Communities of Practice and the Business of Open Source Web Mapping

2008 ◽  
pp. 49-64 ◽  
Author(s):  
David McIhagga
Keyword(s):  
Communities Of Practice ◽  
Open Source ◽  
Web Mapping

scholarly journals An Interactive WebGIS Framework for Coastal Erosion Risk Management

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (6) ◽  
pp. 567
Author(s):  
Alessandra Capolupo ◽  
Cristina Monterisi ◽  
Alessandra Saponieri ◽  
Fabio Addona ◽  
Leonardo Damiani ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Open Source ◽  
3D Visualization ◽  
Erosion Risk ◽  
Innovative Strategies ◽  
Web Mapping ◽  
Natural Processes ◽  
Multi Scale ◽  
Interactive Interface ◽  
Multi Temporal ◽  
User Friendly

The Italian coastline stretches over about 8350 km, with 3600 km of beaches, representing a significant resource for the country. Natural processes and anthropic interventions keep threatening its morphology, moulding its shape and triggering soil erosion phenomena. Thus, many scholars have been focusing their work on investigating and monitoring shoreline instability. Outcomes of such activities can be largely widespread and shared with expert and non-expert users through Web mapping. This paper describes the performances of a WebGIS prototype designed to disseminate the results of the Italian project Innovative Strategies for the Monitoring and Analysis of Erosion Risk, known as the STIMARE project. While aiming to include the entire national coastline, three study areas along the regional coasts of Puglia and Emilia Romagna have already been implemented as pilot cases. This WebGIS was generated using Free and Open-Source Software for Geographic information systems (FOSS4G). The platform was designed by combining Apache http server, Geoserver, as open-source server and PostgreSQL (with PostGIS extension) as database. Pure javascript libraries OpenLayers and Cesium were implemented to obtain a hybrid 2D and 3D visualization. A user-friendly interactive interface was programmed to help users visualize and download geospatial data in several formats (pdf, kml and shp), in accordance with the European INSPIRE directives, satisfying both multi-temporal and multi-scale perspectives.

Usage of TB in Practice

2018 ◽  
pp. 149-165
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Management ◽  
Communities Of Practice ◽  
Open Source ◽  
Information Management ◽  
Information Technologies ◽  
Business Administration ◽  
Management Framework ◽  
Time Bank ◽  
Open Source Communities ◽  
Generic Time

This chapter compares the universal TB model with the previous TB interpretation discussed in the first half of the book. Special attention is devoted to 19 selected TB properties ranging from adaptability to universality. Furthermore, tangible results follow in form of potential implications to business administration. Namely, information and knowledge management and information technologies are considered. In the area of information management, a generic time bank information management framework is outlined. In the scope of knowledge management, the function of TB is compared with the phenomenon known as communities of practice. Finally, co-productive behavior of the TB related to open source communities are depicted in the area of information technologies.

An open source, server-side framework for analytical web mapping and its application to health

2013 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 294-315 ◽  
Author(s):  
Simon Moncrieff ◽  
Geoff West ◽  
James Cosford ◽  
Narelle Mullan ◽  
Andrew Jardine
Keyword(s):  
Open Source ◽  
Web Mapping ◽  
Server Side

scholarly journals OPEN SOURCE WEB-BASED SOLUTIONS FOR DISSEMINATING AND ANALYZING FLOOD HAZARD INFORMATION AT THE COMMUNITY LEVEL

2017 ◽  
Vol XLII-2/W7 ◽  
pp. 91-97
Author(s):  
M. M.-M.-Santillan ◽  
J. R. Santillan ◽  
E. M. O. Morales
Keyword(s):  
Open Source ◽  
Web Application ◽  
Information Dissemination ◽  
Flood Hazard ◽  
Meteorological Data ◽  
Simulation Models ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Household Level ◽  
Systematic Assessment ◽  
Web Mapping

We discuss in this paper the development, including the features and functionalities, of an open source web-based flood hazard information dissemination and analytical system called “Flood EViDEns”. Flood EViDEns is short for “Flood Event Visualization and Damage Estimations”, an application that was developed by the Caraga State University to address the needs of local disaster managers in the Caraga Region in Mindanao, Philippines in accessing timely and relevant flood hazard information before, during and after the occurrence of flood disasters at the community (i.e., barangay and household) level. The web application made use of various free/open source web mapping and visualization technologies (GeoServer, GeoDjango, OpenLayers, Bootstrap), various geospatial datasets including LiDAR-derived elevation and information products, hydro-meteorological data, and flood simulation models to visualize various scenarios of flooding and its associated damages to infrastructures. The Flood EViDEns application facilitates the release and utilization of this flood-related information through a user-friendly front end interface consisting of web map and tables. A public version of the application can be accessed at <a href="http://121.97.192.11:8082/"target="_blank">http://121.97.192.11:8082/</a>. The application is currently expanded to cover additional sites in Mindanao, Philippines through the “Geo-informatics for the Systematic Assessment of Flood Effects and Risks for a Resilient Mindanao” or the “Geo-SAFER Mindanao” Program.

scholarly journals WEB MAPPING ARCHITECTURES BASED ON OPEN SPECIFICATIONS AND FREE AND OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE IN THE WATER DOMAIN

2017 ◽  
Vol IV-2/W4 ◽  
pp. 23-30
Author(s):  
C. Arias Muñoz ◽  
M. A. Brovelli ◽  
C. E. Kilsedar ◽  
R. Moreno-Sanchez ◽  
D. Oxoli
Keyword(s):  
Data Collection ◽  
Open Source ◽  
Open Source Software ◽  
Data Availability ◽  
End User ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Web Mapping ◽  
Related Data ◽  
Data Formats ◽  
Information Assets

The availability of water-related data and information across different geographical and jurisdictional scales is of critical importance for the conservation and management of water resources in the 21<sup>st</sup> century. Today information assets are often found fragmented across multiple agencies that use incompatible data formats and procedures for data collection, storage, maintenance, analysis, and distribution. The growing adoption of Web mapping systems in the water domain is reducing the gap between data availability and its practical use and accessibility. Nevertheless, more attention must be given to the design and development of these systems to achieve high levels of interoperability and usability while fulfilling different end user informational needs. This paper first presents a brief overview of technologies used in the water domain, and then presents three examples of Web mapping architectures based on free and open source software (FOSS) and the use of open specifications (OS) that address different users’ needs for data sharing, visualization, manipulation, scenario simulations, and map production. The purpose of the paper is to illustrate how the latest developments in OS for geospatial and water-related data collection, storage, and sharing, combined with the use of mature FOSS projects facilitate the creation of sophisticated interoperable Web-based information systems in the water domain.

scholarly journals IMPLEMENTATION OF OPEN-SOURCE WEB MAPPING TECHNOLOGIES TO SUPPORT MONITORING OF GOVERNMENTAL SCHEMES

2015 ◽  
Vol II-2/W2 ◽  
pp. 147-153
Author(s):  
B. R. Pulsani
Keyword(s):  
Open Source ◽  
Economic Condition ◽  
Tracking System ◽  
Government Programs ◽  
Web Mapping ◽  
Thematic Mapping ◽  
Housing Corporation ◽  
Mother And Child ◽  
The Government ◽  
The Cost

Several schemes are undertaken by the government to uplift social and economic condition of people. The monitoring of these schemes is done through information technology where involvement of Geographic Information System (GIS) is lacking. To demonstrate the benefits of thematic mapping as a tool for assisting the officials in making decisions, a web mapping application for three government programs such as Mother and Child Tracking system (MCTS), Telangana State Housing Corporation Limited (TSHCL) and Ground Water Quality Mapping (GWQM) has been built. Indeed the three applications depicted the distribution of various parameters thematically and helped in identifying the areas with higher and weaker distributions. Based on the three applications, the study tends to find similarities of many government schemes reflecting the nature of thematic mapping and hence deduces to implement this kind of approach for other schemes as well. These applications have been developed using SharpMap Csharp library which is a free and open source mapping library for developing geospatial applications. The study highlights upon the cost benefits of SharpMap and brings out the advantage of this library over proprietary vendors and further discusses its advantages over other open source libraries as well.

scholarly journals WEB GIS SOLUTION FOR URBAN PLANNING DOCUMENTATION WORKFLOW

2020 ◽  
Vol 171 ◽  
pp. 02005
Author(s):  
Livia Nistor-Lopatenco ◽  
Andrei Iacovlev
Keyword(s):  
Urban Planning ◽  
Open Source ◽  
Spatial Data ◽  
Cost Effective ◽  
Web Gis ◽  
Cloud Infrastructure ◽  
Web Mapping ◽  
Gis Applications ◽  
User Management ◽  
Test Version

The goal of this work is to study the use of WEB GIS open source solution for workflow organizing of urban planning documentation: zoning permit, building permit, occupancy permit, utilities connection. A web GIS solution Giscuit.Com developed by a moldavian company VEC.MD was used as a framework for implementation of test version of a specialized website Primaria.Giscuit.Com. Giscuit is a cost-effective web mapping platform built on powerful, cutting-edge, open source geospatial components. The goal is to make it as easy as possible to build more secure, reliable and modern web GIS applications. With Giscuit users stay in control of their content through centralized management of vector and raster spatial data. Giscuit allows users to visualize, share, edit and analyze geospatial data. It has powerful web-based administrator panel with features like data import, layer styling, user management, permissions management, publishing data and more. It is compliant with the Open Geospatial Consortium standards, this is achieved through OpenLayers or PHP MapScript supporting several OGC standards like WMS, WFS, WMC etc. Giscuit provides a scalable GIS server platform that can be deployed on a single Linux or Microsoft Windows machine, it can be distributed across multiple servers or deployed on cloud infrastructure.

scholarly journals BUILDING A COMPLETE FREE AND OPEN SOURCE GIS INFRASTRUCTURE FOR HYDROLOGICAL COMPUTING AND DATA PUBLICATION USING GIS.LAB AND GISQUICK PLATFORMS

2017 ◽  
Vol XLII-4/W2 ◽  
pp. 101-105
Author(s):  
M. Landa ◽  
P. Kavka ◽  
L. Strouhal ◽  
J. Cepicky
Keyword(s):  
Open Source ◽  
Local Area Network ◽  
Local Area ◽  
Area Network ◽  
Software Projects ◽  
Seamless Integration ◽  
Data Publication ◽  
Web Mapping ◽  
Grass Gis ◽  
Open Source Gis

Building a complete free and open source GIS computing and data publication platform can be a relatively easy task. This paper describes an automated deployment of such platform using two open source software projects – GIS.lab and Gisquick. GIS.lab (<a href=" http: //web.gislab.io"target="_blank">http: //web.gislab.io</a>) is a project for rapid deployment of a complete, centrally managed and horizontally scalable GIS infrastructure in the local area network, data center or cloud. It provides a comprehensive set of free geospatial software seamlessly integrated into one, easy-to-use system. A platform for GIS computing (in our case demonstrated on hydrological data processing) requires core components as a geoprocessing server, map server, and a computation engine as eg. GRASS GIS, SAGA, or other similar GIS software. All these components can be rapidly, and automatically deployed by GIS.lab platform. In our demonstrated solution PyWPS is used for serving WPS processes built on the top of GRASS GIS computation platform. GIS.lab can be easily extended by other components running in Docker containers. This approach is shown on Gisquick seamless integration. Gisquick (<a href=" http://gisquick.org"target="_blank">http://gisquick.org</a>) is an open source platform for publishing geospatial data in the sense of rapid sharing of QGIS projects on the web. The platform consists of QGIS plugin, Django-based server application, QGIS server, and web/mobile clients. In this paper is shown how to easily deploy complete open source GIS infrastructure allowing all required operations as data preparation on desktop, data sharing, and geospatial computation as the service. It also includes data publication in the sense of OGC Web Services and importantly also as interactive web mapping applications.

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