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LIDAR Format Letter

2015-04-17T03:56:33Z

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=Open Letter of the Need for Open Standards in LiDAR=
April 2015.

We, the undersigned, are concerned that the current interoperability between LiDAR applications, through use of the open "LAS" format, is being threatened by ESRI's introduction and promotion of an alternative "Optimized LAS" '''''proprietary format.''''' This is of grave concern given that fragmentation of the LAS format will reduce interoperability between applications and organisations, and introduce vendor lock-in.

We request that:
# The OGC initiate the formalisation of an open standard for storing LiDAR data, and that OGC sponsors help prioritise the development of this open LiDAR standard.
# ESRI support the OGC in their [http://www.opengeospatial.org/ogc/vision mission] "to advance the development and use of international standards and supporting services that promote geospatial interoperability." In particular, ESRI join the OGC in consolidating an Open Standard for use of LiDAR data. This might include proposing ESRI's "Optimized LAS" as an Open Standard to remove any technical or legal hurdles in use of "Optimized LAS" as an Open Standard. A simple test to determine if "Optimized LAS" can be used as an Open Standard would be if "Optimized LAS" can legally be implemented by Open Source software such as libLAS or LASzip.
# Users and sponsors of LiDAR data, publicly state their preference for the use of an open LiDAR format over proprietary when selecting software and services.
# The custodians of the open LAS format [http://www.asprs.org/LD-Division/LAS-Working-Group.html LAS Working Group (LWG)], who are part of [http://www.asprs.org/ American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ASPRS)], request the term "LAS" not to be included in the name of a proprietary format, as it makes such a proprietary format appear to be an approved derivative of LAS.

=Signed=
Name, Affiliation(s), Optional comment on interest in Open LiDAR format

# Suchith Anand, Geo for All, committed to Open Principles in Geo Education and Policy.
# Martin Isenburg, founder of [http://rapidlasso.com rapidlasso GmbH] and creator of [http://rapidlasso.com/LASzip LASzip], [http://rapidlasso.com/LAStools LAStools], and [http://rapidlasso.com/PulseWaves PulseWaves].
# Cameron Shorter, GeoSpatial Director at [http://lisasoft.com LISAsoft], Core contributor and coordinator of [http://live.osgeo.org OSGeo-Live], Contributor to numerous OGC testbeds, technical lead on a range of previous Australian and New Zealand Open Government initiatives.
# Stefan Keller, founder and director of [http://www.hsr.ch/geometalab Geometa Lab]; Professor in GIS, databases, open (government) data and interoperability; maintainer of GeoConverter; contributor to open source software (GDAL/OGR, QGIS).
# Patrick Hogan, NASA World Wind Project Manager, committed to the US National Spatial Data Infrastructure principles, one being "to make geographic data more accessible to the public" [http://www.fgdc.gov/nsdi/nsdi.html NSDI]. Open standards are essential for this.
# Lene Fischer, Associate Professor, Department of Geosciences and Natural Resource Management, University of Copenhagen. User of Open and free Data from The Danish Geodata Agency - Using LAZ and LAS http://download.kortforsyningen.dk/content/dhmpunktsky.
# [http://www.ege-como.polimi.it/index.php?content=maria_brovelli Maria Antonia Brovelli], Full Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Politecnico di Milano. Geo For All, committed to Open Principles in Geo Education and Policy. Committed to Open Principles in Research.
# Ron Fortunato, President of [http://www.trilliumlearning.com/AmericaBridge/ Trillium Learning] LLC. Committed to open data standards that are necessary for education and all levels of communication.
# [http://www.geodatawiz.com/armin-schmidt Armin Schmidt], Chief Developer at [http://www.GeodataWIZ.com GeodataWIZ Ltd] and Chairman of [http://www.archprospection.org ISAP], committed to better science through Open Data.
# [http://www.linkedin.com/in/gconti Giuseppe Conti], CTO Trilogis Srl, Italy. Committed to open data standards that maximize opportunity for innovative solutions, unencumbered by artificial obstacles to data exchange.
# Jorge Gustavo Rocha, Professor, Computer Science Department, University of Minho, Portugal, committed to better science through Open Data.
# Jim Miller, University of Kansas, Professor, Computer Science, http://people.eecs.ku.edu/~miller/ Open standards for data exchange are essential for education and research.
# [http://www.linkedin.com/pub/brandt-melick/22/869/261 Brandt Melick], Information Technology Department Director, Springfield Oregon USA. The need to promote open solutions is paramount.
# Alex Paza Makini, National University Solomon Islands, Natural Resources and Applied Science. Committed to open data standards for education and research, and everything beyond.
# Prof. Jorg M. Hacker, Director/Chief Scientist of [http://www.airborneresearchaustralia.com Airborne Research Australia], Flinders University, Adelaide, Australia. Open formats have always been a great benefit to airborne LiDAR.
# Didier Richard, Head of IS Training Dept. in Education and Research Directorate of [http://www.ign.fr Institut National de l'Information Géographique et Forestière], France. OGC user, Contributor to OSGeO projects like GDAL.
# [http://www.linkedin.com/pub/adryane-gorayeb/74/517/96a Adryane Gorayeb], [http://www.ufc.br/ Federal University of Ceará Brazil], Geography Department. Open standards for data exchange are essential for education and research.
# [http://www.linkedin.com/in/yuryryabov Yury Ryabov], PhD, Senior researcher at [http://www.istc.ru/istc/db/inst.nsf/wsu/i0001823 Russian Scientific-Research Centre for Ecological Safety], [http://www.interacademies.net/Academies/ByRegion/CentralEasternEurope/13383.aspx Russian Academy of Sciences], Saint Petersburg, Russia. Open data formats are essential for successful and reproducible scientific research.
# [http://www.linkedin.com/pub/teresa-lamelas-gracia/40/4a7/20b María Teresa Lamelas], [http://cud.unizar.es/ Centro Universitario de la Defensa Zaragoza], [http://geoforest.unizar.es/es/index.php GeoForest-IUCA]. Committed to open data standards for education and research.
# [http://www.linkedin.com/in/davidherries David Herries], [http://www.interpine.co.nz/SitePages/Home.aspx Using LiDAR for forest yield modelling at Interpine Innovation], Establishing open data standards provide scope for exponential growth in innovation. This is key to a rapidly developing technology like LiDAR.
# [[User:Ivansanchez|Iván Sánchez Ortega]], [http://www.mazemap.no Mazemap]. OSGeo Charter member and Open Data nerd.
# [[User:AnitaGraser|Anita Graser]], GIS specialist with AIT Austrian Institute of Technology, OSGeo Charter member and QGIS team member. Committed to open data standards for education and research.
# [[User:vehrka|Pedro-Juan Ferrer]], [http://www.geomaticblog.net Geomaticblog]. OSGeo Charter member and member of the Open Knowledge Foundation.
# [http://www.linkedin.com/pub/karl-donert/3/160/571 Professor Karl Donert], President European Association of Geographers (http://www.eurogeo.nl/ EUROGEO)
# Drew Fenton, Boulder Creek, CA [http://www.savetheredwoods.org/redwoods/coast-redwoods/ Countdown to the Last Coast Redwood]. Please protect Open Standards for geospatial data!
# [[User:Bolosig|Wladimir Szczerban]], [http://www.geoinquiets.cat Geoinquiets] Geogeek & OSGeo Spanish Local Chapter Member, Spain
# [http://vmx.cx Volker Mische], OSGeo Charter member and creator of GeoCouch
# [[User:carlos_psig|Carlos López Quintanilla]], [http://www.psig.es PSIG] [http://www.geoinquiets.cat Geoinquiets] GIS consultant, Spain
# [[User:woodbri|Stephen Woodbridge]], [http://imaptools.com iMaptools], OSGeo Charter member.
# [[User:odoepner|Oliver Doepner]], [http://oliver.doepner.net doepner.net], Software Engineer (Java,Linux), Open Standards and Open Source advocate
# [[User:Lucadelu|Luca Delucchi]], [http://gis.cri.fmach.it Fondazione Edmund Mach], OSGeo Charter member, FOSS4G and Open Data developer, advocate, contributor and user.
# Antoine Cottin, CTO of [http://www.carbomap.com Carbomap Ltd.] and creator of [https://github.com/carbomap/Fleurdelas Fleurdelas], Edinburgh, United Kingdom.
# [http://strk.keybit.net Sandro Santilli], [http://strk.keybit.net/services.html NetLab], Free Software Hacker. There are already too many users slave to their tools, let's stop that!
# [http://www.itopen.it Alessandro Pasotti], [http://www.itopen.it ItOpen], GIS Free Software Developer.
# [http://www.roccatello.com Eduard Roccatello], [http://www.3dgis.it 3DGIS], 3DGIS CTO and co-Founder
# [[User:moovida|Andrea Antonello]], [http://www.hydrologis.com HydroloGIS], OSGeo Charter member, Open Source GIS developer, HydroloGIS co-founder.
# [http://www.associazionegfoss.it Stefano Campus], President of [http://www.associazionegfoss.it GFOSS.it] Association (Associazione Italiana per l'Informazione Geografica Libera), Italian Local Chapter of OSGeo Foundation.
# [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Madi Margherita Di Leo], OSGeo Charter Member
# [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Sacosta Sergio Acosta y Lara], OSGeo Charter Member
# [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Maximdubinin Maxim Dubinin], CEO at NextGIS, OSGeo Charter Member. Another 'standard' proprietary format? No, thank you.
# [[User:Steko|Stefano Costa]], Soprintendenza Archeologia della Liguria, Ministero dei Beni e delle Attività Culturali e del Turismo, Italy
# [http://www.geog.illinois.edu/people/jgrn Jonathan Greenberg], Assistant Professor, [http://publish.illinois.edu/jgrn/ GEARS Laboratory], Department of Geography and Geographic Information Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
# Bob Basques, Saint Paul, Mn., GIS Systems Developer for the City of Saint Paul Public Works, Technical Director for SharedGeo.
# [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Maning Maning Sambale], OSGeo Charter Member

=Background=
==About LiDAR==

[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lidar LiDAR] (Light Detection And Ranging) is a form of high precision range measurement, much like a radar system, that uses laser light instead of electromagnetic waves. The standard LiDAR product is a 3D point cloud that can be conceptualized as a series of point measurements representing distance between the sensor to a returned emission.

For over a decade (since 2003), there has been a common format for storing LiDAR data, the [http://www.asprs.org/Committee-General/LASer-LAS-File-Format-Exchange-Activities.html “LAS” format], and open source libraries have been developed to read, write and process these LAS files: [http://live.osgeo.org/en/overview/liblas_overview.html libLAS] and [http://github.com/LASlib/LASlib LASlib]. These libraries have been incorporated within many LiDAR applications, allowing read/write access to a common exchange format, and resulting in full interoperability between the applications. There is also an open source compression algorithm for the LAS format called [http://laszip.org LASzip] that many LiDAR data portals use to compress LAS into smaller LAZ files for faster download. Many LiDAR software packages have added [http://laszip.org/#software-with-native-laz-support native support] for these compressed LAZ files.

==LAS Limitations==

Quoting [http://boundlessgeo.com/2014/01/lidar-format-wars/ Paul Ramsey]:

: LAS format is not without its drawbacks:

:* While it is a binary format and does not waste any space unnecessarily, neither does it apply any compression to the data it stores. That’s not good for archival use.
:* Also, LAS stores points in scan order, so accessing any particular chunk of points involves reading the whole file. That’s not good for random access.
: Clearly there is a little more work to be done. Can LAS be improved? In fact, it already has been:
:* An open source compression library, LASzip can apply 20''':'''1 lossless compression to LAS files, making them great for archival purposes.
:* Other LAS users have experimented with re-ordering points in a LAS or LASzip file to allow random access to internal chunks of the LIDAR point cloud.
: Basically, making LAS smaller and faster is not rocket science, and if the work were incorporated into libLAS then the whole LIDAR community could leverage it together, and the user community would only have one file type to interchange.

=="Optimized LAS" A ''' ''Proprietary'' ESRI Format'''==
ESRI has announced the release of an [http://www.lidarnews.com/content/view/10214 "Optimized LAS"] format which is claimed to provide faster access and smaller file sizes (similar to the open [http://laszip.org LASzip] format). This announcement created a outburst of vocal protest in the LiDAR community [[http://rapidlasso.com/2013/12/30/new-compressed-las-format-by-esri/ 1] [http://boundlessgeo.com/2014/01/lidar-format-wars/ 2] [http://www.spatiallyadjusted.com/2014/01/15/las-laz-lazzip-zlas-and-you/ 3] [http://www.northrivergeographic.com/archives/lidar-software 4] [http://boundlessgeo.com/2014/01/lidar-format-wars-2/ 5] [http://boundlessgeo.com/2014/02/lidar-format-wars-3/ 6]].

The "Optimized LAS" format is neither published, nor available under any open license, which provides both technical as well as legal barriers for other applications reading and/or writing to this proprietary format. This creates a vendor lock-in scenario which is contrary to the principles of the Open Geospatial Consortium, the OSGeo Foundation, and many government IT procurement policies.

One year after releasing the "Optimized LAS" format, ESRI released a free Windows DLL that is claimed to convert between LAS and "Optimized LAS". Note there is a distinct difference between "free" and "open". Unless the Windows DLL is released under an "open" license, libLAS and related products will be legally prevented from incorporating ESRI's reader/writer code into their codebase, or from fixing any underlying bugs or performance limitations which may exist in ESRI's product.

==OGC's Efforts For An ''' ''Open'' LiDAR Standard'''==

The [http://www.opengeospatial.org/ Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC)] has indicated their interest in developing a standard LiDAR format.

Carl Reed (formerly on OGC staff) provided the following information on OGC's previous efforts to work toward enabling Open Standards in LiDAR:

: "Over the last 8 or so years, the OGC approached ASPRS at least twice regarding LAS and worked with ASPRS to bring LAS into the OGC for consideration as both a Best Practice and an OGC standard. OGC member Rick Pearsall worked diligently on this. Rick worked for NGA, was active in the OGC, and was also the Standards Committee chair at ASPRS. Rick and Carl tried and failed. These attempts go back to [http://www.asprs.org/a/society/divisions/ppd/ppd_meetings/2007springppdreport.pdf at least 2007]. More recently, Carl Reed had an email dialogue with Lewis Graham to bring LAS into OGC as an OGC Best Practice. Carl thought progress was being made, but then for some reason all communication stopped."

[http://www.opengeospatial.org/ogc/organization/staff/ssimmons Scott Simmons] (Executive Director, Standards Program) has explained the OGC's continuing interest in pursuing point cloud encoding standards, including a member-initiated mechanism to extend LAS data with OGC-standard XML content.
: The OGC invites interested members who wish to work on this effort to please contact Scott Simmons (Executive Director, Standards Program E-mail : ssimmons@opengeospatial.org) to register their interest and discuss details. OGC will also be holding an ad hoc session at the OGC's next [http://www.opengeospatial.org/event/1506tc Technical Committee meeting in Boulder, CO, USA in early June] to bring together all interested parties from all sectors (government, industry, academia) for this and plan next steps.

==History: LAS and ESRI's "Optimized LAS"==

Martin Isenburg, one of the leading experts in LIDAR formats, and creator of [http://rapidlasso.com/LASzip LASzip], [http://rapidlasso.com/LAStools LAStools] and [http://rapidlasso.com/PulseWaves PulseWaves], explains the history of LAS and "Optimized LAS":

: '''Summary:'''

:* The LAS format has been used successfully for over a decade.
:* Within last couple of years, ESRI has added native LAS support into ESRI products.
:* ESRI discussed embracing the open [http://laszip.org LAZ] format and simultaneously developed a proprietary "Optimized LAS" format.
:* The open geospatial community offered, on numerous occasions, to work with ESRI to avoid format fragmentation.
:* ESRI's proprietary "Optimized LAS" format is very similar in design and performance to the open [http://laszip.org LASzip] format.

: '''1998: Original LAS format definition'''

: The original development of the LAS format started in 1998 according to [http://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/lasroom/zKqchDj1JL4/discussion Lewis Graham]. The effort was at first led by pioneers of the LiDAR industry until the format was donated to the [http://www.asprs.org/Committee-General/LASer-LAS-File-Format-Exchange-Activities.html ASPRS]. Since then ASPRS's [http://www.asprs.org/LD-Division/LAS-Working-Group.html LAS Working Group (LWG)] has been maintaining the LAS format, guiding it from the initial LAS 1.0 version until today's LAS 1.4 version. This effort successfully created an open data exchange format for discrete LiDAR points that is currently supported by practically every LiDAR-related software program.

: '''2011: ESRI joins LAS Working Group'''

: ESRI did not join the LWG of the ASPRS until rather late, the 24th of August in 2011. At that time ESRI was not a significant "player" in the LiDAR market given they did not have much support for LiDAR in any of their products. That was to change soon as they were planning to add LAS as a native data type in ArcGIS 10.1.

: Shortly before that, in June 2011, Martin Isenburg received a personal message from the ESRI development team: "I have a question about LAS compression. I’m evaluating some potential enhancements and support for [LAS and] LAZ is one of them. Compression time and amount is impressive." When inquiring two months later about the status of [http://laszip.org LAZ] integration Martin was told: "We’re in beta and working to finish the current release. I very much doubt LAZ will make it in because it’s too big a change at this time. So, we’ll be considering, for the following release, [for] what we want to do regarding compression and spatial indexing."

: '''June 2012: ArcGIS 10.1 includes [proprietary] LAS Dataset file'''

: In June 2012 ESRI released ArcGIS 10.1 and introduced the proprietary "LAS Dataset file (*.lasd)" that groups collections of files into one logical unit. This format of this useful LAS container file was not shared with others despite several private and eventually [http://groups.google.com/d/topic/lastools/jwHpi0efUgA/discussion public] requests.

: '''2012/2013: Collaboration Discussions'''

: There were encouraging follow-ups from the ESRI team about adopting the open LAZ format in January 2012: "I would be interested in having a more in depth meeting with you to better understand the great work you are doing with LAS and how we can possibly better partner on this." and again in December 2012: "If you have time, I'd like to set some time aside Tuesday afternoon to meet with <an important person> at the ESRI booth. Does 2pm sound okay?" The meeting went well and it looked as if ESRI was going to embrace the LAZ format because shortly after the meeting Martin got word that: "I hear from <an important person> that it was a success and that he had a good meeting with you. I wanted to see if we can have a telephone discussion on Wednesday or Thursday this week related to the potential of incorporating LAZ into ArcGIS."

: Then the first signs of hesitation showed. First there were legal issues raised in February 2013: "Currently the legal aspects are being reviewed. They were having some issues separating the LPGL aspects from LASzip from the remainder of LAStools etc." and then in April 2013 concerns about the code were made: "We have started to look into the integration of LAZ, but came across some issues. We don’t want to copy files from the other package, mix and match or hack around. We were hoping for an API to stream points out of a LAZ file as well as write LAZ files. There should be a simple code sample for that?" and - following up on that - in June 2013 Martin was told "I see value in LASzip becoming a de-facto standard that provides compression to the LAS format. If this is to happen then it needs to be bundled together with appropriate reference implementations, examples and documentation as a standard and so ensure that issues as defined earlier in email do not occur."

: '''June 2013: ESRI asked to sponsor clean LASzip DLL'''

: At that time [http://laszip.org LASzip] was an open source project without sponsorship. The original funding from [http://www.erdc.usace.army.mil/Locations/ColdRegionsResearchandEngineeringLaboratory.aspx USACE] that had turned [http://laszip.org LASzip] from an academic prototype into an industry strength compression engine had long run out. So Martin asked ESRI to become a sponsor to create the clean [http://laszip.org LASzip] API that ESRI was after. The answer was: "ESRI often helps in the financing of Open Source projects and I could foresee ESRI possibly helping in LASzip. [...] If you are interested in promoting LASzip as such a standard and doing the required work then I would recommend you put together a proposal and I can look to get ESRI as a sponsor."

: Immediately Martin proposed to ESRI: "I hereby propose to write an easy to use open source DLL wrapper for LASzip that will make it easier to integrate LASzip in a standardized manner into other software products such as ArcGIS, LP 360, or Terrasolid. This will come with example code on how to use the DLL for reading and writing LAZ files and include a few compressed example files. I hereby ask ESRI to provide funding for this effort without imposing any limitations on the produced DLL API."

: '''July 2013: ArcGIS 10.2 includes [proprietary] LAS indexing '''

: With the release of ArcGIS 10.2 in July 2013, ESRI introduced spatial indexing to speed up area-of-interest queries. The new proprietary *.lasx files with seemingly identical functionality to the open *.lax files that had been [http://groups.google.com/d/topic/lastools/j0qA8NBMHJs/discussion announced] in May 2011 and were [http://rapidlasso.com/2012/12/03/lasindex-spatial-indexing-of-lidar-data/ presented] at ELMF in November 2012.

: '''July 2013: Open LASzip API released'''

: After more requests for an easier interface to [http://laszip.org LASzip] (in particular for [http://forsys.cfr.washington.edu/fusion/fusionlatest.html USDA's FUSION]), Martin [http://groups.google.com/d/topic/lastools/oplsDhhnhDQ/discussion released] a clean, well-documented, and easy-to-use LASzip DLL (without ESRI funding). Martin expected that developers at ESRI would now use it to add read and write support for [http://laszip.org LAZ] to their next release of ArcGIS.

: '''December 2013 : ESRI discovered to be secretly developing proprietary LAS format'''

: In December of 2013, several LAStools users contacted Martin with suspicions that ESRI may be creating a proprietary LAS compression. Martin [http://rapidlasso.com/2013/12/30/new-compressed-las-format-by-esri/ broke the news] as soon as it became evident that ESRI had used the time it needed to resolve "legal issues" and "code problems" to put together their own proprietary compressed format with near-identical performance and functionality to [http://laszip.org LASzip]. A few days later ESRI released an [http://www.lidarnews.com/content/view/10214/ official FAQ] to confirming this was the case.

: From day one, Martin has worked with stakeholders, including ESRI, to avoid format fragmentation. Martin's core argument for resolving this to everybody's benefit was that - coincidentally - a natural break was happening in the LAS format with the introduction of the new LAS 1.4 point types. Martin outlined a detailed plan for how a joint development of [http://laszip.org LASzip] for LAS 1.4 between rapidlasso and ESRI could exploit this natural break in the LAS format to accomplish two things at once:
:# Add the unspecified technical additions that ESRI had hinted at desiring, and
:# Extend the [http://laszip.org LASzip] compression scheme to handle the new point types introduced with the LAS 1.4 specification. As there was no pressing need at the time to handle LAS 1.4 Martin had delayed the extension of [http://laszip.org LASzip] to the new LAS 1.4 point types to make sure a cooperation with ESRI would remain a viable option.

: '''1 April 2014: Positive reception to "Optimized LAS" / LASzip collaboration April Fools announcement'''

: In an attempt to convince ESRI management of the community desire for an open standard, Martin released an April Fools' Day [http://rapidlasso.com/2014/04/01/esri-and-rapidlasso-develop-joint-lidar-compressor/ prank press release] pretending that ESRI had already agreed to the envisioned collaboration to develop a joint LiDAR compressor. Community [http://rapidlasso.com/2014/04/01/esri-and-rapidlasso-develop-joint-lidar-compressor/ jubilant reactions (see comments)] left no doubt about the sentiment on this issue within the LiDAR community.

: '''October 2014: Announcement of [open] LAS Compatibility mode'''

: [http://www.csc.noaa.gov/digitalcoast/ Digital Coast, NOAA Coastal Services Center] became a Gold Sponsor of [http://laszip.org LASzip] for the development of the [http://rapidlasso.com/2014/10/06/rapidlasso-announces-laszip-compatibility-mode-for-las-1-4/ LAS 1.4 compatibility mode] that was [http://groups.google.com/d/topic/lastools/nUFMkKSz53g/discussion beta-released] in November 2014. This allowed support for the new point types in [http://laszip.org LASzip] without closing the door on a potential cooperation with ESRI for a joint LAS 1.4 compressor.

: '''November 2014: ESRI announces proprietary extension to LAS 1.4'''

: In November 2014 [http://blog.lidarnews.com/esri-las-optimizer-updated ESRI announced] that they had added their [http://blog.lidarnews.com/esri-las-optimizer-updated own extension] for the new LAS 1.4 point types to "Optimized LAS", dismissing the opportunity to develop a joint compressor and avoid format fragmentation by exploiting this "natural break" in the LAS format as Martin had suggested.

: Since then, ESRI has been [http://rapidlasso.com/2014/11/06/keeping-esri-honest/ promoting] "Optimized LAS". By including the term "LAS" in "Optimized LAS" and "zLAS", the distinction between the open LAS format and proprietary format is blurred. This is likely to mislead novice and future users, thereby endangering many years of standardization work. To date, [April 2014], the [http://www.asprs.org/a/society/committees/standards/LAS_1_4_r13.pdf custodians of the LAS format], the LAS Working Group (LWG) of the ASPRS has [http://rapidlasso.com/2015/02/22/lidar-las-asprs-esri-and-the-laz-clone/ yet to make an official statement] regarding use of the "LAS" name in promoting a proprietary LiDAR format.

=Value of Standards=

The importance of Open Standards is described in most government IT policies. For instance, the United Kingdom policy states:
: … Government assets should be interoperable and open for re-use in order to maximise return on investment, avoid technological or supplier lock-in, reduce operational risk in ICT projects and provide responsive services for citizens and business. This should also lower barriers to entry for more diverse sources of IT services, including citizens and SMEs. <ref>All about Open Source – An Introduction to Open Source Software for Government IT, Version 2.0, United Kingdom Cabinet Office https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/78959/All_About_Open_Source_v2_0.pdf</ref>

The value of Open Standards has been described in numerous national studies on the effects of standards on economic growth.

: ... the national studies demonstrate that standards have a positive influence on economic growth due to the resulting improved diffusion of knowledge. The contribution of standards to the growth rate in each country is equivalent to 0.9% in Germany, 0.8% in 0.3% in the UK and 0.2% in Canada. <ref>Prof. Dr. Knut Blind, Prof. Dr. Andre Jungmittag, Dr. Axel Mangelsdorf [http://www.din.de/sixcms_upload/media/2896/DIN_GNN_2011_engl_akt_neu.pdf "The Economic Benefits of Standardization"], ''DINN, 2000''. Retrieved March 2015.</ref>

=Further Reading=

# Paul Ramsey provides background to LAS vs Optimised LAS, http://boundlessgeo.com/2014/01/lidar-format-wars/
# Running commentary by Martin Isenburg, author of LASlib, http://rapidlasso.com/2015/02/22/lidar-las-asprs-esri-and-the-laz-clone/
# Earlier comment from Martin Isenburg, http://rapidlasso.com/2014/11/06/keeping-esri-honest/
# First call-to-action by Martin Isenburg, http://rapidlasso.com/2013/12/30/new-compressed-las-format-by-esri/
# ESRI Announces "Optimised LAS", http://blog.lidarnews.com/esri-announces-las-compression/
# ESRI description of "Optimised LAS", http://www.lidarnews.com/content/view/10214
# Discussion background on this topic at Geo for All list , http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/ica-osgeo-labs/2015-March/001225.html

=References=

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2013-11-30T11:57:47Z

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OSGEO Philippines ([http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Philippines OSGeo-PH]), the University of Philippines Department of Geodetic Engineering ([http://dge.upd.edu.ph/dge/ UPD-GE]) and the Environmental Science for Social Change ([http://www.essc.org.ph ESSC]) organized a series of pre-symposium workshops showcasing free and open source geospatial technologies at the '''[http://dge.upd.edu.ph/philgeos2013/ PhilGEOS 2013]''' last November 27, 2013 at '''Melchor Hall University of the Philippines, Diliman, Quezon City''' ([http://www.openstreetmap.org/?mlat=14.656454&mlon=121.070049&zoom=18&layers=M map]). Over 70 participants joined in the 9 talks and demonstration. Marco Bernasocchi (QGIS Core Developer) also joined the event through Google Hangout.

== Program ==

{| class="wikitable" cellpadding="5" border="1px solid #dfdfdf" cellspacing="0" width="95%"
|-style="background-color:#CCC"
!width=80|Time
!width=120|Speaker
!Title
!Description
!Slides and other resources

|-style="background-color:#CCC"
! colspan="5" | AM Session
|-
|9:05 - 9:35
|Mark Tupas
|Open Source Geospatial Stack
|Overview of Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial (FOSS4G)
|[http://slides-marx.rhcloud.com/PhilGEOS/OpenGeospatialStack.pdf slides]
|-
|9:35 – 10:15
|Julius Bangate
|SAGA – System for Automated Geoscientific Analysis
|Basic installation and use of SAGA for DEM analysis.
|
|-
|10:30 – 11:20
|Maning Sambale
|Free GEO Culture and OpenStreetMap
|Free Geospatial Culture Movement and OpenStreetMap
|[http://www.slideshare.net/esambale/philgeos-freeculture-slides2 slides]
|-
|11:20 – 12:00
|Maning Sambale and Dianne Bencito
|InaSafe – Indonesian Scenario Assessment for Emergencies
|Demostration in the use [http://inasafe.org InaSAFE] (Indonesian Scenario Assessment for Emergencies)
|[http://essc.github.io/noah-wb-workshop/inasafe.html workshop demo]

|-style="background-color:#CCC"
! colspan="5" | PM Session
|-
|1:30 – 2:10
|Luis Ian Panganiban
|3D Web Mapping with X3D
|
|[http://www.slideshare.net/ianpanganiban/intro-3d-mappingwithx3d slides]
|-
|2:10 – 2:50
|Charmyne Mamador
|2D Web Mapping with Flask
|
|[http://www.slideshare.net/ChammieMamador/2d-web-mapping-with-flask slides]
|-
|2:50 – 3:30
|Ranel Padon
|Leaflet and Jquery
|
|[http://www.slideshare.net/ranelpadon/power-and-elegance slides]
|-
|4:00 – 4:20
|Marco Bernasocchi
|Quantum GIS (QGIS) 2.0 New Features
|New and exciting features of QGIS 2.0
|[https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1393944/qgis_2.pdf slides]
|-
|4:20 – 5:00
|Willy Rada
|GeoExt
|
|
|}

== Photos and News ==
<gallery widths=150px perrow=4 caption="Photos">
File:Philgeos2013_marxtupas.JPG|Marx Tupas
File:Philgeo2013_maningsambale.JPG|Maning Sambale
File:Philgeos2013_diannbencito.JPG|Dianne Bencito
File:Philgeos2013_charmynemamador.JPG|Charmyne Mamador
File:Philgeos2013_luispanganiban.JPG|Luis Ian Panganiban
File:Philgeos2013_qgis2_marcobernasocchi.JPG|Marco Bernasocchi via Google Hangout
File:Philgeos2013_wilrada.JPG|Willy Rada
</gallery>

[[Category: Events]]
[[Category:Philippines Chapter]]

Philippines/philgeos2013

2013-11-28T10:54:38Z

Wiki-Maning: /* Photos and News */

OSGEO Philippines ([http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Philippines OSGeo-PH]), the University of Philippines Department of Geodetic Engineering ([http://dge.upd.edu.ph/dge/ UPD-GE]) and the Environmental Science for Social Change ([http://www.essc.org.ph ESSC]) organized a series of pre-symposium workshops showcasing free and open source geospatial technologies at the '''[http://dge.upd.edu.ph/philgeos2013/ PhilGEOS 2013]''' last November 27, 2013 at '''Melchor Hall University of the Philippines, Diliman, Quezon City''' ([http://www.openstreetmap.org/?mlat=14.656454&mlon=121.070049&zoom=18&layers=M map]). Over 70 participants joined in the 9 talks and demonstration. Marco Bernasocchi (QGIS Core Developer) also joined the event through Google Hangout.

== Program ==

{| class="wikitable" cellpadding="5" border="1px solid #dfdfdf" cellspacing="0" width="95%"
|-style="background-color:#CCC"
!width=80|Time
!width=120|Speaker
!Title
!Description
!Slides and other resources

|-style="background-color:#CCC"
! colspan="5" | AM Session
|-
|9:05 - 9:35
|Mark Tupas
|Open Source Geospatial Stack
|Overview of Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial (FOSS4G)
|[http://slides-marx.rhcloud.com/PhilGEOS/OpenGeospatialStack.pdf slides]
|-
|9:35 – 10:15
|Julius Bangate
|SAGA – System for Automated Geoscientific Analysis
|Basic installation and use of SAGA for DEM analysis.
|
|-
|10:30 – 11:20
|Maning Sambale
|Free GEO Culture and OpenStreetMap
|Free Geospatial Culture Movement and OpenStreetMap
|[http://www.slideshare.net/esambale/philgeos-freeculture-slides2 slides]
|-
|11:20 – 12:00
|Maning Sambale and Dianne Bencito
|InaSafe – Indonesian Scenario Assessment for Emergencies
|Demostration in the use [http://inasafe.org InaSAFE] (Indonesian Scenario Assessment for Emergencies)
|[http://essc.github.io/noah-wb-workshop/inasafe.html workshop demo]

|-style="background-color:#CCC"
! colspan="5" | PM Session
|-
|1:30 – 2:10
|Luis Ian Panganiban
|3D Web Mapping
|
|
|-
|2:10 – 2:50
|Charmyne Mamador
|2D Web Mapping
|
|
|-
|2:50 – 3:30
|Ranel Padon
|Leaflet and Jquery
|
|[http://www.slideshare.net/ranelpadon/power-and-elegance slides]
|-
|4:00 – 4:20
|Marco Bernasocchi
|Quantum GIS (QGIS) 2.0 New Features
|New and exciting features of QGIS 2.0
|[https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1393944/qgis_2.pdf slides]
|-
|4:20 – 5:00
|Willy Rada
|GeoExt
|
|
|}

== Photos and News ==
<gallery widths=150px perrow=4 caption="Photos">
File:Philgeos2013_marxtupas.JPG|Marx Tupas
File:Philgeo2013_maningsambale.JPG|Maning Sambale
File:Philgeos2013_diannbencito.JPG|Dianne Bencito
File:Philgeos2013_charmynemamador.JPG|Charmyne Mamador
File:Philgeos2013_luispanganiban.JPG|Luis Ian Panganiban
File:Philgeos2013_qgis2_marcobernasocchi.JPG|Marco Bernasocchi via Google Hangout
File:Philgeos2013_wilrada.JPG|Willy Rada
</gallery>

[[Category: Events]]
[[Category:Philippines Chapter]]

Philippines/philgeos2013

2013-11-28T08:11:33Z

Wiki-Maning: /* Program */

OSGEO Philippines ([http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Philippines OSGeo-PH]), the University of Philippines Department of Geodetic Engineering ([http://dge.upd.edu.ph/dge/ UPD-GE]) and the Environmental Science for Social Change ([http://www.essc.org.ph ESSC]) organized a series of pre-symposium workshops showcasing free and open source geospatial technologies at the '''[http://dge.upd.edu.ph/philgeos2013/ PhilGEOS 2013]''' last November 27, 2013 at '''Melchor Hall University of the Philippines, Diliman, Quezon City''' ([http://www.openstreetmap.org/?mlat=14.656454&mlon=121.070049&zoom=18&layers=M map]). Over 70 participants joined in the 9 talks and demonstration. Marco Bernasocchi (QGIS Core Developer) also joined the event through Google Hangout.

== Program ==

{| class="wikitable" cellpadding="5" border="1px solid #dfdfdf" cellspacing="0" width="95%"
|-style="background-color:#CCC"
!width=80|Time
!width=120|Speaker
!Title
!Description
!Slides and other resources

|-style="background-color:#CCC"
! colspan="5" | AM Session
|-
|9:05 - 9:35
|Mark Tupas
|Open Source Geospatial Stack
|Overview of Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial (FOSS4G)
|[http://slides-marx.rhcloud.com/PhilGEOS/OpenGeospatialStack.pdf slides]
|-
|9:35 – 10:15
|Julius Bangate
|SAGA – System for Automated Geoscientific Analysis
|Basic installation and use of SAGA for DEM analysis.
|
|-
|10:30 – 11:20
|Maning Sambale
|Free GEO Culture and OpenStreetMap
|Free Geospatial Culture Movement and OpenStreetMap
|[http://www.slideshare.net/esambale/philgeos-freeculture-slides2 slides]
|-
|11:20 – 12:00
|Maning Sambale and Dianne Bencito
|InaSafe – Indonesian Scenario Assessment for Emergencies
|Demostration in the use [http://inasafe.org InaSAFE] (Indonesian Scenario Assessment for Emergencies)
|[http://essc.github.io/noah-wb-workshop/inasafe.html workshop demo]

|-style="background-color:#CCC"
! colspan="5" | PM Session
|-
|1:30 – 2:10
|Luis Ian Panganiban
|3D Web Mapping
|
|
|-
|2:10 – 2:50
|Charmyne Mamador
|2D Web Mapping
|
|
|-
|2:50 – 3:30
|Ranel Padon
|Leaflet and Jquery
|
|[http://www.slideshare.net/ranelpadon/power-and-elegance slides]
|-
|4:00 – 4:20
|Marco Bernasocchi
|Quantum GIS (QGIS) 2.0 New Features
|New and exciting features of QGIS 2.0
|[https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1393944/qgis_2.pdf slides]
|-
|4:20 – 5:00
|Willy Rada
|GeoExt
|
|
|}

== Photos and News ==
<gallery widths=150px perrow=5 caption="Photos">
File:Philgeos2013_marxtupas.JPG|Marx Tupas
File:Philgeo2013_maningsambale.JPG|Maning Sambale
File:Philgeos2013_diannbencito.JPG|Dianne Bencito
File:Philgeos2013_charmynemamador.JPG|Charmyne Mamador
File:Philgeos2013_luispanganiban.JPG|Luis Ian Panganiban
File:Philgeos2013_qgis2_marcobernasocchi.JPG|Marco Bernasocchi via Google Hangout
File:Philgeos2013_wilrada.JPG|Willy Rada
</gallery>

[[Category: Events]]
[[Category:Philippines Chapter]]

Philippines/philgeos2013

2013-11-28T08:06:57Z

Wiki-Maning: /* Program */

OSGEO Philippines ([http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Philippines OSGeo-PH]), the University of Philippines Department of Geodetic Engineering ([http://dge.upd.edu.ph/dge/ UPD-GE]) and the Environmental Science for Social Change ([http://www.essc.org.ph ESSC]) organized a series of pre-symposium workshops showcasing free and open source geospatial technologies at the '''[http://dge.upd.edu.ph/philgeos2013/ PhilGEOS 2013]''' last November 27, 2013 at '''Melchor Hall University of the Philippines, Diliman, Quezon City''' ([http://www.openstreetmap.org/?mlat=14.656454&mlon=121.070049&zoom=18&layers=M map]). Over 70 participants joined in the 9 talks and demonstration. Marco Bernasocchi (QGIS Core Developer) also joined the event through Google Hangout.

== Program ==

{| class="wikitable" cellpadding="5" border="1px solid #dfdfdf" cellspacing="0" width="95%"
|-style="background-color:#CCC"
!width=80|Time
!width=120|Speaker
!Title
!Description
!Slides and other resources

|-style="background-color:#CCC"
! colspan="5" | AM Session
|-
|9:05 - 9:35
|Mark Tupas
|Open Source Geospatial Stack
|Overview of Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial (FOSS4G)
|[http://slides-marx.rhcloud.com/PhilGEOS/OpenGeospatialStack.pdf slides]
|-
|9:35 – 10:15
|Julius Bangate
|SAGA – System for Automated Geoscientific Analysis
|Basic installation and use of SAGA for DEM analysis.
|
|-
|10:30 – 11:20
|Maning Sambale
|Free GEO Culture and OpenStreetMap
|Talk about the Free Geospatial Culture Movement and OpenStreetMap
|[http://www.slideshare.net/esambale/philgeos-freeculture-slides2 slides]
|-
|11:20 – 12:00
|Maning Sambale and Dianne Bencito
|InaSafe – Indonesian Scenario Assessment for Emergencies
|Demostration in the use [http://inasafe.org InaSAFE] (Indonesian Scenario Assessment for Emergencies)
|[http://essc.github.io/noah-wb-workshop/inasafe.html workshop demo]

|-style="background-color:#CCC"
! colspan="5" | PM Session
|-
|1:30 – 2:10
|Luis Ian Panganiban
|3D Web Mapping
|
|
|-
|2:10 – 2:50
|Charmyne Mamador
|2D Web Mapping
|
|
|-
|2:50 – 3:30
|Ranel Padon
|Leaflet and Jquery
|
|[http://www.slideshare.net/ranelpadon/power-and-elegance slides]
|-
|4:00 – 4:20
|Marco Bernasocchi
|Quantum GIS (QGIS) 2.0 New Features
|
|
|-
|4:20 – 5:00
|Willy Rada
|GeoExt
|
|
|}

== Photos and News ==
<gallery widths=150px perrow=5 caption="Photos">
File:Philgeos2013_marxtupas.JPG|Marx Tupas
File:Philgeo2013_maningsambale.JPG|Maning Sambale
File:Philgeos2013_diannbencito.JPG|Dianne Bencito
File:Philgeos2013_charmynemamador.JPG|Charmyne Mamador
File:Philgeos2013_luispanganiban.JPG|Luis Ian Panganiban
File:Philgeos2013_qgis2_marcobernasocchi.JPG|Marco Bernasocchi via Google Hangout
File:Philgeos2013_wilrada.JPG|Willy Rada
</gallery>

[[Category: Events]]
[[Category:Philippines Chapter]]

Philippines/philgeos2013

2013-11-28T08:06:05Z

Wiki-Maning: /* Photos and News */ add photos by Feye Andal

OSGEO Philippines ([http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Philippines OSGeo-PH]), the University of Philippines Department of Geodetic Engineering ([http://dge.upd.edu.ph/dge/ UPD-GE]) and the Environmental Science for Social Change ([http://www.essc.org.ph ESSC]) organized a series of pre-symposium workshops showcasing free and open source geospatial technologies at the '''[http://dge.upd.edu.ph/philgeos2013/ PhilGEOS 2013]''' last November 27, 2013 at '''Melchor Hall University of the Philippines, Diliman, Quezon City''' ([http://www.openstreetmap.org/?mlat=14.656454&mlon=121.070049&zoom=18&layers=M map]). Over 70 participants joined in the 9 talks and demonstration. Marco Bernasocchi (QGIS Core Developer) also joined the event through Google Hangout.

== Program ==

{| class="wikitable" cellpadding="5" border="1px solid #dfdfdf" cellspacing="0" width="95%"
|-style="background-color:#CCC"
!width=80|Time
!width=120|Speaker
!Title
!Description
!Slides and other resources

|-style="background-color:#CCC"
! colspan="5" | AM Session
|-
|9:05 - 9:35
|Mark Tupas
|Open Source Geospatial Stack
|Overview of Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial (FOSS4G)
|
|-
|9:35 – 10:15
|Julius Bangate
|SAGA – System for Automated Geoscientific Analysis
|Basic installation and use of SAGA for DEM analysis.
|
|-
|10:30 – 11:20
|Maning Sambale
|Free GEO Culture and OpenStreetMap
|Talk about the Free Geospatial Culture Movement and OpenStreetMap
|[http://www.slideshare.net/esambale/philgeos-freeculture-slides2 slides]
|-
|11:20 – 12:00
|Maning Sambale and Dianne Bencito
|InaSafe – Indonesian Scenario Assessment for Emergencies
|Demostration in the use [http://inasafe.org InaSAFE] (Indonesian Scenario Assessment for Emergencies)
|[http://essc.github.io/noah-wb-workshop/inasafe.html workshop demo]

|-style="background-color:#CCC"
! colspan="5" | PM Session
|-
|1:30 – 2:10
|Luis Ian Panganiban
|3D Web Mapping
|
|
|-
|2:10 – 2:50
|Charmyne Mamador
|2D Web Mapping
|
|
|-
|2:50 – 3:30
|Ranel Padon
|Leaflet and Jquery
|
|[http://www.slideshare.net/ranelpadon/power-and-elegance slides]
|-
|4:00 – 4:20
|Marco Bernasocchi
|Quantum GIS (QGIS) 2.0 New Features
|
|
|-
|4:20 – 5:00
|Willy Rada
|GeoExt
|
|
|}

== Photos and News ==
<gallery widths=150px perrow=5 caption="Photos">
File:Philgeos2013_marxtupas.JPG|Marx Tupas
File:Philgeo2013_maningsambale.JPG|Maning Sambale
File:Philgeos2013_diannbencito.JPG|Dianne Bencito
File:Philgeos2013_charmynemamador.JPG|Charmyne Mamador
File:Philgeos2013_luispanganiban.JPG|Luis Ian Panganiban
File:Philgeos2013_qgis2_marcobernasocchi.JPG|Marco Bernasocchi via Google Hangout
File:Philgeos2013_wilrada.JPG|Willy Rada
</gallery>

[[Category: Events]]
[[Category:Philippines Chapter]]

File:Philgeos2013 wilrada.JPG

2013-11-28T08:03:53Z

Wiki-Maning: PhilGEOS 2013. Photo by: Feye Andal

PhilGEOS 2013. Photo by: Feye Andal

File:Philgeos2013 qgis2 marcobernasocchi.JPG

2013-11-28T08:03:43Z

Wiki-Maning: PhilGEOS 2013. Photo by: Feye Andal

PhilGEOS 2013. Photo by: Feye Andal

File:Philgeos2013 marxtupas.JPG

2013-11-28T08:03:35Z

Wiki-Maning: PhilGEOS 2013. Photo by: Feye Andal

PhilGEOS 2013. Photo by: Feye Andal

File:Philgeos2013 luispanganiban.JPG

2013-11-28T08:03:28Z

Wiki-Maning: PhilGEOS 2013. Photo by: Feye Andal

PhilGEOS 2013. Photo by: Feye Andal

File:Philgeos2013 diannbencito.JPG

2013-11-28T08:03:20Z

Wiki-Maning: PhilGEOS 2013. Photo by: Feye Andal

PhilGEOS 2013. Photo by: Feye Andal

File:Philgeos2013 charmynemamador.JPG

2013-11-28T08:03:10Z

Wiki-Maning: PhilGEOS 2013. Photo by: Feye Andal

PhilGEOS 2013. Photo by: Feye Andal

Philippines/philgeos2013

2013-11-28T08:02:18Z

Wiki-Maning: /* Photos and News */

OSGEO Philippines ([http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Philippines OSGeo-PH]), the University of Philippines Department of Geodetic Engineering ([http://dge.upd.edu.ph/dge/ UPD-GE]) and the Environmental Science for Social Change ([http://www.essc.org.ph ESSC]) organized a series of pre-symposium workshops showcasing free and open source geospatial technologies at the '''[http://dge.upd.edu.ph/philgeos2013/ PhilGEOS 2013]''' last November 27, 2013 at '''Melchor Hall University of the Philippines, Diliman, Quezon City''' ([http://www.openstreetmap.org/?mlat=14.656454&mlon=121.070049&zoom=18&layers=M map]). Over 70 participants joined in the 9 talks and demonstration. Marco Bernasocchi (QGIS Core Developer) also joined the event through Google Hangout.

== Program ==

{| class="wikitable" cellpadding="5" border="1px solid #dfdfdf" cellspacing="0" width="95%"
|-style="background-color:#CCC"
!width=80|Time
!width=120|Speaker
!Title
!Description
!Slides and other resources

|-style="background-color:#CCC"
! colspan="5" | AM Session
|-
|9:05 - 9:35
|Mark Tupas
|Open Source Geospatial Stack
|Overview of Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial (FOSS4G)
|
|-
|9:35 – 10:15
|Julius Bangate
|SAGA – System for Automated Geoscientific Analysis
|Basic installation and use of SAGA for DEM analysis.
|
|-
|10:30 – 11:20
|Maning Sambale
|Free GEO Culture and OpenStreetMap
|Talk about the Free Geospatial Culture Movement and OpenStreetMap
|[http://www.slideshare.net/esambale/philgeos-freeculture-slides2 slides]
|-
|11:20 – 12:00
|Maning Sambale and Dianne Bencito
|InaSafe – Indonesian Scenario Assessment for Emergencies
|Demostration in the use [http://inasafe.org InaSAFE] (Indonesian Scenario Assessment for Emergencies)
|[http://essc.github.io/noah-wb-workshop/inasafe.html workshop demo]

|-style="background-color:#CCC"
! colspan="5" | PM Session
|-
|1:30 – 2:10
|Luis Ian Panganiban
|3D Web Mapping
|
|
|-
|2:10 – 2:50
|Charmyne Mamador
|2D Web Mapping
|
|
|-
|2:50 – 3:30
|Ranel Padon
|Leaflet and Jquery
|
|[http://www.slideshare.net/ranelpadon/power-and-elegance slides]
|-
|4:00 – 4:20
|Marco Bernasocchi
|Quantum GIS (QGIS) 2.0 New Features
|
|
|-
|4:20 – 5:00
|Willy Rada
|GeoExt
|
|
|}

== Photos and News ==
<gallery widths=150px perrow=5 caption="Photos">
File:8219865652_c125980ce5_n.jpg|Exhibit Booth
File:Philgeo2013_maningsambale.JPG|Maning Sambale
File:8219864394_6a2bfa4210_n.jpg|OSGeo Live DVDs
File:8219864010_326f3ca723_n.jpg|OSGEeo Live slideshow
File:8219862402_48cc064ced_n.jpg|OSM-PH Slideshow
File:8219861216_3f0d05bef9_n.jpg|OSM Talk in the technical session
File:8219860368_8027cc4205_n.jpg
</gallery>

[[Category: Events]]
[[Category:Philippines Chapter]]

File:Philgeo2013 maningsambale.JPG

2013-11-28T08:01:38Z

Wiki-Maning: PhilGEOS 2013. Photo by: Feye Andal

PhilGEOS 2013.
Photo by: Feye Andal

Philippines

2013-11-28T07:36:50Z

Wiki-Maning: /* Meetings and Events */ add philgeos2013 event

'''Philippines Chapter of OSGeo'''

== '''About Philippines OSGeo Chapter''' ==

'''This section is in DRAFT.'''

=== Mission ===

* To promote the uses and development of Open Source Geospatial tools, services and open data in the Philippines.

=== Objectives ===

* To provide a forum for discussion, promotion, networking opportunities for developers and and users in the country.
* To serve as a bridge between various groups like Developers, Application Users, NGOs, Government departments.

Regular Committee Membership Meetings
* add details here

Support
* add details

Collaborative Projects:
* Localization of OSGeo projects
* Development of demo prototype
* Software documentation translation
* add here

Regional Events:
* Workshops and Training
* Special Lectures
* Demonstrations

Communication:
* Networking Local Communities
* Mailing Lists: ??
* Wiki

=== Legal status ===

* will the chapter be registered as NPO or as other legal body?
if yes, give details.

== '''Philippines OSGeo Chapter Officers''' ==

Philippines OSGeo Representative 

* Name (Affiliation)

Philippines OSGeo Chapter Coordinator 

* Name (Affiliation)

== '''Initial Membership''' ==
* Maning Sambale ([http://essc.org.ph/ Environmental Science for Social Change])
* Sorvigenaleon Ildefonso
* Jessie Linn Ablao

== '''Meetings and Events ''' ==

* [[Philippines/Chapter Meeting 2011-09-23|Meeting 2011-09-23]]
* [[Philippines/Chapter Meeting 2011-10-01|Meeting 2011-10-01]]
* [[Philippines/Chapter Meeting 2011-12-03|Meeting 2011-12-03]]
* [[Philippines/philgeos2012|FOSS4G Workshops at PhilGEOS 2012 ]]
* [[Philippines/philgeos2013|FOSS4G Workshops at PhilGEOS 2013 ]]

== Reports ==

* [[Philippines Chapter Report 2012]]

== '''Links''' ==

* osgeo-philippines mailing list: http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/philippines
* osgeo-philippines wiki: http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Philippines

[[Category:Local Chapters]]
[[Category:Philippines Chapter]]

Philippines/philgeos2013

2013-11-28T07:35:12Z

Wiki-Maning: /* Program */

OSGEO Philippines ([http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Philippines OSGeo-PH]), the University of Philippines Department of Geodetic Engineering ([http://dge.upd.edu.ph/dge/ UPD-GE]) and the Environmental Science for Social Change ([http://www.essc.org.ph ESSC]) organized a series of pre-symposium workshops showcasing free and open source geospatial technologies at the '''[http://dge.upd.edu.ph/philgeos2013/ PhilGEOS 2013]''' last November 27, 2013 at '''Melchor Hall University of the Philippines, Diliman, Quezon City''' ([http://www.openstreetmap.org/?mlat=14.656454&mlon=121.070049&zoom=18&layers=M map]). Over 70 participants joined in the 9 talks and demonstration. Marco Bernasocchi (QGIS Core Developer) also joined the event through Google Hangout.

== Program ==

{| class="wikitable" cellpadding="5" border="1px solid #dfdfdf" cellspacing="0" width="95%"
|-style="background-color:#CCC"
!width=80|Time
!width=120|Speaker
!Title
!Description
!Slides and other resources

|-style="background-color:#CCC"
! colspan="5" | AM Session
|-
|9:05 - 9:35
|Mark Tupas
|Open Source Geospatial Stack
|Overview of Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial (FOSS4G)
|
|-
|9:35 – 10:15
|Julius Bangate
|SAGA – System for Automated Geoscientific Analysis
|Basic installation and use of SAGA for DEM analysis.
|
|-
|10:30 – 11:20
|Maning Sambale
|Free GEO Culture and OpenStreetMap
|Talk about the Free Geospatial Culture Movement and OpenStreetMap
|[http://www.slideshare.net/esambale/philgeos-freeculture-slides2 slides]
|-
|11:20 – 12:00
|Maning Sambale and Dianne Bencito
|InaSafe – Indonesian Scenario Assessment for Emergencies
|Demostration in the use [http://inasafe.org InaSAFE] (Indonesian Scenario Assessment for Emergencies)
|[http://essc.github.io/noah-wb-workshop/inasafe.html workshop demo]

|-style="background-color:#CCC"
! colspan="5" | PM Session
|-
|1:30 – 2:10
|Luis Ian Panganiban
|3D Web Mapping
|
|
|-
|2:10 – 2:50
|Charmyne Mamador
|2D Web Mapping
|
|
|-
|2:50 – 3:30
|Ranel Padon
|Leaflet and Jquery
|
|[http://www.slideshare.net/ranelpadon/power-and-elegance slides]
|-
|4:00 – 4:20
|Marco Bernasocchi
|Quantum GIS (QGIS) 2.0 New Features
|
|
|-
|4:20 – 5:00
|Willy Rada
|GeoExt
|
|
|}

== Photos and News ==

[[Category: Events]]
[[Category:Philippines Chapter]]

Philippines/philgeos2013

2013-11-28T07:33:28Z

Wiki-Maning:

OSGEO Philippines ([http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Philippines OSGeo-PH]), the University of Philippines Department of Geodetic Engineering ([http://dge.upd.edu.ph/dge/ UPD-GE]) and the Environmental Science for Social Change ([http://www.essc.org.ph ESSC]) organized a series of pre-symposium workshops showcasing free and open source geospatial technologies at the '''[http://dge.upd.edu.ph/philgeos2013/ PhilGEOS 2013]''' last November 27, 2013 at '''Melchor Hall University of the Philippines, Diliman, Quezon City''' ([http://www.openstreetmap.org/?mlat=14.656454&mlon=121.070049&zoom=18&layers=M map]). Over 70 participants joined in the 9 talks and demonstration. Marco Bernasocchi (QGIS Core Developer) also joined the event through Google Hangout.

== Program ==

{| class="wikitable" cellpadding="5" border="1px solid #dfdfdf" cellspacing="0" width="95%"
|-style="background-color:#CCC"
!width=80|Time
!width=120|Speaker
!Title
!Description
!Slides and other resources

|-style="background-color:#CCC"
! colspan="5" | AM Session
|-
|9:05 - 9:35
|Open Source Geospatial Stack
|Mark Tupas
|Overview of Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial (FOSS4G)
|
|-
|9:35 – 10:15
|SAGA – System for Automated Geoscientific Analysis
|Julius Bangate
|
|
|-
|10:30 – 11:20
|Free GEO Culture and OpenStreetMap
|Maning Sambale
|Talk about the Free Geospatial Culture Movement and OpenStreetMap
|[http://www.slideshare.net/esambale/philgeos-freeculture-slides2 slides]
|-
|11:20 – 12:00
|InaSafe – Indonesian Scenario Assessment for Emergencies
|Maning Sambale and Dianne Bencito
|Demostration in the use [http://inasafe.org InaSAFE] (Indonesian Scenario Assessment for Emergencies)
|[http://essc.github.io/noah-wb-workshop/inasafe.html workshop demo]

|-style="background-color:#CCC"
! colspan="5" | PM Session
|-
|1:30 – 2:10
|3D Web Mapping
|Luis Ian Panganiban
|
|
|-
|2:10 – 2:50
|2D Web Mapping
|Charmyne Mamador
|
|
|-
|2:50 – 3:30
|Leaflet and Jquery
|Ranel Padon
|
|[http://www.slideshare.net/ranelpadon/power-and-elegance slides]
|-
|4:00 – 4:20
|Quantum GIS (QGIS) 2.0 New Features
|Marco Bernasocchi
|
|
|-
|4:20 – 5:00
|GeoExt
|Willy Rada
|
|
|}

== Photos and News ==

[[Category: Events]]
[[Category:Philippines Chapter]]

Philippines/philgeos2013

2013-11-28T07:29:23Z

Wiki-Maning:

OSGEO Philippines ([http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Philippines OSGeo-PH]), the University of Philippines Department of Geodetic Engineering ([http://dge.upd.edu.ph/dge/ UPD-GE]) is organizing a series of pre-symposium workshops showcasing free and open source technologies at the '''[http://dge.upd.edu.ph/philgeos2013/ PhilGEOS 2013]''' on November 27, 2013 at '''Melchor Hall University of the Philippines, Diliman, Quezon City''' ([http://www.openstreetmap.org/?mlat=14.656454&mlon=121.070049&zoom=18&layers=M map]). Over 70 participants joined 9 talks and demonstration. Marco Bernasocchi (QGIS Core Developer) also joined the event through Google Hangout.

== Program ==

{| class="wikitable" cellpadding="5" border="1px solid #dfdfdf" cellspacing="0" width="95%"
|-style="background-color:#CCC"
!width=80|Time
!width=120|Speaker
!Title
!Description
!Slides and other resources

|-style="background-color:#CCC"
! colspan="5" | AM Session
|-
|9:05 - 9:35
|Open Source Geospatial Stack
|Mark Tupas
|Overview of Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial (FOSS4G)
|
|-
|9:35 – 10:15
|SAGA – System for Automated Geoscientific Analysis
|Julius Bangate
|
|
|-
|10:30 – 11:20
|Free GEO Culture and OpenStreetMap
|Maning Sambale
|Talk about the Free Geospatial Culture Movement and OpenStreetMap
|[http://www.slideshare.net/esambale/philgeos-freeculture-slides2 slides]
|-
|11:20 – 12:00
|InaSafe – Indonesian Scenario Assessment for Emergencies
|Maning Sambale and Dianne Bencito
|Demostration in the use [http://inasafe.org InaSAFE] (Indonesian Scenario Assessment for Emergencies)
|[http://essc.github.io/noah-wb-workshop/inasafe.html workshop demo]

|-style="background-color:#CCC"
! colspan="5" | PM Session
|-
|1:30 – 2:10
|3D Web Mapping
|Luis Ian Panganiban
|
|
|-
|2:10 – 2:50
|2D Web Mapping
|Charmyne Mamador
|
|
|-
|2:50 – 3:30
|Leaflet and Jquery
|Ranel Padon
|
|[http://www.slideshare.net/ranelpadon/power-and-elegance slides]
|-
|4:00 – 4:20
|Quantum GIS (QGIS) 2.0 New Features
|Marco Bernasocchi
|
|
|-
|4:20 – 5:00
|GeoExt
|Willy Rada
|
|
|}

== Photos and News ==

[[Category: Events]]
[[Category:Philippines Chapter]]

Philippines/philgeos2013

2013-11-28T07:25:59Z

Wiki-Maning: /* Program */

OSGEO Philippines ([http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Philippines OSGeo-PH]), the University of Philippines Department of Geodetic Engineering ([http://dge.upd.edu.ph/dge/ UPD-GE]) is organizing a series of pre-symposium workshops showcasing free and open source technologies at the '''[http://dge.upd.edu.ph/philgeos2013/ PhilGEOS 2013]''' on November 27, 2013 at '''Melchor Hall University of the Philippines, Diliman, Quezon City''' ([http://www.openstreetmap.org/?mlat=14.656454&mlon=121.070049&zoom=18&layers=M map]).

== Program ==

{| class="wikitable" cellpadding="5" border="1px solid #dfdfdf" cellspacing="0" width="95%"
|-style="background-color:#CCC"
!width=80|Time
!width=120|Speaker
!Title
!Description
!Slides and other resources

|-style="background-color:#CCC"
! colspan="5" | AM Session
|-
|9:05 - 9:35
|Open Source Geospatial Stack
|Mark Tupas
|Overview of Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial (FOSS4G)
|
|-
|9:35 – 10:15
|SAGA – System for Automated Geoscientific Analysis
|Julius Bangate
|
|
|-
|10:30 – 11:20
|Free GEO Culture and OpenStreetMap
|Maning Sambale
|Talk about the Free Geospatial Culture Movement and OpenStreetMap
|[http://www.slideshare.net/esambale/philgeos-freeculture-slides2 slides]
|-
|11:20 – 12:00
|InaSafe – Indonesian Scenario Assessment for Emergencies
|Maning Sambale and Dianne Bencito
|Demostration in the use [http://inasafe.org InaSAFE] (Indonesian Scenario Assessment for Emergencies)
|[http://essc.github.io/noah-wb-workshop/inasafe.html workshop demo]

|-style="background-color:#CCC"
! colspan="5" | PM Session
|-
|1:30 – 2:10
|3D Web Mapping
|Luis Ian Panganiban
|
|
|-
|2:10 – 2:50
|2D Web Mapping
|Charmyne Mamador
|
|
|-
|2:50 – 3:30
|Leaflet and Jquery
|Ranel Padon
|
|[http://www.slideshare.net/ranelpadon/power-and-elegance slides]
|-
|4:00 – 4:20
|Quantum GIS (QGIS) 2.0 New Features
|Marco Bernasocchi
|
|
|-
|4:20 – 5:00
|GeoExt
|Willy Rada
|
|
|}

=== Venue and available facilities ===

* RS/GIS Lab - maximum 20 participants, with projector, computers and internet connection.
* GE Theater - maximum 80 participants, with projector, bring your own laptops for exercises, limited wifi connection.

== Initial wishlist of topics ==
* What's new with QGIS 2.0
* InaSAFE
* TileMill
* Geonode
* PyQGIS Programming - Willy
* Contributing to OpenStreetMap

Philippines/philgeos2013

2013-11-28T07:22:14Z

Wiki-Maning: /* Program */

OSGEO Philippines ([http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Philippines OSGeo-PH]), the University of Philippines Department of Geodetic Engineering ([http://dge.upd.edu.ph/dge/ UPD-GE]) is organizing a series of pre-symposium workshops showcasing free and open source technologies at the '''[http://dge.upd.edu.ph/philgeos2013/ PhilGEOS 2013]''' on November 27, 2013 at '''Melchor Hall University of the Philippines, Diliman, Quezon City''' ([http://www.openstreetmap.org/?mlat=14.656454&mlon=121.070049&zoom=18&layers=M map]).

== Program ==

{| class="wikitable" cellpadding="5" border="1px solid #dfdfdf" cellspacing="0" width="95%"
|-style="background-color:#CCC"
!width=80|Time
!width=120|Speaker
!Title
!Description
!Slides and other resources

|-style="background-color:#CCC"
! colspan="5" | AM Session
|-
|9:05 - 9:35
|Open Source Geospatial Stack
|Mark Tupas
|
|
|-
|9:35 – 10:15
|SAGA – System for Automated Geoscientific Analysis
|Julius Bangate
|
|
|-
|10:30 – 11:20
|Free GEO Culture and OpenStreetMap
|Maning Sambale
|
|[http://www.slideshare.net/esambale/philgeos-freeculture-slides2 slides]
|-
|11:20 – 12:00
|InaSafe – Indonesian Scenario Assessment for Emergencies
|Maning Sambale and Dianne Bencito
|
|[http://essc.github.io/noah-wb-workshop/inasafe.html Workshop demo]

|-style="background-color:#CCC"
! colspan="5" | PM Session
|-
|1:30 – 2:10
|3D Web Mapping
|Luis Ian Panganiban
|
|
|-
|2:10 – 2:50
|2D Web Mapping
|Charmyne Mamador
|
|
|-
|2:50 – 3:30
|Leaflet and Jquery
|Ranel Padon
|
|
|-
|4:00 – 4:20
|Quantum GIS (QGIS) 2.0 New Features
|Marco Bernasocchi
|
|
|-
|4:20 – 5:00
|GeoExt
|Willy Rada
|
|
|}

=== Venue and available facilities ===

* RS/GIS Lab - maximum 20 participants, with projector, computers and internet connection.
* GE Theater - maximum 80 participants, with projector, bring your own laptops for exercises, limited wifi connection.

== Initial wishlist of topics ==
* What's new with QGIS 2.0
* InaSAFE
* TileMill
* Geonode
* PyQGIS Programming - Willy
* Contributing to OpenStreetMap

Philippines/philgeos2013

2013-11-28T07:21:29Z

Wiki-Maning: /* Program */

OSGEO Philippines ([http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Philippines OSGeo-PH]), the University of Philippines Department of Geodetic Engineering ([http://dge.upd.edu.ph/dge/ UPD-GE]) is organizing a series of pre-symposium workshops showcasing free and open source technologies at the '''[http://dge.upd.edu.ph/philgeos2013/ PhilGEOS 2013]''' on November 27, 2013 at '''Melchor Hall University of the Philippines, Diliman, Quezon City''' ([http://www.openstreetmap.org/?mlat=14.656454&mlon=121.070049&zoom=18&layers=M map]).

== Program ==

{| class="wikitable" cellpadding="5" border="1px solid #dfdfdf" cellspacing="0" width="95%"
|-style="background-color:#CCC"
!width=80|Time
!width=120|Speaker
!Title
!Description
!Slides and other resources

|-style="background-color:#CCC"
! colspan="5" | AM Session
|-
|9:05 - 9:35
|Open Source Geospatial Stack
|Mark Tupas
|
|
|-
|9:35 – 10:15
|SAGA – System for Automated Geoscientific Analysis
|Julius Bangate
|
|
|-
|10:30 – 11:20
|Free GEO Culture and OpenStreetMap
|Maning Sambale
|
|[slides http://www.slideshare.net/esambale/philgeos-freeculture-slides2]
|-
|11:20 – 12:00
|InaSafe – Indonesian Scenario Assessment for Emergencies
|Maning Sambale and Dianne Bencito
|
|[Workshop demo http://essc.github.io/noah-wb-workshop/inasafe.html]

|-style="background-color:#CCC"
! colspan="5" | PM Session
|-
|1:30 – 2:10
|3D Web Mapping
|Luis Ian Panganiban
|
|
|-
|2:10 – 2:50
|2D Web Mapping
|Charmyne Mamador
|
|
|-
|2:50 – 3:30
|Leaflet and Jquery
|Ranel Padon
|
|
|-
|4:00 – 4:20
|Quantum GIS (QGIS) 2.0 New Features
|Marco Bernasocchi
|
|
|-
|4:20 – 5:00
|GeoExt
|Willy Rada
|
|
|}

=== Venue and available facilities ===

* RS/GIS Lab - maximum 20 participants, with projector, computers and internet connection.
* GE Theater - maximum 80 participants, with projector, bring your own laptops for exercises, limited wifi connection.

== Initial wishlist of topics ==
* What's new with QGIS 2.0
* InaSAFE
* TileMill
* Geonode
* PyQGIS Programming - Willy
* Contributing to OpenStreetMap

Philippines/philgeos2013

2013-11-28T07:19:19Z

Wiki-Maning: /* Program */

OSGEO Philippines ([http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Philippines OSGeo-PH]), the University of Philippines Department of Geodetic Engineering ([http://dge.upd.edu.ph/dge/ UPD-GE]) is organizing a series of pre-symposium workshops showcasing free and open source technologies at the '''[http://dge.upd.edu.ph/philgeos2013/ PhilGEOS 2013]''' on November 27, 2013 at '''Melchor Hall University of the Philippines, Diliman, Quezon City''' ([http://www.openstreetmap.org/?mlat=14.656454&mlon=121.070049&zoom=18&layers=M map]).

== Program ==

{| class="wikitable" cellpadding="5" border="1px solid #dfdfdf" cellspacing="0" width="95%"
|-style="background-color:#CCC"
!width=80|Time
!width=120|Speaker
!Title
!Description
!Slides and other resources

|-style="background-color:#CCC"
! colspan="5" | AM Session
|-
|9:05 - 9:35
|Open Source Geospatial Stack
|Mark Tupas
|
|
|-
|9:35 – 10:15
|SAGA – System for Automated Geoscientific Analysis
|Julius Bangate
|
|
|-
|10:30 – 11:20
|Free GEO Culture and OpenStreetMap
|Maning Sambale
|
|
|-
|11:20 – 12:00
|InaSafe – Indonesian Scenario Assessment for Emergencies
|Maning Sambale and Dianne Bencito
|
|

|-style="background-color:#CCC"
! colspan="5" | PM Session
|-
|1:30 – 2:10
|3D Web Mapping
|Luis Ian Panganiban
|
|
|-
|2:10 – 2:50
|2D Web Mapping
|Charmyne Mamador
|
|
|-
|2:50 – 3:30
|Leaflet and Jquery
|Ranel Padon
|
|
|-
|4:00 – 4:20
|Quantum GIS (QGIS) 2.0 New Features
|Marco Bernasocchi
|
|
|-
|4:20 – 5:00
|GeoExt
|Willy Rada
|
|
|}

=== Venue and available facilities ===

* RS/GIS Lab - maximum 20 participants, with projector, computers and internet connection.
* GE Theater - maximum 80 participants, with projector, bring your own laptops for exercises, limited wifi connection.

== Initial wishlist of topics ==
* What's new with QGIS 2.0
* InaSAFE
* TileMill
* Geonode
* PyQGIS Programming - Willy
* Contributing to OpenStreetMap

Philippines/philgeos2013

2013-11-28T07:13:45Z

Wiki-Maning: /* Program */

OSGEO Philippines ([http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Philippines OSGeo-PH]), the University of Philippines Department of Geodetic Engineering ([http://dge.upd.edu.ph/dge/ UPD-GE]) is organizing a series of pre-symposium workshops showcasing free and open source technologies at the '''[http://dge.upd.edu.ph/philgeos2013/ PhilGEOS 2013]''' on November 27, 2013 at '''Melchor Hall University of the Philippines, Diliman, Quezon City''' ([http://www.openstreetmap.org/?mlat=14.656454&mlon=121.070049&zoom=18&layers=M map]).

== Program ==

{| class="wikitable" cellpadding="5" border="1px solid #dfdfdf" cellspacing="0" width="95%"
|-style="background-color:#CCC"
!width=80|Time
!width=120|Speaker
!Title
!Description
!Slides and other resources
|-style="background-color:#CCC"
! colspan="5" | Registration
|-
|8:30 - 8:45
|
|Opening Remarks
|
|
|-
|8:45 - 9:00
|
|Workshop schedules and room assignments
|
|
|-style="background-color:#CCC"
! colspan="5" | AM
|-
|
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|-
|
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|-
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|-
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|-style="background-color:#CCC"
! colspan="5" | Track 2: GE Theater
|-
|
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|-
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|-
|
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|-
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|-
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|-
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|}

=== Venue and available facilities ===

* RS/GIS Lab - maximum 20 participants, with projector, computers and internet connection.
* GE Theater - maximum 80 participants, with projector, bring your own laptops for exercises, limited wifi connection.

== Initial wishlist of topics ==
* What's new with QGIS 2.0
* InaSAFE
* TileMill
* Geonode
* PyQGIS Programming - Willy
* Contributing to OpenStreetMap

Philippines/philgeos2013

2013-11-02T03:51:09Z

Wiki-Maning: /* Initial wishlist of topics */

OSGEO Philippines ([http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Philippines OSGeo-PH]), the University of Philippines Department of Geodetic Engineering ([http://dge.upd.edu.ph/dge/ UPD-GE]) is organizing a series of pre-symposium workshops showcasing free and open source technologies at the '''[http://dge.upd.edu.ph/philgeos2013/ PhilGEOS 2013]''' on November 27, 2013 at '''Melchor Hall University of the Philippines, Diliman, Quezon City''' ([http://www.openstreetmap.org/?mlat=14.656454&mlon=121.070049&zoom=18&layers=M map]).

== Program ==

{| class="wikitable" cellpadding="5" border="1px solid #dfdfdf" cellspacing="0" width="95%"
|-style="background-color:#CCC"
!width=80|Time
!width=120|Speaker
!Title
!Description
!Slides and other resources
|-style="background-color:#CCC"
! colspan="5" | Registration
|-
|8:30 - 8:45
|
|Opening Remarks
|
|
|-
|8:45 - 9:00
|
|Workshop schedules and room assignments
|
|
|-style="background-color:#CCC"
! colspan="5" | Track 1: RS/GIS Lab
|-
|
|
|
|
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|-
|
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|-
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|-style="background-color:#CCC"
! colspan="5" | Track 2: GE Theater
|-
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|-
|-
|
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|-
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|}

=== Venue and available facilities ===

* RS/GIS Lab - maximum 20 participants, with projector, computers and internet connection.
* GE Theater - maximum 80 participants, with projector, bring your own laptops for exercises, limited wifi connection.

== Initial wishlist of topics ==
* What's new with QGIS 2.0
* InaSAFE
* TileMill
* Geonode
* PyQGIS Programming - Willy
* Contributing to OpenStreetMap

Philippines/philgeos2013

2013-11-02T03:46:12Z

Wiki-Maning: topic wishlist

OSGEO Philippines ([http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Philippines OSGeo-PH]), the University of Philippines Department of Geodetic Engineering ([http://dge.upd.edu.ph/dge/ UPD-GE]) is organizing a series of pre-symposium workshops showcasing free and open source technologies at the '''[http://dge.upd.edu.ph/philgeos2013/ PhilGEOS 2013]''' on November 27, 2013 at '''Melchor Hall University of the Philippines, Diliman, Quezon City''' ([http://www.openstreetmap.org/?mlat=14.656454&mlon=121.070049&zoom=18&layers=M map]).

== Program ==

{| class="wikitable" cellpadding="5" border="1px solid #dfdfdf" cellspacing="0" width="95%"
|-style="background-color:#CCC"
!width=80|Time
!width=120|Speaker
!Title
!Description
!Slides and other resources
|-style="background-color:#CCC"
! colspan="5" | Registration
|-
|8:30 - 8:45
|
|Opening Remarks
|
|
|-
|8:45 - 9:00
|
|Workshop schedules and room assignments
|
|
|-style="background-color:#CCC"
! colspan="5" | Track 1: RS/GIS Lab
|-
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|-
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|-style="background-color:#CCC"
! colspan="5" | Track 2: GE Theater
|-
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|-
|-
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|-
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|}

=== Venue and available facilities ===

* RS/GIS Lab - maximum 20 participants, with projector, computers and internet connection.
* GE Theater - maximum 80 participants, with projector, bring your own laptops for exercises, limited wifi connection.

== Initial wishlist of topics ==
* What's new with QGIS 2.0
* InaSAFE
* TileMill
* Geonode
* PyQGIS Programming
* Contributing to OpenStreetMap

Philippines/philgeos2013

2013-11-02T03:42:10Z

Wiki-Maning: stub template

OSGEO Philippines ([http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Philippines OSGeo-PH]), the University of Philippines Department of Geodetic Engineering ([http://dge.upd.edu.ph/dge/ UPD-GE]) is organizing a series of pre-symposium workshops showcasing free and open source technologies at the '''[http://dge.upd.edu.ph/philgeos2013/ PhilGEOS 2013]''' on November 27, 2013 at '''Melchor Hall University of the Philippines, Diliman, Quezon City''' ([http://www.openstreetmap.org/?mlat=14.656454&mlon=121.070049&zoom=18&layers=M map]).

== Program ==

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=== Venue and available facilities ===

* RS/GIS Lab - maximum 20 participants, with projector, computers and internet connection.
* GE Theater - maximum 80 participants, with projector, bring your own laptops for exercises, limited wifi connection.

Philippines/philgeos2013

2013-10-15T14:12:01Z

Wiki-Maning: stub planning page

Stub page for coordinating FOSS4G track at the PhilGEOS 2013 symposium.

Philippines Chapter Report 2012

2013-04-13T10:12:14Z

Wiki-Maning: /* Member Activities */

==OSGeo Philippines Activity Report 2012==

* Period covered by report: September 2011 - Dec 2012
* Contact name: Maning Sambale (emmanuel.sambale at gmail.com). ''No formal nomination for Maning within the Chapter.''
* OSGeo-PH Local Chapter is currently under in-formation stage. The first meeting was initiated last quarter of 2011 and the current mailinglist membership is 14 subscribers.

===Key Accomplishments===

'''Events'''
* ''PhilGEOS 2012 and FOSS4G Workshops'' - OSGEO Philippines, the University of Philippines Department of Geodetic Engineering (UPD-GE), OpenStreetMap Philippines (OSM-PH) and the Environmental Science for Social Change (ESSC) organized a series of pre-symposium workshops showcasing free and open source technologies at the [http://philgeos2012.wordpress.com/ PhilGEOS 2012] last November 23-24, 2012 at the University of the Philippines, Diliman. Over '''60''' participants joined 8 workshops and 3 lightning talks. The OSGeo Live project was also presented in one of the parallel technical sessions in the main conference. Likewise, an exhibit booth was installed during the PhilGEOS conference for OSGeo and OpenStreetMap. Over ~50 OSGeo Live DVDs were handed out to conference participants. [[Philippines/philgeos2012|Event details]]

'''Meetings'''
* Small meetups with various groups and FOSS4G enthusiasts during the last quarter of 2011 ([[Philippines/Chapter Meeting 2011-09-23|2011-09-23]], [[Philippines/Chapter Meeting 2011-10-01|2011-10-01]], [[Philippines/Chapter Meeting 2011-12-03|2011-12-03]]).

=== Education and Research ===

* Two institutions are in the process of establishing [[Edu_current_initiatives|Open Geospatial Labs]] in the the country under the [[MOU_ICA|ICA-OSGeo MoU Partnership]]. These are the National College of Public Administration and Governance (NCPAG), University of the Philippines and Environmental Science for Social Change (ESSC).

=== Member Activities ===

* Maning Sambale
** Regular training and workshops on FOSS4G applications conducted to [http://www/essc.org.ph ESSC's] local partners and research collaborators.
** Participated and organized a QGIS workshop at the the AGSE 2012 and FOSS4G Southeast Asia ([http://applied-geoinformatics.org/agse2012.html AGSE 2012 website]).

=== Others ===
* A exhibition pack starter kit was purchased through the Marketing Committee's [[Exhibition_Pack|funding support]]. The kit is used for conference booths and related activities of the chapter

=== Areas for Improvement ===

* There is very little activity in mailinglist and very few community activities done for the year. This is due to the small number of active members. However, participation to many geospatial related events reveal that the use FOSS4G technologies is very active specifically in the desktop (QGIS, GRASS GIS) and web (GeoServer, OpenLayers).
* Open data initiatives (lead mostly by the OpenStreetMap Philippines community) are emerging throughout the country. A collaborative partnership with this community can broaden the use of FOSS4G technologies.
* A recurring demand for newbie users of FOSS4G is the lack of learning materials that is customized for the Philippines, there is great opportunity for service providers to design learning materials and provide training.

=== Outlook for 2013 ===
* There are several geospatial events scheduled for the year, OSGeo PH is being invited on these events as speakers and workshop leads.

[[Category:Local Chapters]]
[[Category:Philippines Chapter]]

Philippines Chapter Report 2012

2013-04-13T04:55:24Z

Wiki-Maning: /* Member Activities */

==OSGeo Philippines Activity Report 2012==

* Period covered by report: September 2011 - Dec 2012
* Contact name: Maning Sambale (emmanuel.sambale at gmail.com). ''No formal nomination for Maning within the Chapter.''
* OSGeo-PH Local Chapter is currently under in-formation stage. The first meeting was initiated last quarter of 2011 and the current mailinglist membership is 14 subscribers.

===Key Accomplishments===

'''Events'''
* ''PhilGEOS 2012 and FOSS4G Workshops'' - OSGEO Philippines, the University of Philippines Department of Geodetic Engineering (UPD-GE), OpenStreetMap Philippines (OSM-PH) and the Environmental Science for Social Change (ESSC) organized a series of pre-symposium workshops showcasing free and open source technologies at the [http://philgeos2012.wordpress.com/ PhilGEOS 2012] last November 23-24, 2012 at the University of the Philippines, Diliman. Over '''60''' participants joined 8 workshops and 3 lightning talks. The OSGeo Live project was also presented in one of the parallel technical sessions in the main conference. Likewise, an exhibit booth was installed during the PhilGEOS conference for OSGeo and OpenStreetMap. Over ~50 OSGeo Live DVDs were handed out to conference participants. [[Philippines/philgeos2012|Event details]]

'''Meetings'''
* Small meetups with various groups and FOSS4G enthusiasts during the last quarter of 2011 ([[Philippines/Chapter Meeting 2011-09-23|2011-09-23]], [[Philippines/Chapter Meeting 2011-10-01|2011-10-01]], [[Philippines/Chapter Meeting 2011-12-03|2011-12-03]]).

=== Education and Research ===

* Two institutions are in the process of establishing [[Edu_current_initiatives|Open Geospatial Labs]] in the the country under the [[MOU_ICA|ICA-OSGeo MoU Partnership]]. These are the National College of Public Administration and Governance (NCPAG), University of the Philippines and Environmental Science for Social Change (ESSC).

=== Member Activities ===

* Maning Sambale
** Regular training and workshops on FOSS4G applications conducted to [http://www/essc.org.ph|ESSC] local partners and research collaborators.
** Participated and organized a QGIS workshop at the the AGSE 2012 and FOSS4G Southeast Asia [http://applied-geoinformatics.org/agse2012.html| AGSE 2012 website].

=== Others ===
* A exhibition pack starter kit was purchased through the Marketing Committee's [[Exhibition_Pack|funding support]]. The kit is used for conference booths and related activities of the chapter

=== Areas for Improvement ===

* There is very little activity in mailinglist and very few community activities done for the year. This is due to the small number of active members. However, participation to many geospatial related events reveal that the use FOSS4G technologies is very active specifically in the desktop (QGIS, GRASS GIS) and web (GeoServer, OpenLayers).
* Open data initiatives (lead mostly by the OpenStreetMap Philippines community) are emerging throughout the country. A collaborative partnership with this community can broaden the use of FOSS4G technologies.
* A recurring demand for newbie users of FOSS4G is the lack of learning materials that is customized for the Philippines, there is great opportunity for service providers to design learning materials and provide training.

=== Outlook for 2013 ===
* There are several geospatial events scheduled for the year, OSGeo PH is being invited on these events as speakers and workshop leads.

[[Category:Local Chapters]]
[[Category:Philippines Chapter]]

Philippines Chapter Report 2012

2013-04-13T04:55:11Z

Wiki-Maning: /* Member Activities */

==OSGeo Philippines Activity Report 2012==

* Period covered by report: September 2011 - Dec 2012
* Contact name: Maning Sambale (emmanuel.sambale at gmail.com). ''No formal nomination for Maning within the Chapter.''
* OSGeo-PH Local Chapter is currently under in-formation stage. The first meeting was initiated last quarter of 2011 and the current mailinglist membership is 14 subscribers.

===Key Accomplishments===

'''Events'''
* ''PhilGEOS 2012 and FOSS4G Workshops'' - OSGEO Philippines, the University of Philippines Department of Geodetic Engineering (UPD-GE), OpenStreetMap Philippines (OSM-PH) and the Environmental Science for Social Change (ESSC) organized a series of pre-symposium workshops showcasing free and open source technologies at the [http://philgeos2012.wordpress.com/ PhilGEOS 2012] last November 23-24, 2012 at the University of the Philippines, Diliman. Over '''60''' participants joined 8 workshops and 3 lightning talks. The OSGeo Live project was also presented in one of the parallel technical sessions in the main conference. Likewise, an exhibit booth was installed during the PhilGEOS conference for OSGeo and OpenStreetMap. Over ~50 OSGeo Live DVDs were handed out to conference participants. [[Philippines/philgeos2012|Event details]]

'''Meetings'''
* Small meetups with various groups and FOSS4G enthusiasts during the last quarter of 2011 ([[Philippines/Chapter Meeting 2011-09-23|2011-09-23]], [[Philippines/Chapter Meeting 2011-10-01|2011-10-01]], [[Philippines/Chapter Meeting 2011-12-03|2011-12-03]]).

=== Education and Research ===

* Two institutions are in the process of establishing [[Edu_current_initiatives|Open Geospatial Labs]] in the the country under the [[MOU_ICA|ICA-OSGeo MoU Partnership]]. These are the National College of Public Administration and Governance (NCPAG), University of the Philippines and Environmental Science for Social Change (ESSC).

=== Member Activities ===

* Maning Sambale
** Regular training and workshops on FOSS4G applications conducted to [http://www/essc.org.ph|ESSC] local partners and research collaborators.
** Participated and organized a QGIS workshop at the the AGSE 2012 and FOSS4G Southeast Asia [http://applied-geoinformatics.org/agse2012.html| AGSE 2012 website]

=== Others ===
* A exhibition pack starter kit was purchased through the Marketing Committee's [[Exhibition_Pack|funding support]]. The kit is used for conference booths and related activities of the chapter

=== Areas for Improvement ===

* There is very little activity in mailinglist and very few community activities done for the year. This is due to the small number of active members. However, participation to many geospatial related events reveal that the use FOSS4G technologies is very active specifically in the desktop (QGIS, GRASS GIS) and web (GeoServer, OpenLayers).
* Open data initiatives (lead mostly by the OpenStreetMap Philippines community) are emerging throughout the country. A collaborative partnership with this community can broaden the use of FOSS4G technologies.
* A recurring demand for newbie users of FOSS4G is the lack of learning materials that is customized for the Philippines, there is great opportunity for service providers to design learning materials and provide training.

=== Outlook for 2013 ===
* There are several geospatial events scheduled for the year, OSGeo PH is being invited on these events as speakers and workshop leads.

[[Category:Local Chapters]]
[[Category:Philippines Chapter]]

Philippines Chapter Report 2012

2013-04-13T04:51:35Z

Wiki-Maning: /* Member Activities */

==OSGeo Philippines Activity Report 2012==

* Period covered by report: September 2011 - Dec 2012
* Contact name: Maning Sambale (emmanuel.sambale at gmail.com). ''No formal nomination for Maning within the Chapter.''
* OSGeo-PH Local Chapter is currently under in-formation stage. The first meeting was initiated last quarter of 2011 and the current mailinglist membership is 14 subscribers.

===Key Accomplishments===

'''Events'''
* ''PhilGEOS 2012 and FOSS4G Workshops'' - OSGEO Philippines, the University of Philippines Department of Geodetic Engineering (UPD-GE), OpenStreetMap Philippines (OSM-PH) and the Environmental Science for Social Change (ESSC) organized a series of pre-symposium workshops showcasing free and open source technologies at the [http://philgeos2012.wordpress.com/ PhilGEOS 2012] last November 23-24, 2012 at the University of the Philippines, Diliman. Over '''60''' participants joined 8 workshops and 3 lightning talks. The OSGeo Live project was also presented in one of the parallel technical sessions in the main conference. Likewise, an exhibit booth was installed during the PhilGEOS conference for OSGeo and OpenStreetMap. Over ~50 OSGeo Live DVDs were handed out to conference participants. [[Philippines/philgeos2012|Event details]]

'''Meetings'''
* Small meetups with various groups and FOSS4G enthusiasts during the last quarter of 2011 ([[Philippines/Chapter Meeting 2011-09-23|2011-09-23]], [[Philippines/Chapter Meeting 2011-10-01|2011-10-01]], [[Philippines/Chapter Meeting 2011-12-03|2011-12-03]]).

=== Education and Research ===

* Two institutions are in the process of establishing [[Edu_current_initiatives|Open Geospatial Labs]] in the the country under the [[MOU_ICA|ICA-OSGeo MoU Partnership]]. These are the National College of Public Administration and Governance (NCPAG), University of the Philippines and Environmental Science for Social Change (ESSC).

=== Member Activities ===

* Maning Sambale
** Participated and organized a QGIS workshop at the the AGSE 2012 and FOSS4G Southeast Asia [[http://applied-geoinformatics.org/agse2012.html| AGSE 2012 website]]

=== Others ===
* A exhibition pack starter kit was purchased through the Marketing Committee's [[Exhibition_Pack|funding support]]. The kit is used for conference booths and related activities of the chapter

=== Areas for Improvement ===

* There is very little activity in mailinglist and very few community activities done for the year. This is due to the small number of active members. However, participation to many geospatial related events reveal that the use FOSS4G technologies is very active specifically in the desktop (QGIS, GRASS GIS) and web (GeoServer, OpenLayers).
* Open data initiatives (lead mostly by the OpenStreetMap Philippines community) are emerging throughout the country. A collaborative partnership with this community can broaden the use of FOSS4G technologies.
* A recurring demand for newbie users of FOSS4G is the lack of learning materials that is customized for the Philippines, there is great opportunity for service providers to design learning materials and provide training.

=== Outlook for 2013 ===
* There are several geospatial events scheduled for the year, OSGeo PH is being invited on these events as speakers and workshop leads.

[[Category:Local Chapters]]
[[Category:Philippines Chapter]]

Philippines Chapter Report 2012

2013-04-13T04:51:08Z

Wiki-Maning: /* OSGeo Philippines Activity Report 2012 */

==OSGeo Philippines Activity Report 2012==

* Period covered by report: September 2011 - Dec 2012
* Contact name: Maning Sambale (emmanuel.sambale at gmail.com). ''No formal nomination for Maning within the Chapter.''
* OSGeo-PH Local Chapter is currently under in-formation stage. The first meeting was initiated last quarter of 2011 and the current mailinglist membership is 14 subscribers.

===Key Accomplishments===

'''Events'''
* ''PhilGEOS 2012 and FOSS4G Workshops'' - OSGEO Philippines, the University of Philippines Department of Geodetic Engineering (UPD-GE), OpenStreetMap Philippines (OSM-PH) and the Environmental Science for Social Change (ESSC) organized a series of pre-symposium workshops showcasing free and open source technologies at the [http://philgeos2012.wordpress.com/ PhilGEOS 2012] last November 23-24, 2012 at the University of the Philippines, Diliman. Over '''60''' participants joined 8 workshops and 3 lightning talks. The OSGeo Live project was also presented in one of the parallel technical sessions in the main conference. Likewise, an exhibit booth was installed during the PhilGEOS conference for OSGeo and OpenStreetMap. Over ~50 OSGeo Live DVDs were handed out to conference participants. [[Philippines/philgeos2012|Event details]]

'''Meetings'''
* Small meetups with various groups and FOSS4G enthusiasts during the last quarter of 2011 ([[Philippines/Chapter Meeting 2011-09-23|2011-09-23]], [[Philippines/Chapter Meeting 2011-10-01|2011-10-01]], [[Philippines/Chapter Meeting 2011-12-03|2011-12-03]]).

=== Education and Research ===

* Two institutions are in the process of establishing [[Edu_current_initiatives|Open Geospatial Labs]] in the the country under the [[MOU_ICA|ICA-OSGeo MoU Partnership]]. These are the National College of Public Administration and Governance (NCPAG), University of the Philippines and Environmental Science for Social Change (ESSC).

=== Member Activities ===

* Maning Sambale
* Participated and organized a QGIS workshop at the the AGSE 2012 and FOSS4G Southeast Asia [[http://applied-geoinformatics.org/agse2012.html| AGSE 2012 website]]

=== Others ===
* A exhibition pack starter kit was purchased through the Marketing Committee's [[Exhibition_Pack|funding support]]. The kit is used for conference booths and related activities of the chapter

=== Areas for Improvement ===

* There is very little activity in mailinglist and very few community activities done for the year. This is due to the small number of active members. However, participation to many geospatial related events reveal that the use FOSS4G technologies is very active specifically in the desktop (QGIS, GRASS GIS) and web (GeoServer, OpenLayers).
* Open data initiatives (lead mostly by the OpenStreetMap Philippines community) are emerging throughout the country. A collaborative partnership with this community can broaden the use of FOSS4G technologies.
* A recurring demand for newbie users of FOSS4G is the lack of learning materials that is customized for the Philippines, there is great opportunity for service providers to design learning materials and provide training.

=== Outlook for 2013 ===
* There are several geospatial events scheduled for the year, OSGeo PH is being invited on these events as speakers and workshop leads.

[[Category:Local Chapters]]
[[Category:Philippines Chapter]]

Philippines Chapter Report 2012

2013-04-10T11:14:08Z

Wiki-Maning: /* Areas for Improvement */

==OSGeo Philippines Activity Report 2012==

* Period covered by report: September 2011 - Dec 2012
* Contact name: Maning Sambale (emmanuel.sambale at gmail.com)
* OSGeo-PH Local Chapter is currently under in-formation stage. The first meeting was initiated last quarter of 2011 and the current mailinglist membership is 14 subscribers.

===Key Accomplishments===

'''Events'''
* ''PhilGEOS 2012 and FOSS4G Workshops'' - OSGEO Philippines, the University of Philippines Department of Geodetic Engineering (UPD-GE), OpenStreetMap Philippines (OSM-PH) and the Environmental Science for Social Change (ESSC) organized a series of pre-symposium workshops showcasing free and open source technologies at the [http://philgeos2012.wordpress.com/ PhilGEOS 2012] last November 23-24, 2012 at the University of the Philippines, Diliman. Over '''60''' participants joined 8 workshops and 3 lightning talks. The OSGeo Live project was also presented in one of the parallel technical sessions in the main conference. Likewise, an exhibit booth was installed during the PhilGEOS conference for OSGeo and OpenStreetMap. Over ~50 OSGeo Live DVDs were handed out to conference participants. [[Philippines/philgeos2012|Event details]]

'''Meetings'''
* Small meetups with various groups and FOSS4G enthusiasts during the last quarter of 2011 ([[Philippines/Chapter Meeting 2011-09-23|2011-09-23]], [[Philippines/Chapter Meeting 2011-10-01|2011-10-01]], [[Philippines/Chapter Meeting 2011-12-03|2011-12-03]]).

=== Education and Research ===

* Two institutions are in the process of establishing [[Edu_current_initiatives|Open Geospatial Labs]] in the the country under the [[MOU_ICA|ICA-OSGeo MoU Partnership]]. These are the National College of Public Administration and Governance (NCPAG), University of the Philippines and Environmental Science for Social Change (ESSC).

=== Others ===
* A exhibition pack starter kit was purchased through the Marketing Committee's [[Exhibition_Pack|funding support]]. The kit is used for conference booths and related activities of the chapter

=== Areas for Improvement ===

* There is very little activity in mailinglist and very few community activities done for the year. This is due to the small number of active members. However, participation to many geospatial related events reveal that the use FOSS4G technologies is very active specifically in the desktop (QGIS, GRASS GIS) and web (GeoServer, OpenLayers).
* Open data initiatives (lead mostly by the OpenStreetMap Philippines community) are emerging throughout the country. A collaborative partnership with this community can broaden the use of FOSS4G technologies.
* A recurring demand for newbie users of FOSS4G is the lack of learning materials that is customized for the Philippines, there is great opportunity for service providers to design learning materials and provide training.

=== Outlook for 2013 ===
* There are several geospatial events scheduled for the year, OSGeo PH is being invited on these events as speakers and workshop leads.

[[Category:Local Chapters]]
[[Category:Philippines Chapter]]

Philippines Chapter Report 2012

2013-04-10T03:37:35Z

Wiki-Maning: /* Outlook for 2013 */

==OSGeo Philippines Activity Report 2012==

* Period covered by report: September 2011 - Dec 2012
* Contact name: Maning Sambale (emmanuel.sambale at gmail.com)
* OSGeo-PH Local Chapter is currently under in-formation stage. The first meeting was initiated last quarter of 2011 and the current mailinglist membership is 14 subscribers.

===Key Accomplishments===

'''Events'''
* ''PhilGEOS 2012 and FOSS4G Workshops'' - OSGEO Philippines, the University of Philippines Department of Geodetic Engineering (UPD-GE), OpenStreetMap Philippines (OSM-PH) and the Environmental Science for Social Change (ESSC) organized a series of pre-symposium workshops showcasing free and open source technologies at the [http://philgeos2012.wordpress.com/ PhilGEOS 2012] last November 23-24, 2012 at the University of the Philippines, Diliman. Over '''60''' participants joined 8 workshops and 3 lightning talks. The OSGeo Live project was also presented in one of the parallel technical sessions in the main conference. Likewise, an exhibit booth was installed during the PhilGEOS conference for OSGeo and OpenStreetMap. Over ~50 OSGeo Live DVDs were handed out to conference participants. [[Philippines/philgeos2012|Event details]]

'''Meetings'''
* Small meetups with various groups and FOSS4G enthusiasts during the last quarter of 2011 ([[Philippines/Chapter Meeting 2011-09-23|2011-09-23]], [[Philippines/Chapter Meeting 2011-10-01|2011-10-01]], [[Philippines/Chapter Meeting 2011-12-03|2011-12-03]]).

=== Education and Research ===

* Two institutions are in the process of establishing [[Edu_current_initiatives|Open Geospatial Labs]] in the the country under the [[MOU_ICA|ICA-OSGeo MoU Partnership]]. These are the National College of Public Administration and Governance (NCPAG), University of the Philippines and Environmental Science for Social Change (ESSC).

=== Others ===
* A exhibition pack starter kit was purchased through the Marketing Committee's [[Exhibition_Pack|funding support]]. The kit is used for conference booths and related activities of the chapter

=== Areas for Improvement ===

* There is very little activity in mailinglist and very few community activities done for the year. This is due to the small number of active members. However, participation to many geospatial related events reveal that the use FOSS4G technologies is very active specifically in the desktop (QGIS, GRASS GIS) and web (GeoServer, OpenLayers).
* Open data initiatives (lead mostly by the OpenStreetMap Philippines community) are emerging throughout the country. A collaborative partnership with this community can broadenin the use of FOSS4G technologies.

=== Outlook for 2013 ===
* There are several geospatial events scheduled for the year, OSGeo PH is being invited on these events as speakers and workshop leads.

[[Category:Local Chapters]]
[[Category:Philippines Chapter]]

Philippines Chapter Report 2012

2013-04-10T03:32:30Z

Wiki-Maning: /* Areas for Improvement */

==OSGeo Philippines Activity Report 2012==

* Period covered by report: September 2011 - Dec 2012
* Contact name: Maning Sambale (emmanuel.sambale at gmail.com)
* OSGeo-PH Local Chapter is currently under in-formation stage. The first meeting was initiated last quarter of 2011 and the current mailinglist membership is 14 subscribers.

===Key Accomplishments===

'''Events'''
* ''PhilGEOS 2012 and FOSS4G Workshops'' - OSGEO Philippines, the University of Philippines Department of Geodetic Engineering (UPD-GE), OpenStreetMap Philippines (OSM-PH) and the Environmental Science for Social Change (ESSC) organized a series of pre-symposium workshops showcasing free and open source technologies at the [http://philgeos2012.wordpress.com/ PhilGEOS 2012] last November 23-24, 2012 at the University of the Philippines, Diliman. Over '''60''' participants joined 8 workshops and 3 lightning talks. The OSGeo Live project was also presented in one of the parallel technical sessions in the main conference. Likewise, an exhibit booth was installed during the PhilGEOS conference for OSGeo and OpenStreetMap. Over ~50 OSGeo Live DVDs were handed out to conference participants. [[Philippines/philgeos2012|Event details]]

'''Meetings'''
* Small meetups with various groups and FOSS4G enthusiasts during the last quarter of 2011 ([[Philippines/Chapter Meeting 2011-09-23|2011-09-23]], [[Philippines/Chapter Meeting 2011-10-01|2011-10-01]], [[Philippines/Chapter Meeting 2011-12-03|2011-12-03]]).

=== Education and Research ===

* Two institutions are in the process of establishing [[Edu_current_initiatives|Open Geospatial Labs]] in the the country under the [[MOU_ICA|ICA-OSGeo MoU Partnership]]. These are the National College of Public Administration and Governance (NCPAG), University of the Philippines and Environmental Science for Social Change (ESSC).

=== Others ===
* A exhibition pack starter kit was purchased through the Marketing Committee's [[Exhibition_Pack|funding support]]. The kit is used for conference booths and related activities of the chapter

=== Areas for Improvement ===

* There is very little activity in mailinglist and very few community activities done for the year. This is due to the small number of active members. However, participation to many geospatial related events reveal that the use FOSS4G technologies is very active specifically in the desktop (QGIS, GRASS GIS) and web (GeoServer, OpenLayers).
* Open data initiatives (lead mostly by the OpenStreetMap Philippines community) are emerging throughout the country. A collaborative partnership with this community can broadenin the use of FOSS4G technologies.

=== Outlook for 2013 ===

[[Category:Local Chapters]]
[[Category:Philippines Chapter]]

Philippines Chapter Report 2012

2013-04-10T03:31:40Z

Wiki-Maning: /* Areas for Improvement */

==OSGeo Philippines Activity Report 2012==

* Period covered by report: September 2011 - Dec 2012
* Contact name: Maning Sambale (emmanuel.sambale at gmail.com)
* OSGeo-PH Local Chapter is currently under in-formation stage. The first meeting was initiated last quarter of 2011 and the current mailinglist membership is 14 subscribers.

===Key Accomplishments===

'''Events'''
* ''PhilGEOS 2012 and FOSS4G Workshops'' - OSGEO Philippines, the University of Philippines Department of Geodetic Engineering (UPD-GE), OpenStreetMap Philippines (OSM-PH) and the Environmental Science for Social Change (ESSC) organized a series of pre-symposium workshops showcasing free and open source technologies at the [http://philgeos2012.wordpress.com/ PhilGEOS 2012] last November 23-24, 2012 at the University of the Philippines, Diliman. Over '''60''' participants joined 8 workshops and 3 lightning talks. The OSGeo Live project was also presented in one of the parallel technical sessions in the main conference. Likewise, an exhibit booth was installed during the PhilGEOS conference for OSGeo and OpenStreetMap. Over ~50 OSGeo Live DVDs were handed out to conference participants. [[Philippines/philgeos2012|Event details]]

'''Meetings'''
* Small meetups with various groups and FOSS4G enthusiasts during the last quarter of 2011 ([[Philippines/Chapter Meeting 2011-09-23|2011-09-23]], [[Philippines/Chapter Meeting 2011-10-01|2011-10-01]], [[Philippines/Chapter Meeting 2011-12-03|2011-12-03]]).

=== Education and Research ===

* Two institutions are in the process of establishing [[Edu_current_initiatives|Open Geospatial Labs]] in the the country under the [[MOU_ICA|ICA-OSGeo MoU Partnership]]. These are the National College of Public Administration and Governance (NCPAG), University of the Philippines and Environmental Science for Social Change (ESSC).

=== Others ===
* A exhibition pack starter kit was purchased through the Marketing Committee's [[Exhibition_Pack|funding support]]. The kit is used for conference booths and related activities of the chapter

=== Areas for Improvement ===

* There is very little activity in mailinglist and very few community activities done for the year. This is due to the small number of active members. However, participation to many geospatial related events reveal that the use FOSS4G technologies is very active specifically in the desktop (QGIS, GRASS GIS) and web (GeoServer, OpenLayers).
* Open data initiatives (lead mostly by the OpenStreetMap Philippines community) are emerging throughout the country. A collaborative partnership with this community can broadenin the use of FOSS4G technologies in the country.

=== Outlook for 2013 ===

[[Category:Local Chapters]]
[[Category:Philippines Chapter]]

Philippines Chapter Report 2012

2013-04-10T03:25:06Z

Wiki-Maning: /* OSGeo Philippines Activity Report 2012 */

==OSGeo Philippines Activity Report 2012==

* Period covered by report: September 2011 - Dec 2012
* Contact name: Maning Sambale (emmanuel.sambale at gmail.com)
* OSGeo-PH Local Chapter is currently under in-formation stage. The first meeting was initiated last quarter of 2011 and the current mailinglist membership is 14 subscribers.

===Key Accomplishments===

'''Events'''
* ''PhilGEOS 2012 and FOSS4G Workshops'' - OSGEO Philippines, the University of Philippines Department of Geodetic Engineering (UPD-GE), OpenStreetMap Philippines (OSM-PH) and the Environmental Science for Social Change (ESSC) organized a series of pre-symposium workshops showcasing free and open source technologies at the [http://philgeos2012.wordpress.com/ PhilGEOS 2012] last November 23-24, 2012 at the University of the Philippines, Diliman. Over '''60''' participants joined 8 workshops and 3 lightning talks. The OSGeo Live project was also presented in one of the parallel technical sessions in the main conference. Likewise, an exhibit booth was installed during the PhilGEOS conference for OSGeo and OpenStreetMap. Over ~50 OSGeo Live DVDs were handed out to conference participants. [[Philippines/philgeos2012|Event details]]

'''Meetings'''
* Small meetups with various groups and FOSS4G enthusiasts during the last quarter of 2011 ([[Philippines/Chapter Meeting 2011-09-23|2011-09-23]], [[Philippines/Chapter Meeting 2011-10-01|2011-10-01]], [[Philippines/Chapter Meeting 2011-12-03|2011-12-03]]).

=== Education and Research ===

* Two institutions are in the process of establishing [[Edu_current_initiatives|Open Geospatial Labs]] in the the country under the [[MOU_ICA|ICA-OSGeo MoU Partnership]]. These are the National College of Public Administration and Governance (NCPAG), University of the Philippines and Environmental Science for Social Change (ESSC).

=== Others ===
* A exhibition pack starter kit was purchased through the Marketing Committee's [[Exhibition_Pack|funding support]]. The kit is used for conference booths and related activities of the chapter

=== Areas for Improvement ===

=== Outlook for 2013 ===

[[Category:Local Chapters]]
[[Category:Philippines Chapter]]

Philippines Chapter Report 2012

2013-04-10T03:24:36Z

Wiki-Maning:

==OSGeo Philippines Activity Report 2012==

* Period covered by report: September 2011 - Dec 2012
* Contact name: Maning Sambale (emmanuel.sambale at gmail.com)
* OSGeo-PH Local Chapter is currently under in-formation stage. The first meeting was initiated last quarter of 2011 and the current mailinglist membership is 14 subscribers.

===Key Accomplishments===

'''Events'''
* ''PhilGEOS 2012 and FOSS4G Workshops'' - OSGEO Philippines, the University of Philippines Department of Geodetic Engineering (UPD-GE), OpenStreetMap Philippines (OSM-PH) and the Environmental Science for Social Change (ESSC) organized a series of pre-symposium workshops showcasing free and open source technologies at the [http://philgeos2012.wordpress.com/ PhilGEOS 2012] last November 23-24, 2012 at the University of the Philippines, Diliman. Over '''60''' participants joined 8 workshops and 3 lightning talks. The OSGeo Live project was also presented in one of the parallel technical sessions in the main conference. Likewise, an exhibit booth was installed during the PhilGEOS conference for OSGeo and OpenStreetMap. Over ~50 OSGeo Live DVDs were handed out to conference participants. [[Philippines/philgeos2012|Event details]]

'''Meetings'''
* Small meetups with various groups and FOSS4G enthusiasts during the last quarter of 2011 ([[Philippines/Chapter Meeting 2011-09-23|2011-09-23]], [[Philippines/Chapter Meeting 2011-10-01|2011-10-01]], [[Philippines/Chapter Meeting 2011-12-03|2011-12-03]]).

=== Education and Research ===

* Two institutions are in the process of establishing [[Edu_current_initiatives|Open Geospatial Labs]] in the the country under the [[MOU_ICA|ICA-OSGeo MoU Partnership]]. These are the National College of Public Administration and Governance (NCPAG), University of the Philippines and Environmental Science for Social Change (ESSC).

=== Others ===
* A exhibition pack starter kit was purchased through the Marketing Committee's [[Exhibition Pack funding support]]. The kit is used for conference booths and related activities of the chapter

=== Areas for Improvement ===

=== Outlook for 2013 ===

[[Category:Local Chapters]]
[[Category:Philippines Chapter]]

Philippines Chapter Report 2012

2013-04-10T03:01:29Z

Wiki-Maning:

Philippines Chapter Report 2012

2013-04-10T03:01:04Z

Wiki-Maning:

==OSGeo Philippines Activity Report 2012==

* Period covered by report: Septmber 2011 - Dec 2012
* Contact name: Maning Sambale (emmanuel.sambale at gmail.com)
* OSGeo-PH Local Chapter is currently under in-formation stage. The first meeting was initiated last quarter of 2011 and the current mailinglist membership is 14 subscribers.

===Key Accomplishments===

'''Events'''
* ''PhilGEOS 2012 and FOSS4G Workshops'' - OSGEO Philippines, the University of Philippines Department of Geodetic Engineering (UPD-GE), OpenStreetMap Philippines (OSM-PH) and the Environmental Science for Social Change (ESSC) organized a series of pre-symposium workshops showcasing free and open source technologies at the [http://philgeos2012.wordpress.com/ PhilGEOS 2012] last November 23-24, 2012 at the University of the Philippines, Diliman. Over '''60''' participants joined 8 workshops and 3 lightning talks. The OSGeo Live project was also presented in one of the parallel technical sessions in the main conference. Likewise, an exhibit booth was installed during the PhilGEOS conference for OSGeo and OpenStreetMap. Over ~50 OSGeo Live DVDs were handed out to conference participants. [[Philippines/philgeos2012|Event details]]

'''Meetings'''
* Small meetups with various groups and FOSS4G enthusiasts during the last quarter of 2011 ([[Philippines/Chapter Meeting 2011-09-23|2011-09-23]], [[Philippines/Chapter Meeting 2011-10-01|2011-10-01]], [[Philippines/Chapter Meeting 2011-12-03|2011-12-03]]).

=== Education and Research ===

* Two institutions are in the process of establishing [[Edu_current_initiatives|Open Geospatial Labs]] in the the country under the [[MOU_ICA|ICA-OSGeo MoU Partnership]]. These are the National College of Public Administration and Governance (NCPAG), University of the Philippines and Environmental Science for Social Change (ESSC).

===Areas for Improvement===

===Outlook for 2013===

[[Category:Local Chapters]]
[[Category:Philippines Chapter]]

Philippines Chapter Report 2012

2013-04-10T03:00:36Z

Wiki-Maning:

==OSGeo Philippines Activity Report 2012==

* Period covered by report: Septmber 2011 - Dec 2012
* Contact name: Maning Sambale (emmanuel.sambale at gmail.com)
* OSGeo-PH Local Chapter is currently under in-formation stage. The first meeting was initiated last quarter of 2011 and the current mailinglist membership is 14 subscribers.

===Key Accomplishments===

'''Events'''
* ''PhilGEOS 2012 and FOSS4G Workshops'' - OSGEO Philippines, the University of Philippines Department of Geodetic Engineering (UPD-GE), OpenStreetMap Philippines (OSM-PH) and the Environmental Science for Social Change (ESSC) organized a series of pre-symposium workshops showcasing free and open source technologies at the [http://philgeos2012.wordpress.com/ PhilGEOS 2012] last November 23-24, 2012 at the University of the Philippines, Diliman. Over '''60''' participants joined 8 workshops and 3 lightning talks. The OSGeo Live project was also presented in one of the parallel technical sessions in the main conference. Likewise, an exhibit booth was installed during the PhilGEOS conference for OSGeo and OpenStreetMap. Over ~50 OSGeo Live DVDs were handed out to conference participants. [[Philippines/philgeos2012|Event details]]

'''Meetings'''
* Small meetups with various groups and FOSS4G enthusiasts during the last quarter of 2011 ([[Philippines/Chapter Meeting 2011-09-23|2011-09-23]], [[Philippines/Chapter Meeting 2011-10-01|2011-10-01]], [[Philippines/Chapter Meeting 2011-12-03|2011-12-03]]).

=== Education and Research ===

* Two institutions are in the process of establishing [[Edu_current_initiatives|Open Geospatial Labs]] in the the country under the [[MOU_ICA|ICA-OSGeo MoU Partnership]]. These are the National College of Public Administration and Governance (NCPAG), University of the Philippines and
Environmental Science for Social Change (ESSC).

===Areas for Improvement===

===Outlook for 2013===

[[Category:Local Chapters]]
[[Category:Philippines Chapter]]

Philippines Chapter Report 2012

2013-04-10T02:54:12Z

Wiki-Maning: /* Key Accomplishments */

==OSGeo Philippines Activity Report 2012==

* Period covered by report: Septmber 2011 - Dec 2012
* Contact name: Maning Sambale (emmanuel.sambale at gmail.com)
* OSGeo-PH Local Chapter is currently under in-formation stage. The first meeting was initiated last quarter of 2011 and the current mailinglist membership is 14 subscribers.

===Key Accomplishments===

'''Events'''
* ''PhilGEOS 2012 and FOSS4G Workshops'' - OSGEO Philippines, the University of Philippines Department of Geodetic Engineering (UPD-GE), OpenStreetMap Philippines (OSM-PH) and the Environmental Science for Social Change (ESSC) organized a series of pre-symposium workshops showcasing free and open source technologies at the [http://philgeos2012.wordpress.com/ PhilGEOS 2012] last November 23-24, 2012 at the University of the Philippines, Diliman. Over '''60''' participants joined 8 workshops and 3 lightning talks. The OSGeo Live project was also presented in one of the parallel technical sessions in the main conference. Likewise, an exhibit booth was installed during the PhilGEOS conference for OSGeo and OpenStreetMap. Over ~50 OSGeo Live DVDs were handed out to conference participants. [[Philippines/philgeos2012|Event details]]

'''Meetings'''
* Small meetups with various groups and FOSS4G enthusiasts during the last quarter of 2011 ([[Philippines/Chapter Meeting 2011-09-23|2011-09-23]], [[Philippines/Chapter Meeting 2011-10-01|2011-10-01]], [[Philippines/Chapter Meeting 2011-12-03|2011-12-03]].

===Areas for Improvement===

===Outlook for 2013===

[[Category:Local Chapters]]
[[Category:Philippines Chapter]]

Philippines Chapter Report 2012

2013-04-10T02:47:42Z

Wiki-Maning: /* Key Accomplishments */

==OSGeo Philippines Activity Report 2012==

* Period covered by report: Septmber 2011 - Dec 2012
* Contact name: Maning Sambale (emmanuel.sambale at gmail.com)
* OSGeo-PH Local Chapter is currently under in-formation stage. The first meeting was initiated last quarter of 2011 and the current mailinglist membership is 14 subscribers.

===Key Accomplishments===

'''Events'''
* ''PhilGEOS 2012 and FOSS4G Workshops'' - OSGEO Philippines, the University of Philippines Department of Geodetic Engineering (UPD-GE), OpenStreetMap Philippines (OSM-PH) and the Environmental Science for Social Change (ESSC) organized a series of pre-symposium workshops showcasing free and open source technologies at the [http://philgeos2012.wordpress.com/ PhilGEOS 2012] last November 23-24, 2012 at the University of the Philippines, Diliman. Over '''60''' participants joined 8 workshops and 3 lightning talks. The OSGeo Live project was also presented in one of the parallel technical sessions in the main conference. Likewise, an exhibit booth was installed during the PhilGEOS conference for OSGeo and OpenStreetMap. Over ~50 OSGeo Live DVDs were handed out to conference participants. [[Philippines/philgeos2012|Event details]]

'''Meetings'''
* [[Philippines/Chapter Meeting 2011-09-23|Meeting 2011-09-23]]
* [[Philippines/Chapter Meeting 2011-10-01|Meeting 2011-10-01]]
* [[Philippines/Chapter Meeting 2011-12-03|Meeting 2011-12-03]]

===Areas for Improvement===

===Outlook for 2013===

[[Category:Local Chapters]]
[[Category:Philippines Chapter]]

Philippines Chapter Report 2012

2013-04-10T02:47:18Z

Wiki-Maning: /* OSGeo Philippines Activity Report 2012 */

==OSGeo Philippines Activity Report 2012==

* Period covered by report: Septmber 2011 - Dec 2012
* Contact name: Maning Sambale (emmanuel.sambale at gmail.com)
* OSGeo-PH Local Chapter is currently under in-formation stage. The first meeting was initiated last quarter of 2011 and the current mailinglist membership is 14 subscribers.

===Key Accomplishments===

'''Events'''
* ''PhilGEOS 2012 and FOSS4G Workshops'' - OSGEO Philippines, the University of Philippines Department of Geodetic Engineering (UPD-GE), OpenStreetMap Philippines (OSM-PH) and the Environmental Science for Social Change (ESSC) organized a series of pre-symposium workshops showcasing free and open source technologies at the [http://philgeos2012.wordpress.com/ PhilGEOS 2012] last November 23-24, 2012 at the '''University of the Philippines, Diliman. Over '''60''' participants joined 8 workshops and 3 lightning talks. The OSGeo Live project was also presented in one of the parallel technical sessions in the main conference. Likewise, an exhibit booth was installed during the PhilGEOS conference for OSGeo and OpenStreetMap. Over ~50 OSGeo Live DVDs were handed out to conference participants. [[Philippines/philgeos2012|Event details]]

'''Meetings'''
* [[Philippines/Chapter Meeting 2011-09-23|Meeting 2011-09-23]]
* [[Philippines/Chapter Meeting 2011-10-01|Meeting 2011-10-01]]
* [[Philippines/Chapter Meeting 2011-12-03|Meeting 2011-12-03]]

===Areas for Improvement===

===Outlook for 2013===

[[Category:Local Chapters]]
[[Category:Philippines Chapter]]

Philippines Chapter Report 2012

2013-04-10T02:43:22Z

Wiki-Maning: /* OSGeo Philippines Activity Report 2012 */

==OSGeo Philippines Activity Report 2012==

* Period covered by report: Septmber 2011 - Dec 2012
* Contact name: Maning Sambale (emmanuel.sambale at gmail.com)
* OSGeo-PH Local Chapter is currently under in-formation stage. The first meeting was initiated last quarter of 2011 and the current mailinglist membership is 14 subscribers.

===Key Accomplishments===

'''Events'''
* PhilGEOS 2012 and FOSS4G Philippines workshops - OSGEO Philippines ([http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Philippines OSGeo-PH]), the University of Philippines Department of Geodetic Engineering ([http://updgetcagp.drupalgardens.com/ UPD-GE]), OpenStreetMap Philippines ([http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Philippines OSM-PH]) and the Environmental Science for Social Change ([http://www.essc.org.ph ESSC]) organized a series of pre-symposium workshops showcasing free and open source technologies at the '''[http://philgeos2012.wordpress.com/ PhilGEOS 2012]''' last November 23-24, 2012 at '''Melchor Hall University of the Philippines, Diliman, Quezon City''' ([http://www.openstreetmap.org/?mlat=14.656454&mlon=121.070049&zoom=18&layers=M map]).

This is our first FOSS4G event in the Philippines. Over '''60''' participants joined 8 workshops and 3 lightning talks. The OSGeo Live project was also presented in one of the parallel technical sessions in the main conference. Likewise, an exhibit booth was installed during the PhilGEOS conference for OSGeo and OpenStreetMap. Over ~50 OSGeo Live DVDs were handed out to conference participants.

[[Philippines/philgeos2012|Event details]]

'''Meetings'''

===Areas for Improvement===

===Outlook for 2013===

[[Category:Local Chapters]]
[[Category:Philippines Chapter]]

Philippines Chapter Report 2012

2013-04-10T01:55:57Z

Wiki-Maning:

==OSGeo Philippines Activity Report 2012==

* Period covered by report: Jan-Dec 2012
* Contact name: Maning Sambale (emmanuel.sambale at gmail.com)
*

===Key Accomplishments===

Events

Meetings

===Areas for Improvement===

===Outlook for 2013===

[[Category:Local Chapters]]
[[Category:Philippines Chapter]]

Philippines

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Wiki-Maning:

'''Philippines Chapter of OSGeo'''

== '''About Philippines OSGeo Chapter''' ==

'''This section is in DRAFT.'''

=== Mission ===

* To promote the uses and development of Open Source Geospatial tools, services and open data in the Philippines.

=== Objectives ===

* To provide a forum for discussion, promotion, networking opportunities for developers and and users in the country.
* To serve as a bridge between various groups like Developers, Application Users, NGOs, Government departments.

Regular Committee Membership Meetings
* add details here

Support
* add details

Collaborative Projects:
* Localization of OSGeo projects
* Development of demo prototype
* Software documentation translation
* add here

Regional Events:
* Workshops and Training
* Special Lectures
* Demonstrations

Communication:
* Networking Local Communities
* Mailing Lists: ??
* Wiki

=== Legal status ===

* will the chapter be registered as NPO or as other legal body?
if yes, give details.

== '''Philippines OSGeo Chapter Officers''' ==

Philippines OSGeo Representative 

* Name (Affiliation)

Philippines OSGeo Chapter Coordinator 

* Name (Affiliation)

== '''Initial Membership''' ==
* Maning Sambale ([http://essc.org.ph/ Environmental Science for Social Change])
* Sorvigenaleon Ildefonso
* Jessie Linn Ablao

== '''Meetings and Events ''' ==

* [[Philippines/Chapter Meeting 2011-09-23|Meeting 2011-09-23]]
* [[Philippines/Chapter Meeting 2011-10-01|Meeting 2011-10-01]]
* [[Philippines/Chapter Meeting 2011-12-03|Meeting 2011-12-03]]
* [[Philippines/philgeos2012|FOSS4G Workshops at PhilGEOS 2012-11-22 ]]

== Reports ==

* [[Philippines Chapter Report 2012]]

== '''Links''' ==

* osgeo-philippines mailing list: http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/philippines
* osgeo-philippines wiki: http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Philippines

[[Category:Local Chapters]]
[[Category:Philippines Chapter]]

Philippines Chapter Report 2012

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Annual Report 2012

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Wiki-Maning: /* Local Chapter Reports */

== Executive ==
# [[Board of Directors Report 2012]]
# [[Finance Report 2012]]

== Committee Reports ==
# [[Conference Report 2012]]
## [[FOSS4G Report 2012]]
# [[Education Report 2012]]
# [[Geodata Report 2012]]
# [[Incubation Committee Report 2012]]
# [[Journal Report 2012]]
# [[Marketing Report 2012]]
# [[Systems Report 2012]]
# [[Website Report 2012]]

== Software Project Reports ==
# [[deegree Report 2012]]
# [[FDO Report 2012]]
# [[GDAL/OGR Report 2012]]
# [[GeoNetwork opensource Report 2012]]
# [[GEOS Report 2012]]
# [http://docs.codehaus.org/display/GEOTOOLS/Annual+Report+2012 GeoTools Report 2012]
# [[GRASS GIS Report 2012]]
# [[gvSIG Report 2012]]
# [[Mapbender Report 2012]]
# [[MapGuide Open Source Report 2012]]
# [[MapServer Report 2012]]
# [[MetaCRS Report 2012]]
# [[OpenLayers Report 2012]]
# [[OSSIM Report 2012]]
# [[Quantum GIS Report 2012]]
# [[SoC Report 2012]]

== Local Chapter Reports ==

# [[Africa Chapter Report 2012]]
# [[Australia/New Zealand Chapter Report 2012]]
# [[Brazilian Chapter Report 2012]]
# [[British Columbia Chapter Report 2012]]
# [[California Chapter Report 2012]]
# [[Cascadia Chapter Report 2012]]
# [[China Chapter Report 2012]]
# [[Finland Chapter Report 2012]]
# [[Francophone Chapter Report 2012]]
# [[German Language Chapter Report 2012]]
# [[Greek Language Chapter Report 2012]]
# [[India Chapter Report 2012]]
# [[Israel Chapter Report 2012]]
# [[Italiano Chapter Report 2012]]
# [[Japan Chapter Report 2012]]
# [[Korean Chapter Report 2012]]
# [[New Mexico Chapter Report 2012]]
# [[Ottawa Chapter Report 2012]]
# [[PDX_OSGeo_Chapter_Annual_Report_2012 | PDX Chapter Report 2012]]
# [[Philippines Chapter Report 2012]]
# [[Poland Chapter Report 2012]]
# [[Quebec Chapter Report 2012]]
# [[Romanian Chapter Report 2012]]
# [[Spanish Chapter Report 2012]]
# [[South America Chapter Report 2012]]
# [[Taiwan Chapter Report 2012]]
# [[Thailand Chapter Report 2012]]
# [[Twin Cities Chapter Report 2012]]
# [[United Kingdom Chapter Report 2012]]

[[Category:Annual Reports]]
[[Category: Reports 2012]]
[[Category:Newsletter]]
[[Category:Journal]]

Philippines/philgeos2012

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= Overview =

OSGEO Philippines ([http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Philippines OSGeo-PH]), the University of Philippines Department of Geodetic Engineering ([http://updgetcagp.drupalgardens.com/ UPD-GE]), OpenStreetMap Philippines ([http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Philippines OSM-PH]) and the Environmental Science for Social Change ([http://www.essc.org.ph ESSC]) organized a series of pre-symposium workshops showcasing free and open source technologies at the '''[http://philgeos2012.wordpress.com/ PhilGEOS 2012]''' last November 23-24, 2012 at '''Melchor Hall University of the Philippines, Diliman, Quezon City''' ([http://www.openstreetmap.org/?mlat=14.656454&mlon=121.070049&zoom=18&layers=M map]).

This is our first FOSS4G event in the Philippines. Over '''60''' participants joined 8 workshops and 3 lightning talks. The OSGeo Live project was also presented in one of the parallel technical sessions in the main conference. Likewise, an exhibit booth was installed during the PhilGEOS conference for OSGeo and OpenStreetMap. Over ~50 OSGeo Live DVDs were handed out to conference participants.

== Program ==

{| class="wikitable" cellpadding="5" border="1px solid #dfdfdf" cellspacing="0" width="95%"
|-style="background-color:#CCC"
!width=80|Time
!width=120|Speaker
!Title
!Description
!Slides and other resources
|-style="background-color:#CCC"
! colspan="5" | Registration
|-
|8:30 - 8:45
|Ariel Blanco - PhilGEOS 2012 Conference Chair
|Opening Remarks
|
|
|-
|8:45 - 9:00
|Maning Sambale - OSGeo-PH
|Workshop schedules and room assignments
|
|
|-style="background-color:#CCC"
! colspan="5" | Track 1: GE Lab
|-
|9:00 - 10:30
|Wayne Manuel
|Google Maps API
|Google Maps (https://developers.google.com/maps/) has a wide array of APIs that let you embed the robust functionality and everyday usefulness of Google Maps into your own website and applications, and overlay your own data on top of them.
|[https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/javascript/ Google Maps JavaScript API v3]
|-
|10:30 - 12:00
|Eugene Alvin Villar
|Using Leaflet
|Leaflet (http://leaflet.cloudmade.com/) is a modern open-source JavaScript library for mobile-friendly interactive maps. t is built from the ground up to work efficiently on both desktop and mobile platforms like iOS and Android, taking advantage of HTML5 and CSS3 on modern browsers.
|[http://leafletjs.com/examples/quick-start.html Workshop reference]
|-style="background-color:#CCC"
! colspan="5" | Track 2: GE Theater
|-
|9:00 - 10:30
|Marx Tupas
|GeoNode
|Geonode (http://geonode.org) is an integrated platform for the management and publication of geospatial data. Its data management tools allow for integrated creation of data, metadata, and map visualizations. Each dataset in the system can be shared publicly or restricted to allow access to only specific users. Social features like user profiles and commenting and rating systems allow for the development of communities around each platform to facilitate the use, management, and quality control of the data the GeoNode instance contains.
|
|-
|10:30 - 12:00
|Jules Bañgate
|GRASS GIS
|GRASS GIS (http://grass.osgeo.org/) is a software for performing spatial analysis. It consists of more than 350 modules for processing vector (2D/3D), raster and voxel data. Many interfaces to other programs in related domains like geostatistics, databases, mapserver and even other GIS software exist. It can serve as a Desktop GIS and as the backbone of a complete GIS infrastructure.
|
|-style="background-color:#CCC"
! colspan="5" | Lunch
|-style="background-color:#CCC"
! colspan="5" | Track 1: GE Lab
|-
|1:00 - 2:30
|Rally de Leon
|Editing OpenStreetMap Data
|OpenStreetMap (http://www.openstreetmap.org/) is a project that creates and provides free geographic data and mapping to anyone who wants it. We started it because most maps you think of as free actually have legal or technical restrictions on their use, holding back people from using them in creative, productive, or unexpected ways. This session will introduce how to to edit data in OpenStreetMap.
|
|-
|2:30 - 4:00
|Maning Sambale
|Advance Cartography with Quantum GIS
|Quantum GIS (http://www.qgis.org) is a user friendly GIS that runs on several operating systems (Linux, Unix, Mac OSX, Windows and Android). QGIS supports vector, raster, and database formats. QGIS is licensed under the GNU Public License. This workshop is a technical demonstration and hands-on tutorial in the use of QGIS using the advance cartographic styling features of the application.
|[http://download.essc.org.ph/agse2012_qgis_workshop/materials/ Workshop materials]
|-style="background-color:#CCC"
! colspan="5" | Track 2: GE Theater
|-
|1:00 - 2:30
|RK Aranas
|Remote Sensing with Opticks
|Opticks (http://opticks.org) is an expandable remote sensing and imagery analysis software platform that is free and open source.
|
|-
|2:30 - 4:00
|Ranel Padon
|Mapping with Drupal CMS
|
|[http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/File:Padon_-_Web_Mapping_with_Drupal.pdf Slides]
|-style="background-color:#CCC"
! colspan="5" | Lightning Talks
|-
|
|Mario Basa
|GeoFuse
|
|[http://mbasa.homelinux.net/geofuse/ Demo site], [https://github.com/mbasa/GeoFuse GitHub source repo]
|-
|
|Wilfredo Rada
|Geoprocessing with Python
|
|[http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/File:GeoprocessingPython_WilRada.pdf Slides]
|-
|
|Maning Sambale
|About the OSGeo-Philippine Local Chapter
|
|
|-style="background-color:#CCC"
! colspan="5" | '''Closing'''
|-
|}

=== Venue and available facilities ===

* GE Computer Labs - maximum 20 participants, with projector, computers and internet connection.
* GE Theater - maximum 80 participants, with projector, bring your own laptops for exercises, limited wifi connection.
* Post-event online evaluation form (http://bit.ly/UjcpuP)

==Exhibition booth==

===Exhibition Checklist===
* Booth will be ~2 x 2 meters, with electric plugs and a table
* Retractable banner (non-woven print and banner stand)
* Portable Literature Stand
* Table skirt
* Consumables (live-dvd, brochure)
* A computer running Live DVD and a slide deck loop for the apps
* FOSS4G books - OSM, PostGIS in Action, GRASS GIS 3rd Edition

===Booth staff===
* Maning
* RK
* Eugene
* Mario

== Photos and News ==
<gallery widths=150px perrow=5 caption="Photos">
File:8219865652_c125980ce5_n.jpg|Exhibit Booth
File:8219887452_dddefd9123_n.jpg|Main GE Theater
File:8219864394_6a2bfa4210_n.jpg|OSGeo Live DVDs
File:8219864010_326f3ca723_n.jpg|OSGEeo Live slideshow
File:8219862402_48cc064ced_n.jpg|OSM-PH Slideshow
File:8219861216_3f0d05bef9_n.jpg|OSM Talk in the technical session
File:8219860368_8027cc4205_n.jpg
File:8219876080_575fa48b2c_n.jpg
File:8218795377_f11b9baf6c_n.jpg
File:8218794369_2fc9eb3ce0_n.jpg|Leaflet workshop by Eugene Alvin Villar
File:8219887076_5b04662150_n.jpg|Opening remarks by Dr. Ariel Blanco (UP-DGE)
File:8219886210_a38d976afa_n.jpg|Participants at GE Theater
File:8218803461_04c3bd10f8_n.jpg|GeoNode workshop by Mark Tupas
File:8218802779_38dbf15729_n.jpg|Participants at GE Lab
File:8219881244_d853037507_n.jpg|Google Maps workshop by Wayne Manuel
File:8219878214_8d73f3d82a_n.jpg
File:8218796363_e3eb28fcde_n.jpg|GRASS GIS workshop by Jules Bañgate
File:8218791267_d6082bf2a7_n.jpg|Opticks workshop by RK Aranas
File:8218789089_cd3bb557f4_n.jpg|OSM editing workshop by Rally de Leon
File:8219867802_1e169eb360_n.jpg|PhilGEOS opening program
</gallery>

* Maning's [http://www.flickr.com/photos/esambale/sets/72157632099432413/with/8219887452/ flickr set] and personal [http://epsg4253.wordpress.com/2012/11/26/foss4g-comes-to-the-philippines/ notes]
* [http://philgeos2012.wordpress.com/ PhilGEOS 2012 website]
* [http://news.essc.org.ph/?p=4530 ESSC joins 1st Phl geomatics symposium]

[[Category: Events]]
[[Category:Philippines Chapter]]