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Pacific Islands Chapter of OSGeo

Welcome to the Pacific Islands Chapter of Open Source Geospatial Foundation OSGeo, started on November, 9 2012, Fiji Time.

Introduction

Open Source for geospatial software has been advocated here in the Pacific Islands region for over a decade. The GIS/RS Special Interest Group of the Pacific Islands Chapter of Internet Society GIS/RS SIGhas been instrumental in the promotion of Open Source spearheaded by the Pacific Applied and Geoscience Commission (SOPAC) by making source code available to its Stakeholders starting with the GIS for Utilities Project in 1997. Since then the GIS/RS community in the Pacific Islands region have been thriving and active with Open Source sessions/discussions during the Pacific Islands GIS/RS annual conference GIS/RS Conference.

Objectives

The Pacific Islands Chapter, facilitates the advancement of open source for geospatial software, technologies and usage in the Pacific Islands region by:

Sharing source code, data, information, problems and solutions among users
Operation of a mailing list https://groups.google.com/d/forum/pic-osgeo (Temporary)
Encouraging the creation of national users groups
Organizing meetings, training/workshops and work towards a regional Pacific Islands OSGeo Chapter conference
Monitoring open source for geospatial software, technologies and usage

Members - Special Interest Group (SIG)

Aporo Kirikava (Cook Islands Police) - RAROTONGA
Bryan Pitakia (Consultant) - SOLOMON ISLANDS
Carlos Tatapu (Ministry of Geology, Mines and Energy) - SOLOMON ISLANDS
Conway Pene (University of the South Pacific (USP)) - FIJI
Dominic Afuyave (PNG Power Ltd (PPL)) - PAPUA NEW GUINEA
Edwin Liava'a (CheSpatial) - FIJI
Etuate Cocker (University of Auckland, NZ) - TONGA
Gordon Denty - (Solomon Islands Electricity Authority (SIEA)) - SOLOMON ISLANDS
Naomi Jackson - (Secretariat of the Pacific Community (SPC), Applied Geoscience and Technology Division (SOPAC)) - FIJI
Nomeneta Saili - (Electricity Power Corporation (EPC)) - SAMOA
Robinson Woods - (Freelance GIS/RS Consultant) - SOLOMON ISLANDS
Sachindra Singh - (Secretariat of the Pacific Community (SPC), Applied Geoscience and Technology Division (SOPAC)) - FIJI

Updates and Current Developments

2012

PostGIS, Geoserver, QGIS Desktop, WMS, WFS-T at Samoa Electricity Power Corporation (EPC)
Development of Open Source lecture/course material using QGIS at the University of the South Pacific (USP)
Customization of QGIS Desktop at SPC Applied Geoscience and Technology Division (SOPAC)
Development/Deployment of Geonode at SPC Applied Geoscience and Technology Division (SOPAC) SOPAC Pacific Risk Information Systems (PaRIS)
Integrated Solution for Utilities using Linux, PostGIS/PostgreSQL, QGIS Desktop, QGIS Server, QGIS Web-Client, QGIS Cloud at CheSpatial
Linux, PostGIS/PostgreSQL, QGIS Desktop at Solomon Islands Electricity Authority (SIEA)
Linux, PostGIS/PostgreSQL, QGIS Desktop at Papua New Guinea PNG Power Ltd (PPL)
Linux, PostGIS/PostgreSQL, QGIS Desktop at the Solomon Islands Ministry of Geology, Mines and Energy
Mapping component of tikiwiki CMS using Google map's API by 'Etuate Cocker

2013

Linux, PostGIS/PostgreSQL, QGIS Server, QGIS Web-Client, QGIS Desktop at PNG Power Ltd (PPL)
Linux, PostGIS/PostgreSQL, QGIS Server, QGIS Web-Client, QGIS Desktop at the Solomon Islands Ministry of Geology, Mines and Energy
Starting of Open Source GeoSpatial Research Lab and Training Center at CheSpatial, Lautoka, Fiji

Links

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 * Linux, PostGIS/PostgreSQL, QGIS Server, QGIS Web-Client, QGIS Desktop at PNG Power Ltd (PPL)
+* Linux, PostGIS/PostgreSQL, QGIS Server, QGIS Web-Client, QGIS Desktop at the Solomon Islands Ministry of Geology, Mines and Energy
 * Starting of Open Source GeoSpatial Research Lab and Training Center at CheSpatial, Lautoka, Fiji