LocationTech open source geospatial celebrates first anniversary

9 March 2014 Geoff Zeiss

In one year LocationTech has attracted key strategic members interested in taking advantage of the governance and intellectual property services including commercially friendly licensing that LocationTech/Eclipse provides. LocationTech members now include

Actuate, Boundless, Google, IBM, Oracle, Azavea, Glob3, MapGears, OGC, Vivid Solutions

LocationTech has very interesting projects and project proposals in the pipeline on the leading edge of open source geospatial development.

  • Mobile Map Tools – Mobile Map Tools(MMT) is a SDK designed to build multi-platform native mobile applications.
  • JTS Topology Suite – The JTS Topology Suite (JTS) is an open source Java software library that provides an object model for planar geometry together with a set of fundamental geometric functions.
  • GeoGit – GeoGit is a Distributed Version Control System (DVCS) specially designed to handle geospatial data efficiently.
  • SpatialHadoop – patialHadoop is a comprehensive extension to Hadoop that allows efficient processing of spatial data.
  • GeoTrellis – The core GeoTrellis framework provides an ability to process large and small data sets with low latency by distributing the computation across multiple threads, cores, CPUs and machines.
  • Spatial4j – Spatial4j is a general purpose spatial / geospatial ASL licensed open-source Java library to provide common geospatially-aware shapes, to provide distance calculations and other math, and to read and write the shapes to strings.
  • GeoMesa – GeoMesa is a suite of geospatial libraries and tools built on top of Geotools and Accumulo, and contains a spatio-temporal indexing structure that enables efficient storage, querying, and transformation capabilities for large spatio-temporal data sets.
  • Geoff (Geo Fast Forward) – This project aims at simplifying the process for integrating existing business applications to provide a simple to use framework for visualizing geospatial data on a geographical map embedded into Eclipse RCP applications.
  • GeoScript – GeoScript adds geometry handling, spatial data access, and vector feature rendering to dynamic scripting languages Groovy, JavaScript, Python, and Scala.

First anniversary event

Date:
Wednesday, March 26, 2014 – 18:30

This party is open to all.  It’s a chance to chat with entrepreneurs, technology developers, geospatial professionals, LocationTech members, and the open source geospatial community.

Location:
1400 Key Blvd

Level A (Enter at North Oak St entrance)

Rosslyn, VA 22209

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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