At Oregon Metro, we’ve developed a hybrid approach to web app development combining a variety of open source platforms including: GDAL and Tilemill with proprietary enterprise technologies such as .NET, Oracle and ESRI. This talk will cover the roles and pros and cons of the various platforms, the specific challenges . . .

MapMint is an comprehensive task manager for publishing webmapping applications. It is a robust open source geospatial platform allowing the user to organize, edit, process and publish spatial data to the Internet. MapMint includes a complete administration tool for MapServer and a simple user interfaces to create mapfiles visually. Its . . .

Following the long awaited QGIS 2 release, announced at FOSS4G 2013 in Nottingham, the project decided to switch to a regular release cycle with three versions per year. QGIS 2.2 was the first release in this cycle and already packed with many new features like 1:n relations, gradient fills, native . . .

QGIS server continues to grow with an active community and expanding user base. Besides new styling features shared with QGIS desktop, new services have been added continuously. OGC WFS (Web Feature Service) and WFS-T were the first additions to WMS, recently followed by an OGC WCS (Web Coverage Service) implementation. . . .

#Problem:
Making encyclopedic maps for Wikipedia is currently a highly manual process resulting in a poor supply of maps that is unable to meet the demand of accurate and updated maps for various projects and languages.
#Solution:
Automate the creation of SVG base maps in a well researched cartographic style using the latest . . .

An analysis and understanding of forest dynamism over time gives one insightful information on when and how to react to these changing forest trends. For many years now, stakeholders in forestry have used remote sensing for various applications such as the management and assessment of the health of forests, as . . .

Open source geospatial is in an Enlightenment era regarding design; many teams are breaking away from tradition and embracing simple, clean, and usable interfaces. For a long time though, open source geospatial software, and geospatial software in general, seemed to pay little attention to the knowledge of the design community. . . .

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

Importing new/updated geometry into large dataset like Open Street Map is tricky business. Features represented in both need to be detected and merged. Often times editors are asked to completely “retrace” over updated maps as automated methods are unreliable.

While a 100% accurate merge is impossible, it is possible to auto . . .

This presentation will discuss the implementation of the CSW endpoint using pycsw within the Data.gov infrastructure (architecture/enhancements/testing/deployment) and CKAN, which powers Data.gov.

CSW (Catalogue Service for the Web) is an OGC (Open Geospatial Consortium) specification that defines common interfaces to discover, browse, and query metadata about data, services, and other potential . . .