Piotr Pachół

GIS user, trainer and manager
Open source for geospatial tester, translator and promoter
Python and SQL programmer (especially for geospatial)

Main activities

• Collecting, processing, managing and sharing geospatial data
• Topographic data updating
• Supervision of topographic database management system
• Creating and publishing metadata

Personal interests

• Generalization and visualization spatial data
• Georeferenced data classification
• Creating Python and SQL scripts to automate calculations and map generation or to analyze and verify spatial data.

Activities in open source domain

Localization (Polish translation)

• Geonetwork opensource - Polish localization of Geonetwork
• gvSIG - Polish localization of gvSIG 2.x
• CatMDEdit - Polish localization of CatMDEdit
• ISOMetadataEditor

Software evaluating

• Evaluating of open source software in metadata domain - as a part of CASCADOSS Project

Software testing

• QGIS
• gvSIG
• PostGIS
• GeoKettle
• Kosmo
• GeoServer

Promoting open source

• Presentations:
  • The project gvSIG. Software for various applications - V Silesian Convention of Computer Science and Administration, Szczyrk 2015
  • FOSS localization - step by step (with Milena and Robert) - Conference "Free software in geoinformatics" Wrocław 2010
  • Localization of selected FOSS4G desktop packages - state and some remarks (with Milena and Robert) Geoinformatics FCE CTU, Prague 2010
  • Free software in metadata domain - Conference "Official geoinformation in internet – opportunities and expectations", Wisła 2007

• Co-organization of conferences and sessions conected with open software for GIS

Training in open source domain

• Tutoring and supervision of students in practical part of their master's theses, which have been also done using open source software

Contact

piotrpachol@gmail.com

Member of Poland OSGeo Chapter