Piotr Pachół

GIS user, trainer and manager
Open source for geospatial tester, translator and promoter

Main activities and interests

• Collecting, processing and managing geospatial data
• Generalization and visualization spatial data
• Georeferenced data classification
• Creating and publishing metadata
• Topographic data updating
• Management of topographic database management system

Activities in open source domain

Localization (Polish translation)

• Geonetwork opensource - Polish localization of Geonetwork
• gvSIG - In cooperation with other translators
• CatMDEdit
• ISOMetadataEditor

Testing software

• QuantumGIS
• gvSIG
• PostGIS
• Sextante
• GeoKettle
• Kosmo
• GeoServer

Promoting open source

• Presentations:
  • 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 Workshop, Prague 2010
  • Free software in metadata domain - Conference "Official geoinformatics in internet – opportunities and expectations", Wisła 2007
• Co-organization of conferences and sessions conected with open software for GIS

Contact

piotrpachol@gmail.com

Member of Poland OSGeo Chapter