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The second edition of the FOSS4G-Europe Conference is held this week at Politecnico di Milano in Como, Italy. A day of workshops will precede the conference on 14th July, and a code sprint will close the event on 18th July. 400 people would be in Italy for the entire week to attend 100+ talks and 12 workshops. A new event meters enabled by ...

The second edition of the FOSS4G-Europe Conference will be held at Politecnico di Milano in Como, Italy, from July 15th to 17th. The Conference aims to bring together FOSS4G users and developers worldwide and foster closer interactions with and amongst European communities in order to share ideas for improving geodata, software and applications openess. This week FOSS4G-Europe announced its Mapping parties, ...

We are happy to inform you that Slashgeo will be a proud media partner of the upcoming second edition of the FOSS4G (Free and Open Source Software For Geospatial) Europe Conference conference held at Politecnico di Milano – Como Campus, Italy, from July 14 through 17!   The conference will bring together some of the most fervent developers, users and promoters ...

After the success of the first FOSS4G-Asia in Bangkok last week, we could see a trend in this part of the world in the next years to come. The market seems to be dominated by users and small-medium enterprise for now. As for the use case, disaster management is likely to be on the top of the list, a prove ...

On Day 3 at FOSS4G-Asia, different open source projects were presented to the crowd, such as: Geopaparazzi, Tadpole SDM and Policrowd 2.0. First, Geopaparazzi is an Italian Android project to do field survey, but also tools that can be of great use also to OpenStreetMappers as well as tourists that want to plan their trip.  Some can see Geopaparazzi  as an apps similar to OSMAnd, ...

On Day 2 at FOSS4G-Asia, keynote speakers presents the evolution of their overall Open source community (ex. Thailand, Japan). Thailand presents how its annual Open Source Software Festival that is held there since 1999 became the root of its movement and Japan OSGeo show that Chapter funded by companies as a way of sustainable solution to support local OSGeo organisation. Maria ...

MapMint was presented this Tuesday in a workhop at FOSS4G-Asia. Gerald Fenoy shows some of MapMint features such as publish web service and produce map applications by using an administration interface without any complex lines of code. This project is built on top of MapServer (using a modified version), MapCache, Zoo Projects (WPS), OpenLayers, JQuery and GDAL-OGR. It can be used for ...

Next week on December 2nd FOSS4G-Asia will be held in Thailand. This second edition is having a nice mix of open source innovative technologies, SDI development, community-based projects, used-case and open data initiatives based on OSGeo software. Slashgeo as media partners of the event will published post on what will be discuss and present at this unique event. A long ...

We are happy to inform you that Slashgeo will be a proud media partner of the upcoming Free & Open Source Solutions for GIS (FOSS4G) - Asia conference held in Bangkok, Thailand, 2-5 December.     FOSS4G-Asia aims to bring together FOSS4G users and developers worldwide and foster closer interactions with and amongst Asian communities in order to ...

For its third edition, the Remote Sensing Summer School (RSSS) has put in Quebec City (Canada) together ten world-class lectures with 40+ curious students from all continents. This Summer School has been initiated recently each time before the International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS) supported by the GeoScience and Remote Sensing Society (GRSS). This event organized by INRS-ETE ...