FOSS4G SotM Oceania 2019
2019-11-12..2019-11-15
Wellington, New Zealand
[FOSS4G SotM Oceania 2018, FOSS4G SotM Oceania 2019, FOSS4G SotM Oceania 2023, FOSS4G SotM Oceania 2024]
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Towards developing the best (and most diverse!) map in the world! | Miriam Gonzalez | 25m |
Project updates and concrete results: OpenStreetMap boundary import in Mexico grows from 69 to 2457 boundaries after a 1.5 year cleanup and an import paused by… | ||
| FOSS4G Pasifika Roadmap: Then/Now/Beyond | Edwin Liava'a | 23m |
Starts with a 1997 EU‑funded utility GIS using MapInfo and shared BASIC scripts, evolves into a 2008 SPC hydrology system using Hydstra time‑series, PostGIS… | ||
| Why is it so hard? | Em Hain, Nyall Dawson, Nathan Woodrow | 21m |
Examines why geospatial open source lags despite mature projects like Postgres and QGIS, debunks the no support myth by pointing to commercial support firms… | ||
| Why LINZ uses open source software | Jeremy Palmer | 24m |
Land Information New Zealand traces open source use to the 1990s and pivots from an expensive Oracle/Esri stack after a $160M modernization that struggles with… | ||
| Enabling Local Government Innovation with Open Source Software | Tobias Schulmann | 20m |
Open source drives practical wins: Koha began in 1999 in Horowhenua and now runs libraries worldwide with outside contributors (even a Detroit car maker)… | ||
| Building for Reliability with FOSS | Hamish Campbell | 25m |
Hosted geospatial platform packages open source pieces into a reproducible stack and serves 65,000 users and tens of terabytes, claiming hundreds of thousands… | ||
| Orbica Explorer | Kurt Joy | 20m |
A simple web app called Explorer lets non‑GIS users inspect Sentinel‑2 and Landsat imagery with a time-slider to compare two dates, on‑server pan‑sharpening… | ||
| The Open Data Cube and working towards a Digital Earth | David Gavin | 16m |
Provides a working Open Data Cube linked to Postgres that returns xarray datasets and streams via Dask for time series analysis of Landsat (30 m 16‑day) and… | ||
| Opening a treasure trove: The Historical Aerial Photography project | Paul Haesler | 17m |
Geoscience Australia’s archive holds about ~1 million historical aerial images from the 1920s onward, with roughly 200,000 images (≈20%) digitized so far… | ||
| Environmental Monitoring with Large-Scale Land Cover Classification | Sean Chua | 24m |
Produces continent‑wide, time‑consistent land cover maps for Australia using FAO LCCS level 3 classes applied across the Landsat archive, implemented on Open… | ||
| FIXME: Documenting the Uneven Distribution of OSM Data Quality Issues | Martin Tomko | 21m |
Analysis of 1.7 million fixmes in OpenStreetMap uses OSM exports, a Python LangDetect filter, and Labeled LDA with geographically stratified cross‑validation… | ||
| Feedback on a new OSM movement in French Polynesia | Violaine Doutreleau | 23m |
French Polynesia maps community forms regular meetings since August and runs accessibility mapping parties that collect 250 accessible points across 118… | ||
| Learning rules and detecting errors in OpenStreetMap data | Ivan Majic | 19m |
Downloads full OSM into a local PostGIS database, extracts ~11,000 Victoria bridges, computes topological relations with surrounding features, and uses PostGIS… | ||
| Island Mapping: Measuring Urban Footprints with Mapillary & Open Source Tools | Christopher Beddow | 22m |
Shows how Mapillary images plus Overpass API, Who's On First, osmnx and QGIS turn street photos into extractable features (sidewalks, power lines, signs) and… | ||
| Where's your hood at? Crowdsourcing Neighbourhoods using Open Source Tools | Hayden Rickard | 19m |
Built an interactive site wellyhoods.com with Leaflet, Mapbox tiles and a Node.js/Fly backend and collects polygons and focal points; it runs three months and… | ||
| Map-based tools for Māori communities | Inês Falcão, Sharmila Savarimuthu | 22m |
A prototype web app maps and timelines Māori place-based knowledge into planning by letting communities upload raster and vector layers, attach media-rich… | ||
| Lightweight community mapping sites, powered by spreadsheets | Steve Bennett | 21m |
Builds lightweight maps by using Google Sheets as DB published to the web and read via the CSV API, fetched with d3 and converted in-browser to GeoJSON then… | ||
| Crash data visualisation platform using Pixi, WebGL and Leaflet | Banika Sirohi | 21m |
Banika's talk was the first talk in the "Transport / Mobility" session at FOSS4G SotM Oceania 2019, organised by OSGeo Oceania and held at The National Library… | ||
| Access to Public Transport | Danielle Gatland | 20m |
Project measures how many people live within 500 m walk of a frequent public transport stop, using cleaned GTFS schedules, OpenStreetMap walking networks and… | ||
| Building a movement data and analytics platform to de-stress customers & save lives | Hugh Saalmans | 22m |
A smartphone app plus a windshield IoT tag (3‑axis accelerometer and gyroscope) detects crashes and calls an emergency centre within two minutes by sending 100… | ||
| Urban mobility across Oceania | Edoardo Neerhut | 19m |
Examines concrete urban-mobility cases across Oceania: Melbourne’s free CBD trams disrupt models and a new metro rail tunnel aimed at outer-rim flows; SkyBus… | ||
| Running Geospatial Workloads on AWS | Craig Roach | 22m |
Cloud workflows flip the model so compute moves to storage: S3 hosts massive open datasets and services can query S3 with Athena or run Spark/EC2 jobs or… | ||
| Cloud Native GIS - The value of development velocity in GIS | Alistair McIntyre | 22m |
Argues that moving GIS to kubernetes cuts ops overhead and speeds iteration by using containers, orchestration and portability; demonstrates a Postgres cluster… | ||
| Wrangling GeoTIFFs in the browser | Nick Forbes-Smith | 22m |
Shows running full GeoTIFF decode and analysis entirely in the browser using geotiff.js, georaster/plotty, geoblaze and gpu.js plus d3 for contours… | ||
| How I auto-refactored GDAL's test suite | Craig de Stigter | 19m |
Uses Bowler to run syntax-aware refactors across GDAL's ~370k-line Python test suite, converting bespoke return-value tests into pytest fixtures and… | ||
| Creating an Atlas of Aotearoa with open source software | Chris McDowall | 25m |
An atlas of Aotearoa with 87 spreads across eight chapters is produced largely with open source tools: data cleaning in Python, visualisation in QGIS, charts… | ||
| Mapping Marine Diversity: using QGIS to visualise and extract biodiversity data | Sadie Mills | 16m |
National specimens database (Specify on MySQL) contains about 300,000 jars and ~8,500 species with 140,000+ registered records; Specify stores lat/long as X/Y… | ||
| How to put on your designer's hat when crafting map experiences | Andrea Lau | 25m |
A practical workflow that starts with the ABS census tablebuilder to pull country-of-birth by LGA, moves through analysis in Datawrapper and QGIS, then to… | ||
| Digital Twins with TerriaJS and Magda | Mats Henrikson | 25m |
Proof-of-concept combines TerriaJS and Magda to make a regional digital twin for Western Sydney (expanding from Penrith to eight LGAs, ~10% of NSW population)… | ||
| This talk is about maptime | Lyzi Diamond | 23m |
MapTime is a network of beginner-focused map meetups using open source tools and hands-on exercises that grows from a single San Francisco origin to 80+… | ||
| Mapping and Society | Kate Crawford | 30m |
Argues that maps must layer scientific and Indigenous knowledge to show change over time and guide decisions about water, food and towns. Describes Nature Map… | ||
| Open Source Discoverability: the journey of unearthing an abundance of hidden data | Wing Ho | 20m |
Explains that a single-page geospatial app (Terria) hides hundreds of datasets from crawlers and that the fix is pragmatic: run headless browser pre-rendering… | ||
| jsMapservice: leveraging the open source stack for rapid publishing of spatial data | Phil Scadden | 21m |
Config-driven web map service that publishes hundreds of layers and thousands of documents using JSON configs, a REST API and automated imports from ArcGIS… | ||
| Why is open data publishing (still) broken? | Anne Harper | 19m |
Claim: open geospatial data fails because distribution is a tangled supply chain, not simple publisher→user flow. The platform rebuilds data management… | ||
| Delicious Democracy: snagging and mapping citizen data | Keith Moss | 28m |
Crowdsourced map of election-day stalls started in 2013 and now runs on a six-person core team plus ~20 volunteers, ingesting 12–24 electoral data sources per… | ||
| Using open source software to map wildlife in the Northern Mariana Islands | Bradley Eichelberger | 21m |
Centralizes 15 years of paper permits into a cloud workflow using Google Drive, digitizes ~2,700 historic permits and launches a live system in Jan 2018 that… | ||
| Antarctic Data Analysis | Fraser Morgan | 22m |
A web platform called ADA that is beta and under Antarctic Treaty review lets users run reproducible point/dual/transect queries against mapped climate and… | ||
| Fishing for routes: exploring an application of pgRouting | Iosefa Percival | 22m |
Uses pgRouting with PostGIS to convert drone imagery classified with scikit-learn into a navigable graph, then builds a reduced network of Voronoi lines to… | ||
| QField: keeping it simple in the field | Simon Nitz | 15m |
QField is a simple Android client for QGIS projects that syncs edits via a sync plugin and runs on mid‑range devices; editable layers must include QGIS widgets… | ||
| Open Standards meets Open Source - Good Practice Guidance for Use of ISO19115-1 | Byron Cochrane | 20m |
Created a concrete best-practice set for ISO19115-1 metadata that maps ambiguous ISO definitions to actionable element usage, produced as raw Markdown, GitHub… | ||
| Open source and open standards for sensor data sharing | Brent Wood | 19m |
A national profile for sensor observations exists but no fully compliant implementation ever appears so regional agencies adopt the guidelines and build… | ||
| Why are coordinate transformations so confusing? | Chris Crook | 26m |
Explains why coordinate shifts matter: New Zealand uses an ITRF-based datum plus a deformation model that tracks plate velocities and earthquake displacements… | ||
| DGGS: The New Digitally Friendly Format for Spatial Data | Byron Cochrane, Adrian Cochrane | 24m |
An ISO/OGC-backed Discrete Global Grid System replaces lat/long pairs with equal-area nested cells indexed by a single-string identifier, letting areas be… | ||
| Messy maps to make sense of a complex world | Chuan Jia (Jack) Zhao | 22m |
Builds dot‑density maps of Sydney to show income by self‑reported ancestry, using one dot per person to reveal clustering across suburbs and coastal corridors… | ||
| A Journey Towards More Accessible Maps | Emma Krantz | 22m |
Work on Terrier adds concrete accessibility: a keyboard-driven orange selection square moves with arrow keys and reveals feature info, tabbing in modals now… | ||
| Point-in-polygon lookups with vector tiles: quick, effective, and no server needed! | Steve Bennett | 21m |
Demonstrates point-in-polygon lookups done entirely in JavaScript by converting vector tiles to GeoJSON with vt2geojson, testing features with turf… | ||
| Workflows to repeat: QGIS Efficiencies | Em Hain | 21m |
Practical QGIS workflow that cuts repetitive work by enforcing templates, saved symbology and project variables and templates so titles, paths and branding… | ||
| The life of open source spatial with QGIS: Hobby to grown up, with growing pains | Nathan Woodrow | 23m |
Project starts as hobby GIS viewer and grows into a near-production platform: 1 million lines of C++ plus 500k UI XML, 170 contributors, structured releases… | ||
| Geoscience applications of QGIS: a bold new world in mineral exploration | Grant Boxer | 21m |
History of field mapping to modern workflows with QGIS shows MapInfo replacement, processing of airborne magnetic grids with a spatial Gaussian gradient/Novac… | ||
| Post-Tropical Cyclone Gita & Ala Addressing System | Ebony-Jean Ta'avili, To'oa Faleaupu Brown | 21m |
Two linked projects deliver concrete outputs and adoption: post-Gita aerial mapping captures 57.91 km² captured using a DJI Phantom4 Pro and fixed wing flown… | ||
| Lightning Talks | Alex Lum, Andrew Harvey, Brent Wood, Caitlin Adams, Chris Morgan, David Garcia, Ewen Hill, Hamish Campbell, Jessica Leiria Schattschneider, Michael Speth, Nyall Dawson, Richard Law, Rose Phillips, Wing Ho | 01h 24m |
Rapid-fire practical outcomes and tools: Wikidata holds 67 million items and ~5.8 billion triples with SPARQL access; OpenStreetMap workflows recommend… | ||
| Panel on Building Communities | Lyzi Diamond, Anne Harper, Bart De Lathouwer, John Bryant, Alex Leith | 45m |
Panelists give concrete tactics: split work into small, visible tasks and use succession planning and concentric circles so founders can step back; run a… | ||
| Conference Closing | Alex Herzig, Alex Leith, Andrew Harvey, Andy McKenzie, Brent Wood, Emma Krantz, Keith Moss, Nathan Woodrow, Nyall Dawson, Richard Law, Shrividya Ravi, Simon Nitz, Stephen Davies, Wei Ji Leong | 06m |
Conference closing lists concrete results: four keynotes and five panel participants, a volunteer team and ~13–14 core organisers who run more than 20 video… | ||
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