OSGeo - User contributions [en]

UnitedNations Committee

2015-10-31T13:30:42Z

Wiki-AndrewTurner:

== Background ==
The OSGeo Board of Directors met with the UN GIS team at FOSS4G in Seoul, Korea in September 2015. The UN GIS team is very interested in having OSGeo "at the table", and is interested in an exchange of official letters (an MoU would take many years to pass through on their side apparently) to formalize the relationship. Mr. Kyoung-Soo Eom, chief of the UN Geospatial Information Section, has invited OSGeo to be part of a working group on Geospatial Information and Services for Disasters.

== Goals ==

* Develop a closer relationship with the UN.

* Establish a formal agreement between OSGeo and the UN.

* Establish communication between the UN GIS team and the OSGeo community.

* Promote the use of Open Source geospatial tools by the UN's member states and committees.

== Communication ==

* a new "UN" mailing list will be created (see [https://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo/ticket/1567#ticket ticket])

== Activities ==
* OSGeo has formally expressed interest in joining the [[UN-GGIM-Working-Group]] on Geospatial Information and Services for Disasters
** this was discussed at OSGeo's [[Board_Meeting_2015-10-15]]
** the UN is looking for feedback on the working group's [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/UN-GGIM-Working-Group#Draft_terms_of_reference_.28TOR.29 TOR draft]

== Next steps ==
* put out call for members for this new committee to Discuss list
* organize a monthly meeting, possibly using IRC or Slack
* draft official letter for formalizing relationship with UN

== Meetings ==

*

== Members ==

* [[Jeff McKenna]]
* [[Jochen Albrecht]]
* [[Bob Basques]]
* [[Massimiliano_Cannata]]
* [[User:Ticheler|Jeroen Ticheler]]
* [[Micha Silver]]
* [[User:GodwinYeboah|Godwin Yeboah]]
* [[User:Assefa|Yewondwossen Assefa]]
* [[User:Nikos|Nikos Alexandris]]
* [[User:AndrewTurner|Andrew Turner]]
* ''add your name''

[[Category:UnitedNations]]
[[Category:Committees]]

User:AndrewTurner

2012-01-23T22:16:50Z

Wiki-AndrewTurner:

Andrew Turner is the Chief Technology Officer at [http://geoiq.com GeoIQ] and is the architect for [http://geocommons.com GeoCommons]. I also work with [http://georss.org/blog/ GeoRSS], OpenSearch-Geo, [http://georss.org/geopress GeoPress], and a [http://highearthorbit.com/project ton of other projects] related to mapping, geolocation, home automation, robotics, space, airships, and gadgets.

[http://highearthorbit.com highearthorbit.com] - blog

North America Regional

2012-01-23T22:15:49Z

Wiki-AndrewTurner: /* People */

''For a clear definition of the term North America please refer to the [[Talk:North_America_Regional | Talk page]].''

== Mission ==

The primary focus of the North America Regional Chapter will be to organize and run annual North American conferences. It is not the intent of this chapter to duplicate or compete with established local chapters or the international organization's ongoing efforts.

The North America regional conference will also support and collaborate with other like minded organizations for smaller technical and business focused conferences within the region.

'''Background'''
The OSGeo Board of Directors has recently discussed establishing regional focus groups and conferences that could more effectively address the needs of those areas. This would allow OSGeo to act as more of an umbrella international organization. It is anticipated that the International OSGeo conference will rotate around the globe and will be combined with the regional conference when that region is selected.

'''Objectives'''

*Organize and run an annual North American regional conference
*Increased focus on open source business models
*Provide an interface for National, Regional and Local government agencies as they adopt open source solutions
*Coordinate with local North American chapters for planned events within those localities
*Support OSGeo board for international events
*Support a broad range of interest areas:
** academic
** social
** environmental
** humanitarian relief
** government
** OSS business models

'''What the North American Regional isn't about'''

*Duplicating existing efforts at the OSGeo International level or at the local chapter level
*Running development projects or support infrastructure
*Local meetups
*Managing or overseeing other groups

In addition we will be coordinating closely with other relevant organizations:

*[http://mil-oss.org/ MIL-OSS ] Military Open Source Software
*[http://usgif.org/ USGIF] United States Geospatial Intelligence Agency
*[http://www.oss-institute.org/ OSSI] Open Source Software Institute
*[http://opensourceforamerica.org/ OSFA] Open Source for America
*[http://www.gita.org GITA] Geospatial Information & Technology Association
*[http://www.urisa.org URISA] Association for GIS professionals

'''Official representative'''

[[User:mlucas17|Mark Lucas]]
Principal Scientist
RadiantBlue Technologies Inc.

If the majority of chapter members wish, the post of official representative will be elected on a periodic basis.

== Organization ==
=== Management and Contributors ===

Membership initially consists of signups on the mailing list. Chapter president will be elected on an annual basis. President will appoint other positions.

The desire is to substantially minimize the overhead and bureaucracy, direction and execution will be primarily driven by contributors that are willing to lead the way. Consensus and open discussion is desired but unanimous agreement is not required.

=== Financial ===

Initially, we have no finances, so we operate as a club.

As we gain funding or have to commit financial resources, we have several possible paths we could take:

# Leverage the existing OSGeo non profit status
# Leverage existing financial structures from other collaborating organizations
# Establish ourselves as a not for profit financial entity

Each of these have pros and cons. There is no requirement to merge our finances with the OSGeo foundation.

== Mailing List ==

http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/northamerica

49 Subscribers as of 10 Dec 2011

== Meetings and Events ==

No meetings have been planned yet, the intent will be to establish formal quarterly meetings to review conference and organizational planning.

=== Upcoming Events ===

''' FOSS4G 2012 - Beijing [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G_2012]

'''North American Regional OSGeo/foss4g Conference''' Initial discussion will be focused on organizing a follow on North American regional conference in 2012. We will work to deconflict this event with the OSGeo/foss4g international conference in Beijing as well as the as the annual Geoint conference.

'''USGIF Technology Day''' [http://usgif.org/events/GEOINTCommWeek/Day2 USGIF Technology Day]

'''Wherecon - Washington DC''' [http://wherecon.opengeospatial.org/]

[http://www.towson.edu/tugis Towson University Geographic Information Sciences Conference 2012] Wednesday, March 23 and Thursday, March 24, 2011 at the University Union on the Towson University campus

=== Recent Events ===

''' MIL-OSS WG3 ''' [http://mil-oss.org/wg3-overview MIL-OSS Working Group 3]

''' FOSS4G 2011 ''' [http://2011.foss4g.org OSGeo's FOSS4G Denver]

''' Geoint 2011 ''' [http://geoint2011.com/ Geoint 2011 in San Antonio Tx]

''' USGIF Tech Days ''' [http://usgif.org/events/2011/5/86-usgif-technology-day Washington DC]

== People ==

Sign up here to show interest! Also join the [http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/northamerica mailing list] so we can be in touch directly.

* [[User:mlucas17|Mark Lucas]]
* Frank Warmerdam
* [[User:Tmitchell|Tyler Mitchell]]
* Dave McIlhagga
* David Bitner
* [[User:aross|Andrew Ross]]
*[[User:msmitherdc|Michael Smith]]
* Ned Horning
*[[User:reholl|Robert Hollingsworth]]
*[[User:elpbatista|J. Batista (PB)]]
* Michael P. Gerlek (mpg)
* [[User:Lsweeney|Lisa Sweeney]]
* [[User:Dmorissette|Daniel Morissette]]
* Brian Hamlin
* [[User:Rolandhardt|Roland W. Hardt]]
* [[User:AndrewTurner|Andrew Turner]]

== See Also ==

=== Chapter Formation Submission===

In order to form a chapter, the following steps should be taken:
# "OSGeo Chapter" should self-organize (for instance in the OSGeo wiki, via OSGeo mailing list, etc), seeking to determine if a critical mass of interest exists to justify a chapter. '''''Wiki, mailing list, and an initial active community have been created (over 25 members)'''''
# "OSGeo Chapter" should prepare a mission and objectives indicating the scope of the planned chapter (geographic or linquistic extent for instance). '''''Primarily focused on running an annual regional conference, also support other regional activities'''''
# “OSGeo Chapter” should propose an official representative to liaise with the OSGeo Board. If accepted by the board, the representative will be an officer of OSGeo. '''''Mark Lucas, OSGeo BOD, will act as the initial liaison '''''
# “OSGeo Chapter” should submit an official expression of interest to form a chapter to the OSGeo board, listing initial members, mission, representative and other supporting information.'''''Expression of interest letter on the wiki'''''
# The OSGeo board shall then consider passing a motion forming the chapter, and designating the liason officer.'''''Motion submitted to the board, will continue discussion and motion at next board meeting''''

In considering the formation of new OSGeo chapters, the board will consider issues including:
* Does the mandate (geographically or linguistically) conflict with other existing chapters or chapters-in-formation?'''''No, will collaborate with existing chapters and the board, no implied hierarchy between regional chapter and local chapters''''
* Does the chapter appear to have sufficient interest to justify official formation? '''''Yes, active discussion and contributors'''''
* Does the chapter appear to be open to broad membership, and representative of the target geographic or linguistic community? (eg. if a chapter had the objective to cover all Spanish speakers, it would be inappropriate if the only interest demonstrated was from one country)'''''Yes, anyone interested in an annual NA regional conference or NA OSGeo expansion is welcome''''

=== Official expression of interest to form a North America Regional chapter of the OSGeo Foundation ===

We formally petition the board of directors of the OSGeo foundation to establish a North America Regional chapter - OSGeo-NA. The membership of said chapter has self organized, establishing a wiki and mailing list. The primary focus of the chapter will be to organize and run an annual north america OSGeo conference. The members hope to establish a model for other regional chapters with corresponding regional conferences around the world. The North America chapter will coordinate closely with the OSGeo Board of Directors to support international conferences and events. The annual regional conference will consolidate with the international conference when the OSGeo/foss4g conference is scheduled within North America.

A secondary objective will be to closely coordinate with other events and organizations within the region. The regional chapter will also act as an interface to promote open source geospatial business models as well as adoption of OSGeo software in government, environmental, social, and academic settings.

The chapter intends to collaborate with local chapters as needed, but no organizational hierarchy or oversight of local chapters is implied.

Meetings will be held on an annual basis at a minimum. Current plans are to schedule quarterly online meetings using the OSGeo online resources for wiki, mailing list, and trac project management. Several key members of the OSGeo including past and present board members have joined the effort. The lead and initial point of contact and OSGeo liaison will be Mark Lucas.

The North America Regional chapter will operate as a separate financial entity from the OSGeo foundation. No financial support is required or implied.

We motion that the OSGeo Board formally establish the North America Region chapter.

=== Conference Planning ===
==== Initial Thoughts ====
# Deconflict the schedule. Perhaps schedule our regional conference around May/June (I believe Beijing is Sep)
# Use GITA with our collective experience of the Denver FOSS4G 2011 event to minimize risk (outsource much of the organization and logistics to GITA again)
# Plan for a smaller, less complex event (not as many parallel tracks, maybe in conjunction with another planned activity)
# Plan on using some of the profits to sponsor OSGeo.
# Do what we can to feed the larger FOSS4G Beijing event

Then we can plan a larger conference early 2013 for North America - we'll have more time, resources, and experience under out belt

'''Comments from Peter Batty:'''

''I'd be inclined to be pretty cautious on forecasting for the May / June event, and plan on a larger one in 2013. I'm confident we could get probably 700+ for an event in 2013, but I'd be more inclined to budget around a base of 200-300 for May / June, and modest sponsorship (I'd bet on less than half what we got for FOSS4G, which was in the order of $100-120K). But with ability to accommodate up to maybe 500.
''

''On sponsorship, it will be helpful to get an announcement out if possible by early December as many companies want to know before year end to get money in their marketing budgets. We offered a 10% discount for sponsors who signed up by end of January and that was successful in getting people to sign up early. We probably had 70-80% of our sponsorship money in by that early deadline. This is just one example where we really have to get going quickly to do something of even a medium size in May-June.
''

=== Questions and Answers ===
Please feel free to post any questions in this section...

'''Who can join the North America Regional Chapter?'''

Anyone that would like to help out or has an interest in organizing North American activities. Just sign up on the mailing list.

'''How does this relate to the annual OSGeo/foss4g event?'''

When the international event periodically falls in the North America Region the chapter will help with the organization and support of the event. We will work closely with the OSGeo/foss4g international organizing committee to coordinate schedules, efforts, and session material to promote the OSGeo.

[[Category:North America]]
[[Category:Local Chapters]]

OpenGeocoder

2008-11-06T01:35:16Z

Wiki-AndrewTurner:

== Open Source Geocoder ==

For those not familiar with the concept, Geocoding takes a human readable address and turns it into coordinates.

===Project Purpose===

The intention of this project is to work towards creation of open source software providing geocoding capability.

===Design goals===

Desired attributes:
* Handle international addressing schemes (expected to be pluggable to support internationalization)
* Library Coded in C (or C wrapper to C++)
* Architected and designed for performance
* Abstracted storage to allow for use of data from various sources e.g. shapefiles, RDBMS, others

===Relevant Existing Open Source Technologies===

* SRC Geocoder
* Geocoder.us
* PostLBS

===Target Licensing===

* Preference for a liberal license to encourage adoption by maximum number of technologies both proprietary and open source

===Project Support===

The following list are people who are interested in participating in development of this project:

* Andrew Ross - [http://wwww.ingres.com Ingres]
* Andrew Turner - [http://www.geocommons.com GeoCommons] & [http://www.highearthorbit.com HighEarthOrbit]

The following list are people who are interested in participating in testing of this project:

* Andrew Ross - [http://wwww.ingres.com Ingres]
* Andrew Turner - [http://www.geocommons.com GeoCommons] & [http://www.highearthorbit.com HighEarthOrbit]

The following list are people that plan to make use of this project:

* Andrew Ross - [http://wwww.ingres.com Ingres]
* Dave McIlhagga - [http://wwww.dmsolutions.ca DM Solutions Group]
* Andrew Turner - [http://www.geocommons.com GeoCommons] & [http://www.highearthorbit.com HighEarthOrbit]

FOSS4G2007 LightningTalks

2007-08-01T22:09:57Z

Wiki-AndrewTurner: /* Talk Title */

Back to [[FOSS4G2007]]...

= Introduction =
Eight speakers, five minutes each, [http://www.foss4g2007.org/plenaries/#lightning Lightning Talks] will be presented to the full conference attendance, and should be fast paced, visual, and entertaining.

= Confirmed Speakers =

== Talk Title ==
* Schuyler Erle
* One sentence bio
* One sentence talk summary
* URL to head shot

== Talk Title ==
* Chris Schmidt
* One sentence bio
* One sentence talk summary
* URL to head shot

== Talk Title ==
* Ed McNierney
* One sentence bio
* One sentence talk summary
* URL to head shot

== Talk Title ==
* Arnulf Christl
* One sentence bio
* One sentence talk summary
* URL to head shot

== Talk Title ==
* [http://highearthorbit.com Andrew Turner]
* Andrew develops several open-source tools such as [http://georss.org/geopress GeoPress] and [http://mapstraction.com Mapstraction], participates in the formulation of light-weight geospatial standards like [http://georss.org GeoRSS] and [http://www.ogcnetwork.net/kml KML], and works for [http://mapufacture.com Mapufacture], building a geospatial aggregation and search service. He also wrote O'Reilly's [http://oreilly.com/catalog/neogeography Introduction to Neogeography].
* Any suggestions for a talk?
* [http://highearthorbit.com/images/AndrewTurner.jpg Andrew Turner Head Shot]

== Talk Title ==
* Norman Vine
* One sentence bio
* One sentence talk summary
* URL to head shot

= Speakers Needed =

== Talk Title ==
* Speaker
* One sentence bio
* One sentence talk summary
* URL to head shot

== Talk Title ==
* Speaker
* One sentence bio
* One sentence talk summary
* URL to head shot

[[Category:FOSS4G2007]]

FOSS4G2007 LightningTalks

2007-08-01T22:09:26Z

Wiki-AndrewTurner: /* Talk Title */

Back to [[FOSS4G2007]]...

= Introduction =
Eight speakers, five minutes each, [http://www.foss4g2007.org/plenaries/#lightning Lightning Talks] will be presented to the full conference attendance, and should be fast paced, visual, and entertaining.

= Confirmed Speakers =

== Talk Title ==
* Schuyler Erle
* One sentence bio
* One sentence talk summary
* URL to head shot

== Talk Title ==
* Chris Schmidt
* One sentence bio
* One sentence talk summary
* URL to head shot

== Talk Title ==
* Ed McNierney
* One sentence bio
* One sentence talk summary
* URL to head shot

== Talk Title ==
* Arnulf Christl
* One sentence bio
* One sentence talk summary
* URL to head shot

== Talk Title ==
* [http://highearthorbit.com Andrew Turner]
* Andrew develops several open-source tools such as [http://georss.org/geopress GeoPress] and [http://mapstraction.com Mapstraction], participates in the formulation of light-weight geospatial standards like [http://georss.org GeoRSS] and [http://www.ogcnetwork.net/kml KML], and works for [http://mapufacture.com Mapufacture], building a geospatial aggregation and search service. He also wrote O'Reilly's [http://oreilly.com/catalog/neogeography Introduction to Neogeography].
* One sentence talk summary
* [http://highearthorbit.com/images/AndrewTurner.jpg Andrew Turner Head Shot]

== Talk Title ==
* Norman Vine
* One sentence bio
* One sentence talk summary
* URL to head shot

= Speakers Needed =

== Talk Title ==
* Speaker
* One sentence bio
* One sentence talk summary
* URL to head shot

== Talk Title ==
* Speaker
* One sentence bio
* One sentence talk summary
* URL to head shot

[[Category:FOSS4G2007]]

All Members

2007-05-05T17:36:48Z

Wiki-AndrewTurner: Added Andrew Turner bio

''We should consider moving the content of the '''About''' column to the corresponding user pages (that is what they are meant for) and leave only the list here. MediaWiki is throwing an edit warning that the page is larger than 32kb which can cause trouble in some browsers.''

{| border="1" class="wikitable" style="margin: 1em 1em 1em 0; background: #f9f9f9; border: 1px #aaaaaa solid; border-collapse: collapse;"
! style="background:#efefef;" | Name
! style="background:#ffdead;" | Affiliations
! style="background:#efefef;" | OSGeo Projects
! style="background:#ffdead;" | Location
! style="background:#efefef;" | About
|-
| Add yourself
| Everyone is welcome
| In which OSGeo Projects and Committees are you involved
| Input your latitude and longitude here (and watch out for [[Axis Order Confusion]])
| Copy and paste this entry, put it last, and add your information
|-
| Chris Holmes
| [http://topp.openplans.org The Open Planning Project], [http://geoserver.org GeoServer]
| [http://incubator.osgeo.org Incubator], [http://board.osgeo.org Board], [http://geotools.org GeoTools]
| (40.72,-74.00)
| I come from the Java side of the OSGeo fence, getting my start in GeoServer, where I was lead developer for a couple years, and GeoTools, where I still serve on the PMC. My time is made possible by [http://topp.openplans.org The Open Planning Project (TOPP)], a great non-profit in New York that has been the lead supporter of GeoServer for years now. I spent the last year in Zambia on a Fulbright Scholarship, looking at the potential for open source software to help implement spatial data infrastructures in developing countries. It was a bit of a failure, but I learned a ton, and I see a lot of potential for open source in developing countries, towards truly open spatial data infrastructures. I'm back at TOPP, in a new role as VP of Strategic Development, helping to grow the organization, and figuring out how to make our geospatial stuff self sustaining. Once that's rolling, I hope to reinvest extra revenue in to figuring out and building a truly open geospatial web. And just like apache and linux are the bedrock that the World Wide Web rests on, so too do I believe that the geospatial web necessarily must be built on a foundation of OS Geo software. My continuing thoughts on all of this can be found at http://cholmes.wordpress.com
|-
| Michael P. Gerlek
| [http://www.lizardtech.com LizardTech]
| [http://visibilitycommittee.osgeo.org Promotion and Visibility Committee] (chair)
| (47.673166,-122.530143)
| Manager of LizardTech's Engineering department, where we do MrSID and JPEG 2000 stuff and play with with the next generation of technologies for supporting raster data GIS workflows. No, our products are not open source -- but we do very much support and use open source and open standards. (I think there is room in the world for both the open and closed development models, and I have a strong interest in helping "closed" companies understand the value of, and contribute to, the open software world.) [[User:mpg]]
|-
| Frank Warmerdam
| Independent
| [http://www.gdal.org GDAL/OGR], [http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu MapServer], [http://incubator.osgeo.org Incubator], [http://board.osgeo.org Board]
| (45.45,-77.25)
| Lead developer of GDAL/OGR and freelance geospatial software developer.
|-
| Jason Birch
| [http://www.nanaimo.ca/ City of Nanaimo]
| [http://webcommittee.osgeo.org Web Site], [http://visibilitycommittee.osgeo.org Promotion & Visibility]
| (49.155, -124.005)
| I am a long-time GIS/IT/'Net junkie, and am currently working for the City of Nanaimo's IT department as a Sr. Applications Analyst (GIS Specialist). I am excited about what I see happening in the open source geospatial world, with OSGeo as a catalyst. [[User:Jasonbirch]]
|-
|Howard Butler
| [http://www.hobu.biz/ Hobu, Inc]
| [http://webcommittee.osgeo.org Web Site Committee],
| (42.00, -93.00)
| MapServer hacker, MTSC member. GDAL hacker. ESRI ArcSDE hack. Purveyor of Windows binary builds [[User:hobu]]
|-
| Markus Neteler
| [http://mpa.itc.it ITC-irst], [http://www.cealp.it CEA], [http://www.gdf-hannover.de GDF Hannover]
| [http://grass.itc.it GRASS GIS], [http://board.osgeo.org Board], [http://geodata.osgeo.org Public Geodata Com.], [http://edu.osgeo.org Education Com.], [http://visibilitycommittee.osgeo.org Promotion & Visibility Com.]
| (46.06714, 11.15113)
| Developer of GRASS GIS, researcher at ITC-irst + CEA, Trento, Italy and co-founder of GDF Hannover [[User:neteler]]
|-
| R. Paul Warriner
| [http://www.orchardparkny.org/ Town of Orchard Park]
| [http://fundraising.osgeo.org Fundraising Committee], [http://webcommittee.osgeo.org Web Site Committee]
| (43.17, -78.69)
| Network Coordinator, old oil field hand (really, I do know what a christmas tree is).
[[User:RPaulW]]
|-
|Bart van den Eijnden
| [http://www.osgis.nl/ OSGIS]
| [http://chameleon.maptools.org Chameleon],
| (52.0768396070808, 5.12454)
| Freelancer working with several open source GIS tools, mainly Chameleon, Mapserver and Geoserver.
[[User:bartvde]]
|-
|Simone Giannecchini
| [http://simboss.wordpress.com/ blog] ,[http://www.geo-solutions.it GeoSolutions]
| [http://geoserver.org GeoServer], [http://http://docs.codehaus.org/display/GEOTOOLS/Home GeoTools]
| (gotta look for it :-))
| I have been working as a freelance consultant in the GIS and Image Processing field since early 2004, mainly in scientific and military environment. I am PMC member of [http://http://docs.codehaus.org/display/GEOTOOLS/Home GeoTools] and active developer of [http://geoserver.org GeoServer]. I am also providing some patches for the [https://jai.dev.java.net/ JAI] and [https://jai-imageio.dev.java.net/ ImageIO] SUN libraries for image processing in Java.

I am a big GDAL fan, I have been involved in the last year in an effort for putting GDAL behind ImageIO
for widening the number of supported formats. The goal is to make this formats avalaible through GeoTools to the GeoServer. If you are interested in supporting or joining this effort, please, drop me a few lines at simone.giannecchini-at-geo-solutions.it or simboss1-at-gmail.com
[[User:simboss]]
|-
| Helena Mitasova
| [http://skagit.meas.ncsu.edu/~helena/ North Carolina State University]
| [http://grass.itc.it GRASS GIS], [http://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php/Core_Curriculum_Project Curriculum project]
| (35.77, -78.69)
| Researcher at NCSU (geospatial technology, environmental modeling, sustainable development), Developer of GRASS GIS. [[User:Helena]]
|-
| Daniel Morissette
| [http://www.mapgears.com/ Mapgears]
| [http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/ MapServer], [http://www.gdal.org GDAL/OGR]
| (48.42, -71.04)
| Involved in MapServer, GDAL/OGR and most [http://maptools.org/ MapTools.org] projects, mostly around webmapping and data access and distribution. [[User:dmorissette]]
|-
| Tamas Szekeres
| [http://www.hmeirt.hu/ MoD ED Co.]
| [http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/ MapServer]
| (47.56, 19.08)
| M.Sc.El.Engineer, Head of Development Department, GPS Division , MapServer contributor/hacker, mapscript C# maintainer, involved in various WEB mapping and desktop applications, GPS navigation and tracking systems. [[User:szekerest]]
|-
| Ari Jolma
| [http://users.tkk.fi/~jolma/index.html TKK]
| [http://www.gdal.org GDAL/OGR], [http://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php/Core_Curriculum_Project Curriculum project]
| (60° 16' , 24° 47' 4'')
| Professor at TKK, Finland (geoinformatics, environmental information systems, water resources systems), [http://map.hut.fi/PerlForGeoinformatics/ just another Perl hacker] [[User:ajolma]]
|-
| Jeff McKenna
| [http://www.dmsolutions.ca DM Solutions Group]
| [http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/ MapServer]
| (45.401397610, -75.725861625)
| MapServer documentation, [http://www.maptools/ms4w MS4W] maintainer, [http://www.maptools.org maptools] co-maintainer. [[User:jmckenna]]
|-
| Ian Turton
| [http://www.geovista.psu.edu/members/turton/index.html work][http://pennspace.blogspot.com/ blog]
| [http://www.geotools.org GeoTools]
| (40.7932, -77.847)
| [http://www.geotools.org GeoTools] founder and developer, [http://www.geovistastudio.psu.edu GeoVistaStudio] benevolent dictator, [http://geoserver.org GeoServer] user. [[User:ianturton]]
|-
| David Blasby
| [http://topp.openplans.org The Open Planning Project], [http://geoserver.org GeoServer], [http://geotools.org GeoTools]
| [http://geotools.org GeoTools]
| (varies)
| Currently, I'm the Project Lead for Geoserver and am on the GeoTools Project Management Committee. I'm just starting a GeoWiki (Public Participation GIS) (please contact me if you're interested). I was the orginal creator of PostGIS, and have contributed to several OS GIS projects, including JTS, JUMP, and Mapserver.
|-
| Andrey Kiselev
| "Radar" R&D Centre (Russia)
| GDAL/OGR
| (60.04,30.33)
| Freelance developer and contributor to GDAL/OGR project.
|-
| Helton Uchoa
| [http://www.geolivre.org.br Geolivre Community], [http://www.open3dgis.org Open 3D GIS Project]
| [http://webcommittee.osgeo.org Web Site Committee] and [http://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php/Public_Geospatial_Data_Project Public Geospatial Data Project]
| (-22.96, -43.11)
| I'm a Geomatics Enginner and I work at [http://www.opengeo.com.br OpenGEO Company] as a GIS Specialist. I'm responsible for many GIS projects using FOSS and the OpenGIS Specifications in Brazil and I have some relevant papers and scientific articles presented in Brazilian and Latin-American conferences and published in scientific magazines. In last year, I have helped, as a teacher, introduce the GNU/FSF philosophy at the Transportation Engineering Department of IME ([http://www.ime.eb.br Military Institute of Engineering - IME], Brazil). I have worked in Geolivre Rio 2004 and 2005 as member of organization commitee. Now I'm working in [http://www.geolivre.org Geolivre Conference 2007]. [[User:Uchoa]]
|-
| Toru Mori
| [http://www.orkney.co.jp/english Orkney, Inc.]
| [http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/ MapServer], [http://grass.itc.it GRASS GIS]
| (35.448, 139.642)
| President of Orkney, Inc. Advocate of Open Geospatial tools in Japan and Asia. Promote open geospatial data. [[User:moritoru]]
|-
| Allan Doyle
| [http://www.eogeo.org EOGEO],[http://museum.mit.edu/cmp MIT Museum],[http://spg.gsfc.nasa.gov/ NASA Earth Science Data Systems Standards Process Group]
| [http://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php/Public_Geospatial_Data_Project Public Geospatial Data Project]
| (42.28, -71.24)
| President of [http://www.eogeo.org EOGEO] and [http://www.intl-interfaces.com International Interfaces], long-time geo-interoperability interests, opensourced (is that a verb?) [http://openmap.bbn.com OpenMap], originator of OGC testbed idea, Web Mapping Testbed, WMS spec editor, worked on WMS Context, [http://www.georss.org GeoRSS]. [http://www.eogeo.org/Members/adoyle more details]. [http://think.random-stuff.org Blog][[User:adoyle]]
|-
| Ned Horning
| [http://cbc.amnh.org/ Center for Biodiversity and Conservation], [http://www.amnh.org/ American Museum of Natural History]
| [http://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php/Core_Curriculum_Project Curriculum project]
|(43.9933, -73.0407)
|Program manager for [http://geospatial.amnh.org/ remote sensing/GIS]. Promoter of open source geospatial tools in the global conservation community.
|-
| Paul Spencer
| [http://www.dmsolutions.ca DM Solutions Group]
| [http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/ MapServer], [http://chameleon.maptools.org Chameleon], [http://ka-map.maptools.org kaMap], [http://maptools.org/maplab/index.phtml MapLab], [http://maptools.org/ms4w/index.phtml MS4W], [http://openev.sourceforge.net/ OpenEV]
| (45.401397610, -75.725861625)
| CTO of DM Solutions Group, designer/developer/contributor to many open source packages, especially based on MapServer. Recent interest/focus is on AJAX clients for mapping applications. [[User:pagameba]]
|-
| Mark Lucas
| remotesensing.org
| [http://www.remotesensing.org remotesensing.org] and [http://www.ossim.org ossim]
| (27.9690219N, 080.5590534W altitude sea level + 5m)
| CTO, original founder of ImageLinks and remotesensing.org. Board of Directors [http://www.oss-institute.org/ Open Source Software Institute] and the [http://www.ncospr.org/ National Center for Open Source Policy and Research]. Member of [http://www.opentechdev.org Open Technology Development] Tiger team for the Department of Defense (USA). Lead a team of talented developers on the OSSIM and [http://www.ossim.org/tiki-read_article.php?articleId=3 osgPlanet] projects. Previously spent 22 years in the United States Air Force and [http://www.nro.gov/ National Reconnaissance Office] and the [http://www.fas.org/irp/nro/hall3.htm Secretary of the Air Force Special Projects] organization working with various classified programs. Prior to Radiant Blue Technologies, was a Lead Scientist for Intelligence Data Systems, Titan Corporation, and L3-Communciations. [http://web.mac.com/mlucas17/iWeb/Site/Welcome.html Personal Web site]. [[User:mlucas17]]
|-
| Jo Walsh
| [http://okfn.org/geo/ Open Knowledge Foundation],[http://mappinghacks.com/ Mapping Hacks], [http://publicgeodata.org Public Geodata]
| Open Geodata committee
| (42.368297,-71.108696)
| Came to geospatial software through collaborative mapping on the semantic web work. Organising events to get geospatial hackers together with data-creating people and promote public access to state collected geodata. If you are in Europe please see [http://publicgeodata.org Public Geodata] and consider writing to an MEP about public domain data and "intellectual property rights" issues. If you collect GPS tracks, please consider uploading them to [http://openstreetmap.org/ OpenStreetmap] - my only real contribution to this project is to talk about it a lot. I co-wrote "Mapping Hacks" with Schuyler Erle and Rich Gibson, with a lot of contributions from OSGeo type of people. Last year wrote a lot of software using OSM and [http://openguides.org/ OpenGuides] with [[Mapserver]] to provide a basis for collaborative local "portal" type services on community wireless networks. Now more interested in doing collaborative writing and research projects. [[User:JoWalsh]]
|-
| Dave McIlhagga
| [http://www.dmsolutions.ca DM Solutions Group]
| [http://visibilitycommittee.osgeo.org Promotion and Visibility Committee]
| (45.401397610, -75.725861625)
| President & CEO of DM Solutions Group. Active promoter of open source geospatial technologies. Led DM Solutions Group to become a major contributor and advocate of MapServer and development of key open source MapServer utilities including [http://chameleon.maptools.org Chameleon], [http://ka-map.maptools.org kaMap], [http://maptools.org/maplab/index.phtml MapLab], [http://maptools.org/ms4w/index.phtml MS4W]. Provided financial and resource support for setup of a key home for open source geospatial projects at [http://www.maptools.org MapTools]. Led the organizing committee for [http://www.omsug.ca/osgis2004/index.html OSGIS], the first Open Source Geospatial conference in North America which coincided with the second MapServer User Meeting. Spearheaded the integration of the two major open source geospatial conferences from North America and Europe/Asia, as the [http://www.foss4g2006.org/ Free and Open Source Software for Geoinformations] single international event to be held in Lausanne Switzerland. [[User:davemac]]
|-
| Pericles (Perry) Nacionales
| [http://land.umn.edu University of Minnesota]
| [http://webcommittee.osgeo.org Web Site Committee]
| (44.9873167, -93.1851500)
| Promoter of open source geospatial technologies specially in the field of natural resources management and conservation, advocate of open and interoperability standards, MTSC member, author of [http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/docs/tutorial/tutorial/tutorial MapServer Tutorial].
|-
| Norman Vine
| Independent
|
| (41:31:38N, 70:39:43W)
| Independent software developer [[User:Nhv]]
|-
| Mike Adair
| [http://www.geoconnections.org/CGDI.cfm Natural Resources Canada/GeoConnections]
| [http://communitymapbuilder.org MapBuilder]
| (45.27, -75.75)
| Contributor and member of MapBuilder PMC. Interested primarily in AJAX client technology for mapping, but also in the whole SDI stack. [[User:madair]]
|-
| Stefan F. Keller
| University of Applied Sciences Rapperswil (HSR), [http://www.ifs.hsr.ch Institute for Software]
| [http://webgis.hsr.ch/javawps JavaWPS]
| (47.2240, 8.8181)
| Promotor of open source and commercial technologies specially in the field of information retrieval, databases, GIS and visualization. Advocate of open and interoperability standards, member of national GIS standardization (e-geo, SNV) and umbrella (SOGI) organizations. Creator of [http://wwww.geometa.info geometa.info], one of the first search engines for geospatial services (WMS), metadata and online maps (Lucene-based); contributor of geo-webservices for german Wikipedia. [[User:Sfkeller]]
|-
| [[User:Arnulf Christl | Arnulf Christl]]
| [http://www.wheregroup.com WhereGroup], [http://www.opengeospatial.org OGC Member]
| [http://www.mapbender.org Mapbender], [http://www.fossgis.de FOSSGIS], [http://board.osgeo.org Board], [[Promotion and Visibility Committee]]
| (50.7342N, 7.0707W)
| Mapbender PSC, [http://www.gnu.org Free] and [http://www.opensource.org Open] Source Software [[Business]] advocate on a mission to reduce [[FOSSFUD]].
|-
|V.RaviKumar
|Geologist
|OSGeo member [http://freegis.gnu.org.in/grass_geosciencedataset.pdf],[''GRASS Indian exmple'']
| 17° N 79° E
| A Geologist from India who is interested in FOSS software. GRASS in particular. Conducted a FOSS workshop at Hyderabad, India in May 2005. The workshop boosted our spirits with a large participation and good articles on various FOSS software. An entire session was for GRASS, Qgis software. Presently lecturing in various forums on the capability of GRASS and allied FOSS GIS. With the help of Free Software Foundation India, trying to spread awareness of GRASS GIS, GNU-Linux and FOSS. Countries like India have a lot to gain with the spread of FOSS.
|-
|David Hastings
|UN Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific, Bangkok
|Member of original Grass Interagency Steering Committee, etc.
| 13.75°N 100.5°E
| A physicist/geophysicist/geological engineer who has used GRASS since 1987, and on the GRASS Interagency Steering Committee for the original public-domain package. I wrote the Linux Mini-HOWTO on GRASS-GIS (which is now woefully out of date); and taught short courses in scientific (as opposed to cartographic) GIS since 1980. In 1994 I moved my teaching to the Web, developing the CyberInstitute Short-Course on GIS. Currently, I'm at UN ESCAP. Open-Source is a great capacity- building environment for software communities worldwide. In developing countries, rather than being stuck merely teaching people to cut and paste stuff within a proprietary office suite, you can be part of the full development team, customizing the software to your community's needs, helping your country to have its own software development community - and hopefully making a satisfying living in the process.
|-
| Gary Sherman
| [http://mrcc.com Micro Resources], [http://qgis.org Quantum GIS]
| OSGeo Member
| (-149.567, 61.32138)
| Consultant, "Father" of Quantum GIS, long-time Linux user and Open Source proponent.
|-
| Astrid Emde
| [http://www.mapbender.org Mapbender], MapServer, PostgreSQL/PostGIS
| Mapbender Development
| (7.0707, 50.7342)
| Projects with MapServer, PostgreSQL/PostGIS, Mapbender. Part of the Mapbender Developer Team. Courses for Mapbender, UMN MapServer, PostgreSQL/PostGIS and WMS, WFS
|-
| Jeroen Ticheler
| [http://geonetwork-opensource.org GeoNetwork opensource], [http://sourceforge.net/projects/intermap InterMap opensource], [http://www.fao.org/geonetwork Food and Agriculture Organization GeoNetwork]
| OSGeo member, [http://www.osgeo.org/geonetwork GeoNetwork]
| 42.07420°N, 12.34343°E
| I've initiated the development of the GeoNetwork opensource Spatial Data Catalog software and its embedded InterMap opensource Map Viewer. I hope to contribute possitively to the creation of a comprehensive, FOSS based toolkit for Spatial Data Infrastructures (SDIs) that help people share and use geospatial data and information in an easy and cost effective way. I focus especially on the data sharing within the United Nations system and in countries under development. I promote free and open source software as an excellent option for more sustainable development in these countries, proving it works by applying and further developing it in my day to day work. [http://lists.eogeo.org/mailman/listinfo/opensdi OpenSDI] is a forum to discuss foss and cots integration.
|-
| Dirceu Machado
| [http://www.pti.org.br Itaipu Tecnology Park]
| OSGeo member,GRASS
| 59°S, -24°E
| I'm a brazilian developer of open source GIS/WEB_GIS applications using PHP, JAVA and Python with Mapserver and PostGIS and also a user and enthusiast of Linux and BSD's OS. I'm excited with the idea of a community like this one and i wish to help in any way i can with development's (if necessary) and/or documentation translations to portuguese language. Actualy i'm working in a project to develop a GIS viewer and map generator (for printing purposes) in Python based on the idea of the JUMP Project.
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| Kevin Yam
| [http://www.ene.gov.on.ca Ontario Ministry of the Environment], [http://www.lio.mnr.gov.on.ca, Land Information Ontario]
| OSGeo member
| 43.709, -79.544
| Program coordinator for information management within the Provinicial Ministry of the Environment. I focus especially on data sharing between government agencies, departments and local stakeholders, and I am a promoter of open source geospatial tools applicable to environmental monitoring and observing [[User:kevinyam]]
|-
| Colin Gowens
| Geographer, GIS Professional
| OSGeo member
| 33.7518, -84.3920
| User of GRASS, GDAL, OGR, PostGIS and Mapserver since 2002. The open source GIS software and community have proven tremendously valuable to my GIS endeavors.
|-
| David Bitner
| [http://maps.macnoise.com/interactive/ Metropolitan Airports Commission], [http://dbspatial.com/ dbSpatial]
| OSGeo member, Geodata Committee
| 44.844, -93.560
| Active PostGIS and MapServer user. GIS application developer for airport authority and other freelance projects. Serve on Regional/State committees (Minnesota) for Data Sharing and Enterprise Geospatial Architecture. Member of Twin Cities Mapserver Users Group.
|-
| Tyler Mitchell
| [http://spatialguru.com, Spatialguru.com]
| OSGeo Executive Director, [http://visibilitycommittee.osgeo.org Promotion and Visibility Committee], [http://edu.osgeo.org Education Committee]
| 52.13, -121.13 (lat/lon)
| MapServer, PostGIS, GRASS, GDAL user. [http://oreilly.com/catalog/webmapping, O'Reilly Author], writer, promoter of Open Source GIS.
|-
| Rafael Medeiros Sperb
| [http://www.univali.br, G10 - UNIVALI]
| OSGeo Member
| -26.60, -48.70 (lat/lon)
|-
| Steven M. Ottens
| [http://www.geodan.com/ Geodan]
| [http://communitymapbuilder.org MapBuilder]
| 52.34, 4.91 (lat/lon)
| Contributor and member of MapBuilder PMC. [[User:stvn]]
|-
| Stefano Maffulli
| Politecnico di Milano
| [http://visibilitycommittee.osgeo.org Promotion and Visibility Committee], [http://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php/International_Outreach International Outreach], [http://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php/Public_Geospatial_Data_Project Public Geospatial Data]
| 45, 9 (Lat,Lon)
| Architect, worked within the GIS_Lab at University of Florence on research about sustainable development of historical cities. At Joint Research Center (Ispra) worked within the EU funded project [http://commongis.org CommonGIS]. Currently working with Politecnico di Milano as consultant on [http://www.corila.it/ Methodologies and technologies for conservation and restoration of historical Venetian buildings]
|-
| Dave Patton
| [http://members.shaw.ca/davepatton/ CIS Canadian Information Systems]
| helping the Website Committee
| 49.27N 123.15W
| Self-employed computer consultant. Co-lead developer for [http://punt.sourceforge.net/ Punt], an Open Source multi-language Windows desktop application that allows the user to view the terrain of any world in 3D. Canadian Coordinator and co-administrator of [http://www.confluence.org/index.php the Degree Confluence Project] [[User:Dpatton]]
|-
| Jody Garnett<br>[[User:Jive]]
| [http://docs.codehaus.org/display/GEOTOOLS/Home GeoTools]
| Iccubation and limited Website Committee
| missing
| It seems all I do is email, must be due to [http://docs.codehaus.org/display/GEOTOOLS/Home GeoTools], [http://docs.codehaus.org/display/GEOS/Home GeoServer], [http://docs.codehaus.org/display/GEO/Home GeoAPI] and [http://udig.refractions.net uDig]. I am working at [http://www.refractions.net/ Refractions Research, Inc], a small consulting company with an open source habit.
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| Justin Deoliveira
| [http://topp.openplans.org The Open Planning Project], [http://docs.codehaus.org/display/GEOTOOLS/Home GeoTools], [http://docs.codehaus.org/display/GEOS/Home GeoServer]
| [http://docs.codehaus.org/display/GEOTOOLS/Home GeoTools]
| undeterministic
| [http://docs.codehaus.org/display/GEOTOOLS/Home GeoTools] module maintainer, [http://docs.codehaus.org/display/GEOS/Home GeoServer] developer, and [http://udig.refractions.net uDig] committer. I have been kicking around the Java GIS world for approximately 3 years contributing as an active developer on said projects. For the last year or so I have been working for a non-profit company known as [http://topp.openplans.org The Open Planning Project].
|
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| Dylan Beaudette
| [http://casoilresource.lawr.ucdavis.edu/drupal/node/38 UCD]
| GRASS
| Input lat/long here
| Soils and Biogeochemistry M.S. student at University of California, Davis. Interested in the use and proliferation of OSS in the sciences, particularly soil science. GIS and geomorphologic analysis; presentation of USDA-NCSS digital soil survey information / soils education through visual example.
|-
| Stuart Eve
| [http://www.lparchaeology.com L - P : Archaeology]
| Mapserver (user), GRASS (user)
| Input lat/long here
| Involved in using web-based Open Source technologies to make archaeological data accessible to a wider audience. We use Mapserver in a number of applications, including [http://www.fastionline.org Fasti Online]
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| [[User:Pmarc | Paulo Marcondes]]
| [http://www.marcondes.org marcondes.org], [http://hamstuff.blogspot.com Blog]
| [http://grass.itc.it GRASS] (translator), OSGeo Member (?), [[Brasil | OSGeo Brasil]] (proponent)
| (-22.915,-42.229), Maidenhead: GG87vc
| Working in the GRASS translation to portuguese (pt_br), somewhat involved (at least intelecutally) with Debian-GIS, involved in the local Debian User Group. My interests range from everything spatial to everything geospatial, GIS, GPS, Ham Radio, wardriving, etc. I have a B.S. in Geology (2001) Universidade de São Paulo, Brasil. I do R&D in the oil industry in a non GIS arena, but plan migrating to the GIS arena in the near future. I'm also planning a M.S. in GIS sometime in the future (accepting suggestions).
I would like to see free software adopted everywhere. I don't dislike proprietary software per se, but the attitude it usually inspires.
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| [[User:anselm | Anselm Hook]]
| [http://hook.org hook.org], [http://maps.civicactions.net maps.civicactions.net] [http://placedb.org placedb]
|
| (-122.673,-45.5371), Portland Oregon
| Both commercial and open source developer. Led engineering for platial.com and wrote placedb.org - also wrote maps.civicactions.net (an ajax tile map engine with a dataset behind it). Also wrote a small java spinny globe at [http://hook.org/headmap headmap]. Interested in providing fully open source map data (not simply applications or tools but actual content). Primarily interested in social and environmental issues with an eye towards modelling near term outcomes of decision making.
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| Oscar Cantán
| University of Zaragoza, Spain
| Member
| (41.666,-0.888)
| Currently working on the development and implementation of geospatial interoperability standards. Specially interested in OGC catalog services specification (CSW, SRW) and metadata content standards (ISO 19119-19139).
|-
| Lorenzo Becchi
| http://www.ominiverdi.org
| OSGeo Member
| moving
| ka-Map developer. User:[[User:Ominiverdi|Ominiverdi]]
|-
| Christoph Baudson
| http://www.mapbender.org
| OSGeo Member
| here, there and everywhere
| Mapbender developer. See [[User:christoph|Christoph]]
|-
| Georg Lösel
| http://www.grass-verein.de GRASS-Anwender-Vereinigung
| User (GRASS, QGIS); Free Geodata
| 52,3625/9,7481
| [[User:Georgloesel|Georg Lösel]]
|-
| Reinhard Simon
| [http://www.cipotato.org [International Potato Center, Lima, Peru]
| Project lead: [http://research.cip.cgiar.org/confluence/display/divagis/Home DIVA-GIS]
| NA
| [[User:rsimon|Reinhard Simon]]
|-
| Todd Jamison
| http://www.observera.com
| OSGEO Member; User: OSSIM, GDAL, MapServer; Contributor: OSSIM
| (38.898489, -77.500484)
| Chief Image Scientist and CEO of Observera, Inc. Observera worked on the original OSSIM library with ImageLinks and we have developed several projects using the OSSIM library and MapServer, including ALLEGRO (Land-cover / Land-use Classification) and the Change Detection WorkStation (CDWS), both for the US Army. Expertise includes spectral, thermal, microwave sensors, photogrammetry, image registration, image processing, morphology, resolution enhancement, workflow automation, machine learning (e.g., neural nets, support vector machines, genetic algorithms), Geologic GIS and bunches of other stuff. Glad to be a part of OSGEO.
|-
| Laurent Jégou
| [http://www.univ-tlse2.fr/geoprdc UTM Dept. Géo], [http://www.forumsig.org Forum SIG], [http://www.portailsig.org Portail SIG]
| User and wanabee [http://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php/Core_Curriculum_Project Curriculum project] contributor.
| (43.6N, 1.4E)
| Cartographer (conception, production, integration), cartography and GIS teacher for masters degrees, open source mapping software developper (.Net and Java), technology developpement monitoring.
|-
| Gary Watry
| [http://www.coaps.fsu.edu[Center for Ocean-Atmospheric Prediction Studies - Florida State University]
| NA
| (30.42277,-84.32370)
| [[User:Gary Watry]]
|-
| Hardeep Singh Rai
| [http://www.gndec.ac.in/ Guru Nanak Dev Engineering College, Ludhiana, Punjab]
| -
| (30.55N,75.54E)
| Willing to see growth of GPL/OpenSource softwares in every field. Civil Engineer, in teaching profession since 1989. Presently Professor and Head of Civil Engineering Department.
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| Paolo Cavallini
| [http://www.faunalia.it Faunalia]
|
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| M. Agus Salim
| [http://gislab.cifor.cgiar.org/fsic Forest Spatial Information Catalog]
| User
| Bogor, Indonesia [106.752E,6.5533S]
| Working as GIS Assistant in Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR). Currently i am interested in exploring geospatial open source software capabilities and hope to involved more than a user in the future
|-
| Janusz Michalak
| [http://www.ptip.org.pl/ Polish Association for Spatial Information]
[http://netgis.geo.uw.edu.pl/ Warsaw University, Dept. of Geology]
| GRASS user
| Warsaw, Poland (52.2118,20.9864)
| Will be added later
|-
| Chris Tweedie
| [http://www.dli.wa.gov.au/ Dept. of Land Information]
| OSGeo Lurker
| Perth, Australia [116.0043,-31.8869]
| Deploying a statewide SDI for WA using largely OSGeo projects. General lurker i'm afraid, lots of ideas, not enough time~
|-
| The Sunburned Surveyor (A.K.A. - Landon Blake)
| [http://openjump.blogspot.com/index.html My Blog]
| OSGeo Lurker
| Stockton, California
| Project administrator and developer for The JUMP Pilot Project and the SurveyOS Project.
|-
| Rob Atkinson
| [http://online.socialchange.net.au]
| Geoserver PSC, Geotools
| Wollongong,Australia
| SDI Architect. Involved in data standards and tools to deploy them, registry design, standards development (mainly OGC and ISO, INSPIRE.) Generally, enabling Observations and Measurements patterns in OS tools and other consistency/productivity/scalability requirements.
|-
| Mateusz Loskot
| [http://mateusz.loskot.net/ http://mateusz.loskot.net]
| [http://www.gdal.org/ GDAL/OGR] hacker, [http://fdo.osgeo.org FDO] PSC and hacker, [http://wl.sggw.waw.pl/ Warsaw Agricultural University]
| Warsaw,Poland (52.2373 21.0834)
| A freelance geospatial software developer and contributor to various FOSS/GIS projects. Interested in [http://mobile.maptools.org/ mobile GIS solutions]. Active member of various Open Source Software communities. [[User:mloskot]]
|-
| Asif Ahmed
| http://www.on.ec.gc.ca/orise
| Osgeo Member
| Toronto, Canada
| Mapserver user, Chameleon user, Coldfusion, .NET, C and Perl experience. Open source enthusiast.
|-
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| Dongpo Deng
| [http://www.iis.sinica.edu.tw/~dongpo/cv.html About me]
| OSGeo Lurker
| Taipei, Taiwan(25.041N 121.614E)
| A researcher for open geospatial techniques and data.
|-
| Ian Ibbotson
| http://developer.k-int.com
| Osgeo Lurker
| Sheffield, UK (37.0625,-95.677068)
| Information Retrieval / Information Repository Developer. Worked with USGS on combining text and spatial IR systems, on the GEO Z3950 profile, and on exposing GEO access points in the SRW/SRU protocol. Developer on UK Peoples Network cultural heritage / digital preservation amongst other projects with public information / spatial faceted data.
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| Josef Assad
| Independent (for now)
| Still figuring out where I can be most useful as an OSGEO slave
| Cairo, Egypt (30.070877;31.220312)
| Free software, open standards are my primary areas of interest.
|-
| Ben Discoe
|
| [http://vterrain.org Virtual Terrain Project (VTP)]
| Ahualoa, Hawai'i (20.0532,-155.5085)
| After some years in the virtual reality field, i got the geospatial religion. With some support from Intel, i began what later grew into the VTP. 7 years after public launch, it is now a thriving community, educational website, and suite of open-source geovisualization software, which is likely to become an official OSGeo project at some point.
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| Emilio Mayorga
| [http://marine.rutgers.edu/BGC/ Rutgers], [http://garrobo.org/ CAEE]
|
| New Brunswick, New Jersey (40.505,-74.399)
| Post-doc researcher at Rutgers, working on [http://www.marine.rutgers.edu/globalnews/ global carbon and nutrients exports from rivers to the ocean], and very interested in pushing FOSS tools (geospatial and otherwise) and the open, community aspects surrounding them, into the Earth Sciences community. I'm doing more and more Python lately (and enjoying it), but previously have worked with Perl, C, the whole ESRI stack, Matlab, etc. In my recent, previous life, I was a lead GIS Analyst at a [http://www1.co.snohomish.wa.us/Departments/Public_Works/Divisions/SWM/ Washington state county]; that 5-year experience strongly colored my perspective and interests. I've also worked with [http://garrobo.org/ a small group compiling and redistributing environmental data (mostly geospatial) for Central America], where I've pushed a FOSSG stack (MapServer, GDAL, qgis). I hope to help out with the [http://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php/Public_Geospatial_Data_Project Public Geospatial Data Project], focusing on scientific datasets, developing countries, and practical implementations. [[User:Emayorga]]
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| Aarti Singh
| Johns Hopkins - KGMU Collaborative Projects
| OSGeo Member
| Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India (26.55, 80.59)
| We're working on public health research and are using GIS tools to map our study area.
|-
| Dan Jacobson/積丹尼
| (none)
| [[Taiwan|Taiwan Chapter]] member
| Dongshi, Taiwan 120.87 E, 24.18 N
| House address planning, utility pole coordinates, bus routes. See http://jidanni.org/
|-
| Yves Jacolin
| [http://georezo.net GeoRezo moderator] for the Webmapping forum
| Francophone Local Chapter / OSGeo Member / GRASS, QGIS and MapServer User
| Suresnes, France (48.87N, 2.23E)
| Translate and write documentation or how-to about GDAL-ORG, QGIS, GRASS, MapServer, ... Help in georezo.net forumsig.org OS and webmapping forum. Work on the creation of the [[Francophone|francophone local chapter]].
|-
| [[User:Jsanz|Jorge Sanz]]
| [http://www.prodevelop.es Prodevelop], [http://www.gvsig.gva.es gvSIG project]<br/> [http://geomaticblog.net geomaticblog.net]
| OSGeo Member / [[Español|Spanish Local Chapter]]
| Valencia, Spain (40.396N,3.713W)
| I'm working as GIS developer and power user :P. Free software fan since 2000 and enthusiastic GNU/Linux user. I'm translating OSGeo portal pages.
|-
| Markus Müller
| [http://www.deegree.org deegree], [http://www.lat-lon.de lat/lon]
| [http://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php/Deutsch/NAS Free NAS implementation]
| Hamburg, Germany (10.00, 52.74)
| I am one of the founding members and managers of the [http://www.deegree.org deegree] project. Besides this I am actively involved in the work of the [http://www.opengeospatial.org OGC], e.g. as editor of Symbology Encoding and SLD profile of WMS specifications.
|-
| Bob Bruce
| Handyside Web Programming Services [http://www.hwps.ca]
| MapServer, QGIS user, co-creator of the mapping interface for www.TheMuralsofWinnipeg.com [http://www.themuralsofwinnipeg.com/Mpages/indexMuralsMap.php]
| Winnipeg, Canada (49.86059N, 97.104989W)
| I am an advocate for open source geospatial software
|-
| [[User:milovanderlinden|Milo van der Linden]]
| CTO 3DSite IT&C bv, the Netherlands
| [http://www.3dsite.nl 3DSite]
| (51.516N,3.880E)
| BSc in Geo-science, 10 years experience in GIS. Started my own company in jan 2007. Focus on 3D GIS, Google Earth, Fleet management, Routing and Navigation. Open Sourcing with: MapWindow GIS, OpenStreetMap, OGR/GDAL, QuantumGIS, dotProject, Blender. Developer in VB6, VB.NET and C#
|-
| Kevin Flanders
| PeopleGIS Inc. [http://www.peoplegis.com]
| MapServer, home of MapsOnline...a municipal online mapping service
| Concord, MA USA (42.459N, 71.3518W)
| PeopleGIS has built MapsOnline and other related products on open source software for over five years, working with many people on this list.
|-
| [[User:AndrewTurner|Andrew Turner]]
| [http://highearthorbit.com HighEarthOrbit], [http://mapfacture.com Mapufacture]
| OSGeo Lurker
| Ann Arbor, MI, US (42.2774N x 83.7611W)
| [http://oreilly.com/catalog/neogeography Neogeographer] - interested in helping GIS be usable and creatable by non-geo-savvy users. Helps develop [http://mapstraction.com Mapstraction], and [http://georss.org/geopress GeoPress] web mapping and publishing tools. Active contributor to the [http://georss.org GeoRSS Community].
[[Category:Membership]]

Mobile Solutions

2007-01-29T15:32:42Z

Wiki-AndrewTurner: Added preliminary information on OpenMoKo

== Overview ==
This is not a formal OSGeo project, just a spot for a few OSGeo folks to share some ideas.
The idea is to elaborate foundations of design and implementation of [http://www.opensource.org Open Source] GIS application(s) for mobile devices. The homepage for this project can be found at [http://mobile.maptools.org/ Mobile GIS]. If you have any comments about the homepage, please visit the [http://mobile.maptools.org/index.phtml?page=mailinglist.html Mobile GIS Support] page, and post/subscribe to the mailing list.

Our main objectives are to discuss:
* principles of mobile software design
* high usable User Interface on mobile devices
* key functions automation
* usage of latest communication techniques
* portability

== Mobile GIS project ==

Homepage: http://mobile.maptools.org/

== Hardware ==

Mobile GIS will be made to work on a variety of hardware platforms. It should be usable on desktop systems, laptops, tablet PCs, and other various pocket computers. Support for cell phones with Java capability is also an option.

''TODO: List pros/cons for devices on which Mobile GIS can be run.''

== Operating Systems / Platforms ==

This section is devoted to discuss features as well as pros and cons (+/-) of various mobile operating systems and software platforms.

Here are listed platforms we have discussed, in alphabetical order:

=== Linux ===

From [http://www.openembedded.org/project-overview OpenEmbedded Overview]:

''OpenEmbedded is a full-featured development environment allowing users to target a wide variety of devices.(...)OpenEmbedded is a tool which allows developers to create a fully usable Linux base for various embedded systems. It has been designed to be able to handle different hardware architectures, support multiple releases for those architectures, and utilize tools for speeding up the process of recreating the base after changes have been made. Currently it can run on any Linux distribution, and plans are in place to allow it to work under Windows.''

'''Note:''' Familiar's Linux distribution is entirely based on OpenEmbedded system.

See:
* http://familiar.handhelds.org
* http://intimate.handhelds.org
* http://www.microwindows.org
* http://www.openembedded.org

See also:
* http://www.linuxdevices.com
* http://tuxmobil.org/pda_linux.html

===== Pros and Cons =====

* '''+'''
** choice of user environments: [http://gpe.handhelds.org GPE], [http://opie.handhelds.org/cgi-bin/moin.cgi/ Opie] and [http://www.trolltech.com/products/qtopia/index Qtopia]
** compatible with [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/POSIX POSIX]
** easy software portability
** Open Source Software
** prototypes available: e.g. [http://grass.itc.it/platforms/grasshandheld.html GRASS on Handhelds]

* '''-'''
** less popular

=== OpenMoKo ===
OpenMoKo is an open-source mobile communications platform. Most importantly, it comes with built-in AGPS receiver, touch-screen, and GSM data connection.

* [http://www.openmoko.com/ OpenMoKo homepage]
* [http://www.linuxtogo.org/gowiki/OpenMoko OpenMoKo wiki]

It will run [http://www.openembedded.org OpenEmbedded].

=== Palm OS ===

See:
* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palm_OS

===== Pros and Cons =====

* '''+'''
** available Open Source tool chain - [http://prc-tools.sourceforge.net called]
** available JVM
** C/C++ programming language

* '''-'''
** dedicated for a very specific hardware platform designed entirely by [http://www.palm.com Palm Inc.]
** no choice of user environments
** no multitasking support in versions prior to [http://www.palmsource.com/palmos/cobalt.html Palm OS Cobalt], version 6.x
** proprietary

=== Symbian OS ===

See:
* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symbian_OS

===== Pros and Cons =====

* '''+'''
** dedicated to devices with very limited resources
** good support for popular IDEs on Linux, Mac OS and Windows
** open in terms of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Standard Open Standards]
** very popular on smartphones
** very well documented APIs
** very good support for Java
** wide variety of programming languages: C++, Java, Perl, Python, OPL, Visual Basic

* '''-'''
** no choice of user environments
** proprietary

=== Windows CE ===

See:
* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_CE
* http://msdn.microsoft.com/embedded/windowsce/default.aspx

See also:
* http://www.windowsfordevices.com

===== Pros and Cons =====

* '''+'''
** Real-Time Operating System, with full multithreading and multitasking support
** supports wide range of hardware
** very popular on PDAs currently on the market / widely used
** very well supported by Visual Studio 2005

* '''-'''
** no choice of user environments
** not compatible with POSIX
** [http://blog.vikdavid.com/2004/12/java_on_pocketp.html No good free JVM] available, both recommended machines [http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/websphere/zones/wireless/weme_eval_runtimes.html IBM J9 JVM] and [http://www.nsicom.com/Default.aspx?tabid=138 NSICOM CrEme JVM] are proprietary
** proprietary
** very limited version of C Run-Time library
** Visual Studio 2005 is expansive / no replacement

=== Windows XP Embedded ===

From [http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/xpehelp/html/xeconAboutWindowsXPEmbeddedTop.asp About Windows XP Embedded]:

''Windows XP Embedded is a componentized version of Windows XP Professional that contains all of the features, functionality, and familiarity of Windows XP Professional.''

See:
* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_XP_Embedded
* http://msdn.microsoft.com/embedded/windowsxpembedded/default.aspx

===== Pros and Cons =====

* '''+'''
''TODO''
* '''-'''
** proprietary

== Development Platforms/Languages ==

''TODO: Different options for development platforms on which the software can be developed for maximum portability''

=== C/C++ ===
==== Pros and Cons ====

* '''+'''
** Excellent performance
** An industry standard for developing application
** Quite portable, as long as portability is taken into account throughout development
* '''-'''
** Requires more work to compile on various OS
** GUI is not portable to various OS, so it would most likely need to be developed separately for several different OS's

=== Java ===
==== Pros and Cons ====

* '''+'''
** Excellent portability
** Should technically work on any Operating System as long as a Java VM is available for it
** Should work with Java-enabled cell phones as well
* '''-'''
** Worse performance than C/C++
** Not all Mobile hardware has Java VM pre-installed

=== wxWidgets ===
''TODO: Anyone with experience using wxWidgets, please add your thoughts''
* http://www.wxwidgets.org (and for embedded apps: http://www.wxwidgets.org/docs/embedded.htm)
* Seems an excellent GUI toolkit which is highly portable
* Usable from variety of languages such as C++, Python, Perl, and C#/.NET.

== Open Source GIS for Mobile Devices ==

''TODO: Details of mobile GIS application design and implementation''

=== Key Features ===

''TODO: List of key features''

==== Brainstorm ====

'''Note:''' ''Please, feel free to extend the list of features here.''

'''Question:''' ''What do you think about rank features listed in this brainstorm section? It could be achived by putting asterix (*) next to features you think are important. Any other ideas?''

This section is devoted to a summary of our discussion on the OSGeo mailing list.
List of ideas of Open Source Mobile GIS features:

* User Interface
** configurable UI: turn on/off UI elements, switch to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiosk_software kiosk mode]
** create a wizard type tool for the desktop (for example in [http://www.qgis.org QGIS]) to create data collection forms, etc. to be transported to the handheld device (similar to as [http://www.esri.com/software/arcgis/arcpad-appbldr/about/forms.html ArcPad Forms])
** binding UI action to hardware elements, for example zooming with hardware keys or scrolls
** use of voice capabilities
*** ask for operation confirmations (Yes, No, Cancel) and accept answering by speech recognition or by pushing hardware keys
** use of LEDs, for example to indicate states of various operations: GPS location accuracy/low PDOP, edited layer has not been saved, no network connection, synchronization is in progress, catching tracklog/feature vertices with GPS, etc.
** Internationalization
** Client UI should have an option for a 'simplified' UI, so that those with less computer experience can still use the software effectively. Advanced option can be used by those with more experience/who need the most functionality from the client.

* GIS functionality
** map tools: zoom-in, zoom-out, pan
** integration of map and attributes database
** data query tool
** features editing
*** automated and configurable functions like: snapping, polygon closing, layers autosave
** measures
** projections, for example [http://mateusz.loskot.net/projects/proj4/ PROJ.4 for Windows CE]

* data sources and providers, see [[#Spatial Data Formats]]
** remote
*** accessed via [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_Feature_Service Web Feature Service]
** local
*** file based
*** local RDBMS, for example [[#SQLite]]

* data synchronization
** network-based:
*** on-demand - temporal network connection required
*** continuous - permanent network connection required
** file-based:
*** with files copied from flash memory card
*** with files transfered by [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infrared_Data_Association IrDA], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bluetooth Bluetooth] or cable

* GPS functionality
** navigation
** routing from current position
** querying data based on current position
** catch location from GPS, for example to create point on a layer
** signal/protocol logging
** automated map large-scale switching while measuring/catching features with GPS, for example from 1:500 or 1:1000

* Data Compression
** including Spatial and Attribute data
*** Catagraphy-generalization-based compression for vector data
*** Huffman-Code-based method for attribute data
*** Wavelet-based method for raster data
* Layer map management accrording to application theme
** for vehicle navigation specification like ISO GDF40

* Other
** ''some kind of'' integration with external devices, for example laser range finder, camera

=== Spatial Data Formats ===

This section discusses data formats considered for local spatial datastore on a mobile device.
Proposed formats are listed in alphabetical order.

==== Spatial Data File (SDF) ====

From [http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/index?siteID=123112&id=5169479#section4 Autodesk's FAQ] about the SDF format:

''Autodesk’s new spatial data file (SDF) is a powerful single file that provides many of the capabilities of a relational database (RDBMS). Each SDF file can contain multiple geometry types (lines, polygons, and points) as well as feature attributes. A spatial data file enables you to organize and manage your data as GIS features, providing a solid foundation for a smooth transition to an RDBMS in the future if the need arises.''

Some additional info on the SDF format available at [https://fdo.osgeo.org/nonav/docs/SDF/index.html https://fdo.osgeo.org/nonav/docs/SDF/index.html]

''TODO: We need more details about SDF format! If you know anything about this format, please share your knowledge here. Thanks!''

''TODO: Is there any specification available to download?''

==== ESRI Shapefile ====

ESRI Shapefile is a file-based format, simple and easy to use in mobile application, though it does not support complex data relations natively.
Important features of ESRI Shapefile format:
* availability of portable libraries: [http://shapelib.maptools.org Shapelib] and [http://ogr.maptools.org/drv_shapefile.html OGR], both work on Windows CE and Linux
* easy to use and create on mobile devices
* very popular format in GIS world
* well-documented format

See:
* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shapefile
* [http://www.esri.com/library/whitepapers/pdfs/shapefile.pdf ESRI Shapefile Technical Description]

==== SQLite ====

From the [http://www.sqlite.org SQLite] website:

''SQLite is a small C library that implements a self-contained, embeddable, zero-configuration SQL database engine.''

SQLite engine seems to be a good candidate for a local geospatial database managed on a mobile device. SQLite features which are mostly interesting for Open Source GIS system for mobile devices include:

* easy to use and create on mobile devices
* highly portable library, works well on Linux PDAs and Windows CE devices (see [http://sourceforge.net/projects/sqlite-wince sqlite-wince])
* Open Source Software
* single-file format
* it's been used in GIS, see [http://www.gdal.org/ogr/drv_sqlite.html SQLite driver for OGR] and [http://grass.itc.it/grass61/manuals/html61_user/sqlite.html SQLite driver for GRASS]

== Existing Projects ==

Here is the list of various existing GIS projects for mobile platforms:

=== Open Source ===

* [http://gisws.media.osaka-cu.ac.jp/grass04/viewabstract.php?id=30 GRASS Server] by Radim Blazek and Luca Nardelli - client-server system providing access to geographic information from different kinds of devices: PCs, PDAs, mobile phones; with speech recognition support.
* [http://gisws.media.osaka-cu.ac.jp/grass04/video/grass-server-divx.avi GRASS Server Video] by Radim Blazek and Luca Nardelli - Video Demo (AVI File 31MB).
* [http://www.skylab-mobilesystems.com/en/products/j2me_wms_client.html J2ME OGC WMS Client] - it is a tool, implemented in J2ME, to communicate with OGC conform WMS servers and display the requested maps.
* [http://www.javavietnam.org/javavn/jvngis/home2.html JVNMobileGIS] - It is a Java WMS mobile viewer which is small in size. JVNMobileGIS fetches map data from remote OGC WMS compliant servers instead of included map data in mobile device.
* [http://www.wmsmobil.de WMSMobil J2ME] - simple OGC WMS Client for Java Micro-Edition enabled mobile phones from University of Regensburg, featuring GetMap and GetFeatureInfo.
* [http://gnuite.com:8080/nokia770/maemo-mapper/ Maemo Mapper] - Maemo Mapper is geographical mapping software specifically designed for the [https://maemo.org/about.html Maemo platform] and the [http://www.europe.nokia.com/nokia/0,,74866,00.html Nokia 770] form factor
* [http://stud4.tuwien.ac.at/~e9825234/mapview/index.html mapview] - mapview is a package for viewing maps on a Palm OS handheld.
* [http://www.navlet.org Navlet] - it is a navigation system for mobile devices, gets the positioning from a GPS receiver and displays it on a digital map.
* [http://www.skylab-mobilesystems.com/en/products/spot.php Spot] - combine the power of GPS with worldwide maps and a flexible waypoint management on mobile phone or PDA.
* [http://www.geotracing.com GeoTracing] - GPS/Mobile tracking, tracing with locative media platform
* [http://www.smita.eu.com Smita] - Interreg IIIB (Atlantic Area) European project called SMITA (Turistic Information System for Mobile Devices in the Atlantic Area). It is based in open source software and OGC standars and it is developing a system to enable users of mobile computing devices to access tourism, cultural and citizen information in all partner regions.
* [http://www.fh-oow.de/institute/iapg/projekte/svgmobil/open/ SVG kernel] for mobile devices

=== Closed Source ===

* [http://www.i-locate.de/mobil_anbieter.htm Overview of mobile geodata services for cell phone/smartphone or pda. Inquiry by Ralph Buchfelder for WMSMobil Project at University of Regensburg.]
* [http://www.viavirtualearth.com/vve/Gallery/VEMobile.ashx Virtual Earth Mobile]
* [http://www.oziexplorer.com OziExplorer]
* [http://www.fugawi.com/docs/navframe.html Fugawi Global Navigator]

== Events ==

[http://www.foss4g2006.org/contributionDisplay.py?contribId=231&sessionId=57&confId=1 FOSS4G2006 Mobile GIS BOF]

[[FOSS4G2006 Mobile GIS BOF Minutes]]

User:AndrewTurner

2006-09-22T12:14:44Z

Wiki-AndrewTurner:

Andrew Turner works with [http://georss.org/blog/ GeoRSS], [http://mapufacture.com Mapufacture], [http://georss.org/geopress GeoPress], and a [http://highearthorbit.com/project ton of other projects] related to mapping, geolocation, home automation, robotics, space, airships, and gadgets.

[http://highearthorbit.com highearthorbit.com] - blog

FOSS4G2006 Mobile GIS BOF Minutes

2006-09-22T12:12:36Z

Wiki-AndrewTurner: /* Mobile GIS BOF Attendees */

'''IMPORTANT NOTE'''

''This is only the first part of Mobile GIS BOF minutes. The second part was written down by Tim Bowden. He will publish it in a couple of weeks, when he is back home after his journey.''

== Where, When and Who? ==

* Place: FOSS4G 2006 conference, Lausanne, Switzerland
* Starting date: 13-Sep-2006, 18:00
* Duration: 02h00'
* Presenters:
** Mrs. REIMER, Silke
** Mr. BOWDEN, Tim
** Mr. LOSKOT, Mateusz

== Mobile GIS BOF Attendees ==

'''NOTE:''' ''Please, add yourself if you're not on the list or fix your name if it's incorrectly spelled below.''

* Brent Fraser
* David Villalon
* Frank Warmerdam
* Frederic Pouget
* Jan-Oliver Wagner
* Just van den Broecke
* Ludovic LESTRAT
* Mateusz Loskot
* Silke Reimer
* Till
* Tim Bowden
* Tyler Mitchell
* [[AndrewTurner|Andrew Turner]]

== Why you are here? ==

'''NOTE:''' ''Please, add your notes below if anything is missing.''

=== Silke ===
* It's possible there is an opportunity to found some work on Open Source mobile
* Contribution of project management, infrastructure, place for meetings, marketing stuff, may be founds.

=== Just ===
* On-line services.
* Apps for mobile phones.
* Multimedia features.
* Tracking platform for mobile devices.
* Contribute multimedia features, Java development.

=== Tim ===
* Collecting data in a field.
* Consume data in a field
* Synchronize data on mobile devices against servers.
* Provide building blocks, not end user application.
* Contribute use cases, testing and ideas.

=== Till ===
* Collecting data infrastructure features in a field
* Identify object in a field
* The idea was/is to develop a client that provides data and identification tool,
* POI, ROI, Routing tool.
* The idea is to connect central database with mobile client.
* Contribute: experience about Java Script (->Web based) on mobile devices, ideas, testing.
* Looking for: well-designed and developed platform.

=== Brent ===
* Data collection in a field and server upload capabilities.
* Use mobile device as an input device, not only for output/data provider.
* Good accuracy level.
* Collect control points to rectify satellite image.
* Precise navigation and locating capabilities.
* Mobile device -> iPAQ

=== Frederic ===
* Interested in mobile solutions.
* Works for private sector, not Open Source company.
* LBS for mobile platform.

=== Ludovic ===
* Works with ArcPad based solutions.
* Inventory of features in field.
* Contribute: testing

=== Tyler ===
* Need outdoor mobile platform for environmental assessment, etc.
* Particularly interested in applying [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augmented_reality Augmented Reality] concepts to GIS data.
* Provide advanced features of visualization, 3D, etc.
* Tablet PC platform would be good, plus cameras and multiple sensors (digital compass, gps, accelerometers)
* Frustrated with current windows options

=== ??? ===
* iPod-based solution

=== Mateusz ===
* Interested in development of mobile GIS framework, a set of libraries and components usable in other projects, end-user solutions.
* Provide foundations for mobile GIS development.
* GUI independent.

== Project output ==

We can see three different applications for mobile devices:
a) End-user application, a kind of viewer or editor
b) Data collecting solution, with GPS, editing and automation features
c) The third one, is a kind of LSB solution for mobile phones or other small
devices with GPS/GSM capabilities.

a) and b) are main lines of development proposal.
c) is very different application to a) and b)

== Development platform ==

a) Langauge:
- C/C++ - it seems to be our language of choice
- Java - mainly used on mobile phones
- Python - who has worked with Python on mobile devices?

b) Operating platform
- Windows Mobile >= 5.0 - the main OS on the mobile devices market at the moment; target platform of the first prototype
- Linux - most of us would prefer to develop for Linux, but it's not very popular yet, no commercial support for Linux-based mobile devices, etc.

b) Tools:
- Visual Studio 2005 - a commercial toolset, the only option for Windows Mobile development :-(
- gcc-based toolset for cross-compilation, but there is no debugger

== Type of application ==

- standalone application (most of participants likes this one)
- thin client (a web-based solution)
- strong client (standalone application or a combination)

== Data ==

Data sources localization we want to support:
* local
* remote

Main data types we want to support:
* vector
* raster

Various data sources and formats possible to use:
* vectors:
** local files (ie. shapefiles, mapinfo)
** GML and WFS
** database (ie. [http://www.sqlite.org/ SQLite])
* rasters:
** tile server for rasters
** WMS

Available libraries to access and operate spatial data:
* [http://www.gdal.org/wince.html GDAL/OGR for Windows CE]
* [http://shapelib.maptools.org/ Shapelib]

== What GIS components we have ready to use? ==

* Windows Mobile
** OGR
** [http://proj.maptools.org/ PROJ.4] and [http://mateusz.loskot.net/projects/proj4/ PROJ.4 port for Windows CE]
** SQLite

* Linux
** most of currently available portable libraries are runnable on Linux on mobiles

== GPS ==

All Mobile GIS BOF participants agree that we need a GPS support.

=== Windows Mobile ===

* GPS API and GPS Intermediate Driver (GPSID) - [http://mateusz.loskot.net/2006/01/07/a-first-glance-at-the-gps-api-in-windows-mobile-50/ see short overview]
* [http://gpsd.berlios.de/ gpsd] does not officially run on Windows-based systems, what about porting it?
* There is always an option to develop our own portable library for reading and parsing NMEA sentences
from serial/... port in a separate thread (no TCP/IP server/listener required)

=== Linux ===
* [http://gpsd.berlios.de/ gpsd] works very well on Linux

FOSS4G Public Geodata BOF Attendees

2006-09-13T16:42:29Z

Wiki-AndrewTurner: Bulleted names

* Ari Jolma - Educational interest more than political in public geodata
* Ned Horning - Museum of Natural History
* Jo Walsh
* Pedro Goncalves from Terradue - GRID and GIS services - projects with ESA and the EC
* Peter from the Irish environmental protection agency - IPR issues - metadata collection - OSGeo support for archiving
* Tim Waters - localgov in bradford UK
* David Jonglez - camptocamp - better GIS through public geodata
* Francois Quinel - office for water in France - data collection in ministry of ecology - publishing data - licensing issues to resolve
* please fill in name later - German localgov
* Stefan - dept of physical geography - standing committee on antarctic geodata - more IPR issues -access issues
* Perry Nacionales - u minnesota - os gis and web mapping - environment management - lots of data, not
* Daniel McInerny - academic OS research
* Stef - finnish institute bio research - satellite imagery interest - INSPIRE interest
* [missed name sorry] - academic background in Poland - geodata access issues
* [missed name sorry] - GRASS user group - free geodata in germany
* Peter Low - GRASS user group - landscape interpretation - env data
* Frank Kroman from freegis.org - general eurodata interest
* Clarissa Sweeney - MIT - GIS lab there - student global data usage interest
* Nick Black - OpenStreetmap - GPS based data collection + web services - cf opengeodata.org
* [missed name sorry] -National ecological ministry in Bucharest - romania starting to build SDI
* [missed name sorry] - academic background in Zurich - web mapping services - QGIS user - eurodata access problems - using US data for tutorial info
* Andrew Turner - GeoRSS - aggregation + licenses for geodata
* Barnarby - GSI systems consultant - geospatial intelligence systems
* Alejandro - Venezuela - 1:500000 scale data for cities - published via web services working on data reuse and maintenance for localgov - public or semi-public - metadata management
* Christian - Venezuela -
* Josh Lieberman from Austin - concern over proprietary movement in US govdata policy - coordinating licensing terms - what is reasonable public use
* Joachim from .cz in University of Berlin - general interest - concern over cross-gov data sales
* Markus Neteler - GRASS project - creating precedent to free data - interested in algorithm based generation

Developing Geospatial Solutions using Open Source

2006-08-29T12:46:47Z

Wiki-AndrewTurner:

== Approach for writing this book ==

We will start writing this book by listing practical problems and then identifying tools for solving those problems. As the list of problems increases they should be organized into groups etc.

== GPS related ==
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center" border="1" cellpadding="2"
| Use || Description || Perl || Ruby || Python
|-
| Parse GPX
| [http://www.topografix.com/gpx.asp What is GPX?]
| [http://search.cpan.org/~rbow/Geo-Cache/lib/Geo/Gpx.pm Perl based solution]
| [http://www.tom-carden.co.uk/googlegpx/upload-gpx Ruby based solution]
| [http://cheeseshop.python.org/pypi/pygpx/ PyGPX]
|-
| GeoTag Media
|
| [http://rdfweb.org/people/danbri/media/bin/geoloc_media.pl RDFWeb geoloc_media.pl] ([http://locative.us/photomap/geoloc_media.pl original geoloc_media])
| Ruby?
| Python?
|-
| Track logs
|
| [http://search.cpan.org/~rgibson/Geo-Track-Log-0.02/lib/Geo/Track/Log.pm Geo::Track::Log]
| Ruby
| Python
|}

Developing Geospatial Solutions using Open Source

2006-08-28T18:17:17Z

Wiki-AndrewTurner: Formatted into a table for comparison