Monthly Archives: July 2017

Franz-Josef Behr joins SDI Monitoring Committee of Baden-Württemberg

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Franz-Josef Behr, co-chair of this Commission, is invited to join the SDI Monitoring Committee of its home state Baden-Württemberg, south-west Germany.
In the meeting on 12th July 2017 he will introduce his background and the work of our commission.
Further topics include INSPIRE and SDI Germany, contribution to the INSPIRE Conference in Strasbourg, the INSPIRE monitoring, metadata, and land use classification.

SDI-Open 2017 – Presentations

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Introduction to the ICA Commission on SDI & Standards. Serena Coetzee, Chair: ICA Commission on SDI & Standards
Collecting and organizing a Global Address Dataset. Ian Dees, OpenAddresses
Measuring the Quality of Address Data: Stakeholders, Challenges, and Approaches. Sean Uhl, US Census Bureau
SDIs in Belarus and neighbouring countries. Franz-Josef Behr, Elena Protasevich, Stuttgart University of Applied Sciences
Introduction to the ICA Commission on Open Source Geospatial Technologies, Silvana Camboim, Chair: ICA Commission on Open Source Geospatial Technologies
What is open source and how do pay models for access /use/upgrade of open source coexist, Danny Sheehan, Carto, Inc., USA
OpenStreetMap hands-on session: Its History, Data Structure, License and Ecosystem. Franz-Josef Behr, Stuttgart University of Applied Sciences
How and why open source software has become mainstream for GIS. Eddie Pickle, DigitalGlobe Radiant (formerly Radiant Blue)
OSGeo Live introduction. Vaclav Petras, Center for Geospatial Analytics, North Carolina State University, USA
Analytical data visualizations with GRASS GIS and Blender. Vaclav Petras, Anna Petrasova, Payam Tabrizian, Brendan Harmon, Helena Mitasova, Center for Geospatial Analytics, North Carolina State University, USA
Interactive visualization of open data and design maps with open source geospatial tools, including the Tangible Landscape system