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geomap – A new, open-source JavaScript mapping API More than ever, users expect to interact with maps on the Internet. Developers need lightweight and capable ways to integrate interactive maps with their websites. Applied Geographics has been solving web mapping problems for over six years. In this time, we have created solutions for displaying geographic data from different servers simultaneously, allowing users to interact with that data comfortably and giving developers ways to streamline their code. This presentation will... |
Tech Session | Thu, 09/15/2011 - 2:00pm - 2:30pm | Mr Ryan Westphal, Applied Geographics |
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Lidar Data Structures - Octree Vs. Kd Tree The Arbitrary Storage Of Lidar Data Can Serve To Obscure The 3d Spatial Information Contained Within The Data. This Presentation Will Compare The Benefits And Deficiencies Of The Octree And The Kd Tree Data Structures Both In Visualization Optimizations And Algorithm Data Access In Open Source Opticks. Discussions Will Include Tradeoffs Between Display Optimizations Including Clipping, Panning And Zooming And Algorithm Data Optimizations Including Nearest Neighbor, 3d Plane Fits, Gradient... |
Tech Session | Thu, 09/15/2011 - 2:00pm - 2:30pm |
Michael Considine Trevor Clarke, Opticks |
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Cellular Automata Quantum GIS plugin and web-based application Cellular Automata (CA) models are increasingly applied in the environmental studies due to their dynamic nature, spatial explicity, and compatibility with the raster format widely used in GIS. We present here a CA Quantum GIS plugin, coupled with a web-based spatial decision support tool (using GeoExt). The application addresses the expansion of invasive species and is developed using open-source geospatial tools. We will describe the CA QGIS plugin as well as the technical issues of the... |
Tech Session | Thu, 09/15/2011 - 2:00pm - 2:30pm |
Prof Ari Jolma, Aalto University, Lahti Center Anas Altartouri, Aalto University, Lahti Center |
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Cloud Scalability and the OpenGeo Stack: Publishing Statewide Broadband Availability Maps This session will describe the recent nationwide broadband mapping effort undertaken by the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) through a state grant program and focus on the statewide map publishing activities that were completed for Oklahoma and Massachusetts. Broadband mapping is a key component of nationwide, ARRA/stimulus funded efforts to increase broadband availability and adoption and to bridge the “digital divide.†The presentation will... |
Tech Session | Thu, 09/15/2011 - 2:00pm - 2:30pm |
Michael Terner, Applied Geographics, Inc. Ryan Westphal, Applied Geographics |
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FalconView - Moving from DoD to Open Source FalconView is a Windows based Mapping/GIS application. It has been widely used throughout the US Department of Defense and allied countries for over 16 years and has over 55,00 users in over 15 countries. In 2009, We were asked by the US government if we would consider releasing the software as Free and Open Source Software. We were intrigued by the idea but were unsure of the obstacles which we would need to overcome in order to move away from our closed source development... |
Tech Session | Thu, 09/15/2011 - 2:00pm - 2:30pm |
Mr Chris Bailey, Georgia Tech Mr Carl Cox |
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Tutorial: Integration of OpenStreetMap into ArcGIS (cont'd) tutorial continued |
Tutorial | Thu, 09/15/2011 - 2:00pm - 2:30pm |
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HydroLiDAR: A open source GIS towards accessing, visualization and modeling of LiDAR
With recent improvements in equipment, reductions in costs, and the advent of massive data storage and sharing systems for Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) data, the need has increased for open source geographic information systems to support LiDAR point cloud data . This study presents an approach and initial open source GIS tool for accessing, processing, visualizing and modeling LiDAR data. Based on the open source GIS software foundation platform, DotSpatial, a... |
Academic Session | Thu, 09/15/2011 - 3:00pm - 3:30pm |
Dr Ping Yang, Idaho State University Dr Daniel Ames |
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Corporate FOSS Adoption – Managing Risk FOSS4G usage at the corporate and government levels continues to grow at a fast pace. Many organizations are reluctant to adopt open source due to perceived risk. One such risk is the availability of supporting services and long term sustainability. There is ample literature addressing this topic. Perhaps lesser known are the legal risks resulting from license terms and obligations. In this presentation we will briefly review the taxonomy of open source licenses and examine the common... |
Tech Session | Thu, 09/15/2011 - 3:00pm - 3:30pm | Dr Ignacio Guerrero, Andes GeoConsulting LLC |
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GeoKettle, the open source spatial ETL tool : overview, new features and roadmap Geospatial Business Intelligence (GeoBI) tools (geo-analytical dashboards, reporting and Spatial OLAP) present to users summarized data from operational systems in interactive maps, charts, graphs and reports. They allow decision-makers to analyze data in order to make better decisions. They rely on data warehouses which organise geo-analytical data according to dedicated data structures (e.g. star schemas). They enable a fast navigation in large data volumes in order to not hinder the... |
Tech Session | Thu, 09/15/2011 - 3:00pm - 3:30pm | Dr Thierry Badard, Spatialytics |
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Clip and Ship: MapServer for Data Distribution MapServer is primarily used for interactive web mapping. However, it can also be effectively used to provide access to underlying raster and feature data with subsetting and translation to a variety of file Formats (any OGR/GDAL writable format) - a process often referred to as "Clip and Ship".We will discuss how this can be accomplished with MapServer WCS and WFS with the existing US Army Corps of Engineer's CorpsMap system as a case study and live demo. Details of web and... |
Tech Session | Thu, 09/15/2011 - 3:00pm - 3:30pm |
Frank Warmerdam, Independent Michael Smith |
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Twenty webmapping tips, tricks and tools One of the great things with meeting up with other developers is to get a glimpse of how they do things and get this "I didn't know you could do that!" moment. Learning new things is always great. There's a lot of little functionality or tools that are so useful, but that many people are not aware of. In this talk, I'll share as many of these tips, tricks and tools as I can, as quickly as possible. I'll cover various areas of webmapping, from MapServer to GeoExt, from user... |
Tech Session | Thu, 09/15/2011 - 3:00pm - 3:30pm | Julien-Samuel Lacroix, Mapgears |
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The State of GeoCouch GeoCouch is a spatial index for CouchDB. It is tightly integrated and therefore inherits the functionality from CouchDB like the multi-master replication, the RESTful API and the robustness. The implementation of the spatial index is not based on an approximated solution like Geohashes, but a full-blown R-Tree implemented in Erlang. This talk will give a brief introduction into CouchDB and the history of GeoCouch, but will focus on the current implementation and the possibilities... |
Tech Session | Thu, 09/15/2011 - 3:00pm - 3:30pm | Volker Mische, Couchbase |
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Web-Based Geoprocessing - Quo Vadis? Several Vendors have implemented the OGC Web Processing Service specification and made it available as open-source; closed source vendors went the same path; several (research) projects have been conducted and first operational services are available. But where does this all lead to? Quo Vadis web-based geoprocessing? This talk reviews current efforts in this direction. In particular, several real world use cases for Geoprocessing on the web by means of standardized web... |
Tech Session | Thu, 09/15/2011 - 3:00pm - 3:30pm | Bastian Schaeffer, 52North |
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Tutorial: Working with GeoScript GeoScript adds spatial capabilities to dynamic scripting languages. With implementations in Python, JavaScript, Scala, and Groovy, GeoScript provides access to the powerful geospatial data access, processing and rendering functionality of GeoTools. This hands-on tutorial will guide participants through the GeoScript API, with paired exercises in JavaScript and Python covering the following topics: Geoprocessing - This exercise will cover the basics of geoprocessing with GeoScript. We'll... |
Tutorial | Thu, 09/15/2011 - 3:00pm - 3:30pm |
Tim Schaub, OpenGeo Justin Deoliveira, in affiliation with OpenGeo |
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Where OpenERP meets OSGeo OpenERP is suite of open source business applications, combining several distinct open source projects. It provides everything required to set up and customize Enterprise Resource Planning software. Many modules are available, including CRM, Accounting, Point of Sale, Project Management, Warehouse Management, Human Resources, Purchase, Manufacturing, Marketing, Invoicing, and an Application Builder. On the technical side it includes an ORM, a Workflow engine, report designers, a... |
Tech Session | Thu, 09/15/2011 - 3:30pm - 4:00pm |
Emmanuel Belo, Camptocamp Eric Lemoine, Camptocamp |
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Google Maps this, GeoMoose that, what's a NonProfit to do?
Getting a non-profit off the ground and running on it's own can be a daunting task. Add in the fact that it's a Geographically oriented non-profit and the issues related to keeping it afloat are compounded. Open Source Software for Non-Profits working in the geographic arena can provide a significant leg up on the competition while at the same time allowing their services to be interchangeable and economically integrated with other like organizations.
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Tech Session | Thu, 09/15/2011 - 3:30pm - 4:00pm |
Mr. Bob Basques Mr. Jim Klassen |
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MapFish Project: Status and Good Practices The first part of the talk will report on the major developments and accomplishments in MapFish over last year, and present what's in store for the year to come. The second part of the talk will report on good practices applied by Camptocamp when working with the MapFish framework such as:
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Tech Session | Thu, 09/15/2011 - 3:30pm - 4:00pm | Mr. Eric Lemoine, Camptocamp |
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The new GeoData tool set: CouchDB and NodeJS "Geo is cool." We all know that. New companies have been created based on the fact that we all carry Internet enabled GPS devices with us at all times. As there has been more adoption of new data stores, there are also new tools for querying that data. Geocouch combined with Javascript geoJSON functions can make easy work of geodata. |
Tech Session | Thu, 09/15/2011 - 3:30pm - 4:00pm | Mick Thompson, Occipital, LLC |
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ZOO-Project Status: Past, Present and Future steps ZOO-Project is a WPS (Web Processing Service) open source project released in April 2010 under a MIT/X-11 style license . It provides an OGC WPS 1.0.0 compliant developer-friendly framework to create and chain WPS Web services. ZOO-Project is made of three parts:
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Tech Session | Thu, 09/15/2011 - 3:30pm - 4:00pm |
Gérald Fenoy, GeoLabs SARL Dr Nicolas Bozon |
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WorldMap: a GIS web application for collaborative research built on the GeoNode platform
WorldMap is a web-based geographic data exploration system that is built on open source technology. It is designed to be publicly accessible, simple to use, and rich in content. Its first implementation in 2008 proved to be an effective solution for integrating dispersed geographic data collections to allow for cross-disciplinary academic research. The Center for Geographic Analysis at Harvard University has designed a 2nd generation of the system, based on the... |
Tech Session | Thu, 09/15/2011 - 3:30pm - 4:00pm |
Matthew Bertrand, Harvard University Benjamin Lewis |
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Tutorial: Working with GeoScript (cont'd) tutorial continued |
Tutorial | Thu, 09/15/2011 - 3:30pm - 4:00pm | |
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An innovative web services based GIS architecture for global biogeographic analyses of species distributions Spatial patterns and properties of species richness in natural communities are of keen interest to biogeographers and conservation biologists as they describe key features of the location and distribution of the earth's biological diversity. Patterns of species richness are determined by constituent species range sizes, spatial locations of those ranges, species associations, co-occurrence and species interactions. Analysis of these phenomena at biogeographical scales, i.e... |
Academic Session | Thu, 09/15/2011 - 3:30pm - 4:00pm | Jeffery Cavner, Natural History Museum, University of Kansas |
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Web geoservices and ancient cadastral maps: the Web C.A.R.T.E. project
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Academic Session | Thu, 09/15/2011 - 4:00pm - 4:30pm |
Eng Marco Minghini, Politecnico di Milano, Dipartimento di Ingegneria Idraulica, Ambientale, Infrastrutture viarie e Rilevamento (DIIAR), Como Campus Prof Maria Antonia Brovelli, Politecnico di Milano, Dipartimento di Ingegneria Idraulica, Ambientale, Infrastrutture viarie e Rilevamento (DIIAR), Como Campus |
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The Nordic Open Source Initiative Network "The Nordic Open Source Initiative Network" (NOSIN) is a forum for general cooperation on open source software used in national spatial data infrastructures in the Nordic countries. The initiative is used for exchanging experience and reducing costs. The results are shared freely with everyone interested. Consequently, development in open source projects goes back in the main branch. Meetings in NOSIN are hosted by the participating countries, and an online forum is used for... |
Tech Session | Thu, 09/15/2011 - 4:00pm - 4:30pm |
Morten Lindegaard Ph.D., National Survey and Cadastre, Denmark Co-author- Anders Friis-Christensen Ph.D. |
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The Intersection of Geospatial and Business Intelligence Business intelligence (the techniques used in identifying, extracting, and analyzing business data) is a massive market and a vibrant area of research and development for many companies. The incorporation of true geospatial data and analysis is still a new facet in the field and one that is expected to experience significant growth and evolution in the near future. The goal of this talk is to discuss the current state of the open-source solutions, discuss the strengths and short... |
Tech Session | Thu, 09/15/2011 - 4:00pm - 4:30pm |
Jesse Eichar, Camptocamp SA Emmanuel Belo, Camptocamp |
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Accessing PostGIS Raster from gvSIG Desktop raditionally the databases have been present in the GIS World as repositories for the storage of geographic information. In almost all cases, these databases have been focused to the management of metadata and vector data. Raster data access is often restricted to local or network files and remote services (WCS,WMS,...). However, the use of databases for the storage of raster geographic information is possible and in many cases, necessary to get a good classification of this... |
Tech Session | Thu, 09/15/2011 - 4:00pm - 4:30pm |
Jorge Sanz, Prodevelop, S.L-gvSIG Association Ignacio Brodin |
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Map design, usability and interaction The geospatial world lacks of design, usability and interaction. Most of the map projects out there lack one single important thing, a story. Additionally the FOSS4G community is normally more focus on functionality that in careful design and user experience. In this talk we will present through examples how to design and develop mapping projects that tell you stories, maps that engage the user and drives them to their own conclussions. We will take the opportunity to explain also a typical... |
Tech Session | Thu, 09/15/2011 - 4:00pm - 4:30pm |
Sergio Alvarez, Vizzuality Javier de la Torre, Vizzuality |
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Integration of GeoServer with NoSQL databases This presentation will introduce a GeoServer Plugin for the NoSQL Mongo Database. Cloud-based data storage built around NoSQL document-oriented stores continues to grow, this plugin offers GeoServer-based visualization of geospatial data stored in MongoDB. The plugin allows a MongoDB instance with GeoJSON-encoded data to be used as a backing store for GeoServer. The plugin, developed in Java, is available under a GNU GPL v2 license. The presentation will address the derivation of... |
Tech Session | Thu, 09/15/2011 - 4:00pm - 4:30pm |
Alan Mangan, Data Tactics Corp. David Boyd, Data Tactics Corp. |
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WPS Shootout Web Processing Service is one of the hottest new areas of server side development. So hot in fact that that we got in a bit of trouble last year (brawls in the halls, raised voices and a certain lack of fashion sense). On a more serious note we are really pleased to offer a panel format discussion with leaders from a selection of key web processing service providers.
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Tech Session | Thu, 09/15/2011 - 4:00pm - 4:30pm |
Jody Garnett, OSGeo Gérald Fenoy, GeoLabs SARL |
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Tutorial: Working with GeoScript (cont'd) tutorial continued |
Tutorial | Thu, 09/15/2011 - 4:00pm - 4:30pm |
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Managers, start your FOSS engines! FOSS solutions play a key role in solving problems and filling the gaps where you COTS or closed-source solutions might fall short. In addition, it is important for managers to understand that many COTS solutions used in their organizations might already have a mix of FOSS frameworks supporting a COTS implementation – think various Apache or Python projects to name a few. Having knowledge of and understanding open data and open source software frameworks can have many benefits... |
Lightning Talk | Thu, 09/15/2011 - 4:50pm - 5:20pm | Matthew Krusemark, Denver Regional Council of Governments |
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Accelerating remote sensing visualization with WebGL This lightning talk will demonstrate and discuss initial work which accelerates certain ELT visualizations using WebGL. This allows for more efficient client-server remote sensing analysis especially over low bandwidth links. WPS and WCS are used to generate intermediate processing results such as spectral angle matrices. HTML5 technologies such as WebGL and Canvas are used to dynamically visualize this data on the client side. |
Lightning Talk | Thu, 09/15/2011 - 4:50pm - 5:20pm |
Trevor Clarke, Opticks Kip Streithorst, Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. |
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WFS and SQL Injection OGC WFS-T allows client apps to have write access on features stored server side through a Web Service API. Commonly such features are stored in a spatial databases. Forthcoming WFS 2.0 would even add stored query sent from the WFS client, which could then execute them on demand. All theses great features have security counterparst, and could lead to SQL Injection vulnerabilities. The issues raised and answered in this lightning talk will be :
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Lightning Talk | Thu, 09/15/2011 - 4:50pm - 5:20pm | Olivier Courtin, Oslandia |
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Rich Mapping Without Tiles or Plugins: Thematic Cartography With Raphael.js Interactive vectors in the browser? Without a plugin? The open source javascript library Raphael enables the display of SVG in both Internet Explorer as well as modern webkit browsers offering geo-developers the option to publish their interactive mapping applications across the full range of devices. The 5 minutes will have fast talking, live demos, and tips and tricks. |
Lightning Talk | Thu, 09/15/2011 - 4:50pm - 5:20pm | Brian Timoney, The Timoney Group |
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Real-Time, Web-Based Satellite Tracking NASA's Real-Time Mission Monitor (RTMM) service offers real-time ephemeris and footprint information for a variety of satellites, including many important Earth observation (EO) satellites cherished by the geospatial analysis and remote sensing communities. The authors have developed an application utilizing the RTMM web service to make ephemeris and footprint data more accessible to the general public. Users can watch accurate 3D models of EO satellites, generated using Google Sketch-Up,... |
Lightning Talk | Thu, 09/15/2011 - 4:50pm - 5:20pm | Arthur Endsley, Michigan Tech Research Institute |
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Adaptive Improvisation and the True Value of Open Source Since the last FOSS4G conference in North America in 2007 there has been a profound shift in how the value of open source software is perceived. No longer merely a "free" substitute for commercial equivalents, the open source model is highly valued as being particularly well suited for fast-moving, dynamic environments that move too quickly for commercial release cycles. From "hot" startups to the US military, open source is now viewed as a key driver of... |
Plenary Session | Thu, 09/15/2011 - 5:20pm - 5:30pm | Brian Timoney, The Timoney Group |
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Panel: Open x 4 Open x 4 = Open Source, Maps, Data and Standards. This panel takes advantage of the proximity of events that include State of the Map (the OpenStreetMap conference), FOSS4G, and the Open Geospatial Consortium technical meeting in Boulder, with the addition of an open government data advocate. The idea is to discuss the benefits of open collaboration across all of these areas, with themes on collaboration, transparency, common cause, and complex problem solving. |
Tech Session | Fri, 09/16/2011 - 8:31am - 9:30am |
Matt Ball, Vector1 Media Arnulf Christl, MetaSpatial Steve Coast, Microsoft Carl Reed, OGC |
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Tutorial: Open/Collaborative Real-time Analytics Through the Web As governments and other entities continue to release more varied types and quantities of data having tools to make sense of that data and turn it into information becomes increasingly important. Analysis does not have to be the realm of experts though. The GeoCommons community allows anyone to both share their analysis and build upon the analysis of others. By utilizing an open interface to analysis and methods anyone can both add data to perform analysis and retrieve results. By creating a... |
Tutorial | Fri, 09/16/2011 - 10:00am - 10:30am | Tim Waters, FortiusOne |
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Tips for the PostGIS Power User PostGIS, is an OGC standard spatial database system, and the most common spatial database in the world of open source geospatial. Most users of PostGIS know how to get data in and out, and to form common queries, but there is much more the database can do. The PostGIS spatial database is a full GIS system, with a SQL interface. We will cover GIS operations like overlays and unions, database topics like partitioning and performance, spatial indexes, and core spatial database concepts... |
Tech Session | Fri, 09/16/2011 - 10:00am - 10:30am | Paul Ramsey, OpenGeo |
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HTML5 for Rich Geospatial applications on the web HTML5 is rapidly caching and this is great news for sophisticated geospatial applications on the web. With features like Workers or Canvas the number of things that can be done on the browser is just growing exponentially. WebGL is also likely gonna be a game changer. In the session we would like to demonstrate some of this new capabilities with a FOSS web application develop to do geospatial analysis for endangered species. The tool is used to create the Red List of endangered species... |
Tech Session | Fri, 09/16/2011 - 10:00am - 10:30am | Javier de la Torre, Vizzuality |
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What's New in the JTS Topology Suite The JTS Topology Suite has had numerous improvements in the past few versions. These include performance improvements, bug fixes and new functionality such as Delaunay Triangulation, Single-Sided Buffers, and Hausdorff Distance. This talk will discuss the new features, and demonstrate them using the JTS TestBuilder utility. Potential further features will be presented for discussion. |
Tech Session | Fri, 09/16/2011 - 10:00am - 10:30am | Martin Davis, Tsusiat Software |
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Visualising Time Series Data with Open Source Components This presentation will show how several Open Source components can be combined to build powerful Sensor Web clients. More specifically this talk will focus on clients for the OGC Sensor Observation Service, a standardised web service interface for accessing observations and measurements generated by sensors and sensor networks. The functionality of the client that will be introduced is focused on the display of time series data. This comprises especially a diagram view which offers... |
Tech Session | Fri, 09/16/2011 - 10:00am - 10:30am |
Simon Jirka, 52°North GmbH Arne Bröring, 52 North |
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Mayor of Main Street – How Badges Will Make OpenStreetMap Data Better OpenStreetMap is a prime example of a collective geographic knowledge platform. Its openness is its defining feature: anyone can create, modify and destroy any feature in OSM. All contributors are created equal, and remain so into all eternity. The consequences of this – from newbies creating freeways in the ocean to entire cities being deleted by vandals, politically motivated or otherwise – are being dealt with on an ad-hoc basis. OpenStreetMap entirely relies on... |
Tech Session | Fri, 09/16/2011 - 10:00am - 10:30am | Martijn van Exel |
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A WPS Based Biogeography Tool for QGIS Species presence/absence matrices (PAMs) are an important data representation structure in biogeography used to test ecological and evolutionary hypotheses about the properties of species diversity on large geographic scales. PAMs logically link the known biological diversity of geographic areas with the range sizes and properties of their constituent species.
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Tech Session | Fri, 09/16/2011 - 10:00am - 10:30am | Jeffery Cavner, Natural History Museum, University of Kansas |
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Applying the Department of Labor’s Geospatial Technology Competency Model (GTCM) to FOSS4G Courses and Curriculum.
The newly minted Department of Labor Geospatial Technology Competency Model (GTCM) is now the de-facto standard for defining GIS Technician workers skills and competencies in the US. The standard was developed by industry experts, such as Kass Green and Jan Van Sickle, and is not tied to any proprietary vendor software, such as Esri. The GeoTech Center has applied the GTCM to college GIS course curriculum and created a series of vendor-neutral course outlines for... |
Academic Session | Fri, 09/16/2011 - 10:00am - 10:30am |
Dr Phillip Davis, GeoTech Center @ Del Mar College Kurt Menke Ms Amy Ballard |
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Tutorial: Open/Collaborative Real-time Analytics Through the Web (cont'd) tutorial continued |
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Using Web GIS to Display Real-Time Rain/Stream Data with Potential Flood Impacts The most important aspect of emergency services is situation awareness. With the explosion of mobile technology, the public wants to know the same information as the emergency personnel. With storms everyone wants to knows where is the heavy rain occurring, how will it impact the streams and rivers, where will the flooding occur, and how bad will it be. Weather is constantly changing so it is very important to have updated information in real-time. Ventura County Watershed Protection... |
Tech Session | Fri, 09/16/2011 - 10:30am - 11:00am | Scott Holder, Ventura County Watershed Protection District |
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Response of OSGeo Japan with other comunities to the Great East Japan Earthquake
At 2:46PM, 11th, March 2011, the Great East Japan Earthquake struck the Tohoku region. After a half hour, huge tsunamis affected a wide range of coastal areas of the eastern Japan and caused tremendous damage. Loss of life in the disaster region and vast damage to lifeline and infrastructure were reported even in places as far as the Japanese capital, Tokyo. Fortunately, data communication line of 3G was mostly... |
Tech Session | Fri, 09/16/2011 - 10:30am - 11:00am |
Dr. Daisuke Yoshida, Tezukayama Gakuin University OSGeo Japan |
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Comparing GeoExt, MapQuery and Legato from a technical and collaborative point of view Since joining the FOSS4G conference 2007 in Vicrtoria, Canada I felt, that OpenLayers is the coming "star" on the “OpenSource webbased GIS software-sky“. Since them we started running numerous projects with OpenLayers as the core-mapping component in our company. But with the upcoming complexity of the projects, there was a strong need for a more powerful client. So we started a piece of software, that we called our "core", which was a kind of marriage... |
Tech Session | Fri, 09/16/2011 - 10:30am - 11:00am | Till Adams, terrestris GmbH & Co KG |
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TinyOWS, what's new for the high performance WFS-T server? This session is about TinyOWS, the high performance WFS-T server. TinyOWS operates on top of a spatial database, and provides an OGC WFS-T interface. This application born in 2007, is now a real alternative to other WFS implementations, especially when seeking simplicity, performance and standard compliance, cf http://www.tinyows.org. This presentation will focus on the following points:
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Tech Session | Fri, 09/16/2011 - 10:30am - 11:00am | Olivier Courtin, Oslandia |
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Advanced Cartography for the Web Putting information on a map - whether that's seismic activity in Japan or election results in Afghanistan - immediately adds more context to your data. Maps quickly become move powerful with more data overlays, like the magnitude and timing of aftershocks or incidents of corruption and security threats. The story you can tell with your information changes with this additional data, but largely due to how you tell that story with your map with its design. This session will introduce... |
Tech Session | Fri, 09/16/2011 - 10:30am - 11:00am | AJ Ashton, Development Seed |
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PostGIS Replication Database replication allows you to distribute spatial queries to multiple servers increasing the scalability and fault-tolerance of your database. Two popular methods of replicating PostGIS databases are PostgreSQL 9.0's hot-standby replication and the Slony-I replication system. This talk will explain why you want to replicate your PostGIS databases and provide an overview of both Slony-I and hot-standby. The talk will explain the key features and limitations of each and help you... |
Tech Session | Fri, 09/16/2011 - 10:30am - 11:00am | Steven Singer, Slony Development Team |
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VGI and Geotechnology for Supporting Blind and Vision-impaired People Using a Localized Gazetteer
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Academic Session | Fri, 09/16/2011 - 10:30am - 11:00am |
Mr Ahmad Aburizaiza, George Mason University Dr Matthew Rice |
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Tutorial: Open/Collaborative Real-time Analytics Through the Web (cont'd) tutorial continued |
Tutorial | Fri, 09/16/2011 - 11:00am - 11:30am | |
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Store, manipulate and analyze raster data within the PostgreSQL/PostGIS spatial database Raster support is the new big feature of PostGIS 2.0. You can now store georeferenced, multiband, multiresolution, with nodata value raster coverages in the popular spatial database. A raster coverage is typically stored as a table of many tiles. You can load rasters in any format supported by GDAL and the list of raster tables is available to applications in a table named raster_columns. You can do raster/vector analysis doing intersections as you are used to do them with vector data stored... |
Tech Session | Fri, 09/16/2011 - 11:00am - 11:30am | Pierre Racine, University Laval |
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INTELIGEO - Geographic Intelligence System In the last five years the world has seen an ever-increasing use of geospatial data in a wide array of human activities. Individuals and organizations have come to rely on services such as Google Maps for many daily tasks. In Law Enforcement, geospatial data services, usually accessed through web browsers, may help to improve the efficiency of routine tasks like route planning, address location and allow for more advanced applications, such as georeferenced information sharing and... |
Tech Session | Fri, 09/16/2011 - 11:00am - 11:30am |
Daniel Miranda, Brazil Federal Police Daniel Russo |
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PAGC: Geocoding -- Recent Advances and Future Developments The Postal Address Geocoder (or PAGC) is an open source library and web service framework for geocoding locations based on either postal addresses, street intersections, or landmarks. The system offers a number of features that differentiate it from other open source geocoding software solutions:
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Tech Session | Fri, 09/16/2011 - 11:00am - 11:30am |
Dr. Daniel Putler, PAGC Project Mr. Stephen Woodbridge Mr. Walter Sinclair |
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Building professional geo-analytical dashboards and reports with GeoBIExt Geospatial Business Intelligence (GeoBI), combining GIS and BI technologies, has recently stirred marked interest for the huge potential of combining spatial analysis and map visualization with proven BI tools and techniques such as data warehousing (DW), On-Line Analytical Processing (OLAP), ... A complete open source GeoBI suite is now available at http://www.spatialytics.org. It comprises: 1) GeoKettle, a... |
Tech Session | Fri, 09/16/2011 - 11:00am - 11:30am |
Dr Thierry Badard, Spatialytics Luc Vaillancourt, Spatialytics |
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Beyond vectors: Adapting remote sensing research for environmental monitoring with open source hardware and software: Citizen mapping the BP oil spill with balloons and kites Grassroots Mapping (grassrootsmapping.org), an online network of participatory, community-based mapping projects, was established in early 2010, just prior to the BP Gulf of Mexico disaster. In response to the spill, the grassroots mapping community worked with the Louisiana Bucket Brigade, a New Orleans based non-profit, to carry out volunteer mapping trips to affected areas of the Gulf Coast. Using low cost kites and balloons with consumer point and shoot cameras attached, volunteers with... |
Tech Session | Fri, 09/16/2011 - 11:00am - 11:30am |
Stewart Long, Public Laboratory Shannon Dosemagen |
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A Prototype of open source tool for water resources management in developing countries The development of almost all socio-economic sectors depends on water resources. Indeed, water resources are mobilized to satisfy various uses like domestic, agricultural, industrial, livestock, tourism, leisure etc. In developing countries, water resources are not available in sufficient quantity and quality anytime, anywhere. This situation is worsened by the pressure induced by socioeconomic and population growth. It's therefore necessary to create the conditions for sustainable access to... |
Tech Session | Fri, 09/16/2011 - 11:00am - 11:30am |
Dr Naga Coulibaly, University of Abobo-Adjame, Côte d'Ivoire Prof Umesh Bellur |
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Are you sure? - Open Source Tools for Uncertainty Enabling the Model Web
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Academic Session | Fri, 09/16/2011 - 11:00am - 11:30am |
Benjamin Pross, Institute for Geoinformatics, University of Muenster Dan Cornford |
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Tutorial: User Friendly Web Processing Services (WPS)-No programming needed
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.... |
Tutorial | Fri, 09/16/2011 - 1:00pm - 1:30pm | Bastian Schaeffer, 52North |
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Scaling PostGIS Queries with Stado Stado, formerly know as GridSQL, provides a powerful and flexible analytical environment allowing users to process large amounts of data using a shared-nothing, massively parallel processing (MPP) architecture with PostgreSQL and PostGIS. Data is automatically partitioned across multiple nodes and each node processes its subset of data allowing queries to be distributed across the cluster and run in parallel. This fully open source architecture allows database performance to scale linearly... |
Tech Session | Fri, 09/16/2011 - 1:00pm - 1:30pm | Jim Mlodgenski, Cirrus Technologies |
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Open Source Web Test Engine for Geospatial Standards How do developers and users of geospatial services know that a service is compliant with a standard? The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) provides a Web-based test facility called the TEAM Engine that allows developers to test Web services and clients for correct implementation of OGC standards. The TEAM Engine is a JAVA open source facility available at Sourceforge. The TEAM Engine can be run via command line, deployed in a web servlet container or integrated in a developer’s... |
Tech Session | Fri, 09/16/2011 - 1:00pm - 1:30pm |
Dr Raj Singh, Open Geospatial Consortium Dr Luis Bermudez |
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Speed up your GIS server - run GIS software on solid-state drives (SSD) Solid-State Drives (SSDs) are recently becoming popular storage mediums in laptops, and are praised for their speed and shock resistance. However, there has been some debate over whether or not SSDs are ready for the data center. GIS software is known for its high demands on server hardware. Especially hard-drives became a bottleneck when serving map tiles, rendering map images or running spatial computations. SSDs seem to be one possibility to increase IO performance, but optimized... |
Tech Session | Fri, 09/16/2011 - 1:00pm - 1:30pm |
Daniel Kastl, Georepublic Japan & Next Co., Ltd. Seongbong Kim |
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OpenSource and the Common Operating Picture (COP) Faced with the need to support security efforts involving multiple cities, counties, and levels of government for the 2008 Republican National Convention (RNC) in the Twin Cities Metro area, with limited access to Federal geospatial systems, members of the Emergency Preparedness Committee (EPC) of the Minnesota Governor¿s Council on Geographic Information undertook development of their own Common Operating Picture (COP). Built on an open source software platform called... |
Tech Session | Fri, 09/16/2011 - 1:00pm - 1:30pm |
Steve Swazee, www.sharedgeo.org Bob Basques, www.sharedgeo.org |
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GeoGlobalDomination: The Musical Thanks to the organizators of the SotM singing contest, the creators of the GeoGlobalDomination meme, the composers of the WMS song, and the glitteriest geonerds ever, now you can enjoy this GeoGlobalDomination musical extravaganza. Because nerds want to conquer the world, and want to do so while singing to their maps. |
Tech Session | Fri, 09/16/2011 - 1:00pm - 1:30pm | Iván Sánchez Ortega, OpenStreetMap Foundation |
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Open Source Business Intelligence (OSBI): Overview and Geospatial Enablement Business Intelligence (BI) Technologies can integrate, compare and analyze large amounts of data from many different sources using tools, software and standards for data integration (ETL), data warehouse, OLAP server (Online Analytical Processing), the MDX query language (MultiDimentional eXpression), data mining, dashboards and reporting. Get an overview of the Open Source Business Intelligence (OSBI) technologies like BIRT, JasperSoft, Pentaho and SpagoBI, who now have millions of users... |
Tech Session | Fri, 09/16/2011 - 1:00pm - 1:30pm |
Mr Luc Vaillancourt, Spatialytics Dr Thierry Badard, Spatialytics |
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OPeNDAP vs. WCS Numerical models, such as hydrodynamic and climate models, produce output with a large number of variables and a large number of grid cells and time steps. Further use of the resulting data products has been challenging, especially for further use outside the institute of origin. Due to the vastness of the data, simply downloading copies of data is impossible. Web services are therefore used to access subsets of the data. The most mature candidates for working with gridded data are... |
Academic Session | Fri, 09/16/2011 - 1:00pm - 1:30pm |
Fedor Baart Gerben de Boer Gennadii Donchyts Maarten Plieger Wim de Haas |
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Spatial Processing using JEQL JEQL is a simple yet powerful language designed for expressing spatial (and non-spatial) processes. It follows the Table-Oriented Programming paradigm and provides a SQL-like query language. This talk gives an overview of JEQL and show some examples of its use. |
Tech Session | Fri, 09/16/2011 - 1:30pm - 2:00pm | Martin Davis, Tsusiat Software |
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Lifemapper Moves Forward: Bringing Together Geospatial and Biodiversity Informatics Tools to Save the World Lifemapper (www.lifemapper.org) is a research project funded by the National Science Foundation bringing together open source geospatial and biodiversity informatics tools to facilitate bio-geographical research, to demonstrate potential climate change effects to school children, and to publicize the utility of museum specimen data. Lifemapper predicts current and future species distributions by combining specimen data from... |
Tech Session | Fri, 09/16/2011 - 1:30pm - 2:00pm |
Aimee Stewart, University of Kansas Biodiversity Institute James Beach |
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Open Source GIS Solutions Showing different solution and tools in the GIS Open Source to edit and publish maps, diving deep into those solutions as well as how those tools can improve the user needs and how to set up into your GIS stack. Will also discuss the future and new improvements to the tools and how to be used in different situations. |
Tech Session | Fri, 09/16/2011 - 1:30pm - 2:00pm | Mr. Al Pascual, ESRI |
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3D GIS collaborative in real-time During glob3 (https://sourceforge.net/p/glob3/) implementation in the "Virtual plattform for the dissemination of the Science of the Extremadura Goverment" (http://forjamari.linex.org/projects/pdcv), IGO Software developed a dMVC (distributed model view controller) using Java, that allows the... |
Tech Session | Fri, 09/16/2011 - 1:30pm - 2:00pm |
Manuel De la Calle, IGO Software Mr Diego Gómez-Deck, IGO Software |
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HSLayers HSLayers is "yet another" OpenLayers- and ExtJS-based mapping framework, used for building complex applications. HSLayers is developed since 2007 and it includes components, like advanced Layer Switcher, Query, complex WMS/WFS client, Printing of hard-copy maps module and others. HSLayers is used on various (mostly European) portals, which are following principles of INSPIRE directive. Among others, it is used on Czech national INSPIRE Geoportal, Plan4all Project Portal and... |
Tech Session | Fri, 09/16/2011 - 1:30pm - 2:00pm |
Ing Jachym Cepicky, Help Service - Remote Sensing Ing Premysl Vohnout |
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Tutorial: User Friendly Web Processing Services (WPS)-No programming needed (cont'd) tutorial continued |
Tutorial | Fri, 09/16/2011 - 1:30pm - 2:00pm | |
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Expanding Map Server Performance Benchmarks for Distributed Disaster Response
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Academic Session | Fri, 09/16/2011 - 1:30pm - 2:00pm |
Charles Rose, MIT Lincoln Laboratory Colin Mayer |
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PostGIS 2.0, the new stuff We will show the latest coolest stuff in PostGIS 2.0. |
Tech Session | Fri, 09/16/2011 - 1:30pm - 2:00pm |
Regina Obe, Paragon Corporation Leo Hsu, Paragon Corporation |
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GeoCat Bridge - Publish from ArcGIS Desktop into FOSS4G GeoCat Bridge helps to bridge the gap between proprietary and open source solutions. The goal of this product is to provide a solution that makes it extremely easy for users to publish their data on a GeoNetwork, GeoServer and/or Mapserver based server solution. The tool converts the ArcMap symbology to symbology optimized for GeoServer and MapServer. Data can be loaded to the server on the file system or straight into PostGIS. It manages metadata at the source and publishes it as clean... |
Tech Session | Fri, 09/16/2011 - 2:00pm - 2:30pm | Jeroen Ticheler, GeoCat Bv |
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Geoprocessing with Neo4j Spatial and OSM What better way to perform geoprocessing than on a graph! And what better dataset to play with than Open Street Map! Since we presented Neo4j Spatial at FOSS4G last year, our support for geoprocessing functions and for modeling, editing and visualization of OSM data has improved considerably. We will discuss the advantages of using a graph database for geographic data and geoprocessing, and we will demonstrate this using the amazing Open Street Map data model. |
Tech Session | Fri, 09/16/2011 - 2:00pm - 2:30pm | Mr. Craig Taverner, Amanzi |
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Mapbender 3 - Where Are We Going? Mapbender has been around for about 10 years and has become a widespread GDI backbone. But with it's age came problems which made it hard to maintain the codebase and keep up with modern developments. Thus the Mapbender team decided to start the code from scratch to reduce complexity for users and developers without giving up the functionality that made Mapbender a success. In order to free us from reinventing the webapplication wheel, we chose to use frameworks to ease and speed... |
Tech Session | Fri, 09/16/2011 - 2:00pm - 2:30pm | Astrid Emde, WhereGroup |
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On-demand transportation optimization with pgRouting + DARP
Public transportation in rural and sparsely populated areas is facing considerable challenges in these years. The regular public transportation is often not economically or environmentally sustainable anymore and therefore it is necessary to develop new ways of public transportation in such areas.
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Tech Session | Fri, 09/16/2011 - 2:00pm - 2:30pm |
Haruyuki Seki Daniel Kastl, Georepublic |
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GeoAPI 3.0, Java interfaces as an OGC standard GeoAPI 3.0 is a new OGC standard – approved in April 2011 – specifying a set of Java language programming interfaces for geospatial applications. The API provides the community with a point of interoperability between client code written to use the API and library code written to implement the API. GeoAPI aims to achieve for geospatial applications what JDBC interfaces achieved for database applications. The GeoAPI interfaces closely follow the abstract model... |
Tech Session | Fri, 09/16/2011 - 2:00pm - 2:30pm | Martin Desruisseaux, Geomatys |
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Tuning GDAL Raster Performance Web mapping performance is often constrained by the speed of access to the underlying geospatial data. A comparison of different file formats, image organization techniques, compression, caching and other factors will be discussed in the context of their impact on performance for raster data access intensive applications. Results will be presented for the particular case of web mapping with MapServer on top of the GDAL raster data access library. |
Tech Session | Fri, 09/16/2011 - 2:00pm - 2:30pm | Mr Frank Warmerdam |
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Tutorial: User Friendly Web Processing Services (WPS)-No programming needed (cont'd) tutorial continued |
Tutorial | Fri, 09/16/2011 - 2:00pm - 2:30pm | |
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Advancing Geospatially-enabled Scientific Workflow Environments with FOSS4G This paper discusses advances in the development of a software environment with capabilities for accessing, utilising and incorporating geospatial data and processes into the scientific workflows of researchers interested in incorporating earth observation and geospatial analysis into their work. In previous work [McFerren et. al. 2010], we introduced the concept of geospatially-enabled scientific workflows; this paper shares progress made, insights gained and future research avenues exposed... |
Academic Session | Fri, 09/16/2011 - 2:00pm - 2:30pm |
Mr Graeme McFerren, CSIR Dr Terence van Zyl Dr Anwar Vahed Mr Bheki Cwele Mr Derek Hohls Ms Bolelang Sibolla |
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Web Mapping Performance Shootout This is the latest installment in an annual series of benchmarks and presentations that pit Open Source and other Web mapping servers against one another in a suite of performance tests based on the WMS standard. Participating Teams:
Please check the [wiki page]... |
Plenary Session | Fri, 09/16/2011 - 2:50pm - 3:20pm | Jeff McKenna, Gateway Geomatics |
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Sol Katz Award Presentation
The Sol Katz Award for Geospatial Free and Open Source Software (GFOSS) is awarded annually by OSGeo to individuals who have demonstrated leadership in the GFOSS community. Recipients of the award will have contributed significantly through their activities to advance open source ideals in the geospatial realm. The award both... |
Tech Session | Fri, 09/16/2011 - 3:20pm - 3:30pm | Jeff McKenna, Gateway Geomatics |
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FOSS4G 2012 Invitation TBD |
Tech Session | Fri, 09/16/2011 - 3:30pm - 3:40pm | FOSS4G 2012 Organizing Committee |
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Closing Remarks TBD |
Tech Session | Fri, 09/16/2011 - 3:40pm - 3:45pm |
Arnulf Christl, OSGeo President, Metaspatial Peter Batty, Conference Chair, Ubisense |
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OSGeo Annual General Meeting - Grand Ballroom The Annual General Meeting for OSGeo includes brief presentations and open floor discussions for all OSGeo members, and visitors, to participate in. Attend to discuss OSGeo's direction in the upcoming years, meet your Board of Directors, and continue networking. For more information (or to add your ideas to the agenda) please head to the AGM wiki page.
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Plenary Session | Fri, 09/16/2011 - 4:00pm - 5:00pm |
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September 12-16 2011
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State of the Map, the annual international conference focused on OpenStreetMap, is also being held in Denver immediately before FOSS4G. We encourage you to attend both events!
