Presentation of GeoForAll at the Technical Workshop in support of the UN OpenGIS Initiative

1. GeoForAll: a successful
OSGeo Initiative
Maria Antonia Brovelli and Venkatesh
Raghavan
maria.brovelli@polimi.it, venka@osgeo.org
Brindisi, 9th
March 2016
GeoSHAPE/Arbiter and OpenGDS Technical
Workshop in support of the UN OpenGIS Initiative

2. GeoForAll: 109 Labs!

3. Mission
Making Geospatial education and
opportunities accessible to all
Dimensions to “Openess”
Open source software.
Open data.
Open standards.
Open access to research publications.
Open education resources.
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4. 2010 - Open Source Geospatial Lab founding
meeting at University of Nottingham
Aim: Build research and teaching infrastructure worldwide
Problem: No funding!
Biggest Strength: amazing support from colleagues and
students

5. 2011 Memorandum of Understanding
between OSGeo and ICA

6. 2014 Memorandum of Understanding
among OSGeo, ICA and ISPRS

7. Regional Groups
North America
Chairs: Helena Mitasova (VP), Charles
Schweik, Phillip Davis
http://lists.osgeo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geoforall-northamerica
South America
Chairs: Sergio Acosta y Lara and Silvana
Camboim
http://lists.osgeo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geoforall-
southamerica

8. Regional Groups
Africa
Chairs: Rania Elsayed Ibrahim, Serena
Coetzee and Bridget Fleming
http://lists.osgeo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geoforall-africa
Asia (including Australia)
Chairs: Tuong Thuy Vu and Venkatesh
Raghavan
http://lists.osgeo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geoforall-asiaaustralia

9. Regional Groups
Europe
Chairs: Maria Antonia Brovelli and Peter
Mooney
http://lists.osgeo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geoforall-europe
Language Groups
Spanish
Chairs: Sergio Acosta y Lara and Antoni
Pérez Navarro
http://lists.osgeo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geoforall-spanish

10. GeoForAll Overall aims
● Establishing research and teaching opportunities
in ‘Open Geospatial Science
● Build global open access teaching and research
infrastructure
● Provide worldwide learning platforms and
training opportunities
● Establish collaborations between Academia,
Schools, Government and Industry around Open
Geospatial Science and Education

11. Why is GeoEducation important?
● Knowing the world around us:
be aware about the reasons of
problems of access to water,
sanitation, traffic congestions,
economic sustainability,
citizens’ health, impact on
environment, etc.
● Mapping is a critical component
to help create solutions for
sustainable development and
Future Earth.
THE POWER OF THE MAPS!
Kibera , Kenya
Dharavi, Mumbai

12. GeoEducation for Kids
Making resources including software and data openly
available offers an opportunity for knowledge to be
shared widely so as to increase learning opportunities.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=orwN9K07XPo
For more details:
sacosta@dntopografia.gub.uy
aanguix@gvsig.com

13. GeoEducation for Kids
For more details:
elzbieta.woloszynska@gridw.pl

14. Mapathons for kids = Mini-Mapathons
For more details:
maria.brovelli@polimi.it
marco.minghini@polimi.it
aldo.torrebruno@polimi.it

15. Thematic Groups
Teacher Training & School Education
Thematic
Chairs: El bieta Wołoszy ska-Wi niewskaż ń ś
and Adrian Manning
http://lists.osgeo.org/cgi-
bin/mailman/listinfo/geoforall-teachertraining
Collaboration with Mapstory
http://mapstory.org/

16. ● Mapathons for Kids involving OSM, HOT, Missing
Maps.
– Preparation of material (short course)
– Coordination of G4A Labs in building the network of
humanitarian mini-mappers and teachers
– Organisation of one/more MiniMapathons Day(s).
Possible interactions
OSGeo/G4A UN

17. GeoEducation for Adults
Webinars

18. GeoEducation for Adults
Webinars
For more details:
Rafael.Moreno@ucdenver.edu

19. OSGeo Live: fundamenal
resource for Education
http://live.osgeo.org/en/ http://live.osgeo.org/en/metrics.html

20. Summer Schools
Training School "FOSS4VGI - Using Free and
Open Source Software with VGI: integration,
analysis and visualisation", Como 12-14
July 2015.
Supported by: COST Action TD1202 - Mapping and the Citizen Sensor

21. Courses and Hackathons
European Center for Medium range Weather
Forecasting (ECMWF), GLOFASS (GLObal
Flood AwarnesS System)hackathon 16 and
17 January 2016.
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Data Analyst at ECMWF on the EarthServer-2 project.
Dear all,
First-ever hackathon of ECMWF took place on the
weekend 16 and 17 January 2016.
The event brought together participants from ECMWF,
universities, environmental consultancies, and software
development companies. Their goal was to explore
ways of making the Global Flood Awareness System
(GloFAS) more user-friendly for its end-users. GloFAS
already provides pre-operational global forecasts of
extreme flood events.
The hackathon saw about 50 volunteers working day and night to c
software prototypes using data from the GloFAS system.
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friendly way with key statistics which could help decision-
making.
FloodIT
Provides more intuitive information based on the GloFAS
output to help local users understand their
situation.
Interception
A Flood Awareness Education Platform
An educational game/online interactive platform to help
inform people about what they should be doing when a
flood watch/warning alert is issued in their region.
Also, the game/platform will educate them on what to do
during and after a flood event.
People at ECMWF are truly impressed with what solutions
all the teams came up with in only one and half days. They
got very good inspirations in order to improve GloFAS,
which will be essential for a better flood prediction and a
faster emergency response.
OpenCitySmart - The Open platform for Smart
Cities
by Suchith Anand, Nottingham GeospatialInstitute,
University of Nottingham, UK
Dear colleagues,
Inspite of all the technological advancements, it is a sad
fact that majority of the world's poorest living in urban
areas do not still have access to basic facilities (clean
water, proper sanitation and hygiene facilities , good
quality education opportunities etc). In order to achieve
UN Millennium Development Goals it is essential to
develop infrastructure facilities, strengthen the
muncipal authorities and local city government
organisations (reduce corruption etc) in the developing
world for helping improving the living standards of the
people.
Photo by Florian Rathgeber
Photo by Florian Rathgeber

22. Challenges for students and SMEs
NASA World Wind Europa Challenge
The crystal bull
The Alaska high school
team, winners in 2015

23. ● Webinars:
– Exigences of UN within geospatial information
– GeoSHAPE
– OpenGDS
– …
● OSGeo Live: free/open source products adopted by
UN
● Summer School: G4A/UN Summer School
● Osgeo/UN Challenge for the best student's project of
the year
Possible OSGeo/G4A UN
interactions

24. Thematic Groups
Urban Science - City Analytics
Chris Pettit and Patrick Hogan
http://lists.osgeo.org/cgi-
bin/mailman/listinfo/geoforall-urbanscience
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aWuMfMMPfPw

25. Thematic Groups
AgriGIS
Didier Leibovici and Nobusuke Iwasaki
http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Agrigis

26. Thematic Groups
GeoCrowd - VGI, Crowd Sourcing and
Citizen Science
Maria Antonia Brovelli and Peter Mooney
https://lists.osgeo.org/cgi-
bin/mailman/listinfo/geoforall-geocrowd

27. Main topics of Geocrowds/G4A
● Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI):
OpenStreetMap, WikiMapia, Google Mapmaker,
Geograph project, etc and then many smaller less well
known examples.
● Passive, Ambient, Involunteered Geographic
Information, Geocrowdsourcing: systems and
services where the citizen or a group are not actively or
physically involved in the task of generating, collecting,
managing geographical data.
● Citizen Science: This is where citizens or groups of
citizens are involved in scientific research usually with
authoritative scientific organisations.

28. ● Geocrowdsourcing Apps and Software developed by
Labs
● Datathons coordinated by UN and G4A Labs all over
the world (collection/analyses of open data by means
of OSGeo products)
Possible OSGeo/G4A UN
interactions

29. Monthly Newsletter
Table of Contents
Editorial ..…..............…............. 1
1. Activities …………………………… 1
Editorial Board ………………....…. 2
2. Lab of the month..…............. 4
3. Events ……………….….…....…... 5
4. Conferences ……………… 5, 6, 7
5. Webinars
6. Courses …………….……………... 7
7. Training programs …..…...... 8
8. Key research publications
9. Funding opportunities
10. Free and open software.. 8, 9
11. Free Books ……………….. 9, 10
12. Articles ….. 10, 11, 12, 13, 14
13. Scholarships for students and
staff
14. Exchange programs for
students and staff
15. Awards
16. Web sites
17. Ideas ………………………..…… 14
18. Social contribution
Volume 2, No. 2 February 2016
1. Activities of the
Network
Siberian State University of
Geosystem and Technologies has
announced opening of business
incubator for students based on
Siberian OpenSource Geospatial Lab.
More information at
http://sgugit.ru/news/the-opening-
of-the-workshop-projects-shuga/
Editorial
Nikos Lambrinos
Chief Editor
Dept. of Primary Education
Aristotle Univ. of Thessaloniki
Greece
Dear members of the Network/
readers of the Newsletter,
In this issue you can read two very
interesting articles: one for the
European Center for Medium range
Weather Forecasting and the second
about the OpenCitySmart – the Open
City Platform.
The first one has to do with the Global
Flood Awarness System while the
second for the improvement of the
living standards of the people living,
mainly, in the cities of poor countries.
In fact, both articles show how
volunteerism can help and upgrade the
living standards of the people and how
much the efforts or our Network can
upgrade the quality of life. It is
important to know that our ideas,
however bizarre they may seem at first
place, can become true when we share
with others and work together.
Along with the articles, you can find all
the other topics like conferences,
courses, free software, etc.
Have a nice reading
Nikos Lambrinos, Chief Editor.
NEWSLETTER:
issued every
month

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February 2 0 1 6Volume 2, N o. 2
Please refer to the appropriate person according to the following table:
Chief Editor Nikos Lambrinos, Associate Professor, Dept. of Primary
Education, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece.
President of the Hellenic digital earth Centre of Excellence
labrinos@eled.auth.gr
Oceania
Co-editor Rizwan Bulbul, Assistant Professor of GIScience
Head of Geospatial Research and Education Lab
Department of Space Science, Institute of Space
Technology, Islamabad, Pakistan
bulbul@grel.ist.edu.pk
India, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Nepal,
Burma, Iran, Iraq, Jordan, Syria, Israel, Lebanon,
Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Oman, Yemen, United Arab
Emirates, Kuwait and Islands of S. Pacific.
Co-editors Pavel Kikin, Senior Lecturer “Department of applied
informatics and IT”, Siberian State University of
Geosystems and Technologies
Alexey Kolesnikov, Senior Lecturer “Department of
cartography and GIS”, Siberian State University of
Geosystems and Technologies
it-technologies@yandex.ru
Russia, Mongolia, China, Japan, S. Korea, Vietnam,
Thailand, Malaysia, Laos, Myanmar, Cambodia,
Singapore, Brunei, Indonesia, Philippines,
Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan and
Kyrgyzstan.
Co-editor Rania Elsayed , Computers & Information Researcher,
Division of Scientific Training & Continuous Studies,
National Authority for Remote Sensing & Space Sciences,
Cairo, Egypt.
ranyaalsayed@gmail.com
Africa
Co-editor
Elżbieta Wołoszyńska-Wiśniewska (Ela), Head of Education
Unit UNEP/GRID-Warsaw Centre
ela@gridw.pl
Scandinavian countries, Denmark, Germany,
Belgium, The Netherlands, Poland, Estonia, Latvia,
Lithuania, Belarus, Ukraine, Czech Republic,
Slovakia.
Co-editor Antoni Perez Navaro, Associate Professor at Universitat
Oberta de Catalunya (UOC) Computer Sciences and
Multimedia Department
aperezn@uoc.edu
Portugal, Spain, France, U.K., Ireland, Iceland,
Luxemburg, Italy, Switzerland, Austria, Hungary,
The Balkans.
Co-editor
Emma Strong, GIS Coordinator with Southern Mississippi
Planning and Development District
eestrong118@gmail.com
North and Central America
Co-editor
Sergio Acosta Y Lara, Departamento de Geomática
Dirección, Nacional de Topografía, Ministerio de
Transporte y Obras Públicas, URUGUAY
sergio.acostaylara@mtop.gub.uy
South America
Production Designer
Nikos Voudrislis, Principal of the 1st
Primary School of
Asvestochori, Thessaloniki, Greece, MSc, PhD candidate in
geography education.
nvoudris@gmail.com
Design and final formation of the newsletter
Editorial Board

31. ● G4A Newsletter:
– a special UN session every month
● OSGeo/G4A - UN book about activities of OSGeo/G4A
relevant to UN (starting from the description of the
activities of the Labs)
Possible OSGeo/G4A UN
interactions

32. OSGeo/G4A Labs
interested in collaboration
with UN

33. GEOlab – Politecnico di
Milano, Como Campus
● Website: http://geolab.como.polimi.it
● Point of Contact: Dr. Marco Minghini, marco.minghini@polimi.it
● Research: development of FOSS4G-based GIS processing tools,
WebGIS, Web geoservices & Virtual Globes; VGI & Citizen Science,
VGI & open data quality, open source software
● Teaching: courses, workshops and training materials on FOSS4G;
1st
Italian MSc in Geoinformatics Engineering (from Sept. 2016)
● Affiliations: OSGeo, ISPRS, AGILE, ICA, IAG, RDA, GIT, SIFET
● Recent Activities: humanitarian mapathons (with HOT & Missing
Maps), NASA World Wind Europa Challenge, FOSS4G Europe 2015

34. We
●
promote the open source geospatial software
and geodata for sustainable environmental
management
●
develop map applications based on the free
and open geospatial components
●
implement projects promoting crowdsourced
spatial data collection
●
provide expert support, for example in the field
of INSPIRE directive implementation
●
organise seminars, trainings, workshops,
online courses and webinars
working in particular with and for public
administration as well as teachers and educators
in cooperation with many national and
international organisations and institutions, incl.
UNEP Headquarter itself.
Open Source Geospatial Lab
at UNEP/GRID-Warsaw Centre
Contact: Mrs. El bieta Wołoszy ska-Wi niewskaż ń ś
UNEP/GRID-Warsaw Centre
website: http://www.gridw.pl/en/OpenSourceGeoLab
mailto: ela@gridw.pl

35. Laboratório Espacial Livre (Geo4all Lab 16)
Federal University of Paraná (UFPR) – Curitiba, Brazil
Contact: Prof. Dr. Silvana Camboim
silvanacamboim@gmail.com
http://www.labgeolivre.ufpr.br/ (in portuguese)
Academic
SDI
QGIS plugin
Boundaries
managemen
t
Web map –
Road
accidents
Mapathon –
OSMGeoWeek
•Developing a Spatial Database
Infrastructure to publish research
geographic data to the academic
community and society.
•Promoting the use of open source software
in the GIS disciplines at UFPR, and
publishing tutorials.
•Promoting mapathons and the research on
the use of Open Data and VGI in
cartography, mainly focusing in
developing countries with lack of official
data.
•Developing many applications on:
environmental analysis, security, health
management, food security, routing,
administrative boundaries management,
cadastral systems, sustainable tourism,
urban mobility and others.
•

36. Institute of Earth Sciences
● GIS courses in Civil engineering and Architecture curricula (QGIS)
● Survey courses in Civil engineering (CloudCompare, VisualSFM)
● OSM MapParty
● Research projects (H2020 FREEWAT, SNSF 4ONSE, EU VIA REGINA, etc.)
● OSGeo incubating project (istSOS)

37. Department of Civil,
Environmental and Mechanical
Engineering
Application of FOSS to environmental
studies, forestry, landscape change, future
scenarios, image classification, GPS, laser
scanning and more.
Recent activities:
● Education and training for academic
and for professionals
– GRASS tutorial
http://www.ing.unitn.it/~grass/docs/tutorial_70/inde
– Summer school Tropical rainforest
biodiversity, Tanzania
http://tinyurl.com/udzwungwa
● Renewable energies and
stakeholders involvement
– r.green GRASS module
– http://www.recharge-green.eu
● Cooperation projects
– Indoor pollution monitoring
with open source sensors
(Tanzania, Vietnam)
– Environmental emergencies
management for the poor
settlements (Nepal)
Clara Tattoni, Laboratorio di Ecologia
clara.tattoni AT unitn.it http://www.ing.unitn.it/~grass/

38. GIScience Heidelberg University
http://uni-heidelberg.de/gis
● Crowdsourced Geographic Information
– VGI Quality evaluation, analysis & enrichment e.g. OSM & Social Media
– core topic in many research and development projects
● Several OGC SDI developments (2D & 3D) and GIS tool development
– e.g. with examples to disaster etc., deployed for real world usage
– e.g. http://www.geog.uni-heidelberg.de/gis/online_en.html
● e.g. http://OpenRouteService.org used in real disasters (Haiti, Nepal)
– emergency routing based on OSM & OGC, accessibility analysis etc.
● Teaching activites & workshops on disaster management, VGI, OpenSource
GIS, Spatial Analysis, mapping etc.
– Regularily Mapathons (Member of Missing Maps Project)
– Disastermappers heidelberg (active group)
contact: Alexander Zipf, zipf@uni-heidelberg.de

39. NCSU OSGeoREL
Dr. Helena Mitasova,
MEAS and Center for Geospatial Analytics,
North Carolina State University, Raleigh,
NC, USA
ncsu_osgeorel@ncsu.edu
https://geospatial.ncsu.edu/osgeorel/
● Development of open source
GIS­-based tools to map,
analyze and model
landscape processes
● Development of open source
visualization and tangible
modeling environments to
engage stakeholders in
community driven decision
making
● Open Courses and
workshops in Geospatial
temporal modeling and
visualization

40. The GeoForAll Research and
Education Collaboration
… between Umass Amherst, Amherst College and Smith College
Charlie Schweik, UMass
Andy Anderson, Amherst College
Jon Caris, Smith College
Collaborator:
Ron Fortunato, Trillium Learning,
GeoForAll node
cschweik@pubpol.umass.edu
http://umass.edu/opensource
● New Web-GIS course using
open source software stack
● Research/teaching
collaboration with Trillium
Learning GeoForAll node on
Unmanned Aerial Systems
for Invasive Species
Management
● Grant proposal effort to
support the GeoForAll
network
● Participating in the planning
of FOSS4G Global in Boston,
2017

41. OSGEO.UNMC research lab
● Geospatial (remote sensing
& crowd-sourcing)
computation
● Sustainable urban
environment
● Disaster management
● Public health
Dr. Tuong-Thuy Vu
School of Geography,
University of Nottingham, Malaysia campus
Email: tuongthuy.vu@nottingham.edu.my
http://www.nottingham.edu.my/Geography/Research/GeospatialScience/OSGEO-lab.aspx

42. Lab for Spatial Informatics
Dr. K. S. Rajan,
Head & Associate Professor
Lab for Spatial Informatics,
IIIT Hyderabad
Gachibowli, Hyderabad 500032
India
E-mail: rajan@iiit.ac.in
website: http://lsi.iiit.ac.in
Major Activities / Contributions
●
Hosts OSGeo-India Chapter
●
Range of Trainings – Technology
development to ToTs to Thematic (eg.
UNDP/CapNet training on IWRM)
●
Technology Development-
●
Largest contributor to OSGeo GsoC
Projects. Eg. PgRouting, QGIS, etc
●
LSIViewer 2.0 – an Online enterprise
level data viewer
http://lsi.iiit.ac.in/lsiviewerjs/
●
Thematic Areas
●
Land Use and Land Cover Modelling
●
Climate change & Agri Crop Impacts
●
Wetland Mapping & Biodiversity
Conservation

43. Centre for Geoinformation
Science
University of Pretoria, South Africa
Products used in teaching and research
projects
GeoDa, GeoServer, OpenLayers,
OpenStreetMap, PostGIS, QGIS, SAGA
Short courses
PostGIS, QGIS
Recent activities
• Geospatial Tech Camp where school
learners hear about geoinformatics as
a career choice
• Student team participation in the Open
Data Day 2015
•International Map Year celebrations
Contact: Serena Coetzee
serena.coetzee@up.ac.za
Website: www.up.ac.za/cgis

44. Universitat Oberta de Catalunya
Dr. Antoni Pérez-Navarro
Estudis d'Informàtica, Multimèdia i
Telecomunicació
Universitat Oberta de Catalunya
mailto: aperezn@uoc.edu
http://dpcs.uoc.edu/wordpress/
http://smartlearn.uoc.edu/
Teaching:
• Subject introductory to GIS in technological
studies: telecommunication and computer science
• One year of postgraduate studies using GIS
technologies (prepared, but nowadays not
offered)
• Business Intelligence combined with GIS subject
• Final degree projects
Research
• Context Aware Recommender Systems
• Location Based Systems
• Indoor positioning
• Smart Logistics
• GIS applied to health monitoring and prevention
• Integrating Semantics in GIS

45. GeoForAll – ISE
● Website: https://www.unige.ch/tigers/en/autres-reseaux/geoforall/
● We are closely collaborating with UNEP/DEWA/GRID-Geneva.GRID-Geneva
as a “Partnership Agreement” between UNEP, the Swiss Federal Office for
the Environment, and the University of Geneva.
● Contact: Dr. Gregory Giuliani, gregory.giuliani@unige.ch
http://www.unige.ch/envirospace
● Activities: promote applied interdisciplinary research based on
spatially explicit information and indicators on the past, present and
future state of changing and complex environment. Building several
Spatial Data Infrastructures (SDI) to improve data sharing and
processing. Fill the gap between scientific information on one hand
and decision making on the other hand
● Products: Bringing GEOSS services into practice workshop that is
aiming at teaching how to configure, deploy and use a set of Open Source
Software (GeoServer, GeoNetwork, PyWPS, OpenLayers) to set up a Spatial
Data Infrastructure
http://www.geossintopractice.org

46. TSNUK OSGeo Research and Education Lab
Dr. Daria Svidzinska
Department of Physical Geography
and Geoecology
Taras Shevchenko National University
of Kyiv, Ukraine
mailto: lab.osgeo@gmail.com
website: http://lab.osgeo.org.ua/
● Development of the open geodata on
protected areas and Ramsar sites in
Ukraine
http://opengeo.intetics.com.ua/osm/pa/
● Support and promotion of the open
source geospatial software and
geodata adoption for sustainable
landscape and natural resource
management
● Partnership in HORIZON 2020
FREEWAT project: FREE and open
source tools for WATer resource
management
http://www.freewat.eu/
● Courses, workshops, and training
materials on geospatial analysis for
research and practice

47. University of Colorado Denver
FOSS4G Lab
http://geospatial.ucdenver.edu/foss4g

48. MTOP – gvSIG Batoví
●
Developement of open source
tool for education of issues
that have a geographic
component, and to be used
around the Plan Ceibal
(OneLaptopPerChild initiative
for Uruguay)
●
Open courses and workshops
for students, teachers and
future teachers
●
Worlwide spreading of the
project/new strategy: gvSIG
Educa
● http://www.ceibal.edu.uy/art%C3%ADculo/noticias/docentes/gvsigbatoviresumen
● https://gvsigbatovi.wordpress.com/
● http://blog.gvsig.org/2016/01/16/gvsig-educa-a-free-gis-education-prototype/

49. ● Research
Automatic monitoring &
sensor data processing
GNSS/GPS
QGIS plugin development
http://www.geod.bme.hu/ulyxes
http://github.com/zsiki/ls
http://github.com/zsiki/ulyxes
● Education
QGIS, GRASS, MapServer,
OpenLayers, Octave, PostGIS
courses and tutorials
http://osgeo.hu
http://www.geod.bme.hu/osgeolab
● Contact
Zoltan Siki, Budapest University
of Technology & Economics
siki.zoltan@epito.bme.hu
http://www.geod.bme.hu/osgeolab
● OSGeo
Organizing local FOSS4G.HU
http://foss4g.hu
FOSS4G software localization
QGIS GUI & Web, OSGeo Live
Laboratory
Department of Geodesy and Surveying at BME

50. World Wind
• Not just one app,
any app you want!
• Use any data format.
• Run on any platform.
• Open source, free and
unencumbered.
• Europa Challenge,
providing solutions for
a sustainable world.
• Education partner with
Politecnico di Milano at
Como and AWorldBridge.
World Wind
• Not just one app,
any app you want!
• Use any data format.
• Run on any platform.
• Open source, free and
unencumbered.
• Europa Challenge,
providing solutions for
a sustainable world.
• Education partner with
Politecnico di Milano at
Como and AWorldBridge.
Trillium Learning
Ron Fortunato
ron@trilliumlearning.com
www.AWorldBridge.com

51. Geo4All Lab 103
GET-IT
Build your Spatial Data Infrastructure components,
quickly.
Share sensors, maps and data, easily.
Semantic enablement.
Create OGC standard services (SOS, WMS, WFS,
WCS, and CSW.)
Free and open source.
On GitHub - https://github.com/SP7-
Ritmare/starterkit
EDI
Metadata Editor.
Template driven.
Customizable.
Free and open source.
On GitHub - https://github.com/SP7-Ritmare/EDI-
NG_client
Main activities:
Development of free and open
software to enable storage,
management, view and access to
sensors and geodata.
Methodologies and techniques for
sharing data from sensors on the
www.
Semantic qualification of spatial data
infrastructures.
www.irea.cnr.it
www.get-it.it
Contact: oggioni.a@irea.cnr.it

52. Dr. Sarawut Ninsawat
sarawutn@ait.ac.th
Remote Sensing & GIS
School of Engineering and Technology
Asian Institute of Technology (AIT)
http://rsgis.ait.ac.th/osgeoait//
- Development of open source
solution for geospatial
data sharing
- Developing the Smart Phone
application and Web GIS
for Sugar Cane
Productivity Monitoring
- Development of Location Based
Service application using
FOSS4G
- Organize Courses and workshops
in Geospatial data sharing
and application development
- Geospatial Analysis using
Free Open Sources
Software
- PyQGIS for QGIS plugins
development
- GNSS & Crowdsourcing for
Geospatial Data using
OSM
OSGeoLab@AIT

53. Contact Person:
Prof. Kalum Udagepola
kalum.udagepola@aun.edu.ng
Geographic Information Science and
Systems Research Group
American University of Nigeria
Address:
98 Lamido Zubairu Way
Yola By-Pass
P.M.B. 2250, Yola
Adamawa State, Nigeria
Description:
Open-source Web
mapping, participatory
Geoweb, and spatial multi-
criteria decision analysis
tools; research,
teaching, and consulting
using QGIS and other
OSGeo software

54. Thanks to All Friends of Geo4All,
especially those providing us
information about their labs
and thank you for your attention
Questions?
http://www.geoforall.org/