FOSS4G 2010 List of Selected Presentations
FOSS4G 2010 conference in Barcelona is coming closer and closer. Have a look at this year’s presentations. Presentations are held on a variety of topics including:
Web Mapping
- Web Mapping Performance Shootout
- Web Map Printing with GeoExt
- Printing in web mapping application: MapFish print module
- GeoExt and MapFish Client components – how to migrate
- Where’s MapFish going?
- A typification of Open Source web mapping client software and frameworks
- GeoServer CSS – Mapping in Style
- GeoServer cartographic rendering: new features for map makers
- Graphical style editing with Styler: Make a basemap without seeing SLD
- WMS Inspector: a Firefox add-on with tools for working with Web Map Services
- Performance and statistical analysis of WMS servers
- Adding custom search engines to OpenLayers with OpenSearch ‘geo’
- What You Type Is What You See: Comparing two web-based open source approaches to display the results of spatial SQL queries
- OldMapsOnline.org: Open Source & Online Tools for Old Maps
- OpenStreetMap-in-a-Box – A Ready-Made Highly Configurable Map Server
- MapProxy -An accelerating proxy for web map services
- TileSeeder; a new tile management tool
- TileCache, GeowebCache and MapProxy – a technical and usability comparison
- Developing Desktop-like Web GIS Applications with HTML and JavaScript
- Squeeze: Configuring MapServer and KML to Get The Most Out Of Google Earth
- PostLBS – Universal WebAPI Platform for Visualizing Geospatial Analysis–Routing, Geocoding, Thematic Mapping and More!
- Implementing Open Source Tile Caching in a Large Scale US Army Project
- OpenLayers’ Future
- Performance Considerations In OpenLayers Based Web Mapping
- Putting things together: Geonetwork opensource, OpenLayers, GeoExt and MapFish under the roof of Drupal CMS – Geoportal RO as an example
- MapServer Project Status
- Hidden features and useful tips for MapServer powerusers
- Raster data support in GeoServer and GeoTools: recent achievements, unsolved issues and future developments
WPS
- GeoServer WPS: an integrated, extensible processing service
- 52º North WPS framework with ArcGIS geoprocessing support – Open Source solution meets closed source software
- ZOO Project: The powerful WPS Platform
- Compliance Testing of Open Source software for Web Processing Services
- Introducing deegree 3 WPS
- EnviModel: scientific workflows and WPS geoprocessing for climate change
- Hybrid Cloud Computing for FOSS4G
Training & Education
- Using Open Source Software in GIS Training and Education
- Interactive METEOSAT: Educational platform for meteorological applications entirely developed with FLOSS software
- Why Schools must use FOSS4G
Sensor Web
- Building a New Generation of Sensor Web Implementations for Hydrology
- Performance of the 52º North SOS in a real application environment
- Comparison of SOS-Servers: 52°North, UMN and deegree
- SOS vs. WFS – Coupling 52° North’s Sensor Observation Service and Geoserver‘s Web Feature Service
- The New Time Series Toolbox – Next Generation of Sensor Web and Time Series Processing
- istSOS: Sensor Observation Service in Python
- How to Discover Sensors in the Sensor Web?
Misc
- Mobile Augmented Reality using FOSS
- Vertical Datums: Introduction and Software Review
- Building a consistent and transparent legal and policy framework for spatial data
- ecoRelevé: An open source response to the biodiversity crisis
- GeoSocial, a tool for geospatial analysis and data mining of social networks
- Real-time position analysis during soccer matches
- Comparison of Open Source Virtual Globes
- deegree project report: past, present, future
- From the crowd sourcing to the institutional sourcing: a way to cooperate between regional and local administration
- Gesopatial Desktop Comparison
- Neo4j Spatial – backing a GIS with a true graph database
- Bridging the Gap Between Open Source Tools and Proprietary Data Sources
- Open source Geospatial Business Intelligence in action with GeoMondrian and SOLAPLayers!
- Protect your GIS
- Introducing OpenScales
- OSSIM – advanced open source remote sensing
- State of the art of FOSS4G for topology and network analysis
- Bringing the raster processing algorithms of the Orfeo Toolbox Monteverdi in QGIS
- A geospatial data collection system for organisations
- GeoREST: Open Web Access to Public Geodata Based on Atom Publishing
- Distributed Spatial Indexing in the Cloud
- Integrating SEXTANTE and GRASS
- GeoCat Bridge – One click data publishing
- Semantic Web approach for thematic structuring of geographic objects
- Semantic search in OGC Catalog Services for the Web
- BeETLe project: a free geospatial ETL tool
- GeoKettle: A powerful open source spatial ETL tool
- Geomajas: new kid on the block
OSGeo
- The State of OSGeo
- International Collaboration on the OSGeo4W
- OSGeo:Open Source Projects and Communities
- The OGC and its participatory processes: OGCnetwork, open WG, regional Fora and the collaboration with OSGeo
Mobile & 3D GIS
- New functionalities in gvSIG Mobile 1.0
- A comparison of GIS mobile applications
- S3XTANTE, a Java 3D GIS Framework
- 3D Web Mapping: yes, we can !
Inspire & SDIs
- OpenLayers: SOS and INSPIRE
- State of Ingres geospatial 2010
- INSPIRE Geoportal a platform for INSPiRE services
- Implementing INSPIRE with FOSS4G: a Success Story
- GeoNetwork opensource – The geospatial metadata catalogue
- Implementation of ISO and OGC (INSPIRE) metadata standards – MEDARD (FOSS) metadata editor and Internet Geoinformation Metadata Platform (IPMGeo)
- Authentication and authorization management to OGC services with GeoShield: improvements from FOSS4G 2009
- License and Permission-based access to OGC Web Services with 52°North
- Deploying and securing Spatial Data Infrastructures (SDI) with GISpatcher
- Metadata Reloaded – How to profit from INSPIRE
- GeoNode Architecture: Wrangling $100 million worth of open source software to make SDI building a walk in the park
PostGIS & PGRouting
- Shortest path search for real road networks with pgRouting
- An extension of PGRouting library functions for visibility-graph-based course calculations in a Vessel Traffic Management System (VTMS)
- Tips for the PostGIS Power User
- Running long and complex processes with PostGIS
- PostGIS meets the third dimension
- Introducing PostGIS WKT Raster: Seamless raster/vector operations in a spatial database
- PostGIS WKT Raster. An Open Source alternative to Oracle GeoRaster
- The State of PostGIS
- Moving from Oracle/ArcGIS to PostGresql/PostGIS
Other Geodatabases
- Geospatial Indexing with MongoDB
- GeoCouch: A spatial index for CouchDB
- Beyond PostGIS – New developments in Open Source Spatial Databases
- SpatiaLite, the Shapefile of the future?
GIS Data
- Evolution of GIS data
- Georeferencing archives with Linked Open Geodata
- OpenAddresses – geocoded addresses worldwide free and open
- Natural Earth – Free World Base Map
Applied GIS & Use Cases
- A WebGIS application to monitor Road Trafic
- GeoServer, GeoTools, GeoBatch: relying on the “usual suspects” for supporting operational Meteorology and Oceanography
- Building the Digital Observatory for Protected Areas on an Open Source Framework
- Open-source Earthquake and Hydrodynamic Modelling
- Open Environmental Services Infrastructure
- Case Study: Upgrading Guatemala’s SDI portal to a GeoNode
- Proprietary to FOSS: MapServer as a key component in the map distribution infrastructure of the Norwegian SDI
- Applied SDI in Germany – Complying with INSPIRE
- Coming Full Circle: Archaeology and Open Source GIS, Past, Present and Future
- Open Government, Open Data, Open Architecture and Open Source Software GIS Policy for U.S. Army Installation Management: 2010
- Operational use of the Orfeo Tool Box for the Venus Mission
- Enhancing the European Forest Fire Information System (EFFIS) with Open Source Software
- ArchaeoloGIS: OSGIS in Archaeological Research
- The World Meteorological Oganization Information System
- Introduction of flood evacuation route search system using QGIS, PostGIS, GRASS and PgRouting