Boundless

Swing by the Boundless booth (#16) for insights into their latest projects and ideas, or for a general chat on spatial theory. There will be several Boundless team members at FOSS4G including Paul Ramsey, Andreas Hocevar, Jody Garnett, Justin Deoliviera, Ian Schneider, Mike Pumphrey, and Benjamin Trigona-Harany. Interested to see Boundless’s folks in action at this year’s FOSS4G? Check out their recent post highlighting their presentations and workshops.

Members of the Boundless team helped found the GeoServer project and include core committers on PostGIS, OpenLayers, GeoTools, GeoWebCache, and other projects. They are also very involved in the LocationTech initiative of the Eclipse Foundation on projects such as GeoGig (formerly GeoGit).

Even if you are not a programmer, web developer, or database administrator, consider stopping by the booth to learn more about Boundless’s continued commitment to the QGIS project and future releases of the GeoGig library that will enable great new workflows for GIS analysts and all creators and consumers of geospatial data.

Nutiteq

Missed out on the Nutiteq “Create a mobile GIS app using FOSS tools” workshop? Then visit their booth (#22) for the interactive hands-on experience of their open source mobile mapping SDK. The Nutiteq team is looking forward to meeting attendees, getting feedback and showcasing their newest developments. Visit with Founder Jaak Laineste, Lead Developer Ats Vendik, and their VP of Sales and Marketing Kaido Irval.

Nutiteq is launching a new generation of Nutiteq Maps SDK at FOSS4G. Nutiteq SDK 3.0 is their first cross-platform geospatial solution covering all the major platforms. It started as map visualisation for mobiles (J2ME and Android) a few years ago, but now it can be seen as a geospatial engine which does map rendering and provides pre-integration with many well-known FOSS tools and libraries like GDAL/OGR, Proj.4, Spatialite, and GEOS. Unlike most other mobile visualisation engines, Nutiteq SDK supports any map projection and works seamlessly with custom file formats and back-end APIs. Nutiteq also offers the same API for many platforms, including mobile (iOS, Android, Tizen and Windows Phone) and also desktop systems (Windows, Mac and Linux).

Penn State World Campus

If you are interested in refreshing and expanding your FOSS4G knowledge beyond this conference, definitely stop by the Penn State booth (#8) to discuss their latest endeavors in open source based education programs. Chat with Sterling Quinn on the development of a Open Web Mapping course or listen to Anthony Robinson (part of the team behind the first geospatial MOOC*) lead a education panel discussion on Openness in Geospatial Education.

Penn State now offers several online courses that focus on the use and customization of open source geospatial tools. All the course content is provided for free at open.ems.psu.edu for self-study and re-use in your own classes. They currently feature a new class on Open Web Mapping – which not only covers a broad spectrum of OS geospatial platforms and methods (e.g. GDAL, GeoServer, TileMill, OpenLayers), but is also available for self-study at no charge under a Creative Commons license.

Penn State will offer its first MOOCs in Geodesign and Geospatial Intelligence this year, and the Mapping and the Geospatial Revolution course will run for the third time in early 2015. These classes are free and open to all; learn more at the Penn State Coursera site.

* Massive Open Online Course

Safe Software

Safe Software’s Chief Scientist, Kevin Wiebe, will be on hand at the Safe booth (#9) throughout the conference. Chat with him about the latest features in FME 2014, including added support for Mapnik.

FME makes it easy to move data between applications. Its ability to integrate with 325+ data sources and its point-and-click interface makes it easy to create impressive mashups with Mapnik. Safe Software staff will also be able to address how FME can integrate platforms such as PostGIS, GeoServer with hundreds of data sources – and facilitate a variety of interesting automation possibilities.

Chat with Kevin about Safe Software’s 3D development initiatives and how to manipulate 3D data across popular formats like CityGML and SketchUp. And, if you are curious – ask for the story behind for the company name.

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CartoDB

Stop by to visit the CartoDB booth to learn the latest in their product line and hear about their recent shift from consulting to building a successful product for the web. Learn about their journey from the release of Beta CartoDB at FOSS4G three years ago to their current experiences in (and knowledge gained through) creating scalable products from their projects.

CartoDB waited until this year’s FOSS4G to announce a major new product, the CartoDB Developer Program. The CartoDB Developer Program is an initiative to partner with companies and developers in creating geospatial products that look and work great and can be sold directly to customers. You can learn more at cartodb.com/marketplace

Throughout the conference, CartoDB will be hosting quick informational sessions at their booth (#13) on different topics related to CartoDB. Stay tuned to their Twitter or come by their booth early for details. Enjoy the presentations from CartoDB staff throughout the conference such as Andrew Hill, Javier de la Torre, Javier Santana and Alejandro Martinez, Sergio Álvarez Leiva.

CartoDB recently announced CartoDB Enterprise, which enables organizations to share data and work collaboratively with their CartoDB maps and visualizations. Another recent release is Twitter Maps, which grants direct access to the veritable firehose of Twitter data and facilitates geospatial analysis and data visualizations. Catch one of the CartoDB staff or stop by their booth to learn more about new data sources coming to CartoDB users, upcoming advances in Odyssey.js, and new mapping possibilities.

Sourcepole AG

If you are interested in QGIS, swing by the Sourcepole booth to chat with Pirmin Kalberer or Horst Düster about QGIS Enterprise suite. Attendees will learn that it is possible to use QGIS in an enterprise environment under enterprise conditions, talk with Sourcepole about their services such as professional support directly from QGIS core developers, or discuss their options for QGIS Enterprise long term support and maintenance services.

If you are curious about QGIS Cloud, Sourcepole can help! Attendees will learn how easy it can be to operate an OGC-compliant spatial data infrastructure and how to create professional maps with QGIS and publish them on qgiscloud.com, facilitated by a plugin for QGIS Desktop which allows uploading data and publishing complex maps. These are available on one click to web-browsers, mobile clients and as OGC WMS, WFS and WFS-T.

Sourcepole developers are actively contributing to many open source geospatial projects including PostGIS, MapFish, GDAL/OGR, OpenLayers, and MapServer.

Planet Labs

Chat with Frank Warmerdam, Tim Schaub, and Erika Reinhardt about the latest from Planet Labs. Given their mission to image the entire Earth every day using small satellites, there is sure to be an interesting assortment of conversations at their booth.

Visit the booth to see imagery from their constellations of small satellites, as well as have a one-to-one model of Planet Labs flight hardware. (Check out some of their first imagery here.) In addition to hardware and imagery, you can visit the Planet Labs booth to learn about how they are contributing to the OpenLayers and GDAL/OGR projects and hear about their use of MapServer, GRASS GIS, and PostGIS.

Geo-Solutions SAS

Stop by the Geo-Solutions booth to discuss the latest advances in GeoServer security and multidimensional data management. Have a conversation with Andrea Aime or Mauro Bartolomeoli about upcoming improvements in GeoServer WCS/WPS, better GeoCSS handling, improved security in GeoServer, and updates to GeoServer application schemas.

Geo-Solutions staff are actively contributing to the GeoTools, GeoServer, and GeoNetwork projects. If you are contributing to such projects, or if you are excited about the rapid growth in the open source geospatial world, Andrea and Mauro would appreciate it if you would stop by to exchange ideas.

Mousebird Consulting

If you are interested in the latest in mobile technology or looking to expand into this field, then visit the Mousebird booth for a chat with Steve Gifford about WhirlyGlobe-Maply. You will be able to view real apps that use their newly-updated WhirlyGlobe-Maply 2.3 display toolkit, which has the capability of displaying 3D interactive globes as well as 2D maps.

Chat with Steve about their upcoming documentation overhaul, or the 2.4 release of WhirlyGlobe-Maply which will have even faster marker display and some interesting incremental loading for weather apps and other applications. For the Android devs out there, the Android port is still in testing, with an expected debut in the next year.

More to come…

Stay tuned for our next post, highlighting sponsors Boundless, Cloudant, Nutiteq, Penn State, and Safe.

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