Taiwan

Taiwan Chapter of OSGeo (閱本頁於中文框)

About Taiwan OSGeo Chapter

Mission

The mission of Taiwan local chapter is to empower Taiwan's geo-spatial information society via:

• Facilitate the development of open source geo-spatial software
• Promote open source geo-spatial software
• Promote collecting and sharing of geo-spatial data in public and private sector

Objectives

• Legalization of OSGeo Taiwan
• Geo-spatial data roadmap?
• Localization?
• Goverment agencies lobby project

Other possible not yet discussed objectives;

• Integrating grassroot Geo-Data processing community and Scaling-up
• Visionizing future global geo-spatial scenario
• Lobbying and influencing governmental open geo-data initiatives
• Promotion and outreaching in GIS market and user communities
• Forming strategic alliance among affiliations

Legal status

Volunteer organization right now, about to turn into a legal Taiwanese organization.

Membership

• Mr. Dongpo Deng (GeoThings Inc.)
• Mr. Hsiung-Ming "veevee" Liao (Computing Center, Academia Sinica)
• Mr. Shih-Chieh "Ilya" Li (NDAP, Academia Sinica)
• Mr. Sander Borghuis (Hydrotech Research Institute, National Taiwan University)
• Dr. Tain-Yuan Shih
• Dr. Tyng-Ruey Chuang (Creative Commons Taiwan Project, IIS, Academia Sinica)
• Mr. Yi-Hong Chang (IIS, Academia Sinica)
• Mr. Tsung-Wei "Marr" Hu (OSSF, IIS, Academia Sinica)
• Dr. Sheng-Tsai Huang (NPUST, Community University)
• Mr. Kuei-Cheng Chen (Steps Co.,LTD)
• Mr. Eric Sun (OSSACC)
• Mr. TzuChiang Liou (IIS, Academia Sinica)
• Mr. 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
• Mr. 徐子涵 TH Schee

See also

• Taiwan datums

External links

• Open Source GIS in Taiwan
• http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Category:Taiwan
• http://www.facebook.com/groups/odtwn/ OpenData / Taiwan