Kansei Open Source Conference – Osaka, Japan

20 November 2007 Geoff Zeiss

Recently I attended and presented at the Kansei Open Source Conference in Osaka.  This conference isImg_1600_resize
dedicated to all forms of open source, but thanks to Professor Venkatesh Raghavan of Osaka City University there was a Open Source Geospatial SIG that attracted well-known speakers and organizers from around the world including Markus Neteler; Tyler Mitchell; Lorenzo Becchi; Schuyler Erle; Koki Iwao; Toru Mori; 野田和徳; Hirofumi Hayashi; Daniel Kastl; Osamu Inoue; Noriyuki Yanagibori, Kazunori Noda, and myself.  The Open Source Geospatial SIG was very well attended and in addition there was a session where the geospatial folks were introduced to the general open source community Show

I talked about Web 2.0 and importance of enabling field force participation for utilities.  It is interesting that this is becoming a common theme within the open source geospatial community.  In addition to Fusion/MapGuide/FDO, OpenLayers, FeatureServer, andImg_1586_resize
GeoServer provide support for spatial editing.  Osamu Inoue demonstrated how to build an edit application with MapGuide.

Marcus Neteler gave a fascinating talk showing some of the things he has been able to do with GRASS, really incredible, and Schuyler Erle and Lorenzo Becchi talked on open source implementations of the WPS, web processing service.  The entire open source geospatial conference program covered two days and can be found at Kansei Open Source Geospatial Program .  Professor Venkatesh, Noda-san, and the other organizers really are to be congratulated for an outstanding event, which I hope will be repeated for many years to come.

For more pictures and for a commentary, see Mori-san’s blog OSGeo Day 1 and OSGeo Day 2 

Geoff Zeiss

Geoff Zeiss

Geoff Zeiss has more than 20 years experience in the geospatial software industry and 15 years experience developing enterprise geospatial solutions for the utilities, communications, and public works industries. His particular interests include the convergence of BIM, CAD, geospatial, and 3D. In recognition of his efforts to evangelize geospatial in vertical industries such as utilities and construction, Geoff received the Geospatial Ambassador Award at Geospatial World Forum 2014. Currently Geoff is Principal at Between the Poles, a thought leadership consulting firm. From 2001 to 2012 Geoff was Director of Utility Industry Program at Autodesk Inc, where he was responsible for thought leadership for the utility industry program. From 1999 to 2001 he was Director of Enterprise Software Development at Autodesk. He received one of ten annual global technology awards in 2004 from Oracle Corporation for technical innovation and leadership in the use of Oracle. Prior to Autodesk Geoff was Director of Product Development at VISION* Solutions. VISION* Solutions is credited with pioneering relational spatial data management, CAD/GIS integration, and long transactions (data versioning) in the utility, communications, and public works industries. Geoff is a frequent speaker at geospatial and utility events around the world including Geospatial World Forum, Where 2.0, MundoGeo Connect (Brazil), Middle East Spatial Geospatial Forum, India Geospatial Forum, Location Intelligence, Asia Geospatial Forum, and GITA events in US, Japan and Australia. Geoff received Speaker Excellence Awards at GITA 2007-2009.

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