Open Source Spatial Web and Data
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Session Lead: Chris Holmes & Eddie Pickle, OpenGeo
Members: 100
Latest Activity: June 02 2010
See the Ignite for the Open Source Spatial Web and Data session at the Understanding Risk conference HERE.
Welcome to the Open Source group!
This group will be discussing open geospatial data, open source software, and their application for risk assessment.
This group will focus on the open-source approach to understanding risk. How can open geospatial data and open source software support risk assessment programs?
How can the requirements articulated in the other Understanding Risk groups be fulfilled via open source software and open data?
What role do transparency and cost play in open-source solutions to risk management?
I'm excited to moderate this broad discussion and look forward to our conversations. Please chime in with a brief intro about yourself, what you're working on, and what you want to learn about the open-source role in understanding risk. From there, we'll ladder up to larger themes and multiple discussions, with lots of questions along the way. Your active participation will help create the agenda for the Understanding Risk conference in June.
The conference leadership has asked OpenGeo to lead this group and corresponding panel at the conference. We are looking for thought leaders from this forum to present and discuss their ideas on this panel at the conference. Thank you for your participation, Eddie Pickle
Join the conversation:
1) Introduce yourself: click the "Who We Are and What Interests Us" section
2) Comment on existing topics: click the appropriate "Discussion Forum" and enter comments there
3) Create a discussion topic: click the "+Start Discussion" near the bottom of the Discussion Forum
4) General chatter: use the Comment Wall at the bottom of this page for general comments to the group
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Comment wall (8 comments)
This may sound Odd, but I wanted to come to this session tomorrow morning, and I am not sure I technically registered for the conference. How do I tell? I know i registered for this group. Maybe that was enough. .
We have been focused on the OSSIM ( http://www.ossim.org ) open source remote sensing baseline for the last decade. OSSIM is primarily focused on remote sensing and is used in satellite and aerial imagery processing around the world. As that baseline has matured, we have focused more on integrating with other open source capabilities - OpenLayers, GDAL, PostGIS/Postgres for user solutions. We are very excited about working with GeoNode and the GeoServer stack to merge advanced raster processing with open GIS capabilities. There is a virtual explosion of new open source geospatial and analysis projects that hold the promise of scalable and widely distributed resource management and risk assessment. .
Pretty much all the basics, meaning GDAL/OGR, proj, geotiff, GRASS, and all the other free software libraries and tools that support them. Mapserver and the related Python mapping widgets by Sean Gillies have also been very useful. There are several others such as OpenLayers that I haven't had the time to play with yet :( .
Thanks for the comment, Stephen. What tools have your most helpful in your work?
There is a wealth of Free and Open Source Software for spatial data management, display, etc, including a conference of the very same, ie, FOSS4G (http://2010.foss4g.org/). This includes robust back-end spatial databases, web and desktop front-ends, and all the manipulation tools in between. I've personally used several of these tools in non-trivial systems engineering solutions for hazard/risk analysis, as well as maintain several of them as a Gentoo Linux developer. See the conference web site or http://www.osgeo.org/ for more info. .
Thanks for your question.
As our facility is brand new, the decision has not yet been made, nor has this information been collected :-)
This is one reason we are in a position to transcend traditional approaches such as those based entirely on e.g. ESRI SDE
We are hoping to help facilitate a novel and sustainable approach to exposure data in particular and disaster risk management in general together with Indonesian government agencies.
This is the reason we are interested in crowd sourcing, open source and web2. And the reason I am going to the conference is to get across the cutting edge in this field. .
Thanks for commenting, Ole.
What software are you currently using to provide access to infrastructure information? How has your experience been with it so far? .
Dear all - I am posting the message I sent to the group. Apologies for the mass mail and thanks to Sebastian Benthall for picking tha up.
My name is Ole Nielsen and I work for the Australia-Indonesia Facility for Disaster Reduction (AIFDR) which is a 5 year AUD67M project run by AusAID and aimed at strengthening the national and local capacity in Indonesia to better manage natural disasters. As such, the facility works in close collaboration with various Indonesian government agencies as well as other partners such as the World Bank where appropriate. See our interim web site for some background: http://www.aifdr.org
As the goal is sustainable capacity building we are committed to open information (FOSS, Creative Commons, etc) to ensure that tools and data are readily available to support disaster management efforts. One component of our work is to enable access to adequate building and infrastructure information such as vintage, materials, roof type, usage etc. This information is at the core of all disaster risk reduction activities ranging from rapid and effective emergency response to reconstruction and mitigation.
I will be attending the conference with a view to understand if and how we may leverage some of the fantastic work done by GeoNode and Open Street Map to help establish accessible and adequate exposure data for Indonesia.
Looking forward to meet you all and learn!
Cheers
Ole ...