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Web Mapping Patents

2009-08-10T19:23:23Z

Wiki-Peterrushforth:

= Introduction =
Multimap.com was awarded patents in 2000 and 2001 related to making maps on the Internet. The patent filed in 1996 claims rights to the technology described as:

:“A map of the area of a client computer (10) is requested from a map server (11). Information relating to a place of interest is requested from an information server (12) by the client computer (10). The information is superimposed or overlaid on a map image at a position on the map image corresponding to the location of the place of interest on the map. The information (or “overlay”) server (12) may contain details of, for example, hotels, restaurants, shops or the like, associated with the geographical coordinates of each location. The map server (11) contains map data, including coordinate data representing the spatial coordinates of at least one point on the area represented by the map.”

Back in March of 2002, a discussion came up on the MapServer-users list about this patent after a company was facing legal challenge from Multimap.com. Several examples of prior art were raised at the time, for the full discussion, look for the messages titled "Patent Challenge" in the [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/mapserver-users/2002-March/thread.html#33994 mapserver-users list archives]

In 2007, Multimap was [http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2007/dec/12/microsoft.digitalmedia bought by Microsoft], and it would seem that more recently [http://news.softpedia.com/news/Map-Comparison-Service-Built-with-Microsoft-Licensed-Technology-104937.shtml Microsoft has started selling licenses of its patent].

SystèmeD has a [http://www.systemed.net/blog/?p=68 very interesting blog entry on this topic] which led to the creation of this wiki entry. Since it seems that the Multimap patent is coming back to life despite a large amount of prior art, we'll use this page to compile various sources of information, links to articles and other sources of prior art related to the patent.

= Blogs and News =

* SystèmeD: [http://www.systemed.net/blog/?p=68 Microsoft patents the map]
* Baliz-Media: [http://media.baliz-geospatial.com/fr/blogue/et-si-microsoft-detenait-le-brevet-du-web-mapping Et si Microsoft détenait le brevet du web-mapping?] (French)

= Articles and examples of prior art =

* The [http://www2.parc.com/istl/projects/mapdocs/ Xerox Parc Map Viewer], created in 1993
* Two articles by Carl Reed listing several examples of prior art:
** [http://portal.opengeospatial.org/files/?artifact_id=28360 Intellectual Property, Patents, and Web Mapping: Historical Perspective]
** [http://www.isprs.org/publications/highlights/highlights0803/33_HL_09_03_Article.interv.pdf Intellectual Property, Patents and Web Mapping]
* [http://www.gisnet.com/notebook/webgis.php Web GIS: Toy or Tool?], an article written by Bill Thoen in 1995 that also lists several examples of prior art
* [http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect2=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&d=PALL&RefSrch=yes&Query=PN%2F5930474 Internet organizer for accessing geographically and topically based information] is yet another web mapping patent, believed also to be the subject of a current lawsuit.

Software Standards

2008-04-22T16:24:57Z

Wiki-Peterrushforth: /* Binary Open Feature Format (BOFF) */

==About==
There was recently some discussion on the main OSGeo mailing list about software standards. There was some general discussion about software standards, and also some specific discussion about the role of the OSGeo in the OGC, the primary geospatial standards body. I thought I would create a page on the wiki to hold some OSGeo members thoughts on software standards.

Please feel free to add content to the following sections. What I’m providing below is just a skeleton.

== OSGeo Software Standards Mailing List ==

Some OSGeo members expressed interest in an OSGeo mailing list dedicated to software standards:
* The Sunburned Surveyor
* [[User:ticheler|Jeroen Ticheler]]
* [[User:ominiverdi|Lorenzo Becchi]]
* [[User:mpg|Michael P. Gerlek (mpg)]]
* [[User:Tomkralidis|Tom Kralidis]]
* [[User:peterrushforth|Peter Rushforth]]
* Your Name Here...

This list is open to discuss all kinds of [[Standards]] regardless whether they are from the W3C, ISO or more specifically focused on spatial issues like from the [[OGC]]. Subscribe to the list here:
* http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/standards

==Why Do Software Standards Succeed?==
Vendor independent, open and interoperable software standards only succeed if they solve a real world problem and are supported by many software packages.

==Why Do Software Standards Fail?==

==Do We Really Need Software Standards?==
Evolution says no. Organizations say yes.
* Standards can speed up interoperability and foster dissemination of compatible software, data and information.
* Standards can also obstruct creativity and hinder innovation.

==What Role Do Software Standards Have In The Development Of Open Source Geospatial Software?==

==Should You Have To Pay For A Copy Of A Software Standard?==
What about releasing a standard under one of the Creative Commons licenses?

==Should The Development Of A Software Standard Be Open? How Open?==
Yes, the process should be as transparent and open as a well organized Open Source project is. This does not mean that anybody can do anything but that everybody can see everything and comment on it. A strong standard requires formal processes to be able to integrate with or become part of other standards.

==Do Software Standards Have To Be Approved By A Standards Body To Be Valid?==

==When Does A Widely Used File Format Become A De Facto Software Standard?==

==What The Advantages Of Text Over Binary For Open File Formats? Is XML The Best Solution?==

==Suggested Standards==

''(This section is intended (I think?) to be a list of "standards" in the geo world that are examples of specifications that are/were not "formal" in the sense of coming under the OGC or ISO umbrella. -mpg)
''

===Binary Open Feature Format (BOFF)===
As part of my work on OpenJUMP I was interested in creating a file format that could serve as an alternative to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shapefile ESRI Shapefiles]. ESRI publishes the Shapefile [http://www.esri.com/library/whitepapers/pdfs/shapefile.pdf specification], but Shapefiles have some limitations that I would like to overcome. For example, the mix big-endian and little-endian data, they use DBF files to store attribute information, they have very little built-in support for metadata, and they can’t be extended to support information like topology. Still, certain aspects of Shapefiles appealed to me. The file format is binary, which means its compact and quicker to import/export. It is also conveys relatively simple information, which has allowed it to become the de facto means of transporting geospatial information. You can learn more about my intital sketches of BOFF [http://thejumppilotproject.pbwiki.com/Binary%20Open%20Feature%20Format here].

===Fast Infoset encoding of GML ===

This is not strictly a software standard, but rather a proposed optimization of an existing data standard.

GML allows XML-based encoding of geographic features. There are simple profiles of GML which constrain what can be used in the application schema. Since XML is a broadly and deeply adopted de facto standard for data and documents, what about basing such a (BOFF) format on GML? People will say the performance is not good enough, so what about using a binary encoding of the XML Infoset, such as the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fast_Infoset "Fast Infoset"] which might help alleviate those concerns?

===Tile Caching===
The goal of a WMS Tile Caching proposal, perhaps WMS-C for short, is to find a way to optimize the delivery of map imagery across the Internet. The proposal needs to offer ideally some means by which map clients can fetch tiles from existing servers, in such a way that the images can be cached on the server, or at an intermediate location, or even be completely pre-generated, if desired.

Further description [[WMS_Tile_Caching|here]].

''(This needs to be clarified -- there are two things going on here, I think: WMS-C and WMS-T. One is about using WMS to request tiles, the other is about a server-in-the-middle that caches tiles. -mpg)''

===GeoRSS===
" As RSS becomes more and more prevalent as a way to publish and share information, it becomes increasingly important that location is described in an interoperable manner so that applications can request, aggregate, share and map geographically tagged feeds."

web site [http://georss.org here].

===GeoTIFF===

see [http://www.remotesensing.org/geotiff/geotiff.html]

===Others===

Should we have a section for:
* Shapefile?
* WKB/WKT? (are these two formally or informally documented anywhere?)
* GeoJSON?

==Links==
*[http://www.opengeospatial.org/ The OGC]
*[http://standards.ieee.org/software/ IEEE]
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standards_(software) Software Standards @ Wikipedia]
*[http://www.ansi.org/ American National Standards Institute]
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Organization_for_Standardization ISO @ Wikipedia]
*[http://www.iso.org/iso/en/ISOOnline.frontpage ISO Home Page]
*[http://www.iso.org/iso/en/ISOOnline.frontpage National CAD Standards]
*[http://www.clock.org/~fair/opinion/open-standards.html A Take On Software Standards]
*[http://cordis.europa.eu/aoi/article.cfm?article=1869&lang=EN "Innovation needs a new way of making standards"]

[[Category:Standards]]

OSGeo Cartographic Engine

2008-04-14T16:09:38Z

Wiki-Peterrushforth: /* Interested people */

== Motivation ==

There are plans for new/rewritten cartographic tools (map composer) for QGIS, as well as for GRASS. We suggest to develop a joint library for the various functions which could be shared across GRASS, QGIS and other projects with bindings to Qt, Python etc. The GUI part will be done within the individual software projects, while this project focuses on standard libraries or command line utilities.

== Functionality ==

Shared functions may include

* class breaks (various algorithms)
* histogram analysis
* color ramps
* RGB and possibly CYMK support (aka color transformations) etc.
* Algorithms for intelligent label placement -- for example, collision management based on rotated extent rectangles. Also, collision management against line and polygon and point features. Provision for prioritized set of text placement rules, first one to prevent collision wins.
* Symbology management
* map surround
* legend
* cartographic templates (ie. predefined map styles)

== Programming Language ==

* C? C++?

Perhaps we could implement the core in C++, but provide a high level C API for applications and environments wanting to drive the library. C++ is a strong implementation language, but presenting a C API to the outside world reduces complexity calling from other languages or compiler versions and reduces "interface fragility".

* Python bindings?

There has been talk on the [http://gmt.soest.hawaii.edu/ GMT] mailing list about Python bindings to the core C API. Since GMT already has a wealth of routines for plotting directly to PS|EPS format files, this route may give developers a great head-start. There has been [http://casoilresource.lawr.ucdavis.edu/drupal/node/561 some work] on the integration of GRASS and GMT in the past, with [http://grass.gdf-hannover.de/wiki/GRASS_AddOns several user-submitted modules].

== Output Formats ==

What output formats do we want to target. I think at the core this question comes down to whether we want to render everything to a raster format or whether we wish to preserve linework, and text in non-raster form. That is, whether output output is a raster format, or a raster+vector+text format like postscript/pdf.

If a cartographic product is the objective, I think selection of an output format like PDF makes a lot of sense, but it does make interactive composition more complicated and it is possible we have limited pdf/postscript development expertise in our developer community (the GMT developers may be of help here...).

What about the possibility of exporting SVG and using Inkscape for cartographic styling and design? Inkscape is written in C++ and already has a wealth of vector graphics functionality. You could also consider using Scribus for map layout. I believe Scribus is also written in C++. Why implement the great functionality that already exists in open source programs?

Coming from the Web Mapping angle it will be interesting to be able to acquire OGC WMS maps with a pixel sizes < 0.28 mm (which is the current standard of ~ 72 or 90 dpi). This option has been suggested as a change request and is currently being discussed. It will allow to compose high resolution print maps also using OGC WMS.

== Existing code to be recycled ==

There will be code in GRASS, QGIS, the Python Cartographic Library (http://zcologia.org/cartography) and other sources which could be integrated (check license compatibility). Please indicate precisely where to find the source code, license, programming language. Please keep in mind that this is underlying library, not the graphical user interface.

* Label placement code:
** Mapserver [http://trac.osgeo.org/mapserver/browser/trunk/mapserver/maplabel.c labeling code] (MapServer License, C language)
** GRASS [http://trac.osgeo.org/grass/browser/grass/trunk/vector/v.label.sa v.label.sa] (GPL, C language)
* Color management:
** MapGuide, [http://trac.osgeo.org/mapguide/browser/trunk/MgDev/Server/src/Services/Feature/FeatureNumericFunctions.cpp CalculateDistribution] and [http://trac.osgeo.org/mapguide/browser/trunk/MgDev/Common/PlatformBase/Data/Color.cpp Color] (LGPL.C++)
** OpenJump ?
* Stylization
** ...
* Class breaks:
** GRASS [http://trac.osgeo.org/grass/browser/grass/trunk/lib/arraystats different algorithms for class breaks] (GPL, C)
* Output:
** Postscript/PDF output:
*** GRASS [http://trac.osgeo.org/grass/browser/grass/trunk/ps/ps.map ps.map] (Postscript output) and [http://trac.osgeo.org/grass/browser/grass/trunk/lib/psdriver PS driver] (GPL, C)
*** [http://sourceforge.net/projects/geofunctions GeoFunctions]: Geographic XML to PDF. Not sure what specific code, but the project leaders might have some insight.
** PNG output:
*** GRASS [http://trac.osgeo.org/grass/browser/grass/trunk/lib/pngdriver PNG driver] (GPL, C)
*** See AGG below
** CAIRO output
*** GRASS [http://trac.osgeo.org/grass/browser/grass/trunk/lib/cairodriver CAIRO driver] (GPL, C)
*** [http://cairographics.org/ Cairo Graphics Library] (LGPL or MPL)
** [Mapnik http://mapnik.org/] is a Free Toolkit for developing mapping applications.

== End User Needs ==
* Print to small format medium (eg 8.5in x 11in, 11in x 14in) and large format (eg 34 x 44in)
* Interactive layout
* High quality printing
* Storage of cartographic symbolizing
* symbols library
* Seprate cartographic and geographic representation (eg changes to carto does not affect geo).
* Generalization on-the-fly, based on current scale.
* Rules based cartography stored in RDBMS (eg series 400 highways are blue with double lines)
* Multiple export formats
** Geotiff
** PNG
** PDF / GeoPDF
** Postscript (need for directly sending files to printers)
** SVG
* Layout Functionality
* Text-based configuration file that applications can output to or humans can manually hack/script
* Common, interoperable data file input options

==Layout Functionality==
===Design Modeling===
Issues of layout will always be important in creating the final cartographic product. Layout templating such as that used in Natural Resources Canada's (NRCAN) Cartographic Design Specifications (http://ess.nrcan.gc.ca/pubs/carto/downloads/design_specs.pdf#page=13).

Perhaps we can learn from the desktop publishing world from the likes of the Scribus project (http://www.scribus.net/). Maybe being able to export a certain portion to scribus to handle some the major layout hurdles. A link between the cartographic library and scribus could allow for auto generation of some layout features and text such as changing declination, Projection info, and others.

=== XML and PDF===
OSGEO might be able to get behind the [http://sourceforge.net/projects/geofunctions Geo Functions] project. "Geo Functions is an open-source library of XSLT-2 / XQuery functions, templates, stylesheets and classes devoted to the processing of geographic data in XML." I understand that the original purpose of the project is to produce PDF maps from XML based data.

==Potential Components==
Breaking the end goal into some components will help to recognise which area(s) there is greatest need. There seems to be at least four primary components to the proposal.

=== Style & Layout Configuration Standards ===
* Specifications for styling of features and layout of a map composition
* Could re-use existing approaches where applicable (e.g. SLD, WMC)
* Specifications to be used in map definition/configuration files

=== Graphical Style & Layout Editor ===
* To create styles interactively
* To define map layout
* Could be stand-alone
* Could be adopted as part of another application
* Saves a style/layout definition document according to above standards

=== Graphical Map Composition Editor ===
* Implemented by existing applications (e.g. GRASS, QGIS, etc.)
* Sets up pointers to data layers
* Assigns styles definitions to the layers
* Applies layout definition to maps
* Outputs a map composition configuration file

=== Rendering Engine ===
* Stand-alone application (no GUI)
* Reads standard map composition configuration file
* Reads and applies the required style/layout definition documents
* Outputs final graphics to specific files

=== Libraries ===
* Sets of libraries could be created to implement parts of the above sections
* Add more here...

== Technologies ==

* AGG (sophisticated rendering of vector/text graphics to raster format - used by MapServer, MapGuide, Mapnik).
* Freetype - text management and rendering library
* [http://cairographics.org/ Cairo] graphics library - vector, text and raster input, various output including Postscript

== License ==

It is proposed to license the OSGeo Cartographic Library under LGPL. The license needs to be GPL compliant.

== Interested people ==

* [[User:Neteler|Markus Neteler]] (proposer)
* Horst Düster
* [[User:Landa|Martin Landa]]
* [[User:MarcoHugentobler|Marco Hugentobler]]
* Frank Warmerdam
* [[User:Adiez|Agustin Diez]]
* [[User:mlennert|Moritz Lennert]]
* [[User:Dsampson | Dave Sampson]]: End User, Search and Rescue Maps,
* [http://casoilresource.lawr.ucdavis.edu/drupal/node/38 Dylan Beaudette]: Soil Science Researcher, OSGeo evangelist
* [[User:Tmitchell|Tyler Mitchell]]
* [[User:reholl|Robert Hollingsworth]]
* Wolf Bergenheim
* [[User:HamishBowman|Hamish Bowman]]: ps.map developer & evangelist
* [[User:GAruta|Giuseppe Aruta]]: Geologist
* [[User:Roy|Roy Braam]]: Software Engineer
* Ionut Iosifescu
* [[User:ajolma|Ari Jolma]]: Wants to go ahead with Cairo
* [[User:vasile|Vasile Crăciunescu]]
* [[User:Peterrushforth|Peter Rushforth]]

[[Category: Software Stack]]

OSGeo Community Projects

2007-10-09T20:26:47Z

Wiki-Peterrushforth: /* Project list */

== Purpose ==

The OSGeo Labs is a place to advertise Open Source Geospatial Software that is not part of the Incubation process yet. This aim to:
* Help projects progress to OSGeo Incubation.
* Help projects to share ideas and resources.
* Merge with similar projects. A project will have a greater chance reaching Incubation if you integrate * Find like minded developers.
with similar related projects.

This is the right place to start submitting your project so other OSGeo members can review them and send you feedback.

== Criteria ==
Projects should only list themselves in OSGeo Labs if they follow the OSGeo Incubation principles.
# The code is under an OSI approved license (data & doc projects need to specify their choice for a type of license).
# The project is willing to keep code clear of encumbrances
# The project is "geospatial", or directly in support of geospatial applications.

== Responsibilities ==
OSGeo Labs aims to have minimal red tape to reduce overhead.

===Project Champion===
The Project Champion is responsible for:
# Strongly recommended: Read Karl Fogel's book on [http://producingoss.com/ Open Source Software - How to Run a Successful Free Software Project]
# Create an OSGeo Wiki page describing the project.
# Ensure the project complies with OSGeo principles by filling out the [[OSGeo_Labs_Project_Template]] (Julien, consider using a real MediaWiki template here)
# Announce and discuss the project on the [http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss OSGeo Discuss] email list.
# Move the project toward graduation

===Incubation Committee===
# Investigate, then possibly remove a project from OSGeo Labs if doesn't follow OSGeo principles.
# Periodically (at least annually), review projects in OSGeo labs and remove projects which have "died".

== Helpful Resource ==
# Get your project a mailing-list and a bug tracker
## [http://sourceforge.net/ SourceForge] provides code respository, mailing list and bug tracker services. (contact [mailto:sunburned.surveyor@gmail.com Landon Blake] to get help on SourceForge service)
# Approach the [[Spotlights]] editors about doing a spotlight interview about your project.

== Project list ==

# GeoFunctions [http://sourceforge.net/projects/geofunctions/ Geo Functions sourceforge page]

== Disclosure ==

OSGeo or any of its affiliates do not take responsability or endorse any of the software listed here. OSGeo doesn't guarantee the integrity of the code or any other aspect of the above softwares.

OSGeo Community Projects

2007-10-09T17:29:59Z

Wiki-Peterrushforth: /* Project list */

== Purpose ==

The OSGeo Labs is a place to advertise Open Source Geospatial Software that is not part of the Incubation process yet. This aim to:
* Help projects progress to OSGeo Incubation.
* Help projects to share ideas and resources.
* Merge with similar projects. A project will have a greater chance reaching Incubation if you integrate * Find like minded developers.
with similar related projects.

This is the right place to start submitting your project so other OSGeo members can review them and send you feedback.

== Criteria ==
Projects should only list themselves in OSGeo Labs if they follow the OSGeo Incubation principles.
# The code is under an OSI approved license (data & doc projects need to specify their choice for a type of license).
# The project is willing to keep code clear of encumbrances
# The project is "geospatial", or directly in support of geospatial applications.

== Responsibilities ==
OSGeo Labs aims to have minimal red tape to reduce overhead.

===Project Champion===
The Project Champion is responsible for:
# Strongly recommended: Read Karl Fogel's book on [http://producingoss.com/ Open Source Software - How to Run a Successful Free Software Project]
# Create an OSGeo Wiki page describing the project.
# Ensure the project complies with OSGeo principles by filling out the [[OSGeo_Labs_Project_Template]] (Julien, consider using a real MediaWiki template here)
# Announce and discuss the project on the [http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss OSGeo Discuss] email list.
# Move the project toward graduation

===Incubation Committee===
# Investigate, then possibly remove a project from OSGeo Labs if doesn't follow OSGeo principles.
# Periodically (at least annually), review projects in OSGeo labs and remove projects which have "died".

== Helpful Resource ==
# Get your project a mailing-list and a bug tracker

=== Code repository ===

# [http://sourceforge.net/ SourceForge]
(contact [mailto:sunburned.surveyor@gmail.com Landon Blake] to get help on SourceForge service)

== Project list ==

# GeoFunctions [http://sourceforge.net/projects/geofunctions/ Geo Functions sourceforge page]

Working on creating the code base and license files, to be posted shortly.

== Disclosure ==

OSGeo or any of its affiliates do not take responsability or endorse any of the software listed here. OSGeo doesn't guarantee the integrity of the code or any other aspect of the above softwares.

OSGeo Community Projects

2007-10-09T17:28:43Z

Wiki-Peterrushforth: /* Project list */

== Purpose ==

The OSGeo Labs is a place to advertise Open Source Geospatial Software that is not part of the Incubation process yet. This aim to:
* Help projects progress to OSGeo Incubation.
* Help projects to share ideas and resources.
* Merge with similar projects. A project will have a greater chance reaching Incubation if you integrate * Find like minded developers.
with similar related projects.

This is the right place to start submitting your project so other OSGeo members can review them and send you feedback.

== Criteria ==
Projects should only list themselves in OSGeo Labs if they follow the OSGeo Incubation principles.
# The code is under an OSI approved license (data & doc projects need to specify their choice for a type of license).
# The project is willing to keep code clear of encumbrances
# The project is "geospatial", or directly in support of geospatial applications.

== Responsibilities ==
OSGeo Labs aims to have minimal red tape to reduce overhead.

===Project Champion===
The Project Champion is responsible for:
# Strongly recommended: Read Karl Fogel's book on [http://producingoss.com/ Open Source Software - How to Run a Successful Free Software Project]
# Create an OSGeo Wiki page describing the project.
# Ensure the project complies with OSGeo principles by filling out the [[OSGeo_Labs_Project_Template]] (Julien, consider using a real MediaWiki template here)
# Announce and discuss the project on the [http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss OSGeo Discuss] email list.
# Move the project toward graduation

===Incubation Committee===
# Investigate, then possibly remove a project from OSGeo Labs if doesn't follow OSGeo principles.
# Periodically (at least annually), review projects in OSGeo labs and remove projects which have "died".

== Helpful Resource ==
# Get your project a mailing-list and a bug tracker

=== Code repository ===

# [http://sourceforge.net/ SourceForge]
(contact [mailto:sunburned.surveyor@gmail.com Landon Blake] to get help on SourceForge service)

== Project list ==

# GeoFunctions [http://sourceforge.net/projects/geofunctions/ Geo Functions sourceforge page]

== Disclosure ==

OSGeo or any of its affiliates do not take responsability or endorse any of the software listed here. OSGeo doesn't guarantee the integrity of the code or any other aspect of the above softwares.

OSGeo Community Projects

2007-10-09T17:28:00Z

Wiki-Peterrushforth: /* Project list */

== Purpose ==

The OSGeo Labs is a place to advertise Open Source Geospatial Software that is not part of the Incubation process yet. This aim to:
* Help projects progress to OSGeo Incubation.
* Help projects to share ideas and resources.
* Merge with similar projects. A project will have a greater chance reaching Incubation if you integrate * Find like minded developers.
with similar related projects.

This is the right place to start submitting your project so other OSGeo members can review them and send you feedback.

== Criteria ==
Projects should only list themselves in OSGeo Labs if they follow the OSGeo Incubation principles.
# The code is under an OSI approved license (data & doc projects need to specify their choice for a type of license).
# The project is willing to keep code clear of encumbrances
# The project is "geospatial", or directly in support of geospatial applications.

== Responsibilities ==
OSGeo Labs aims to have minimal red tape to reduce overhead.

===Project Champion===
The Project Champion is responsible for:
# Strongly recommended: Read Karl Fogel's book on [http://producingoss.com/ Open Source Software - How to Run a Successful Free Software Project]
# Create an OSGeo Wiki page describing the project.
# Ensure the project complies with OSGeo principles by filling out the [[OSGeo_Labs_Project_Template]] (Julien, consider using a real MediaWiki template here)
# Announce and discuss the project on the [http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss OSGeo Discuss] email list.
# Move the project toward graduation

===Incubation Committee===
# Investigate, then possibly remove a project from OSGeo Labs if doesn't follow OSGeo principles.
# Periodically (at least annually), review projects in OSGeo labs and remove projects which have "died".

== Helpful Resource ==
# Get your project a mailing-list and a bug tracker

=== Code repository ===

# [http://sourceforge.net/ SourceForge]
(contact [mailto:sunburned.surveyor@gmail.com Landon Blake] to get help on SourceForge service)

== Project list ==

# GeoFunctions [https://sourceforge.net/projects/geofunctions/ Geo Functions sourceforge page]

== Disclosure ==

OSGeo or any of its affiliates do not take responsability or endorse any of the software listed here. OSGeo doesn't guarantee the integrity of the code or any other aspect of the above softwares.

FOSS4G2007 BOF Sessions

2007-08-23T14:11:39Z

Wiki-Peterrushforth: /* GeoFunctions - XSLT 2 functions for GEO using saxon */

Back to [[FOSS4G2007]]...

[[Category:FOSS4G]]
[[Category:FOSS4G2007]]

= Introduction =
During the [http://www.foss4g2007.org/ FOSS4G2007 conference] in Victoria, BC, Canada, there will be conference rooms available for people to hold Birds-of-a-Feather sessions.

= Timetable =
== Tuesday September 25, 2007 ==
This is the primary BOF time slot.
* BOF sessions are scheduled from 16:45 to 19:00
* Labs and Presentations are scheduled to end at 16:30
* There is the possibility of sponsored events starting at 19:00
== Wednesday September 26, 2007 ==
This is a 'backup' BOF time slot.
* BOF sessions are scheduled from 16:45 to 17:45
* the [http://www.foss4g2007.org/events/ Dinner Reception at the Royal BC Museum] starts at 18:00
* Please only use this time slot if necessary. Many people will need to leave by 17:45 in order to be at the Dinner Reception on time.

= Conference Rooms available for BOF sessions =
* '''This list of rooms is preliminary - please don't assign BOF sessions to rooms yet'''
* The seating capacity that is listed is a maximum number, that may be reduced.
* The rooms will be setup with chairs, but not tables.
# Lecture Theatre (400)
# Oak Bay-1 (70)
# Oak Bay-2 (70)
# Saanich-1 (126)
# Saanich-2 (50)
# Salon C (400) (Could hold 2 to 4 BOFs)
# Sooke (10)
# View Royal (60)

= BOF organization =
You can use this page to organize your BOF session:
* create a section below for your BOF
* have people edit this page to indicate they will be attending
* once the BOF organizer(s) have a reasonable idea of how many people will be at their BOF, cut & paste one of the available rooms from the above list into your BOF's section (please choose a room with a size suitable for your group)

= BOF sessions =

== WebMap ==
* Trying to maintain continuity with the debate started in [[FOSS4G_2006_Webmap_BOF|Lausanne 2006]], It would be good to see what has been done during this year and what should be done next year. Which project already integrated OL, which pro/cons arised, ecc. ecc.
* It would be important too to refine the targets of the [[FOSS4G2007_CodeSprint#OpenLayers|Code Sprint]].
* KML support (?!?!)

== [[OSGeo_fr_FOSS4G_2007_fr#BOF_au_FOSS4G_2007|Francophone Local Chapter]], contact: [[User:Yjacolin|Yjacolin]] ==
* First meeting
* Think about a Francophone FOSS4G
* Francophone projects

== [[MapGuide Open Source]] ==
* Discuss Fusion and other technology contributions

== OSGeo education group (OSGeo edu) ==
* Introductions of participants, including their interest in OSGeo edu, and what they are thinking about doing over the next year
* Discussion on how to move toward a more cohesive effort for the development of educational material
* Review of OSGeo edu wiki pages and discussion of possible improvements?
* Short presentation of the [http://www.osgeo.net/moodle/ OSGeo Moodle] installation and brain storm on how to activate and use it's potential
* Short discussion which licenses to best use for tutorial and curriculum documents
* ''Please add any other ideas?''

== OSGeo Geodata Committee ==
== GeoFunctions - XSLT 2 functions for GEO using saxon ==
* proposed: develop a library of functions in XSLT 2 for geographic data processing
* support: GML, KML, GeoRSS, GeoJSON etc.
* implement standard functions, such as area, perimeter, length, centroid, centre-point etc.
* experiment with more complex functionality: re-projection, clip, intersection, indexing
* make maps with XSL-FO, SVG, PDF
* useful for: small amounts of data in XML format, server side
* have fun and learn
Enter your name here if you would like to join in the discussion:

Peter Rushforth

FOSS4G2007 BOF Sessions

2007-08-21T21:10:15Z

Wiki-Peterrushforth: /* BOF sessions */

Back to [[FOSS4G2007]]...

[[Category:FOSS4G]]
[[Category:FOSS4G2007]]

= Introduction =
During the [http://www.foss4g2007.org/ FOSS4G2007 conference] in Victoria, BC, Canada, there will be conference rooms available for people to hold Birds-of-a-Feather sessions.

= Timetable =
== Tuesday September 25, 2007 ==
This is the primary BOF time slot.
* BOF sessions are scheduled from 16:45 to 19:00
* Labs and Presentations are scheduled to end at 16:30
* There is the possibility of sponsored events starting at 19:00
== Wednesday September 26, 2007 ==
This is a 'backup' BOF time slot.
* BOF sessions are scheduled from 16:45 to 17:45
* the [http://www.foss4g2007.org/events/ Dinner Reception at the Royal BC Museum] starts at 18:00
* Please only use this time slot if necessary. Many people will need to leave by 17:45 in order to be at the Dinner Reception on time.

= Conference Rooms available for BOF sessions =
* '''This list of rooms is preliminary - please don't assign BOF sessions to rooms yet'''
* The seating capacity that is listed is a maximum number, that may be reduced.
* The rooms will be setup with chairs, but not tables.
# Lecture Theatre (400)
# Oak Bay-1 (70)
# Oak Bay-2 (70)
# Saanich-1 (126)
# Saanich-2 (50)
# Salon C (400) (Could hold 2 to 4 BOFs)
# Sooke (10)
# View Royal (60)

= BOF organization =
You can use this page to organize your BOF session:
* create a section below for your BOF
* have people edit this page to indicate they will be attending
* once the BOF organizer(s) have a reasonable idea of how many people will be at their BOF, cut & paste one of the available rooms from the above list into your BOF's section (please choose a room with a size suitable for your group)

= BOF sessions =

== OpenLayers ==
: is this OpenLayers BOF or WebMap BOF?
: in the second case it will be the way to follow up the debate started in [[FOSS4G_2006_Webmap_BOF|Lausanne 2006]]. It would be good to see what has been done during this year and what should be done next year. Which project already integrated OL, which pro/cons arised, ecc. ecc.

== [[OSGeo_fr_FOSS4G_2007_fr#BOF_au_FOSS4G_2007|Francophone Local Chapter]], contact: [[User:Yjacolin|Yjacolin]] ==
* First meeting
* Think about a Francophone FOSS4G
* Francophone projects

== [[MapGuide Open Source]] ==
* Discuss Fusion and other technology contributions

== OSGeo education group (OSGeo edu) ==
* Introductions of participants, including their interest in OSGeo edu, and what they are thinking about doing over the next year
* Discussion on how to move toward a more cohesive effort for the development of educational material
* Review of OSGeo edu wiki pages and discussion of possible improvements?
* Short presentation of the [http://www.osgeo.net/moodle/ OSGeo Moodle] installation and brain storm on how to activate and use it's potential
* Short discussion which licenses to best use for tutorial and curriculum documents
* ''Please add any other ideas?''

== OSGeo Geodata Committee ==
== GeoFunctions - XSLT 2 functions for GEO using saxon ==
* proposed: develop a library of functions in XSLT 2 for geographic data processing
* support: GML, KML, GeoRSS, GeoJSON etc.
* implement standard functions, such as area, perimeter, length, centroid, centre-point etc.
* experiment with more complex functionality: re-projection, clip, intersection, indexing
* make maps with XSL-FO, SVG, PDF
* useful for: small amounts of data in XML format, server side
* have fun and learn

Software Standards

2007-08-21T20:23:59Z

Wiki-Peterrushforth: /* OSGeo Software Standards Mailing List */

==About==
There was recently some discussion on the main OSGeo mailing list about software standards. There was some general discussion about software standards, and also some specific discussion about the role of the OSGeo in the OGC, the primary geospatial standards body. I thought I would create a page on the wiki to hold some OSGeo members thoughts on software standards.

Please feel free to add content to the following sections. What I’m providing below is just a skeleton.

==OSGeo Software Standards Mailing List==

Some of the members expressed interest in an OSGeo mailing list dedicated to software standards, but nothing materialized. Add your name to the list below if you would be interested in subscribing to such a list.

* The Sunburned Surveyor
* [[User:ticheler|Jeroen Ticheler]]
* [[User:ominiverdi|Lorenzo Becchi]]
* [[User:mpg|Michael P. Gerlek (mpg)]]
* [[User:Tomkralidis|Tom Kralidis]]
* [[User:peterrushforth|Peter Rushforth]]
* Your Name Here...

==Why Do Software Standards Succeed?==

==Why Do Software Standards Fail?==

==Do We Really Need Software Standards?==

==What Role Do Software Standards Have In The Development Of Open Source Geospatial Software?==

==Should You Have To Pay For A Copy Of A Software Standard?==
What about releasing a standard under one of the Creative Commons licenses?

==Should The Development Of A Software Standard Be Open? How Open?==

==Do Software Standards Have To Be Approved By A Standards Body To Be Valid?==

==When Does A Widely Used File Format Become A De Facto Software Standard?==

==What The Advantages Of Text Over Binary For Open File Formats? Is XML The Best Solution?==

==Suggested Standards==

''(This section is intended (I think?) to be a list of "standards" in the geo world that are examples of specifications that are/were not "formal" in the sense of coming under the OGC or ISO umbrella. -mpg)
''

===Binary Open Feature Format (BOFF)===
As part of my work on OpenJUMP I was interested in creating a file format that could serve as an alternative to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shapefile ESRI Shapefiles]. ESRI publishes the Shapefile [http://www.esri.com/library/whitepapers/pdfs/shapefile.pdf specification], but Shapefiles have some limitations that I would like to overcome. For example, the mix big-endian and little-endian data, they use DBF files to store attribute information, they have very little built-in support for metadata, and they can’t be extended to support information like topology. Still, certain aspects of Shapefiles appealed to me. The file format is binary, which means its compact and quicker to import/export. It is also conveys relatively simple information, which has allowed it to become the de facto means of transporting geospatial information. You can learn more about my intital sketches of BOFF [http://thejumppilotproject.pbwiki.com/Binary%20Open%20Feature%20Format here].

===Tile Caching===
The goal of a WMS Tile Caching proposal, perhaps WMS-C for short, is to find a way to optimize the delivery of map imagery across the Internet. The proposal needs to offer ideally some means by which map clients can fetch tiles from existing servers, in such a way that the images can be cached on the server, or at an intermediate location, or even be completely pre-generated, if desired.

Further description [[WMS_Tile_Caching|here]].

''(This needs to be clarified -- there are two things going on here, I think: WMS-C and WMS-T. One is about using WMS to request tiles, the other is about a server-in-the-middle that caches tiles. -mpg)''

===GeoRSS===
" As RSS becomes more and more prevalent as a way to publish and share information, it becomes increasingly important that location is described in an interoperable manner so that applications can request, aggregate, share and map geographically tagged feeds."

web site [http://georss.org here].

===GeoTIFF===

see [http://www.remotesensing.org/geotiff/geotiff.html]

===Others===

Should we have a section for:
* Shapefile?
* WKB/WKT? (are these two formally or informally documented anywhere?)
* GeoJSON?

==Links==
*[http://www.opengeospatial.org/ The OGC]
*[http://standards.ieee.org/software/ IEEE]
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standards_(software) Software Standards @ Wikipedia]
*[http://www.ansi.org/ American National Standards Institute]
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Organization_for_Standardization ISO @ Wikipedia]
*[http://www.iso.org/iso/en/ISOOnline.frontpage ISO Home Page]
*[http://www.iso.org/iso/en/ISOOnline.frontpage National CAD Standards]
*[http://www.clock.org/~fair/opinion/open-standards.html A Take On Software Standards]
*[http://cordis.europa.eu/aoi/article.cfm?article=1869&lang=EN "Innovation needs a new way of making standards"]

All Members

2007-06-13T19:16:59Z

Wiki-Peterrushforth:

''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]]
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| 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]]
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| 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]]
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| [[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]].
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|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.
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|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.
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| 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.
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| 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
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| 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.
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| 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]]
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| Rafael Medeiros Sperb
| [http://www.univali.br, G10 - UNIVALI]
| OSGeo Member
| -26.60, -48.70 (lat/lon)
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| 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]]
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| 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]
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| 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]]
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| 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.
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| 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).
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| Lorenzo Becchi
| http://www.ominiverdi.org
| OSGeo Member
| moving
| ka-Map developer. User:[[User:Ominiverdi|Ominiverdi]]
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| Christoph Baudson
| http://www.mapbender.org
| OSGeo Member
| here, there and everywhere
| Mapbender developer. See [[User:christoph|Christoph]]
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| Georg Lösel
| http://www.grass-verein.de GRASS-Anwender-Vereinigung
| User (GRASS, QGIS); Free Geodata
| 52,3625/9,7481
| [[User:Georgloesel|Georg Lösel]]
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| 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]]
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| Gary Watry
| [http://www.coaps.fsu.edu[Center for Ocean-Atmospheric Prediction Studies - Florida State University]
| NA
| (30.42277,-84.32370)
| [[User:Gary Watry]]
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| 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
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| 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
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| 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~
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| 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]]
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| 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/
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| 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]].
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| [[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.
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| 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.
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| 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#
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| 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.
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| [[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].
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| Wolf Bergenheim
| none. I'm a free OS coder
| GRASS as a developer and GSoC 2007 Mentor. PostGIS user
| 60.237N 24.823E (Espoo Finland)
| I'm an independend student of geoinformatics and OpenSource. Interested in developing GRASS and helping to add more features to the already rich feature set. I'm prepared to develop modules for GRASS on commission / request.
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| [[User:peterrushforth|Peter Rushforth]]
| [http://www.geoconnections.org Natural Resources Canada/GeoConnections]
| OGR user
| Ottawa, Ont, Canada
| Interested in GML / XSLT processing.
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