OSGIS 2012

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Consuming Open and Linked Data with Open Source Tools

Cook, Jo (2012-09-07)

A talk on how to consume three examples of open and linked data using python scripts and the open source geospatial software stack of postgis, mapserver, ogr and quantum GIS
Ordnance Survey - Embracing the Open Source Opportunity

Ian James (2012-09-06)

This presentation looks at the drivers for Ordnance Survey adopting open source software as an option for our production applications, at the experiences and challenges that we have faced in doing that, and at how those ...
The Physical Landscape of Britain and Northern Ireland: Technical Development

Piccinini, Claudio (2012-09-06)

Geomorphology is the science that analyses how climatic, tectonic and biogenic processes act on the surface of the Earth to create landforms and landscapes. Whilst many organizations recognize the importance of geomorphic ...
ICOS-Spain

Fonts, Oscar; Garcia Coya, Miguel; González Cortés, Fernando (2012-09-05)

ICOS (Integrated Carbon Observation System) is an European Infrastructure whose aim is to provide long-term measurements on greenhouse effect gas emissions. Such measurements will contribute to the analysis and modeling ...
Building a National Tile Server

Walker, Matt (2012-09-05)

OSGIS 2012 talk on building a national (GB) base map service using open software
Automatically repairing polygons and planar partitions with prepair and pprepair

Arroyo Ohori, Ken; Ledoux, Hugo; Meijers, Martijn (2012-09-05)

Presentation about the prepair/pprepair software to repair polygons/planar partitions for OSGIS 2012
2011: the first Open census and beyond?

Martin, David (2012-09-04)

The first results of the 2011 census in England and Wales were released on 16 July 2012, with the standard outputs for the first time being released under an Open Government Licence. More detailed data, including spatial ...
Analysing GeoServer compatibility with INSPIRE requirements

Andrea Aime (2012-09-03)

GeoServer is a well established multiplatform, open source server providing a variety of OGC services, including WMS (view services), WFS and WCS (download and edit services) as well as WPS (spatial data processing services). ...
Urban metabolic mapping on the web: An example from Bangalore, India

Mehta, Vishal; Kemp-Benedict, Eric; Wang, Guozhong; Malghan, Deepak (2012-09-03)

Cities are like living entities, needing a continuous throughput of resources and energy for survival and growth, creating waste in the process. This paper documents the Bangalore Urban Mapping Project: an initiative to ...
On Interoperability and Web Processing Service setting for Geo- Workflow Quality Assessment and Execution

Leibovici, Didier G.; Pourabdollah, Amir; Jackson, Mike (2012-09-02)

When assessing the quality of a workflow and, in particular, its uncertainty propagation, the management of the quality description of the components instantiated within the workflow is essential. This is the case whether ...