29Jan/18

Submitting abstracts to the Academic Track of FOSS4G 2018

29/01/2018OSGeo, VeranstaltungenFOSS4G, Open Data, Open Source, OpenStreetMap, OSGeofjbehr

The deadline for submitting abstracts to the Academic Track of FOSS4G 2018 (http://2018.foss4g.org/) is approaching (15 February 2018!). I was co-chairing the Academic Track in three FOSS4G conferences and encourage researchers toRead More…

22Jan/18

OSGeo Board of Directors Names OSGeo President and Executive Positions

22/01/2018Open Source, OSGeoOpen Source, OSGeofjbehr

In the board meeting the new elected OSGeo Board 2017 appointed the Executive Positions for OSGeo. We had a very productive discussion and appointed the positions with full consensus. The OSGeo BoardRead More…

15Nov/17

15/11/2017Geodaten, OrganisationenESA, Land coverfjbehr

The European Space Agency released a new 20m resolution land cover dataset for Africa. The legend includes 10 classes that describe the land surface, amongst them „trees cover areas“, „shrubs cover areas“,Read More…

09Nov/17

Modernstes Tsunami-Warnsystem der Welt entwickelt – Goldenes Lot 2017 für Dr. Jörn Lauterjung

09/11/2017Crisis Mapping, VDVGoldenes Lot, Tsunami-Frühwarnung, VDVfjbehr

Dr. Jörn Lauterjung, Direktor am Deutschen GeoForschungsZentrum GFZ wurde am 03. November in Köln für seine herausragenden Aktivitäten im Rahmen der Projektkoordination zur Entwicklung des Tsunami-Frühwarnsystems im Indischen Ozean vom Verband DeutscherRead More…

24Okt/17

2017 Global platform for disaster risk reduction: Proceedings available

24/10/2017Crisis Mapping, Organisationen, VeranstaltungenDisaster, Disaster Risk Reduction, Sendai Framework, UNISDRfjbehr

This document summarises on 107 pages the proceedings of The Fifth Session of the Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction, which took place from 24 to 26 May 2017 in Cancún, Mexico,Read More…

17Okt/17

Conference Proceedings FOSS4G 2017 North America avaiable

17/10/2017Open, Open Source, OSGeoFOSS4G, OSGeofjbehr

The Conference Proceedings of outstanding papers and posters submitted to the Academic Program of the International Conference for Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial (FOSS4G), 14th to 19th August 2017 inRead More…

15Sep/17

Reminder – Submission of abstracts for the 2nd International Workshop on Spatial Data Quality 6th – 7th Feb 2018

15/09/2017Organisationen, VeranstaltungenData Quality, EuroGraphicsfjbehr

Reminder – Submission of abstracts for the 2nd International Workshop on Spatial Data Quality 6th – 7th Feb 2018 This is a reminder that the deadline for submitting abstracts for the freeRead More…

25Aug/17

OGC seeks public comment on candidate ‘GeoPackage Extension for Tiled Gridded Coverage Data’ standard

25/08/2017OGC, StandardsOGCfjbehr

The Open Geospatial Consortium seeks public comment on the candidate „GeoPackage Extension for Tiled Gridded Coverage Data“ standard. GeoPackage is an open, standards-based, platform-independent, portable, self-describing, compact format for transferring geospatial information.Read More…

11Aug/17

Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team veröffentlicht Jahresbericht

11/08/2017Firmennachrichten, Open Data, OpenStreetMap, OrganisationenHumanitarian OpenStreetMap Team, OpenStreetMapfjbehr

Das Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT) ist eine Initiative, die Prinzipien und Aktivitäten von Open Source und freien Daten gezielt für humanitäre Projekte in Krisensituationen und wirtschaftliche Entwicklung anzuwenden. HOT hat den JahresberichtRead More…

24Mai/17

The Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo) and the Association of Geographic Information Laboratories in Europe (AGILE) signs MoU

24/05/2017AGILE, OSGeoAGILE, OSGeofjbehr

The Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo) and the Association of Geographic Information Laboratories in Europe (AGILE) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to establish a collaborative relationship between the members of theRead More…