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OpenGeo and terrestris Promote Open Source at GI_Forum/AGIT2011
Sessions Highlight Benefits of Open Source to English and German-Speaking AudiencesSalzburg, Austria, July 7, 2011 - OpenGeo and its partner terrestris are conducting a range of seminars and workshops in English and German at the 5th Geoinformatics Forum/AGIT2011 conference in Salzburg, Austria. The University of Salzburg Centre for Geoinformatics and the Institute for GIScience at the Austrian Academy of Sciences offer this annual forum to the worldwide geoinformatics community, bringing together English-speaking researchers and practitioners across disciplines and industries. Simultaneously, the GI_Forum connects participants into a well-established co-located regional symposium — Applied Geoinformatics (AGIT) — sharing the state-of-the art AGIT-EXPO exhibit.
Sessions on open source software are very popular at this year’s event, with offerings including:
- E-Participation and Collaborative Mapping with GeoNode (Andreas Hocevar, OpenGeo)
- Web GIS Made Easy with OpenGeo Suite (Andreas Hocevar, OpenGeo)
- GeoNode: Open Source, SDI and Risk Assessment (Eddie Pickle, OpenGeo)
- FOSS in Business — Business with FOSS? (Hinrich Paulsen, terrestris).
"Interest in open source geospatial tools is increasing every year, as more agencies and enterprises turn to open source software to deploy their data and solutions. As a result we are seeing an explosion of interest in open source at conferences like GI_Forum/AGIT.”, said Hinrich Paulsen, Managing Director of terrestris.
About OpenGeo
OpenGeo is a social enterprise working to build the best web-based geospatial technology. The company brings the best practices of open source software to geospatial organizations around the world by providing enterprises with supported, tested, and integrated open source solutions to build the Geospatial Web. OpenGeo also supports open source communities by employing key developers of PostGIS, GeoServer, and OpenLayers. Since 2002, the company has provided successful consulting services and products to clients like the World Bank, Google, the UK Ordnance Survey, Portland TriMet, MassGIS, Landgate, and the Federal Communications Commission. OpenGeo is the geospatial division of OpenPlans, a New York-based 501(c)(3) non-profit that informs and engages communities through journalism and open source software. All of OpenGeo's revenue has been and will continue to be re-invested into innovative and useful software in support of the OpenPlans mission.
About terrestris
terrestris is a geoinformatics business from Bonn, Germany and originally a spin-off from the University of Bonn. Since 2002, terrestris has been active in the conceptualisation, implementation and maintenance of spatial data infrastructures using open source software like PostGIS, OpenLayers and GeoServer. One focus is on geodata acquisition in real-time using wireless sensor networks for environmental monitoring and displaying resulting data in a WebGIS environment. Customers of terrestris include the German states Lower-Saxony, Brandenburg and Baden-Württemberg, TUV Rhineland Group, University of Copenhagen, the Forschungszentrum Jülich research institution, and diverse municipalities, amongst others. terrestris has successfully completed projects in the Middle East (Qatar), Africa (Benin), Europe (Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Spain, Denmark) and is currently active in a hydrological research project in Asia (Mongolia).
Eddie Pickle
OpenGeo, A Division of OpenPlans
148 Lafayette Street, Penthouse
New York, NY 10013, 1-877-OPENGEO
+1 917-388-9062
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