From:
Brent Wood
Date:
May 15 10:43 NZST
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Hi,
The "Fifth International Symposium on GIS/Spatial Analyses in Fishery and
Aquatic Sciences" is to be held in Wellington, August 2011. These symposia are
held every three years, and are organised by the Environmental Simulation
Laboratory in Japan.
NIWA & Silverstripe are the local sponsors/co-organisers.
Initial info available at:
/_assets/http/www.esl.co.jp/Sympo/5th/first_announcement.pdf
Info on previous symposia at
http://www.esl.co.jp/Sympo/
There has been a clear uptake of FOSS in these Symposia, since the first in
1999, when few there had heard of it, to 2008 when virtually everyone
presenting was using some form of FOSS tools/libraries in their work. I'm
hoping some NZ projects using FOSS tools in this arena will be able to present
their work.
With standards compliant tools like -
SpatialLite & PostGIS to manage spatial data,
GDAL/OGR to import/reformat,
QGIS, uDIG, OpenJump, gvSIG as desktop GIS browsers,
GMT, GRASS, SAGA GIS & R as analytical & cartographic tools,
mapserver, Geoserver, Deegree, OpenLayers, Mapfish for web mapping,
Geonetwork for metadata management,
an Open Source suite can provide functionality rivaling or exceeding that of
most commercial tools.
FOSS users/enthusiasts are generally good at presenting in FOSS venues, but I
believe less so in trade shows & conferences which do not have a specific FOSS
focus. Hopefully we can showcase FOSS in the Fisheries/aquatic arenas in NZ.
Cheers,
Brent Wood