Sharing Geospatial Information on the Web using Open Source Software

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Sharing Geospatial Information on the Web using Open Source Software

By Yale Center for Research Computing

Date and time

Friday, January 26, 2018 · 9am - 5pm EST

Location

YCRC Auditorium

160 Saint Ronan Street New Haven, CT 06511

Description

In this workshop, the participants, with a series of step by step tutorials, will get a basic understanding on how to publish geospatial data on the web. The workshop will focus on OGC web standards and how to implement them using the different components of a geoportal/SDI framework (based on GeoNode): a map engine (GeoServer), a tile cache engine (GeoWebCache), a catalogue (pycsw) and a spatial database (PostgreSQL/PostGIS). As a final step the participants will learn how to develop a simple viewer based on OpenLayers.

Workshop steps

  • Introduction: web GIS and WorldMap
  • A GeoNode quickstart
  • OGC services with GeoServer
  • Tiles caching with GeoWebCache
  • Catalogue services with pycsw
  • Spatial queries with PostGIS
  • Developing a viewer with OpenLayers

Speaker Bio
Paolo Corti is an environmental engineer based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He is a Geospatial Engineer Fellow at the Center for Geographic Analysis of the University of Harvard (http://gis.harvard.edu/), where he is the lead developer of WorldMap, a very large geoportal publishing thousands of different spatial datasets, and Hypermap, an application that manages OWS, Esri REST, and other types of map service harvesting, and maintains uptime statistics for services and layers. His research activities are mainly focused on using web OGC standards and mapping tools to disseminate, manage, catalogue and process geospatial information in the
web.
Before being involved in the WorldMap project, he has been contributing in web mapping projects related to a number of different application fields, consulting for the United Nations World Food Programme (food security and emergency management), the European Union Joint Research Center (forest fires) and the Italian Government (industrial sites). He is an OSGeo Charter member, a core committer for the GeoNode project, a member of the pycsw and GeoNode Project Steering Committees and coauthor of the PostGIS Cookbook.



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The Yale Center for Research Computing advances research at Yale by administering a sustainable state-of-the-art computational infrastructure, providing technology services, and facilitating an interdisciplinary approach to the development and application of advanced computing and data processing technology throughout the research community.

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