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GeoForAll UrbanScience CityAnalytics

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'''Welcome to "Geo for All" Urban Science and City Analytics:''' ''''''CitySmart''''''

* Chairs: Chris Pettit (Australia) and Patrick Hogan (USA)

* Those interested in being part of this theme, subscribe here http://lists.osgeo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geoforall-urbanscience. Your participation is welcome and needed! All ideas are welcome.

* We support the 'Open Cities Guiding Principles.'
** All material created is made available for all under an Open License
** All material is carefully designed (API-centric modular componentry) so that it can be built upon by others
** All participants aim to reuse, extend and invent material (in that order)

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 healthy collegial competition, with the best features of each ending up in our collective's decision for the '''core platform''' finale.

== Who's Here? ==
#Please let us know of your '''''interest to participate''''' by adding yourself to this list.
#Please identify yourself as one or more participant categories: '''(a) U - User/practitioner; (b) D-Developer; (c) R - Researcher/Scientist; (d) E - Educator'''. This is important for us to know as it relates to the "Social Dimension" below.

* Chris Pettit, University of Melbourne, https://www.linkedin.com/pub/chris-pettit/16/190/4B0
** Participant categor(ies):
** Coordinate the implementation of eResearch tools to support urban researchers across Australia under the auspices of the Australian Urban Research Infrastructure Network (AURIN).

* Charlie Schweik and Alexander (Sasha) Stepanov, http://eco.umass.edu/people/faculty/schweik-charles-m/
** Participant categor(ies): R, E
** University of Massachusetts Amherst. Trying to build educational service learning opportunities for students on advanced GIS using our campus as a "testbed."

* Tom Mueller, California University of Pennsylvania, http://www.calu.edu/academics/faculty/thomas-mueller.aspx
** Participant categor(ies):
** Similar to Charlie, I want to build educational exercises and service learning opportunities for my students.

* Jim Miller, University of Kansas, Computer Science, http://people.eecs.ku.edu/~miller/
** Participant categor(ies):
** Using NASA World Wind for several open source geo-visualization efforts, including Lidar and multivariate scalar and vector field visualization.

* Brandt Melick, Information Technology Department Director, Springfield Oregon USA, https://www.linkedin.com/pub/brandt-melick/22/869/261
** Participant categor(ies):
** 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.

* Ant Beck, University of Nottingham Research Fellow, https://www.linkedin.com/in/antbeck
** Currently transitioning into CityAnalytics looking at city wide entropy based energy management simulations. Have aspirations for an open, big data environment.

* Phillip Davis, GeoAcademy, https://www.linkedin.com/pub/phillip-davis/9/59/b7b
** 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.

* Patrick Hogan, NASA World Wind Project Manager, https://www.linkedin.com/in/phogan
** Participant categor(ies): U, B, R
** Building open source virtual globe technology meant to stimulate innovative solutions managing geospatial data, whether open or proprietary.

* Antoni Perez-Navarro, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, https://www.linkedin.com/in/antonipereznavarro
** Participant categor(ies): R, E
** 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.

* Giuseppe Conti, https://www.linkedin.com/in/gconti
** Participant categor(ies):
** 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.

* Evangelos Mitsakis, https://www.linkedin.com/pub/evangelos-mitsakis/6/62/938
** Participant categor(ies):
** 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.

* Gábor Remetey, Secretary-general, Hungarian Association for Geo-information (HUNAGI), https://www.linkedin.com/in/remetey
** Participant categor(ies):
** 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.

*Maria A Brovelli, Politecnico di Milano, http://www.ege-como.polimi.it/index.php?content=maria_brovelli
** Participant categor(ies):
** 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/).

* Xinyue Ye, Computational Social Science Lab, Kent State University, http://www.xinyueye.com/
** Participant categor(ies):
** 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.

* Andrew Hunter, GIScience Group, University of Calgary, http://gisciencegroup.ucalgary.ca
** Participant categor(ies): R, E.
** 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.

* Hande Demirel, Geomatics Engineering Department, Istanbul Technical University, http://faculty.itu.edu.tr/demirelha/
** Participant categor(ies):
** 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.

* 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
** Participant categor(ies):
** 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.

* GeoDa Center for Geospatial Analysis and Computation, Arizona State University, https://geodacenter.asu.edu/
** Participant categor(ies):
** 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?).

* 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
** Participant categor(ies):
** 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/

* Bob Basques, City of Saint Paul, Mn. USA, https://www.linkedin.com/pub/bob-basques/14/8b2/537
** Participant categor(ies):
** 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

* 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).
** Participant categor(ies):
** Big geospatial data analytics with applications to urban environment

* 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
** Participant categor(ies):
** 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
** The City of Raleigh strives to become a worldwide model for an open source city http://www.raleighnc.gov/open/

* Jeffrey Johnson, Independent Consultant, World Bank GFDRR
** Participant categor(ies):
** Geospatial Modeling for Disaster Risk Management

* 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)
** Participant categor(ies):
** Open (big) geospatial data in the context of geovisual analytics for smart city planning

* Dimitris Kotzinos, ETIS Lab, University of Cergy Pontoise, France, https://www.linkedin.com/in/dimitriskotzinos (http://www-etis.ensea.fr)
** Participant categor(ies):
** Trajectory mining, data semantics and integration of city data, data analytics with application to urban and domestic environments, personal data management

* Xingong Li, Department of Geography, University of Kansas (http://geog.ku.edu/xingong-li)
** Participant categor(ies):
** My research interest in Urban Science and City Analytics is in water infrastructure and smart water use.

* Patricia Carbajales-Dale, Clemson Center for Geospatial Technologies, Clemson University, http://citi.clemson.edu/people/ (http://www.clemsongis.org/)
** Participant categor(ies):
** High Performance Computing for geospatial analytics.

* 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.
** Participant categor(ies):
** Also geospatial solutions architect at http://lisasoft.com, Sydney, Australia.

* Rick Smith, Spatial {Query} Lab at Texas A&M University - Corpus Christi, http://gisc.tamucc.edu/Faculty/rick.html http://spatialquerylab.com/
** Participant categor(ies): R, E
** Use of mapping technology for emergency response and planning. Update and maintain freely-available university-level FOSS4G curriculum.

* Michael Starek, Geospatial Sensing and Analytics at Texas A&M University - Corpus Christi, http://gisc.tamucc.edu/Faculty/mike.html
** Participant categor(ies): R, E
** 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.

== Global Drivers for OSGEO Solutions ==

* EC '''Infrastructure for Spatial Information''' in the European Community, INSPIRE, http://inspire.ec.europa.eu/
* US National '''Spatial Data Infrastructure''', NSDI, http://www.fgdc.gov/nsdi/nsdi.html
* United Nations '''Spatial Data Infrastructure''', UNSDI http://www.ungiwg.org/content/united-nations-spatial-data-infrastructure-unsdi
* UNSDI '''Visualization''' for UN Member State briefing http://worldwind.arc.nasa.gov/videos/other/final_visualization_facility.avi
* UN '''Sustainable Development Goals''' (SDG): http://citiscope.org/story/2014/comparing-mdgs-and-sdgs#SDGs
* UN “Urban Goal” (SDG #11): Make cities inclusive, safe, resilient and '''sustainable''', http://citiscope.org/story/2014/comparing-mdgs-and-sdgs#No11
* The Brookings Institution: Why we need to think about implementing the '''Sustainable Development Goals'''
** http://www.brookings.edu/blogs/future-development/posts/2015/03/03-implementing-sustainable-development-kharas
* Open Transit Indicators Enable Cities to Design '''Better Transit Systems'''
** http://www.azavea.com/blogs/newsletter/v10i1/open-transit-indicators-enable-cities-to-design-better-transit-systems/

== Key Research Questions ==

* 1. How can we transform existing cities or create new cities that are sustainable, productive and resilient?
** Easy, we work together as one species to solve common problems.
* 2. What is the role and opportunity for big data (and small) in the area of analytics, science and visualisation for shaping our cities?
** 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
* 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?
** By making this '''''Road Map''''' a reality, '''''all''''' cities will have something they need yet also own.
** This also gives them a way to share back the solutions they discover ''''''for the benefit of all.''''''

== CitySmart ''''''The Road Map'''''' ==

* We owe this 'first cut' for our CitySmart app to OGC's "Smart Cities Spatial Information Framework"
**http://gisuser.com/2015/02/ogc-smart-cities-spatial-information-framework-white-paper-announced/

* 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! '''http://www.NSDInow.org/SDI_Now_02/Technical_Support.html'''

* 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."

* ''' 'CitySmart' App Themes/Data-type''' (feel free to expand):
# INSPIRE Data Specifications, http://inspire.ec.europa.eu/index.cfm/pageid/2/list/7
# Urban Planning, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urban_planning
# Intelligent Transportation, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligent_transportation_system
# Health & Medical Services, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_care
# Public Safety & Emergency Services, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergency_service
# Environmental Protection, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_protection
# Intelligent Buildings, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Building_automation
# Utilities: Smart Grid, Smart Water, Sanitation, etc., http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smart_grid
# Location-Based Services, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Location-based_service
# Indoor Positioning System (added by Antoni Perez Navarro), http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indoor_positioning_system
# Context-aware ''Recommender Systems'' (added by Antoni Perez Navarro), http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recommender_system

* '''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:

# INSPIRE Data Models, http://inspire.ec.europa.eu/index.cfm/pageid/2/list/datamodels
# Imagery (3-inch pixel is preferred, 1 foot pixel is less preferred, 1 meter is getting much less preferred)
# Cadastral Information (parcel polygons, Rights of Way (ROW), property ownership, assessment and taxation information and property class)
# Address Information (house number, street name, City, zip, site location (coordinates) and zoning information)
# Jurisdictional boundaries (incorporated areas, city limits, county boundaries, etc.), urban growth boundaries, public safety response areas
# Elevation Information: DEM’s (raster), DTM’s (vector), contours and spot elevation points, as well as mass points and break lines
# Waterways and protected areas: wetlands, fish-bearing streams, endangered species habitat, well-head protection zones, etc.
# Facilities a.k.a. utilities: waste-water, storm-water, transportation systems, power, drinking water, etc. who owns the facility, who maintains the facility, etc.
# Structures/facilities: bridges, building foot prints, complexes, monuments, etc.
# Documents: reference material, procedures, regulations, metadata, etc.
# 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).

* '''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.
* '''Yet to be discussed:'''
** '''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.
** '''Economic challenges''' e.g. creating sustainable Research Infrastructures (RI) for the public and private sector, investigate possibilities for Public Private Partnerships (PPP).
** '''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).

*'''Social dimension sub-roadmap'''
Any serious roadmap on urban science should certainly consider the social dimension. In this respect, we would need a subsequent actions such as:
# 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?
# 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.
# 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.
# 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.
# 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.
* A couple important topics here that might be useful in future grant proposals.
** 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.'
** 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?

* '''Key City Analytic Needs or Needs by our Community above'''. (Add topic entries or your name under existing entries)
** Crime mapping analytics
*** Tom Mueller

* '''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:
** Imagery, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satellite_imagery
** Cadastral, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cadastre
** Elevation, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_elevation_model
** Facilities (structures and utilities)
** Waterways and Flood Maps

== Technologies Available In Our Network ==

* NASA World Wind (Java, iOS and Android, Web version on its way), http://goworldwind.org/
* GeoMoose, http://geomoose.org/
* QGIS, http://www.qgis.org/
* i-Locate, http://i-locate.eu/
* Open Transit Indicators Enable Cities to Design '''Better Transit Systems'''
** http://www.azavea.com/blogs/newsletter/v10i1/open-transit-indicators-enable-cities-to-design-better-transit-systems/
* Australia Urban Intelligence Network, AURIN Portal and workbench, http://osgeolab.unimelb.edu.au/
* Arizona State University (ASU) GeoDa, https://geodacenter.asu.edu/software
** 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.
* GRASS GIS, http://grass.osgeo.org
** 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)

== Potential Partners ==

* Netherlands Coordination Office, United Nations Spatial Data Infrastructure (UNSDI) http://www.unsdi.nl/
* GeoAcademy (Phil Davis), http://discoverspatial.com/
* University of Massachusetts at Amherst, http://eco.umass.edu/people/faculty/schweik-charles-m/
* IBM '''Smarter Cities,''' http://www.ibm.com/smarterplanet/us/en/smarter_cities/overview/
* UBM Future Cities, http://www.ubmfuturecities.com/author.asp?section_id=234&doc_id=526334&?_mc=MP_IW_EDT_STUB
* Aalborg University Copenhagen, '''Sustainable Cities''' Master Programme, http://sustainablecities.aau.dk/
* Imperial College London, Intel Collaborative Research Institute (ICRI) for '''Sustainable Connected Cites,''' http://www.cities.io/guiding-principles/
* ISET Building '''Urban Resilience''' to Climate Change, http://i-s-e-t.org/resources/working-papers/building-resilience.html
* 100 '''Resilient Cities''' Challenge, http://www.100resilientcities.org/pages/100-resilient-cities-challenge
* '''Global Resilience''' Partnership Seeks New Ideas on Resilience in Africa, Southeast Asia
** http://www.rockefellerfoundation.org/blog/global-resilience-partnership-seeks-new
** http://www.globalresiliencepartnership.org/blog/2015/02/17/grp-teams-announced/
* GeoDa Center for Geospatial Analysis, https://geodacenter.asu.edu/
* Australia '''Urban Intelligence''' Network, AURIN, http://aurin.org.au/
* Arizona State University (ASU) GeoDa, https://geodacenter.asu.edu/software
* HAROSA Knowledge Community (HAROSA KC), http://dpcs.uoc.edu/joomla/index.php/about-harosa-kc
* Politecnico di Milano, GEO Lab (Geomatics and Earth Observations) http://geomatica.como.polimi.it/index.php?lang=en
** 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.

== CitySmart ''''''The App'''''' ==

'''The Task'''

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.

The City of Springfield Oregon has already shown us the way forward, http://www.nsdinow.org/SDI_Now_02/Technical_Support.html'''.'''

Some basic requirements:
* 3D Virtual Globe interchangeable or simultaneous with 2D Map along with Projection Choices
* Imagery & Elevation Import
* Extensible Architecture (Modular Componentry)
* Data Retrieval via REST, WMS, WCS, WFS, GML, User-Deﬁned
* OSM Placenames, Boundaries and Roads
* Picking and Decluttering
* Shapeﬁle and KML Import
* Measurement Tools
* Flooding and Line-of-Sight Calculation
* Subsurface Visualization
* Shapes: Placemarks, Path, Polygon, Extruded Polygon, Custom, HTML5-able Balloons
* Volumes (& Shapes), follow terrain or maintain constant elevation above terrain while moving

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.

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.

'''Who Will Do This?'''

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!

'''Why Do This?'''

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.

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'''.'''

== Reference Material ==

* Lane County, Oregon, Lane Livability Consortium, Data Inventory and Next Steps Report
** http://www.livabilitylane.org/files/Data-Plan.pdf
** http://www.livabilitylane.org/

* Future Cities, UK Ordnance Survey
** https://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/about/thinking/future-cities/

* '''''Climate Adaptation''''' Guidebook for Municipalities
** http://www.cmap.illinois.gov/documents/10180/14193/FY13-0119+Climate+Adaptation+toolkit+lowres.pdf

* Dedeurwaerdere, T. 2014. Sustainability Science for Strong Sustainability. Edward Elgar Publishing.
** http://biogov.uclouvain.be/staff/dedeurwaerdere/book_Sustainability%20Science_EE.pdf

* How Cities Can Battle '''''Climate Change with Resiliency Planning'''''
** http://www.triplepundit.com/2014/09/cities-can-battle-climate-change-resiliency-planning/

* ISET Working Paper 3: Planning for '''''Urban Climate Resilience'''''
** http://i-s-e-t.org/resources/working-papers/climate-resilience-paper-3.html

* USA Federal Policies to Build '''''Climate-Resilient''''' Coastal Regions, Lessons from Hurricane Sandy
** http://resilient-cities.iclei.org/resilient-cities-hub-site/resilience-resource-point/resilience-library/urban-resilience-planning/

* '''Resilience''': A Bridging Concept or a Dead End? http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14649357.2012.677124
** “Reframing” '''Resilience''': Challenges for Planning Theory and Practice
** Interacting Traps: '''Resilience''' Assessment of a Pasture Management System in Northern Afghanistan
** '''Urban Resilience''': What Does it Mean in Planning Practice?
** '''Resilience''' as a Useful Concept for '''''Climate Change''''' Adaptation?
** The Politics of '''Resilience for Planning''': A Cautionary Note

* Managing Aging City Infrastructure:
** http://graphics.latimes.com/la-aging-water-infrastructure/

* Wow! A rural town in Italy '''>'''100% sustainable energy:
** http://reregions.blogspot.com/2010/03/varese-ligure-italy.html
** http://cleantechnica.com/2014/01/09/varese-ligure-italy-small-town-high-renewables/
** http://www.ecofriend.com/italian-town-runs-completely-on-renewable-energy.html

* '''''Sustainable''''' background info:
** Sustainable City, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sustainable_city
** Sustainable Energy, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sustainable_energy
** Sustainable Transport, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sustainable_transport
** Sustainable Living, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sustainable_living
** Urban Agriculture, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urban_agriculture

* Urban Farming
** Growing Cities, http://www.yesmagazine.org/planet/growing-cities
** World’s Largest Urban Farm, http://www.yesmagazine.org/peace-justice/detroit-community-gardeners-question-hantz-urban-farm
** Growing Home, http://www.yesmagazine.org/new-economy/growing-home-urban-agriculture-in-chicago
** Breaking Through Concrete, http://www.yesmagazine.org/planet/growing-through-concrete-an-urban-farming-roadtrip
** ''Growing Power'' Despite an Urban 'Food' Desert, http://www.yesmagazine.org/issues/food-for-everyone/growing-power-in-an-urban-food-desert

* Local Grocery
** http://www.cooperativegrocer.coop/articles/2004-01-08/mondragons-eroski-mass-retailer
** http://www.yesmagazine.org/issues/the-new-economy/mondragon-worker-cooperatives-decide-how-to-ride-out-a-downturn

* Open Source Ecology, ''Do-It-Yourself'' Industrial Equipment
** http://opensourceecology.org/gvcs/gvcs-machine-index/
** http://www.ted.com/talks/marcin_jakubowski

* Digital Earth | Virtual Nations | Data Cities
** http://dcitynetwork.net/manifesto/

* Open government, open source city
** http://www.raleighnc.gov/open/
** http://opensource.com/government/13/5/open-data-visual
** http://allthingsopen.org

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[[Category: ICA OSGeo Lab Network]]

GeoForAll UrbanScience CityAnalytics

2015-03-24T20:59:30Z

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'''Welcome to "Geo for All" Urban Science and City Analytics:''' ''''''CitySmart''''''

* Chairs: Chris Pettit (Australia) and Patrick Hogan (USA)

* Those interested in being part of this theme, subscribe here http://lists.osgeo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geoforall-urbanscience. Your participation is welcome and needed! All ideas are welcome.

* We support the 'Open Cities Guiding Principles.'
** All material created is made available for all under an Open License
** All material is carefully designed (API-centric modular componentry) so that it can be built upon by others
** All participants aim to reuse, extend and invent material (in that order)

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 healthy collegial competition, with the best features of each ending up in our collective's decision for the '''core platform''' finale.

== Who's Here? ==
#Please let us know of your '''''interest to participate''''' by adding yourself to this list.
#Please identify yourself as one or more participant categories: '''(a) U - User/practitioner; (b) D-Developer; (c) R - Researcher/Scientist; (d) E - Educator'''. This is important for us to know as it relates to the "Social Dimension" below.

* Chris Pettit, University of Melbourne, https://www.linkedin.com/pub/chris-pettit/16/190/4B0
** Participant categor(ies):
** Coordinate the implementation of eResearch tools to support urban researchers across Australia under the auspices of the Australian Urban Research Infrastructure Network (AURIN).

* Charlie Schweik and Alexander (Sasha) Stepanov, http://eco.umass.edu/people/faculty/schweik-charles-m/
** Participant categor(ies): R, E
** University of Massachusetts Amherst. Trying to build educational service learning opportunities for students on advanced GIS using our campus as a "testbed."

* Tom Mueller, California University of Pennsylvania, http://www.calu.edu/academics/faculty/thomas-mueller.aspx
** Participant categor(ies):
** Similar to Charlie, I want to build educational exercises and service learning opportunities for my students.

* Jim Miller, University of Kansas, Computer Science, http://people.eecs.ku.edu/~miller/
** Participant categor(ies):
** Using NASA World Wind for several open source geo-visualization efforts, including Lidar and multivariate scalar and vector field visualization.

* Brandt Melick, Information Technology Department Director, Springfield Oregon USA, https://www.linkedin.com/pub/brandt-melick/22/869/261
** Participant categor(ies):
** 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.

* Ant Beck, University of Nottingham Research Fellow, https://www.linkedin.com/in/antbeck
** Currently transitioning into CityAnalytics looking at city wide entropy based energy management simulations. Have aspirations for an open, big data environment.

* Phillip Davis, GeoAcademy, https://www.linkedin.com/pub/phillip-davis/9/59/b7b
** 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.

* Patrick Hogan, NASA World Wind Project Manager, https://www.linkedin.com/in/phogan
** Participant categor(ies): U, B, R
** Building open source virtual globe technology meant to stimulate innovative solutions managing geospatial data, whether open or proprietary.

* Antoni Perez-Navarro, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, https://www.linkedin.com/in/antonipereznavarro
** Participant categor(ies): R, E
** 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.

* Giuseppe Conti, https://www.linkedin.com/in/gconti
** Participant categor(ies):
** 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.

* Evangelos Mitsakis, https://www.linkedin.com/pub/evangelos-mitsakis/6/62/938
** Participant categor(ies):
** 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.

* Gábor Remetey, Secretary-general, Hungarian Association for Geo-information (HUNAGI), https://www.linkedin.com/in/remetey
** Participant categor(ies):
** 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.

*Maria A Brovelli, Politecnico di Milano, http://www.ege-como.polimi.it/index.php?content=maria_brovelli
** Participant categor(ies):
** 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/).

* Xinyue Ye, Computational Social Science Lab, Kent State University, http://www.xinyueye.com/
** Participant categor(ies):
** 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.

* Andrew Hunter, GIScience Group, University of Calgary, http://gisciencegroup.ucalgary.ca
** Participant categor(ies):
** 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. R, E.

* Hande Demirel, Geomatics Engineering Department, Istanbul Technical University, http://faculty.itu.edu.tr/demirelha/
** Participant categor(ies):
** 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.

* 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
** Participant categor(ies):
** 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.

* GeoDa Center for Geospatial Analysis and Computation, Arizona State University, https://geodacenter.asu.edu/
** Participant categor(ies):
** 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?).

* 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
** Participant categor(ies):
** 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/

* Bob Basques, City of Saint Paul, Mn. USA, https://www.linkedin.com/pub/bob-basques/14/8b2/537
** Participant categor(ies):
** 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

* 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).
** Participant categor(ies):
** Big geospatial data analytics with applications to urban environment

* 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
** Participant categor(ies):
** 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
** The City of Raleigh strives to become a worldwide model for an open source city http://www.raleighnc.gov/open/

* Jeffrey Johnson, Independent Consultant, World Bank GFDRR
** Participant categor(ies):
** Geospatial Modeling for Disaster Risk Management

* 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)
** Participant categor(ies):
** Open (big) geospatial data in the context of geovisual analytics for smart city planning

* Dimitris Kotzinos, ETIS Lab, University of Cergy Pontoise, France, https://www.linkedin.com/in/dimitriskotzinos (http://www-etis.ensea.fr)
** Participant categor(ies):
** Trajectory mining, data semantics and integration of city data, data analytics with application to urban and domestic environments, personal data management

* Xingong Li, Department of Geography, University of Kansas (http://geog.ku.edu/xingong-li)
** Participant categor(ies):
** My research interest in Urban Science and City Analytics is in water infrastructure and smart water use.

* Patricia Carbajales-Dale, Clemson Center for Geospatial Technologies, Clemson University, http://citi.clemson.edu/people/ (http://www.clemsongis.org/)
** Participant categor(ies):
** High Performance Computing for geospatial analytics.

* 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.
** Participant categor(ies):
** Also geospatial solutions architect at http://lisasoft.com, Sydney, Australia.

* Rick Smith, Spatial {Query} Lab at Texas A&M University - Corpus Christi, http://gisc.tamucc.edu/Faculty/rick.html http://spatialquerylab.com/
** Participant categor(ies): R, E
** Use of mapping technology for emergency response and planning. Update and maintain freely-available university-level FOSS4G curriculum.

* Michael Starek, Geospatial Sensing and Analytics at Texas A&M University - Corpus Christi, http://gisc.tamucc.edu/Faculty/mike.html
** Participant categor(ies): R, E
** 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.

== Global Drivers for OSGEO Solutions ==

* EC '''Infrastructure for Spatial Information''' in the European Community, INSPIRE, http://inspire.ec.europa.eu/
* US National '''Spatial Data Infrastructure''', NSDI, http://www.fgdc.gov/nsdi/nsdi.html
* United Nations '''Spatial Data Infrastructure''', UNSDI http://www.ungiwg.org/content/united-nations-spatial-data-infrastructure-unsdi
* UNSDI '''Visualization''' for UN Member State briefing http://worldwind.arc.nasa.gov/videos/other/final_visualization_facility.avi
* UN '''Sustainable Development Goals''' (SDG): http://citiscope.org/story/2014/comparing-mdgs-and-sdgs#SDGs
* UN “Urban Goal” (SDG #11): Make cities inclusive, safe, resilient and '''sustainable''', http://citiscope.org/story/2014/comparing-mdgs-and-sdgs#No11
* The Brookings Institution: Why we need to think about implementing the '''Sustainable Development Goals'''
** http://www.brookings.edu/blogs/future-development/posts/2015/03/03-implementing-sustainable-development-kharas
* Open Transit Indicators Enable Cities to Design '''Better Transit Systems'''
** http://www.azavea.com/blogs/newsletter/v10i1/open-transit-indicators-enable-cities-to-design-better-transit-systems/

== Key Research Questions ==

* 1. How can we transform existing cities or create new cities that are sustainable, productive and resilient?
** Easy, we work together as one species to solve common problems.
* 2. What is the role and opportunity for big data (and small) in the area of analytics, science and visualisation for shaping our cities?
** 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
* 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?
** By making this '''''Road Map''''' a reality, '''''all''''' cities will have something they need yet also own.
** This also gives them a way to share back the solutions they discover ''''''for the benefit of all.''''''

== CitySmart ''''''The Road Map'''''' ==

* We owe this 'first cut' for our CitySmart app to OGC's "Smart Cities Spatial Information Framework"
**http://gisuser.com/2015/02/ogc-smart-cities-spatial-information-framework-white-paper-announced/

* 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! '''http://www.NSDInow.org/SDI_Now_02/Technical_Support.html'''

* 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."

* ''' 'CitySmart' App Themes/Data-type''' (feel free to expand):
# INSPIRE Data Specifications, http://inspire.ec.europa.eu/index.cfm/pageid/2/list/7
# Urban Planning, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urban_planning
# Intelligent Transportation, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligent_transportation_system
# Health & Medical Services, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_care
# Public Safety & Emergency Services, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergency_service
# Environmental Protection, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_protection
# Intelligent Buildings, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Building_automation
# Utilities: Smart Grid, Smart Water, Sanitation, etc., http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smart_grid
# Location-Based Services, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Location-based_service
# Indoor Positioning System (added by Antoni Perez Navarro), http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indoor_positioning_system
# Context-aware ''Recommender Systems'' (added by Antoni Perez Navarro), http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recommender_system

* '''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:

# INSPIRE Data Models, http://inspire.ec.europa.eu/index.cfm/pageid/2/list/datamodels
# Imagery (3-inch pixel is preferred, 1 foot pixel is less preferred, 1 meter is getting much less preferred)
# Cadastral Information (parcel polygons, Rights of Way (ROW), property ownership, assessment and taxation information and property class)
# Address Information (house number, street name, City, zip, site location (coordinates) and zoning information)
# Jurisdictional boundaries (incorporated areas, city limits, county boundaries, etc.), urban growth boundaries, public safety response areas
# Elevation Information: DEM’s (raster), DTM’s (vector), contours and spot elevation points, as well as mass points and break lines
# Waterways and protected areas: wetlands, fish-bearing streams, endangered species habitat, well-head protection zones, etc.
# Facilities a.k.a. utilities: waste-water, storm-water, transportation systems, power, drinking water, etc. who owns the facility, who maintains the facility, etc.
# Structures/facilities: bridges, building foot prints, complexes, monuments, etc.
# Documents: reference material, procedures, regulations, metadata, etc.
# 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).

* '''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.
* '''Yet to be discussed:'''
** '''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.
** '''Economic challenges''' e.g. creating sustainable Research Infrastructures (RI) for the public and private sector, investigate possibilities for Public Private Partnerships (PPP).
** '''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).

*'''Social dimension sub-roadmap'''
Any serious roadmap on urban science should certainly consider the social dimension. In this respect, we would need a subsequent actions such as:
# 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?
# 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.
# 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.
# 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.
# 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.
* A couple important topics here that might be useful in future grant proposals.
** 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.'
** 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?

* '''Key City Analytic Needs or Needs by our Community above'''. (Add topic entries or your name under existing entries)
** Crime mapping analytics
*** Tom Mueller

* '''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:
** Imagery, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satellite_imagery
** Cadastral, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cadastre
** Elevation, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_elevation_model
** Facilities (structures and utilities)
** Waterways and Flood Maps

== Technologies Available In Our Network ==

* NASA World Wind (Java, iOS and Android, Web version on its way), http://goworldwind.org/
* GeoMoose, http://geomoose.org/
* QGIS, http://www.qgis.org/
* i-Locate, http://i-locate.eu/
* Open Transit Indicators Enable Cities to Design '''Better Transit Systems'''
** http://www.azavea.com/blogs/newsletter/v10i1/open-transit-indicators-enable-cities-to-design-better-transit-systems/
* Australia Urban Intelligence Network, AURIN Portal and workbench, http://osgeolab.unimelb.edu.au/
* Arizona State University (ASU) GeoDa, https://geodacenter.asu.edu/software
** 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.
* GRASS GIS, http://grass.osgeo.org
** 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)

== Potential Partners ==

* Netherlands Coordination Office, United Nations Spatial Data Infrastructure (UNSDI) http://www.unsdi.nl/
* GeoAcademy (Phil Davis), http://discoverspatial.com/
* University of Massachusetts at Amherst, http://eco.umass.edu/people/faculty/schweik-charles-m/
* IBM '''Smarter Cities,''' http://www.ibm.com/smarterplanet/us/en/smarter_cities/overview/
* UBM Future Cities, http://www.ubmfuturecities.com/author.asp?section_id=234&doc_id=526334&?_mc=MP_IW_EDT_STUB
* Aalborg University Copenhagen, '''Sustainable Cities''' Master Programme, http://sustainablecities.aau.dk/
* Imperial College London, Intel Collaborative Research Institute (ICRI) for '''Sustainable Connected Cites,''' http://www.cities.io/guiding-principles/
* ISET Building '''Urban Resilience''' to Climate Change, http://i-s-e-t.org/resources/working-papers/building-resilience.html
* 100 '''Resilient Cities''' Challenge, http://www.100resilientcities.org/pages/100-resilient-cities-challenge
* '''Global Resilience''' Partnership Seeks New Ideas on Resilience in Africa, Southeast Asia
** http://www.rockefellerfoundation.org/blog/global-resilience-partnership-seeks-new
** http://www.globalresiliencepartnership.org/blog/2015/02/17/grp-teams-announced/
* GeoDa Center for Geospatial Analysis, https://geodacenter.asu.edu/
* Australia '''Urban Intelligence''' Network, AURIN, http://aurin.org.au/
* Arizona State University (ASU) GeoDa, https://geodacenter.asu.edu/software
* HAROSA Knowledge Community (HAROSA KC), http://dpcs.uoc.edu/joomla/index.php/about-harosa-kc
* Politecnico di Milano, GEO Lab (Geomatics and Earth Observations) http://geomatica.como.polimi.it/index.php?lang=en
** 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.

== CitySmart ''''''The App'''''' ==

'''The Task'''

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.

The City of Springfield Oregon has already shown us the way forward, http://www.nsdinow.org/SDI_Now_02/Technical_Support.html'''.'''

Some basic requirements:
* 3D Virtual Globe interchangeable or simultaneous with 2D Map along with Projection Choices
* Imagery & Elevation Import
* Extensible Architecture (Modular Componentry)
* Data Retrieval via REST, WMS, WCS, WFS, GML, User-Deﬁned
* OSM Placenames, Boundaries and Roads
* Picking and Decluttering
* Shapeﬁle and KML Import
* Measurement Tools
* Flooding and Line-of-Sight Calculation
* Subsurface Visualization
* Shapes: Placemarks, Path, Polygon, Extruded Polygon, Custom, HTML5-able Balloons
* Volumes (& Shapes), follow terrain or maintain constant elevation above terrain while moving

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.

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.

'''Who Will Do This?'''

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!

'''Why Do This?'''

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.

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'''.'''

== Reference Material ==

* Lane County, Oregon, Lane Livability Consortium, Data Inventory and Next Steps Report
** http://www.livabilitylane.org/files/Data-Plan.pdf
** http://www.livabilitylane.org/

* Future Cities, UK Ordnance Survey
** https://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/about/thinking/future-cities/

* '''''Climate Adaptation''''' Guidebook for Municipalities
** http://www.cmap.illinois.gov/documents/10180/14193/FY13-0119+Climate+Adaptation+toolkit+lowres.pdf

* Dedeurwaerdere, T. 2014. Sustainability Science for Strong Sustainability. Edward Elgar Publishing.
** http://biogov.uclouvain.be/staff/dedeurwaerdere/book_Sustainability%20Science_EE.pdf

* How Cities Can Battle '''''Climate Change with Resiliency Planning'''''
** http://www.triplepundit.com/2014/09/cities-can-battle-climate-change-resiliency-planning/

* ISET Working Paper 3: Planning for '''''Urban Climate Resilience'''''
** http://i-s-e-t.org/resources/working-papers/climate-resilience-paper-3.html

* USA Federal Policies to Build '''''Climate-Resilient''''' Coastal Regions, Lessons from Hurricane Sandy
** http://resilient-cities.iclei.org/resilient-cities-hub-site/resilience-resource-point/resilience-library/urban-resilience-planning/

* '''Resilience''': A Bridging Concept or a Dead End? http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14649357.2012.677124
** “Reframing” '''Resilience''': Challenges for Planning Theory and Practice
** Interacting Traps: '''Resilience''' Assessment of a Pasture Management System in Northern Afghanistan
** '''Urban Resilience''': What Does it Mean in Planning Practice?
** '''Resilience''' as a Useful Concept for '''''Climate Change''''' Adaptation?
** The Politics of '''Resilience for Planning''': A Cautionary Note

* Managing Aging City Infrastructure:
** http://graphics.latimes.com/la-aging-water-infrastructure/

* Wow! A rural town in Italy '''>'''100% sustainable energy:
** http://reregions.blogspot.com/2010/03/varese-ligure-italy.html
** http://cleantechnica.com/2014/01/09/varese-ligure-italy-small-town-high-renewables/
** http://www.ecofriend.com/italian-town-runs-completely-on-renewable-energy.html

* '''''Sustainable''''' background info:
** Sustainable City, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sustainable_city
** Sustainable Energy, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sustainable_energy
** Sustainable Transport, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sustainable_transport
** Sustainable Living, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sustainable_living
** Urban Agriculture, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urban_agriculture

* Urban Farming
** Growing Cities, http://www.yesmagazine.org/planet/growing-cities
** World’s Largest Urban Farm, http://www.yesmagazine.org/peace-justice/detroit-community-gardeners-question-hantz-urban-farm
** Growing Home, http://www.yesmagazine.org/new-economy/growing-home-urban-agriculture-in-chicago
** Breaking Through Concrete, http://www.yesmagazine.org/planet/growing-through-concrete-an-urban-farming-roadtrip
** ''Growing Power'' Despite an Urban 'Food' Desert, http://www.yesmagazine.org/issues/food-for-everyone/growing-power-in-an-urban-food-desert

* Local Grocery
** http://www.cooperativegrocer.coop/articles/2004-01-08/mondragons-eroski-mass-retailer
** http://www.yesmagazine.org/issues/the-new-economy/mondragon-worker-cooperatives-decide-how-to-ride-out-a-downturn

* Open Source Ecology, ''Do-It-Yourself'' Industrial Equipment
** http://opensourceecology.org/gvcs/gvcs-machine-index/
** http://www.ted.com/talks/marcin_jakubowski

* Digital Earth | Virtual Nations | Data Cities
** http://dcitynetwork.net/manifesto/

* Open government, open source city
** http://www.raleighnc.gov/open/
** http://opensource.com/government/13/5/open-data-visual
** http://allthingsopen.org

[[Category: Education]]
[[Category: ICA OSGeo Lab Network]]

GeoForAll UrbanScience CityAnalytics

2015-03-08T20:47:02Z

Wiki-Ahunter: /* Who's Who Here? */

'''Welcome to "Geo for All" Urban Science and City Analytics:''' ''''''CitySmart/SmartCity''''''

* Chairs: Chris Pettit (Australia) and Patrick Hogan (USA)

* 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.

* All participants should support the 'Open Cities Guiding Principles.' (Thanks to Cameron Shorter for this.)

'''Open Cities - Guiding Principles''' (need a reference for this please)

* All material created is made available for all under an Open License
* All material is carefully designed (API-centric modular componentry) so that it can be built upon by others
* All participants aim to reuse, extend and invent material (in that order)

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.

== Who's Who Here? ==
Please let us know of your '''''interest to participate''''' by adding yourself to this list.

* Chris Pettit, University of Melbourne, https://www.linkedin.com/pub/chris-pettit/16/190/4B0
** Coordinate the implementation of eResearch tools to support urban researchers across Australia under the auspices of the Australian Urban Research Infrastructure Network (AURIN).

* Charlie Schweik and Alexander (Sasha) Stepanov, http://eco.umass.edu/people/faculty/schweik-charles-m/
** University of Massachusetts Amherst. Trying to build educational service learning opportunities for students on advanced GIS using our campus as a "testbed."

* Tom Mueller, California University of Pennsylvania, http://www.calu.edu/academics/faculty/thomas-mueller.aspx
** Similar to Charlie, I want to build educational exercises and service learning opportunities for my students.

* Jim Miller, University of Kansas, Computer Science, http://people.eecs.ku.edu/~miller/
** Using NASA World Wind for several open source geo-visualization efforts, including Lidar and multivariate scalar and vector field visualization.

* Brandt Melick, Information Technology Department Director, Springfield Oregon USA, https://www.linkedin.com/pub/brandt-melick/22/869/261
** 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.

* Ant Beck, University of Nottingham Research Fellow, https://www.linkedin.com/in/antbeck
** Currently transitioning into CityAnalytics looking at city wide entropy based energy management simulations. Have aspirations for an open, big data environment.

* Phillip Davis, GeoAcademy, https://www.linkedin.com/pub/phillip-davis/9/59/b7b
** 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.

* Patrick Hogan, NASA World Wind Project Manager, https://www.linkedin.com/in/phogan
** Building open source virtual globe technology meant to stimulate innovative solutions managing geospatial data, whether open or proprietary.

* Antoni Perez-Navarro, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, https://www.linkedin.com/in/antonipereznavarro
** Currently working on indoor positioning systems. Previously developed the Context Aware Recommender System.

* Giuseppe Conti, https://www.linkedin.com/in/gconti
** 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.

* Evangelos Mitsakis, https://www.linkedin.com/pub/evangelos-mitsakis/6/62/938
** 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.

* Gábor Remetey, Secretary-general, Hungarian Association for Geo-information (HUNAGI), https://www.linkedin.com/in/remetey
** 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.

*Maria A Brovelli, Politecnico di Milano, http://www.ege-como.polimi.it/index.php?content=maria_brovelli
** 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/).

* Xinyue Ye, Computational Social Science Lab, Kent State University, http://www.xinyueye.com/
** 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.

*Andrew Hunter, GIScience Group, University of Calgary, http://gisciencegroup.ucalgary.ca
** 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.

* Hande Demirel, Geomatics Engineering Department, Istanbul Technical University, http://faculty.itu.edu.tr/demirelha/
** 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.

* 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
** 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.

*GeoDa Center for Geospatial Analysis and Computation, Arizona State University, https://geodacenter.asu.edu/
** 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?).

== Global Drivers for OSGEO Solutions ==

* EC Infrastructure for Spatial Information in the European Community, INSPIRE, http://inspire.ec.europa.eu/
* US National Spatial Data Infrastructure, NSDI, http://www.fgdc.gov/nsdi/nsdi.html
* United Nations Spatial Data Infrastructure, UNSDI http://www.ungiwg.org/content/united-nations-spatial-data-infrastructure-unsdi
* UNSDI '''Visualization''' for UN Member State briefing http://worldwind.arc.nasa.gov/videos/other/final_visualization_facility.avi
* UN '''Sustainable Development Goals''' (SDG): http://citiscope.org/story/2014/comparing-mdgs-and-sdgs#SDGs
* UN “Urban Goal” (SDG #11): Make cities inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable, http://citiscope.org/story/2014/comparing-mdgs-and-sdgs#No11
* The Brookings Institution: Why we need to think about implementing the '''Sustainable Development Goals'''
** http://www.brookings.edu/blogs/future-development/posts/2015/03/03-implementing-sustainable-development-kharas
* Open Transit Indicators Enable Cities to Design '''Better Transit Systems'''
** http://www.azavea.com/blogs/newsletter/v10i1/open-transit-indicators-enable-cities-to-design-better-transit-systems/

== Key Research Questions ==

* 1. How can we transform existing cities or create new cities that are sustainable, productive and resilient?
** Easy, we work together as one species to solve common problems.
* 2. What is the role and opportunity for big data (and small) in the area of analytics, science and visualisation for shaping our cities?
** 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
* 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?
** By making this '''''Road Map''''' a reality, '''''all''''' cities will have something they need yet also own.
** This also gives them a way to share back the solutions they discover ''''''for the benefit of all.''''''

== CitySmart/SmartCity '''''Road Map:''''' '' 'First Life' '' ==

* We owe this 'first cut' for our CitySmart app to OGC's "Smart Cities Spatial Information Framework"
**http://gisuser.com/2015/02/ogc-smart-cities-spatial-information-framework-white-paper-announced/

* 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 and the US NSDI Executive Order:
** '''http://www.NSDInow.org/SDI_Now_02/Technical_Support.html'''

* ''' 'CitySmart/SmartCity' App Themes/Data-type''' (feel free to expand):
# INSPIRE Data Specifications, http://inspire.ec.europa.eu/index.cfm/pageid/2/list/7
# Urban Planning, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urban_planning
# Intelligent Transportation, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligent_transportation_system
# Health & Medical Services, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_care
# Public Safety & Emergency Services, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergency_service
# Environmental Protection, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_protection
# Intelligent Buildings, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Building_automation
# Utilities: Smart Grid, Smart Water, Sanitation, etc., http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smart_grid
# Location-Based Services, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Location-based_service
# Indoor Positioning System (added by Antoni Perez Navarro), http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indoor_positioning_system
# Context-aware ''Recommender Systems'' (added by Antoni Perez Navarro), http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recommender_system

* '''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:

# INSPIRE Data Models, http://inspire.ec.europa.eu/index.cfm/pageid/2/list/datamodels
# Imagery (3-inch pixel is preferred, 1 foot pixel is less preferred, 1 meter is getting much less preferred)
# Cadastral Information (parcel polygons, Rights of Way (ROW), property ownership, assessment and taxation information and property class)
# Address Information (house number, street name, City, zip, site location (coordinates) and zoning information)
# Jurisdictional boundaries (incorporated areas, city limits, county boundaries, etc.), urban growth boundaries, public safety response areas
# Elevation Information: DEM’s (raster), DTM’s (vector), contours and spot elevation points, as well as mass points and break lines
# Waterways and protected areas: wetlands, fish-bearing streams, endangered species habitat, well-head protection zones, etc.
# Facilities a.k.a. utilities: waste-water, storm-water, transportation systems, power, drinking water, etc. who owns the facility, who maintains the facility, etc.
# Structures/facilities: bridges, building foot prints, complexes, monuments, etc.
# Documents: reference material, procedures, regulations, metadata, etc.
# 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).

* '''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.

* '''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:
** Imagery, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satellite_imagery
** Cadastral, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cadastre
** Elevation, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_elevation_model
** Facilities (structures and utilities)
** Waterways and Flood Maps

== Technologies Available In Our Network ==

* NASA World Wind (Java, iOS and Android, Web version on its way), http://goworldwind.org/
* GeoMoose, http://geomoose.org/
* QGIS, http://www.qgis.org/
* i-Locate, http://i-locate.eu/
* Open Transit Indicators Enable Cities to Design '''Better Transit Systems'''
** http://www.azavea.com/blogs/newsletter/v10i1/open-transit-indicators-enable-cities-to-design-better-transit-systems/
* Australia Urban Intelligence Network, AURIN Portal and workbench, http://osgeolab.unimelb.edu.au/
* Arizona State University (ASU) GeoDa, https://geodacenter.asu.edu/software
** 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.

== Potential Partners ==

* Netherlands Coordination Office, United Nations Spatial Data Infrastructure (UNSDI) http://www.unsdi.nl/
* GeoAcademy (Phil Davis), http://discoverspatial.com/
* University of Massachusetts at Amherst, http://eco.umass.edu/people/faculty/schweik-charles-m/
* IBM '''Smarter Cities,''' http://www.ibm.com/smarterplanet/us/en/smarter_cities/overview/
* Aalborg University Copenhagen, '''Sustainable Cities''' Master Programme, http://sustainablecities.aau.dk/
* Imperial College London, Intel Collaborative Research Institute (ICRI) for '''Sustainable Connected Cites,''' http://www.cities.io/guiding-principles/
* ISET Building '''Urban Resilience''' to Climate Change, http://i-s-e-t.org/resources/working-papers/building-resilience.html
* 100 '''Resilient Cities''' Challenge, http://www.100resilientcities.org/pages/100-resilient-cities-challenge
* '''Global Resilience''' Partnership Seeks New Ideas on Resilience in Africa, Southeast Asia
** http://www.rockefellerfoundation.org/blog/global-resilience-partnership-seeks-new
** http://www.globalresiliencepartnership.org/blog/2015/02/17/grp-teams-announced/
* GeoDa Center for Geospatial Analysis, https://geodacenter.asu.edu/
* Australia '''Urban Intelligence''' Network, AURIN, http://aurin.org.au/
* Arizona State University (ASU) GeoDa, https://geodacenter.asu.edu/software
* HAROSA Knowledge Community (HAROSA KC), http://dpcs.uoc.edu/joomla/index.php/about-harosa-kc
* Politecnico di Milano, GEO Lab (Geomatics and Earth Observations) http://geomatica.como.polimi.it/index.php?lang=en
** 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.

== CitySmart/SmartCity ''Road Map:'' ''''The Challenge'''' ==

'''The Task'''

Develop a '''''Road Map,''''' the ''Requirements doc,'' essentially the 'specs' for what this ''Urban Science - City Analytics'', CitySmart app looks like.

The Road Map will likely be based on information in the 'framework' documents mentioned above in the Road Map section:

* http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/GeoForAll_UrbanScience_CityAnalytics#Urban_Science_-_City_Analytics:_Road_Map.

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.

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.

'''Who Will Do This?'''

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!

'''Why Do This?'''

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.

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.

'''Road Map Done, Then What?'''

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?

== Reference Material ==

* Future Cities, UK Ordnance Survey
** https://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/about/thinking/future-cities/

* '''''Climate Adaptation''''' Guidebook for Municipalities
** http://www.cmap.illinois.gov/documents/10180/14193/FY13-0119+Climate+Adaptation+toolkit+lowres.pdf

* How Cities Can Battle '''''Climate Change with Resiliency Planning'''''
** http://www.triplepundit.com/2014/09/cities-can-battle-climate-change-resiliency-planning/

* ISET Working Paper 3: Planning for '''''Urban Climate Resilience'''''
** http://i-s-e-t.org/resources/working-papers/climate-resilience-paper-3.html

* USA Federal Policies to Build '''''Climate-Resilient''''' Coastal Regions, Lessons from Hurricane Sandy
** http://resilient-cities.iclei.org/resilient-cities-hub-site/resilience-resource-point/resilience-library/urban-resilience-planning/

* '''Resilience''': A Bridging Concept or a Dead End? http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14649357.2012.677124
** “Reframing” '''Resilience''': Challenges for Planning Theory and Practice
** Interacting Traps: '''Resilience''' Assessment of a Pasture Management System in Northern Afghanistan
** '''Urban Resilience''': What Does it Mean in Planning Practice?
** '''Resilience''' as a Useful Concept for '''''Climate Change''''' Adaptation?
** The Politics of '''Resilience for Planning''': A Cautionary Note

* Managing Aging City Infrastructure:
** http://graphics.latimes.com/la-aging-water-infrastructure/

* Wow! A rural town in Italy '''>'''100% sustainable energy:
** http://reregions.blogspot.com/2010/03/varese-ligure-italy.html
** http://cleantechnica.com/2014/01/09/varese-ligure-italy-small-town-high-renewables/
** http://www.ecofriend.com/italian-town-runs-completely-on-renewable-energy.html

* '''''Sustainable''''' background info:
** Sustainable City, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sustainable_city
** Sustainable Energy, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sustainable_energy
** Sustainable Transport, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sustainable_transport
** Sustainable Living, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sustainable_living
** Urban Agriculture, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urban_agriculture

* Urban Farming
** Growing Cities, http://www.yesmagazine.org/planet/growing-cities
** World’s Largest Urban Farm, http://www.yesmagazine.org/peace-justice/detroit-community-gardeners-question-hantz-urban-farm
** Growing Home, http://www.yesmagazine.org/new-economy/growing-home-urban-agriculture-in-chicago
** Breaking Through Concrete, http://www.yesmagazine.org/planet/growing-through-concrete-an-urban-farming-roadtrip
** ''Growing Power'' Despite an Urban 'Food' Desert, http://www.yesmagazine.org/issues/food-for-everyone/growing-power-in-an-urban-food-desert

* Local Grocery
** http://www.cooperativegrocer.coop/articles/2004-01-08/mondragons-eroski-mass-retailer
** http://www.yesmagazine.org/issues/the-new-economy/mondragon-worker-cooperatives-decide-how-to-ride-out-a-downturn

* Open Source Ecology, ''Do-It-Yourself'' Industrial Equipment
** http://opensourceecology.org/gvcs/gvcs-machine-index/
** http://www.ted.com/talks/marcin_jakubowski

GeoForAll UrbanScience CityAnalytics

2015-03-08T20:45:36Z

Wiki-Ahunter: /* Who's Who Here? */

'''Welcome to "Geo for All" Urban Science and City Analytics:''' ''''''CitySmart/SmartCity''''''

* Chairs: Chris Pettit (Australia) and Patrick Hogan (USA)

* 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.

* All participants should support the 'Open Cities Guiding Principles.' (Thanks to Cameron Shorter for this.)

'''Open Cities - Guiding Principles''' (need a reference for this please)

* All material created is made available for all under an Open License
* All material is carefully designed (API-centric modular componentry) so that it can be built upon by others
* All participants aim to reuse, extend and invent material (in that order)

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.

== Who's Who Here? ==
Please let us know of your '''''interest to participate''''' by adding yourself to this list.

* Chris Pettit, University of Melbourne, https://www.linkedin.com/pub/chris-pettit/16/190/4B0
** Coordinate the implementation of eResearch tools to support urban researchers across Australia under the auspices of the Australian Urban Research Infrastructure Network (AURIN).

* Charlie Schweik and Alexander (Sasha) Stepanov, http://eco.umass.edu/people/faculty/schweik-charles-m/
** University of Massachusetts Amherst. Trying to build educational service learning opportunities for students on advanced GIS using our campus as a "testbed."

* Tom Mueller, California University of Pennsylvania, http://www.calu.edu/academics/faculty/thomas-mueller.aspx
** Similar to Charlie, I want to build educational exercises and service learning opportunities for my students.

* Jim Miller, University of Kansas, Computer Science, http://people.eecs.ku.edu/~miller/
** Using NASA World Wind for several open source geo-visualization efforts, including Lidar and multivariate scalar and vector field visualization.

* Brandt Melick, Information Technology Department Director, Springfield Oregon USA, https://www.linkedin.com/pub/brandt-melick/22/869/261
** 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.

* Ant Beck, University of Nottingham Research Fellow, https://www.linkedin.com/in/antbeck
** Currently transitioning into CityAnalytics looking at city wide entropy based energy management simulations. Have aspirations for an open, big data environment.

* Phillip Davis, GeoAcademy, https://www.linkedin.com/pub/phillip-davis/9/59/b7b
** 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.

* Patrick Hogan, NASA World Wind Project Manager, https://www.linkedin.com/in/phogan
** Building open source virtual globe technology meant to stimulate innovative solutions managing geospatial data, whether open or proprietary.

* Antoni Perez-Navarro, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, https://www.linkedin.com/in/antonipereznavarro
** Currently working on indoor positioning systems. Previously developed the Context Aware Recommender System.

* Giuseppe Conti, https://www.linkedin.com/in/gconti
** 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.

* Evangelos Mitsakis, https://www.linkedin.com/pub/evangelos-mitsakis/6/62/938
** 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.

* Gábor Remetey, Secretary-general, Hungarian Association for Geo-information (HUNAGI), https://www.linkedin.com/in/remetey
** 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.

*Maria A Brovelli, Politecnico di Milano, http://www.ege-como.polimi.it/index.php?content=maria_brovelli
** 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/).

* Xinyue Ye, Computational Social Science Lab, Kent State University, http://www.xinyueye.com/
** 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.

*Andrew Hunter, GIScience Group, University of Calgary, http://gisciencegroup.ucalgary.ca
** Teach GIS, Land Use Planning and Cadastral Studies. Research focuses on the development of interoperable (open source) frameworks and geospatial applications for land use planning, land development, and geoweb approaches for enhancing community engagement.

* Hande Demirel, Geomatics Engineering Department, Istanbul Technical University, http://faculty.itu.edu.tr/demirelha/
** 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.

* 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
** 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.

*GeoDa Center for Geospatial Analysis and Computation, Arizona State University, https://geodacenter.asu.edu/
** 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?).

== Global Drivers for OSGEO Solutions ==

* EC Infrastructure for Spatial Information in the European Community, INSPIRE, http://inspire.ec.europa.eu/
* US National Spatial Data Infrastructure, NSDI, http://www.fgdc.gov/nsdi/nsdi.html
* United Nations Spatial Data Infrastructure, UNSDI http://www.ungiwg.org/content/united-nations-spatial-data-infrastructure-unsdi
* UNSDI '''Visualization''' for UN Member State briefing http://worldwind.arc.nasa.gov/videos/other/final_visualization_facility.avi
* UN '''Sustainable Development Goals''' (SDG): http://citiscope.org/story/2014/comparing-mdgs-and-sdgs#SDGs
* UN “Urban Goal” (SDG #11): Make cities inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable, http://citiscope.org/story/2014/comparing-mdgs-and-sdgs#No11
* The Brookings Institution: Why we need to think about implementing the '''Sustainable Development Goals'''
** http://www.brookings.edu/blogs/future-development/posts/2015/03/03-implementing-sustainable-development-kharas
* Open Transit Indicators Enable Cities to Design '''Better Transit Systems'''
** http://www.azavea.com/blogs/newsletter/v10i1/open-transit-indicators-enable-cities-to-design-better-transit-systems/

== Key Research Questions ==

* 1. How can we transform existing cities or create new cities that are sustainable, productive and resilient?
** Easy, we work together as one species to solve common problems.
* 2. What is the role and opportunity for big data (and small) in the area of analytics, science and visualisation for shaping our cities?
** 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
* 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?
** By making this '''''Road Map''''' a reality, '''''all''''' cities will have something they need yet also own.
** This also gives them a way to share back the solutions they discover ''''''for the benefit of all.''''''

== CitySmart/SmartCity '''''Road Map:''''' '' 'First Life' '' ==

* We owe this 'first cut' for our CitySmart app to OGC's "Smart Cities Spatial Information Framework"
**http://gisuser.com/2015/02/ogc-smart-cities-spatial-information-framework-white-paper-announced/

* 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 and the US NSDI Executive Order:
** '''http://www.NSDInow.org/SDI_Now_02/Technical_Support.html'''

* ''' 'CitySmart/SmartCity' App Themes/Data-type''' (feel free to expand):
# INSPIRE Data Specifications, http://inspire.ec.europa.eu/index.cfm/pageid/2/list/7
# Urban Planning, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urban_planning
# Intelligent Transportation, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligent_transportation_system
# Health & Medical Services, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_care
# Public Safety & Emergency Services, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergency_service
# Environmental Protection, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_protection
# Intelligent Buildings, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Building_automation
# Utilities: Smart Grid, Smart Water, Sanitation, etc., http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smart_grid
# Location-Based Services, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Location-based_service
# Indoor Positioning System (added by Antoni Perez Navarro), http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indoor_positioning_system
# Context-aware ''Recommender Systems'' (added by Antoni Perez Navarro), http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recommender_system

* '''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:

# INSPIRE Data Models, http://inspire.ec.europa.eu/index.cfm/pageid/2/list/datamodels
# Imagery (3-inch pixel is preferred, 1 foot pixel is less preferred, 1 meter is getting much less preferred)
# Cadastral Information (parcel polygons, Rights of Way (ROW), property ownership, assessment and taxation information and property class)
# Address Information (house number, street name, City, zip, site location (coordinates) and zoning information)
# Jurisdictional boundaries (incorporated areas, city limits, county boundaries, etc.), urban growth boundaries, public safety response areas
# Elevation Information: DEM’s (raster), DTM’s (vector), contours and spot elevation points, as well as mass points and break lines
# Waterways and protected areas: wetlands, fish-bearing streams, endangered species habitat, well-head protection zones, etc.
# Facilities a.k.a. utilities: waste-water, storm-water, transportation systems, power, drinking water, etc. who owns the facility, who maintains the facility, etc.
# Structures/facilities: bridges, building foot prints, complexes, monuments, etc.
# Documents: reference material, procedures, regulations, metadata, etc.
# 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).

* '''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.

* '''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:
** Imagery, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satellite_imagery
** Cadastral, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cadastre
** Elevation, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_elevation_model
** Facilities (structures and utilities)
** Waterways and Flood Maps

== Technologies Available In Our Network ==

* NASA World Wind (Java, iOS and Android, Web version on its way), http://goworldwind.org/
* GeoMoose, http://geomoose.org/
* QGIS, http://www.qgis.org/
* i-Locate, http://i-locate.eu/
* Open Transit Indicators Enable Cities to Design '''Better Transit Systems'''
** http://www.azavea.com/blogs/newsletter/v10i1/open-transit-indicators-enable-cities-to-design-better-transit-systems/
* Australia Urban Intelligence Network, AURIN Portal and workbench, http://osgeolab.unimelb.edu.au/
* Arizona State University (ASU) GeoDa, https://geodacenter.asu.edu/software
** 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.

== Potential Partners ==

* Netherlands Coordination Office, United Nations Spatial Data Infrastructure (UNSDI) http://www.unsdi.nl/
* GeoAcademy (Phil Davis), http://discoverspatial.com/
* University of Massachusetts at Amherst, http://eco.umass.edu/people/faculty/schweik-charles-m/
* IBM '''Smarter Cities,''' http://www.ibm.com/smarterplanet/us/en/smarter_cities/overview/
* Aalborg University Copenhagen, '''Sustainable Cities''' Master Programme, http://sustainablecities.aau.dk/
* Imperial College London, Intel Collaborative Research Institute (ICRI) for '''Sustainable Connected Cites,''' http://www.cities.io/guiding-principles/
* ISET Building '''Urban Resilience''' to Climate Change, http://i-s-e-t.org/resources/working-papers/building-resilience.html
* 100 '''Resilient Cities''' Challenge, http://www.100resilientcities.org/pages/100-resilient-cities-challenge
* '''Global Resilience''' Partnership Seeks New Ideas on Resilience in Africa, Southeast Asia
** http://www.rockefellerfoundation.org/blog/global-resilience-partnership-seeks-new
** http://www.globalresiliencepartnership.org/blog/2015/02/17/grp-teams-announced/
* GeoDa Center for Geospatial Analysis, https://geodacenter.asu.edu/
* Australia '''Urban Intelligence''' Network, AURIN, http://aurin.org.au/
* Arizona State University (ASU) GeoDa, https://geodacenter.asu.edu/software
* HAROSA Knowledge Community (HAROSA KC), http://dpcs.uoc.edu/joomla/index.php/about-harosa-kc
* Politecnico di Milano, GEO Lab (Geomatics and Earth Observations) http://geomatica.como.polimi.it/index.php?lang=en
** 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.

== CitySmart/SmartCity ''Road Map:'' ''''The Challenge'''' ==

'''The Task'''

Develop a '''''Road Map,''''' the ''Requirements doc,'' essentially the 'specs' for what this ''Urban Science - City Analytics'', CitySmart app looks like.

The Road Map will likely be based on information in the 'framework' documents mentioned above in the Road Map section:

* http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/GeoForAll_UrbanScience_CityAnalytics#Urban_Science_-_City_Analytics:_Road_Map.

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.

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.

'''Who Will Do This?'''

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!

'''Why Do This?'''

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.

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.

'''Road Map Done, Then What?'''

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?

== Reference Material ==

* Future Cities, UK Ordnance Survey
** https://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/about/thinking/future-cities/

* '''''Climate Adaptation''''' Guidebook for Municipalities
** http://www.cmap.illinois.gov/documents/10180/14193/FY13-0119+Climate+Adaptation+toolkit+lowres.pdf

* How Cities Can Battle '''''Climate Change with Resiliency Planning'''''
** http://www.triplepundit.com/2014/09/cities-can-battle-climate-change-resiliency-planning/

* ISET Working Paper 3: Planning for '''''Urban Climate Resilience'''''
** http://i-s-e-t.org/resources/working-papers/climate-resilience-paper-3.html

* USA Federal Policies to Build '''''Climate-Resilient''''' Coastal Regions, Lessons from Hurricane Sandy
** http://resilient-cities.iclei.org/resilient-cities-hub-site/resilience-resource-point/resilience-library/urban-resilience-planning/

* '''Resilience''': A Bridging Concept or a Dead End? http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14649357.2012.677124
** “Reframing” '''Resilience''': Challenges for Planning Theory and Practice
** Interacting Traps: '''Resilience''' Assessment of a Pasture Management System in Northern Afghanistan
** '''Urban Resilience''': What Does it Mean in Planning Practice?
** '''Resilience''' as a Useful Concept for '''''Climate Change''''' Adaptation?
** The Politics of '''Resilience for Planning''': A Cautionary Note

* Managing Aging City Infrastructure:
** http://graphics.latimes.com/la-aging-water-infrastructure/

* Wow! A rural town in Italy '''>'''100% sustainable energy:
** http://reregions.blogspot.com/2010/03/varese-ligure-italy.html
** http://cleantechnica.com/2014/01/09/varese-ligure-italy-small-town-high-renewables/
** http://www.ecofriend.com/italian-town-runs-completely-on-renewable-energy.html

* '''''Sustainable''''' background info:
** Sustainable City, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sustainable_city
** Sustainable Energy, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sustainable_energy
** Sustainable Transport, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sustainable_transport
** Sustainable Living, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sustainable_living
** Urban Agriculture, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urban_agriculture

* Urban Farming
** Growing Cities, http://www.yesmagazine.org/planet/growing-cities
** World’s Largest Urban Farm, http://www.yesmagazine.org/peace-justice/detroit-community-gardeners-question-hantz-urban-farm
** Growing Home, http://www.yesmagazine.org/new-economy/growing-home-urban-agriculture-in-chicago
** Breaking Through Concrete, http://www.yesmagazine.org/planet/growing-through-concrete-an-urban-farming-roadtrip
** ''Growing Power'' Despite an Urban 'Food' Desert, http://www.yesmagazine.org/issues/food-for-everyone/growing-power-in-an-urban-food-desert

* Local Grocery
** http://www.cooperativegrocer.coop/articles/2004-01-08/mondragons-eroski-mass-retailer
** http://www.yesmagazine.org/issues/the-new-economy/mondragon-worker-cooperatives-decide-how-to-ride-out-a-downturn

* Open Source Ecology, ''Do-It-Yourself'' Industrial Equipment
** http://opensourceecology.org/gvcs/gvcs-machine-index/
** http://www.ted.com/talks/marcin_jakubowski

GeoForAll UrbanScience CityAnalytics

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Wiki-Ahunter: /* Who's Who Here? */

'''Welcome to "Geo for All" Urban Science and City Analytics:''' ''''''CitySmart/SmartCity''''''

* Chairs: Chris Pettit (Australia) and Patrick Hogan (USA)

* 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.

* All participants should support the 'Open Cities Guiding Principles.' (Thanks to Cameron Shorter for this.)

'''Open Cities - Guiding Principles''' (need a reference for this please)

* All material created is made available for all under an Open License
* All material is carefully designed (API-centric modular componentry) so that it can be built upon by others
* All participants aim to reuse, extend and invent material (in that order)

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.

== Who's Who Here? ==
Please let us know of your '''''interest to participate''''' by adding yourself to this list.

* Chris Pettit, University of Melbourne, https://www.linkedin.com/pub/chris-pettit/16/190/4B0
** Coordinate the implementation of eResearch tools to support urban researchers across Australia under the auspices of the Australian Urban Research Infrastructure Network (AURIN).

* Charlie Schweik and Alexander (Sasha) Stepanov, http://eco.umass.edu/people/faculty/schweik-charles-m/
** University of Massachusetts Amherst. Trying to build educational service learning opportunities for students on advanced GIS using our campus as a "testbed."

* Tom Mueller, California University of Pennsylvania, http://www.calu.edu/academics/faculty/thomas-mueller.aspx
** Similar to Charlie, I want to build educational exercises and service learning opportunities for my students.

* Jim Miller, University of Kansas, Computer Science, http://people.eecs.ku.edu/~miller/
** Using NASA World Wind for several open source geo-visualization efforts, including Lidar and multivariate scalar and vector field visualization.

* Brandt Melick, Information Technology Department Director, Springfield Oregon USA, https://www.linkedin.com/pub/brandt-melick/22/869/261
** 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.

* Ant Beck, University of Nottingham Research Fellow, https://www.linkedin.com/in/antbeck
** Currently transitioning into CityAnalytics looking at city wide entropy based energy management simulations. Have aspirations for an open, big data environment.

* Phillip Davis, GeoAcademy, https://www.linkedin.com/pub/phillip-davis/9/59/b7b
** 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.

* Patrick Hogan, NASA World Wind Project Manager, https://www.linkedin.com/in/phogan
** Building open source virtual globe technology meant to stimulate innovative solutions managing geospatial data, whether open or proprietary.

* Antoni Perez-Navarro, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, https://www.linkedin.com/in/antonipereznavarro
** Currently working on indoor positioning systems. Previously developed the Context Aware Recommender System.

* Giuseppe Conti, https://www.linkedin.com/in/gconti
** 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.

* Evangelos Mitsakis, https://www.linkedin.com/pub/evangelos-mitsakis/6/62/938
** 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.

* Gábor Remetey, Secretary-general, Hungarian Association for Geo-information (HUNAGI), https://www.linkedin.com/in/remetey
** 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.

*Maria A Brovelli, Politecnico di Milano, http://www.ege-como.polimi.it/index.php?content=maria_brovelli
** 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/).

* Xinyue Ye, Computational Social Science Lab, Kent State University, http://www.xinyueye.com/
** 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.

*Andrew Hunter, GIScience Group, University of Calgary, http://gisciencegroup.ucalgary.ca
** Teach GIS, Land Use Planning and Cadastral Studies. Research focuses of the development of interoperable (open source) frameworks and geospatial applications for planning and land development.

* Hande Demirel, Geomatics Engineering Department, Istanbul Technical University, http://faculty.itu.edu.tr/demirelha/
** 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.

* 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
** 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.

*GeoDa Center for Geospatial Analysis and Computation, Arizona State University, https://geodacenter.asu.edu/
** 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?).

== Global Drivers for OSGEO Solutions ==

* EC Infrastructure for Spatial Information in the European Community, INSPIRE, http://inspire.ec.europa.eu/
* US National Spatial Data Infrastructure, NSDI, http://www.fgdc.gov/nsdi/nsdi.html
* United Nations Spatial Data Infrastructure, UNSDI http://www.ungiwg.org/content/united-nations-spatial-data-infrastructure-unsdi
* UNSDI '''Visualization''' for UN Member State briefing http://worldwind.arc.nasa.gov/videos/other/final_visualization_facility.avi
* UN '''Sustainable Development Goals''' (SDG): http://citiscope.org/story/2014/comparing-mdgs-and-sdgs#SDGs
* UN “Urban Goal” (SDG #11): Make cities inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable, http://citiscope.org/story/2014/comparing-mdgs-and-sdgs#No11
* The Brookings Institution: Why we need to think about implementing the '''Sustainable Development Goals'''
** http://www.brookings.edu/blogs/future-development/posts/2015/03/03-implementing-sustainable-development-kharas
* Open Transit Indicators Enable Cities to Design '''Better Transit Systems'''
** http://www.azavea.com/blogs/newsletter/v10i1/open-transit-indicators-enable-cities-to-design-better-transit-systems/

== Key Research Questions ==

* 1. How can we transform existing cities or create new cities that are sustainable, productive and resilient?
** Easy, we work together as one species to solve common problems.
* 2. What is the role and opportunity for big data (and small) in the area of analytics, science and visualisation for shaping our cities?
** 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
* 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?
** By making this '''''Road Map''''' a reality, '''''all''''' cities will have something they need yet also own.
** This also gives them a way to share back the solutions they discover ''''''for the benefit of all.''''''

== CitySmart/SmartCity '''''Road Map:''''' '' 'First Life' '' ==

* We owe this 'first cut' for our CitySmart app to OGC's "Smart Cities Spatial Information Framework"
**http://gisuser.com/2015/02/ogc-smart-cities-spatial-information-framework-white-paper-announced/

* 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 and the US NSDI Executive Order:
** '''http://www.NSDInow.org/SDI_Now_02/Technical_Support.html'''

* ''' 'CitySmart/SmartCity' App Themes/Data-type''' (feel free to expand):
# INSPIRE Data Specifications, http://inspire.ec.europa.eu/index.cfm/pageid/2/list/7
# Urban Planning, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urban_planning
# Intelligent Transportation, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligent_transportation_system
# Health & Medical Services, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_care
# Public Safety & Emergency Services, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergency_service
# Environmental Protection, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_protection
# Intelligent Buildings, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Building_automation
# Utilities: Smart Grid, Smart Water, Sanitation, etc., http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smart_grid
# Location-Based Services, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Location-based_service
# Indoor Positioning System (added by Antoni Perez Navarro), http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indoor_positioning_system
# Context-aware ''Recommender Systems'' (added by Antoni Perez Navarro), http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recommender_system

* '''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:

# INSPIRE Data Models, http://inspire.ec.europa.eu/index.cfm/pageid/2/list/datamodels
# Imagery (3-inch pixel is preferred, 1 foot pixel is less preferred, 1 meter is getting much less preferred)
# Cadastral Information (parcel polygons, Rights of Way (ROW), property ownership, assessment and taxation information and property class)
# Address Information (house number, street name, City, zip, site location (coordinates) and zoning information)
# Jurisdictional boundaries (incorporated areas, city limits, county boundaries, etc.), urban growth boundaries, public safety response areas
# Elevation Information: DEM’s (raster), DTM’s (vector), contours and spot elevation points, as well as mass points and break lines
# Waterways and protected areas: wetlands, fish-bearing streams, endangered species habitat, well-head protection zones, etc.
# Facilities a.k.a. utilities: waste-water, storm-water, transportation systems, power, drinking water, etc. who owns the facility, who maintains the facility, etc.
# Structures/facilities: bridges, building foot prints, complexes, monuments, etc.
# Documents: reference material, procedures, regulations, metadata, etc.
# 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).

* '''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.

* '''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:
** Imagery, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satellite_imagery
** Cadastral, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cadastre
** Elevation, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_elevation_model
** Facilities (structures and utilities)
** Waterways and Flood Maps

== Technologies Available In Our Network ==

* NASA World Wind (Java, iOS and Android, Web version on its way), http://goworldwind.org/
* GeoMoose, http://geomoose.org/
* QGIS, http://www.qgis.org/
* i-Locate, http://i-locate.eu/
* Open Transit Indicators Enable Cities to Design '''Better Transit Systems'''
** http://www.azavea.com/blogs/newsletter/v10i1/open-transit-indicators-enable-cities-to-design-better-transit-systems/
* Australia Urban Intelligence Network, AURIN Portal and workbench, http://osgeolab.unimelb.edu.au/
* Arizona State University (ASU) GeoDa, https://geodacenter.asu.edu/software
** 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.

== Potential Partners ==

* Netherlands Coordination Office, United Nations Spatial Data Infrastructure (UNSDI) http://www.unsdi.nl/
* GeoAcademy (Phil Davis), http://discoverspatial.com/
* University of Massachusetts at Amherst, http://eco.umass.edu/people/faculty/schweik-charles-m/
* IBM '''Smarter Cities,''' http://www.ibm.com/smarterplanet/us/en/smarter_cities/overview/
* Aalborg University Copenhagen, '''Sustainable Cities''' Master Programme, http://sustainablecities.aau.dk/
* Imperial College London, Intel Collaborative Research Institute (ICRI) for '''Sustainable Connected Cites,''' http://www.cities.io/guiding-principles/
* ISET Building '''Urban Resilience''' to Climate Change, http://i-s-e-t.org/resources/working-papers/building-resilience.html
* 100 '''Resilient Cities''' Challenge, http://www.100resilientcities.org/pages/100-resilient-cities-challenge
* '''Global Resilience''' Partnership Seeks New Ideas on Resilience in Africa, Southeast Asia
** http://www.rockefellerfoundation.org/blog/global-resilience-partnership-seeks-new
** http://www.globalresiliencepartnership.org/blog/2015/02/17/grp-teams-announced/
* GeoDa Center for Geospatial Analysis, https://geodacenter.asu.edu/
* Australia '''Urban Intelligence''' Network, AURIN, http://aurin.org.au/
* Arizona State University (ASU) GeoDa, https://geodacenter.asu.edu/software
* HAROSA Knowledge Community (HAROSA KC), http://dpcs.uoc.edu/joomla/index.php/about-harosa-kc
* Politecnico di Milano, GEO Lab (Geomatics and Earth Observations) http://geomatica.como.polimi.it/index.php?lang=en
** 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.

== CitySmart/SmartCity ''Road Map:'' ''''The Challenge'''' ==

'''The Task'''

Develop a '''''Road Map,''''' the ''Requirements doc,'' essentially the 'specs' for what this ''Urban Science - City Analytics'', CitySmart app looks like.

The Road Map will likely be based on information in the 'framework' documents mentioned above in the Road Map section:

* http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/GeoForAll_UrbanScience_CityAnalytics#Urban_Science_-_City_Analytics:_Road_Map.

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.

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.

'''Who Will Do This?'''

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!

'''Why Do This?'''

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.

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.

'''Road Map Done, Then What?'''

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?

== Reference Material ==

* Future Cities, UK Ordnance Survey
** https://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/about/thinking/future-cities/

* '''''Climate Adaptation''''' Guidebook for Municipalities
** http://www.cmap.illinois.gov/documents/10180/14193/FY13-0119+Climate+Adaptation+toolkit+lowres.pdf

* How Cities Can Battle '''''Climate Change with Resiliency Planning'''''
** http://www.triplepundit.com/2014/09/cities-can-battle-climate-change-resiliency-planning/

* ISET Working Paper 3: Planning for '''''Urban Climate Resilience'''''
** http://i-s-e-t.org/resources/working-papers/climate-resilience-paper-3.html

* USA Federal Policies to Build '''''Climate-Resilient''''' Coastal Regions, Lessons from Hurricane Sandy
** http://resilient-cities.iclei.org/resilient-cities-hub-site/resilience-resource-point/resilience-library/urban-resilience-planning/

* '''Resilience''': A Bridging Concept or a Dead End? http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14649357.2012.677124
** “Reframing” '''Resilience''': Challenges for Planning Theory and Practice
** Interacting Traps: '''Resilience''' Assessment of a Pasture Management System in Northern Afghanistan
** '''Urban Resilience''': What Does it Mean in Planning Practice?
** '''Resilience''' as a Useful Concept for '''''Climate Change''''' Adaptation?
** The Politics of '''Resilience for Planning''': A Cautionary Note

* Managing Aging City Infrastructure:
** http://graphics.latimes.com/la-aging-water-infrastructure/

* Wow! A rural town in Italy '''>'''100% sustainable energy:
** http://reregions.blogspot.com/2010/03/varese-ligure-italy.html
** http://cleantechnica.com/2014/01/09/varese-ligure-italy-small-town-high-renewables/
** http://www.ecofriend.com/italian-town-runs-completely-on-renewable-energy.html

* '''''Sustainable''''' background info:
** Sustainable City, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sustainable_city
** Sustainable Energy, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sustainable_energy
** Sustainable Transport, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sustainable_transport
** Sustainable Living, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sustainable_living
** Urban Agriculture, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urban_agriculture

* Urban Farming
** Growing Cities, http://www.yesmagazine.org/planet/growing-cities
** World’s Largest Urban Farm, http://www.yesmagazine.org/peace-justice/detroit-community-gardeners-question-hantz-urban-farm
** Growing Home, http://www.yesmagazine.org/new-economy/growing-home-urban-agriculture-in-chicago
** Breaking Through Concrete, http://www.yesmagazine.org/planet/growing-through-concrete-an-urban-farming-roadtrip
** ''Growing Power'' Despite an Urban 'Food' Desert, http://www.yesmagazine.org/issues/food-for-everyone/growing-power-in-an-urban-food-desert

* Local Grocery
** http://www.cooperativegrocer.coop/articles/2004-01-08/mondragons-eroski-mass-retailer
** http://www.yesmagazine.org/issues/the-new-economy/mondragon-worker-cooperatives-decide-how-to-ride-out-a-downturn

* Open Source Ecology, ''Do-It-Yourself'' Industrial Equipment
** http://opensourceecology.org/gvcs/gvcs-machine-index/
** http://www.ted.com/talks/marcin_jakubowski

GeoForAll UrbanScience CityAnalytics

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Wiki-Ahunter: /* Who's Who Here? */

'''Welcome to "Geo for All" Urban Science and City Analytics:''' ''''''CitySmart''''''

* Chairs: Chris Pettit (Australia) and Patrick Hogan (USA)

* All members can use the maillist to collaborate, geoforall-urbanscience@lists.osgeo.org (once it is working!). All ideas are welcome.

* All participants should support the 'Open Cities Guiding Principles.' (Thanks to Cameron Shorter for this.)

'''Open Cities - Guiding Principles''' (need a reference for this please)

* All material created is made available for all under an Open License
* All material is carefully designed (API-centric modular componentry) so that it can be built upon by others
* All participants aim to reuse, extend and invent material (in that order)

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.

== Who's Who Here? ==
Please let us know of your '''''interest to participate''''' by adding yourself to this list.

* Chris Pettit, University of Melbourne, https://www.linkedin.com/pub/chris-pettit/16/190/4B0
** Coordinate the implementation of eResearch tools to support urban researchers across Australia under the auspices of the Australian Urban Research Infrastructure Network (AURIN).

* Charlie Schweik and Alexander (Sasha) Stepanov, http://eco.umass.edu/people/faculty/schweik-charles-m/
** University of Massachusetts Amherst. Trying to build educational service learning opportunities for students on advanced GIS using our campus as a "testbed."

* Tom Mueller, California University of Pennsylvania, http://www.calu.edu/academics/faculty/thomas-mueller.aspx
** Similar to Charlie, I want to build educational exercises and service learning opportunities for my students.

* Jim Miller, University of Kansas, Computer Science, http://people.eecs.ku.edu/~miller/
** Using NASA World Wind for several open source geo-visualization efforts, including Lidar and multivariate scalar and vector field visualization.

* Brandt Melick, Information Technology Department Director, Springfield Oregon USA, https://www.linkedin.com/pub/brandt-melick/22/869/261
** 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.

* Ant Beck, University of Nottingham Research Fellow, https://www.linkedin.com/in/antbeck
** Currently transitioning into CityAnalytics looking at city wide entropy based energy management simulations. Have aspirations for an open, big data environment.

* Phillip Davis, GeoAcademy, https://www.linkedin.com/pub/phillip-davis/9/59/b7b
** 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.

* Patrick Hogan, NASA World Wind Project Manager, https://www.linkedin.com/in/phogan
** Building open source virtual globe technology meant to stimulate innovative solutions managing geospatial data, whether open or proprietary.

* Antoni Perez-Navarro, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, https://www.linkedin.com/in/antonipereznavarro
** Currently working on indoor positioning systems. Previously developed the Context Aware Recommender System.

* Giuseppe Conti, https://www.linkedin.com/in/gconti
** 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.

* Evangelos Mitsakis, https://www.linkedin.com/pub/evangelos-mitsakis/6/62/938
** 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.

* Gábor Remetey, Secretary-general, Hungarian Association for Geo-information (HUNAGI), https://www.linkedin.com/in/remetey
** 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.

*Maria A Brovelli, Politecnico di Milano, http://www.ege-como.polimi.it/index.php?content=maria_brovelli
** 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/).

* Xinyue Ye, Computational Social Science Lab, Kent State University, http://www.xinyueye.com/
** 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.

*GeoDa Center for Geospatial Analysis and Computation, Arizona State University, https://geodacenter.asu.edu/
** 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?).

*Andrew Hunter, GIScience Group, University of Calgary, http://gisciencegroup.ucalgary.ca
** Development of (open source) frameworks and geospatial applications for planning and land development.

== Global Drivers for OSGEO Solutions ==

* EC Infrastructure for Spatial Information in the European Community, INSPIRE, http://inspire.ec.europa.eu/
* US National Spatial Data Infrastructure, NSDI, http://www.fgdc.gov/nsdi/nsdi.html
* United Nations Spatial Data Infrastructure, UNSDI http://www.ungiwg.org/content/united-nations-spatial-data-infrastructure-unsdi
* UNSDI '''Visualization''' for UN Member State briefing http://worldwind.arc.nasa.gov/videos/other/final_visualization_facility.avi
* UN '''Sustainable Development Goals''' (SDG): http://citiscope.org/story/2014/comparing-mdgs-and-sdgs#SDGs
* UN “Urban Goal” (SDG #11): Make cities inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable, http://citiscope.org/story/2014/comparing-mdgs-and-sdgs#No11
* The Brookings Institution: Why we need to think about implementing the '''Sustainable Development Goals'''
** http://www.brookings.edu/blogs/future-development/posts/2015/03/03-implementing-sustainable-development-kharas
* Open Transit Indicators Enable Cities to Design '''Better Transit Systems'''
** http://www.azavea.com/blogs/newsletter/v10i1/open-transit-indicators-enable-cities-to-design-better-transit-systems/

== Key Research Questions ==

* 1. How can we transform existing cities or create new cities that are sustainable, productive and resilient?
** Easy, we work together as one species to solve common problems.
* 2. What is the role and opportunity for big data (and small) in the area of analytics, science and visualisation for shaping our cities?
** 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
* 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?
** By making this '''''Road Map''''' a reality, '''''all''''' cities will have something they need yet also own.
** This also gives them a way to share back the solutions they discover ''''''for the benefit of all.''''''

== CitySmart '''''Road Map:''''' '' 'First Life' '' ==

* We owe this 'first cut' for our CitySmart app to OGC's "Smart Cities Spatial Information Framework"
**http://gisuser.com/2015/02/ogc-smart-cities-spatial-information-framework-white-paper-announced/

* 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 and the US NSDI Executive Order:
** '''http://www.NSDInow.org/SDI_Now_02/Technical_Support.html'''

* ''' 'CitySmart' App Themes/Data-type''' (feel free to expand):
# INSPIRE Data Specifications, http://inspire.ec.europa.eu/index.cfm/pageid/2/list/7
# Urban Planning, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urban_planning
# Intelligent Transportation, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligent_transportation_system
# Health & Medical Services, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_care
# Public Safety & Emergency Services, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergency_service
# Environmental Protection, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_protection
# Intelligent Buildings, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Building_automation
# Utilities: Smart Grid, Smart Water, Sanitation, etc., http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smart_grid
# Location-Based Services, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Location-based_service
# Indoor Positioning System (added by Antoni Perez Navarro), http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indoor_positioning_system
# Context-aware ''Recommender Systems'' (added by Antoni Perez Navarro), http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recommender_system

* '''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:

# INSPIRE Data Models, http://inspire.ec.europa.eu/index.cfm/pageid/2/list/datamodels
# Imagery (3-inch pixel is preferred, 1 foot pixel is less preferred, 1 meter is getting much less preferred)
# Cadastral Information (parcel polygons, Rights of Way (ROW), property ownership, assessment and taxation information and property class)
# Address Information (house number, street name, City, zip, site location (coordinates) and zoning information)
# Jurisdictional boundaries (incorporated areas, city limits, county boundaries, etc.), urban growth boundaries, public safety response areas
# Elevation Information: DEM’s (raster), DTM’s (vector), contours and spot elevation points, as well as mass points and break lines
# Waterways and protected areas: wetlands, fish-bearing streams, endangered species habitat, well-head protection zones, etc.
# Facilities a.k.a. utilities: waste-water, storm-water, transportation systems, power, drinking water, etc. who owns the facility, who maintains the facility, etc.
# Structures/facilities: bridges, building foot prints, complexes, monuments, etc.
# Documents: reference material, procedures, regulations, metadata, etc.
# 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).

* '''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.

* '''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:
** Imagery, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satellite_imagery
** Cadastral, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cadastre
** Elevation, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_elevation_model
** Facilities (structures and utilities)
** Waterways and Flood Maps

== Technologies Available In Our Network ==

* NASA World Wind (Java, iOS and Android, Web version on its way), http://goworldwind.org/
* GeoMoose, http://geomoose.org/
* QGIS, http://www.qgis.org/
* i-Locate, http://i-locate.eu/
* Open Transit Indicators Enable Cities to Design '''Better Transit Systems'''
** http://www.azavea.com/blogs/newsletter/v10i1/open-transit-indicators-enable-cities-to-design-better-transit-systems/
* Australia Urban Intelligence Network, AURIN Portal and workbench, http://osgeolab.unimelb.edu.au/
* Arizona State University (ASU) GeoDa, https://geodacenter.asu.edu/software
** 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.

== Potential Partners ==

* Netherlands Coordination Office, United Nations Spatial Data Infrastructure (UNSDI) http://www.unsdi.nl/
* GeoAcademy (Phil Davis), http://discoverspatial.com/
* University of Massachusetts at Amherst, http://eco.umass.edu/people/faculty/schweik-charles-m/
* IBM '''Smarter Cities,''' http://www.ibm.com/smarterplanet/us/en/smarter_cities/overview/
* Aalborg University Copenhagen, '''Sustainable Cities''' Master Programme, http://sustainablecities.aau.dk/
* Imperial College London, Intel Collaborative Research Institute (ICRI) for '''Sustainable Connected Cites,''' http://www.cities.io/guiding-principles/
* ISET Building '''Urban Resilience''' to Climate Change, http://i-s-e-t.org/resources/working-papers/building-resilience.html
* 100 '''Resilient Cities''' Challenge, http://www.100resilientcities.org/pages/100-resilient-cities-challenge
* '''Global Resilience''' Partnership Seeks New Ideas on Resilience in Africa, Southeast Asia
** http://www.rockefellerfoundation.org/blog/global-resilience-partnership-seeks-new
** http://www.globalresiliencepartnership.org/blog/2015/02/17/grp-teams-announced/
* GeoDa Center for Geospatial Analysis, https://geodacenter.asu.edu/
* Australia '''Urban Intelligence''' Network, AURIN, http://aurin.org.au/
* Arizona State University (ASU) GeoDa, https://geodacenter.asu.edu/software
* HAROSA Knowledge Community (HAROSA KC), http://dpcs.uoc.edu/joomla/index.php/about-harosa-kc
* Politecnico di Milano, GEO Lab (Geomatics and Earth Observations) http://geomatica.como.polimi.it/index.php?lang=en
** 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.

== CitySmart ''Road Map:'' ''''The Challenge'''' ==

'''The Task'''

Develop a '''''Road Map,''''' the ''Requirements doc,'' essentially the 'specs' for what this ''Urban Science - City Analytics'', CitySmart app looks like.

The Road Map will likely be based on information in the 'framework' documents mentioned above in the Road Map section:

* http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/GeoForAll_UrbanScience_CityAnalytics#Urban_Science_-_City_Analytics:_Road_Map.

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.

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.

'''Who Will Do This?'''

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!

'''Why Do This?'''

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.

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.

'''Road Map Done, Then What?'''

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?

== Reference Material ==

* Future Cities, UK Ordnance Survey
** https://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/about/thinking/future-cities/

* '''''Climate Adaptation''''' Guidebook for Municipalities
** http://www.cmap.illinois.gov/documents/10180/14193/FY13-0119+Climate+Adaptation+toolkit+lowres.pdf

* How Cities Can Battle '''''Climate Change with Resiliency Planning'''''
** http://www.triplepundit.com/2014/09/cities-can-battle-climate-change-resiliency-planning/

* ISET Working Paper 3: Planning for '''''Urban Climate Resilience'''''
** http://i-s-e-t.org/resources/working-papers/climate-resilience-paper-3.html

* USA Federal Policies to Build '''''Climate-Resilient''''' Coastal Regions, Lessons from Hurricane Sandy
** http://resilient-cities.iclei.org/resilient-cities-hub-site/resilience-resource-point/resilience-library/urban-resilience-planning/

* '''Resilience''': A Bridging Concept or a Dead End? http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14649357.2012.677124
** “Reframing” '''Resilience''': Challenges for Planning Theory and Practice
** Interacting Traps: '''Resilience''' Assessment of a Pasture Management System in Northern Afghanistan
** '''Urban Resilience''': What Does it Mean in Planning Practice?
** '''Resilience''' as a Useful Concept for '''''Climate Change''''' Adaptation?
** The Politics of '''Resilience for Planning''': A Cautionary Note

* Managing Aging City Infrastructure:
** http://graphics.latimes.com/la-aging-water-infrastructure/

* Wow! A rural town in Italy '''>'''100% sustainable energy:
** http://reregions.blogspot.com/2010/03/varese-ligure-italy.html
** http://cleantechnica.com/2014/01/09/varese-ligure-italy-small-town-high-renewables/
** http://www.ecofriend.com/italian-town-runs-completely-on-renewable-energy.html

* '''''Sustainable''''' background info:
** Sustainable City, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sustainable_city
** Sustainable Energy, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sustainable_energy
** Sustainable Transport, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sustainable_transport
** Sustainable Living, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sustainable_living
** Urban Agriculture, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urban_agriculture

* Urban Farming
** Growing Cities, http://www.yesmagazine.org/planet/growing-cities
** World’s Largest Urban Farm, http://www.yesmagazine.org/peace-justice/detroit-community-gardeners-question-hantz-urban-farm
** Growing Home, http://www.yesmagazine.org/new-economy/growing-home-urban-agriculture-in-chicago
** Breaking Through Concrete, http://www.yesmagazine.org/planet/growing-through-concrete-an-urban-farming-roadtrip
** ''Growing Power'' Despite an Urban 'Food' Desert, http://www.yesmagazine.org/issues/food-for-everyone/growing-power-in-an-urban-food-desert

* Local Grocery
** http://www.cooperativegrocer.coop/articles/2004-01-08/mondragons-eroski-mass-retailer
** http://www.yesmagazine.org/issues/the-new-economy/mondragon-worker-cooperatives-decide-how-to-ride-out-a-downturn

* Open Source Ecology, ''Do-It-Yourself'' Industrial Equipment
** http://opensourceecology.org/gvcs/gvcs-machine-index/
** http://www.ted.com/talks/marcin_jakubowski

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Wiki-Ahunter: /* Current members of the ICA-OSGeo Network */

== 2013-2014 OSGeo Education and Curriculum Current Initiatives ==

'''The official website is online at ''http://www.geoforall.org''''' - locations: [http://www.geoforall.org/locations/ ICA-OSGeo Map]

=== 1) Continue to build up our educational material federated content databases ===

* [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
* [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
* [[Webinar Series ]]

===2) Continue to expand the ICA-OSGeo Network ===

This effort is led by Suchith Anand at the University of Nottingham, UK.

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]].

== Current members of the ICA-OSGeo Network ==



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.

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 [http://www.geoforall.org/locations/ ICA-OSGeo Map]) :

{|class="wikitable sortable" border="2" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="6" rules="all" style="margin:1em 1em 1em 0; border:solid 1px #AAAAAAAA; border-collapse:collapse; background-color:#edf9c7; font-size:95%; empty-cells:show;"
!
! Laboratory name and institution
! City
! Country
! Continent
! Coordinates (longitude, latitude)
! Application recieved / Announced
! Notes (projects, collaborations, etc)
! Contact names
! Contact emails
|-
| 1.
| [http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/ngi/research/geospatial-science/geospatial-science.aspx University of Nottingham]
| Nottingham
| UK
| Europe
| -1.250296, 52.831497
|
|
| Jeremy Morley
| Jeremy dot Morley at nottingham.ac.uk
|-
| 2.
| [http://www.sigte.udg.edu/ University of Girona]
| Girona
| Spain
| Europe
| 2.837305, 41.967426
| 2012-09-10
|
| Lluís Vicens
| lluis at sigte.udg.edu
|-
| 3.
| [http://www.osgl.soton.ac.uk/ University of Southampton]
| Southampton
| UK
| Europe
| -1.396873, 50.936974
| 2013-04-30
|
| Jason Sadler
| osgl at geodata.soton.ac.uk
|-
| 4.
| [http://geo.fsv.cvut.cz/gwiki/osgeorel Czech Technical University in Prague]
| Prague
| Czech Republic
| Europe
| 14.390363, 50.10183
| 2012-11-23
| Geospatial analysis, modeling and visualization, remote sensing, [http://grass.osgeo.org GRASS GIS] and [http://www.qgis.org QGIS] development
| Martin Landa
| martin.landa at fsv.cvut.cz
|-
| 5.
| [http://research.ncl.ac.uk/osgeolab/ Newcastle University]
| Newcastle
| UK
| Europe
| -1.611536, 54.980656
| 2013-01-17
|
| Philip James
| philip.james at ncl.ac.uk (please use subject: OSGeoLab)
|-
| 6.
| [http://geomatica.como.polimi.it/ Politecnico di Milano - Polo Territoriale di Como]
| Como
| Italy
| Europe
| 9.095939, 45.803516
| 2013-02-25
|
| Maria Brovelli
| geowb at geomatica.como.polimi.it
|-
| 7.
| [http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/lifesci/research/facilities/geolab/ University of Warwick]
| Warwick
| UK
| Europe
| -1.56273, 52.380531
| 2013-03-23
|
| Nataliya Tkachenko
| geolab at warwick.ac.uk
|-
| 8.
| [http://www.gridw.pl UNEP/GRID-Warsaw Centre]
| Warsaw
| Poland
| Europe
| 21.039473, 52.198849
| 2013-03-18
|
| Ela Woloszynska-Wisniewska
| ela at gridw.pl
|-
| 9.
| [http://www.supsi.ch/ist_en/settori-attivita/geomatica.html University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Southern Switzerland] (SUPSI)
| Lugano
| Switzerland
| Europe
| 8.961098, 46.028362
| 2013-09-03
| Institute of Earth Sciences
| Massimiliano Cannata
| geomatica at supsi.ch
|-
| 10.
| [http://karlinapp.ethz.ch/osgl/ ETH Zurich]
| Zurich
| Switzerland
| Europe
| 8.5481, 47.3764
| 2013-09-20
| [http://www.ikg.ethz.ch/about/index_EN Institute of Cartography and Geoinformation, ETH Zurich]
| Ionu? Iosifescu
| iosifescu at ethz.ch
|-
| 11.
| University of Molise
| Molise
| Italy
| Europe
| 14.493651, 41.630815
|
| in process of being established
| Rosella Nocera
|
|-
| 12.
| [http://www.igik.edu.pl/en Institute of Geodesy and Cartography] (IGiK)
| Warsaw
| Poland
| Europe
| 52.178478, 21.013407
|
| in process of being established
| Agata Ciołkosz-Styk
|
|-
| 13.
| [http://opengis.unibuc.ro/ Faculty of Geography, University of Bucharest]
| Bucharest
| Romania
| Europe
| 26.103889, 44.432500
|
| new website under development
| Andreea Marin
| andreea dot marin09 at yahoo dot com
|-
| 14.
| [http://www.geo.info.hu/english/index.php Faculty of Geoinformatics,University of West Hungary]
| Székesfehérvár
| Hungary
| Europe
| 18.418833, 47.188778
|
| in process of being established
| Andrea Podör
|
|-
| 15.
| [http://www.hft-stuttgart.de/Studienbereiche/Vermessung/Master-Photogrammetry-Geoinformatics/Labs/ICA-OSGeo-Labor/index.html/en Stuttgart University of Applied Sciences]
| Stuttgart
| Germany
| Europe
| 9.17370, 48.77996
| 2013-10-14
|
| Franz-Josef Behr
| franz-josef.behr at hft-stuttgart.de
|-
| 16.
| [http://www.geomatica.ufpr.br/index.html Federal University of Paraná]
| Paraná
| Brazil
| South America
| -49.26141, -25.427074
| 2012-05-23
|
| Silvana Camboim
|
|-
| 17.
| [http://www.unesp.br/ São Paulo State University] (UNESP)
| São Paulo
| Brazil
| South America
| -46.654129, -23.576574
|
|
|
|
|-
| 18.
| National Amazonian University of Madre de Dios (UNAMAD)
| Puerto Maldonado
| Peru
| South America
| -73.245789, -3.745845
| 2013-02-01
| in process of being established
| Andrea Birgit Chavez
|
|-
| 19.
| [http://ltaat.fcien.edu.uy Universidad de la República]
| Montevideo
| Uruguay
| South America
| -56.176441, -34.902405
| 2013-03-01
| new website under development
| Virginia Fernandez
| vfernandez at presidencia.gub.uy
|-
| 20.
| University of Campinas
| Campinas
| Brazil
| South America
| -47.063239, -22.907105
|
| in process of being established
|
|
|-
| 21.
| Federal University of Alagoas
| Maceió
| Brazil
| South America
| -35.735098, -9.666251
|
| http://www.nmarisco.simplesite.com.br/
|
|
|-
| 22.
| [http://gis.ncsu.edu/osgeorel/ North Carolina State University OSGeoREL]
| Raleigh, NC
| USA
| North America
| -78.6764, 35.7818
| 2012-10-18
|Geospatial analysis, modeling and visualization, [http://grass.osgeo.org GRASS GIS] development
| Helena Mitasova
| hmitaso at ncsu.edu
|-
| 23.
| [http://www.umass.edu/opensource University of Massachusetts Amherst]
| Amherst
| USA
| North America
| -72.524696, 42.393578
| 2012-10-18
|
| Charlie Schweik
| cschweik at pubpol dot umass dot edu
|-
| 24.
| [https://sites.google.com/site/foss4gku/ University of Kansas]
| Lawrence, KS
| USA
| North America
| -95.251311, 38.958578
| 2013-08-23
|
| Xingong Li
| lixi at ku.edu
|-
| 25.
| [https://geospatial.ucdavis.edu/resources/open-source University of California, Davis]
| Davis
| USA
| North America
| -121.766945, 38.548801
| 2013-02-04
| [http://live.osgeo.org OSGeo-Live]
| Alex Mandel
| aimandel at ucdavis.edu
|-
| 26.
| [http://www.cozcyt.gob.mx/labsol/ Laboratorio de Software Libre]
| Zacatecas
| Mexico
| North America
| -102.5791, 22.7608
| 2013-04-05
| in process of being established
| Manual Haro
| manuel.haro at zacatecas.gob.mx
|-
| 27.
| Kent State University
| Kent, Ohio
| USA
| North America
| -81.357886,41.153667
| 2013-08-30
|
| Xinyue Ye
| xye5 at kent.edu
|-
| 28.
| [https://gis.uncc.edu/osgl Center for Applied GIScience, University of North Carolina, Charlotte ]
| Charlotte, NC
| USA
| North America
| -80.730000, 35.306944
| 2013-09-05
|
| Wenwu Tang
| WenwuTang at uncc.edu
|-
| 29.
| [http://www.nottingham.edu.my/Geography/Newsitems/Establishing-Open-Source-Geospatial-Lab.aspx University of Nottingham, Malaysia campus]
| Semenyih
| Malaysia
| Asia
| 101.721298, 3.172932
| 2012-01-09
| website in development
| Tuong Thuy Vu
| Tuongthuy.Vu at nottingham.edu.my
|-
| 30.
| [http://www.utm.my/ Universiti Teknologi Malaysia] (UTM)
| Johor Bahru
| Malaysia
| Asia
| 101.874222, 2.943748
|
| in process of being established
|
|
|-
| 31.
| National College of Public Administration and Governance(NCPAG), University of the Philippines
| Manila
| Philippines
| Asia
| 121.059875, 14.656005
|
| in process of being established
| Noriel Christopher Tiglao
|
|-
| 32.
| Environmental Science for Social Change (ESSC)
| Quezon City
| Philippines
| Asia
| 121.062241, 14.64372
|
| in process of being established
| Maning Sambale
|
|-
| 33.
| [http://lsi.iiit.ac.in/labinfo/ Lab for Spatial Informatics], IIIT Hyderabad
| Hyderabad
| India
| Asia
| 78.3503, 17.4454
| 2011-08-22
|
| Dr K S Rajan
|
|-
| 34.
| [http://grel.ist.edu.pk/ Geospatial Research and Education Lab](GREL), Institute of Space Technology (IST)
| Islamabad
| Pakistan
| Asia
| 73.175045, 33.520060
|
|
|Rizwan Bulbul
|bulbul(dot)rizwan(at)gmail(dot)com
|-
| 35.
| [http://www.up.ac.za/cgis University of Pretoria]
| Pretoria
| South Africa
| Africa
| 28.22847, -25.75429
| 2012-05-15
|
| Serena Coetzee
| serena dot coetzee at up dot ac dot za
|-
| 36.
| [http://www.rcmrd.org/ Regional Centre for Mapping of Resources for Development] (RCMRD)
| Nairobi
| Kenya
| Africa
| 36.858574, -1.249038
|
| in process of being established
| Hussein Farah
| farah at rcmrd.org
|-
| 37.
| University of Ghana
| Accra
| Ghana
| Africa
| -0.191617, 5.650366
|
| in process of being established
| Foster Mensah
|
|-
| 38.
| The University of Melbourne
| Melbourne
| Australia
| Australia
| 144.962006, -37.797932
| 2013-07-22
|
| Chris Pettit
|
|-
| 39.
| [http://cbi.tamucc.edu/Geospatial-Computing/ Texas A&M University - Corpus Christi]
| Corpus Christi
| USA
| North America
| -97.328799, 27.714506
| 2013-09-09
| in process of being established/website under construction
| Rick Smith
| Richard.Smith at tamucc.edu
|-
| 40.
| [http://www.geomaticsindia-cept.org/ CEPT University]
| Ahmedabad
| India
| Asia
| 72.566004,23.039568
| 2012-07-18
| in process of being established
| Prof. Anjana Vyas & Ms. Darshana Rawal
| anjanavyas at cept.ac.in rawalnet at cept.ac.in
|-
| 41.
| National University of San Juan
| San Juan
| Argentina
| South America
| -68.521408, -31.527273
| 2012-06-15
| in process of being established
| Agustin Arroqui
| aarroqui at unsj.edu.ar
|-
| 42.
| [http://geodacenter.asu.edu GeoDa Center for Geospatial Analysis and Computation, Arizona State University]
| Tempe, AZ
| USA
| North America
| -111.940005, 33.425510
| 2013-09-27
| Spatial econometrics, geocomputation, spatial optimization - [https://geodacenter.asu.edu/software/downloads GeoDa], [http://pysal.org PySAL], [https://geodacenter.asu.edu/software/downloads/geodaspace GeoDaSpace]
| [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luc_Anselin Luc Anselin]
| geodacenter at asu.edu
|-
| 43.
| National Technical University of Athens
| Athens
| Greece
| Europe
| 23.729310, 37.983716
| 2013-09-26
| in process of being established
|
|
|-
| 44.
| IGN- France
| Paris
| France
| Europe
| 2.352222, 48.856614
| 2013-09-26
| in process of being established
| Benedicte Bucher
|
|-
| 45.
| Universitat Oberta de Catalunya
| Barcelona
| Spain
| Europe
| 2.173403, 41.385064
| 2013-09-27
| in process of being established
| Dr. Antoni Pérez Navarro
| aperezn at uoc.edu
|-
| 46.
| [http://www.isric.org ISRIC - World Soil Information foundation]
| Wageningen
| The Netherlands
| Europe
| 5.665662,51.9875
|2013-10-02
|website in construction
| Jorge de Jesus
| jorge.mendesdejesus at wur.nl
|-
| 47.
| Universidade da Coruña
| A Coruña (España)
| Spain
| Europe
| -8.411540, 43.362344
| 2013-10-15
| in process of being established
| Alberto Varela García
|
|-
| 48.
| Universiti Sains Malaysia
| Penang
| Malaysia
| Asia
| 100.484623, 5.263234
|2013-10-16
|in process of being established
| Ruslan Rainis
|
|-
| 49.
| Kathmandu University
| Dhulikhel
| Nepal
| Asia
| 85.550000, 27.616667
|2012-12-24
|https://sites.google.com/a/ku.edu.np/opensourcegeospatial/
| Shashish Maharjan
|
|-
| 50
| [http://gis.cri.fmach.it/ GIS and Remote Sensing Unit, Fondazione Edmund Mach ]
| San Michele all'Adige (Trento)
| Italy
| Europe
| 11.133042,46.187865
|2013-10-16
|Geospatial analysis, modeling and remote sensing, [http://grass.osgeo.org GRASS GIS] and [http://pymodis.fem-environment.eu/ pyMODIS] development
| Luca Delucchi
| luca.delucchi at fmach.it
|-
| 51.
| [http://gis.research.southwales.ac.uk/ University of South Wales ]
| Cardiff
| United Kingdom
| Europe
| -3.179090,51.481581
|2013-10-31
|
| Dr Mark Ware
| mark.ware at southwales.ac.uk
|-
| 52.
| [http://gisgeek.pdx.edu/wordpress/open-source-gis/ Portland State University]
| Portland, Oregon
| USA
| North America
| -122.676207,45.523452
| 2013-10-22
| Warming up
| David Percy
| percy at pdx.edu
|-
| 53.
| [http://www.icpac.net/ IGAD Climate Prediction and Applications Center]
| Nairobi
| Kenya
| Africa
| 36.821946,-1.292066
| 2013-10-29
| In process of being established
| Muyambi Fortunate
| fbenda at icpac.net
|-
|-
| 54.
| [http://www.labocart.ufc.br/ Federal University of Ceará ]
| Ceará
| Brazil
| South America
| -38.543395,-3.718394
| 2013-10-29
| In process of being established
| Prof. Dr. Adryane Gorayeb
| adryanegorayeb at yahoo dot com dot br
|-
| 55.
| [http://geospecial.wordpress.com/ University of Gloucestershire ]
| Gloucester and Cheltenham
| United Kingdom
| Europe
| -2.223409, 51.872215
| 2013-11-06
| In process of being established
| Dr Robert Berry
| rberry at glos.ac.uk
|-
| 56.
| [http://mrt.ac.lk/foa/ University of Moratuwa ]
| Moratuwa
| Sri Lanka
| Asia
| 79.9008, 6.7964
| 2013-11-11
| [http://www.mrt.ac.lk/tcp/osgeosl.html OSGeoSL ]
| Aruna Wickramasinghe
| toaruna at gmail.com
|-
| 57.
| [http://www.fudan.edu.cn/ Fudan University]
| Shanghai
| China
| Asia
| 121.452, 31.198
| 2013-11-14
| [http://lab.osstat.org/ Open Source STATistics]
| Zhijie Zhang
| epistat at gmail.com
|-
| 58.
| Haskell Indian Nations University
| Lawrence, Kansas
| USA
| North America
| -95.230691, 38.938859
| 2013-11-22
| [https://sites.google.com/site/dtmcdermott/home/haskell-cartography-class/ Haskell Indian Nations University]
| Dave McDermott
| dmcdermott at haskell.edu
|-
| 59.
| [http://www.geof.unizg.hr/mod/book/view.php?id=1165&chapterid=110&lang=en University of Zagreb, Faculty of Geodesy]
| Zagreb
| Croatia
| Europe
| 15.963888, 45.808500
| 2013-11-25
|
| Dražen Tutic
| dtutic at geof.hr
|-
| 60.
| [http://www.geo.gob.bo/ GeoBolivia-Vice-presidency of the State ]
| La Paz
| Bolivia
| South America
| -68.1547, -16.4949
| 2013-11-24
| In process of being established
| Raul Fernando Molina Rodriguez
| rafemoro at gmail.com rmolina@geo.gob.bo
|-
| 61.
| [http://www2.unb.ca/~estef/geo4all.html Geodesy and Geomatics Engineering], University of New Brunswick
| Fredericton, NB
| Canada
| North America
| -66.641474, 45.950252
| 2013-12-10
| Active
| Emmanuel Stefanakis
| emmanuel.stefanakis at gmail.com
|-
| 62.
| [http://geo.sab.ac.lk/ Faculty of Geomatics, Sabaragamuwa University of Sri Lanka]
| Belihuloya, Sabaragamuwa
| Sri Lanka
| Asia
| 80.78995, 6.7102
| 2013-12-12
| In process of being established
| Thilantha Dammalage
| thilantha9 at gmail.com
|-
| 63.
| [http://www.sliit.lk/index.php/sliit/departments/department-of-information-technology Dpt of IT, Faculty of Computing, Sri Lanka Institute of Information Technology]
| Malabe
| Sri Lanka
| Asia
| 79.973166667, 6.914866667
| 2013-12-13
| [http://osgeolab.sliit.lk/ OSGeoSLIIT]
| Nimalika Fernando
| nimalikaf at gmail.com
|-
| 64.
| [http://www.unige.ch/environnement University of Geneva - Institute for Environmental Sciences]
| Geneva
| Switzerland
| Europe
| 6.1487, 46.2253
| 2013-12-19
| In process of being established
| Gregory Giuliani
| gregory.giuliani at unige.ch
|-
| 65.
| [http://www.ifs.hsr.ch/Geometa-Lab.12520.0.html?&L=4 Geometa Lab at HSR - University of Applied Sciences Rapperswil]
| Rapperswil
| Switzerland
| Europe
| 8.81690, 47.22341
| 2014-01-26
| (published 2014-02-05)
| Prof. Stefan Keller
| sfkeller at hsr.ch (and/or at gmail.ch)
|-
| 66.
| National University of "Kyiv-Mohyla Academy", Ecology Faculty
| Kyiv
| Ukraine
| Europe
| 50.456936, 30.515647
| 2014-02-16
| In proess of being established
| Tetyana Kuchma
| tanyakuchma at yahoo.com
|-
| 67.
| Centre for Research and Technology Hellas - Hellenic Institute of Transport
| Thessaloniki
| Greece
| Europe
| 40.567811, 22.996707
| 2014-02-17
| In process of being established
| Dr. Evangelos Mitsakis
| emit at certh.gr
|-
| 68.
| Centre for Spatial Information Science(CSIS), University of Tokyo
| Kashiwa-shi, Chiba
| Japan
| Asia
| 139.938952, 35.902681
| 2014-02-18
| In process of being established
| Taichi FURUHASHI
| taichi at csis.u-tokyo.ac.jp
|-
| 69.
|[http://foss4geo.org FOSS4Geo Academy @ Del Mar College National Open Geospatial Technology Consortium]
| Corpus Christi, Republic of Texas
| USA
| North America
| -97.407096, 27.764053
| 2014-02-18
| Active
| Dr. Phillip Davis
| pdavis at delmar.edu
|-
| 70.
| Osaka City University(OCU)
| Sumiyoshi-ku, Osaka
| Japan
| Asia
| 135.507556, 34.593067
| 2014-02-23
| In process of being established
| Venkatesh RAGHAVAN
| venka.osgeo at gmail.com
|-
| 71.
| [http://www.dicca.unige.it/geomatica/ Università di Genova - Laboratorio di Geomatica]
| Genova
| Italy
| Europe
| 8.962795, 44.400133
| 2014-03-21
|[http://www.gter.it Gter Innovation in Geomatics, Gnss and Gis (spin-off company)]
| Tiziano Cosso - Bianca Federici - Roberto Marzocchi - Domenico Sguerso
| bianca.federici at unige.it
|-
| 72.
| [http://www.eiic.ulpgc.es/ Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria - Escuela de Ingenierías Industriales y Civiles - Grado en Ingenieria Geomática y Topografía]
| Las Palmas de Gran Canaria
| Spain
| Europe
| -15.456207, 28.069303
| 2014-03-23
|
|Fernando Toscano Benítez
| sub_dgn at eiic.ulpgc.es
|-
| 73.
| [http://carsilab.org] Center for Advanced Research on Spatial Information, Hunter College - CUNY
| New York
| US
| North America
|
| 2014-04-04
|
| Carson Farmer
| carson.farmer at hunter.cuny.edu
|-
| 74.
| [http://www.digital-earth.edu.gr/index.php/en/] Hellenic digital earth Centre of Excellence, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki - AUTH
| Thessaloniki
| Greece
| Europe
| 40.627516, 22.961498
| 2014-04-05
|
| Nikos Lambrinos
| labrinos at eled.auth.gr
|-
| 75.
| [http://www.zgis.at/ Interfaculty Department of Geoinformatics - Z_GIS, University of Salzburg]
| Salzburg
| Austria
| Europe
| 47.823711, 13.039586
| 2014-04-14
| [http://www.unigis.net The UNIGIS International Association is the distance education initiative offering masters and diploma programmes in Geographical Information Science and Systems]
| Hermann Klug
| hermann.klug at sbg.ac.at
|-
| 76.
|[http://gisciencegroup.ucalgary.ca The GI Science Group @ the Department of Geomatics Engineering, University of Calgary]
| Calgary
| Canada
| North America
| -114.132457, 51.079735
| 2014-04-22
| in the process of being established
| Andrew Hunter
| ahunter at ucalgary.ca
|-
| 77.
| Ben Gurion University of the Negev (BGU)
| Sede Boqer and Beer Sheva
| Israel
| Europe
| 34.78346, 30.85332
| 2014-04-22
| TBA
| Yaakov GARB
| ygarb at bgu.ac.il
|}

== Interested in adding your own node into the ICA-OSGeo Labs network? ==

As the lab network is expanding fast, we have also setup nodal contacts for each regions:

# Anne Ghisla - Asia & Australia
# Helena Mitasova - North America
# Charlie Schweik - South America
# Suchith Anand - Europe & Africa

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.

The '''key requirements''' for establishing a local OSGL are:

(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.

(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.

(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.

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.

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.

== Meetings ==
; Next meeting:
* ...

; Past Meetings:
* [[ICA OSGeo Lab Network 2013-09-05]] 18.00 UTC
* [[ICA OSGeo Lab Network 2013-07-29]] 14.00 UTC
* [[ICA OSGeo Lab Network 2013-05-02]] 14.00 UTC
* [[ICA OSGeo Lab Network 2013-06-06]] 14.00 UTC

== ISC OSGeo Lab Network Research and Teaching Areas ==

[[ICA_OSGeo_Lab_Research_areas]]
 
[[ICA_OSGeo_Lab_Teaching_areas]]

[[Category: Education]]
[[Category: ICA OSGeo Lab Network]]

ICA OSGeo Lab Research areas

2014-04-23T20:17:55Z

Wiki-Ahunter: /* Geospatial Web Applications and Development */

'''ICA-OSGeo Lab Research and Development Inventory'''

'''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.

== Spatial reasoning and awareness ==

* Federal University of Parana (Silvana Philippi Camboim)
* ETH Zurich, Switzerland (Institute of Cartography and Geoinformation)

== Geospatial Technology ==

* Federal University of Parana (Silvana Philippi Camboim)
* ITC - University of Twente (Barend Kobben)
* Politecnico di Milano (Ludovico Biagi)
* University of Nottingham (Suchith Anand)
* University of Nottingham, Malaysia campus (Tuong Thuy Vu)
* University of Southampton (Jason Sadler)
* USGS Center for Excellence in Geospatial Information Science (Michael P. Finn)
* North Carolina State University
* ETH Zurich, Switzerland (OSGL ETH Zurich / Institute of Cartography and Geoinformation)
* SUPSI - Institute of Earth Sciences (Massimiliano Cannata)
* Geomatics Engineering, University of Calgary (Andrew Hunter)

== Spatial Analysis ==

* Politecnico di Milano (Ludovico Biagi)
* University of Southampton (Jason Sadler)
* USGS Center for Excellence in Geospatial Information Science (Michael P. Finn)
* North Carolina State University (Helena Mitasova)
* University of Southampton (Jason Sadler)
* Geomatics Engineering, University of Calgary (Andrew Hunter)

== Data Acquisition and Management ==

* Czech Technical University in Prague (Martin Landa)
* Federal University of Parana (Silvana Philippi Camboim)
* Newcastle University (Phil James)
* Politecnico di Milano (Ludovico Biagi)
* USGS Center for Excellence in Geospatial Information Science (Michael P. Finn)
* SUPSI - Institute of Earth Sciences (Massimiliano Cannata)
* Geomatics Engineering, University of Calgary (Andrew Hunter)

== Cartographic Design ==

* Federal University of Parana (Silvana Philippi Camboim)
* ITC - University of Twente (Barend Kobben)
* USGS Center for Excellence in Geospatial Information Science (Michael P. Finn)
* ETH Zurich, Switzerland (OSGL ETH Zurich / Institute of Cartography and Geoinformation)

== Remote Sensing ==

* Federal University of Parana (Silvana Philippi Camboim)
* ITC - University of Twente (Barend Kobben)
* Newcastle University (Phil James)
* University of Nottingham, Malaysia campus (Tuong Thuy Vu)
* North Carolina State University

== Geospatial Programming ==

* Czech Technical University in Prague (Martin Landa)
* Newcastle University (Phil James)
* University of Southampton (Jason Sadler)
* USGS Center for Excellence in Geospatial Information Science (Michael P. Finn)
* North Carolina State University
* ETH Zurich, Switzerland (OSGL ETH Zurich / Institute of Cartography and Geoinformation)
* SUPSI - Institute of Earth Sciences (Massimiliano Cannata)
* Geomatics Engineering, University of Calgary (Andrew Hunter)

== Geospatial Web Applications and Development ==

* Newcastle University (Phil James)
* Politecnico di Milano (Ludovico Biagi)
* Stuttgart University of Applied Sciences (Franz-Josef Behr)
* University of Southampton (Jason Sadler)
* ITC-University of Twente (Barend Köbben)
* North Carolina State University
* ETH Zurich, Switzerland (OSGL ETH Zurich / Institute of Cartography and Geoinformation)
* Centre for Geoinformation Science, University of Pretoria (Serena Coetzee)
* SUPSI - Institute of Earth Sciences (Massimiliano Cannata)
* Geomatics Engineering, University of Calgary (Andrew Hunter)

== Geospatial visualization ==

* Federal University of Parana (Silvana Philippi Camboim)
* ITC - University of Twente (Barend Kobben)
* Politecnico di Milano (Ludovico Biagi)
* University of Nottingham (Suchith Anand)
* University of Southampton (Jason Sadler)
* USGS Center for Excellence in Geospatial Information Science (Michael P. Finn)
* North Carolina State University
* Centre for Geoinformation Science, University of Pretoria (Serena Coetzee)

== Other (please add) ==

* Open source collaboration research - University of Massachusetts, Amherst (Schweik)
* Open source geospatial education - University of Massachusetts, Amherst (Schweik)
* Engineering practice - Newcastle University (Phil James)
* Context Aware Recomendation Systems - Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (Antoni Perez-Navarro)
* Indoor positioning - Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (Antoni Perez-Navarro)
* Modeling of landscape processes, disaster management, sustainable development - North Carolina State University
* Spatial Cognition - ETH Zurich, Switzerland (Institute of Cartography and Geoinformation)
* Analysis and visualisation of Risk data - University of Southampton (Jason Sadler)
* Marine, Coastal and Environmental Data and Metadata management - University of Southampton (Jason Sadler)
* Natural Hazard assessment and modelling - SUPSI - Institute of Earth Sciences (Massimiliano Cannata)

[[Category: Education]]
[[Category: ICA OSGeo Lab Network]]

ICA OSGeo Lab Research areas

2014-04-23T20:17:42Z

Wiki-Ahunter: /* Geospatial Programming */

'''ICA-OSGeo Lab Research and Development Inventory'''

'''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.

== Spatial reasoning and awareness ==

* Federal University of Parana (Silvana Philippi Camboim)
* ETH Zurich, Switzerland (Institute of Cartography and Geoinformation)

== Geospatial Technology ==

* Federal University of Parana (Silvana Philippi Camboim)
* ITC - University of Twente (Barend Kobben)
* Politecnico di Milano (Ludovico Biagi)
* University of Nottingham (Suchith Anand)
* University of Nottingham, Malaysia campus (Tuong Thuy Vu)
* University of Southampton (Jason Sadler)
* USGS Center for Excellence in Geospatial Information Science (Michael P. Finn)
* North Carolina State University
* ETH Zurich, Switzerland (OSGL ETH Zurich / Institute of Cartography and Geoinformation)
* SUPSI - Institute of Earth Sciences (Massimiliano Cannata)
* Geomatics Engineering, University of Calgary (Andrew Hunter)

== Spatial Analysis ==

* Politecnico di Milano (Ludovico Biagi)
* University of Southampton (Jason Sadler)
* USGS Center for Excellence in Geospatial Information Science (Michael P. Finn)
* North Carolina State University (Helena Mitasova)
* University of Southampton (Jason Sadler)
* Geomatics Engineering, University of Calgary (Andrew Hunter)

== Data Acquisition and Management ==

* Czech Technical University in Prague (Martin Landa)
* Federal University of Parana (Silvana Philippi Camboim)
* Newcastle University (Phil James)
* Politecnico di Milano (Ludovico Biagi)
* USGS Center for Excellence in Geospatial Information Science (Michael P. Finn)
* SUPSI - Institute of Earth Sciences (Massimiliano Cannata)
* Geomatics Engineering, University of Calgary (Andrew Hunter)

== Cartographic Design ==

* Federal University of Parana (Silvana Philippi Camboim)
* ITC - University of Twente (Barend Kobben)
* USGS Center for Excellence in Geospatial Information Science (Michael P. Finn)
* ETH Zurich, Switzerland (OSGL ETH Zurich / Institute of Cartography and Geoinformation)

== Remote Sensing ==

* Federal University of Parana (Silvana Philippi Camboim)
* ITC - University of Twente (Barend Kobben)
* Newcastle University (Phil James)
* University of Nottingham, Malaysia campus (Tuong Thuy Vu)
* North Carolina State University

== Geospatial Programming ==

* Czech Technical University in Prague (Martin Landa)
* Newcastle University (Phil James)
* University of Southampton (Jason Sadler)
* USGS Center for Excellence in Geospatial Information Science (Michael P. Finn)
* North Carolina State University
* ETH Zurich, Switzerland (OSGL ETH Zurich / Institute of Cartography and Geoinformation)
* SUPSI - Institute of Earth Sciences (Massimiliano Cannata)
* Geomatics Engineering, University of Calgary (Andrew Hunter)

== Geospatial Web Applications and Development ==

* Newcastle University (Phil James)
* Politecnico di Milano (Ludovico Biagi)
* Stuttgart University of Applied Sciences (Franz-Josef Behr)
* University of Southampton (Jason Sadler)
* ITC-University of Twente (Barend Köbben)
* North Carolina State University
* ETH Zurich, Switzerland (OSGL ETH Zurich / Institute of Cartography and Geoinformation)
* Centre for Geoinformation Science, University of Pretoria (Serena Coetzee)
* SUPSI - Institute of Earth Sciences (Massimiliano Cannata)

== Geospatial visualization ==

* Federal University of Parana (Silvana Philippi Camboim)
* ITC - University of Twente (Barend Kobben)
* Politecnico di Milano (Ludovico Biagi)
* University of Nottingham (Suchith Anand)
* University of Southampton (Jason Sadler)
* USGS Center for Excellence in Geospatial Information Science (Michael P. Finn)
* North Carolina State University
* Centre for Geoinformation Science, University of Pretoria (Serena Coetzee)

== Other (please add) ==

* Open source collaboration research - University of Massachusetts, Amherst (Schweik)
* Open source geospatial education - University of Massachusetts, Amherst (Schweik)
* Engineering practice - Newcastle University (Phil James)
* Context Aware Recomendation Systems - Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (Antoni Perez-Navarro)
* Indoor positioning - Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (Antoni Perez-Navarro)
* Modeling of landscape processes, disaster management, sustainable development - North Carolina State University
* Spatial Cognition - ETH Zurich, Switzerland (Institute of Cartography and Geoinformation)
* Analysis and visualisation of Risk data - University of Southampton (Jason Sadler)
* Marine, Coastal and Environmental Data and Metadata management - University of Southampton (Jason Sadler)
* Natural Hazard assessment and modelling - SUPSI - Institute of Earth Sciences (Massimiliano Cannata)

[[Category: Education]]
[[Category: ICA OSGeo Lab Network]]

ICA OSGeo Lab Research areas

2014-04-23T20:17:13Z

Wiki-Ahunter: /* Spatial Analysis */

'''ICA-OSGeo Lab Research and Development Inventory'''

'''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.

== Spatial reasoning and awareness ==

* Federal University of Parana (Silvana Philippi Camboim)
* ETH Zurich, Switzerland (Institute of Cartography and Geoinformation)

== Geospatial Technology ==

* Federal University of Parana (Silvana Philippi Camboim)
* ITC - University of Twente (Barend Kobben)
* Politecnico di Milano (Ludovico Biagi)
* University of Nottingham (Suchith Anand)
* University of Nottingham, Malaysia campus (Tuong Thuy Vu)
* University of Southampton (Jason Sadler)
* USGS Center for Excellence in Geospatial Information Science (Michael P. Finn)
* North Carolina State University
* ETH Zurich, Switzerland (OSGL ETH Zurich / Institute of Cartography and Geoinformation)
* SUPSI - Institute of Earth Sciences (Massimiliano Cannata)
* Geomatics Engineering, University of Calgary (Andrew Hunter)

== Spatial Analysis ==

* Politecnico di Milano (Ludovico Biagi)
* University of Southampton (Jason Sadler)
* USGS Center for Excellence in Geospatial Information Science (Michael P. Finn)
* North Carolina State University (Helena Mitasova)
* University of Southampton (Jason Sadler)
* Geomatics Engineering, University of Calgary (Andrew Hunter)

== Data Acquisition and Management ==

* Czech Technical University in Prague (Martin Landa)
* Federal University of Parana (Silvana Philippi Camboim)
* Newcastle University (Phil James)
* Politecnico di Milano (Ludovico Biagi)
* USGS Center for Excellence in Geospatial Information Science (Michael P. Finn)
* SUPSI - Institute of Earth Sciences (Massimiliano Cannata)
* Geomatics Engineering, University of Calgary (Andrew Hunter)

== Cartographic Design ==

* Federal University of Parana (Silvana Philippi Camboim)
* ITC - University of Twente (Barend Kobben)
* USGS Center for Excellence in Geospatial Information Science (Michael P. Finn)
* ETH Zurich, Switzerland (OSGL ETH Zurich / Institute of Cartography and Geoinformation)

== Remote Sensing ==

* Federal University of Parana (Silvana Philippi Camboim)
* ITC - University of Twente (Barend Kobben)
* Newcastle University (Phil James)
* University of Nottingham, Malaysia campus (Tuong Thuy Vu)
* North Carolina State University

== Geospatial Programming ==

* Czech Technical University in Prague (Martin Landa)
* Newcastle University (Phil James)
* University of Southampton (Jason Sadler)
* USGS Center for Excellence in Geospatial Information Science (Michael P. Finn)
* North Carolina State University
* ETH Zurich, Switzerland (OSGL ETH Zurich / Institute of Cartography and Geoinformation)
* SUPSI - Institute of Earth Sciences (Massimiliano Cannata)

== Geospatial Web Applications and Development ==

* Newcastle University (Phil James)
* Politecnico di Milano (Ludovico Biagi)
* Stuttgart University of Applied Sciences (Franz-Josef Behr)
* University of Southampton (Jason Sadler)
* ITC-University of Twente (Barend Köbben)
* North Carolina State University
* ETH Zurich, Switzerland (OSGL ETH Zurich / Institute of Cartography and Geoinformation)
* Centre for Geoinformation Science, University of Pretoria (Serena Coetzee)
* SUPSI - Institute of Earth Sciences (Massimiliano Cannata)

== Geospatial visualization ==

* Federal University of Parana (Silvana Philippi Camboim)
* ITC - University of Twente (Barend Kobben)
* Politecnico di Milano (Ludovico Biagi)
* University of Nottingham (Suchith Anand)
* University of Southampton (Jason Sadler)
* USGS Center for Excellence in Geospatial Information Science (Michael P. Finn)
* North Carolina State University
* Centre for Geoinformation Science, University of Pretoria (Serena Coetzee)

== Other (please add) ==

* Open source collaboration research - University of Massachusetts, Amherst (Schweik)
* Open source geospatial education - University of Massachusetts, Amherst (Schweik)
* Engineering practice - Newcastle University (Phil James)
* Context Aware Recomendation Systems - Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (Antoni Perez-Navarro)
* Indoor positioning - Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (Antoni Perez-Navarro)
* Modeling of landscape processes, disaster management, sustainable development - North Carolina State University
* Spatial Cognition - ETH Zurich, Switzerland (Institute of Cartography and Geoinformation)
* Analysis and visualisation of Risk data - University of Southampton (Jason Sadler)
* Marine, Coastal and Environmental Data and Metadata management - University of Southampton (Jason Sadler)
* Natural Hazard assessment and modelling - SUPSI - Institute of Earth Sciences (Massimiliano Cannata)

[[Category: Education]]
[[Category: ICA OSGeo Lab Network]]

ICA OSGeo Lab Research areas

2014-04-23T20:16:52Z

Wiki-Ahunter: /* Data Acquisition and Management */

'''ICA-OSGeo Lab Research and Development Inventory'''

'''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.

== Spatial reasoning and awareness ==

* Federal University of Parana (Silvana Philippi Camboim)
* ETH Zurich, Switzerland (Institute of Cartography and Geoinformation)

== Geospatial Technology ==

* Federal University of Parana (Silvana Philippi Camboim)
* ITC - University of Twente (Barend Kobben)
* Politecnico di Milano (Ludovico Biagi)
* University of Nottingham (Suchith Anand)
* University of Nottingham, Malaysia campus (Tuong Thuy Vu)
* University of Southampton (Jason Sadler)
* USGS Center for Excellence in Geospatial Information Science (Michael P. Finn)
* North Carolina State University
* ETH Zurich, Switzerland (OSGL ETH Zurich / Institute of Cartography and Geoinformation)
* SUPSI - Institute of Earth Sciences (Massimiliano Cannata)
* Geomatics Engineering, University of Calgary (Andrew Hunter)

== Spatial Analysis ==

* Politecnico di Milano (Ludovico Biagi)
* University of Southampton (Jason Sadler)
* USGS Center for Excellence in Geospatial Information Science (Michael P. Finn)
* North Carolina State University (Helena Mitasova)
* University of Southampton (Jason Sadler)

== Data Acquisition and Management ==

* Czech Technical University in Prague (Martin Landa)
* Federal University of Parana (Silvana Philippi Camboim)
* Newcastle University (Phil James)
* Politecnico di Milano (Ludovico Biagi)
* USGS Center for Excellence in Geospatial Information Science (Michael P. Finn)
* SUPSI - Institute of Earth Sciences (Massimiliano Cannata)
* Geomatics Engineering, University of Calgary (Andrew Hunter)

== Cartographic Design ==

* Federal University of Parana (Silvana Philippi Camboim)
* ITC - University of Twente (Barend Kobben)
* USGS Center for Excellence in Geospatial Information Science (Michael P. Finn)
* ETH Zurich, Switzerland (OSGL ETH Zurich / Institute of Cartography and Geoinformation)

== Remote Sensing ==

* Federal University of Parana (Silvana Philippi Camboim)
* ITC - University of Twente (Barend Kobben)
* Newcastle University (Phil James)
* University of Nottingham, Malaysia campus (Tuong Thuy Vu)
* North Carolina State University

== Geospatial Programming ==

* Czech Technical University in Prague (Martin Landa)
* Newcastle University (Phil James)
* University of Southampton (Jason Sadler)
* USGS Center for Excellence in Geospatial Information Science (Michael P. Finn)
* North Carolina State University
* ETH Zurich, Switzerland (OSGL ETH Zurich / Institute of Cartography and Geoinformation)
* SUPSI - Institute of Earth Sciences (Massimiliano Cannata)

== Geospatial Web Applications and Development ==

* Newcastle University (Phil James)
* Politecnico di Milano (Ludovico Biagi)
* Stuttgart University of Applied Sciences (Franz-Josef Behr)
* University of Southampton (Jason Sadler)
* ITC-University of Twente (Barend Köbben)
* North Carolina State University
* ETH Zurich, Switzerland (OSGL ETH Zurich / Institute of Cartography and Geoinformation)
* Centre for Geoinformation Science, University of Pretoria (Serena Coetzee)
* SUPSI - Institute of Earth Sciences (Massimiliano Cannata)

== Geospatial visualization ==

* Federal University of Parana (Silvana Philippi Camboim)
* ITC - University of Twente (Barend Kobben)
* Politecnico di Milano (Ludovico Biagi)
* University of Nottingham (Suchith Anand)
* University of Southampton (Jason Sadler)
* USGS Center for Excellence in Geospatial Information Science (Michael P. Finn)
* North Carolina State University
* Centre for Geoinformation Science, University of Pretoria (Serena Coetzee)

== Other (please add) ==

* Open source collaboration research - University of Massachusetts, Amherst (Schweik)
* Open source geospatial education - University of Massachusetts, Amherst (Schweik)
* Engineering practice - Newcastle University (Phil James)
* Context Aware Recomendation Systems - Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (Antoni Perez-Navarro)
* Indoor positioning - Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (Antoni Perez-Navarro)
* Modeling of landscape processes, disaster management, sustainable development - North Carolina State University
* Spatial Cognition - ETH Zurich, Switzerland (Institute of Cartography and Geoinformation)
* Analysis and visualisation of Risk data - University of Southampton (Jason Sadler)
* Marine, Coastal and Environmental Data and Metadata management - University of Southampton (Jason Sadler)
* Natural Hazard assessment and modelling - SUPSI - Institute of Earth Sciences (Massimiliano Cannata)

[[Category: Education]]
[[Category: ICA OSGeo Lab Network]]

ICA OSGeo Lab Research areas

2014-04-23T20:16:35Z

Wiki-Ahunter: /* Geospatial Technology */

'''ICA-OSGeo Lab Research and Development Inventory'''

'''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.

== Spatial reasoning and awareness ==

* Federal University of Parana (Silvana Philippi Camboim)
* ETH Zurich, Switzerland (Institute of Cartography and Geoinformation)

== Geospatial Technology ==

* Federal University of Parana (Silvana Philippi Camboim)
* ITC - University of Twente (Barend Kobben)
* Politecnico di Milano (Ludovico Biagi)
* University of Nottingham (Suchith Anand)
* University of Nottingham, Malaysia campus (Tuong Thuy Vu)
* University of Southampton (Jason Sadler)
* USGS Center for Excellence in Geospatial Information Science (Michael P. Finn)
* North Carolina State University
* ETH Zurich, Switzerland (OSGL ETH Zurich / Institute of Cartography and Geoinformation)
* SUPSI - Institute of Earth Sciences (Massimiliano Cannata)
* Geomatics Engineering, University of Calgary (Andrew Hunter)

== Spatial Analysis ==

* Politecnico di Milano (Ludovico Biagi)
* University of Southampton (Jason Sadler)
* USGS Center for Excellence in Geospatial Information Science (Michael P. Finn)
* North Carolina State University (Helena Mitasova)
* University of Southampton (Jason Sadler)

== Data Acquisition and Management ==

* Czech Technical University in Prague (Martin Landa)
* Federal University of Parana (Silvana Philippi Camboim)
* Newcastle University (Phil James)
* Politecnico di Milano (Ludovico Biagi)
* USGS Center for Excellence in Geospatial Information Science (Michael P. Finn)
* SUPSI - Institute of Earth Sciences (Massimiliano Cannata)

== Cartographic Design ==

* Federal University of Parana (Silvana Philippi Camboim)
* ITC - University of Twente (Barend Kobben)
* USGS Center for Excellence in Geospatial Information Science (Michael P. Finn)
* ETH Zurich, Switzerland (OSGL ETH Zurich / Institute of Cartography and Geoinformation)

== Remote Sensing ==

* Federal University of Parana (Silvana Philippi Camboim)
* ITC - University of Twente (Barend Kobben)
* Newcastle University (Phil James)
* University of Nottingham, Malaysia campus (Tuong Thuy Vu)
* North Carolina State University

== Geospatial Programming ==

* Czech Technical University in Prague (Martin Landa)
* Newcastle University (Phil James)
* University of Southampton (Jason Sadler)
* USGS Center for Excellence in Geospatial Information Science (Michael P. Finn)
* North Carolina State University
* ETH Zurich, Switzerland (OSGL ETH Zurich / Institute of Cartography and Geoinformation)
* SUPSI - Institute of Earth Sciences (Massimiliano Cannata)

== Geospatial Web Applications and Development ==

* Newcastle University (Phil James)
* Politecnico di Milano (Ludovico Biagi)
* Stuttgart University of Applied Sciences (Franz-Josef Behr)
* University of Southampton (Jason Sadler)
* ITC-University of Twente (Barend Köbben)
* North Carolina State University
* ETH Zurich, Switzerland (OSGL ETH Zurich / Institute of Cartography and Geoinformation)
* Centre for Geoinformation Science, University of Pretoria (Serena Coetzee)
* SUPSI - Institute of Earth Sciences (Massimiliano Cannata)

== Geospatial visualization ==

* Federal University of Parana (Silvana Philippi Camboim)
* ITC - University of Twente (Barend Kobben)
* Politecnico di Milano (Ludovico Biagi)
* University of Nottingham (Suchith Anand)
* University of Southampton (Jason Sadler)
* USGS Center for Excellence in Geospatial Information Science (Michael P. Finn)
* North Carolina State University
* Centre for Geoinformation Science, University of Pretoria (Serena Coetzee)

== Other (please add) ==

* Open source collaboration research - University of Massachusetts, Amherst (Schweik)
* Open source geospatial education - University of Massachusetts, Amherst (Schweik)
* Engineering practice - Newcastle University (Phil James)
* Context Aware Recomendation Systems - Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (Antoni Perez-Navarro)
* Indoor positioning - Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (Antoni Perez-Navarro)
* Modeling of landscape processes, disaster management, sustainable development - North Carolina State University
* Spatial Cognition - ETH Zurich, Switzerland (Institute of Cartography and Geoinformation)
* Analysis and visualisation of Risk data - University of Southampton (Jason Sadler)
* Marine, Coastal and Environmental Data and Metadata management - University of Southampton (Jason Sadler)
* Natural Hazard assessment and modelling - SUPSI - Institute of Earth Sciences (Massimiliano Cannata)

[[Category: Education]]
[[Category: ICA OSGeo Lab Network]]

Edu current initiatives

2014-04-23T20:11:51Z

Wiki-Ahunter: /* Current members of the ICA-OSGeo Network */

== 2013-2014 OSGeo Education and Curriculum Current Initiatives ==

'''The official website is online at ''http://www.geoforall.org''''' - locations: [http://www.geoforall.org/locations/ ICA-OSGeo Map]

=== 1) Continue to build up our educational material federated content databases ===

* [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
* [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
* [[Webinar Series ]]

===2) Continue to expand the ICA-OSGeo Network ===

This effort is led by Suchith Anand at the University of Nottingham, UK.

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]].

== Current members of the ICA-OSGeo Network ==



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.

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 [http://www.geoforall.org/locations/ ICA-OSGeo Map]) :

{|class="wikitable sortable" border="2" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="6" rules="all" style="margin:1em 1em 1em 0; border:solid 1px #AAAAAAAA; border-collapse:collapse; background-color:#edf9c7; font-size:95%; empty-cells:show;"
!
! Laboratory name and institution
! City
! Country
! Continent
! Coordinates (longitude, latitude)
! Application recieved / Announced
! Notes (projects, collaborations, etc)
! Contact names
! Contact emails
|-
| 1.
| [http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/ngi/research/geospatial-science/geospatial-science.aspx University of Nottingham]
| Nottingham
| UK
| Europe
| -1.250296, 52.831497
|
|
| Jeremy Morley
| Jeremy dot Morley at nottingham.ac.uk
|-
| 2.
| [http://www.sigte.udg.edu/ University of Girona]
| Girona
| Spain
| Europe
| 2.837305, 41.967426
| 2012-09-10
|
| Lluís Vicens
| lluis at sigte.udg.edu
|-
| 3.
| [http://www.osgl.soton.ac.uk/ University of Southampton]
| Southampton
| UK
| Europe
| -1.396873, 50.936974
| 2013-04-30
|
| Jason Sadler
| osgl at geodata.soton.ac.uk
|-
| 4.
| [http://geo.fsv.cvut.cz/gwiki/osgeorel Czech Technical University in Prague]
| Prague
| Czech Republic
| Europe
| 14.390363, 50.10183
| 2012-11-23
| Geospatial analysis, modeling and visualization, remote sensing, [http://grass.osgeo.org GRASS GIS] and [http://www.qgis.org QGIS] development
| Martin Landa
| martin.landa at fsv.cvut.cz
|-
| 5.
| [http://research.ncl.ac.uk/osgeolab/ Newcastle University]
| Newcastle
| UK
| Europe
| -1.611536, 54.980656
| 2013-01-17
|
| Philip James
| philip.james at ncl.ac.uk (please use subject: OSGeoLab)
|-
| 6.
| [http://geomatica.como.polimi.it/ Politecnico di Milano - Polo Territoriale di Como]
| Como
| Italy
| Europe
| 9.095939, 45.803516
| 2013-02-25
|
| Maria Brovelli
| geowb at geomatica.como.polimi.it
|-
| 7.
| [http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/lifesci/research/facilities/geolab/ University of Warwick]
| Warwick
| UK
| Europe
| -1.56273, 52.380531
| 2013-03-23
|
| Nataliya Tkachenko
| geolab at warwick.ac.uk
|-
| 8.
| [http://www.gridw.pl UNEP/GRID-Warsaw Centre]
| Warsaw
| Poland
| Europe
| 21.039473, 52.198849
| 2013-03-18
|
| Ela Woloszynska-Wisniewska
| ela at gridw.pl
|-
| 9.
| [http://www.supsi.ch/ist_en/settori-attivita/geomatica.html University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Southern Switzerland] (SUPSI)
| Lugano
| Switzerland
| Europe
| 8.961098, 46.028362
| 2013-09-03
| Institute of Earth Sciences
| Massimiliano Cannata
| geomatica at supsi.ch
|-
| 10.
| [http://karlinapp.ethz.ch/osgl/ ETH Zurich]
| Zurich
| Switzerland
| Europe
| 8.5481, 47.3764
| 2013-09-20
| [http://www.ikg.ethz.ch/about/index_EN Institute of Cartography and Geoinformation, ETH Zurich]
| Ionu? Iosifescu
| iosifescu at ethz.ch
|-
| 11.
| University of Molise
| Molise
| Italy
| Europe
| 14.493651, 41.630815
|
| in process of being established
| Rosella Nocera
|
|-
| 12.
| [http://www.igik.edu.pl/en Institute of Geodesy and Cartography] (IGiK)
| Warsaw
| Poland
| Europe
| 52.178478, 21.013407
|
| in process of being established
| Agata Ciołkosz-Styk
|
|-
| 13.
| [http://opengis.unibuc.ro/ Faculty of Geography, University of Bucharest]
| Bucharest
| Romania
| Europe
| 26.103889, 44.432500
|
| new website under development
| Andreea Marin
| andreea dot marin09 at yahoo dot com
|-
| 14.
| [http://www.geo.info.hu/english/index.php Faculty of Geoinformatics,University of West Hungary]
| Székesfehérvár
| Hungary
| Europe
| 18.418833, 47.188778
|
| in process of being established
| Andrea Podör
|
|-
| 15.
| [http://www.hft-stuttgart.de/Studienbereiche/Vermessung/Master-Photogrammetry-Geoinformatics/Labs/ICA-OSGeo-Labor/index.html/en Stuttgart University of Applied Sciences]
| Stuttgart
| Germany
| Europe
| 9.17370, 48.77996
| 2013-10-14
|
| Franz-Josef Behr
| franz-josef.behr at hft-stuttgart.de
|-
| 16.
| [http://www.geomatica.ufpr.br/index.html Federal University of Paraná]
| Paraná
| Brazil
| South America
| -49.26141, -25.427074
| 2012-05-23
|
| Silvana Camboim
|
|-
| 17.
| [http://www.unesp.br/ São Paulo State University] (UNESP)
| São Paulo
| Brazil
| South America
| -46.654129, -23.576574
|
|
|
|
|-
| 18.
| National Amazonian University of Madre de Dios (UNAMAD)
| Puerto Maldonado
| Peru
| South America
| -73.245789, -3.745845
| 2013-02-01
| in process of being established
| Andrea Birgit Chavez
|
|-
| 19.
| [http://ltaat.fcien.edu.uy Universidad de la República]
| Montevideo
| Uruguay
| South America
| -56.176441, -34.902405
| 2013-03-01
| new website under development
| Virginia Fernandez
| vfernandez at presidencia.gub.uy
|-
| 20.
| University of Campinas
| Campinas
| Brazil
| South America
| -47.063239, -22.907105
|
| in process of being established
|
|
|-
| 21.
| Federal University of Alagoas
| Maceió
| Brazil
| South America
| -35.735098, -9.666251
|
| http://www.nmarisco.simplesite.com.br/
|
|
|-
| 22.
| [http://gis.ncsu.edu/osgeorel/ North Carolina State University OSGeoREL]
| Raleigh, NC
| USA
| North America
| -78.6764, 35.7818
| 2012-10-18
|Geospatial analysis, modeling and visualization, [http://grass.osgeo.org GRASS GIS] development
| Helena Mitasova
| hmitaso at ncsu.edu
|-
| 23.
| [http://www.umass.edu/opensource University of Massachusetts Amherst]
| Amherst
| USA
| North America
| -72.524696, 42.393578
| 2012-10-18
|
| Charlie Schweik
| cschweik at pubpol dot umass dot edu
|-
| 24.
| [https://sites.google.com/site/foss4gku/ University of Kansas]
| Lawrence, KS
| USA
| North America
| -95.251311, 38.958578
| 2013-08-23
|
| Xingong Li
| lixi at ku.edu
|-
| 25.
| [https://geospatial.ucdavis.edu/resources/open-source University of California, Davis]
| Davis
| USA
| North America
| -121.766945, 38.548801
| 2013-02-04
| [http://live.osgeo.org OSGeo-Live]
| Alex Mandel
| aimandel at ucdavis.edu
|-
| 26.
| [http://www.cozcyt.gob.mx/labsol/ Laboratorio de Software Libre]
| Zacatecas
| Mexico
| North America
| -102.5791, 22.7608
| 2013-04-05
| in process of being established
| Manual Haro
| manuel.haro at zacatecas.gob.mx
|-
| 27.
| Kent State University
| Kent, Ohio
| USA
| North America
| -81.357886,41.153667
| 2013-08-30
|
| Xinyue Ye
| xye5 at kent.edu
|-
| 28.
| [https://gis.uncc.edu/osgl Center for Applied GIScience, University of North Carolina, Charlotte ]
| Charlotte, NC
| USA
| North America
| -80.730000, 35.306944
| 2013-09-05
|
| Wenwu Tang
| WenwuTang at uncc.edu
|-
| 29.
| [http://www.nottingham.edu.my/Geography/Newsitems/Establishing-Open-Source-Geospatial-Lab.aspx University of Nottingham, Malaysia campus]
| Semenyih
| Malaysia
| Asia
| 101.721298, 3.172932
| 2012-01-09
| website in development
| Tuong Thuy Vu
| Tuongthuy.Vu at nottingham.edu.my
|-
| 30.
| [http://www.utm.my/ Universiti Teknologi Malaysia] (UTM)
| Johor Bahru
| Malaysia
| Asia
| 101.874222, 2.943748
|
| in process of being established
|
|
|-
| 31.
| National College of Public Administration and Governance(NCPAG), University of the Philippines
| Manila
| Philippines
| Asia
| 121.059875, 14.656005
|
| in process of being established
| Noriel Christopher Tiglao
|
|-
| 32.
| Environmental Science for Social Change (ESSC)
| Quezon City
| Philippines
| Asia
| 121.062241, 14.64372
|
| in process of being established
| Maning Sambale
|
|-
| 33.
| [http://lsi.iiit.ac.in/labinfo/ Lab for Spatial Informatics], IIIT Hyderabad
| Hyderabad
| India
| Asia
| 78.3503, 17.4454
| 2011-08-22
|
| Dr K S Rajan
|
|-
| 34.
| [http://grel.ist.edu.pk/ Geospatial Research and Education Lab](GREL), Institute of Space Technology (IST)
| Islamabad
| Pakistan
| Asia
| 73.175045, 33.520060
|
|
|Rizwan Bulbul
|bulbul(dot)rizwan(at)gmail(dot)com
|-
| 35.
| [http://www.up.ac.za/cgis University of Pretoria]
| Pretoria
| South Africa
| Africa
| 28.22847, -25.75429
| 2012-05-15
|
| Serena Coetzee
| serena dot coetzee at up dot ac dot za
|-
| 36.
| [http://www.rcmrd.org/ Regional Centre for Mapping of Resources for Development] (RCMRD)
| Nairobi
| Kenya
| Africa
| 36.858574, -1.249038
|
| in process of being established
| Hussein Farah
| farah at rcmrd.org
|-
| 37.
| University of Ghana
| Accra
| Ghana
| Africa
| -0.191617, 5.650366
|
| in process of being established
| Foster Mensah
|
|-
| 38.
| The University of Melbourne
| Melbourne
| Australia
| Australia
| 144.962006, -37.797932
| 2013-07-22
|
| Chris Pettit
|
|-
| 39.
| [http://cbi.tamucc.edu/Geospatial-Computing/ Texas A&M University - Corpus Christi]
| Corpus Christi
| USA
| North America
| -97.328799, 27.714506
| 2013-09-09
| in process of being established/website under construction
| Rick Smith
| Richard.Smith at tamucc.edu
|-
| 40.
| [http://www.geomaticsindia-cept.org/ CEPT University]
| Ahmedabad
| India
| Asia
| 72.566004,23.039568
| 2012-07-18
| in process of being established
| Prof. Anjana Vyas & Ms. Darshana Rawal
| anjanavyas at cept.ac.in rawalnet at cept.ac.in
|-
| 41.
| National University of San Juan
| San Juan
| Argentina
| South America
| -68.521408, -31.527273
| 2012-06-15
| in process of being established
| Agustin Arroqui
| aarroqui at unsj.edu.ar
|-
| 42.
| [http://geodacenter.asu.edu GeoDa Center for Geospatial Analysis and Computation, Arizona State University]
| Tempe, AZ
| USA
| North America
| -111.940005, 33.425510
| 2013-09-27
| Spatial econometrics, geocomputation, spatial optimization - [https://geodacenter.asu.edu/software/downloads GeoDa], [http://pysal.org PySAL], [https://geodacenter.asu.edu/software/downloads/geodaspace GeoDaSpace]
| [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luc_Anselin Luc Anselin]
| geodacenter at asu.edu
|-
| 43.
| National Technical University of Athens
| Athens
| Greece
| Europe
| 23.729310, 37.983716
| 2013-09-26
| in process of being established
|
|
|-
| 44.
| IGN- France
| Paris
| France
| Europe
| 2.352222, 48.856614
| 2013-09-26
| in process of being established
| Benedicte Bucher
|
|-
| 45.
| Universitat Oberta de Catalunya
| Barcelona
| Spain
| Europe
| 2.173403, 41.385064
| 2013-09-27
| in process of being established
| Dr. Antoni Pérez Navarro
| aperezn at uoc.edu
|-
| 46.
| [http://www.isric.org ISRIC - World Soil Information foundation]
| Wageningen
| The Netherlands
| Europe
| 5.665662,51.9875
|2013-10-02
|website in construction
| Jorge de Jesus
| jorge.mendesdejesus at wur.nl
|-
| 47.
| Universidade da Coruña
| A Coruña (España)
| Spain
| Europe
| -8.411540, 43.362344
| 2013-10-15
| in process of being established
| Alberto Varela García
|
|-
| 48.
| Universiti Sains Malaysia
| Penang
| Malaysia
| Asia
| 100.484623, 5.263234
|2013-10-16
|in process of being established
| Ruslan Rainis
|
|-
| 49.
| Kathmandu University
| Dhulikhel
| Nepal
| Asia
| 85.550000, 27.616667
|2012-12-24
|https://sites.google.com/a/ku.edu.np/opensourcegeospatial/
| Shashish Maharjan
|
|-
| 50
| [http://gis.cri.fmach.it/ GIS and Remote Sensing Unit, Fondazione Edmund Mach ]
| San Michele all'Adige (Trento)
| Italy
| Europe
| 11.133042,46.187865
|2013-10-16
|Geospatial analysis, modeling and remote sensing, [http://grass.osgeo.org GRASS GIS] and [http://pymodis.fem-environment.eu/ pyMODIS] development
| Luca Delucchi
| luca.delucchi at fmach.it
|-
| 51.
| [http://gis.research.southwales.ac.uk/ University of South Wales ]
| Cardiff
| United Kingdom
| Europe
| -3.179090,51.481581
|2013-10-31
|
| Dr Mark Ware
| mark.ware at southwales.ac.uk
|-
| 52.
| [http://gisgeek.pdx.edu/wordpress/open-source-gis/ Portland State University]
| Portland, Oregon
| USA
| North America
| -122.676207,45.523452
| 2013-10-22
| Warming up
| David Percy
| percy at pdx.edu
|-
| 53.
| [http://www.icpac.net/ IGAD Climate Prediction and Applications Center]
| Nairobi
| Kenya
| Africa
| 36.821946,-1.292066
| 2013-10-29
| In process of being established
| Muyambi Fortunate
| fbenda at icpac.net
|-
|-
| 54.
| [http://www.labocart.ufc.br/ Federal University of Ceará ]
| Ceará
| Brazil
| South America
| -38.543395,-3.718394
| 2013-10-29
| In process of being established
| Prof. Dr. Adryane Gorayeb
| adryanegorayeb at yahoo dot com dot br
|-
| 55.
| [http://geospecial.wordpress.com/ University of Gloucestershire ]
| Gloucester and Cheltenham
| United Kingdom
| Europe
| -2.223409, 51.872215
| 2013-11-06
| In process of being established
| Dr Robert Berry
| rberry at glos.ac.uk
|-
| 56.
| [http://mrt.ac.lk/foa/ University of Moratuwa ]
| Moratuwa
| Sri Lanka
| Asia
| 79.9008, 6.7964
| 2013-11-11
| [http://www.mrt.ac.lk/tcp/osgeosl.html OSGeoSL ]
| Aruna Wickramasinghe
| toaruna at gmail.com
|-
| 57.
| [http://www.fudan.edu.cn/ Fudan University]
| Shanghai
| China
| Asia
| 121.452, 31.198
| 2013-11-14
| [http://lab.osstat.org/ Open Source STATistics]
| Zhijie Zhang
| epistat at gmail.com
|-
| 58.
| Haskell Indian Nations University
| Lawrence, Kansas
| USA
| North America
| -95.230691, 38.938859
| 2013-11-22
| [https://sites.google.com/site/dtmcdermott/home/haskell-cartography-class/ Haskell Indian Nations University]
| Dave McDermott
| dmcdermott at haskell.edu
|-
| 59.
| [http://www.geof.unizg.hr/mod/book/view.php?id=1165&chapterid=110&lang=en University of Zagreb, Faculty of Geodesy]
| Zagreb
| Croatia
| Europe
| 15.963888, 45.808500
| 2013-11-25
|
| Dražen Tutic
| dtutic at geof.hr
|-
| 60.
| [http://www.geo.gob.bo/ GeoBolivia-Vice-presidency of the State ]
| La Paz
| Bolivia
| South America
| -68.1547, -16.4949
| 2013-11-24
| In process of being established
| Raul Fernando Molina Rodriguez
| rafemoro at gmail.com rmolina@geo.gob.bo
|-
| 61.
| [http://www2.unb.ca/~estef/geo4all.html Geodesy and Geomatics Engineering], University of New Brunswick
| Fredericton, NB
| Canada
| North America
| -66.641474, 45.950252
| 2013-12-10
| Active
| Emmanuel Stefanakis
| emmanuel.stefanakis at gmail.com
|-
| 62.
| [http://geo.sab.ac.lk/ Faculty of Geomatics, Sabaragamuwa University of Sri Lanka]
| Belihuloya, Sabaragamuwa
| Sri Lanka
| Asia
| 80.78995, 6.7102
| 2013-12-12
| In process of being established
| Thilantha Dammalage
| thilantha9 at gmail.com
|-
| 63.
| [http://www.sliit.lk/index.php/sliit/departments/department-of-information-technology Dpt of IT, Faculty of Computing, Sri Lanka Institute of Information Technology]
| Malabe
| Sri Lanka
| Asia
| 79.973166667, 6.914866667
| 2013-12-13
| [http://osgeolab.sliit.lk/ OSGeoSLIIT]
| Nimalika Fernando
| nimalikaf at gmail.com
|-
| 64.
| [http://www.unige.ch/environnement University of Geneva - Institute for Environmental Sciences]
| Geneva
| Switzerland
| Europe
| 6.1487, 46.2253
| 2013-12-19
| In process of being established
| Gregory Giuliani
| gregory.giuliani at unige.ch
|-
| 65.
| [http://www.ifs.hsr.ch/Geometa-Lab.12520.0.html?&L=4 Geometa Lab at HSR - University of Applied Sciences Rapperswil]
| Rapperswil
| Switzerland
| Europe
| 8.81690, 47.22341
| 2014-01-26
| (published 2014-02-05)
| Prof. Stefan Keller
| sfkeller at hsr.ch (and/or at gmail.ch)
|-
| 66.
| National University of "Kyiv-Mohyla Academy", Ecology Faculty
| Kyiv
| Ukraine
| Europe
| 50.456936, 30.515647
| 2014-02-16
| In proess of being established
| Tetyana Kuchma
| tanyakuchma at yahoo.com
|-
| 67.
| Centre for Research and Technology Hellas - Hellenic Institute of Transport
| Thessaloniki
| Greece
| Europe
| 40.567811, 22.996707
| 2014-02-17
| In process of being established
| Dr. Evangelos Mitsakis
| emit at certh.gr
|-
| 68.
| Centre for Spatial Information Science(CSIS), University of Tokyo
| Kashiwa-shi, Chiba
| Japan
| Asia
| 139.938952, 35.902681
| 2014-02-18
| In process of being established
| Taichi FURUHASHI
| taichi at csis.u-tokyo.ac.jp
|-
| 69.
|[http://foss4geo.org FOSS4Geo Academy @ Del Mar College National Open Geospatial Technology Consortium]
| Corpus Christi, Republic of Texas
| USA
| North America
| -97.407096, 27.764053
| 2014-02-18
| Active
| Dr. Phillip Davis
| pdavis at delmar.edu
|-
| 70.
| Osaka City University(OCU)
| Sumiyoshi-ku, Osaka
| Japan
| Asia
| 135.507556, 34.593067
| 2014-02-23
| In process of being established
| Venkatesh RAGHAVAN
| venka.osgeo at gmail.com
|-
| 71.
| [http://www.dicca.unige.it/geomatica/ Università di Genova - Laboratorio di Geomatica]
| Genova
| Italy
| Europe
| 8.962795, 44.400133
| 2014-03-21
|[http://www.gter.it Gter Innovation in Geomatics, Gnss and Gis (spin-off company)]
| Tiziano Cosso - Bianca Federici - Roberto Marzocchi - Domenico Sguerso
| bianca.federici at unige.it
|-
| 72.
| [http://www.eiic.ulpgc.es/ Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria - Escuela de Ingenierías Industriales y Civiles - Grado en Ingenieria Geomática y Topografía]
| Las Palmas de Gran Canaria
| Spain
| Europe
| -15.456207, 28.069303
| 2014-03-23
|
|Fernando Toscano Benítez
| sub_dgn at eiic.ulpgc.es
|-
| 73.
| [http://carsilab.org] Center for Advanced Research on Spatial Information, Hunter College - CUNY
| New York
| US
| North America
|
| 2014-04-04
|
| Carson Farmer
| carson.farmer at hunter.cuny.edu
|-
| 74.
| [http://www.digital-earth.edu.gr/index.php/en/] Hellenic digital earth Centre of Excellence, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki - AUTH
| Thessaloniki
| Greece
| Europe
| 40.627516, 22.961498
| 2014-04-05
|
| Nikos Lambrinos
| labrinos at eled.auth.gr
|-
| 75.
| [http://www.zgis.at/ Interfaculty Department of Geoinformatics - Z_GIS, University of Salzburg]
| Salzburg
| Austria
| Europe
| 47.823711, 13.039586
| 2014-04-14
| [http://www.unigis.net The UNIGIS International Association is the distance education initiative offering masters and diploma programmes in Geographical Information Science and Systems]
| Hermann Klug
| hermann.klug at sbg.ac.at
|-
| 76.
|[http://people.ucalgary.ca/~ahunter/ Department of Geomatics Engineering, University of Calgary]
| Calgary
| Canada
| North America
| -114.132457, 51.079735
| 2014-04-22
| in the process of being established
| Andrew Hunter
| ahunter at ucalgary.ca
|-
| 77.
| Ben Gurion University of the Negev (BGU)
| Sede Boqer and Beer Sheva
| Israel
| Europe
| 34.78346, 30.85332
| 2014-04-22
| TBA
| Yaakov GARB
| ygarb at bgu.ac.il
|}

== Interested in adding your own node into the ICA-OSGeo Labs network? ==

As the lab network is expanding fast, we have also setup nodal contacts for each regions:

# Anne Ghisla - Asia & Australia
# Helena Mitasova - North America
# Charlie Schweik - South America
# Suchith Anand - Europe & Africa

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.

The '''key requirements''' for establishing a local OSGL are:

(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.

(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.

(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.

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.

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.

== Meetings ==
; Next meeting:
* ...

; Past Meetings:
* [[ICA OSGeo Lab Network 2013-09-05]] 18.00 UTC
* [[ICA OSGeo Lab Network 2013-07-29]] 14.00 UTC
* [[ICA OSGeo Lab Network 2013-05-02]] 14.00 UTC
* [[ICA OSGeo Lab Network 2013-06-06]] 14.00 UTC

== ISC OSGeo Lab Network Research and Teaching Areas ==

[[ICA_OSGeo_Lab_Research_areas]]
 
[[ICA_OSGeo_Lab_Teaching_areas]]

[[Category: Education]]
[[Category: ICA OSGeo Lab Network]]

Edu current initiatives

2014-04-23T20:10:52Z

Wiki-Ahunter: /* Current members of the ICA-OSGeo Network */

== 2013-2014 OSGeo Education and Curriculum Current Initiatives ==

'''The official website is online at ''http://www.geoforall.org''''' - locations: [http://www.geoforall.org/locations/ ICA-OSGeo Map]

=== 1) Continue to build up our educational material federated content databases ===

* [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
* [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
* [[Webinar Series ]]

===2) Continue to expand the ICA-OSGeo Network ===

This effort is led by Suchith Anand at the University of Nottingham, UK.

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]].

== Current members of the ICA-OSGeo Network ==



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.

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 [http://www.geoforall.org/locations/ ICA-OSGeo Map]) :

{|class="wikitable sortable" border="2" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="6" rules="all" style="margin:1em 1em 1em 0; border:solid 1px #AAAAAAAA; border-collapse:collapse; background-color:#edf9c7; font-size:95%; empty-cells:show;"
!
! Laboratory name and institution
! City
! Country
! Continent
! Coordinates (longitude, latitude)
! Application recieved / Announced
! Notes (projects, collaborations, etc)
! Contact names
! Contact emails
|-
| 1.
| [http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/ngi/research/geospatial-science/geospatial-science.aspx University of Nottingham]
| Nottingham
| UK
| Europe
| -1.250296, 52.831497
|
|
| Jeremy Morley
| Jeremy dot Morley at nottingham.ac.uk
|-
| 2.
| [http://www.sigte.udg.edu/ University of Girona]
| Girona
| Spain
| Europe
| 2.837305, 41.967426
| 2012-09-10
|
| Lluís Vicens
| lluis at sigte.udg.edu
|-
| 3.
| [http://www.osgl.soton.ac.uk/ University of Southampton]
| Southampton
| UK
| Europe
| -1.396873, 50.936974
| 2013-04-30
|
| Jason Sadler
| osgl at geodata.soton.ac.uk
|-
| 4.
| [http://geo.fsv.cvut.cz/gwiki/osgeorel Czech Technical University in Prague]
| Prague
| Czech Republic
| Europe
| 14.390363, 50.10183
| 2012-11-23
| Geospatial analysis, modeling and visualization, remote sensing, [http://grass.osgeo.org GRASS GIS] and [http://www.qgis.org QGIS] development
| Martin Landa
| martin.landa at fsv.cvut.cz
|-
| 5.
| [http://research.ncl.ac.uk/osgeolab/ Newcastle University]
| Newcastle
| UK
| Europe
| -1.611536, 54.980656
| 2013-01-17
|
| Philip James
| philip.james at ncl.ac.uk (please use subject: OSGeoLab)
|-
| 6.
| [http://geomatica.como.polimi.it/ Politecnico di Milano - Polo Territoriale di Como]
| Como
| Italy
| Europe
| 9.095939, 45.803516
| 2013-02-25
|
| Maria Brovelli
| geowb at geomatica.como.polimi.it
|-
| 7.
| [http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/lifesci/research/facilities/geolab/ University of Warwick]
| Warwick
| UK
| Europe
| -1.56273, 52.380531
| 2013-03-23
|
| Nataliya Tkachenko
| geolab at warwick.ac.uk
|-
| 8.
| [http://www.gridw.pl UNEP/GRID-Warsaw Centre]
| Warsaw
| Poland
| Europe
| 21.039473, 52.198849
| 2013-03-18
|
| Ela Woloszynska-Wisniewska
| ela at gridw.pl
|-
| 9.
| [http://www.supsi.ch/ist_en/settori-attivita/geomatica.html University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Southern Switzerland] (SUPSI)
| Lugano
| Switzerland
| Europe
| 8.961098, 46.028362
| 2013-09-03
| Institute of Earth Sciences
| Massimiliano Cannata
| geomatica at supsi.ch
|-
| 10.
| [http://karlinapp.ethz.ch/osgl/ ETH Zurich]
| Zurich
| Switzerland
| Europe
| 8.5481, 47.3764
| 2013-09-20
| [http://www.ikg.ethz.ch/about/index_EN Institute of Cartography and Geoinformation, ETH Zurich]
| Ionu? Iosifescu
| iosifescu at ethz.ch
|-
| 11.
| University of Molise
| Molise
| Italy
| Europe
| 14.493651, 41.630815
|
| in process of being established
| Rosella Nocera
|
|-
| 12.
| [http://www.igik.edu.pl/en Institute of Geodesy and Cartography] (IGiK)
| Warsaw
| Poland
| Europe
| 52.178478, 21.013407
|
| in process of being established
| Agata Ciołkosz-Styk
|
|-
| 13.
| [http://opengis.unibuc.ro/ Faculty of Geography, University of Bucharest]
| Bucharest
| Romania
| Europe
| 26.103889, 44.432500
|
| new website under development
| Andreea Marin
| andreea dot marin09 at yahoo dot com
|-
| 14.
| [http://www.geo.info.hu/english/index.php Faculty of Geoinformatics,University of West Hungary]
| Székesfehérvár
| Hungary
| Europe
| 18.418833, 47.188778
|
| in process of being established
| Andrea Podör
|
|-
| 15.
| [http://www.hft-stuttgart.de/Studienbereiche/Vermessung/Master-Photogrammetry-Geoinformatics/Labs/ICA-OSGeo-Labor/index.html/en Stuttgart University of Applied Sciences]
| Stuttgart
| Germany
| Europe
| 9.17370, 48.77996
| 2013-10-14
|
| Franz-Josef Behr
| franz-josef.behr at hft-stuttgart.de
|-
| 16.
| [http://www.geomatica.ufpr.br/index.html Federal University of Paraná]
| Paraná
| Brazil
| South America
| -49.26141, -25.427074
| 2012-05-23
|
| Silvana Camboim
|
|-
| 17.
| [http://www.unesp.br/ São Paulo State University] (UNESP)
| São Paulo
| Brazil
| South America
| -46.654129, -23.576574
|
|
|
|
|-
| 18.
| National Amazonian University of Madre de Dios (UNAMAD)
| Puerto Maldonado
| Peru
| South America
| -73.245789, -3.745845
| 2013-02-01
| in process of being established
| Andrea Birgit Chavez
|
|-
| 19.
| [http://ltaat.fcien.edu.uy Universidad de la República]
| Montevideo
| Uruguay
| South America
| -56.176441, -34.902405
| 2013-03-01
| new website under development
| Virginia Fernandez
| vfernandez at presidencia.gub.uy
|-
| 20.
| University of Campinas
| Campinas
| Brazil
| South America
| -47.063239, -22.907105
|
| in process of being established
|
|
|-
| 21.
| Federal University of Alagoas
| Maceió
| Brazil
| South America
| -35.735098, -9.666251
|
| http://www.nmarisco.simplesite.com.br/
|
|
|-
| 22.
| [http://gis.ncsu.edu/osgeorel/ North Carolina State University OSGeoREL]
| Raleigh, NC
| USA
| North America
| -78.6764, 35.7818
| 2012-10-18
|Geospatial analysis, modeling and visualization, [http://grass.osgeo.org GRASS GIS] development
| Helena Mitasova
| hmitaso at ncsu.edu
|-
| 23.
| [http://www.umass.edu/opensource University of Massachusetts Amherst]
| Amherst
| USA
| North America
| -72.524696, 42.393578
| 2012-10-18
|
| Charlie Schweik
| cschweik at pubpol dot umass dot edu
|-
| 24.
| [https://sites.google.com/site/foss4gku/ University of Kansas]
| Lawrence, KS
| USA
| North America
| -95.251311, 38.958578
| 2013-08-23
|
| Xingong Li
| lixi at ku.edu
|-
| 25.
| [https://geospatial.ucdavis.edu/resources/open-source University of California, Davis]
| Davis
| USA
| North America
| -121.766945, 38.548801
| 2013-02-04
| [http://live.osgeo.org OSGeo-Live]
| Alex Mandel
| aimandel at ucdavis.edu
|-
| 26.
| [http://www.cozcyt.gob.mx/labsol/ Laboratorio de Software Libre]
| Zacatecas
| Mexico
| North America
| -102.5791, 22.7608
| 2013-04-05
| in process of being established
| Manual Haro
| manuel.haro at zacatecas.gob.mx
|-
| 27.
| Kent State University
| Kent, Ohio
| USA
| North America
| -81.357886,41.153667
| 2013-08-30
|
| Xinyue Ye
| xye5 at kent.edu
|-
| 28.
| [https://gis.uncc.edu/osgl Center for Applied GIScience, University of North Carolina, Charlotte ]
| Charlotte, NC
| USA
| North America
| -80.730000, 35.306944
| 2013-09-05
|
| Wenwu Tang
| WenwuTang at uncc.edu
|-
| 29.
| [http://www.nottingham.edu.my/Geography/Newsitems/Establishing-Open-Source-Geospatial-Lab.aspx University of Nottingham, Malaysia campus]
| Semenyih
| Malaysia
| Asia
| 101.721298, 3.172932
| 2012-01-09
| website in development
| Tuong Thuy Vu
| Tuongthuy.Vu at nottingham.edu.my
|-
| 30.
| [http://www.utm.my/ Universiti Teknologi Malaysia] (UTM)
| Johor Bahru
| Malaysia
| Asia
| 101.874222, 2.943748
|
| in process of being established
|
|
|-
| 31.
| National College of Public Administration and Governance(NCPAG), University of the Philippines
| Manila
| Philippines
| Asia
| 121.059875, 14.656005
|
| in process of being established
| Noriel Christopher Tiglao
|
|-
| 32.
| Environmental Science for Social Change (ESSC)
| Quezon City
| Philippines
| Asia
| 121.062241, 14.64372
|
| in process of being established
| Maning Sambale
|
|-
| 33.
| [http://lsi.iiit.ac.in/labinfo/ Lab for Spatial Informatics], IIIT Hyderabad
| Hyderabad
| India
| Asia
| 78.3503, 17.4454
| 2011-08-22
|
| Dr K S Rajan
|
|-
| 34.
| [http://grel.ist.edu.pk/ Geospatial Research and Education Lab](GREL), Institute of Space Technology (IST)
| Islamabad
| Pakistan
| Asia
| 73.175045, 33.520060
|
|
|Rizwan Bulbul
|bulbul(dot)rizwan(at)gmail(dot)com
|-
| 35.
| [http://www.up.ac.za/cgis University of Pretoria]
| Pretoria
| South Africa
| Africa
| 28.22847, -25.75429
| 2012-05-15
|
| Serena Coetzee
| serena dot coetzee at up dot ac dot za
|-
| 36.
| [http://www.rcmrd.org/ Regional Centre for Mapping of Resources for Development] (RCMRD)
| Nairobi
| Kenya
| Africa
| 36.858574, -1.249038
|
| in process of being established
| Hussein Farah
| farah at rcmrd.org
|-
| 37.
| University of Ghana
| Accra
| Ghana
| Africa
| -0.191617, 5.650366
|
| in process of being established
| Foster Mensah
|
|-
| 38.
| The University of Melbourne
| Melbourne
| Australia
| Australia
| 144.962006, -37.797932
| 2013-07-22
|
| Chris Pettit
|
|-
| 39.
| [http://cbi.tamucc.edu/Geospatial-Computing/ Texas A&M University - Corpus Christi]
| Corpus Christi
| USA
| North America
| -97.328799, 27.714506
| 2013-09-09
| in process of being established/website under construction
| Rick Smith
| Richard.Smith at tamucc.edu
|-
| 40.
| [http://www.geomaticsindia-cept.org/ CEPT University]
| Ahmedabad
| India
| Asia
| 72.566004,23.039568
| 2012-07-18
| in process of being established
| Prof. Anjana Vyas & Ms. Darshana Rawal
| anjanavyas at cept.ac.in rawalnet at cept.ac.in
|-
| 41.
| National University of San Juan
| San Juan
| Argentina
| South America
| -68.521408, -31.527273
| 2012-06-15
| in process of being established
| Agustin Arroqui
| aarroqui at unsj.edu.ar
|-
| 42.
| [http://geodacenter.asu.edu GeoDa Center for Geospatial Analysis and Computation, Arizona State University]
| Tempe, AZ
| USA
| North America
| -111.940005, 33.425510
| 2013-09-27
| Spatial econometrics, geocomputation, spatial optimization - [https://geodacenter.asu.edu/software/downloads GeoDa], [http://pysal.org PySAL], [https://geodacenter.asu.edu/software/downloads/geodaspace GeoDaSpace]
| [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luc_Anselin Luc Anselin]
| geodacenter at asu.edu
|-
| 43.
| National Technical University of Athens
| Athens
| Greece
| Europe
| 23.729310, 37.983716
| 2013-09-26
| in process of being established
|
|
|-
| 44.
| IGN- France
| Paris
| France
| Europe
| 2.352222, 48.856614
| 2013-09-26
| in process of being established
| Benedicte Bucher
|
|-
| 45.
| Universitat Oberta de Catalunya
| Barcelona
| Spain
| Europe
| 2.173403, 41.385064
| 2013-09-27
| in process of being established
| Dr. Antoni Pérez Navarro
| aperezn at uoc.edu
|-
| 46.
| [http://www.isric.org ISRIC - World Soil Information foundation]
| Wageningen
| The Netherlands
| Europe
| 5.665662,51.9875
|2013-10-02
|website in construction
| Jorge de Jesus
| jorge.mendesdejesus at wur.nl
|-
| 47.
| Universidade da Coruña
| A Coruña (España)
| Spain
| Europe
| -8.411540, 43.362344
| 2013-10-15
| in process of being established
| Alberto Varela García
|
|-
| 48.
| Universiti Sains Malaysia
| Penang
| Malaysia
| Asia
| 100.484623, 5.263234
|2013-10-16
|in process of being established
| Ruslan Rainis
|
|-
| 49.
| Kathmandu University
| Dhulikhel
| Nepal
| Asia
| 85.550000, 27.616667
|2012-12-24
|https://sites.google.com/a/ku.edu.np/opensourcegeospatial/
| Shashish Maharjan
|
|-
| 50
| [http://gis.cri.fmach.it/ GIS and Remote Sensing Unit, Fondazione Edmund Mach ]
| San Michele all'Adige (Trento)
| Italy
| Europe
| 11.133042,46.187865
|2013-10-16
|Geospatial analysis, modeling and remote sensing, [http://grass.osgeo.org GRASS GIS] and [http://pymodis.fem-environment.eu/ pyMODIS] development
| Luca Delucchi
| luca.delucchi at fmach.it
|-
| 51.
| [http://gis.research.southwales.ac.uk/ University of South Wales ]
| Cardiff
| United Kingdom
| Europe
| -3.179090,51.481581
|2013-10-31
|
| Dr Mark Ware
| mark.ware at southwales.ac.uk
|-
| 52.
| [http://gisgeek.pdx.edu/wordpress/open-source-gis/ Portland State University]
| Portland, Oregon
| USA
| North America
| -122.676207,45.523452
| 2013-10-22
| Warming up
| David Percy
| percy at pdx.edu
|-
| 53.
| [http://www.icpac.net/ IGAD Climate Prediction and Applications Center]
| Nairobi
| Kenya
| Africa
| 36.821946,-1.292066
| 2013-10-29
| In process of being established
| Muyambi Fortunate
| fbenda at icpac.net
|-
|-
| 54.
| [http://www.labocart.ufc.br/ Federal University of Ceará ]
| Ceará
| Brazil
| South America
| -38.543395,-3.718394
| 2013-10-29
| In process of being established
| Prof. Dr. Adryane Gorayeb
| adryanegorayeb at yahoo dot com dot br
|-
| 55.
| [http://geospecial.wordpress.com/ University of Gloucestershire ]
| Gloucester and Cheltenham
| United Kingdom
| Europe
| -2.223409, 51.872215
| 2013-11-06
| In process of being established
| Dr Robert Berry
| rberry at glos.ac.uk
|-
| 56.
| [http://mrt.ac.lk/foa/ University of Moratuwa ]
| Moratuwa
| Sri Lanka
| Asia
| 79.9008, 6.7964
| 2013-11-11
| [http://www.mrt.ac.lk/tcp/osgeosl.html OSGeoSL ]
| Aruna Wickramasinghe
| toaruna at gmail.com
|-
| 57.
| [http://www.fudan.edu.cn/ Fudan University]
| Shanghai
| China
| Asia
| 121.452, 31.198
| 2013-11-14
| [http://lab.osstat.org/ Open Source STATistics]
| Zhijie Zhang
| epistat at gmail.com
|-
| 58.
| Haskell Indian Nations University
| Lawrence, Kansas
| USA
| North America
| -95.230691, 38.938859
| 2013-11-22
| [https://sites.google.com/site/dtmcdermott/home/haskell-cartography-class/ Haskell Indian Nations University]
| Dave McDermott
| dmcdermott at haskell.edu
|-
| 59.
| [http://www.geof.unizg.hr/mod/book/view.php?id=1165&chapterid=110&lang=en University of Zagreb, Faculty of Geodesy]
| Zagreb
| Croatia
| Europe
| 15.963888, 45.808500
| 2013-11-25
|
| Dražen Tutic
| dtutic at geof.hr
|-
| 60.
| [http://www.geo.gob.bo/ GeoBolivia-Vice-presidency of the State ]
| La Paz
| Bolivia
| South America
| -68.1547, -16.4949
| 2013-11-24
| In process of being established
| Raul Fernando Molina Rodriguez
| rafemoro at gmail.com rmolina@geo.gob.bo
|-
| 61.
| [http://www2.unb.ca/~estef/geo4all.html Geodesy and Geomatics Engineering], University of New Brunswick
| Fredericton, NB
| Canada
| North America
| -66.641474, 45.950252
| 2013-12-10
| Active
| Emmanuel Stefanakis
| emmanuel.stefanakis at gmail.com
|-
| 62.
| [http://geo.sab.ac.lk/ Faculty of Geomatics, Sabaragamuwa University of Sri Lanka]
| Belihuloya, Sabaragamuwa
| Sri Lanka
| Asia
| 80.78995, 6.7102
| 2013-12-12
| In process of being established
| Thilantha Dammalage
| thilantha9 at gmail.com
|-
| 63.
| [http://www.sliit.lk/index.php/sliit/departments/department-of-information-technology Dpt of IT, Faculty of Computing, Sri Lanka Institute of Information Technology]
| Malabe
| Sri Lanka
| Asia
| 79.973166667, 6.914866667
| 2013-12-13
| [http://osgeolab.sliit.lk/ OSGeoSLIIT]
| Nimalika Fernando
| nimalikaf at gmail.com
|-
| 64.
| [http://www.unige.ch/environnement University of Geneva - Institute for Environmental Sciences]
| Geneva
| Switzerland
| Europe
| 6.1487, 46.2253
| 2013-12-19
| In process of being established
| Gregory Giuliani
| gregory.giuliani at unige.ch
|-
| 65.
| [http://www.ifs.hsr.ch/Geometa-Lab.12520.0.html?&L=4 Geometa Lab at HSR - University of Applied Sciences Rapperswil]
| Rapperswil
| Switzerland
| Europe
| 8.81690, 47.22341
| 2014-01-26
| (published 2014-02-05)
| Prof. Stefan Keller
| sfkeller at hsr.ch (and/or at gmail.ch)
|-
| 66.
| National University of "Kyiv-Mohyla Academy", Ecology Faculty
| Kyiv
| Ukraine
| Europe
| 50.456936, 30.515647
| 2014-02-16
| In proess of being established
| Tetyana Kuchma
| tanyakuchma at yahoo.com
|-
| 67.
| Centre for Research and Technology Hellas - Hellenic Institute of Transport
| Thessaloniki
| Greece
| Europe
| 40.567811, 22.996707
| 2014-02-17
| In process of being established
| Dr. Evangelos Mitsakis
| emit at certh.gr
|-
| 68.
| Centre for Spatial Information Science(CSIS), University of Tokyo
| Kashiwa-shi, Chiba
| Japan
| Asia
| 139.938952, 35.902681
| 2014-02-18
| In process of being established
| Taichi FURUHASHI
| taichi at csis.u-tokyo.ac.jp
|-
| 69.
|[http://foss4geo.org FOSS4Geo Academy @ Del Mar College National Open Geospatial Technology Consortium]
| Corpus Christi, Republic of Texas
| USA
| North America
| -97.407096, 27.764053
| 2014-02-18
| Active
| Dr. Phillip Davis
| pdavis at delmar.edu
|-
| 70.
| Osaka City University(OCU)
| Sumiyoshi-ku, Osaka
| Japan
| Asia
| 135.507556, 34.593067
| 2014-02-23
| In process of being established
| Venkatesh RAGHAVAN
| venka.osgeo at gmail.com
|-
| 71.
| [http://www.dicca.unige.it/geomatica/ Università di Genova - Laboratorio di Geomatica]
| Genova
| Italy
| Europe
| 8.962795, 44.400133
| 2014-03-21
|[http://www.gter.it Gter Innovation in Geomatics, Gnss and Gis (spin-off company)]
| Tiziano Cosso - Bianca Federici - Roberto Marzocchi - Domenico Sguerso
| bianca.federici at unige.it
|-
| 72.
| [http://www.eiic.ulpgc.es/ Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria - Escuela de Ingenierías Industriales y Civiles - Grado en Ingenieria Geomática y Topografía]
| Las Palmas de Gran Canaria
| Spain
| Europe
| -15.456207, 28.069303
| 2014-03-23
|
|Fernando Toscano Benítez
| sub_dgn at eiic.ulpgc.es
|-
| 73.
| [http://carsilab.org] Center for Advanced Research on Spatial Information, Hunter College - CUNY
| New York
| US
| North America
|
| 2014-04-04
|
| Carson Farmer
| carson.farmer at hunter.cuny.edu
|-
| 74.
| [http://www.digital-earth.edu.gr/index.php/en/] Hellenic digital earth Centre of Excellence, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki - AUTH
| Thessaloniki
| Greece
| Europe
| 40.627516, 22.961498
| 2014-04-05
|
| Nikos Lambrinos
| labrinos at eled.auth.gr
|-
| 75.
| [http://www.zgis.at/ Interfaculty Department of Geoinformatics - Z_GIS, University of Salzburg]
| Salzburg
| Austria
| Europe
| 47.823711, 13.039586
| 2014-04-14
| [http://www.unigis.net The UNIGIS International Association is the distance education initiative offering masters and diploma programmes in Geographical Information Science and Systems]
| Hermann Klug
| hermann.klug at sbg.ac.at
|-
| 76.
|[http://people.ucalgary.ca/~ahunter/ Department of Geomatics Engineering, University of Calgary]
| Calgary
| Canada
| North America
| 51.079735, -114.132457
| 2014-04-22
| in the process of being established
| Andrew Hunter
| ahunter at ucalgary.ca
|-
| 77.
| Ben Gurion University of the Negev (BGU)
| Sede Boqer and Beer Sheva
| Israel
| Europe
| 34.78346, 30.85332
| 2014-04-22
| TBA
| Yaakov GARB
| ygarb at bgu.ac.il
|}

== Interested in adding your own node into the ICA-OSGeo Labs network? ==

As the lab network is expanding fast, we have also setup nodal contacts for each regions:

# Anne Ghisla - Asia & Australia
# Helena Mitasova - North America
# Charlie Schweik - South America
# Suchith Anand - Europe & Africa

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.

The '''key requirements''' for establishing a local OSGL are:

(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.

(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.

(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.

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.

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.

== Meetings ==
; Next meeting:
* ...

; Past Meetings:
* [[ICA OSGeo Lab Network 2013-09-05]] 18.00 UTC
* [[ICA OSGeo Lab Network 2013-07-29]] 14.00 UTC
* [[ICA OSGeo Lab Network 2013-05-02]] 14.00 UTC
* [[ICA OSGeo Lab Network 2013-06-06]] 14.00 UTC

== ISC OSGeo Lab Network Research and Teaching Areas ==

[[ICA_OSGeo_Lab_Research_areas]]
 
[[ICA_OSGeo_Lab_Teaching_areas]]

[[Category: Education]]
[[Category: ICA OSGeo Lab Network]]

Edu current initiatives

2014-04-23T20:09:53Z

Wiki-Ahunter: /* Current members of the ICA-OSGeo Network */

== 2013-2014 OSGeo Education and Curriculum Current Initiatives ==

'''The official website is online at ''http://www.geoforall.org''''' - locations: [http://www.geoforall.org/locations/ ICA-OSGeo Map]

=== 1) Continue to build up our educational material federated content databases ===

* [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
* [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
* [[Webinar Series ]]

===2) Continue to expand the ICA-OSGeo Network ===

This effort is led by Suchith Anand at the University of Nottingham, UK.

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]].

== Current members of the ICA-OSGeo Network ==



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.

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 [http://www.geoforall.org/locations/ ICA-OSGeo Map]) :

{|class="wikitable sortable" border="2" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="6" rules="all" style="margin:1em 1em 1em 0; border:solid 1px #AAAAAAAA; border-collapse:collapse; background-color:#edf9c7; font-size:95%; empty-cells:show;"
!
! Laboratory name and institution
! City
! Country
! Continent
! Coordinates (longitude, latitude)
! Application recieved / Announced
! Notes (projects, collaborations, etc)
! Contact names
! Contact emails
|-
| 1.
| [http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/ngi/research/geospatial-science/geospatial-science.aspx University of Nottingham]
| Nottingham
| UK
| Europe
| -1.250296, 52.831497
|
|
| Jeremy Morley
| Jeremy dot Morley at nottingham.ac.uk
|-
| 2.
| [http://www.sigte.udg.edu/ University of Girona]
| Girona
| Spain
| Europe
| 2.837305, 41.967426
| 2012-09-10
|
| Lluís Vicens
| lluis at sigte.udg.edu
|-
| 3.
| [http://www.osgl.soton.ac.uk/ University of Southampton]
| Southampton
| UK
| Europe
| -1.396873, 50.936974
| 2013-04-30
|
| Jason Sadler
| osgl at geodata.soton.ac.uk
|-
| 4.
| [http://geo.fsv.cvut.cz/gwiki/osgeorel Czech Technical University in Prague]
| Prague
| Czech Republic
| Europe
| 14.390363, 50.10183
| 2012-11-23
| Geospatial analysis, modeling and visualization, remote sensing, [http://grass.osgeo.org GRASS GIS] and [http://www.qgis.org QGIS] development
| Martin Landa
| martin.landa at fsv.cvut.cz
|-
| 5.
| [http://research.ncl.ac.uk/osgeolab/ Newcastle University]
| Newcastle
| UK
| Europe
| -1.611536, 54.980656
| 2013-01-17
|
| Philip James
| philip.james at ncl.ac.uk (please use subject: OSGeoLab)
|-
| 6.
| [http://geomatica.como.polimi.it/ Politecnico di Milano - Polo Territoriale di Como]
| Como
| Italy
| Europe
| 9.095939, 45.803516
| 2013-02-25
|
| Maria Brovelli
| geowb at geomatica.como.polimi.it
|-
| 7.
| [http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/lifesci/research/facilities/geolab/ University of Warwick]
| Warwick
| UK
| Europe
| -1.56273, 52.380531
| 2013-03-23
|
| Nataliya Tkachenko
| geolab at warwick.ac.uk
|-
| 8.
| [http://www.gridw.pl UNEP/GRID-Warsaw Centre]
| Warsaw
| Poland
| Europe
| 21.039473, 52.198849
| 2013-03-18
|
| Ela Woloszynska-Wisniewska
| ela at gridw.pl
|-
| 9.
| [http://www.supsi.ch/ist_en/settori-attivita/geomatica.html University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Southern Switzerland] (SUPSI)
| Lugano
| Switzerland
| Europe
| 8.961098, 46.028362
| 2013-09-03
| Institute of Earth Sciences
| Massimiliano Cannata
| geomatica at supsi.ch
|-
| 10.
| [http://karlinapp.ethz.ch/osgl/ ETH Zurich]
| Zurich
| Switzerland
| Europe
| 8.5481, 47.3764
| 2013-09-20
| [http://www.ikg.ethz.ch/about/index_EN Institute of Cartography and Geoinformation, ETH Zurich]
| Ionu? Iosifescu
| iosifescu at ethz.ch
|-
| 11.
| University of Molise
| Molise
| Italy
| Europe
| 14.493651, 41.630815
|
| in process of being established
| Rosella Nocera
|
|-
| 12.
| [http://www.igik.edu.pl/en Institute of Geodesy and Cartography] (IGiK)
| Warsaw
| Poland
| Europe
| 52.178478, 21.013407
|
| in process of being established
| Agata Ciołkosz-Styk
|
|-
| 13.
| [http://opengis.unibuc.ro/ Faculty of Geography, University of Bucharest]
| Bucharest
| Romania
| Europe
| 26.103889, 44.432500
|
| new website under development
| Andreea Marin
| andreea dot marin09 at yahoo dot com
|-
| 14.
| [http://www.geo.info.hu/english/index.php Faculty of Geoinformatics,University of West Hungary]
| Székesfehérvár
| Hungary
| Europe
| 18.418833, 47.188778
|
| in process of being established
| Andrea Podör
|
|-
| 15.
| [http://www.hft-stuttgart.de/Studienbereiche/Vermessung/Master-Photogrammetry-Geoinformatics/Labs/ICA-OSGeo-Labor/index.html/en Stuttgart University of Applied Sciences]
| Stuttgart
| Germany
| Europe
| 9.17370, 48.77996
| 2013-10-14
|
| Franz-Josef Behr
| franz-josef.behr at hft-stuttgart.de
|-
| 16.
| [http://www.geomatica.ufpr.br/index.html Federal University of Paraná]
| Paraná
| Brazil
| South America
| -49.26141, -25.427074
| 2012-05-23
|
| Silvana Camboim
|
|-
| 17.
| [http://www.unesp.br/ São Paulo State University] (UNESP)
| São Paulo
| Brazil
| South America
| -46.654129, -23.576574
|
|
|
|
|-
| 18.
| National Amazonian University of Madre de Dios (UNAMAD)
| Puerto Maldonado
| Peru
| South America
| -73.245789, -3.745845
| 2013-02-01
| in process of being established
| Andrea Birgit Chavez
|
|-
| 19.
| [http://ltaat.fcien.edu.uy Universidad de la República]
| Montevideo
| Uruguay
| South America
| -56.176441, -34.902405
| 2013-03-01
| new website under development
| Virginia Fernandez
| vfernandez at presidencia.gub.uy
|-
| 20.
| University of Campinas
| Campinas
| Brazil
| South America
| -47.063239, -22.907105
|
| in process of being established
|
|
|-
| 21.
| Federal University of Alagoas
| Maceió
| Brazil
| South America
| -35.735098, -9.666251
|
| http://www.nmarisco.simplesite.com.br/
|
|
|-
| 22.
| [http://gis.ncsu.edu/osgeorel/ North Carolina State University OSGeoREL]
| Raleigh, NC
| USA
| North America
| -78.6764, 35.7818
| 2012-10-18
|Geospatial analysis, modeling and visualization, [http://grass.osgeo.org GRASS GIS] development
| Helena Mitasova
| hmitaso at ncsu.edu
|-
| 23.
| [http://www.umass.edu/opensource University of Massachusetts Amherst]
| Amherst
| USA
| North America
| -72.524696, 42.393578
| 2012-10-18
|
| Charlie Schweik
| cschweik at pubpol dot umass dot edu
|-
| 24.
| [https://sites.google.com/site/foss4gku/ University of Kansas]
| Lawrence, KS
| USA
| North America
| -95.251311, 38.958578
| 2013-08-23
|
| Xingong Li
| lixi at ku.edu
|-
| 25.
| [https://geospatial.ucdavis.edu/resources/open-source University of California, Davis]
| Davis
| USA
| North America
| -121.766945, 38.548801
| 2013-02-04
| [http://live.osgeo.org OSGeo-Live]
| Alex Mandel
| aimandel at ucdavis.edu
|-
| 26.
| [http://www.cozcyt.gob.mx/labsol/ Laboratorio de Software Libre]
| Zacatecas
| Mexico
| North America
| -102.5791, 22.7608
| 2013-04-05
| in process of being established
| Manual Haro
| manuel.haro at zacatecas.gob.mx
|-
| 27.
| Kent State University
| Kent, Ohio
| USA
| North America
| -81.357886,41.153667
| 2013-08-30
|
| Xinyue Ye
| xye5 at kent.edu
|-
| 28.
| [https://gis.uncc.edu/osgl Center for Applied GIScience, University of North Carolina, Charlotte ]
| Charlotte, NC
| USA
| North America
| -80.730000, 35.306944
| 2013-09-05
|
| Wenwu Tang
| WenwuTang at uncc.edu
|-
| 29.
| [http://www.nottingham.edu.my/Geography/Newsitems/Establishing-Open-Source-Geospatial-Lab.aspx University of Nottingham, Malaysia campus]
| Semenyih
| Malaysia
| Asia
| 101.721298, 3.172932
| 2012-01-09
| website in development
| Tuong Thuy Vu
| Tuongthuy.Vu at nottingham.edu.my
|-
| 30.
| [http://www.utm.my/ Universiti Teknologi Malaysia] (UTM)
| Johor Bahru
| Malaysia
| Asia
| 101.874222, 2.943748
|
| in process of being established
|
|
|-
| 31.
| National College of Public Administration and Governance(NCPAG), University of the Philippines
| Manila
| Philippines
| Asia
| 121.059875, 14.656005
|
| in process of being established
| Noriel Christopher Tiglao
|
|-
| 32.
| Environmental Science for Social Change (ESSC)
| Quezon City
| Philippines
| Asia
| 121.062241, 14.64372
|
| in process of being established
| Maning Sambale
|
|-
| 33.
| [http://lsi.iiit.ac.in/labinfo/ Lab for Spatial Informatics], IIIT Hyderabad
| Hyderabad
| India
| Asia
| 78.3503, 17.4454
| 2011-08-22
|
| Dr K S Rajan
|
|-
| 34.
| [http://grel.ist.edu.pk/ Geospatial Research and Education Lab](GREL), Institute of Space Technology (IST)
| Islamabad
| Pakistan
| Asia
| 73.175045, 33.520060
|
|
|Rizwan Bulbul
|bulbul(dot)rizwan(at)gmail(dot)com
|-
| 35.
| [http://www.up.ac.za/cgis University of Pretoria]
| Pretoria
| South Africa
| Africa
| 28.22847, -25.75429
| 2012-05-15
|
| Serena Coetzee
| serena dot coetzee at up dot ac dot za
|-
| 36.
| [http://www.rcmrd.org/ Regional Centre for Mapping of Resources for Development] (RCMRD)
| Nairobi
| Kenya
| Africa
| 36.858574, -1.249038
|
| in process of being established
| Hussein Farah
| farah at rcmrd.org
|-
| 37.
| University of Ghana
| Accra
| Ghana
| Africa
| -0.191617, 5.650366
|
| in process of being established
| Foster Mensah
|
|-
| 38.
| The University of Melbourne
| Melbourne
| Australia
| Australia
| 144.962006, -37.797932
| 2013-07-22
|
| Chris Pettit
|
|-
| 39.
| [http://cbi.tamucc.edu/Geospatial-Computing/ Texas A&M University - Corpus Christi]
| Corpus Christi
| USA
| North America
| -97.328799, 27.714506
| 2013-09-09
| in process of being established/website under construction
| Rick Smith
| Richard.Smith at tamucc.edu
|-
| 40.
| [http://www.geomaticsindia-cept.org/ CEPT University]
| Ahmedabad
| India
| Asia
| 72.566004,23.039568
| 2012-07-18
| in process of being established
| Prof. Anjana Vyas & Ms. Darshana Rawal
| anjanavyas at cept.ac.in rawalnet at cept.ac.in
|-
| 41.
| National University of San Juan
| San Juan
| Argentina
| South America
| -68.521408, -31.527273
| 2012-06-15
| in process of being established
| Agustin Arroqui
| aarroqui at unsj.edu.ar
|-
| 42.
| [http://geodacenter.asu.edu GeoDa Center for Geospatial Analysis and Computation, Arizona State University]
| Tempe, AZ
| USA
| North America
| -111.940005, 33.425510
| 2013-09-27
| Spatial econometrics, geocomputation, spatial optimization - [https://geodacenter.asu.edu/software/downloads GeoDa], [http://pysal.org PySAL], [https://geodacenter.asu.edu/software/downloads/geodaspace GeoDaSpace]
| [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luc_Anselin Luc Anselin]
| geodacenter at asu.edu
|-
| 43.
| National Technical University of Athens
| Athens
| Greece
| Europe
| 23.729310, 37.983716
| 2013-09-26
| in process of being established
|
|
|-
| 44.
| IGN- France
| Paris
| France
| Europe
| 2.352222, 48.856614
| 2013-09-26
| in process of being established
| Benedicte Bucher
|
|-
| 45.
| Universitat Oberta de Catalunya
| Barcelona
| Spain
| Europe
| 2.173403, 41.385064
| 2013-09-27
| in process of being established
| Dr. Antoni Pérez Navarro
| aperezn at uoc.edu
|-
| 46.
| [http://www.isric.org ISRIC - World Soil Information foundation]
| Wageningen
| The Netherlands
| Europe
| 5.665662,51.9875
|2013-10-02
|website in construction
| Jorge de Jesus
| jorge.mendesdejesus at wur.nl
|-
| 47.
| Universidade da Coruña
| A Coruña (España)
| Spain
| Europe
| -8.411540, 43.362344
| 2013-10-15
| in process of being established
| Alberto Varela García
|
|-
| 48.
| Universiti Sains Malaysia
| Penang
| Malaysia
| Asia
| 100.484623, 5.263234
|2013-10-16
|in process of being established
| Ruslan Rainis
|
|-
| 49.
| Kathmandu University
| Dhulikhel
| Nepal
| Asia
| 85.550000, 27.616667
|2012-12-24
|https://sites.google.com/a/ku.edu.np/opensourcegeospatial/
| Shashish Maharjan
|
|-
| 50
| [http://gis.cri.fmach.it/ GIS and Remote Sensing Unit, Fondazione Edmund Mach ]
| San Michele all'Adige (Trento)
| Italy
| Europe
| 11.133042,46.187865
|2013-10-16
|Geospatial analysis, modeling and remote sensing, [http://grass.osgeo.org GRASS GIS] and [http://pymodis.fem-environment.eu/ pyMODIS] development
| Luca Delucchi
| luca.delucchi at fmach.it
|-
| 51.
| [http://gis.research.southwales.ac.uk/ University of South Wales ]
| Cardiff
| United Kingdom
| Europe
| -3.179090,51.481581
|2013-10-31
|
| Dr Mark Ware
| mark.ware at southwales.ac.uk
|-
| 52.
| [http://gisgeek.pdx.edu/wordpress/open-source-gis/ Portland State University]
| Portland, Oregon
| USA
| North America
| -122.676207,45.523452
| 2013-10-22
| Warming up
| David Percy
| percy at pdx.edu
|-
| 53.
| [http://www.icpac.net/ IGAD Climate Prediction and Applications Center]
| Nairobi
| Kenya
| Africa
| 36.821946,-1.292066
| 2013-10-29
| In process of being established
| Muyambi Fortunate
| fbenda at icpac.net
|-
|-
| 54.
| [http://www.labocart.ufc.br/ Federal University of Ceará ]
| Ceará
| Brazil
| South America
| -38.543395,-3.718394
| 2013-10-29
| In process of being established
| Prof. Dr. Adryane Gorayeb
| adryanegorayeb at yahoo dot com dot br
|-
| 55.
| [http://geospecial.wordpress.com/ University of Gloucestershire ]
| Gloucester and Cheltenham
| United Kingdom
| Europe
| -2.223409, 51.872215
| 2013-11-06
| In process of being established
| Dr Robert Berry
| rberry at glos.ac.uk
|-
| 56.
| [http://mrt.ac.lk/foa/ University of Moratuwa ]
| Moratuwa
| Sri Lanka
| Asia
| 79.9008, 6.7964
| 2013-11-11
| [http://www.mrt.ac.lk/tcp/osgeosl.html OSGeoSL ]
| Aruna Wickramasinghe
| toaruna at gmail.com
|-
| 57.
| [http://www.fudan.edu.cn/ Fudan University]
| Shanghai
| China
| Asia
| 121.452, 31.198
| 2013-11-14
| [http://lab.osstat.org/ Open Source STATistics]
| Zhijie Zhang
| epistat at gmail.com
|-
| 58.
| Haskell Indian Nations University
| Lawrence, Kansas
| USA
| North America
| -95.230691, 38.938859
| 2013-11-22
| [https://sites.google.com/site/dtmcdermott/home/haskell-cartography-class/ Haskell Indian Nations University]
| Dave McDermott
| dmcdermott at haskell.edu
|-
| 59.
| [http://www.geof.unizg.hr/mod/book/view.php?id=1165&chapterid=110&lang=en University of Zagreb, Faculty of Geodesy]
| Zagreb
| Croatia
| Europe
| 15.963888, 45.808500
| 2013-11-25
|
| Dražen Tutic
| dtutic at geof.hr
|-
| 60.
| [http://www.geo.gob.bo/ GeoBolivia-Vice-presidency of the State ]
| La Paz
| Bolivia
| South America
| -68.1547, -16.4949
| 2013-11-24
| In process of being established
| Raul Fernando Molina Rodriguez
| rafemoro at gmail.com rmolina@geo.gob.bo
|-
| 61.
| [http://www2.unb.ca/~estef/geo4all.html Geodesy and Geomatics Engineering], University of New Brunswick
| Fredericton, NB
| Canada
| North America
| -66.641474, 45.950252
| 2013-12-10
| Active
| Emmanuel Stefanakis
| emmanuel.stefanakis at gmail.com
|-
| 62.
| [http://geo.sab.ac.lk/ Faculty of Geomatics, Sabaragamuwa University of Sri Lanka]
| Belihuloya, Sabaragamuwa
| Sri Lanka
| Asia
| 80.78995, 6.7102
| 2013-12-12
| In process of being established
| Thilantha Dammalage
| thilantha9 at gmail.com
|-
| 63.
| [http://www.sliit.lk/index.php/sliit/departments/department-of-information-technology Dpt of IT, Faculty of Computing, Sri Lanka Institute of Information Technology]
| Malabe
| Sri Lanka
| Asia
| 79.973166667, 6.914866667
| 2013-12-13
| [http://osgeolab.sliit.lk/ OSGeoSLIIT]
| Nimalika Fernando
| nimalikaf at gmail.com
|-
| 64.
| [http://www.unige.ch/environnement University of Geneva - Institute for Environmental Sciences]
| Geneva
| Switzerland
| Europe
| 6.1487, 46.2253
| 2013-12-19
| In process of being established
| Gregory Giuliani
| gregory.giuliani at unige.ch
|-
| 65.
| [http://www.ifs.hsr.ch/Geometa-Lab.12520.0.html?&L=4 Geometa Lab at HSR - University of Applied Sciences Rapperswil]
| Rapperswil
| Switzerland
| Europe
| 8.81690, 47.22341
| 2014-01-26
| (published 2014-02-05)
| Prof. Stefan Keller
| sfkeller at hsr.ch (and/or at gmail.ch)
|-
| 66.
| National University of "Kyiv-Mohyla Academy", Ecology Faculty
| Kyiv
| Ukraine
| Europe
| 50.456936, 30.515647
| 2014-02-16
| In proess of being established
| Tetyana Kuchma
| tanyakuchma at yahoo.com
|-
| 67.
| Centre for Research and Technology Hellas - Hellenic Institute of Transport
| Thessaloniki
| Greece
| Europe
| 40.567811, 22.996707
| 2014-02-17
| In process of being established
| Dr. Evangelos Mitsakis
| emit at certh.gr
|-
| 68.
| Centre for Spatial Information Science(CSIS), University of Tokyo
| Kashiwa-shi, Chiba
| Japan
| Asia
| 139.938952, 35.902681
| 2014-02-18
| In process of being established
| Taichi FURUHASHI
| taichi at csis.u-tokyo.ac.jp
|-
| 69.
|[http://foss4geo.org FOSS4Geo Academy @ Del Mar College National Open Geospatial Technology Consortium]
| Corpus Christi, Republic of Texas
| USA
| North America
| -97.407096, 27.764053
| 2014-02-18
| Active
| Dr. Phillip Davis
| pdavis at delmar.edu
|-
| 70.
| Osaka City University(OCU)
| Sumiyoshi-ku, Osaka
| Japan
| Asia
| 135.507556, 34.593067
| 2014-02-23
| In process of being established
| Venkatesh RAGHAVAN
| venka.osgeo at gmail.com
|-
| 71.
| [http://www.dicca.unige.it/geomatica/ Università di Genova - Laboratorio di Geomatica]
| Genova
| Italy
| Europe
| 8.962795, 44.400133
| 2014-03-21
|[http://www.gter.it Gter Innovation in Geomatics, Gnss and Gis (spin-off company)]
| Tiziano Cosso - Bianca Federici - Roberto Marzocchi - Domenico Sguerso
| bianca.federici at unige.it
|-
| 72.
| [http://www.eiic.ulpgc.es/ Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria - Escuela de Ingenierías Industriales y Civiles - Grado en Ingenieria Geomática y Topografía]
| Las Palmas de Gran Canaria
| Spain
| Europe
| -15.456207, 28.069303
| 2014-03-23
|
|Fernando Toscano Benítez
| sub_dgn at eiic.ulpgc.es
|-
| 73.
| [http://carsilab.org] Center for Advanced Research on Spatial Information, Hunter College - CUNY
| New York
| US
| North America
|
| 2014-04-04
|
| Carson Farmer
| carson.farmer at hunter.cuny.edu
|-
| 74.
| [http://www.digital-earth.edu.gr/index.php/en/] Hellenic digital earth Centre of Excellence, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki - AUTH
| Thessaloniki
| Greece
| Europe
| 40.627516, 22.961498
| 2014-04-05
|
| Nikos Lambrinos
| labrinos at eled.auth.gr
|-
| 75.
| [http://www.zgis.at/ Interfaculty Department of Geoinformatics - Z_GIS, University of Salzburg]
| Salzburg
| Austria
| Europe
| 47.823711, 13.039586
| 2014-04-14
| [http://www.unigis.net The UNIGIS International Association is the distance education initiative offering masters and diploma programmes in Geographical Information Science and Systems]
| Hermann Klug
| hermann.klug at sbg.ac.at
|-
| 76.
|[http://people.ucalgary.ca/~ahunter/ Department of Geomatics Engineering, University of Calgary]
| Calgary
| Canada
| North America
| 51.079734923, -114.1324567794
| 2014-04-22
| in the process of being established
| Andrew Hunter
| ahunter at ucalgary.ca
|-
| 77.
| Ben Gurion University of the Negev (BGU)
| Sede Boqer and Beer Sheva
| Israel
| Europe
| 34.78346, 30.85332
| 2014-04-22
| TBA
| Yaakov GARB
| ygarb at bgu.ac.il
|}

== Interested in adding your own node into the ICA-OSGeo Labs network? ==

As the lab network is expanding fast, we have also setup nodal contacts for each regions:

# Anne Ghisla - Asia & Australia
# Helena Mitasova - North America
# Charlie Schweik - South America
# Suchith Anand - Europe & Africa

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.

The '''key requirements''' for establishing a local OSGL are:

(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.

(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.

(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.

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.

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.

== Meetings ==
; Next meeting:
* ...

; Past Meetings:
* [[ICA OSGeo Lab Network 2013-09-05]] 18.00 UTC
* [[ICA OSGeo Lab Network 2013-07-29]] 14.00 UTC
* [[ICA OSGeo Lab Network 2013-05-02]] 14.00 UTC
* [[ICA OSGeo Lab Network 2013-06-06]] 14.00 UTC

== ISC OSGeo Lab Network Research and Teaching Areas ==

[[ICA_OSGeo_Lab_Research_areas]]
 
[[ICA_OSGeo_Lab_Teaching_areas]]

[[Category: Education]]
[[Category: ICA OSGeo Lab Network]]

OSGeo education interested participants

2010-07-30T21:46:21Z

Wiki-Ahunter: /* Contributors by Time Zones */

== Contributors by Interest ==
The following are individuals who have self-identified themselves as interested in contributing or assisting with [[Education and Curriculum Committee]] projects. You are welcome to add yourself to the list and identify areas that you are particular familiar with or interested in contributing to.
* [[User:pimpaa | George R. C. Silva]] (TZ GMT-3)
* [[User:Punkish | Puneet Kishor]] (TZ GMT-6)
* [[User: ajolma | Ari Jolma]] (TZ GMT+2) (graduate level education MS, PhD; academic research; primary school education)
* [[User:Neteler | Markus Neteler ]] (TZ GMT+1) (general training/education materials; [http://www.grassbook.org/data_menu3rd.php educational datasets])
* [[User:Venkat | Venkatesh Raghavan ]] (TZ GMT+9)(training/education material; educational datasets, software packaging, translation, e-learning Course Management Systems, Moodle,Certification Mechanisms, experience in international training)
* [[User:Schweik | Charlie Schweik]] (Chair) (TZ GMT-5) (undergraduate and graduate level education; academic [http://www.besttermpaper.com/ research papers] on open source collaboration, public sector information technology, natural resource management)
* [[User:Pnaciona|Pericles Nacionales]] (general training/education materials; conservation and natural resource management)
* Ned Horning (Winter: GMT-5 Summer: GMT -4) (Interested in promoting open source software development and integrating open source into the conservation community)
* [[User:Tmitchell | Tyler Mitchell]] (TZ GMT-8) (interested in workshop material and curriculum development for high school through to university)
* [[User:Arnulf Christl | Arnulf Christl]] (TZ GMT+2) (Experience as GIS instructor for fulltime workshops, trainings and courses. Organization of commercial training courses with Open Source Geospatial Software. Preparation of course and presentation material, tutorials). (Interest in enhancing presentation material, publishing under Free license, in time hardcopy production, maintenance and update of content just as any OS dev project)
* [[User:Scw | Shaun Walbridge]] (TZ GMT-8) (academic research on open source collaboration; general training/education materials; educational datasets)
* [[User:Perrygeo | Matthew Perry]] (TZ GMT-8) (primarily interested in workshops/lab materials for university students, NGOs and using open source software to demonstrate all fundamental aspects of GIS (theory and practice). Also interested in seeing 'official' training courses and certification)
* [[User:ianturton|Ian Turton]] : Penn State Uni, State College, developed Open Web Mapping course at Uni of Leeds, UK [http://www.geog.leeds.ac.uk/courses/postgrad/geog5780/] now modifying it for PennState. ianturton at gmail com [http://www.geovista.psu.edu/members/turton/index.html work] [http://pennspace.blogspot.com/ blog]
* [[User:Aaronr | Aaron Racicot]] (TZ GMT-8) (Interested in fostering more collaboration with academia through the introduction of open source GIS in the curriculum. Mainly interested in Undergraduate and Graduate level education and industry (NGO's and for-profit) collaboration. Certification is also an interest.)
* [[User:helena| Helena Mitasova]] (TZ GMT-5) NCSU, Raleigh,NC, GRASS PSC member, interested in graduate level education and research, development of tutorials and workshops, educational dataset, publishing books and journal articles
* [[User:maria | Maria Antonia Brovelli]] (TZ GMT+1) (Polytechnic of Milan and Polytecnic of Zurich, interested in Undergraduate, Graduate and Doctorat level education; academic research on new algorithms developed within open source GIS, on public sector information technology and NSDI, on environment and territory management)
* [[User:volaya| Victor Olaya]] (TZ GMT+1) Spanish Free GIS Book PSC Member. University of Extremadura, Spain. Sextante Proyect [http://www.sextantegis.com]. Interested in creating a free GIS book in spanish and english, and in finding out how both the spanish and the english teams can collaborate and help each other.
* [[User:Maxi71| Massimiliano Cannata]] (TZ GMT+1) (Institute of Earth Sciences - University of Applied Sciences of Southern Switzerland, Graduate and Continuing education; research and development in the field of Web-GIS and Environmental Modelling; consultant for the public administration authorities on environment, land and natural resources management)
* [[User:rob.braswell | Bobby H. Braswell]] (TZ GMT-5) (developing documentation in the form of tutorial modules for training and education, especially related to earth science and remote sensing research)
* [[User:VincentP | Vincent Picavet]] (TZ GMT+1) OSGeo Francophone local chapter and Makina Corpus, FLOSS company. Interested in workshops and courses for FOSS GIS web applications and infrastructures. Particular interest in French language material, translation, and coordination between multi-languages groups.
* [[User:Bwoodall | Bill Woodall]] (TZ GMT-8) (Interested in workshops/labs for Youth, primarily for 4-H Youth Development Program )
* [[User:Mleslie | Mark Leslie]] (TZ GMT+10) Interested in workshop and lab material for a general or technical audience.
* [[User:mlennert | Moritz Lennert ]] (TZ GMT+1) (University undergraduate GIS teaching lab and training course for professionals from "developing" countries; e-learning)
* [[User:nigeltrodd | Nigel Trodd]] (TZ GMT+0) (Developed University undergraduate and postgraduate GIS and remote sensing courses for UNIGIS [http://www.unigis.org.uk] and Coventry University (UK) campus for geoimaging and geoinformatics [http://www.giscampus.f2s.com/gigi/topics.htm]; curriculum development, pedagogic and design issues as they pertain to GI novices and professionals; e-learning; interested in collaborating to develop courses for niche application domains, such as environmental hazards, that build on common materials)
* [[User:ominiverdi | Lorenzo Becchi ]] (TZ GMT+1) (Web GIS developer, FAO cunsultant, interested in everything that can help reducing Digital Divide worldwide and support open knowledge, supporting the spanish GIS book)
* [[User:Martinweis | Martin Weis]] (TZ GMT+1) Geodesy/GIS in the agricultural sector/university: I would like to prepare courses and material for the use of FOSS in precision farming. Desktop GIS and SDI are to be integrated for this. 2008 I will have a GIS course, let's see what can be done...
* [[User:Smitch | Scott Mitchell ]] (TZ GMT-5) Courseware, tutorials and workshops for FOSS4G tools in general, but have been especially interested / involved in GRASS, GDAL/OGR (user perspective), QGIS, Mapserver; would be interested in contributing to books projects, but time commitments prevent much from me until 2008.
* [[User:kevin1216 | Kevin Yam]] (TZ GMT-5) Primarily interested in promoting open source software training, workshop and lab materials for university students, NGOs, public sectors.
* [[User:Marco | Marco Ciolli]] (TZ GMT+1) (University of Trento. General training/education materials; graduate level education MS, PhD; academic research; forestry; natural resource management and environmental hazard.)
* [[User:clara | Clara Tattoni]] (TZ GMT+1) (University of Trento. General training/education materials; graduate level education MS; research; natural resource management; wildlife conservation and management.)
*[[User:Astrid Emde]] (TZ GMT+2) (Experience as GIS instructor for workshops and courses. Organization of commercial training courses with Open Source Geospatial Software.(Mapbender, UMN MapServer, PostgreSQL/PostGIS, WMS/WFS, GeoServer) Preparation of course and presentation material, tutorials. Interest in enhancing presentation material)
*[[User: Mardresen | Martin Dresen]] (TZ GMT+1) (Interest in developing Desktop GIS tutorials, exercises, presentations for university courses, further education, advanced training - especially in german!)
* Suchith Anand [http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/geography/contacts/staffPages/SuchithAnand/Suchith%20Anand.htm] (TZ GMT+0) (Interested in Open source GIS course and curriculum development, GIS education and training, Primary research interests in location based services, mobile GIS, automated generalization, optimization techniques etc)
*[[User: Dreamcon | Paul Flemming]] (TZ GMT-5) (Would be interested in helping to develop material for use in Senior elementary, grades 5 to 8, and High Schools to promote and explain the use of GIS in the real world)
*[[User: doktoreas | Luca Casagrande]] (TZ GMT+1) Main developer of the Ominiverdi Livecd Project
*[[User:vasile|Vasile Crăciunescu]] (TZ GMT+2) Manager of the geo-spatial.org project (a collaborative effort by and for the Romanian community to facilitate the sharing of geospatial knowledge and the discovery and publishing of free geographic datasets and maps)
*[[User:robert|Robert Szczepanek]] (TZ GMT+1) tutorials, exercises for QGIS and GRASS; lab materials and datasets for students and public sector; hydrometeo processes modelling
*[[User:Gezjames|Gerry James]] (TZ GMT-8) Interested in workshop and course materials that can be used by educators and consultants.
*[[User: Putler | Dan Putler]] (TZ GMT-8) (Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia, PSC member of PAGC). Interested in course materials for undergraduate and graduate instruction on both basic GIS understanding and skills, and the use of GIS to address business problems. Research on new methods to improve geospatial analysis to address business problems, particularly as they relate to marketing).
*[[User: palousegeo | Rick Rupp]] (TZ GMT-8) (GIS/Remote Sensing instructor at Washington State University) I'm interested in geospatial teaching materials and methods for undergraduate and graduate education. My research interests are in natural resources and data infrastructures.
*[[User: Nimalika | Nimalika Fernando]] (TZ GMT+5.30) Interested and involved in developing teaching materiel on introductory level GIS,Basic web-GIS,lab worksheets based on QGIS/MapServer
*[[User:ahunter | Andrew Hunter]] (TZ GMT-7) (Geomatics Engineering, University of Calgary) General GIS training and education. Interests in open source and open data
* [[User:camerons| Cameron Shorter]] (TZ GMT+10) One of the coordinators of [http://live.osgeo.org OSGeo-Live DVD], and we at [http://lisasoft.com LISAsoft] are providing GeoSpatial Open Source training in Australia.

== Contributors by Time Zones ==

This should help in planning meetings. If you are not here yet, please add your info, or let me know and I will do so. Going from East to West, we have --

* TZ GMT+10
** Cameron Shorter
*TZ GMT+9
**Venkatesh Raghavan
*TZ GMT+2
**Ari Jolma
**Arnulf Christl
**Vasile Crăciunescu
*TZ GMT+1
**Markus Neteler
**Maria Antonia Brovelli
**Massimiliano Cannata
**Vincent Picavet
**Marco Ciolli
**Clara Tattoni
**Olutoyin Justus Oloniteru
**Martin Dresen
**Luca Casagrande
**Robert Szczepanek
*TZ GMT+0
**Suchith Anand
**Nigel Trodd
*TZ GMT-3
**George R. C. Silva
*TZ GMT-5
**Ian Turton
**Ned Horning
**Charlie Schweik, Maria Fernandez, Alexander Stepanov, Rob Braswell
**Scott Mitchell
*TZ GMT-6
**Puneet Kishor
**Pericles Nacionales
*TX GMT-7
**Andrew Hunter
*TZ GMT-8
**Tyler Mitchell
**Shaun Walbridge
**Matthew Perry
**Aaron Racicot
**Bill Woodall
**Gerry James
**Dan Putler
**Rick Rupp

[[Category:Education]]

OSGeo Alberta Members

2010-07-29T02:31:15Z

Wiki-Ahunter:

Below are the members of the Free & Open Source GIS Interest Group of Alberta. 
Feel free to add yourself to the list.

# Andrew Hunter, Calgary, AB, [http://homepages.ucalgary.ca/~ahunter/ University of Calgary], specialties: spatial analysis, GI science, Spatial Data Infrastructures
# Stefan Steiniger, Calgary, AB, [http://homepages.ucalgary.ca/~ssteinig/ University of Calgary], specialties: (Desktop) GIS software overview, developer for [http://www.openjump.org. OpenJUMP GIS] and [http://www.sextantegis.com Sextante]
# Colin Lynch, Calgary, AB, [http://sait.ca/pages/about/organization/departmentlistings/construction/gis/Instructors.shtml SAIT Polytechnic], specialites: Data Infrastructure, Web Mapping: Open Source, API's and ArcGIS Server, Implementation and Planning
# Michael Kieser, Calgary, AB, [http://www.tesera.com/ Tesera Systems], specialites: Desktop GIS, PostgreSQL/PostGIS, data ETL
# Rizwan Shahid, Calgary, AB, [http://www.albertahealthservices.ca/], specialties: Desktop GIS, Databases, WebGIS, Health Geography, System Dynamics
# Brent Fraser, Calgary, AB, [http://www.geoanalytic.com GeoAnalytic], Geomatics Therapist. Specialties: web mapping, data modeling, cartography, spatial reference systems, remote sensing.
# ...

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return to [[Alberta Chapter]]

Alberta Chapter

2010-07-07T04:34:20Z

Wiki-Ahunter: /* Mission Statement / Chapter Objectives */

== Mission Statement / Chapter Objectives ==
We are still working on a detailed mission statement. However we identified at our last meeting the following common '''points of interest''':
* (free) Alberta geodata
* free GIS tools in Oil & Gas & Energy
* GIS software in general

== Email List and Members ==

* an '''email list''' has been created in May 2010. Please see http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/alberta .
* see the page [[OSGeo Alberta Members]] (feel free to add yourself - after creating a wiki login)

== Calgary ==
A group of interested FOSGIS users did meet the first time in April 29th 2010 in Calgary to get to know each other and talk about forming a local OSGeo chapter. The Group included users and developers with a business and university background. For the notes of our meeting please see: [[Calgary IG]].

The '''next meeting''' will be on the first Tuesday of the next month, '''August 3 2010'''. The meeting will take place at the University of Calgary. For more info check the postings on the [http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/alberta OSGeo Alberta email list].

If you have suggestions or comments or anything else, please write us:
* Stefan Steiniger - ssteinig[-at-]ucalgary.ca - (Geography Dept., UofC)
* Andrew Hunter - ahunter[-at-]ucalgary.ca - (Geomatics Dept., UofC)

== Edmonton ==
* no info on meetings yet, but add your name below if you are interested
* Feel also free to join the meetings in Calgary

== Other Places in Alberta ==
* no info on meetings yet, but add your name below if you are interested
* Feel also free to join the meetings in Calgary

== See Also ==
* Our email list: http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/alberta
* Neighbours in the [[British Columbia Chapter]] - mainly Vancouver, Victoria, but also a few folk in the interior/north. Some may be interested in co-hosting meetings, etc.
* [[Canada]] page giving a good national view

[[Category: Local Chapters]]
[[Category: Canada]]

Alberta Chapter

2010-07-07T04:33:46Z

Wiki-Ahunter: /* Calgary */

== Mission Statement / Chapter Objectives ==
We are still working on a detailed mission statement. However we identified on our last meeting the following common '''points of interest''':
* (free) Alberta geodata
* free GIS tools in Oil & Gas & Energy
* GIS software in general

== Email List and Members ==

* an '''email list''' has been created in May 2010. Please see http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/alberta .
* see the page [[OSGeo Alberta Members]] (feel free to add yourself - after creating a wiki login)

== Calgary ==
A group of interested FOSGIS users did meet the first time in April 29th 2010 in Calgary to get to know each other and talk about forming a local OSGeo chapter. The Group included users and developers with a business and university background. For the notes of our meeting please see: [[Calgary IG]].

The '''next meeting''' will be on the first Tuesday of the next month, '''August 3 2010'''. The meeting will take place at the University of Calgary. For more info check the postings on the [http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/alberta OSGeo Alberta email list].

If you have suggestions or comments or anything else, please write us:
* Stefan Steiniger - ssteinig[-at-]ucalgary.ca - (Geography Dept., UofC)
* Andrew Hunter - ahunter[-at-]ucalgary.ca - (Geomatics Dept., UofC)

== Edmonton ==
* no info on meetings yet, but add your name below if you are interested
* Feel also free to join the meetings in Calgary

== Other Places in Alberta ==
* no info on meetings yet, but add your name below if you are interested
* Feel also free to join the meetings in Calgary

== See Also ==
* Our email list: http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/alberta
* Neighbours in the [[British Columbia Chapter]] - mainly Vancouver, Victoria, but also a few folk in the interior/north. Some may be interested in co-hosting meetings, etc.
* [[Canada]] page giving a good national view

[[Category: Local Chapters]]
[[Category: Canada]]

Alberta Chapter

2010-07-07T04:31:07Z

Wiki-Ahunter: /* Mission Statement / Chapter Objetives */

== Mission Statement / Chapter Objectives ==
We are still working on a detailed mission statement. However we identified on our last meeting the following common '''points of interest''':
* (free) Alberta geodata
* free GIS tools in Oil & Gas & Energy
* GIS software in general

== Email List and Members ==

* an '''email list''' has been created in May 2010. Please see http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/alberta .
* see the page [[OSGeo Alberta Members]] (feel free to add yourself - after creating a wiki login)

== Calgary ==
A group of interested FOSGIS users did meet the first time in April 29th 2010 in Calgary to get to know each other and talk about forming a local OSGeo chapter. The Group included users and developers with a business and university background. For the notes of our meeting please see: [[Calgary IG]].

The '''next meeting''' will be on the first Tuesday of the next month, '''6th July 2010'''. The meeting will take place at the University of Calgary in [http://www.ucalgary.ca/map/node/131/?Room=146&Building=SB SB 146]. For more info check the postings on the [http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/alberta OSGeo Alberta email list].

If you have suggestions or comments or anything else, please write us:
* Stefan Steiniger - ssteinig[-at-]ucalgary.ca - (Geography Dept., UofC)
* Andrew Hunter - ahunter[-at-]ucalgary.ca - (Geomatics Dept., UofC)

June 9th, 2010

== Edmonton ==
* no info on meetings yet, but add your name below if you are interested
* Feel also free to join the meetings in Calgary

== Other Places in Alberta ==
* no info on meetings yet, but add your name below if you are interested
* Feel also free to join the meetings in Calgary

== See Also ==
* Our email list: http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/alberta
* Neighbours in the [[British Columbia Chapter]] - mainly Vancouver, Victoria, but also a few folk in the interior/north. Some may be interested in co-hosting meetings, etc.
* [[Canada]] page giving a good national view

[[Category: Local Chapters]]
[[Category: Canada]]

Alberta Chapter

2010-07-06T21:35:11Z

Wiki-Ahunter: /* Calgary */

== Mission Statement / Chapter Objetives ==
We are still working on a detailed mission statement. However we identified on our last meeting the following common '''points of interest''':
* (free) Alberta geodata
* free GIS tools in Oil & Gas & Energy
* GIS software in general

== Email List and Members ==

* an '''email list''' has been created in May 2010. Please see http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/alberta .
* see the page [[OSGeo Alberta Members]] (feel free to add yourself - after creating a wiki login)

== Calgary ==
A group of interested FOSGIS users did meet the first time in April 29th 2010 in Calgary to get to know each other and talk about forming a local OSGeo chapter. The Group included users and developers with a business and university background. For the notes of our meeting please see: [[Calgary IG]].

The '''next meeting''' will be on the first Tuesday of the next month, '''6th July 2010'''. The meeting will take place at the University of Calgary in [http://www.ucalgary.ca/map/node/131/?Room=146&Building=SB SB 146]. For more info check the postings on the [http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/alberta OSGeo Alberta email list].

If you have suggestions or comments or anything else, please write us:
* Stefan Steiniger - ssteinig[-at-]ucalgary.ca - (Geography Dept., UofC)
* Andrew Hunter - ahunter[-at-]ucalgary.ca - (Geomatics Dept., UofC)

June 9th, 2010

== Edmonton ==
* no info on meetings yet, but add your name below if you are interested
* Feel also free to join the meetings in Calgary

== Other Places in Alberta ==
* no info on meetings yet, but add your name below if you are interested
* Feel also free to join the meetings in Calgary

== See Also ==
* Our email list: http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/alberta
* Neighbours in the [[British Columbia Chapter]] - mainly Vancouver, Victoria, but also a few folk in the interior/north. Some may be interested in co-hosting meetings, etc.
* [[Canada]] page giving a good national view

[[Category: Local Chapters]]
[[Category: Canada]]

Canada

2010-07-06T21:31:01Z

Wiki-Ahunter: /* Interested Individuals */

There are many people involved in OSGeo who are from [http://atlas.nrcan.gc.ca/site/english/maps/reference/national/can_political_e/referencemap_image_view Canada]. This page is to try to gather interest in establishing a nation-wide OSGeo chapter. The [[Ottawa Chapter]] has focused on the nation's capital, and other cities are sure to have particular smaller groups of interest as well.

= Mission =

= Objectives =
* Support development of local OSGEO chapters
* Support National Geomatics events to promote FOSS4G and OSGEO
* Organize National Geomatics events to promote FOSS4G and OSGEO
* Participate in National Geomatics events to promote FOSS4G and OSGEO

= Resources =
* Starting a local Chapter
* [[Local Chapter Guidelines]]
* [[Proposed Membership Rules]]
* [[Interest Groups]]
* [[Like Minded Regional Organizations]]
* [[One Organizational Model]]
* [[International Outreach]]

= Representation (Prov/Terr) =
A good goal would be for full representation across the country. Please change the list as we add missing representation. Either a group or single individual can be considered a representation. Next to the abbreviation we can list regional chapters that are also represented in this group. A regional chapter is not required for representation but can help network people to local activities.
== Present ==
* AB: [[Alberta Chapter]] - initial meeting was April 29, 2010
* BC: [[British Columbia Chapter]],
* NB: [[Atlantic Canada Chapter]] - beginning formation June 2010
* NL: [[Atlantic Canada Chapter]] - beginning formation June 2010
* NS: [[Atlantic Canada Chapter]] - beginning formation June 2010
* ON: [[Ottawa Chapter]],
* PE: [[Atlantic Canada Chapter]] - beginning formation June 2010
* QC: [[Chapitre québécois]] (Discussions started in [[Reflexions Quebec]], with a meeting on June 4, 2008).

== Absent ==
* MB
* NT
* NU
* SK
* YT

= Interested Individuals =
* [[User:Tmitchell | Tyler Mitchell]], [http://osgeo.org OSGeo], [http://tinyurl.com/295q2l Williams Lake], [http://atlas.nrcan.gc.ca/site/english/maps/reference/provincesterritories/british_columbia/referencemap_image_view British Columbia]

* [[User:Dpatton | Dave Patton]], CIS and [http://www.confluence.org Degree Confluence Project], [http://tinyurl.com/2tnkda Victoria], [http://atlas.nrcan.gc.ca/site/english/maps/reference/provincesterritories/british_columbia/referencemap_image_view British Columbia]

* [[User:Dsampson | Dave Sampson]], [[Ottawa_Chapter | Ottawa Chapter]]

* [http://www.kralidis.ca/ Tom Kralidis], Charter Member, Toronto, ON

*[[User:Smitch | Scott Mitchell]], [[Ottawa_Chapter | Ottawa Chapter]], [http://www.carleton.ca/geography Carleton University], [[GRASS | GRASS project (PSC)]]

* [[User:Madair | Mike Adair]], [[Ottawa_Chapter | Ottawa Chapter]], Charter member, [[Mapbuilder | MapBuilder project]], DM Solutions Group

* [[User:Dmorissette | Daniel Morissette]], [http://www.mapgears.com/ Mapgears], Chicoutimi, QC

* [[User:Mleslie | Mark Leslie]], [http://www.lisasoft.com/ LISAsoft], Sydney, [http://atlas.nrcan.gc.ca/site/english/maps/reference/international/oceania/referencemap_image_view AU] (but I'm still Canadian)

* [[User:MapperBob | Bob Bruce]] [http://www.gov.mb.ca/conservation/geomatics/ Province of Manitoba], [http://www.hwps.ca HWPS], Winnipeg, Manitoba. Interests: MapServer, QGIS, uDig, [http://mli.gov.mb.ca/ Manitoba Land Initiative (MLI)], [http://mlidata.gov.mb.ca/WPMLI Manitoba Land Initiative (MLI) Webmap], [http://mlidata.gov.mb.ca/wms/request.aspx MLI WMS Server]

* [[User:Tbadard | Thierry Badard]], [[Conference_Committee | Conference Committee]], [[Francophone | Francophone]] and [[Quebec | Quebec]] chapters, [http://geosoa.scg.ulaval.ca Laval University (Centre for Research in Geomatics)] and [http://www.spatialytics.com Spatialytics inc.], Quebec City, QC

* [[User:Sanderson | Ken Sanderson]], [http://www.rockies.ca/ Miistakis Institute], Hope River, PEI

* [[User:Aleroux | Alexandre Leroux]], [http://eer.cmc.ec.gc.ca/index_e.php Canadian Meteorological Centre] and [http://slashgeo.org Slashgeo], Montreal, Qc

* [[User:swallbridge | Shawn Wallbridge]] Hobbyist, [http://www.synack-hosting.com SynAck Hosting], Winnipeg, Manitoba.

* Stefan Steiniger, Calgary, AB. OpenJUMP Volunteer, [http://homepages.ucalgary.ca/~ssteinig/ my UofC homepage]
* [[User:Jmckenna | Jeff McKenna]], [http://www.gatewaygeomatics.com/ Gateway Geomatics], Lunenburg, NS
* [[User:Rjweise | Robert Weise]], [http://www.integrated-informatics.com// Integrated Informatics Inc.], Calgary, AB
* [[User:ahunter | Andrew Hunter]], [http://www.geomatics.ucalgary.ca Geomatics Engineering, University of Calgary]

= Links =
[[Category:Local Chapters]]
[[Category:Canada]]

Canada

2010-07-06T21:26:04Z

Wiki-Ahunter: /* Present */

There are many people involved in OSGeo who are from [http://atlas.nrcan.gc.ca/site/english/maps/reference/national/can_political_e/referencemap_image_view Canada]. This page is to try to gather interest in establishing a nation-wide OSGeo chapter. The [[Ottawa Chapter]] has focused on the nation's capital, and other cities are sure to have particular smaller groups of interest as well.

= Mission =

= Objectives =
* Support development of local OSGEO chapters
* Support National Geomatics events to promote FOSS4G and OSGEO
* Organize National Geomatics events to promote FOSS4G and OSGEO
* Participate in National Geomatics events to promote FOSS4G and OSGEO

= Resources =
* Starting a local Chapter
* [[Local Chapter Guidelines]]
* [[Proposed Membership Rules]]
* [[Interest Groups]]
* [[Like Minded Regional Organizations]]
* [[One Organizational Model]]
* [[International Outreach]]

= Representation (Prov/Terr) =
A good goal would be for full representation across the country. Please change the list as we add missing representation. Either a group or single individual can be considered a representation. Next to the abbreviation we can list regional chapters that are also represented in this group. A regional chapter is not required for representation but can help network people to local activities.
== Present ==
* AB: [[Alberta Chapter]] - initial meeting was April 29, 2010
* BC: [[British Columbia Chapter]],
* NB: [[Atlantic Canada Chapter]] - beginning formation June 2010
* NL: [[Atlantic Canada Chapter]] - beginning formation June 2010
* NS: [[Atlantic Canada Chapter]] - beginning formation June 2010
* ON: [[Ottawa Chapter]],
* PE: [[Atlantic Canada Chapter]] - beginning formation June 2010
* QC: [[Chapitre québécois]] (Discussions started in [[Reflexions Quebec]], with a meeting on June 4, 2008).

== Absent ==
* MB
* NT
* NU
* SK
* YT

= Interested Individuals =
* [[User:Tmitchell | Tyler Mitchell]], [http://osgeo.org OSGeo], [http://tinyurl.com/295q2l Williams Lake], [http://atlas.nrcan.gc.ca/site/english/maps/reference/provincesterritories/british_columbia/referencemap_image_view British Columbia]

* [[User:Dpatton | Dave Patton]], CIS and [http://www.confluence.org Degree Confluence Project], [http://tinyurl.com/2tnkda Victoria], [http://atlas.nrcan.gc.ca/site/english/maps/reference/provincesterritories/british_columbia/referencemap_image_view British Columbia]

* [[User:Dsampson | Dave Sampson]], [[Ottawa_Chapter | Ottawa Chapter]]

* [http://www.kralidis.ca/ Tom Kralidis], Charter Member, Toronto, ON

*[[User:Smitch | Scott Mitchell]], [[Ottawa_Chapter | Ottawa Chapter]], [http://www.carleton.ca/geography Carleton University], [[GRASS | GRASS project (PSC)]]

* [[User:Madair | Mike Adair]], [[Ottawa_Chapter | Ottawa Chapter]], Charter member, [[Mapbuilder | MapBuilder project]], DM Solutions Group

* [[User:Dmorissette | Daniel Morissette]], [http://www.mapgears.com/ Mapgears], Chicoutimi, QC

* [[User:Mleslie | Mark Leslie]], [http://www.lisasoft.com/ LISAsoft], Sydney, [http://atlas.nrcan.gc.ca/site/english/maps/reference/international/oceania/referencemap_image_view AU] (but I'm still Canadian)

* [[User:MapperBob | Bob Bruce]] [http://www.gov.mb.ca/conservation/geomatics/ Province of Manitoba], [http://www.hwps.ca HWPS], Winnipeg, Manitoba. Interests: MapServer, QGIS, uDig, [http://mli.gov.mb.ca/ Manitoba Land Initiative (MLI)], [http://mlidata.gov.mb.ca/WPMLI Manitoba Land Initiative (MLI) Webmap], [http://mlidata.gov.mb.ca/wms/request.aspx MLI WMS Server]

* [[User:Tbadard | Thierry Badard]], [[Conference_Committee | Conference Committee]], [[Francophone | Francophone]] and [[Quebec | Quebec]] chapters, [http://geosoa.scg.ulaval.ca Laval University (Centre for Research in Geomatics)] and [http://www.spatialytics.com Spatialytics inc.], Quebec City, QC

* [[User:Sanderson | Ken Sanderson]], [http://www.rockies.ca/ Miistakis Institute], Hope River, PEI

* [[User:Aleroux | Alexandre Leroux]], [http://eer.cmc.ec.gc.ca/index_e.php Canadian Meteorological Centre] and [http://slashgeo.org Slashgeo], Montreal, Qc

* [[User:swallbridge | Shawn Wallbridge]] Hobbyist, [http://www.synack-hosting.com SynAck Hosting], Winnipeg, Manitoba.

* Stefan Steiniger, Calgary, AB. OpenJUMP Volunteer, [http://homepages.ucalgary.ca/~ssteinig/ my UofC homepage]
* [[User:Jmckenna | Jeff McKenna]], [http://www.gatewaygeomatics.com/ Gateway Geomatics], Lunenburg, NS
* [[User:Rjweise | Robert Weise]], [http://www.integrated-informatics.com// Integrated Informatics Inc.], Calgary, AB

= Links =
[[Category:Local Chapters]]
[[Category:Canada]]

Canada

2010-07-06T21:25:25Z

Wiki-Ahunter: /* Present */

There are many people involved in OSGeo who are from [http://atlas.nrcan.gc.ca/site/english/maps/reference/national/can_political_e/referencemap_image_view Canada]. This page is to try to gather interest in establishing a nation-wide OSGeo chapter. The [[Ottawa Chapter]] has focused on the nation's capital, and other cities are sure to have particular smaller groups of interest as well.

= Mission =

= Objectives =
* Support development of local OSGEO chapters
* Support National Geomatics events to promote FOSS4G and OSGEO
* Organize National Geomatics events to promote FOSS4G and OSGEO
* Participate in National Geomatics events to promote FOSS4G and OSGEO

= Resources =
* Starting a local Chapter
* [[Local Chapter Guidelines]]
* [[Proposed Membership Rules]]
* [[Interest Groups]]
* [[Like Minded Regional Organizations]]
* [[One Organizational Model]]
* [[International Outreach]]

= Representation (Prov/Terr) =
A good goal would be for full representation across the country. Please change the list as we add missing representation. Either a group or single individual can be considered a representation. Next to the abbreviation we can list regional chapters that are also represented in this group. A regional chapter is not required for representation but can help network people to local activities.
== Present ==
* AB: [[Alberta Chapter]] - we established one in April 2010
* BC: [[British Columbia Chapter]],
* NB: [[Atlantic Canada Chapter]] - beginning formation June 2010
* NL: [[Atlantic Canada Chapter]] - beginning formation June 2010
* NS: [[Atlantic Canada Chapter]] - beginning formation June 2010
* ON: [[Ottawa Chapter]],
* PE: [[Atlantic Canada Chapter]] - beginning formation June 2010
* QC: [[Chapitre québécois]] (Discussions started in [[Reflexions Quebec]], with a meeting on June 4, 2008).

== Absent ==
* MB
* NT
* NU
* SK
* YT

= Interested Individuals =
* [[User:Tmitchell | Tyler Mitchell]], [http://osgeo.org OSGeo], [http://tinyurl.com/295q2l Williams Lake], [http://atlas.nrcan.gc.ca/site/english/maps/reference/provincesterritories/british_columbia/referencemap_image_view British Columbia]

* [[User:Dpatton | Dave Patton]], CIS and [http://www.confluence.org Degree Confluence Project], [http://tinyurl.com/2tnkda Victoria], [http://atlas.nrcan.gc.ca/site/english/maps/reference/provincesterritories/british_columbia/referencemap_image_view British Columbia]

* [[User:Dsampson | Dave Sampson]], [[Ottawa_Chapter | Ottawa Chapter]]

* [http://www.kralidis.ca/ Tom Kralidis], Charter Member, Toronto, ON

*[[User:Smitch | Scott Mitchell]], [[Ottawa_Chapter | Ottawa Chapter]], [http://www.carleton.ca/geography Carleton University], [[GRASS | GRASS project (PSC)]]

* [[User:Madair | Mike Adair]], [[Ottawa_Chapter | Ottawa Chapter]], Charter member, [[Mapbuilder | MapBuilder project]], DM Solutions Group

* [[User:Dmorissette | Daniel Morissette]], [http://www.mapgears.com/ Mapgears], Chicoutimi, QC

* [[User:Mleslie | Mark Leslie]], [http://www.lisasoft.com/ LISAsoft], Sydney, [http://atlas.nrcan.gc.ca/site/english/maps/reference/international/oceania/referencemap_image_view AU] (but I'm still Canadian)

* [[User:MapperBob | Bob Bruce]] [http://www.gov.mb.ca/conservation/geomatics/ Province of Manitoba], [http://www.hwps.ca HWPS], Winnipeg, Manitoba. Interests: MapServer, QGIS, uDig, [http://mli.gov.mb.ca/ Manitoba Land Initiative (MLI)], [http://mlidata.gov.mb.ca/WPMLI Manitoba Land Initiative (MLI) Webmap], [http://mlidata.gov.mb.ca/wms/request.aspx MLI WMS Server]

* [[User:Tbadard | Thierry Badard]], [[Conference_Committee | Conference Committee]], [[Francophone | Francophone]] and [[Quebec | Quebec]] chapters, [http://geosoa.scg.ulaval.ca Laval University (Centre for Research in Geomatics)] and [http://www.spatialytics.com Spatialytics inc.], Quebec City, QC

* [[User:Sanderson | Ken Sanderson]], [http://www.rockies.ca/ Miistakis Institute], Hope River, PEI

* [[User:Aleroux | Alexandre Leroux]], [http://eer.cmc.ec.gc.ca/index_e.php Canadian Meteorological Centre] and [http://slashgeo.org Slashgeo], Montreal, Qc

* [[User:swallbridge | Shawn Wallbridge]] Hobbyist, [http://www.synack-hosting.com SynAck Hosting], Winnipeg, Manitoba.

* Stefan Steiniger, Calgary, AB. OpenJUMP Volunteer, [http://homepages.ucalgary.ca/~ssteinig/ my UofC homepage]
* [[User:Jmckenna | Jeff McKenna]], [http://www.gatewaygeomatics.com/ Gateway Geomatics], Lunenburg, NS
* [[User:Rjweise | Robert Weise]], [http://www.integrated-informatics.com// Integrated Informatics Inc.], Calgary, AB

= Links =
[[Category:Local Chapters]]
[[Category:Canada]]

OSGeo Alberta Members

2010-06-12T03:39:01Z

Wiki-Ahunter:

Below are the members of the Free & Open Source GIS Interest Group of Alberta. 
Feel free to add yourself to the list.

# Andrew Hunter, Calgary, AB, [http://homepages.ucalgary.ca/~ahunter/ University of Calgary], specialties: Spatial Data Infrastructures
# Stefan Steiniger, Calgary, AB, [http://homepages.ucalgary.ca/~ssteinig/ University of Calgary], specialties: (Desktop) GIS software overview, developer for [http://www.openjump.org. OpenJUMP GIS] and [http://www.sextantegis.com Sextante]
# Colin Lynch, Calgary, AB, [http://sait.ca/pages/about/organization/departmentlistings/construction/gis/Instructors.shtml SAIT Polytechnic], specialites: Data Infrastructure, Web Mapping: Open Source, API's and ArcGIS Server, Implementation and Planning
# Michael Kieser, Calgary, AB, [http://www.tesera.com/ Tesera Systems], specialites: Desktop GIS, PostgreSQL/PostGIS, data ETL
# Rizwan Shahid, Calgary, AB, [http://www.albertahealthservices.ca/], specialties: Desktop GIS, Databases, WebGIS, Health Geography, System Dynamics
# ...

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return to [[Alberta Chapter]]

Alberta Chapter

2010-04-27T16:06:49Z

Wiki-Ahunter: /* Calgary */

== Calgary ==
Free and open source GIS software has experienced rapid growth over the past few years, including web mapping applications, spatial database software and desktop GIS. Talking to colleagues has inspired us to see if there is potential to establish an interest group in Alberta where people can learn about open source GIS software (products, licenses, legal issues etc.) and exchange their experiences using it. Hence, we are planning to hold an open meeting that should help to establish an Alberta-Calgary based interest group sometime in April/May 2010.

* '''When?'''
** Thursday *29th April 2010*
** from 6pm; at max until 8pm

* '''Where?''' [[File:CampusUofC.png|thumb|right]]
** Main campus of the University of Calgary, Science B Room 105
** for a map, see: http://www.ucalgary.ca/map/node/131/?Room=105&Building=SB (see also the image below)
** you can take the North-West C-Train to the university and exit at the University Station, which is east of the campus

* '''Possible Agenda''':
** What is the OSGeo?
** Get to know each other.
** Define the purpose of the group.
** Pizza? Beer?

* For point (iii) it would be helpful if you could think about the following questions:
** Why are you coming?
** What would you expect from such a group?
** What do you not want the group to be?
** What is your experience with free and open source GIS?

If you have suggestions or comments or anything else, please write us:
* Stefan Steiniger - ssteinig[-at-]ucalgary.ca - (Geography Dept., UofC)
* Andrew Hunter - ahunter[-at-]ucalgary.ca - (Geomatics Dept., UofC)

April 26th, 2010

PS: It may be worthwhile to establish an email group next?

== Edmonton ==
* no info yet, but add your name below if you are interested

== Other Places in Alberta ==
* no info yet, but add your name below if you are interested

== See Also ==
* Neighbours in the [[British Columbia Chapter]] - mainly Vancouver, Victoria, but also a few folk in the interior/north. Some may be interested in co-hosting meetings, etc.
* [[Canada]] page giving a good national view

[[Category: Local Chapters]]
[[Category: Canada]]

Alberta Chapter

2010-04-26T19:34:40Z

Wiki-Ahunter:

== Calgary ==
Free and open source GIS software has experienced rapid growth over the past few years, including web mapping applications, spatial database software and desktop GIS. Talking to colleagues has inspired us to see if there is potential to establish an interest group in Alberta where people can learn about open source GIS software (products, licenses, legal issues etc.) and exchange their experiences using it. Hence, we are planning to hold an open meeting that should help to establish an Alberta-Calgary based interest group sometime in April/May 2010.

* '''When?'''
** Thursday *29th April 2010*
** from 6pm; at max until 8pm

* '''Where?''' [[File:CampusUofC.png|thumb|right]]
** Main campus of the University of Calgary, Science B Room 105
** for a map, see: http://www.ucalgary.ca/map/node/131 - and select "SB - Science B" and type "105" for the room number (see also the image below)
** you can take the North-West C-Train to the university and exit at the University Station, which is east of the campus

* '''Possible Agenda''':
** What is the OSGeo?
** Get to know each other.
** Define the purpose of the group.
** Pizza? Beer?

* For point (iii) it would be helpful if you could think about the following questions:
** Why are you coming?
** What would you expect from such a group?
** What do you not want the group to be?
** What is your experience with free and open source GIS?

If you have suggestions or comments or anything else, please write us:
* Stefan Steiniger - ssteinig[-at-]ucalgary.ca - (Geography Dept., UofC)
* Andrew Hunter - ahunter[-at-]ucalgary.ca - (Geomatics Dept., UofC)

April 26th, 2010

PS: It may be worthwhile to establish an email group next?

== Edmonton ==
* no info yet, but add your name below if you are interested

== Other Places in Alberta ==
* no info yet, but add your name below if you are interested

== See Also ==
* Neighbours in the [[British Columbia Chapter]] - mainly Vancouver, Victoria, but also a few folk in the interior/north. Some may be interested in co-hosting meetings, etc.
* [[Canada]] page giving a good national view

[[Category: Local Chapters]]
[[Category: Canada]]

Alberta Chapter

2010-04-26T19:34:11Z

Wiki-Ahunter:

== Calgary ==
Free and open source GIS software has experienced rapid growth over the past few years, including web mapping applications, spatial database software and desktop GIS. Talking to colleagues has inspired us to see if there is potential to establish an interest group in Alberta where people can learn about open source GIS software (products, licenses, legal issues etc.) and exchange their experiences using it. Hence, we are planning to hold an open meeting that should help to establish an Alberta-Calgary based interest group sometime in April/May 2010.

* '''When?'''
** Thursday *29th April 2010*
** from 6pm; at max until 8pm

* '''Where?''' [[File:CampusUofC.png|thumb|right]]
** Main campus of the University of Calgary, Science B Room 105
** for a map, see: http://www.ucalgary.ca/map/node/131 - and select "SB - Science B" and type "105" for the room number (see also the image below)
** you can take the North-West C-Train to the university and exit at the University Station, which is east of the campus

* '''Possible Agenda''':
** What is the OSGeo?
** Get to know each other.
** Define the purpose of the group.
** Pizza? Beer?

* For point (iii) it would be helpful if you could think about the following questions:
** Why are you coming?
** What would you expect from such a group?
** What do you not want the group to be?
** What is your experience with free and open source GIS?

If you have suggestions or comments or anything else, please write us:
* Stefan Steiniger - ssteinig[-at-]ucalgary.ca - (Geography Dept., UofC)
* Andrew Hunter - ahunter[-at-]ucalgary.ca - (Geomatics Dept., UofC)

April 26th, 2010

PS: It may be worthwhile to establish an email group next?

== Edmonton ==
* no info yet, but add your name below if you are interested

== Other Places in Alberta ==
* no info yet, but add your name below if you are interested

== See Also ==
* Neighbours at [[British Columbia Chapter]] - mainly Vancouver, Victoria, but also a few folk in the interior/north. Some may be interested in co-hosting meetings, etc.
* [[Canada]] page giving a good national view

[[Category: Local Chapters]]
[[Category: Canada]]

OSGeo education interested participants

2010-04-06T15:45:40Z

User:Ahunter

2010-02-19T04:05:14Z

Wiki-Ahunter: New page: "http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Andrew_Hunter"

"http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Andrew_Hunter"

Public Geospatial Data Project

2010-02-19T04:00:19Z

Wiki-Ahunter: /* People interested in participating */

There is an official [[Public Geospatial Data Committee|official foundation committee]] page which provides more detail on meetings and discussions.

== Mission ==

=== Promote the use of open geospatial formats ===
Providing best-practise guidelines and examples for use of open and free standards for data (GML, WMS, WFS-T) and metadata (Dublin Core, RDF, ISO19115 through ISO19139).

=== Promote public access to state-collected geodata ===

Lead by example in demonstrating economic value and research activity generated by open access to public geographic information.

=== Run a repository of open geodata ===
A [[Geodata_Repository]] shall be hosted by the PGDP.
Additionally, links to other open data repostories shall be collected.

=== Present and explain licenses for public geodata ===
The PGDP aims to collect licenses suitable for the publishing of public geodata. The license shall be presented along with a summary of its benefits and focus.

== Approach ==

After a [[Public Geospatial Data Committee Definition Phase|Definition phase]] this has become an official [[Committees|committee]] within [[Main Page|OSGeo]].

=== Working Groups ===

At the [[Geodata Committee Meeting 20060322|first meeting of the geodata committee]] we decided to focus interest through three [[Working Groups]]:

* A [[Geodata Discovery Working Group]] which would focus on indexing and search of data and metadata repositories.
* A [[Geodata Packaging Working Group]] to look at creation and maintanance of really high quality and rich data packages to offer for educational purposes with software packages, with [[GRASS GIS]] in particular.
* A [[Geodata Licensing Working Group]] to look into parallel licensing developments and to consult on guidelines for open licenses for geodata.

=== Mailing List ===

There is a public mailing list and [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/geodata/ archive] for discussion of geodata activities within OSGeo at http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/geodata.

=== Meetings ===

This group is having regular meetings on IRC on the #osgeo channel on irc.freenode.net. At the moment this is happening on Thursdays at 16:00 UTC. [http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?year=2006&month=4&hour=16&min=0&sec=0 fixed time]

See the [[Public Geospatial Data Committee|Geodata Committee]] page for more details on past meetings and upcoming agendas.

=== People interested in participating ===

* David Bitner
* Allan Doyle
* Florian Kindl
* Pericles S. Nacionales
* Markus Neteler
* [[User:JoWalsh|Jo Walsh]]
* [[User:Uchoa|Helton Uchoa]]
* Aaron Racicot - Ecotrust - aaronr at ecotrust.org
* Daniel Brookshier
* Schuyler Erle
* Jeff McKenna (DM Solutions)
* Steve Coast
* Mikel Maron
* Alessandro Frigeri
* David Blasby
* [[User:kevinyam| Kevin Yam]]
* [[User:putler|Dan Putler]]
* [[User:Arnulf Christl|Arnulf Christl]]
* Ned Horning
* [[User:Nhv|Norman Vine]]
* Colin Gowens
* [[User:smaffulli|Stefano Maffulli]]
* [[User:fbiasi|Frank Biasi]]
* [[User:Ticheler|Jeroen Ticheler]]
* Stefan Keller
* [[User:Dsampson|Dave Sampson]]
* [[User:kablukiw|Kevin Ward]]
* [[User:JoCook|Jo Cook]]
* Nick Black
* [[User:Mloskot|Mateusz Loskot]]
* [[User:Mspott|Martin Spott]]
* David Jonglez
* [[User:dandye|Daniel Dye]]
* [[User:MaksimS|Maksim Sestic]]
* [[User:milovanderlinden|Milo van der Linden]]
* [[User:ominiverdi|Lorenzo Becchi]]
* [[User:rduivenvoorde|Richard Duivenvoorde]]
* Artem Pavlenko
* [[User:kgjenkins|Keith Jenkins]]
* [[User:chorner|Cory Horner]]
* [[User:vdb|François Van Der Biest]]
* [[User:Fsc7|Felipe Costa]]
* Brent Wood
* [http://comchatter.com Ivan Gan]
* [[User:Gignacnic|Nicolas Gignac]]
* [[User:Huwer|Rafal Wawer]]
* Hans-Jörg Stark
* Paul Brous
* [[User:Ahunter|Andrew Hunter]]
* ''Please add yourself''

=== Organizations to beneficially connect with ===

* [http://www.eogeo.org EOGEO]
* [http://www.openstreetmap.org/ OpenStreetMap Project]
* [http://www.openaddresses.ch/ OpenAddresses Project]
* [http://www.gsdi.org GSDI Association]
* [http://topp.openplans.org The Open Planning Project]
* [http://www.fgdc.gov Federal Geographic Data Committee]
* [http://www.opengeospatial.org Open Geospatial Consortium]
* [http://www.upct.org/ Un point c'est tout]
* [http://civicaccess.ca/ CivicAccess]

=== Events ===

Events where we can either promote our positions or are likely to run into like-minded individuals.

* [http://www.asia-commons.net/ Asian Conference on the Digital Commons - April 18-20, 2006, Bangkok, Thailand]
* [http://conferences.oreillynet.com/where2006/ Where 2.0 - June 13-14, 2006, San Jose, California, USA]
* [http://www.foss4g2006.org/ FOSS4G2006 - Free And Open Source Software for Geoinformatics - September 12-15, 2006, Lausanne, Switzerland]

== References ==

=== Geo Data Repositories / Group Collection Projects ===
* [http://www.findgis.com FindGIS - Florida City, County & Goverment Agency GIS Data Download & FTP Sites]
* [http://www.openstreetmap.org/ OpenStreetMap Project]
* [http://www.openaddresses.ch/ OpenAddresses Project]
* [http://freeearthfoundation.com/ Free Earth Foundation]
* [http://geobase.ca/ Canadian Base Data]
* [http://geotorrent.org/ Various Free Datasets via Bittorrent]
* [http://geodatacommons.umaine.edu/ GeodataCommons project at U. Maine]
* [http://www.iscgm.org/cgi-bin/fswiki/wiki.cgi Global Map] - International Steering Committee for Global Mapping
* [http://www.geonames.org Geonames.org] - Geonames is integrating geographical data such as names, altitude, population and others from various sources
* [http://www.geo-one-stop.gov/ Geospatial One Stop]
* [http://gcmd.nasa.gov/index.html Global Change Master Directory]
* [http://conserveonline.org/workspaces/cons.geo.portal Conservation GeoPortal]
* [http://datagateway.nrcs.usda.gov/ USDA:NRCS Geospatial Data Gateway] - Lots of good imagery
* [http://www.fao.org/geonetwork FAO-UN GeoNetwork portal to spatial data and information]
* [http://geodata.grid.unep.ch UNEP GEO Data Portal] - more than 500 different variables, as national, subregional, regional and global statistics or as geospatial data sets
* [http://www.landcover.org/ Global Land Cover Facility] - Global SRTM, Landsat, MODIS, and AVHRR datasets
* [http://srtm.csi.cgiar.org/ CGIAR Consortium for Spatial Information] - Global SRTM data

=== Geo Data Repository & Policy Research ===

* [http://www.findgis.com FindGIS - Florida City, County & Goverment Agency GIS Data Download & FTP Sites]
* [http://geodatacommons.umaine.edu/CGDPlone University of Maine Commons for Geographic Data]
* [http://www.metrogis.org MetroGIS] [http://datafinder.org Datafinder] Twin Cities, MN Metro Area Public Agency Data Sharing Effort (includes section on benefits/testimonials from public geodata)
* [http://www.gis.state.mn.us MN Governor's Council on Geographic Information]
* [http://www.oasisnyc.org New York City Open Accessible Space Information System]
* [http://www.mass.gov/mgis Massachusetts GIS]

On the [[Geodata Repository]] page, a draft outline for OSGeo's own repository project is being prepared.

=== Geo Data Policy Advocacy ===
* [http://www.publicgeodata.org/ Public Geodata Project] (IRC: [irc://freenode/publicgeodata publicgeodata]) with the support of the Open Knowledge Foundation
* [http://okfn.org/geo/manifesto.php Open Access to State-Collected Geospatial Data Manifesto]
* [http://www.freeourdata.org.uk/ Free Our Data: Make taxpayers' data available to them] (United Kingdom)

=== Open Access ===
There are also more general open access movements, often aimed at scientific data, that could provide a venue for broadening awareness of the geo-specific issues.

* [http://oa.mpg.de/openaccess-golm/index.html Berlin 4 Open Access - From Promise to Practice - March 29-31, 2006 Golm, Germany]
* [http://oa.mpg.de/openaccess-berlin/berlindeclaration.html Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities]
* [http://www.conservationcommons.org/ Conservation Commons] - "The Conservation Commons is characterized by an underlying set of Principles which supports open access to, and in particular the fair use of, data and information related to the conservation of biodiversity."
* [http://www.locusforums.org/forum/ The Locus Forum] - "The Locus Association is a trade association of private organisations working to increase opportunities and reduce barriers to fair trade between the public and private sector, particularly in the use of Public Sector Information."
* [http://ppgis.iapad.org/ Public Participation GIS] - "

=== Geodata formats ===
* [[Geodata formats]] Discussion

== Further Reading ==
* [http://technology.guardian.co.uk/weekly/story/0,,1736751,00.html Ordnance Survey challenged to open up] - 2006-03-23 article in the Guardian
* [http://technology.guardian.co.uk/weekly/story/0,,1726229,00.html Give us back our crown jewels] - 2006-03-09 article in the Guardian
* [http://www.directionsmag.com/article.php?article_id=2107&trv=1 Why Europe Needs to Provide its Own Public Geodata ] by Jo Walsh (Feb 15, 2006)
* [http://www.systemed.net/blog/entry060311122655.html ShareAlike considered harmful for geodata] by Richard Fairhurst, a critique of GPL-like licensing situations with suggested LGPL-like model for distribution.
* "Open Source Software for Spatial Data Infrastructure (FOSSDI)". SDIC submitted 2005 to INSPIRE/EU. [http://mpa.itc.it/markus/papers/sdic_call_fossdi.pdf PDF with layout] | [http://inspire.jrc.it/ir/sdic_view_step1_only.cfm?id=2163 HTML without layout]
* [http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/270/ Open Networks and Open Society: The Relationship between Freedom, Law, and Technology] - MIT World video featuring Hal Abelson, John Wilbanks, Creative Commons
* [http://www.metrogis.org/documents/articles/index.shtml Articles] [http://www.metrogis.org/benefits/testimonials/index.shtml Testimonials] [http://www.metrogis.org/benefits/studies/index.shtml Studies] [http://www.metrogis.org/benefits/perf_measure/index.shtml Performance Measures] about [http://www.metrogis.org Metrogis], a collaboration for GIS data sharing in the Twin Cities, MN, USA

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Andrew Hunter

2010-02-19T03:54:39Z

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