]> 2026-04-23T13:35:47-07:00 User:Pcreso 2 en false false false Wellington false false false NIWA -41.282,174.969 false Brent Wood has worked in fisheries/marine/environmental research for 40 years, and for almost half of this time he used Open Source tools for spatial data management, analysis and visualisation. He has been a NZ Open Source Society Council member for several years, as well as an active Wellington Linux User Group member and Installfest organiser. He has been a regular presenter at FOSS4G since 2009, and was a finalist in the 2010 NZOSA awards for a web mapping portal using Silverstripe, Postgis. mapserver and Geonetwork which provided public access to research data and reports. Brent manages the NIWA QGIS Users Group, which is currently acting as the NZ QGIS User Group, and is an active participant in the Wellington Postgres Users Group (with a focus on Postgis). He is also interested in the use of R as a GIS/spatial analysis & mapping tool. His platform of choice is Linix, and has several years experience is setting up and using Linux based GIS workstations. Skype: pcreso Programme Leader for Environmental Information Delivery English Brent Wood false OSGeo_compass300.png false false true 2017-01-26T01:06:23Z 2457779.5460995 Pcreso 2 [2,"smw_baduri","pcreso at pcreso dot com, b.wood at niwa dot co dot nz"] Pcreso# ERR53f3c5fbb0223fe4816e5d086b293665