User:Sacosta

Sergio Acosta y Lara

In charge of the GIS Office at the Dirección Nacional de Topografía -Ministerio de Transporte y Obras Públicas (MTOP; Ministry of Transport and Public Works)

Member of the Spatial Data Infrastructure Working Group -Grupo de Trabajo de Infraestructura de Datos Espaciales (GTIDE) in AGESIC (National eGov Agency)

OSGeo Foundation Charter Member

Member of the Advisory Board for the Geo4all initiative http://www.geoforall.org/

Location: Montevideo, Uruguay

Sergio is involved in the following projects:

• Road map maintenance using GPS and GIS processing

• Train map maintenance using GPS and GIS processing

• Design and development of the SDI Node for the MTOP

• Design and development (as a member of the GTIDE) of the SDI for Uruguay

• Design and collaborative development of a GIS for educational purposes to be used in the Plan Ceibal (OneLaptopPerChild National Initiative) based on gvSIG (Open Source GIS software)[1]; [2]

• Coordination of the gvSIG-Uruguay Community [3]

Contact sergio.acostaylara@mtop.gub.uy Spoken Languages Spanish, English

Profile last updated 19 August 2014