtual.dfpd.edu.uy/course/category.php?id=81<br />
<br />
[4] http://catalog.cnm.edu/ <br />
<br />
[5] https://www.e-education.psu.edu/geog585/ <br />
<br />
[6] http://geomobile.como.polimi.it/policrowd/<br />
<br />
[7] http://edugis.pl/en/for-teachers/guide<br />
<br />
[8] http://osgl.ethz.ch/osgl/Webmaps.html<br />
<br />
[9] https://www.coursera.org/course/spatialcomputing<br />
<br />
[10] http://www.sigte.udg.edu/summerschool2014/<br />
<br />
[11] http://geospatial.ucdenver.edu/foss4g/training/tutorials<br />
<br />
[12] https://www.fig.net/pub/monthly_articles/January_2013/gvsig_batovi_an_educational_gis.pdf<br />
<br />
[13] https://foss4geo.wordpress.com</div>Serenacoetzeehttps://wiki.osgeo.org/w/index.php?title=Edu_current_initiatives&diff=74786Edu current initiatives2013-10-30T18:25:42Z<p>Serenacoetzee: </p>
<hr />
<div>== 2013-2014 OSGeo Education and Curriculum Current Initiatives ==<br />
<br />
'''The official website is online at ''http://www.geoforall.org'''''<br />
<br />
=== 1) Continue to build up our educational material federated content databases ===<br />
<br />
[http://www.osgeo.org/educational_content OSGeo edu's educational content metadatabase] -- a place for metadata and links to external material we are posting on our own websites<br><br />
[http://elogeo.nottingham.ac.uk/xmlui/ University of Nottingham's educational content database] (ELOGeo) -- a place for us to store education content (the source code) to share<br />
<br />
[[Webinar Series ]]<br />
<br />
===2) Continue to expand the ICA-OSGeo Network ===<br />
<br />
This effort is led by Suchith Anand at the University of Nottingham, UK.<br />
<br />
In September 2011, the Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo) and the International Cartographic Association (ICA) signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the aim of developing on a global basis collaboration opportunities for academia, industry and government organizations in open source GIS software and data. The MoU aims to provide expertise and support for the establishment of Open Source Geospatial Laboratories and Research Centres across the world for supporting development of open-source geospatial software technologies, training and expertise. It also aims to provide support for building-up and supporting development of open source GIS teaching and training materials, joint organization of open source GIS events, workshops through the ICA network for wider participation globally etc. Details at [[MOU_ICA]].<br />
<br />
<!--<br />
[http://gis.ncsu.edu/osgeorel/index.php#labsmap Updated Leaflet Map of the ICA-OSGeo Network Nodes by Vasek and Anna]<br />
<br />
[http://lucadelu.org/ica-osgeo-lab/ Leaflet Map of the ICA-OSGeo Network Nodes by Luca Delucchi, June 2013],<br />
and the related <br />
[http://lucadelu.org/ica-osgeo-lab/ica-osgeo-lab.tar.gz application] <br />
<br />
[http://conlibre.org/osgeolabs/ Visit the ICA-OSGeo Network website]<br />
[https://mapsengine.google.com/map/embed?mid=z4Nmc5_-QPhA.kBqA02Uh9xoc Google Map of the ICA-OSGeo Network Nodes],<br />
[https://maps.google.de/maps/ms?msid=217919488281947849251.0004da7def3b647f010c4&msa=0&ll=-27.332735,-43.330078&spn=18.234488,25.158691 The first Google Map of the ICA-OSGeo Network Nodes](thanks to Franz-Josef) <br />
--><br />
It is really good to see our rapidly expanding global spread.<br />
<br />
Feel free to join the mailing list http://lists.osgeo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ica-osgeo-labs to follow the discussions among the participants of this initiative.<br />
<br />
The current members of the ICA-OSGeo Network are (please add '''WGS84 decimal coordinates longitude,latitude''', if you don't add the coordinate following this simple rules your institution will not show on the ICA-OSGeo Map) : <br />
<br />
{|class="wikitable sortable" border="2" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="4" rules="all" style="margin:1em 1em 1em 0; border:solid 1px #AAAAAA; border-collapse:collapse; background-color:#edf9c7; font-size:95%; empty-cells:show;" <br />
!<br />
! Laboratory name and institution<br />
! City<br />
! Country<br />
! Continent<br />
! Coordinates (longitude, latitude)<br />
! Application recieved / Announced<br />
! Notes (collaborations, etc)<br />
! Contact name<br />
! Contact email<br />
|-<br />
| 1.<br />
| [http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/ngi/research/geospatial-science/geospatial-science.aspx University of Nottingham]<br />
| Nottingham<br />
| UK<br />
| Europe<br />
| -1.250296, 52.831497<br />
|<br />
|<br />
| Jeremy Morley<br />
| ngi at nottingham.ac.uk<br />
|-<br />
| 2.<br />
| [http://www.sigte.udg.edu/ University of Girona]<br />
| Girona<br />
| Spain<br />
| Europe<br />
| 2.837305, 41.967426<br />
| 2012-09-10<br />
|<br />
| Lluís Vicens <br />
| info at sigte.udg.edu<br />
|-<br />
| 3.<br />
| [http://www.osgl.soton.ac.uk/ University of Southampton]<br />
| Southampton<br />
| UK<br />
| Europe<br />
| -1.396873, 50.936974<br />
| 2013-04-30<br />
|<br />
| <br />
| osgl at geodata.soton.ac.uk<br />
|-<br />
| 4.<br />
| [http://geo.fsv.cvut.cz/gwiki/osgeorel Czech Technical University in Prague]<br />
| Prague<br />
| Czech Republic<br />
| Europe<br />
| 14.390363, 50.10183<br />
| 2012-11-23<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
| 5.<br />
| [http://research.ncl.ac.uk/osgeolab/ Newcastle University]<br />
| Newcastle<br />
| UK<br />
| Europe<br />
| -1.611536, 54.980656<br />
| 2013-01-17<br />
|<br />
| Philip James<br />
| philip.james at ncl.ac.uk (please use subject: OSGeoLab)<br />
|-<br />
| 6.<br />
| [http://geomatica.como.polimi.it/ Politecnico di Milano - Polo Territoriale di Como]<br />
| Como<br />
| Italy<br />
| Europe<br />
| 9.095939, 45.803516<br />
| 2013-02-25<br />
|<br />
| <br />
| geowb at geomatica.como.polimi.it<br />
|-<br />
| 7.<br />
| [http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/lifesci/research/facilities/geolab/ University of Warwick]<br />
| Warwick<br />
| UK<br />
| Europe<br />
| -1.56273, 52.380531<br />
| 2013-03-23<br />
|<br />
| Nataliya Tkachenko<br />
| geolab at warwick.ac.uk<br />
|-<br />
| 8.<br />
| [http://www.gridw.pl UNEP/GRID-Warsaw Centre]<br />
| Warsaw<br />
| Poland<br />
| Europe<br />
| 21.039473, 52.198849<br />
| 2013-03-18<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
| 9.<br />
| [http://www.supsi.ch/ist_en/settori-attivita/geomatica.html University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Southern Switzerland] (SUPSI)<br />
| Lugano<br />
| Switzerland<br />
| Europe<br />
| 8.961098, 46.028362<br />
| 2013-09-03<br />
|<br />
| Massimiliano Cannata <br />
| geomatica at supsi.ch<br />
|-<br />
| 10.<br />
| [http://karlinapp.ethz.ch/osgl/ ETH Zurich]<br />
| Zurich<br />
| Switzerland<br />
| Europe<br />
| 8.5481, 47.3764<br />
| 2013-09-20<br />
| [http://www.ikg.ethz.ch/about/index_EN Institute of Cartography and Geoinformation, ETH Zurich]<br />
| Ionuț Iosifescu<br />
| iosifescu at ethz.ch<br />
|-<br />
| 11.<br />
| University of Molise<br />
| Molise<br />
| Italy<br />
| Europe<br />
| 14.493651, 41.630815<br />
|<br />
| in process of being established<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
| 12.<br />
| [http://www.igik.edu.pl/en Institute of Geodesy and Cartography] (IGiK)<br />
| Warsaw<br />
| Poland<br />
| Europe<br />
| 21.012229, 52.229676<br />
|<br />
| in process of being established<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
| 13.<br />
| [http://opengis.unibuc.ro/ Faculty of Geography, University of Bucharest]<br />
| Bucharest<br />
| Romania<br />
| Europe<br />
| 26.103889, 44.432500<br />
|<br />
| in process of being established; new website under development<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
| 14.<br />
| [http://www.geo.info.hu/english/index.php Faculty of Geoinformatics,University of West Hungary]<br />
| Székesfehérvár<br />
| Hungary<br />
| Europe<br />
| 18.418833, 47.188778<br />
|<br />
| in process of being established<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
| 15.<br />
| Stuttgart University of Applied Sciences<br />
| Stuttgart<br />
| Germany<br />
| Europe<br />
| 9.17370, 48.77996<br />
| 2013-10-14<br />
| in process of being established<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
| 16.<br />
| [http://www.geomatica.ufpr.br/index.html Federal University of Paraná]<br />
| Paraná<br />
| Brazil<br />
| South America<br />
| -49.26141, -25.427074<br />
| 2012-05-23<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
| 17.<br />
| [http://www.unesp.br/ São Paulo State University] (UNESP)<br />
| São Paulo<br />
| Brazil<br />
| South America<br />
| -46.654129, -23.576574<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
| 18.<br />
| National Amazonian University of Madre de Dios (UNAMAD)<br />
| Puerto Maldonado<br />
| Peru<br />
| South America<br />
| -73.245789, -3.745845<br />
| 2013-02-01<br />
| in process of being established<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
| 19.<br />
| [http://ltaat.fcien.edu.uy Universidad de la República]<br />
| Montevideo<br />
| Uruguay<br />
| South America<br />
| -56.176441, -34.902405<br />
| 2013-03-01<br />
| new website under development<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
| 20.You always have to be careful with this sort of email and ask me for translation :) <br />
| University of Campinas<br />
| Campinas<br />
| Brazil<br />
| South America<br />
| -47.063239, -22.907105<br />
|<br />
| in process of being established<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
| 21.<br />
| Federal University of Alagoas<br />
| Maceió<br />
| Brazil<br />
| South America<br />
| -35.735098, -9.666251<br />
|<br />
| in process of being established<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
| 22.<br />
| [http://gis.ncsu.edu/osgeorel/ Center for Earth Observation, North Carolina State University]<br />
| Raleigh, NC<br />
| USA<br />
| North America<br />
| -78.66468, 35.789413<br />
| 2012-10-18<br />
|<br />
| Helena Mitasova<br />
| gis at ncsu.edu<br />
|-<br />
| 23.<br />
| [http://www.umass.edu/ University of Massachusetts Amherst]<br />
| Amherst<br />
| USA<br />
| North America<br />
| -72.524696, 42.393578<br />
| 2012-10-18<br />
| website: coming soon....<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
| 24.<br />
| [https://sites.google.com/site/foss4gku/ University of Kansas]<br />
| Lawrence, KS<br />
| USA<br />
| North America<br />
| -95.251311, 38.958578<br />
| 2013-08-23<br />
| in process of being established<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
| 25.<br />
| [https://geospatial.ucdavis.edu/resources/open-source University of California, Davis]<br />
| Davis<br />
| USA<br />
| North America<br />
| -121.766945, 38.548801<br />
| 2013-02-04<br />
| in process of being established<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
| 26.<br />
| [http://www.cozcyt.gob.mx/labsol/ Laboratorio de Software Libre]<br />
| Zacatecas<br />
| Mexico<br />
| North America<br />
| -102.5791, 22.7608<br />
| 2013-04-05<br />
| in process of being established<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
| 27.<br />
| Kent State University<br />
| Kent, Ohio<br />
| USA<br />
| North America<br />
| -81.357886,41.153667<br />
| 2013-08-30<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
| 28.<br />
| [https://gis.uncc.edu/osgl Center for Applied GIScience, University of North Carolina, Charlotte ]<br />
| Charlotte, NC<br />
| USA<br />
| North America<br />
| -80.730000, 35.306944<br />
| 2013-09-05<br />
| <br />
| Wenwu Tang<br />
| WenwuTang at uncc.edu<br />
|-<br />
| 29.<br />
| [http://www.nottingham.edu.my/Geography/Newsitems/Establishing-Open-Source-Geospatial-Lab.aspx University of Nottingham, Malaysia campus]<br />
| Semenyih<br />
| Malaysia<br />
| Asia<br />
| 101.721298, 3.172932<br />
| 2012-01-09<br />
| website in development<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
| 30.<br />
| [http://www.utm.my/ Universiti Teknologi Malaysia] (UTM)<br />
| Johor Bahru<br />
| Malaysia<br />
| Asia<br />
| 101.874222, 2.943748<br />
|<br />
| in process of being established<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
| 31.<br />
| National College of Public Administration and Governance(NCPAG), University of the Philippines<br />
| Manila<br />
| Philippines<br />
| Asia<br />
| 121.059875, 14.656005<br />
|<br />
| in process of being established<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
| 32.<br />
| Environmental Science for Social Change (ESSC)<br />
| Quezon City<br />
| Philippines<br />
| Asia<br />
| 121.062241, 14.64372<br />
|<br />
| in process of being established<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
| 33.<br />
| [http://lsi.iiit.ac.in/labinfo/ Lab for Spatial Informatics], IIIT Hyderabad<br />
| Hyderabad<br />
| India<br />
| Asia<br />
| 78.3503, 17.4454<br />
| 2011-08-22<br />
| <br />
|<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
| 34.<br />
| [http://grel.ist.edu.pk/ Geospatial Research and Education Lab](GREL), Institute of Space Technology (IST)<br />
| Islamabad<br />
| Pakistan <br />
| Asia<br />
| 73.175045, 33.520060<br />
|<br />
| in process of being established<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
| 35.<br />
| [http://www.up.ac.za/cgis University of Pretoria]<br />
| Pretoria<br />
| South Africa<br />
| Africa<br />
| 28.22847, -25.75429<br />
| 2012-05-15<br />
|<br />
| Serena Coetzee<br />
| serena dot coetzee at up dot ac dot za<br />
|-<br />
| 36.<br />
| [http://www.rcmrd.org/ Regional Centre for Mapping of Resources for Development] (RCMRD)<br />
| Nairobi <br />
| Kenya<br />
| Africa<br />
| 36.858574, -1.249038<br />
|<br />
| in process of being established<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
| 37.<br />
| University of Ghana<br />
| Accra<br />
| Ghana<br />
| Africa<br />
| -0.191617, 5.650366<br />
|<br />
| in process of being established<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
| 38.<br />
| University of Melbourne<br />
| Melbourne<br />
| Australia<br />
| Australia<br />
| 144.962006, -37.797932<br />
| 2013-07-22<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
| 39.<br />
| [http://gisc.tamucc.edu Texas A&M University]<br />
| Corpus Christi<br />
| USA<br />
| North America<br />
| -97.328799, 27.714506<br />
| 2013-09-09<br />
| in process of being established<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|- <br />
| 40.<br />
| CEPT University<br />
| Ahmedabad<br />
| India<br />
| Asia<br />
| 72.566004,23.039568<br />
| 2012-07-18<br />
| in process of being established<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|- <br />
| 41.<br />
| National University of San Juan<br />
| San Juan<br />
| Argentina<br />
| South America<br />
| -68.521408, -31.527273<br />
| 2012-06-15<br />
| in process of being established<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|- <br />
| 42.<br />
| Arizona State University<br />
| Tempe, AZ<br />
| USA<br />
| North America<br />
| -111.940005, 33.425510<br />
| 2013-09-27<br />
| in process of being established<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|- <br />
| 43.<br />
| National Technical University of Athens<br />
| Athens<br />
| Greece<br />
| Europe<br />
| 23.729310, 37.983716<br />
| 2013-09-26<br />
| in process of being established<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|- <br />
| 44.<br />
| IGN- France<br />
| Paris<br />
| France<br />
| Europe<br />
| 2.352222, 48.856614<br />
| 2013-09-26<br />
| in process of being established<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|- <br />
| 45.<br />
| Universitat Oberta de Catalunya<br />
| Barcelona<br />
| Spain<br />
| Europe<br />
| 2.173403, 41.385064<br />
| 2013-09-27<br />
| in process of being established<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
| 46.<br />
| [http://www.isric.org ISRIC - World Soil Information foundation]<br />
| Wageningen<br />
| The Netherlands<br />
| Europe<br />
| 5.665662,51.9875<br />
|2013-10-02<br />
|website in construction<br />
| Jorge de Jesus<br />
| jorge.mendesdejesus at wur.nl<br />
|-<br />
| 47.<br />
| Universidade da Coruña <br />
| A Coruña (España)<br />
| Spain<br />
| Europe<br />
| -8.411540, 43.362344<br />
| 2013-10-15<br />
| in process of being established<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
| 48.<br />
| Universiti Sains Malaysia<br />
| Penang <br />
| Malaysia<br />
| Asia<br />
| 100.484623, 5.263234<br />
|2013-10-16<br />
|in process of being established<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
| 49.<br />
| Kathmandu University<br />
| Dhulikhel <br />
| Nepal<br />
| Asia<br />
| 85.550000, 27.616667<br />
|2012-12-24<br />
|in process of being established<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
| 50<br />
| [http://gis.cri.fmach.it/ GIS and Remote Sensing Unit, Fondazione Edmund Mach ]<br />
| San Michele all'Adige (Trento)<br />
| Italy <br />
| Europe<br />
| 11.133042,46.187865<br />
|2013-10-16<br />
|<br />
| Luca Delucchi <br />
| luca.delucchi at fmach.it<br />
|-<br />
|}<br />
<br />
== Interested in adding your own node into the ICA-OSGeo Labs network? ==<br />
<br />
<br />
As the lab network is expanding fast ,we have also setup nodal contacts for each regions <br />
<br />
# Anne Ghisla - Asia & Australia <br />
# Helena Mitasova - North America<br />
# Charlie Schweik - South America<br />
# Suchith Anand - Europe & Africa<br />
<br />
<br />
Email Suchith.Anand at nottingham.ac.uk and cc Helena Mitasova [hmitaso at ncsu.edu], Charlie Schweik [cschweik at pubpol.umass.edu], Anne Ghisla [a.ghisla at gmail.com] to start the conversation and they will be happy to discuss details and guide you through the process.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
The key requirements for establishing a local OSGL are:<br />
<br />
(A) Both parties should work for the vision of the [[MOU_ICA|ICA-OSGeo MoU]] to develop collaboration opportunities for academia, industry and government organizations in open source GIS software and data in the future.<br />
<br />
(B) Someone at your institution or organization should have a strong Geospatial knowledge and vision to lead this activity and build a team of people, locally.<br />
<br />
(C) There should be a website established for your Open Source Geospatial Laboratory listing current research, people, and training information. This web presence will allow the other nodes in the network and others to understand and promote your local efforts around research and teaching of open source geospatial technologies and approaches.<br />
<br />
From our end, we will promote the initiative widely through both OSGeo and ICA channels to help build up collaboration opportunities for the future. We will also do a joint press release to announce the initiative and start building collaborations. A primary collaborative initiative continues to be the creation and maintenance of shared open access educational resources (for example [http://elogeo.nottingham.ac.uk/ the ELOGeo platform]). We will also add the info of all labs in the Open Geospatial Lab network node site within OSGeo website so that all participating labs urls are added and linked.<br />
<br />
We especially welcome applications from universities, educational institutes, government organisations in developing countries to help develop capacity building in geospatial education by establishing Open Source Geo Labs.<br />
<br />
== Meetings ==<br />
; Next meeting:<br />
* '''[[ICA OSGeo Lab Network 2013-09-05]] 18.00 UTC'''<br />
<br />
; Past Meetings:<br />
* [[ICA OSGeo Lab Network 2013-07-29]] 14.00 UTC<br />
* [[ICA OSGeo Lab Network 2013-05-02]] 14.00 UTC<br />
* [[ICA OSGeo Lab Network 2013-06-06]] 14.00 UTC<br />
<br />
== ISC OSGeo Lab Network Research and Teaching Areas ==<br />
<br />
[[ICA_OSGeo_Lab_Research_areas]]<br />
<br><br />
[[ICA_OSGeo_Lab_Teaching_areas]]<br />
<br />
[[Category: Education]]<br />
[[Category: ICA OSGeo Lab Network]]</div>Serenacoetzeehttps://wiki.osgeo.org/w/index.php?title=ICA_OSGeo_Lab_Research_areas&diff=74457ICA OSGeo Lab Research areas2013-10-07T18:49:26Z<p>Serenacoetzee: </p>
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<div>'''ICA-OSGeo Lab Research and Development Inventory'''<br />
<br />
'''INSTRUCTIONS''': ICA-OSGeo lab network nodes -- please add your lab name and person responsible where you have '''serious expertise and/or research programs''' going on.<br />
<br />
== Spatial reasoning and awareness ==<br />
<br />
* Federal University of Parana (Silvana Philippi Camboim)<br />
* ETH Zurich, Switzerland (Institute of Cartography and Geoinformation)<br />
<br />
== Geospatial Technology ==<br />
<br />
* Federal University of Parana (Silvana Philippi Camboim)<br />
* ITC - University of Twente (Barend Kobben)<br />
* Politecnico di Milano (Ludovico Biagi)<br />
* University of Nottingham (Suchith Anand)<br />
* University of Nottingham, Malaysia campus (Tuong Thuy Vu)<br />
* University of South Hampton (Jason Sadler)<br />
* USGS Center for Excellence in Geospatial Information Science (Michael P. Finn)<br />
* North Carolina State University<br />
* ETH Zurich, Switzerland (OSGL ETH Zurich / Institute of Cartography and Geoinformation)<br />
<br />
== Spatial Analysis ==<br />
<br />
* Politecnico di Milano (Ludovico Biagi)<br />
* University of South Hampton (Jason Sadler)<br />
* USGS Center for Excellence in Geospatial Information Science (Michael P. Finn)<br />
* North Carolina State University (Helena Mitasova)<br />
<br />
== Data Acquisition and Management ==<br />
<br />
* Czech Technical University in Prague (Martin Landa)<br />
* Federal University of Parana (Silvana Philippi Camboim)<br />
* Newcastle University (Phil James)<br />
* Politecnico di Milano (Ludovico Biagi)<br />
* USGS Center for Excellence in Geospatial Information Science (Michael P. Finn)<br />
<br />
== Cartographic Design ==<br />
<br />
* Federal University of Parana (Silvana Philippi Camboim)<br />
* ITC - University of Twente (Barend Kobben)<br />
* USGS Center for Excellence in Geospatial Information Science (Michael P. Finn)<br />
* ETH Zurich, Switzerland (OSGL ETH Zurich / Institute of Cartography and Geoinformation)<br />
<br />
== Remote Sensing ==<br />
<br />
* Federal University of Parana (Silvana Philippi Camboim)<br />
* ITC - University of Twente (Barend Kobben)<br />
* Newcastle University (Phil James)<br />
* University of Nottingham, Malaysia campus (Tuong Thuy Vu)<br />
* North Carolina State University<br />
<br />
== Geospatial Programming ==<br />
<br />
* Czech Technical University in Prague (Martin Landa)<br />
* Newcastle University (Phil James)<br />
* University of South Hampton (Jason Sadler)<br />
* USGS Center for Excellence in Geospatial Information Science (Michael P. Finn)<br />
* North Carolina State University<br />
* ETH Zurich, Switzerland (OSGL ETH Zurich / Institute of Cartography and Geoinformation)<br />
<br />
== Geospatial Web Applications and Development ==<br />
<br />
* Newcastle University (Phil James)<br />
* Politecnico di Milano (Ludovico Biagi)<br />
* Stuttgart University of Applied Sciences (Franz-Josef Behr)<br />
* University of South Hampton (Jason Sadler)<br />
* ITC-University of Twente (Barend K&ouml;bben)<br />
* North Carolina State University<br />
* ETH Zurich, Switzerland (OSGL ETH Zurich / Institute of Cartography and Geoinformation)<br />
* Centre for Geoinformation Science, University of Pretoria (Serena Coetzee)<br />
<br />
== Geospatial visualization == <br />
<br />
* Federal University of Parana (Silvana Philippi Camboim)<br />
* ITC - University of Twente (Barend Kobben)<br />
* Politecnico di Milano (Ludovico Biagi)<br />
* University of Nottingham (Suchith Anand)<br />
* University of South Hampton (Jason Sadler)<br />
* USGS Center for Excellence in Geospatial Information Science (Michael P. Finn)<br />
* North Carolina State University<br />
* Centre for Geoinformation Science, University of Pretoria (Serena Coetzee)<br />
<br />
== Other (please add) ==<br />
<br />
* Open source collaboration research - University of Massachusetts, Amherst (Schweik)<br />
* Open source geospatial education - University of Massachusetts, Amherst (Schweik)<br />
* Engineering practice - Newcastle University (Phil James)<br />
* Context Aware Recomendation Systems - Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (Antoni Perez-Navarro)<br />
* Indoor positioning - Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (Antoni Perez-Navarro)<br />
* Modeling of landscape processes, disaster management, sustainable development - North Carolina State University<br />
* Spatial Cognition - ETH Zurich, Switzerland (Institute of Cartography and Geoinformation)</div>Serenacoetzeehttps://wiki.osgeo.org/w/index.php?title=ICA_OSGeo_Lab_Research_areas&diff=74451ICA OSGeo Lab Research areas2013-10-07T02:40:38Z<p>Serenacoetzee: </p>
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<div>'''ICA-OSGeo Lab Research and Development Inventory'''<br />
<br />
'''INSTRUCTIONS''': ICA-OSGeo lab network nodes -- please add your lab name and person responsible where you have '''serious expertise and/or research programs''' going on.<br />
<br />
== Spatial reasoning and awareness ==<br />
<br />
* Federal University of Parana (Silvana Philippi Camboim)<br />
* ETH Zurich, Switzerland (Institute of Cartography and Geoinformation)<br />
<br />
== Geospatial Technology ==<br />
<br />
* Federal University of Parana (Silvana Philippi Camboim)<br />
* ITC - University of Twente (Barend Kobben)<br />
* Politecnico di Milano (Ludovico Biagi)<br />
* University of Nottingham (Suchith Anand)<br />
* University of Nottingham, Malaysia campus (Tuong Thuy Vu)<br />
* University of South Hampton (Jason Sadler)<br />
* USGS Center for Excellence in Geospatial Information Science (Michael P. Finn)<br />
* North Carolina State University<br />
* ETH Zurich, Switzerland (OSGL ETH Zurich / Institute of Cartography and Geoinformation)<br />
<br />
== Spatial Analysis ==<br />
<br />
* Politecnico di Milano (Ludovico Biagi)<br />
* University of South Hampton (Jason Sadler)<br />
* USGS Center for Excellence in Geospatial Information Science (Michael P. Finn)<br />
* North Carolina State University (Helena Mitasova)<br />
<br />
== Data Acquisition and Management ==<br />
<br />
* Czech Technical University in Prague (Martin Landa)<br />
* Federal University of Parana (Silvana Philippi Camboim)<br />
* Newcastle University (Phil James)<br />
* Politecnico di Milano (Ludovico Biagi)<br />
* USGS Center for Excellence in Geospatial Information Science (Michael P. Finn)<br />
<br />
== Cartographic Design ==<br />
<br />
* Federal University of Parana (Silvana Philippi Camboim)<br />
* ITC - University of Twente (Barend Kobben)<br />
* USGS Center for Excellence in Geospatial Information Science (Michael P. Finn)<br />
* ETH Zurich, Switzerland (OSGL ETH Zurich / Institute of Cartography and Geoinformation)<br />
<br />
== Remote Sensing ==<br />
<br />
* Federal University of Parana (Silvana Philippi Camboim)<br />
* ITC - University of Twente (Barend Kobben)<br />
* Newcastle University (Phil James)<br />
* University of Nottingham, Malaysia campus (Tuong Thuy Vu)<br />
* North Carolina State University<br />
<br />
== Geospatial Programming ==<br />
<br />
* Czech Technical University in Prague (Martin Landa)<br />
* Newcastle University (Phil James)<br />
* University of South Hampton (Jason Sadler)<br />
* USGS Center for Excellence in Geospatial Information Science (Michael P. Finn)<br />
* North Carolina State University<br />
* ETH Zurich, Switzerland (OSGL ETH Zurich / Institute of Cartography and Geoinformation)<br />
<br />
== Geospatial Web Applications and Development ==<br />
<br />
* Newcastle University (Phil James)<br />
* Politecnico di Milano (Ludovico Biagi)<br />
* Stuttgart University of Applied Sciences (Franz-Josef Behr)<br />
* University of South Hampton (Jason Sadler)<br />
* ITC-University of Twente (Barend K&ouml;bben)<br />
* North Carolina State University<br />
* ETH Zurich, Switzerland (OSGL ETH Zurich / Institute of Cartography and Geoinformation)<br />
* University of Pretoria (Serena Coetzee)<br />
<br />
== Geospatial visualization == <br />
<br />
* Federal University of Parana (Silvana Philippi Camboim)<br />
* ITC - University of Twente (Barend Kobben)<br />
* Politecnico di Milano (Ludovico Biagi)<br />
* University of Nottingham (Suchith Anand)<br />
* University of South Hampton (Jason Sadler)<br />
* USGS Center for Excellence in Geospatial Information Science (Michael P. Finn)<br />
* North Carolina State University<br />
* University of Pretoria (Serena Coetzee)<br />
<br />
== Other (please add) ==<br />
<br />
* Open source collaboration research - University of Massachusetts, Amherst (Schweik)<br />
* Open source geospatial education - University of Massachusetts, Amherst (Schweik)<br />
* Engineering practice - Newcastle University (Phil James)<br />
* Context Aware Recomendation Systems - Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (Antoni Perez-Navarro)<br />
* Indoor positioning - Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (Antoni Perez-Navarro)<br />
* Modeling of landscape processes, disaster management, sustainable development - North Carolina State University<br />
* Spatial Cognition - ETH Zurich, Switzerland (Institute of Cartography and Geoinformation)</div>Serenacoetzeehttps://wiki.osgeo.org/w/index.php?title=Edu_current_initiatives&diff=73535Edu current initiatives2013-09-06T14:30:01Z<p>Serenacoetzee: </p>
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<div>== 2012-2013 OSGeo Education and Curriculum Current Initiatives ==<br />
<br />
=== 1) Continue to build up our educational material federated content databases ===<br />
<br />
[http://www.osgeo.org/educational_content OSGeo edu's educational content metadatabase] -- a place for metadata and links to external material we are posting on our own websites<br><br />
[http://elogeo.nottingham.ac.uk/xmlui/ University of Nottingham's educational content database] (ELOGeo) -- a place for us to store education content (the source code) to share <br />
<br />
===2) Continue to expand the ICA-OSGeo Network ===<br />
<br />
This effort is led by Suchith Anand at the University of Nottingham, UK.<br />
<br />
In September 2011, the Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo) and the International Cartographic Association (ICA) signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the aim of developing on a global basis collaboration opportunities for academia, industry and government organizations in open source GIS software and data. The MoU aims to provide expertise and support for the establishment of Open Source Geospatial Laboratories and Research Centres across the world for supporting development of open-source geospatial software technologies, training and expertise. It also aims to provide support for building-up and supporting development of open source GIS teaching and training materials, joint organization of open source GIS events, workshops through the ICA network for wider participation globally etc. Details at [[MOU_ICA]].<br />
<br />
[http://conlibre.org/osgeolabs/ Visit the ICA-OSGeo Network website]<br />
<br />
[https://mapsengine.google.com/map/embed?mid=z4Nmc5_-QPhA.kBqA02Uh9xoc Map of the ICA-OSGeo Network Nodes],<br />
[https://maps.google.de/maps/ms?msid=217919488281947849251.0004da7def3b647f010c4&msa=0&ll=-27.332735,-43.330078&spn=18.234488,25.158691 Alternative Map of the ICA-OSGeo Network Nodes](thanks to Franz-Josef) <br />
<br />
It is really good to see our rapidly expanding global spread.<br />
<br />
Feel free to join the mailing list http://lists.osgeo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ica-osgeo-labs to follow the discussions among the participants of this initiative.<br />
<br />
The current members of the ICA-OSGeo Network are: <br />
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{|class="wikitable sortable" border="2" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="4" rules="all" style="margin:1em 1em 1em 0; border:solid 1px #AAAAAA; border-collapse:collapse; background-color:#edf9c7; font-size:95%; empty-cells:show;" <br />
!<br />
! Laboratory name and institution<br />
! City<br />
! Country<br />
! Continent<br />
! Coordinates<br />
! Notes (collaborations, etc)<br />
|-<br />
| 1.<br />
| [http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/ngi/research/geospatial-science/geospatial-science.aspx University of Nottingham]<br />
| Nottingham<br />
| UK<br />
| Europe<br />
| 53° 10′ 0″ N, 1° 0′ 0″ W<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
| 2.<br />
| [http://www.sigte.udg.edu/ University of Girona]<br />
| Girona<br />
| Spain<br />
| Europe<br />
| 41°59′04″N, 02°49′16″E<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
| 3.<br />
| [http://www.osgl.soton.ac.uk/ University of Southampton]<br />
| Southampton<br />
| UK<br />
| Europe<br />
| 50.933882, -1.396658<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
| 4.<br />
| [http://geo.fsv.cvut.cz/gwiki/Osgeorel Czech Technical University in Prague]<br />
| Prague<br />
| Czech Republic<br />
| Europe<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
| 5.<br />
| [http://research.ncl.ac.uk/osgeolab/ Newcastle University]<br />
| Newcastle<br />
| UK<br />
| Europe<br />
| 54.981189, -1.614617<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
| 6.<br />
| [http://geomatica.como.polimi.it/index.php?lang=en Politecnico di Milano]<br />
| Milano<br />
| Italy<br />
| Europe<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
| 7.<br />
| [http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/lifesci/research/facilities/geolab/ University of Warwick]<br />
| Warwick<br />
| UK<br />
| Europe<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
| 8.<br />
| [http://www.gridw.pl UNEP/GRID-Warsaw Centre]<br />
| Warsaw<br />
| Poland<br />
| Europe<br />
| 21°02′11″N, 52°11′57″E<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
| 9.<br />
| [http://www.supsi.ch/ist_en/settori-attivita/geomatica.html University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Southern Switzerland] (SUPSI)<br />
| Lugano<br />
| Switzerland<br />
| Europe<br />
| 46.028362, 8.961098<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
| 10.<br />
| ETH Zurich<br />
| Zurich<br />
| Switzerland<br />
| Europe<br />
|<br />
| in process of being established<br />
|-<br />
| 11.<br />
| University of Molise<br />
| Molise<br />
| Italy<br />
| Europe<br />
|<br />
| in process of being established<br />
|-<br />
| 12.<br />
| [http://www.igik.edu.pl/en Institute of Geodesy and Cartography] (IGiK)<br />
| Warsaw<br />
| Poland<br />
| Europe<br />
|<br />
| in process of being established<br />
|-<br />
| 13.<br />
| University of Bucharest<br />
| Bucharest<br />
| Romania<br />
| Europe<br />
|<br />
| in process of being established<br />
|-<br />
| 14.<br />
| University of West Hungary<br />
| Sopron<br />
| Hungary<br />
| Europe<br />
|<br />
| in process of being established<br />
|-<br />
| 15.<br />
| [http://www.geomatica.ufpr.br/index.html Federal University of Paraná]<br />
| Paraná<br />
| Brazil<br />
| South America<br />
| 25°26'54"S, 49°13'51"W<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
| 16.<br />
| [http://www.unesp.br/ São Paulo State University] (UNESP)<br />
| São Paulo<br />
| Brazil<br />
| South America<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
| 17.<br />
| National Amazonian University of Madre de Dios (UNAMAD)<br />
| Puerto Maldonado<br />
| Peru<br />
| South America<br />
|<br />
| in process of being established<br />
|-<br />
| 18.<br />
| [http://ltaat.fcien.edu.uy Universidad de la República]<br />
| Montevideo<br />
| Uruguay<br />
| South America<br />
| 34°52'54.87"S, 56° 7'2.10"W<br />
| new website under development<br />
|-<br />
| 19.<br />
| University of Campinas<br />
| Campinas<br />
| Brazil<br />
| South America<br />
|<br />
| in process of being established<br />
|-<br />
| 20.<br />
| Federal University of Alagoas<br />
| Maceió<br />
| Brazil<br />
| South America<br />
|<br />
| in process of being established<br />
|-<br />
| 21.<br />
| [http://gis.ncsu.edu/osgeorel/ North Carolina State University]<br />
| Raleigh, NC<br />
| USA<br />
| North America<br />
| 35°46′54.14″N, 78°40′33.79″W<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
| 22.<br />
| [http://www.umass.edu/ University of Massachusetts Amherst]<br />
| Amherst<br />
| USA<br />
| North America<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
| 23.<br />
| University of Kansas<br />
| Kansas City<br />
| USA<br />
| North America<br />
|<br />
| in process of being established<br />
|-<br />
| 24.<br />
| [http://ice.ucdavis.edu/ University of California]<br />
| Davis<br />
| USA<br />
| North America<br />
|<br />
| in process of being established<br />
|-<br />
| 25.<br />
| [http://www.cozcyt.gob.mx/labsol/ Laboratorio de Software Libre]<br />
| Zacatecas<br />
| Mexico<br />
| North America<br />
|<br />
| in process of being established<br />
|-<br />
| 26.<br />
| Kent State University<br />
| Kent, Ohio<br />
| USA<br />
| North America<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
| 27.<br />
| [https://gis.uncc.edu/ Center for Applied GIScience, University of North Carolina ]<br />
| Charlotte, NC<br />
| USA<br />
| North America<br />
|<br />
| in process of being established<br />
|-<br />
| 28.<br />
| [http://www.nottingham.edu.my/Geography/Newsitems/Establishing-Open-Source-Geospatial-Lab.aspx UNMC]<br />
| Semenyih<br />
| Malaysia<br />
| Asia<br />
| 2°56′46.03″N, 101°52′27.15″E<br />
| website in development<br />
|-<br />
| 29.<br />
| [http://www.utm.my/ Universiti Teknologi Malaysia] (UTM)<br />
| Johor Bahru<br />
| Malaysia<br />
| Asia<br />
|<br />
| in process of being established<br />
|-<br />
| 30.<br />
| National College of Public Administration and Governance(NCPAG), University of the Philippines<br />
| Manila<br />
| Philippines<br />
| Asia<br />
|<br />
| in process of being established<br />
|-<br />
| 31.<br />
| Environmental Science for Social Change (ESSC)<br />
| Quezon City<br />
| Philippines<br />
| Asia<br />
|<br />
| in process of being established<br />
|-<br />
| 32.<br />
| [http://lsi.iiit.ac.in/labinfo/ Lab for Spatial Informatics], IIIT Hyderabad<br />
| Hyderabad<br />
| India<br />
| Asia<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
| 33.<br />
| Geospatial Research and Education Lab (GREL), Institute of Space Technology (IST)<br />
| Islamabad<br />
| Pakistan <br />
| Asia<br />
|<br />
| in process of being established<br />
|-<br />
| 34.<br />
| [http://www.up.ac.za/cgis University of Pretoria]<br />
| Pretoria<br />
| South Africa<br />
| Africa<br />
| -25.753609,28.230346<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
| 35.<br />
| [http://www.rcmrd.org/ Regional Centre for Mapping of Resources for Development] (RCMRD)<br />
| Nairobi <br />
| Kenya<br />
| Africa<br />
|<br />
| in process of being established<br />
|-<br />
| 36.<br />
| University of Ghana<br />
| Accra<br />
| Ghana<br />
| Africa<br />
|<br />
| in process of being established<br />
|-<br />
| 37.<br />
| University of Melbourne<br />
| Melbourne<br />
| Australia<br />
| Australia<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|}<br />
<br />
== Interested in adding your own node into the ICA-OSGeo Labs network? ==<br />
<br />
<br />
As the lab network is expanding fast ,we have also setup nodal contacts for each regions <br />
<br />
# Anne Ghisla - Asia & Australia <br />
# Helena Mitasova - North America<br />
# Charlie Schweik - South America<br />
# Suchith Anand - Europe & Africa<br />
<br />
<br />
Email Suchith.Anand at nottingham.ac.uk and cc Helena Mitasova [hmitaso at ncsu.edu], Charlie Schweik [cschweik at pubpol.umass.edu], Anne Ghisla [a.ghisla at gmail.com] to start the conversation and they will be happy to discuss details and guide you through the process.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
The key requirements for establishing a local OSGL are:<br />
<br />
(A) Both parties should work for the vision of the [[MOU_ICA|ICA-OSGeo MoU]] to develop collaboration opportunities for academia, industry and government organizations in open source GIS software and data in the future.<br />
<br />
(B) Someone at your institution or organization should have a strong Geospatial knowledge and vision to lead this activity and build a team of people, locally.<br />
<br />
(C) There should be a website established for your Open Source Geospatial Laboratory listing current research, people, and training information. This web presence will allow the other nodes in the network and others to understand and promote your local efforts around research and teaching of open source geospatial technologies and approaches.<br />
<br />
From our end, we will promote the initiative widely through both OSGeo and ICA channels to help build up collaboration opportunities for the future. We will also do a joint press release to announce the initiative and start building collaborations. A primary collaborative initiative continues to be the creation and maintenance of shared open access educational resources (for example [http://elogeo.nottingham.ac.uk/ the ELOGeo platform]). We will also add the info of all labs in the Open Geospatial Lab network node site within OSGeo website so that all participating labs urls are added and linked.<br />
<br />
We especially welcome applications from universities, educational institutes, government organisations in developing countries to help develop capacity building in geospatial education by establishing Open Source Geo Labs.<br />
<br />
== Meetings ==<br />
; Next meeting:<br />
* '''[[ICA OSGeo Lab Network 2013-09-05]] 18.00 UTC'''<br />
<br />
; Past Meetings:<br />
* [[ICA OSGeo Lab Network 2013-07-29]] 14.00 UTC<br />
* [[ICA OSGeo Lab Network 2013-05-02]] 14.00 UTC<br />
* [[ICA OSGeo Lab Network 2013-06-06]] 14.00 UTC<br />
<br />
[[Category: Education]]<br />
[[Category: ICA OSGeo Lab Network]]</div>Serenacoetzeehttps://wiki.osgeo.org/w/index.php?title=SDI_Committee&diff=71321SDI Committee2013-05-17T14:24:45Z<p>Serenacoetzee: </p>
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<div><div style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 20px; background-color: #f9f9f9; border: 2px dotted; padding: 10px;"><br />
'''NOTE:''' This wiki page was created based on discussion on the [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-May/011709.html mailing list]. The OSGeo SDI Committee was not established yet. This wiki page is to be used for the committee's establishing. <br />
</div><br />
<br />
== About ==<br />
A spatial data infrastructure (SDI) is a data infrastructure implementing a framework of geographic data, metadata, users and tools that are interactively connected in order to use spatial data in an efficient and flexible way. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spatial_data_infrastructure Wikipedia:SDI]<br />
<br />
OSGeo considers the ability of its software projects to implement various SDIs an important feature for organizations around the world.<br />
<br />
=== Software components of SDIs ===<br />
Basic software components of SDI are:<br />
<br />
* catalogue service<br />
* spatial data service<br />
* processing services<br />
* spatial data repository<br />
<br />
* Client software (desktop and web) communicates via standards to those services, which interacts directly with the user. It enables download, display, query, analysis and updating spatial data.<br />
<br />
OSGeo projects cover all these software components. Some of them are covered by multiple OSGeo projects.<br />
<br />
=== Standards ===<br />
Most SDIs are related to [http://www.opengeospatial.org/standards/is OGC standards] (OGC OWS) as well as [http://www.iso.org/iso/home/standards.htm ISO]. They are all well implemented in OSGeo projects.<br />
<br />
=== Current SDIs ===<br />
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GEOSS GEOSS] Global Earth Observation System of Systems. 2005-2015<br />
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GMES GMES] Global Monitoring for Environment and Security. Should be fully operational during 2014<br />
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/INSPIRE INSPIRE] Infrastructure for Spatial Information in the European Community. See also [[INSPIRE]]<br />
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UNSDI UNSDI] United Nations Spatial Data Infrastructure<br />
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Spatial_Data_Infrastructure NSDI] National Spatial Data Infrastructure<br />
* [http://cgdi.ca/ CGDI] Canadian Geospatial Data Infrastructure<br />
* ''add more here''<br />
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== Goals ==<br />
* Coordinate efforts of development teams<br />
* Help to make OSGeo software stack the best choice for SDIs implementation<br />
* Promote OSGeo software stack, as the best choice for SDIs implementation<br />
* ...<br />
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== Methods ==<br />
* Checklists<br />
* Tests<br />
* Reference implementations<br />
* ''Relevant'' case studies<br />
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== Communication ==<br />
* Mailing list<br />
* IRC meetings<br />
** how often should meetings occur?<br />
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== Members ==<br />
* [[user: jachym | Jáchym Čepický]]<br />
* [[user: tomkralidis | Tom Kralidis]]<br />
* [[user: Stranger | Andreas Schmitz]]<br />
* [[user: kwilcox| Kyle Wilcox]]<br />
* [[user: maxi71 | Massimiliano Cannata]]<br />
* [[user: Vasile | Vasile Crăciunescu]]<br />
* [[user: Mlechner | Marco Lechner]]<br />
* [[user: JoCook | Jo Cook]]<br />
* [[user: Huwer | Rafal Wawer]]<br />
* [[User: Madi | Margherita Di Leo]]<br />
* [[User: aaime | Andrea Aime]]<br />
* [[User: maria | Maria Brovelli]]<br />
* [[User:ticheler | Jeroen Ticheler]]<br />
* [[Arnulf Christl]]<br />
* [[User:pcav | Paolo Cavallini]]<br />
* [[User: stevenfeldman | Steven Feldman]]<br />
* [[User: Sanand | Suchith Anand]]<br />
* [[User: Schpidi | Stephan Meissl]]<br />
* [[User: serenacoetzee | Serena Coetzee]]<br />
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* ''Add your name, if you would like to be active member of the committee''<br />
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I lecture in the [http://www.up.ac.za/ggm Department of Geography, Geoinformatics and Meterology]: 'Spatial databases' and 'GISc professional practise' to Honours students (7th semester), 'Introduction to Geoinformatics' to students in the second semester. At the ''ICA/OSGeo Open Source Geospatial Laboratory'' we present training in QGIS and PostGIS. I encourage my students to use open geospatial products or to contribute to these in their research. In a developing country we have limited funds to procure expensive software and data, and the wealth of free online information, virtual communities, access to source code and peer review of source code are very helpful in postgraduate research projects. I have been involved in the academic tracks of the FOSS4G conferences since 2008. Research interests are geospatial web services, geographic information standards, address data, spatial databases and SDIs [http://web.up.ac.za/default.asp?ipkCategoryID=16189&sub=1&parentid=16053&subid=16181&ipklookid=11 more].<br />
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I lecture in the [http://www.up.ac.za/ggm Department of Geography, Geoinformatics and Meterology]: 'Spatial databases' and 'GISc professional practise' to Honours students (7th semester), 'Introduction to Geoinformatics' to students in the second semester. At the ''ICA/OSGeo Open Source Geospatial Laboratory'' we present training in QGIS and PostGIS. I encourage my students to use open geospatial products or to contribute to these in their research. In a developing country we have limited funds to procure expensive software and data, and the wealth of free online information, virtual communities, access to source code and peer review of source code are very helpful in postgraduate research projects. I have been involved in the academic tracks of the FOSS4G conferences since 2008. Research interests are geospatial web services, geographic information standards, address data, spatial databases and SDIs [http://web.up.ac.za/default.asp?ipkCategoryID=16189&sub=1&parentid=16053&subid=16181&ipklookid=11 more].<br />
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I lecture in the [http://www.up.ac.za/ggm Department of Geography, Geoinformatics and Meterology]: 'Spatial databases' and 'GISc professional practise' to Honours students (7th semester), 'Introduction to Geoinformatics' to students in the second semester. At the ICA/OSGeo Open Source Geospatial Laboratory in Africa we present training in QGIS and PostGIS. I encourage my students to use open geospatial products or to contribute to these in their research. In a developing country we have limited funds to procure expensive software and data, and the wealth of free online information, virtual communities, access to source code and peer review of source code are very helpful in postgraduate research projects. I have been involved in the academic tracks of the FOSS4G conferences since 2008. Research interests are geospatial web services, geographic information standards, address data, spatial databases and SDIs [http://web.up.ac.za/default.asp?ipkCategoryID=16189&sub=1&parentid=16053&subid=16181&ipklookid=11 more].<br />
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Location: Pretoria, South Africa<br />
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I lecture in the [http://www.up.ac.za/ggm Department of Geography, Geoinformatics and Meterology]: 'Spatial databases' and 'GISc professional practise' to Honours students (7th semester), 'Introduction to Geoinformatics' to students in the second semester. I encourage my students to use open geospatial products or to contribute to these in their research. In a developing country we have limited funds to procure expensive software and data, and the wealth of free online information, virtual communities, access to source code and peer review of source code are very helpful in postgraduate research projects. I have been involved in the academic tracks of the FOSS4G conferences since 2008. Research interests are geospatial web services, geographic information standards, address data, spatial databases and SDIs [http://web.up.ac.za/default.asp?ipkCategoryID=16189&sub=1&parentid=16053&subid=16181&ipklookid=11 more].<br />
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Location: Pretoria, South Africa<br />
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I lecture in the [http://www.up.ac.za/ggm Department of Geography, Geoinformatics and Meterology]: 'Spatial databases' and 'GISc professional practise' to Honours students (7th semester), 'Introduction to Geoinformatics' to students in the second semester. I encourage my students to use open geospatial products or to contribute to these in their research. In a developing country we have limited funds to procure expensive software and data, and the wealth of free online information, virtual communities, access to source code and peer review of source code are very helpful in postgraduate research projects. I have been involved in the academic tracks of the FOSS4G conferences since 2008. Research interests are geospatial web services, geographic information standards, address data, spatial databases and SDIs [http://web.up.ac.za/default.asp?ipkCategoryID=16189&sub=1&parentid=16053&subid=16181&ipklookid=11 more].<br />
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Location: Pretoria, South Africa<br />
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I lecture in the [http://www.up.ac.za/ggm Department of Geography, Geoinformatics and Meterology]: 'Spatial databases' and 'GISc professional practise' to Honours students (7th semester), 'Introduction to Geoinformatics' to students in the second semester. I encourage my students to use open geospatial products or to contribute to these in their research. In a developing country we have limited funds to procure expensive software and data, and the wealth of free online information, virtual communities, access to source code and peer review of source code are very helpful in postgraduate research projects. I have been involved in the academic tracks of the FOSS4G conferences since 2008. Research interests are geospatial web services, geographic information standards, address data, spatial databases and SDIs [http://web.up.ac.za/default.asp?ipkCategoryID=16189&sub=1&parentid=16053&subid=16181&ipklookid=11 more].<br />
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Location: Pretoria, South Africa<br />
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I lecture in the [http://www.up.ac.za/ggm Department of Geography, Geoinformatics and Meterology]: 'Spatial databases' and 'GISc professional practise' to Honours students (7th semester), 'Introduction to Geoinformatics' to students in the second semester. I encourage my students to use open geospatial products or to contribute to these in their research. In a developing country we have limited funds to procure expensive software and data, and the wealth of free online information, virtual communities, access to source code and peer review of source code are very helpful in postgraduate research projects. I have been involved in the academic tracks of the FOSS4G conferences since 2008. Research interests are geospatial web services, geographic information standards, address data, spatial databases and SDIs [http://web.up.ac.za/default.asp?ipkCategoryID=16189&sub=1&parentid=16053&subid=16181&ipklookid=11 more].<br />
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Location: Pretoria, South Africa<br />
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I lecture in the [http://www.up.ac.za/ggm Department of Geography, Geoinformatics and Meterology]: 'Spatial databases' and 'GISc professional practise' to Honours students (7th semester), 'Introduction to Geoinformatics' to students in the second semester. I encourage my students to use open geospatial products or to contribute to these in their research. In a developing country we have limited funds to procure expensive software and data, and the wealth of free online information, virtual communities, access to source code and peer review of source code are very helpful in postgraduate research projects. <br />
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Research interests are geospatial web services, geographic information standards, address data, spatial databases and SDIs [http://web.up.ac.za/default.asp?ipkCategoryID=16189&sub=1&parentid=16053&subid=16181&ipklookid=11 more].<br />
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Location: Pretoria, South Africa<br />
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I lecture in the [http://www.up.ac.za/ggm Department of Geography, Geoinformatics and Meterology]: 'Spatial databases' and 'GISc professional practise' to Honours students (7th semester), 'Introduction to Geoinformatics' to students in the second semester. I encourage my students to use open geospatial products or to contribute to these in their research. In a developing country we have limited funds to procure expensive software and data, and the wealth of free online information, virtual communities, access to source code and peer review of code are very useful in postgraduate research projects. <br />
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Research interests are geospatial web services, geographic information standards, address data, spatial databases and SDIs [http://web.up.ac.za/default.asp?ipkCategoryID=16189&sub=1&parentid=16053&subid=16181&ipklookid=11 more].<br />
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I lecture in the [http://www.up.ac.za/ggm Department of Geography, Geoinformatics and Meterology]: 'Spatial databases' and 'GISc professional practise' to Honours students (7th semester), 'Introduction to Geoinformatics' to students in the second semester. I encourage my students to use open geospatial products or to contribute to these in their research. In a developing country we have limited funds to procure expensive software and data, and the wealth of free online information, virtual communities, access to source code and peer review of code are very useful in postgraduate research projects. <br />
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Research interests are geospatial web services, geographic information standards, address data, spatial databases and SDIs [http://web.up.ac.za/default.asp?ipkCategoryID=16189&sub=1&parentid=16053&subid=16181&ipklookid=11 more].<br />
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I lecture in the [http://www.up.ac.za/ggm Department of Geography, Geoinformatics and Meterology]: 'Spatial databases' and 'GISc professional practise' to Honours students (7th semester), 'Introduction to Geoinformatics' to students in the second semester. I encourage my students to use open geospatial products or to contribute to these in their research. In a developing country we have limited funds to procure expensive software and data, and the wealth of free online information, virtual communities, access to source code and peer review of code are very useful in postgraduate research projects. <br />
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Research interests are geospatial web services, geographic information standards, address data, spatial databases and SDIs [http://web.up.ac.za/default.asp?ipkCategoryID=16189&sub=1&parentid=16053&subid=16181&ipklookid=11 more].</div>Serenacoetzeehttps://wiki.osgeo.org/w/index.php?title=Serena_Coetzee&diff=64013Serena Coetzee2012-06-29T00:49:38Z<p>Serenacoetzee: </p>
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I lecture in the [http://www.up.ac.za/ggm Department of Geography, Geoinformatics and Meterology]: 'Spatial databases' and 'GISc professional practise' to Honours students (7th semester), 'Introduction to Geoinformatics' to students in the second semester. I encourage my students to use open geospatial products or to contribute to these in their research. In a developing country we have limited funds to procure expensive software and data, and the wealth of free online information, virtual communities, access to source code and peer review of code are very useful in postgraduate research projects. <br />
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Research interests are geospatial web services, geographic information standards, address data, spatial databases and SDIs [more http://web.up.ac.za/default.asp?ipkCategoryID=16189&sub=1&parentid=16053&subid=16181&ipklookid=11].</div>Serenacoetzeehttps://wiki.osgeo.org/w/index.php?title=Serena_Coetzee&diff=64012Serena Coetzee2012-06-29T00:45:43Z<p>Serenacoetzee: </p>
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<div>ICA/OSGeo Open Source Geospatial Laboratory in Africa, [http://http://www.up.ac.za/cgis Centre for Geoinformation Science], University of Pretoria, South Africa<br />
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I lecture in the Department of Geography, Geoinformatics and Meterology: 'Spatial databases' and 'GISc professional practise' to Honours students (7th semester), 'Introduction to Geoinformatics' to students in the second semester. I encourage my students to use open geospatial products or to contribute to these in their research. In a developing country we have limited funds to procure expensive software and data, and the wealth of free online information, virtual communities, access to source code and peer review of code are very useful in postgraduate research projects. <br />
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Research interests are geospatial web services, geographic information standards, address data, spatial databases and SDIs. <br />
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http://www.up.ac.za/cgis</div>Serenacoetzeehttps://wiki.osgeo.org/w/index.php?title=Serena_Coetzee&diff=64011Serena Coetzee2012-06-29T00:43:47Z<p>Serenacoetzee: </p>
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I lecture in the Department of Geography, Geoinformatics and Meterology: 'Spatial databases' and 'GISc professional practise' to Honours students (7th semester), 'Introduction to Geoinformatics' to students in the second semester. I encourage my students to use open geospatial products or to contribute to these in their research. In a developing country we have limited funds to procure expensive software and data, and the wealth of free online information, virtual communities, access to source code and peer review of code are very useful in postgraduate research projects. <br />
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Research interests are geospatial web services, geographic information standards, address data, spatial databases and SDIs. <br />
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http://www.up.ac.za/cgis</div>Serenacoetzeehttps://wiki.osgeo.org/w/index.php?title=Serena_Coetzee&diff=64010Serena Coetzee2012-06-29T00:39:16Z<p>Serenacoetzee: </p>
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I lecture in the Department of Geography, Geoinformatics and Meterology: 'Spatial databases' and 'GISc professional practise' to Honours students (7th semester), 'Introduction to Geoinformatics' to students in the second semester. I encourage my students to use open geospatial products or to contribute to these in their research. In a developing country we have limited funds to procure expensive software and data, and the wealth of free online information, virtual communities, access to source code and peer review of code are very useful in postgraduate research projects. <br />
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Research interests are geospatial web services, geographic information standards, address data, spatial databases and SDIs. <br />
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