User:Shailesh

Shailesh Chaure

Assistant Professor of Geology
Govt. Holkar Science College, Indore, India
sk_chaure@rediffmail.com

Self learner, highly interested in Geospatial development activities using open source tools. Having knowledge of GIS, vector graphics programming and data bases. Involved in teaching Geology, Remote Sensing and GIS since last 30 years. Also involved in software application development related to GIS and geology since last 25 years. Acted as resource person in many National conferences related to GIS. Also acted as expert in hands on trainings on QGIS for students of Geography, Spatial Information Technology and Civil engineering at various institutes in Indore. Promoting the use of open source GIS software and databases by imparting regular trainig to the post gradute students of Geology of Holkar Science College. Technical expert for open source Web-GIS related projects at Madhya Pradesh Coucil of Science and Technology, Bopal. He has also developed Biodiversity Atlas of M.P., which is a standalone windows application developed in Lazarus/Lezarus (object Pascal). One of the important contribution is development of interactive tutor (TopoTut and OSMTut) for the students to learn about the numbering system of Survey of India Topographical Maps old and new open series maps. Another useful tool developed by him is an interactive software for finding the SOI Topo sheet nubers for Poit, line and Polygon. The line and polygon input can be given as WKT, shapefile or kml file. The tool gives thopsheet boundaries as an output in shape,bitmap or kml file. Using open source weg-GIs tools like openlayers he has developed a useful Web-GIS application about the information regarding the educational institutes in India offering courses in Geoinformatics and Geology. The software applications developed for students and comunity are available on his website www.shaileshchaure.com.