[OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo India event

2017-03-02 Thread Ravi Kumar
Hi, we had a great time with 60 boys and girls eager to learn Open Source GIS applications. Prof Jagadeeswara Rao, Andhra University initiated this event. The university was mapped. https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User_talk:Ravivundavalli# Recent_Trends_in_GIS_with_Special_Reference_to_Mobile_

[OSGeo-Discuss] [SoC] GSoC - News, changes and some reminders for 2017

2017-03-02 Thread Helmut Kudrnovsky
Dear OSGeo-GSoC community, some news, guidelines and changes coming from the Google Open Source Programs Office for mentors and students: * There are *3 evaluation periods* this year where mentors are required to complete an evaluation of their student. After the first 4 weeks of coding,

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] The Rise of Open Street Map as a World Mapping Agency

2017-03-02 Thread Dirk Frigne
Till Thank you for your great success story, At OSGeo.be we invited people from OSM in the plenary sessions of the FOSS4G conferences to promote their community. This year, March 16, OSGeo.be organises a separate track on the BeGeo conference[1]. Registration is free of charge and we expect

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] The Rise of Open Street Map as a World Mapping Agency

2017-03-02 Thread Till Adams
Hi Jachym, in short we invited the OSM people to join our conference not only as participants. In the first year (I think it was 2010) we had our regular FOSSGIs conference followed by one day OSM talks. We switched at noon, so that communities could meet. >From 2011 on we mixed up both worlds

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] The Rise of OpenStreetMap as a World Mapping Agency

2017-03-02 Thread Suchith Anand
Benoît , many thanks . I am working to setup tele meeting facility for the meeting and as soon as i know the details i will share with the community. Please share with all interested and welcome all interested. It is key that we use this great synergies between OSGeo and OSM (which you greatly

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] The Rise of OpenStreetMap as a World Mapping Agency

2017-03-02 Thread Suchith Anand
Fully agree Peter. In fact, having the expertise of colleagues like you, Vyron and all is very important. This is just the start of the discussions. We need to include all these ideas and inputs. I am also trying to setup tele meeting facilities for RDA Geospatial IG meeting, so those

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] The Rise of Open Street Map as a World Mapping Agency

2017-03-02 Thread Peter Mooney
Hello everyone, Hello Suchith, The idea of OpenStreetMap (OSM) as a World Mapping Agency is very exciting. In many ways it is already happening. Through the OSM API, Geofabrik, Mapzen, etc etc I can easily access high quality, up-to-date geographic for any region, city or country in the world. Or

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] The Rise of Open Street Map as a World Mapping Agency

2017-03-02 Thread Benoit Fournier
Suchith Anand wrote: > [...] to further discuss ideas on the rise of Open Street Map > (OSM) as a World Mapping Agency (WMA) build by the efforts of thousands of > volunteers. It is also interesting to see the community links of the Open > Street Map and the Open Source Geospatial Foundation

[OSGeo-Discuss] GeoAmbassador– Dr Tuong-Thuy Vu

2017-03-02 Thread Suchith Anand
Dear colleagues, It is my great pleasure to introduce our excellent colleague Dr Tuong-Thuy Vu as our GeoAmbassador. Dr Tuong-Thuy Vu is an Associate Professor of the School of Environmental and Geographical Sciences, University of Nottingham, Malaysia campus (UNMC). He is also the Asia chair