Maps are traditional means of presentation and tools for analysis of spatial information. The power of maps can be also put into service in analysis of spatio-temporal data, i.e. data about phenomena that change with time. Exploration of such data requires highly interactive and dynamic maps. Using geospatial open source . . .
Programs that generate map tiles default to generating tiles for a
bounding box whose dimensions are fixed up and down the zoom stack. But
the overarchingly common use case calls this default behavior into
question. If the ultimate goal of a map is to lock down the display of a
feature at a high . . .
With the interrest for OGC Web Processing Service growing, we need to know details about the Open Source Solutions available. Various projects implementing WPS designed individuals from their community to participate in this talk to introduce their project and summarize their key features, they are the following: 52°North WPS, . . .
Traditional approaches to interpolating a surface from point samples often assume that if anisotropy is present in the data, it is along a straight line. However, this assumption breaks down for many data-sets, such as river bathymetry, elevations near coastlines, or levels of pollutants along roads. I will . . .
GRASS GIS (Geographic Resources Analysis Support System) looks back to the longest development history in the FOSS4G community. Having been available for 30 years, a lot of innovation has been put into the new GRASS GIS 7 release. After six years of development it offers a lot of new functionality, . . .
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) is responsible for thousands of miles of levees in the United States. Over time the agency has developed a very specific way of evaluating levee systems and relationships between their constituent parts. This approach has served USACE well, at least until . . .
A large fraction of Wikipedia’s millions of articles include geographic references. This makes Wikipedia a potentially rich source for themed, curated geographic datasets. But the free form nature of Wikipedia’s markup language presents some technical challenges. I’ll walk through the Wikipedia API, show how to get to the various places . . .
Anyone who has tried to create great looking maps for a large dataset such as OpenStreetMap knows how daunting of a task that can be. Scribe is the solution to this painstaking task. This presentation will introduce this new way to not only edit, but mostly to manage, mapfiles. No . . .
At CartoDB is an open source stack that includes PostgreSQL, PostGIS, Mapnik and Leaflet. The hosted version enables thousands of users to make new and interesting maps everyday. With some of those users including Al Jazeera America, Twitter, and even online gaming platforms, we aren’t scaling for one popular webpage . . .
The Atlanta Regional Commission (ARC) continuously solicits feedback on transportation data from local government partners. Historically, this process has taken the form of lots of markings on plotted maps with immeasurable amounts of manual work on the tail end to organize and interpret this feedback. Many tools developed . . .
