Name: Extend your GIS Program with Open Source
Start: 2024-10-08T14:00:00-0400
End: 2024-10-08T15:30:00-0400

Welcome to GIS-Pro 2024: URISA’s 62nd Annual Conference, taking place in Portland, Maine! This is where you review the comprehensive educational program for the conference and plan your agenda.

We are pleased to collaborate with the New England Chapter of URISA on this important event.

Go to this page to register for the conference and make travel plans; review sponsor and exhibit packages, and check out young professional and student opportunities. Early bird registration discounts are available until August 1.

Tuesday October 8, 2024 2:00pm - 3:30pm EDT

Massachusetts

The evolution of workforces and administrative regulations are favoring an increased utilization of Open Source in the workplace for streamlined processing and collaboration. In this session you will be introduced to a large variety of resources, including Spatial PostGIS, Oracle Spatial databases, SQL, GeoNode, Mapstore, GeoServer, and more.

Spatial SQL and You: A PostGIS Primer
Jordan Carmona, GISP, Senior Geospatial Development Engineer, H-E-B

Building Spatial Infrastructures with GeoServer, Mapstore and GeoNode: Experiences from the Trenches
Simone Giannecchini, Director, GeoSolutions, Brooklyn, NY

QGIS Projects: Improving Team Effectiveness
Matthew Yurman, PMP, Principal, Spatial Focus, Inc., Decatur, GA

A Survey of Open-Source Decision Support GIS Web Applications
Nathan Swain, PhD, Director of Development Services, Aquaveo, LLC, Provo, UT
Shawn Crawley, MS, Software Engineer, Lynker, LLC, Leesburg, VA

Moderators

Khalid Mehmood

GIS Services Leader, EQUS REA LTD.

Speakers

Jordan Carmona, GISP

Senior Geospatial Development Engineer, H-E-B

Matt Yurman, PMP

Principal, Spatial Focus, Inc.

Simone Giannecchini

Director, GeoSolutions

Simone Giannecchini (Ing.) is the founder and managing director of GeoSolutions. He is a Charter Member of OSGeo, the Open Source Geospatial foundation. He is also a member of the Steering committee for the GeoTools as well as the GeoServer Open Source projects. Before founding GeoSolutions... Read More →

Nathan Swain, PhD

Director of Development Services, Aquaveo, LLC

Nathan Swain is the Director of Development Services at Aquaveo specializing in developing web solutions for water resources modeling and hydroinformatics. He completed a Ph.D. at Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah, USA with an emphasis on Civil and Environmental Engineering and... Read More →

Shawn Crawley, MS

Software Engineer, Lynker, LLC

Extend your GIS Program with Open Source Session pdf

Tuesday October 8, 2024 2:00pm - 3:30pm EDT
Massachusetts

Open-Source GIS

GIS-Pro 2024