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You know how you can always tell a map with a particular software by the map has that standard north arrow and legend and the data has that one color scheme that everyone seems to use...? How do you break out of the mold and make an attractive, innovative map? I will present a work-flow for making a polished map taking your data from Quantum GIS to Inkscape, an open source vector illustration program. I'll discuss options for exporting your data from Quantum GIS to import into Inkscape and...

The rise of RESTful services and lightweight data formats allow us to easily pair open source software with commercial closed source software. Organizations that are invested in commercial software can still obtain many of the benefits of open source software by implementing a hybrid approach.

In this talk we will discuss how the City and County of Denver is using OpenLayers, ESRI̢۪s ArcGIS Server REST API and JavaScript widgets to deliver spatial information to our...

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Various software can style maps and generate a proper SLD document for OGC compliant WMS like GeoServer to use. However, in most occasions, the styling allowed by the graphical tools is pretty limited and not good enough to achieve good looking, readable and efficient cartographic output.

The presentation aims to provide the attendees with enough information to master SLD documents allowing him to produce amazingly looking maps on his own. SLD will no longer be cartographer's enemy....

Over last years, handheld devices have made important advances. Increasing processor speed, emerging platforms with dual processors, improved memory resources, power graphics and more than acceptable programming capabilities have open these platforms to the development of general purpose applications. Of increasing interest on mobile application are virtual globes, GIS applications, maps browsers etc. We present a framework for virtual globe development for familiar iOS and Android mobile...

This briefing will highlight the successful integration of open-source geospatial tools into three large-scale geographic information systems within the U.S Department of Defense:

1. The DISDI Portal. The DISDI Portal assists the Defense Installation Spatial Data Infrastructure (DISDI) in meeting its goal of leveraging spatial information across the installation and environment (I&E) business mission areas to better manage global installations and bases.
2. Army Mapper....

yWPS is a Python implementation of OGC's WPS 1.0.0 protocol on the server side. PyWPS development started in 2006 and was first presented in FOSS4G 2006 at Lausanne. Originally it was written with direct support for GRASS GIS modules, however it is not limited to GRASS only, any sort of GIS functionality written in Python will be served as a WPS. PyWPS distribution does not include any processes by default. The user has to program his or her custom ones and add them to PyWPS instance. The...

The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency is currently studying policy and acquisition changes that would introduce open source software into its mission, programs, and projects. This talk will serve as a review of that effort and a discussion on how OSGeo/FOSS4G projects and supporting companies can get involved in that effort.

A community with more than 100 actively involved people are adding more features to QGIS with each release. This talk shows an overview of recently added features like advanced labelling, diagrams, the raster calculator, user-defined entry forms and WFS-T support. Major new plugins for versioning, offline editing and routing are covered as well. A roadmap with highlights like a built-in 3D globe gives you an insight what's coming next.

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The INSPIRE roadmap states that compliant view services must be operational by 9th November 2011, over a year before download services. Because of this, how the different software solve the current view service issues may well have a large bearing on which software is adopted by NMCA̢۪s and other organizations affected by INSPIRE. Mainstream map servers such as Mapserver, Geoserver and Deegree are now in a race to see who can demonstrate the ability to provide INSPIRE compliant...

PostGIS is the reference OpenSource spatial database everyone uses. QGIS is the dynamically growing desktop GIS everyone will be using. Using both together should therefore be a blast!

QGIS allows connecting to a PostGIS database for long, and if you stay with this bare functionality, it works seamlessly. But taking the most out of this couple needs a bit of experience and can be complex.

This talk gives you an insight on how to use efficiently QGIS with POSTGIS.

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The Spatial Data Access Tool (SDAT, http://webmap.ornl.gov/wcsdown) developed at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory Distributed Active Archive Center (ORNL DAAC) and the Modeling and Synthesis Thematic Data Center (MAST-DC), both NASA-funded projects, provides visualization and access to a variety of biophysical, vegetation, elevation, ecosystem, climate, soil, and model data sets using Open Geospatial...

Enterprises are increasingly feeling the need of more sophisticated data access control to OGC services. Nowadays there aren't many solution to manage data access control. Using actual techniques, administrators can mostly define read or write permission to specific services.

GeoShield meets this need by offering a centralized way to define security access-control to OGC services through a nice user friendly web interface. Basically it acts like a proxy, intercepting all the...

Open Source software and Open Standards are especially important when talking about sharing data over the web. MapServer, as a web mapping server, and its support for OGC web services such as WMS and WFS provide a platform of choice for data sharing and distribution.

We will have a look at how Quebec's Ministry of Public Safety and their partner organizations leverage MapServer's ease of use, robustness and support of OGC web services in their real life mission critical applications,...

Water temperature variation  can have a significant impact on freshwater aquatic communities.  Elevated temperatures can lead to differences in predator/prey relationships and mortality in relatively non-mobile classes of aquatic species such as mussels.  Using native 64-bit GRASS 6.5 on 64-bit Centos Linux, a previously generated 18.2 m (60 foot) forest canopy height grid for the State of North Carolina ( 17237 Rows and 45102 columns )  was used as a base elevation layer...

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We all know what KML is, and by now most geospatial software packages offer some type of KML support. But, you've got to admit it, the majority of 65 million KML/KMZ files available on the internet are pretty... well... boring. Very few of them take advantage of the interesting advanced tags offered by the OGC KML spec (like <roll> and <drawOrder> !) or the Google Extension spec (like <gx:ViewerOptions> and <gx:angles> !). The pyKML package gives you access to the...

Your software is great, but your product sucks.

Great software is useless if it can't be used. If people have trouble finding, installing, learning, or running your software, then your product sucks, no matter how awesome the software is.

Do you want to increase adoption of your software? Do you want it to succeed in the "marketplace" (even if your software is free of charge)? Do you want to interest people who aren't software developers? Good. First, you need to make...

Collaboration is an important part of many tasks involving people from different organizations, in which maps often play a central role in informing and improving debates and facilitating decision making. Allowing groups to share and view maps and spatial images interactively over the Web in real-time not only provides an effective solution to decision makers, but also facilitates scientific and public debates with real-time geospatial information. A few tools have been developed using...

In the fast-paced, highly networked era of Web 2.0, continued refinement of prosumer interest must be driven by a detailed reification of the hyperlocal context in which intermediary mobile applications are framed. By applying social gamification techniques, we'll theorize a hybrid, multidisciplinary approach that, at the end of the day, reimagines the role of the enterprise in deconstructing the everyday experiences of the end-user in real time. As the entropy of contemporary B2C...

Ordnance Survey is the national mapping agency of Great Britain. Since April 2010, we have made a range of mapping data, which previously we charged for, available for free to foster innovation and encourage government transparency. Anyone from entrepreneurs and web developers to ramblers can download data from the OS OpenData service to help them build applications underpinned by geography. Postcode and administrative boundary datasets are among those freely available and have already been...

OpenStreetMap (OSM) is the wiki map of the world made by people like you. As it passes its sixth year of helping the world map OSM faces spectacular growth tied with large new challenges. What does OSM have to do to ride the seas of change through 2012 and beyond? This talk will examine the past, present and most of all future of the project.

‪Everywhere we go, we want to know what's there. Open data are giving developers and data consumers new ways to describe and contextualize places. FCC.Gov/Developer and The National Broadband Map are both examples of the new open data approach.  Which groups or industries are doing this well? What components really make open data great? How does open data from government improve services for citizens? Architecturally, when we open data...

This session starts with a status report of the MapServer project, followed by an open question/answer session to give a chance to users to interact with members of the MapServer project team.

We will go over the main features and enhancements made to the software in the last year (which includes the many new features of MapServer 6.0), the current and future direction of the project, the organization of the project and the role of the Project Steering Committee (PSC), and...

With so many new open source solutions available, organizations are now looking for ways to easily integrate their proprietary data into these open source environments. Accessing and preparing spatial data from a variety of systems can be a challenging and time consuming process. With spatial data transformation software, users can overcome these data interoperability challenges and be able to transform data regardless of its originating format or system. With examples, this session will...

In the past standards of the Open Geospatial Consortium in web information systems were commonly integrated for visualizing vector and raster. With the implementation specification of the Web Processing Service (WPS), a standard to process geodata in the web is available. The new possibilities in web-based geographic information systems allow an interoperable processing of different data based on service-orientated architectures.

This presentation describes the implementation of a Web...

This class is for those who want to fast-track into installing and using MapGuide Open Source. MapGuide OpenSource Server and Web Extensions are set up in the Workshop (Windows). MapGuide Maestro (Windows) is used to load and connect to GIS data, create layers, author maps and publish web sites.

Objectives: After completing this guide, you will be able to:

• Install and configure MapGuide server on Microsoft Windows.
• Describe the MapGuide Server, Web Extensions and...

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Increased participation in neogeographical aerial image mapping techniques such as kite, balloon and other unmanned aerial systems has shown the need for open source tools to work with the data. The imagery acquisition field techniques introduce remote sensing to a host of new users that are able to interact with data in ways previously made impossible by cost, education, and ease of acquisition of imagery. Mapmill.org and Cartagen Knitter are presented as crowdsourcing tools for sorting...

Using HTML and JavaScript, an application was developed for display and query of geospatial data exclusively located on the local file system. OpenLayers and JQuery are the two primary JavaScript APIs used in the development of the application. By design, the application runs in Firefox and mimics a stand-alone desktop application.

Geospatial data utilized in the application includes raster data and complex vector data. The raster data includes satellite imagery, a raster base map,...

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MapServer 6.0 is the first widely used web mapping software providing a WCS 2.0 server implementation. The new download standard WCS 2.0 was adopted by the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) in August 2010. WCS 2.0 support is included in the new version 6.0 of MapServer, among a long list of improvements, including also support of XML/POST protocol binding in WCS 1.1.

This presentation puts focus on technical aspects of the implementation and will include tips, tricks, and examples for...

What started off as a project for a single customer, became a commercial product, and has since October 2011 been available as the open source Esri Geoportal Server. This presentation will discuss what motivated the evolution that has led to the Geoportal Server and will highlight some of the current developments, including new trends like linked data, semantic Web, and sensor web. How do these affect the discovery process?

OSSIM is one of the founding projects of the OSGeo foundation.  The project focuses on advanced geospatial processing of satellite and aerial images providing orthorectification, precision terrain correction, mosaics and advanced image processing.  This presentation reviews the current capabilities of the OSSIM distribution and introduces a new OSSIM application – GeoCell.

GeoCell will update and integrate functionality from ImageLinker and ossimPlanet into a new tool...

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Spatial Data Infrastructures have evolved from concepts to reality in the last decade. However, they are still focused on data retrieval and visualization. To proceed in the direction of a true Spatial Information Infrastructure, it is evident to take the processing of geodata into account.

The OGC Web Processing Service Interface (WPS) is the most promising standard to address geoprocessing in a standardized manner.

Several free and open-source WPS implementations exist....

Point cloud data, in the form of pseudo-randomly distributed multidimensional XYZ triplets, is rapidly becoming a fundamental data type along with raster and vector data in the GIS domain. Whether collected by expensive laser systems or consumer-grade products such as Kinect, point cloud data are finding uses throughout GIS for tasks such as 3D building modeling and terrain generation. Few open source libraries exist to work with point cloud data, and this talk will focus on libPC (...

The tutorial will go over the workflow of integrating the OpenStreetMap (OSM) data into the ArcGIS desktop product and the use of the ArcGIS desktop product to edit the data and synchronize the local edits with the OpenStreetMap server. The tutorial will include steps of installing the ArcGIS Editor for OpenStreetMap extension, an overview of ArcMap and how to use the ArcGIS desktop products for beginners. Next we will cover how to download a data extract from OSM into ArcMap and how to make...

The OpenWebGlobe SDK, created by the Geomatics Engineering departement at the University of Applied Sciences Northwestern Switzerland, was open sourced in April 2011. It renders a high quality virtual globe with high precision rendering on the WGS84 Ellipsoid, which allows applications in the field of mixed reality applications and location based services. The SDK presents a mature toolkit for building cross-platform virtual globes with rich capabilities for visualizing and interacting with...

For years, Mapnik has been the cartographic tool of choice for web designers. Sometimes however a web map requires more than rendered tiles. It requires the power of a complete geospatial service. Wouldn't it be nice to bring Mapnik's design prowess into GeoServer's full-featured, batteries-included management interface and standards-compliant services? Now you can!

In this talk we introduce mapnik2geotools -- a configuration importer from Mapnik to GeoServer. We will sample...

PostGIS has become viable platform for storing and managing spatial data and it attracts more and more followers. One of the obstacles for the its uptake, specially in education and training environments, is the presentation of query results. Although for an expert a set of tuples will suffice as a response to a query, many others will be glad to to have a more intuitive and graphical representation of results. To address this need we have developed a web-based tool that produces graphical...

There are a variety of open source catalogs available that can assist GIS users with quickly identifying spatially referenced data sets during a disaster. A key component to effectively using these catalogs is the availability of high quality metadata associated with these data sets. In this case study, we examine the use of Thematic Realtime Environmental Distributed Data Services (THREDDS), ncISO, and GI-Cat and Geoportal as open source tools that can be used to document and facilitate...