This panel discussion will explore efforts to embed openness into geospatial education, including courses on open geospatial solutions as well as innovative teaching methods that help expand the audience who can engage with open geospatial systems such as MOOCs and open courseware.
Panelists include Robert Cheetham (Azavea), Sara Safavi (RackSpace), Nuala . . .
Large, gridded datasets present a series of interesting problems when it comes to creating visualization on the client (size, speed, time, etc). Recently there have been several great examples of how to explore such data in modern mapping frameworks, and we’d like to breakdown the current state of the art.
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For those of you sad pandas who couldn’t make JS.geo on Tuesday, we will give a quick intro as to why scheduling was so hard this year, a quick tour of some of the amazing demos, highlights of the discussion from the day, and wrap up with what we would . . .
It’s 2014 — we have consumer robots and electric cars, private spacecraft, planet colonization projects, and the Higgs Boson is confirmed, but GIS software is still a mess. You might be able to make sense of it all if you’re a GIS specialist with an academic background, but other creative . . .
Collaboration on the map is becoming a key issue during disaster response. This collaboration is often hindered by factors as low-bandwidth, lack of preparation time and a variety of low-end platforms. We present a solution where responders can work together on a map with the help of just a browser . . .
For the past several years, the Maine Office of Geographic Information Systems (MEGIS) has created and hosted GIS web services and applications using Open Source solutions. In 2013, MEGIS began evaluating migration of our services and applications to an OpenGeo Suite environment, and moving our PHP-based viewer applications to GeoExt-based . . .
A pyGRASS implementation of the Köppen-Geiger climate classification applied to paleoclimate model simulations from the Paleoclimate Model Intercomparison Project III (PMIP III) will be presented. The talk will show the details of how Köppen-Geiger classifications are practically implemented and applied to climate model simulations using GRASS GIS, the python library . . .
LEFT is a free to use, web-based decision support tool originally developed to aid industry in evaluating the pattern of relative ecological value across a landscape to inform their planning of land use in order to minimize the environmental impact of their operations. A user defines an area of interest . . .
The Intertwine Alliance has formed a Regional Conservation Strategy (RCS) for the area surrounding Portland, Oregon. The goal of the RCS is to guide the development by providing a high-resolution model of habitat valuation and land cover.
The RCS Viewer allows website visitors to access and visualize high-value habitat and land . . .
UrbanFootprint is a new open source scenario planning tool that seeks to revolutionize the practice of planning, with the potential to allow for a closer integration with research, public involvement, and education. Within version 1.1 alpha now complete and the next version currently under development, UrbanFootprint is a new state-of-the-art . . .
