FOSS4G SotM Oceania 2023
2023-10-16..2023-10-20
Auckland, New Zealand
[FOSS4G SotM Oceania 2018, FOSS4G SotM Oceania 2019, FOSS4G SotM Oceania 2023, FOSS4G SotM Oceania 2024]
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Free and Open GIS Tools for Anticipatory Action and Disaster Prep. | Harry Machmud, Honey Fombuena | 24m |
Open mapping Hub Asia‑Pacific uses OpenStreetMap, QGIS, InaSAFE, OpenRouteService, HOT Tasking Manager and MapSwipe and a Field Mapping Tasking Manager to… | ||
| Welcome from the AUT School of Future Environments | Charles Walker | 08m |
School founded March 2020 now hosts over a thousand students across architecture, built environment engineering and Creative Technologies, claiming a shift… | ||
| Hydrological Modelling in QGIS with Whitebox Tools | Simon Nitz | 18m |
Whanganui District Council uses WhiteboxTools in QGIS on 2021 1 m LiDAR to derive Overland Flow Paths and Ground Depression Areas, converting raster streams to… | ||
| Papua New Guinea Road Transport Information Management System (PNGRoTIMS) | Rua Puka | 05m |
PNGRoTIMS is a complete open‑source road asset system with a centralized PostgreSQL/PostGIS database, QGIS for editing, GeoServer + Apache for web maps, a… | ||
| Cloud Optimised Geotiffs in TerriaJS | Staf Smith | 05m |
TerriaJS implements Cloud Optimised GeoTIFF (COG) support so maps can point directly to TIFFs in cloud storage and fetch pixel values for client-side… | ||
| Sharing GIS data with GeoNode | Cholena Smart | 05m |
In this talk I will provide a brief introduction to GeoNode - what it is and how it works - and speak about our experience setting up a customised GeoNode for… | ||
| Open Geospatial and Big Data for Airspace Risk Analysis | Callum Lynch, Simon McDonald | 25m |
The Airspace Risk Modelling System combines CASA operational data with open-source geospatial Python to quantify mid-air collision risk: a SQL Server backend… | ||
| Land-use mapping with a Discrete Global Grid System | Richard Law | 25m |
Manaaki Whenua builds high‑resolution land‑use maps by indexing rasters and vectors into an H3 DGGS grid, converting Sentinel‑2 10‑band images and parcel… | ||
| Mapping the Future: The Intersection of Geospatial, Open Source, and Open Data | Jeremy Palmer | 45m |
New Zealand’s open-data push delivers concrete outputs: rapid post-Cyclone Gabriel response uses Sentinel SAR and tasked satellite imagery plus targeted LiDAR… | ||
| Maps, Media and Manipulation | Neil Prentice | 21m |
Maps and media actively shape politics: propaganda maps from WWI and US Civil War deliberately stoke fear, Cold War GPU/KGB techniques invent black propaganda… | ||
| What's new with LINZ Basemaps | Daniel Silk | 05m |
LINZ Basemaps serves WMTS/XYZ tiles combining Sentinel‑2 at low zooms with 30 cm rural aerial imagery and a vector Topo50 service, and has served around 5… | ||
| Mapping reef islands in 3D | Maria Kottermair | 18m |
Field campaign proves 3D mapping of reef islands is feasible at sub‑meter resolution: drones (a Mavic 3 multispectral flown at 60–100 m), a GeoSLAM handheld… | ||
| OGC Validation Tool | Andrej Mocicka, Jonathan Stanger | 24m |
A cloud SaaS called Essential Geometry Validator ingests ESRI File GeoDatabase, ESRI Shapefile, GeoJSON and GeoPackage, then validates geometries against OGC… | ||
| Open Source framework for geospatial data discovery | Greg Lauer | 21m |
An open-source geospatial discovery stack built on GeoBlacklight (Ruby on Rails + Solr) runs in Docker on AWS and harvests metadata from ~460 libraries to… | ||
| Improving LiDAR QC processes using open source software | Abbey Douglas, Andrew Jacombs | 25m |
LINZ publishes a Python CLI called upqc that implements a check-dataset command to harvest metadata (LAStools linfo, GDAL gdalinfo), run LINZ specification… | ||
| Detecting aliens: Techniques for managing invasive alien species in the Pacific Islands | Carrol Chan | 05m |
Literature review concludes remote sensing is feasible but underused for invasive species management across Pacific islands, with only two published… | ||
| OpenStreetMap - Balancing structure with grassroots mapping | Carrol Chan, Ewen Hill, Harry Tamura, Mikko Mahardhika, Natasha Klinghardt, Edoardo Neerhut | 48m |
Discussion compares concrete practices: TomTom adopts OpenStreetMap and produces a combined map within a year, HOTOSM tasking manager highlights urgent… | ||
| SWA Flood Mapping | Ian Reese | 26m |
Rapid pipeline converts Sentinel-2 (and fallback Sentinel-1/SAR) imagery via Google Earth Engine into sedimentation-based flood masks, vectorizes them with… | ||
| AR: The role of open map data on the next computing platform | Edoardo Neerhut | 25m |
Argues AR will be the next major computing platform and maps must become richer for it; demonstrates concrete work: machine learning on street‑level imagery to… | ||
| OSGeo Oceania Grant Program in 5 minutes | Elisa Puccioni | 05m |
OSGeo Oceania runs three grant tiers: microgrant for quick local activities, a small grant up to $1,000 per year for recurring groups, and a larger competitive… | ||
| Do you know about the… OpenStreetMap Foundation? | Lanieta Rokotuiwakaya, Arnalie Vicario | 18m |
OpenStreetMap Foundation is the UK incorporated not‑for‑profit that holds legal responsibility for OSM, runs server ops, issues the trademark and contributor… | ||
| The Close Bond Between Open Standards and Open Source | Jeroen Ticheler, Byron Cochrane | 27m |
GeoNetwork is a metadata editor and catalog server that implements ISO 19115 family and OGC specs, enforces validation with the OGC validator, and already… | ||
| Development and Implementation of Historical and Current Climate Mapping for Vanuatu | James Sturman | 22m |
Project produces an atlas of historical monthly and seasonal maps and a suite of operational anomaly maps for 30, 60, 90, 180 and 360 days using observational… | ||
| Five signs your spreadsheet might smell (and what you can do about it) | Stacy Rendall | 17m |
Five concrete spreadsheet smells and how to fix them: confounding concerns (mixing data, calculations and UI) — replace with Power BI/Tableau for visuals, or… | ||
| GeoAI: Evolution of AI-Based Tree/Vegetation Detection Models Using Imagery | Sagar Soni | 28m |
AI pipelines detect trees from drone, aerial and Sentinel-2 imagery using CNNs and fine‑tuning, produce 5M urban and 50M rural tree geometries, and deploy… | ||
| Rapid GIS data collection using 360 cameras - Case studies in Nauru and Thursday Island | Greg Lauer | 24m |
Vehicle-mounted GoPro Max 360 records 360° video with built‑in GPS, batteries last about two hours and are swapped from a 12 V charger; video batch‑processed… | ||
| FOSS4G GIS Stack at Whanganui District Council NZ | Simon Nitz | 24m |
A small district of about 48,000 people replaces proprietary GIS with an open stack and reports significant recurring cost savings, preserved integrations, and… | ||
| Digital Earth Models | Emory Beck | 23m |
Uses open LiDAR from OpenTopography and LidarNZ/Land Information NZ, processes point clouds with PDAL and CloudCompare, grids to 25–50 cm DEMs, then composes… | ||
| Standalone GIS for Civil Defence Events | Simon Nitz | 22m |
A portable disaster GIS built from two high‑end laptops, Android tablets and a small Wi‑Fi router runs as standalone GIS and needs only a single 240V power… | ||
| The ecosystem of geospatial machine learning tools in the Pangeo world | Wei Ji Leong | 23m |
Cloud-native stack proves concrete: kvikIO/quickiio reads Zarr straight to GPU via NVIDIA GPU Direct Storage (nvcomp needed for compressed chunks), xarray does… | ||
| QGIS to Static Raster Tiles | Ian Reese | 23m |
A reproducible pipeline converts a QGIS project into pre-rendered XYZ raster tiles using a Docker + Makefile workflow, replacing the old TileMill → MapProxy… | ||
| Open-source processing pipelines for Cyclone Gabrielle | Andrew Jacombs, Rebecca Clarke, Alice Fage | 20m |
LINZ migrates imagery QA and standardization into the cloud using Argo Workflows on Kubernetes with GDAL containers on AWS EKS and EC2 spot instances… | ||
| Kart - the geospatial version control system - now with Rasters! | Hamish Campbell, Jonathan Ball | 23m |
Kart is now storing rasters and point clouds inside a Git repository using Git LFS, adding COG conversion on import and support for cloud-optimized point… | ||
| An enterprising journey with opensource GIS | Tim Barnes | 28m |
New Zealand Carbon Farming replaces static shapefile folders with a PostGIS database, Lizmap web maps and QGIS-driven reports, pushing edits from QField Cloud… | ||
| Do you see what I see? Building = yes and other defaults | Carrol Chan | 34m |
Argues that default tags like building=yes mask local realities and introduce systemic bias into OSM, backed by community metrics showing 87% male contributors… | ||
| Nature-based Solutions for Flooding in Devonport | Kamsin Raju | 03m |
Project focuses on urban flooding in Devonport, Auckland and uses QGIS spatial analysis of Auckland Council coastal inundation, flood‑prone area and stormwater… | ||
| Terraform In GIS | Ian Reese | 04m |
Concrete demo of Terraform on AWS EC2: a main.tf and bash script that runs terraform init / validate / apply to spin up an EC2, copies and executes a… | ||
| Update on an OSM import of New Zealand Buildings (RapID/MapWithAI) | Tim Duhamel | 05m |
A new building data import began in April 2021. This talk will be a status update
In April 2021 a LINZ New Zealand building outlines dataset was added to… | ||
| Cloud-Native Data in Practice | Alex McKeown | 21m |
The Australian Ocean Data Network moves large marine data onto Amazon S3 and experiments with cloud-native formats to avoid massive downloads; using Zarr with… | ||
| Cut the clutter | Peter King | 21m |
Defines clutter as added mental work and argues reducing it improves map uptake, with QGIS examples showing removal, hierarchy and layout changes actually… | ||
| Tracking Storm | Simon Nitz | 01m |
A project that uses a GPS collar on a cat called Storm and scraped JSON feed from a web tracker to turn noisy position dumps into points lines and polygons… | ||
| Building Community - how to start and maintain a healthy and engaged community | Elisa Puccioni | 43m |
Polling with Slido shows ~41% active contributors and the session lists concrete practices: run monthly meetups and local in‑person socials, keep a shared task… | ||
| Making it up: map making bots, generative mapping and TTRPG tools | Hamish Campbell | 05m |
Collection of bots that auto-post generated maps and imagery: one produces a new city map daily, another (Copular bot) simulates Sentinel views from the ISS… | ||
| Managing Heterogeneous Spatial Data with Analysis Ready Cloud Optimized formats | Leo Ghignone | 24m |
Built a fit‑for‑purpose Data Management System for the Reef 2050 RIMReP that centralises disparate sources into S3 using Zarr for multi‑dimensional rasters and… | ||
| The use of Free and Open Source GIS at National to Local Communities | Lanieta Rokotuiwakaya | 24m |
Fiji develops a country IGIF action plan and populates a national template to strengthen geospatial management, using Collect Earth Online (with Google Earth… | ||
| State of OSGeo Oceania | Alex Leith | 19m |
OSGeo Oceania is a not‑for‑profit chapter founded 2019 that runs an annual conference, manages bank accounts and an AWS-hosted web presence, and disburses… | ||
| From Satellites to Slobs | Chris Lowe | 23m |
Overview of the pipeline from raw satellite imagery through gal-based tiling into user maps and the infra choices that determine speed cost and reliability… | ||
| Community & Partnerships | Natasha Klinghardt | 17m |
TomTom reports active OSM engagement since 2021 with a dedicated community team, local hires across East Asia Pacific, and sponsorship of State of the Map… | ||
| QGIS: The Open Source Alternative to Proprietary GIS Software | Pierre Kurth, Ofalia Ho | 24m |
NGIS shows concrete wins: a drone pipeline using OpenDroneMap on AWS Batch produces 3D models in ~20 minutes for A$0.20 and mosaics in ~8 minutes for under… | ||
| MaaS - Metadata as a Service | Byron Cochrane | 04m |
Proposes an OSGeo-hosted managed service that extends the GeoNetwork-based ANZMetLive V2 editor so organisations can create standards-compliant ISO19115-1… | ||
| Submit a QGIS Bug | Em Hain | 05m |
Explains the exact workflow: create a GitHub account, search existing issues, then open a new issue with QGIS version, operating system, tools used, and a… | ||
| Building a Data Collection App with QGIS | Danielle Gatland | 20m |
Shows how to turn a QGIS project into a working data-collection app using QField or Mergin Maps, with concrete steps: create point/line layers, set field types… | ||
| QGIS Feature Frenzy | John Bryant, Nyall Dawson | 23m |
QGIS demonstrates concrete, recent capabilities: QGIS 3.28 auto-downloads about 1,600 Google fonts into projects; PostGIS integrations include authentication… | ||
| How did I get here, how could you get here, and would you even want to? | Nyall Dawson | 20m |
North Road grows from 2013 hobby contributions into a business split roughly 20% spatial services, 80% software services using QGIS, GDAL, Inkscape and… | ||
| Geospatial Side Hustles | Daniel O'Donohue | 22m |
Sold maps, custom socks and imported game cameras turn into revenue channels; Etsy plus Etsy and print-on-demand handle fulfillment so no inventory sits… | ||
| Making money with free software | Alex Leith | 41m |
A panel of FOSS4G businesses explains how they monetize open geospatial stacks: Coordinates runs a data platform built on open components and launched cart… | ||
| What is Digital Earth Pacific | Alex Leith, Samantha Krawczyk | 33m |
Digital Earth Pacific builds an operational Earth‑observation platform for the Pacific with a three‑phase rollout: governance and tech foundation, capacity… | ||
| Capacity Building on the Hazard and Exposure Database for the PCRAFI II Project | Orisi Naivalurua | 43m |
Project deploys Kobo Toolbox, QGIS and QField to collect standardized exposure templates across Samoa Solomon Islands Tonga Vanuatu and Cook Islands, digitizes… | ||
| Practical problem solving for wicked problems | Stacy Rendall | 19m |
A concrete method for wicked problems: a spreadsheet-first prototype exposes that the client’s circular-farm pricing is off by about $10,000 per job, so math… | ||
| Understanding our cities with FOSS4G | Shrividya Ravi | 22m |
Open-source R and Python workflows use OpenStreetMap and Google Street View to build city analyses: tmap and folium for maps, code on a companion webbook and… | ||
| MapSafe: A complete tool for achieving geospatial data sovereignty | Pankaj Sharma | 21m |
MapSafe is a browser-only tool that obfuscates point data with donut masking, or aggregates it with H3 hex-binning, then applies a multi-level client-side… | ||
| SDI and geographical research in French Polynesia | Violaine Doutreleau | 19m |
A Spatial Data Infrastructure is deployed for French Polynesia using GeoNode + mViewer on a locally hosted instance (GeoNode 4.1.2) and open‑source tooling… | ||
| Soar: lessons from our start-up experience | Neil Prentice | 22m |
Soar evolves from Mappt mobile GIS into a “new atlas” platform after a paid adaptation lands in the US DoD IGAP program and runs operationally, which the team… | ||
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