Much is going on in Korea. It is and will be a place to watch for Open Source GeoSpatial, with the likes of Sanghee Shin and all his local chapter OSGeo compadres leading the charge. FOSS4G Korea was part of Smart Geospatial Expo 2014 this year, and during the expo, Sanghee was awarded a prize from the South Korean president for his work in promoting Open Source … Continue reading FOSS4G Korea 2014 and the tale of the three Stephens
As I have been moving around, whether traveling to Seoul or within Seoul, I have taken a lot of pictures. Some have GPS and I’ve processed to sent to Mapillary, like a few hundred I took on a day wandering Seoul: I’ve taken a lot of strange videos too. I took a couple videos of my feet in the subway train just to get the … Continue reading FOSS4G Korea 2014, poor GPS photos, and mapillary
I have much to say about my experiences this past week at FOSS4G Korea, but I’ll keep this very short for now. If you live in North America or Europe and are thinking about not going to FOSS4G 2015 because it’s too far, rethink it. Waiting for you on the other side of the world is Korea, a complex mix of old and new, mountain … Continue reading FOSS4G Korea 2014 and FOSS4G 2015 (Korea!)
This year’s FOSS4G is in Portland, September 8th through the 14th. It should be a great conference. Related and relavent: yours truly will keynote and offer a half day workshop in PostGIS at FOSS4G Korea, 2014. I cannot put into words how excited I am. Sanghee, representative of OSGeo Korean Chapter put the relevant info on FOSS4G Korea 2014 succinctly: “FOSS4G Korea 2014 will be … Continue reading FOSS4G Korea 2014
In a short blog post, I won’t be able to do the NACIS conference justice, but if you haven’t gone and you are a map geek, then I recommend you attend next year’s conference in Pittsburg. First: The People: What a collegial and warm group of people. NACIS was a very welcoming community, an interesting mix of private industry geniuses (ahem, Mapbox, Stamen, Vizzuality etc.), academics, … Continue reading North American Cartographic Information Society (NACIS) Conference (yay #NACIS!)
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