GeoMOOSE released its very first version in 2005. At nearly 10 years old the project has continued to hold on to its original developers and many of its foundation users. Over that lifespan the project has allowed the development team to observe struggles in changing technology, attitudes, and the dedication . . .
Free and open source software (FOSS) for GIS continues to increase in functionality and usability, and offers a flexible and economic option for organization that want to create online maps; however, beginners face a broad array of software choices and may not know which FOSS products and packages to deploy . . .
Extremely rich and diverse knowledge about places across the world is available online in a variety of forms, including structured data, image, and natural language description. Map-based exploration of this knowledge has potential to aid a number of applications from education to marketing. In this presentation we describe a system . . .
This presentation presents an overview on new OGC standards and developer tips on how to build your own implementations from scratch or on top of existing open source libraries that implement them. We cover GeoPackage, the new SQLite-based geospatial data format; OWS Context for describing a group of related spatial . . .
As the field of climate modeling continues to mature, we must anticipate the practical implications of the climatic shifts predicted by these models. In this talk, I’ll show how we apply the results of climate change models to predict shifts in agricultural zones across the western US. I will outline . . .
As technical community managers we are faced with a unique set of challenges. Like most FOSS community members, we’re often volunteers, but the work we do in moderating mailing lists, planning events, fielding project feedback and contributions, and being the public face of our communities can take an additional emotional . . .
General Transit Feed Specification (GTFS) data is the open standard for representing transit systems in space and time. While developing an open source planning application for public transit agencies, it became clear that processing speed was the primary impediment to calculating transit coverage indicators within a reasonable time. At a . . .
OpenTripPlanner is an open source application for building multi-modal itineraries using OpenStreetMap data about walking and driving routes and General Transit Feed Specification (GTFS) data for public transit data. With some creative adjustments, OpenTripPlanner can also be used to generate itineraries for ride sharing based on a pool of existing . . .
Over the past decades, disease vectors like the Asian tiger mosquito (Aedes albopictus) transmitting Dengue Fever and other infections and the Spotted Wing Drosophila (Drosophila suzukii), an economically important fruit crop pest, have continued to globally expand. In Europe, the already invaded areas comprise the Mediterranean basin while the spread . . .
This talk will cover a FOSS4G case study in which a workflow was implemented in several minority public health organizations in 2013. The three organizations were: 1) the Urban Indian Health Institute (Seattle, WA), 2) Papa Ola Lokahi (Honolulu, HI) and 3) The Nature Conservancy of Hawaii (Honolulu, HI). The . . .
