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== Introduction == | == Introduction == | ||
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| + | * Period covered by report: Jan-Dec 2007 | ||
| + | * Contact name: [[User:Vasile | Vasile Crăciunescu ]] | ||
The idea of starting an Romanian OSGeo local chapter came out after FOSS4G2006 but it begin to shape after FOSS4G2007. For the moment, the main vehicle for FOSS & OSGeo promotion is [http://www.earth.unibuc.ro geo-spatial.org]. The website (Romanian only at this point) represents a collaborative effort by and for the Romanian community to facilitate the sharing of geospatial knowledge and the discovery and publishing of free geographic datasets and maps. Anyone can make a contribution by submitting articles or datasets for publication, adding comments to the existing articles, join the discussion on the mailing list or user’s forum. | The idea of starting an Romanian OSGeo local chapter came out after FOSS4G2006 but it begin to shape after FOSS4G2007. For the moment, the main vehicle for FOSS & OSGeo promotion is [http://www.earth.unibuc.ro geo-spatial.org]. The website (Romanian only at this point) represents a collaborative effort by and for the Romanian community to facilitate the sharing of geospatial knowledge and the discovery and publishing of free geographic datasets and maps. Anyone can make a contribution by submitting articles or datasets for publication, adding comments to the existing articles, join the discussion on the mailing list or user’s forum. | ||
Revision as of 03:09, 2 March 2008
Introduction
- Period covered by report: Jan-Dec 2007
- Contact name: Vasile Crăciunescu
The idea of starting an Romanian OSGeo local chapter came out after FOSS4G2006 but it begin to shape after FOSS4G2007. For the moment, the main vehicle for FOSS & OSGeo promotion is geo-spatial.org. The website (Romanian only at this point) represents a collaborative effort by and for the Romanian community to facilitate the sharing of geospatial knowledge and the discovery and publishing of free geographic datasets and maps. Anyone can make a contribution by submitting articles or datasets for publication, adding comments to the existing articles, join the discussion on the mailing list or user’s forum.
Key Accomplishments
- Visibility at conferences and workshops:
- 25-27 October 2007: a general presentation of geo-spatial.org, Romanian in formation chapter and OSGeo was done at the 15th GIS Users Conference, in Chisinau (Rep. Moldova).
- 11 December 2007: a more detailed presentation was done at the second National Spatial Data Infrastructure Conference in Bucharest (http://portal.rosa.ro/index.php?item_id=169, http://earth.unibuc.ro/stiri/conferinta-sdi-2007)
- 12 December 2007: in the framework of the same conference, we manage to organize a open source geospatial software workshop. Detailed presentations and step by step demonstrations were made for: QGIS, uDig, PostGIS, Geoserver, MapWindow, OpenLayers and VTP.
- Romanian articles and tutorials published on geo-spatial.org:
- http://earth.unibuc.ro/articole/open-source-gis-I (FOSSGIS applications review: toolkits and libraries)
- http://earth.unibuc.ro/articole/open-source-gis-II (FOSSGIS applications review: desktop software)
- http://earth.unibuc.ro/tutoriale/vtp-primii-pasi (VTP tutorial)
- http://earth.unibuc.ro/tutoriale/wingrass (GRASS Windows installation tutorial)
- http://earth.unibuc.ro/tutoriale/instalare-grass-macosx (GRASS MacOSX installation tutorial)
- http://earth.unibuc.ro/tutoriale/bazin-hidrografic-prin-QGIS-GRASS (GRASS+QGIS watershed delineation)
- http://earth.unibuc.ro/tutoriale/postgresql-postgis-ziggis-arcmap (zigGIS tutorial)
- http://earth.unibuc.ro/tutoriale/vtocx (VTP vtocx tutorial)
- http://earth.unibuc.ro/tutoriale/manipulare-date-spatiale-gdal-raster (GDAL tutorial)
- Articles:
- Free and Open Source Geospatial Software. A Complete Alternative to Propriatary Applications (published in a local journal)
- Developing an Open Romanian Geoportal (presented as poster at FOSS4G2007 and published in a local journal)
- Work on open geodata
- Basic Romanian layers (country border, county border, cities) are available for free as plain download and web services (WMS, WFS): http://earth.unibuc.ro/download/romania-seturi-vectoriale
- LANDSAT true color clipped after the standard Romanian 1:100k map sheets and reprojected in Stereo70: http://earth.unibuc.ro/download/datele-landsat-etm-in-stereo701
- SRTM clipped after the standard Romanian 1:100k map sheets and reprojected in Stereo70: http://earth.unibuc.ro/download/datele-srtm90-reproiectate-in-stereo70
- Corine Land Cover clipped after the standard Romanian 1:100k map sheets and reprojected in Stereo70http://earth.unibuc.ro/download/datele-corine-landcover-reproiectate-in-stereo70
- Old Austrian maps reprojected in Stereo70: http://earth.unibuc.ro/download/harile-austriece-1910-reproiectate-in-stereo70
- Romanian articles and tutorials to be published on geo-spatial.org in the following month:
- A translation and adaptation of Gary Sherman's "Shuffling Quantum GIS into the Open Source GIS Stack" tutorial (http://earth.unibuc.ro/preview)
- FOSSGIS applications review: server-side and webmapping applications
- Mapnik tutorial
- Two more GDAL/OGR tutorials
- OpenLayers basic tutorial
5. Meetings
- Thursday evening, on 28th, we will have the first meeting (in a local pub here in Bucharest) between authors and users of geo-spatial.org. The main topics will be related to RO local chapter. Will try to see how we can form a legal entity (like an NGO), search for volunteers for translation of OSGeo website and software, etc. Until now we have 15+ people signed in. Details of the meeteng can be found on the geo-spatial.org mailing list, Romanian only (http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/geo-spatial/). On Friday i'll be back with a short summary of the evening.