FOSS4G SotM Oceania 2018
2018-11-20..2018-11-23
Melbourne, Australia
[FOSS4G SotM Oceania 2018, FOSS4G SotM Oceania 2019, FOSS4G SotM Oceania 2023, FOSS4G SotM Oceania 2024]
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Lightning Talks | Stephen Lead, Cameron Shorter, Nathan Woodrow, Nyall Dawson, Andrew Harvey, Ewen Hill, Andrew Bashfield, Julian O'Grady, Hamish Campbell, Daniel Kastl, Rebecca Roberts, Hugh Saalmans, Martin Tomko, Steve Bennett, Nikola Todic | 01h 25m |
Lightning talks by:
Stephen Lead
Cameron Shorter
Nathan Woodrow
Nyall Dawson
Andrew Harvey
Ewen Hill
Andrew Bashfield
Julian O'Grady
Hamish Campbell
Daniel… | ||
| Welcome from OSGeo | María Arias de Reyna | 01m |
Conference opens with thanks to volunteers and sponsors, urges attendees to broaden networks for diversity and to mingle with OpenStreetMap contributors, and… | ||
| Why we code | Paul Ramsey | 39m |
Argues that open source succeeds because three interacting economies drive it not because heroic coders alone the software attention economy concentrates users… | ||
| Using spatial data to model biodiversity | Jane Elith | 32m |
Spatial species distribution models combine occurrence records and environmental layers to make actionable maps. Examples: using R and QGIS with OpenStreetMap… | ||
| Keynote | Nyall Dawson | 31m |
Three concrete stories anchor a call to widen the spatial community: a first-year analyst who needs a regression model for arson risk and gets shut down, a… | ||
| What are your salary requirements? | Alyssa P Wright | 42m |
Uses a job‑interview format to probe how open geospatial work turns into pay, naming concrete projects and funding models: blockchain experiments (FOAM) with… | ||
| Human Evolution, Ethics and Open Source Mapping | Hannah Dormido, Adam Steer, Serryn Eagleson, Maurits van der Vlugt | 01h 17m |
Panelists debate concrete tradeoffs: QGIS and OpenStreetMap enable low‑cost mapping used in typhoon response and indigenous mapping, governments vary — New… | ||
| Bootleaf, an open-source web-map framework | Stephen Lead | 20m |
An open‑source web‑map framework called Bootleaf replaces legacy Flex/Silverlight maps for IAG, loading in about one second and handling 50–60 layers without… | ||
| The future of open data | Anne Harper | 18m |
Describes a geospatial data publishing platform (Coordinates) that moves government data from zipped, proprietary, or broken WMS files into reliable… | ||
| TerriaJS: An open-source framework for 3D geospatial data... | Mats Henrikson | 19m |
TerriaJS is an open-source JavaScript platform that powers a public NationalMap connecting 10,000+ datasets by talking directly to custodial services (CSW… | ||
| Who actually uses geospatial data? | Hamish Campbell | 17m |
A national SaaS platform publishes spatial data for human download and for system integration, with exports dominating interactive use and web services… | ||
| My Victoria - Big Data for Small Business | Leon Woodhouse | 17m |
My Victoria is a public platform that turns 60+ government datasets into suburb-to-region summaries for small and medium businesses, built with PostgreSQL… | ||
| When data can't be open | Angus MacAulay | 19m |
Builds an Urban Observatory web client that serves aggregated neighborhood indicators while keeping source survey data protected, using GeoNode + GeoServer +… | ||
| Dotloom - Next Generation Point-cloud Platform | Daniel Kastl | 19m |
Dotloom is a peer-to-peer distribution and processing platform for very large point-cloud datasets that claims faster downloads by pulling from multiple peers… | ||
| Cloud Web Services for the Open Data Cube | Paul Haesler | 15m |
An open source web layer sits on top of the Open Data Cube and publishes WMS 1.3 and experimental WCS endpoints, written in Python 3 and pulling imagery on… | ||
| UAV Change detection using FME and QGIS | Anton van Wyk | 15m |
Automated workflow uses FME automation to compare yesterday’s base DEM with each new UAV flight over a 10‑hectare site flown daily for six months, producing a… | ||
| The Open Data Cube in a Box | Alex Leith | 16m |
Open Data Cube is an open‑source Python library with a Postgres index that points at rasters on filesystems or S3 and it supports COGs natively so you can… | ||
| GeoAI: a feature extraction tool set using Tensor Flow and Keras... | Sagar Soni | 17m |
A convolutional encoder‑decoder pipeline extracts building, road and water polygons from high‑res RGB tiles (about 7.5 cm resolution, ~15 million pixels per… | ||
| pgFaaS: Geo-Processing made simple with Serverless technology | Luca Morandini | 19m |
A serverless platform wraps user functions as Docker containers via OpenFaaS, exposing a REST API and simple UI to run SQL-driven geoprocessing against a… | ||
| How to create a fast and cost effective serverless geospatial analysis pipeline... | Mila Frerichs | 19m |
Shows a working, cost‑effective geospatial pipeline built on AWS Lambda that ran on the free tier for over a year and handled daily/weekly jobs. Uses the… | ||
| GeoPackage and the Related Tables Extension | Brad Hards | 19m |
GeoPackage becomes a single-file container for vector, raster and metadata with an OGC-backed spec, Spatialite/SQLite implementations and executable… | ||
| State of the a-R-t - Advances in mapping in R | David Cooley | 13m |
Claims a usable R→browser pipeline that renders millions of points and interactive 3D polygons by combining R, HTMLwidgets, Mapbox and deck.gl. Releases… | ||
| Meshes are needed for geospatial work | Michael Sumner | 21m |
Argues that geospatial work needs explicit meshes and shows working code that separates topology and geometry as distinct indexed datasets, uses a Delaunay… | ||
| Falling off the edge of the world: Dealing with the antimeridian... | Craig de Stigter | 17m |
Converting EPSG:3994 coastal data into WGS84 and then spherical Mercator exposes antimeridian wrap where longitudes jump from +180 to -180; the fix sorts every… | ||
| Dr. Strangedata or: How I Learned To Stop Worrying and Love the_geom | Tom Lynch | 24m |
An application that intersects user areas with reference layers repeatedly fails because worst‑case spatial relations, not data size, drive cost; buffering… | ||
| Is the turf(js) greener on the other side? | Rowan Winsemius | 17m |
A JavaScript spatial library with 150 modules that ships as separate packages and gets tens of thousands of downloads a week, but is maintained by a few… | ||
| 10 Things I've Learnt About PostGIS | Daniel Silk | 14m |
Spatial indices cut query time dramatically so adding indexes and using them properly is the first win. ST_Subdivide turns one huge polygon vs 1.1 million… | ||
| Our journey adopting QGIS in a corporate environment | Emma Hain | 18m |
Company adopts QGIS for an engineering consultancy starting in 2011, shrinks from five to one GIS role in 2012, and formalizes a strategy in 2016 hiring a… | ||
| The evolution of a homegrown QGIS developer | Nathan Woodrow | 18m |
Starts as a junior using MapInfo 6/7 and tab files, adds a C++ patch to allow expression builder labeling (first patch reviewed after ~30 emails), moves from… | ||
| The Road Less Travelled: A corporation’s journey... | Ed Haverkamp | 21m |
A large insurer rewrites its geospatial stack to run natively on Postgres/PostGIS and a Greenplum data lake ingesting 230 source systems, replaces heavy ESRI… | ||
| Free satellite imagery and DEM analyses enabling NRM in the developing world | Rohan Fisher | 17m |
Uses Sentinel-2 10 m every 5 days and Landsat archives (1996–2015) with free elevation data to detect land-use change and sediment pathways; runs analyses in… | ||
| Geospatial on a shoestring - my experiences in Native Title | Cameron Poole | 18m |
Y MAC starts with almost no spatial infrastructure and within a few years builds a functioning department serving ~100 staff across three locations… | ||
| GeoBI: A data visualisation platform using D3, leaflet, Geoserver, PostGres and php | Neal Johnston | 15m |
A web platform that publishes regional council rates and budget data with an editor so councils import CSVs and shapefiles, map fields, write narratives and… | ||
| Māori Maps: layering of people and place | Hirini Tane | 15m |
A charitable project maps and documents indigenous meeting places using GPS collected on an 18‑year field program (road trip 2008–2014) and publishes layered… | ||
| QGIS for Exploratory Data Analysis and Visualisation | Nyall Dawson | 21m |
Demonstration uses a Melbourne train-station dataset (passengers per day mean ≈3,500, min ~199, max ~30,000) to show QGIS tools for reproducible EDA: the stats… | ||
| QGIS Sorceress in Training: A QGIS User’s Story | Hannah Dormido | 15m |
Journalist turned mapper learns QGIS from a seven‑year‑old YouTube playlist and six months of self-study, then builds embeddable newsroom maps for Financial… | ||
| Laying the Foundations for a National Building Outlines Dataset | Megan Davidson | 17m |
National building outlines dataset now holds about 2.8 million outlines captured against NZ aerial imagery, built with a QGIS plugin and managed in… | ||
| Tupaia - Health resource mapping in Asia-Pacific | Michael Nunan | 15m |
A web platform aggregates mSupply and DHIS2 data into a DHIS2-based server, a React front end and Leaflet/OpenStreetMap tiles to map health services across six… | ||
| Open Data for Australia's mining, oil, and gas sector | Jessie Cato | 17m |
Campaign for mandatory, project-level fiscal disclosure argues Australia lacks both EITI membership and a mandatory law so most company payments are highly… | ||
| Open Source Spatial Tools for Biodiversity and Environmental Data... | Peggy Newman | 15m |
The Atlas of Living Australia aggregates biodiversity records, enriches each occurrence by intersecting it with 500 spatial layers, reconciles names with a… | ||
| Secrets of Antony Green: Calculating notional margins for electoral redistributions | Alex Lum | 17m |
Procedure to recreate notional margins from new boundaries using poll‑level returns and census areas: download boundary shapefiles, polling‑place results and… | ||
| WMS-V - Video Map Tiles for the 3rd or 4th Dimension | Tim-Hinnerk Heuer | 19m |
Proposes replacing hundreds of PNG tile requests with continuous video tiles to show temporal raster data, demonstrating a proof‑of‑concept for a national post… | ||
| Choosing Tegola to create vector tiles | Angus Scown | 19m |
Tegola (Go) is chosen for production vector tiles because it compiles to one static binary, speaks HTTP, encodes protobuf MVT, and connects directly to… | ||
| Mapping the Census with PostGIS, Python, and... | Keith Moss | 16m |
Builds an interactive map service that lets non‑GIS users combine ABS census fields on the fly using SQL/expressions, Postgres/PostGIS and Python to render… | ||
| Raster tiles to vector tiles: how to cross the gulf | Steve Bennett | 16m |
Migrating raster to vector tiles proves messy not magic: vector tiles enable dynamic styling and smaller packaged geometry but hit a hard 500 KB per tile… | ||
| Establishing a Serverless Dynamic Tile Generation Workflow | Callum Lynch | 19m |
Converted a 197 TB JPEG2000 archive on S3 into manageable tiles by slicing source images into 20 MB chunks with a GDAL Python pipeline, indexing chunk… | ||
| Moving Through Country | Kate Crawford | 19m |
Community project builds a cultural mapping pipeline: start with no-technology community mapping with elders and youth, digitize into OpenStreetMap where… | ||
| Does our choice of open data sets matter... | Julianna Rozek | 13m |
Compares three open datasets to measure the policy metric of dwellings within 400 m of public open space: Victorian Planning Authority (gold standard, 2017… | ||
| Using open source mapping tools to understand indoor navigation routes... | Nimalika Fernando | 13m |
Uses JOSM and iD editing plus Android collectors, QGIS processing and OpenLevelUp for multi‑floor visualization to convert PDFs/CAD into mapped indoor data… | ||
| BeyondTracks: an OpenStreetMap case study | Andrew Harvey | 15m |
BeyondTracks is a weekend project that turns OpenStreetMap path data into searchable walks by building a separate routes DB, running nightly GitLab CI jobs to… | ||
| Australia to Vanuatu: A visual exploration of the mapping challenges in Asia... | Edoardo Neerhut | 15m |
Mapillary is a street‑level imagery platform that now hosts 401 million images and runs computer vision pipelines that produce semantic segmentation and a 3D… | ||
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