GeoForAll UrbanScience CityAnalytics

Welcome to "Geo for All" Urban Science and City Analytics Thematic

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

The mail list will be geoforall-urbanscience@lists.osgeo.org

With the "Geo for All" Urban Science and City Analytics thematic group established, the chairs of this are now the contact points for any new initiatives, ideas in this theme and the mailing list becomes the first point of contact for the new members and all members can use the list for collaborating on building subject specific collaborations.

This way we can make sure it is scaleable and meets local/region requirements/needs.All ideas welcome.

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Who in our network is doing what related to this theme?

• your name here
  • summary of what you are doing

Phillip Davis, GeoAcademy The GeoAcademy is using QGIS 2.8 to provide Massively Open Online Courses through the Canvas Network to students around the globe for free. We currently enroll 4,000 students in our March 2015 cohort.

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List of use cases that cities have for addressing their needs

• use cases here (Patrick, maybe you can start this to show an example?)

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Technologies in our network that are available for addressing these needs

• NASA World Wind (Java, iOS, and Android)
• GeoMoose
• QGIS

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Key research questions

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Other ideas for a network grant proposal

• Universities and university management are like small towns. Perhaps an educational connection here is to have multiple universities work together on building platforms for managing university infrastructure? -- Charlie Schweik