GeoScript adds spatial capabilities to dynamic scripting languages that run on the JVM. With implementations in Python, JavaScript, Scala, and Groovy, GeoScript provides an interface to the powerful data access, processing and rendering functionality of the GeoTools library.
GeoScript provides concise and simple apis that allow developers to perform tasks quickly . . .
The purpose of this presentation is to present a Case Study of using QGIS and OTB (Orfeo Tool Box) for land use mapping – Feedback from Burkina Faso.
In the framework of Second National Forest Inventory (NFI2), The Government of Burkina Faso in collaboration with the Grand – Duchy of Luxembourg, . . .
I will discuss what we learned when we built an online mapping community for Native & non-Native youth, educators and community leaders. Our Pacific Northwest First Nations Totem Poles program teaches community members to collect, create, map, and curate content using mobile devices and an easily configurable content management system.
Social . . .
pgRouting extends the PostGIS / PostgreSQL geospatial database to provide shortest path search and other network analysis functionality.
This presentation will show the inside and current state of the pgRouting development, from its wide range of shortest path search algorithms to driving distance calculation or “Traveling Sales Person” (TSP) optimization. Additionally . . .
The world is a big place and time is infinite. Scientists who study any aspect of the Earth’s climate are immediately faced with the exponentially growing amount of data that are required to represent properties of the climate in both time and space. The bulk of these data is a . . .
This presentation showcases new options for the preservation of audiovisual content in the OSGeo communities beyond the established software repositories or Youtube. Audiovisual content related to OSGeo projects such as training videos and screencasts can be preserved by advanced multimedia archiving and retrival services which are currently developed by the . . .
The challenges to sharing knowledge during humanitarian events are well documented. Of these, the lack of effective and meaningful communication between all actors in an event is the root cause of many of the inefficiencies that hinder the ultimate goal of relieving suffering and rebuilding societies. This presentation outlines an . . .
The JavaScript port of proj4 was (relatively) recently moved from subversion to github and updated to use modern build tools.
The talk will discuss some of the differences between desktop and web environments when it comes to projections and CRS, other new projects that take a different perspective on projections (like . . .
The need for a user-friendly web-client that enabled effective geospatial data collection, sharing, and collaboration for the ROGUE project motivated us to move away from our GeoExplorer based web-client. Our new web-client, MapLoom, is based on OpenLayers3, AngularJS, and Bootstrap which addresses key shortcomings of GeoExplorer and provides an intuitive . . .
Quadcopter – Phantom FC40 ($500). Camera – Canon PowerShot ELPH 130 IS 16.0 MP ($110). Opportunity to engage your local community to produce open data – priceless.
Let’s get to the point. Let’s talk about hardware and software to get out there and actually map some stuff with a quadcopter. This . . .
