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GRASS GIS Report 2012

2013-01-14T18:31:37Z

Wiki-Cmbarton: /* Education and Research */

- DRAFT, please expand
* Contact name: '''[[Helena Mitasova]]''', PSC Vice-Chair

=== Key Accomplishments ===
* Updated and modernized [http://grass.osgeo.org/ GRASS web site] launched
* GRASS 6.4.2 released, see [http://trac.osgeo.org/grass/wiki/Release/6.4.2-News details]
* GRASS 6.4.3RC2 released, see [http://trac.osgeo.org/grass/wiki/Release/6.4.3RC2-News details]
* WinGRASS 6.4.3RC2 stand-alone package, MacOSX installer and Linux package released
* Google Summer of Code 2012 participation with [http://trac.osgeo.org/grass/wiki/SoCProjects#a2012 three projects]:
: Pietro Zambelli : ''Python high level map interaction for GRASS GIS''
: Eric Momsen: ''Image Segmentation in GRASS GIS''
: Stepan Turek: ''GRASS GIS WxGui front end for vector analysis modules''
* Many improvements in GRASS 7 development version, [http://trac.osgeo.org/grass/wiki/Grass7/NewFeatures see new features]

=== Participation in conferences ===
* 21-23 May 2012: [http://grasswiki.osgeo.org/wiki/GRASS_Community_Sprint_Prague_2012 GRASS GIS Community Sprint 2012], Prague, Czech Republic ([http://grass.osgeo.org/announces/community_sprint_prague2012.html press release])
* Presentations at FOSS4G and geoscience conferences:
**21-22 May 2012: [http://foss4g-cee.org/ FOSS4G-CEE], Prague, Czech Republic
**3-7 December 2012:[http://fallmeeting.agu.org/2012/ AGU], Open source geospatial for geosciences session
* Feb 2012: [http://events.unitn.it/foss4g2011 GRASS and FOSS4G-IT user meeting 2012], Italy - XIII Meeting degli utenti di lingua Italiana di GRASS e FOSS4G, Italy

=== Education and Research===
* OSGeo Research and Education Laboratories with GRASS GIS applications and development among their activities launched at
**[http://gis.ncsu.edu/osgeorel/ North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, USA]
**[http://geo.fsv.cvut.cz/gwiki/Open_Source_Geospatial_Research_and_Education_Laboratory Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic]
*GRASS used at university courses - put links here:
**[http://courses.ncsu.edu/mea582/common/GIST.html North Carolina State University, USA]
**Arizona State University, USA
**[http://www.ing.unibas.it/uploads/Insegnamenti%202012-2013/Sole%20A.%20-%20GIS%20e%20Modelli%20Ambientali.pdf University of Basilicata, Italy]
**Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium ([http://164.15.12.207/cours/course/view.php?id=13 Some training course material in French available here])
* Many papers that include GRASS GIS were published in scientific journals and conference proceedings in 2012:
:[http://gis.ncsu.edu/osgeorel/publications.php some examples in earth sciences]
:[http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0304380012000786 Looking for the future in the past: Long-term change in socioecological systems]
*GRASS used for GIS training by the National Center for Atmospheric Research, USA

=== Areas for Improvement ===
* Develop a migration guide for public administration
* Improve the existing [http://grass.osgeo.org/donation.php sponsorship program]

=== Opportunities to Help ===
* Developers, power users providing support to newcomers, translators, documentation editors and others who would like to help are always welcome,
see [http://grass.osgeo.org/get-involved/ more details on how to get involved]
* Help in preparing more marketing material: update [http://trac.osgeo.org/grass/browser/grass-promo flyers and poster] in different languages

=== Outlook for 2013 ===
* Release of GRASS6.4.3
* Continue improvements in GRASS7.0
* Organize GRASS GIS Community Sprints
* Participation at FOSS4G and other conferences
* Participation in Google Summer of Code

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[[Category: Reports 2012]]

GRASS GIS Report 2012

2013-01-14T18:31:06Z

Wiki-Cmbarton: /* Education and Research */

- DRAFT, please expand
* Contact name: '''[[Helena Mitasova]]''', PSC Vice-Chair

=== Key Accomplishments ===
* Updated and modernized [http://grass.osgeo.org/ GRASS web site] launched
* GRASS 6.4.2 released, see [http://trac.osgeo.org/grass/wiki/Release/6.4.2-News details]
* GRASS 6.4.3RC2 released, see [http://trac.osgeo.org/grass/wiki/Release/6.4.3RC2-News details]
* WinGRASS 6.4.3RC2 stand-alone package, MacOSX installer and Linux package released
* Google Summer of Code 2012 participation with [http://trac.osgeo.org/grass/wiki/SoCProjects#a2012 three projects]:
: Pietro Zambelli : ''Python high level map interaction for GRASS GIS''
: Eric Momsen: ''Image Segmentation in GRASS GIS''
: Stepan Turek: ''GRASS GIS WxGui front end for vector analysis modules''
* Many improvements in GRASS 7 development version, [http://trac.osgeo.org/grass/wiki/Grass7/NewFeatures see new features]

=== Participation in conferences ===
* 21-23 May 2012: [http://grasswiki.osgeo.org/wiki/GRASS_Community_Sprint_Prague_2012 GRASS GIS Community Sprint 2012], Prague, Czech Republic ([http://grass.osgeo.org/announces/community_sprint_prague2012.html press release])
* Presentations at FOSS4G and geoscience conferences:
**21-22 May 2012: [http://foss4g-cee.org/ FOSS4G-CEE], Prague, Czech Republic
**3-7 December 2012:[http://fallmeeting.agu.org/2012/ AGU], Open source geospatial for geosciences session
* Feb 2012: [http://events.unitn.it/foss4g2011 GRASS and FOSS4G-IT user meeting 2012], Italy - XIII Meeting degli utenti di lingua Italiana di GRASS e FOSS4G, Italy

=== Education and Research===
* OSGeo Research and Education Laboratories with GRASS GIS applications and development among their activities launched at
**[http://gis.ncsu.edu/osgeorel/ North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, USA]
**[http://geo.fsv.cvut.cz/gwiki/Open_Source_Geospatial_Research_and_Education_Laboratory Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic]
*GRASS used at university courses - put links here:
**[http://courses.ncsu.edu/mea582/common/GIST.html North Carolina State University, USA]
**Arizona State University, USA
**[http://www.ing.unibas.it/uploads/Insegnamenti%202012-2013/Sole%20A.%20-%20GIS%20e%20Modelli%20Ambientali.pdf University of Basilicata, Italy]
**Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium ([http://164.15.12.207/cours/course/view.php?id=13 Some training course material in French available here])
* Many papers that include GRASS GIS were published in scientific journals and conference proceedings in 2012:
:[http://gis.ncsu.edu/osgeorel/publications.php some examples in earth sciences]
:[http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0304380012000786 Looking for the future in the past: Long-term change in socioecological systems]
*GRASS used for GIS training by the National Center for Atmospheric Research

=== Areas for Improvement ===
* Develop a migration guide for public administration
* Improve the existing [http://grass.osgeo.org/donation.php sponsorship program]

=== Opportunities to Help ===
* Developers, power users providing support to newcomers, translators, documentation editors and others who would like to help are always welcome,
see [http://grass.osgeo.org/get-involved/ more details on how to get involved]
* Help in preparing more marketing material: update [http://trac.osgeo.org/grass/browser/grass-promo flyers and poster] in different languages

=== Outlook for 2013 ===
* Release of GRASS6.4.3
* Continue improvements in GRASS7.0
* Organize GRASS GIS Community Sprints
* Participation at FOSS4G and other conferences
* Participation in Google Summer of Code

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[[Category: Reports 2012]]

GRASS GIS Report 2010

2011-09-25T01:31:41Z

Wiki-Cmbarton: /* Participation in conferences */

== GRASS GIS Report 2010 ==

* Contact name: '''[[Markus Neteler]]''', PSC Chair

=== Key Accomplishments ===
* GRASS 6.4.1RCs released, see [http://trac.osgeo.org/grass/wiki/Release/6.4.1-News details]
* New winGRASS 6.4.1RCs stand-alone package, MacOSX installer and Linux package released
* Google Summer of Code 2010 participation with two projects
* Getting GRASS 7 development into a usable state, offering [http://trac.osgeo.org/grass/wiki/Grass7/NewFeatures many new features]

=== Participation in conferences ===
* 17 Nov 2010: [http://www.gisday.uw.edu.pl/program.php GIS Day 2010], Warszawa, Poland - GRASS Lecture and GRASS Workshop, Warszawa, Poland
* 13-16 Sep 2010: [http://tinyurl.com/32fg2t9 XII Annual Scientific GRASS Workshop in Wroclaw] "Spatial Analysis with GRASS" - Wroclaw, Poland
* 11 Sep 2010: [http://www.osgeo.org/node/1069 Helena Mitasova Receives Sol Katz Award] - Congratulations Helena!
* 6-9 Sep 2010: Various presentations at the [http://2010.foss4g.org/ FOSS4G] - "the conference" for Open Source Geospatial Software, Barcelona, Spain
* 1-2 May 2010: [http://geoinformatics.fsv.cvut.cz/gwiki/Geoinformatics_FCE_CTU_2010 Geoinformatics FCE CTU 2010] - Free and Open Source Software in Geoinformatics, Prague, Czech Republic
* 14-16 April 2010: Presentations in symposia at the American Association of Geographers meeting, Washington, DC, USA
* 11-12 Feb 2010: [http://istgeo.ist.supsi.ch/foss4g-it/ FOSS4G-IT 2010], Lugano - XI Meeting degli utenti di lingua Italiana di GRASS e FOSS4G, Lugano, Switzerland

=== Areas for Improvement ===
* develop a migration guide for public administration
* improve the existing [http://grass.osgeo.org/donation.php sponsorship program]

=== Opportunities to Help ===
* help in translating GRASS GIS messages: need for translators
* help in preparing more marketing material: update flyers and poster in different languages, prepare new website

=== Outlook for 2011 ===
* Organize GRASS GIS Community Sprint

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[[Category: Reports 2010]]

Public Geospatial Data Project

2009-05-25T06:27:54Z

Wiki-Cmbarton: /* Geo Data Repositories / Group Collection Projects */

There is an official [[Public Geospatial Data Committee|official foundation committee]] page which provides more detail on meetings and discussions.

== Mission ==

=== Promote the use of open geospatial formats ===
Providing best-practise guidelines and examples for use of open and free standards for data (GML, WMS, WFS-T) and metadata (Dublin Core, RDF, ISO19115 through ISO19139).

=== Promote public access to state-collected geodata ===

Lead by example in demonstrating economic value and research activity generated by open access to public geographic information.

=== Run a repository of open geodata ===
A [[Geodata_Repository]] shall be hosted by the PGDP.
Additionally, links to other open data repostories shall be collected.

=== Present and explain licenses for public geodata ===
The PGDP aims to collect licenses suitable for the publishing of public geodata. The license shall be presented along with a summary of its benefits and focus.

== Approach ==

After a [[Public Geospatial Data Committee Definition Phase|Definition phase]] this has become an official [[Committees|committee]] within [[Main Page|OSGeo]].

=== Working Groups ===

At the [[Geodata Committee Meeting 20060322|first meeting of the geodata committee]] we decided to focus interest through three [[Working Groups]]:

* A [[Geodata Discovery Working Group]] which would focus on indexing and search of data and metadata repositories.
* A [[Geodata Packaging Working Group]] to look at creation and maintanance of really high quality and rich data packages to offer for educational purposes with software packages, with [[GRASS GIS]] in particular.
* A [[Geodata Licensing Working Group]] to look into parallel licensing developments and to consult on guidelines for open licenses for geodata.

=== Mailing List ===

There is a public mailing list and [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/geodata/ archive] for discussion of geodata activities within OSGeo at http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/geodata.

=== Meetings ===

This group is having regular meetings on IRC on the #osgeo channel on irc.freenode.net. At the moment this is happening on Thursdays at 16:00 UTC. [http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?year=2006&month=4&hour=16&min=0&sec=0 fixed time]

See the [[Public Geospatial Data Committee|Geodata Committee]] page for more details on past meetings and upcoming agendas.

=== People interested in participating ===

* David Bitner
* Allan Doyle
* Florian Kindl
* Pericles S. Nacionales
* Markus Neteler
* [[User:JoWalsh|Jo Walsh]]
* [[User:Uchoa|Helton Uchoa]]
* Aaron Racicot - Ecotrust - aaronr at ecotrust.org
* Daniel Brookshier
* Schuyler Erle
* Jeff McKenna (DM Solutions)
* Steve Coast
* Mikel Maron
* Alessandro Frigeri
* David Blasby
* [[User:kevinyam| Kevin Yam]]
* [[User:putler|Dan Putler]]
* [[User:Arnulf Christl|Arnulf Christl]]
* Ned Horning
* [[User:Nhv|Norman Vine]]
* Colin Gowens
* [[User:smaffulli|Stefano Maffulli]]
* [[User:fbiasi|Frank Biasi]]
* [[User:Ticheler|Jeroen Ticheler]]
* Stefan Keller
* [[User:Dsampson|Dave Sampson]]
* [[User:kablukiw|Kevin Ward]]
* [[User:JoCook|Jo Cook]]
* Nick Black
* [[User:Mloskot|Mateusz Loskot]]
* [[User:Mspott|Martin Spott]]
* David Jonglez
* [[User:dandye|Daniel Dye]]
* [[User:MaksimS|Maksim Sestic]]
* [[User:milovanderlinden|Milo van der Linden]]
* [[User:ominiverdi|Lorenzo Becchi]]
* [[User:rduivenvoorde|Richard Duivenvoorde]]
* Artem Pavlenko
* [[User:kgjenkins|Keith Jenkins]]
* [[User:chorner|Cory Horner]]
* [[User:vdb|François Van Der Biest]]
* [[User:Fsc7|Felipe Costa]]
* Brent Wood
* [http://comchatter.com Ivan Gan]
* [[User:Gignacnic|Nicolas Gignac]]
* [[User:Huwer|Rafal Wawer]]
* ''Please add yourself''

=== Organizations to beneficially connect with ===

* [http://www.eogeo.org EOGEO]
* [http://www.openstreetmap.org/ OpenStreetMap Project]
* [http://www.gsdi.org GSDI Association]
* [http://topp.openplans.org The Open Planning Project]
* [http://www.fgdc.gov Federal Geographic Data Committee]
* [http://www.opengeospatial.org Open Geospatial Consortium]
* [http://www.upct.org/ Un point c'est tout]
* [http://civicaccess.ca/ CivicAccess]

=== Events ===

Events where we can either promote our positions or are likely to run into like-minded individuals.

* [http://www.asia-commons.net/ Asian Conference on the Digital Commons - April 18-20, 2006, Bangkok, Thailand]
* [http://conferences.oreillynet.com/where2006/ Where 2.0 - June 13-14, 2006, San Jose, California, USA]
* [http://www.foss4g2006.org/ FOSS4G2006 - Free And Open Source Software for Geoinformatics - September 12-15, 2006, Lausanne, Switzerland]

== References ==

=== Geo Data Repositories / Group Collection Projects ===
* [http://www.findgis.com FindGIS - Florida City, County & Goverment Agency GIS Data Download & FTP Sites]
* [http://www.openstreetmap.org/ OpenStreetMap Project]
* [http://freeearthfoundation.com/ Free Earth Foundation]
* [http://geobase.ca/ Canadian Base Data]
* [http://geotorrent.org/ Various Free Datasets via Bittorrent]
* [http://geodatacommons.umaine.edu/ GeodataCommons project at U. Maine]
* [http://www.iscgm.org/cgi-bin/fswiki/wiki.cgi Global Map] - International Steering Committee for Global Mapping
* [http://www.geonames.org Geonames.org] - Geonames is integrating geographical data such as names, altitude, population and others from various sources
* [http://www.geo-one-stop.gov/ Geospatial One Stop]
* [http://gcmd.nasa.gov/index.html Global Change Master Directory]
* [http://conserveonline.org/workspaces/cons.geo.portal Conservation GeoPortal]
* [http://datagateway.nrcs.usda.gov/ USDA:NRCS Geospatial Data Gateway] - Lots of good imagery
* [http://www.fao.org/geonetwork FAO-UN GeoNetwork portal to spatial data and information]
* [http://geodata.grid.unep.ch UNEP GEO Data Portal] - more than 500 different variables, as national, subregional, regional and global statistics or as geospatial data sets
* [http://www.landcover.org/ Global Land Cover Facility] - Global SRTM, Landsat, MODIS, and AVHRR datasets
* [http://srtm.csi.cgiar.org/ CGIAR Consortium for Spatial Information] - Global SRTM data

=== Geo Data Repository & Policy Research ===

* [http://www.findgis.com FindGIS - Florida City, County & Goverment Agency GIS Data Download & FTP Sites]
* [http://geodatacommons.umaine.edu/CGDPlone University of Maine Commons for Geographic Data]
* [http://www.metrogis.org MetroGIS] [http://datafinder.org Datafinder] Twin Cities, MN Metro Area Public Agency Data Sharing Effort (includes section on benefits/testimonials from public geodata)
* [http://www.gis.state.mn.us MN Governor's Council on Geographic Information]
* [http://www.oasisnyc.org New York City Open Accessible Space Information System]
* [http://www.mass.gov/mgis Massachusetts GIS]

On the [[Geodata Repository]] page, a draft outline for OSGeo's own repository project is being prepared.

=== Geo Data Policy Advocacy ===
* [http://www.publicgeodata.org/ Public Geodata Project] (IRC: [irc://freenode/publicgeodata publicgeodata]) with the support of the Open Knowledge Foundation
* [http://okfn.org/geo/manifesto.php Open Access to State-Collected Geospatial Data Manifesto]
* [http://www.freeourdata.org.uk/ Free Our Data: Make taxpayers' data available to them] (United Kingdom)

=== Open Access ===
There are also more general open access movements, often aimed at scientific data, that could provide a venue for broadening awareness of the geo-specific issues.

* [http://oa.mpg.de/openaccess-golm/index.html Berlin 4 Open Access - From Promise to Practice - March 29-31, 2006 Golm, Germany]
* [http://oa.mpg.de/openaccess-berlin/berlindeclaration.html Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities]
* [http://www.conservationcommons.org/ Conservation Commons] - "The Conservation Commons is characterized by an underlying set of Principles which supports open access to, and in particular the fair use of, data and information related to the conservation of biodiversity."
* [http://www.locusforums.org/forum/ The Locus Forum] - "The Locus Association is a trade association of private organisations working to increase opportunities and reduce barriers to fair trade between the public and private sector, particularly in the use of Public Sector Information."
* [http://ppgis.iapad.org/ Public Participation GIS] - "

=== Geodata formats ===
* [[Geodata formats]] Discussion

== Further Reading ==
* [http://technology.guardian.co.uk/weekly/story/0,,1736751,00.html Ordnance Survey challenged to open up] - 2006-03-23 article in the Guardian
* [http://technology.guardian.co.uk/weekly/story/0,,1726229,00.html Give us back our crown jewels] - 2006-03-09 article in the Guardian
* [http://www.directionsmag.com/article.php?article_id=2107&trv=1 Why Europe Needs to Provide its Own Public Geodata ] by Jo Walsh (Feb 15, 2006)
* [http://www.systemed.net/blog/entry060311122655.html ShareAlike considered harmful for geodata] by Richard Fairhurst, a critique of GPL-like licensing situations with suggested LGPL-like model for distribution.
* "Open Source Software for Spatial Data Infrastructure (FOSSDI)". SDIC submitted 2005 to INSPIRE/EU. <br> [http://mpa.itc.it/markus/papers/sdic_call_fossdi.pdf PDF with layout] | [http://inspire.jrc.it/ir/sdic_view_step1_only.cfm?id=2163 HTML without layout]
* [http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/270/ Open Networks and Open Society: The Relationship between Freedom, Law, and Technology] - MIT World video featuring Hal Abelson, John Wilbanks, Creative Commons
* [http://www.metrogis.org/documents/articles/index.shtml Articles] [http://www.metrogis.org/benefits/testimonials/index.shtml Testimonials] [http://www.metrogis.org/benefits/studies/index.shtml Studies] [http://www.metrogis.org/benefits/perf_measure/index.shtml Performance Measures] about [http://www.metrogis.org Metrogis], a collaboration for GIS data sharing in the Twin Cities, MN, USA

[[Category:Public Geospatial Data Committee]]

User:Cmbarton

2006-03-21T04:43:11Z

Wiki-Cmbarton:

My web page at ASU[http://www.public.asu.edu/~cmbarton]

Public Geospatial Data Committee

2006-03-21T04:31:37Z

Wiki-Cmbarton: /* Current Committee members */

== Mission and Approach ==

See [[Public Geospatial Data Project]]

== Current Committee members ==

* [[User:JoWalsh|Jo Walsh]] (chair)
* [[User:cmbarton|Michael Barton]]
* David Bitner
* [[User:Neteler|Markus Neteler]]
* [[User:Adoyle|Allan Doyle]]
* [[User:Pnaciona|Pericles (Perry) Nacionales]]
* [[User:SchuylerErle|Schuyler Erle]]
* [[User:Arnulf_Christl|Arnulf Christl]]

== Committee Website and Discussion List ==

* http://geodata.osgeo.org
* discussion: [https://geodata.osgeo.org/servlets/ProjectMailingListList geodata@geodata.osgeo.org]

== Task ==

Add basic description and references to the http://geodata.osgeo.org/ site

== Documents ==

* [[Public Geospatial Data Project]]

== Meeting Agenda and Minutes ==

* [[Geodata_Committee_Meeting_20060322 | First meeting]], 1500GMT 22 March, 2006 [http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?month=3&day=22&year=2006&hour=16&min=0&sec=0&p1=215 fixed time] in IRC #osgeo channel (irc.freenode.net).

== Milestones ==

== Outreach ==

* [http://www.publicgeodata.org/Open_Letter Open Letter regarding the INSPIRE Directive] signed (3/2006)