Open Source GIS Conferences

Saturday, 15 September, 2012

Well it’s conference season and Claudio, the researcher on the NERC funded project I am working on, has been presenting some of the outcomes of the work. Specifically we have been using open source software and data to develop a web mapping application so it seemed appropriate to present at the two main Open Source GIS conferences in Europe this summer:

Open Source GIS Conference: held at University of Nottingham, this is building up a head of steam and the conference programme is pretty good (here are the abstracts). As open source becomes ever more pervasive in both business and academic contexts I think we’ll see this develop more fully.
Open Source Geospatial Research and Education Symposium: only the second one of these, being held in Lausanne, but the programme has arguably drawn and wider and richer body of work than OSGIS. Extended abstracts to be published shortly.

Not forgetting the grandaddy of course:
FOSS4G: …..and its coming to the UK in 2013 (specifically Nottingham). And, in fact, its a double-header coming immediately after AGI GeoCommunity

The other two main GIS conferences are GISRUK and AGI GeoCommunity. Both worth a look.

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