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The second MapServer Users Meeting and the first ever North American Open Source GIS Conference was held on June 9th to 11th in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. The initial response from the Open Source GIS community is that the conference was a huge success. It was great to have people from private, government, academia, and communities all together discussing how Open Source GIS applies to their needs.

Some interesting reports on the conference:

Pictures from the conference are available here.

A list of conference attendees is also available here.

A WMS and WFS service instance was set up displaying the location of attendees (thanks to Tom Kralidis):

  • WMS: http://dev1.dmsolutions.ca/cgi-bin/mswms_mum2?
  • WFS: http://dev1.dmsolutions.ca/cgi-bin/mswfs_mum2?

More materials will be added as they become available. If you have something that you would like added, please send it to info@omsug.ca.

Day 1

presentations

  • Dr. Philip Bogden (keynote speaker) - Mapping the Ocean with Open Source [ppt] [sxi]
  • Stephen Lime - MapServer: Past, Present, and Future [ppt] [sxi]
  • Flavio Hendry - UMN MapServer for Dummies [pdf]
  • Tom Kralidis - MapServer Deployment in Environment Canada [ppt] [sxi]
  • Dave McIlhagga - Intro to Open Source GIS [ppt] [sxi]
  • Paul Ramsay - A Brief Survey of Open Source GIS Software [ppt] [sxi] [doc]
  • Arnulf Christl - Adopting OS GIS technology in heterogeneous environments, Providing decision makers with arguments beyond cost [ppt] [sxi]
  • Mike Adair - Introducing Mapbuilder, A web mapping Javascript library [ppt] [sxi]
  • Jens Ingensand - Developing Interfaces for Open Source GIS according to Human Computer Interaction Guidelines [ppt] [sxi]
  • Mark Sunohara - Watersheds InfoXchange, Leveraging Open Source GIS Software in a Non-Profit Organization [ppt] [sxi]
  • Peter Pulsifer - Communicating Antarctic Science Using Open Source Software [ppt] [sxi]
  • Stephen Lime & Tom Burk - MapServer Support for Web Coverage Services [ppt] [sxi]
  • Paul Ramsey - ArcIMS Emulation with IMSEMU [ppt] [sxi] [specs doc]
  • Tom Burk & Frank Warmerdam - MapServer-OGR-OPeNDAP, An Integrated System for Unified Access to Land and Oceanographic Datasets [ppt] [sxi]
  • CIETmap, Free GIS and Epidemiology Software from the CIET Group [pdf]
  • Mishtu Banerjee & Tyler Mitchell - Interactive Mapping of Database Queries, Every Map Tells a Story [ppt] [sxi]
  • Martin Davis - JTS Topology Suite [ppt] [sxi]
  • Frank Warmerdam - PROJ4, Handling Coordinate Systems [pdf]
  • Franck Martin - MapServer in the Pacific Islands [ppt] [sxi]
  • Charlton Purvis - Near Real Time Ocean Observations Online [ppt] [sxi]
  • Michael Leahy & Brent Hall - The Application of Open Source Web-based GIS and Database Tools in the Development of an Education Information Database in Peru [ppt] [sxi]

workshops

Day 2

presentations

  • Flavio Hendry - Best Practices for Web Mapping Design [pdf]
  • Eric Kramers - The Atlas of Canada, User-Centered Development and Evolution [ppt] [sxi]
  • Rafael Sperb - How MapServer is Enhancing Environmental Management in Brazil: A Brief Description of Successful Applications [ppt] [sxi]
  • Arnulf Christl - Perspectives from the Client Side, Integrating Backbone Open Source Technology with PG/PostGIS, UMN MapServer and Mapbender [ppt] [sxi]
  • Darren Redfern - Enabling a Wider Web-Mapping Open Source Community [ppt] [sxi]
  • Arnulf Christl - Going Mainstream, Geodata Infrastructures with Open Source [ppt] [sxi]
  • Daniel Faivre - Public Geodata License, Open Source License Initiative for Geographical Data [geodata license pdf] [licenses pdf]
  • Jan Hartmann - Designing a User Interface for MapServer, The Priciples Behind MapClient [html presentation] [with software (tar.gz)] [with software (.zip)]
  • Howard Butler - MapServer and SDE [ppt] [sxi]
  • Frank Warmerdam - New MapServer Raster Features [pdf]
  • Tom Kralidis, Peter Pulsifer, Bart van den Eijnden, & Jeff McKenna - OGC in Open Source GIS Products [ppt] [sxi]
  • Doug Renwick & Matt Perry - Advanced MapServer Hosting Services & Integrating MapServer with other Online Data Services [ppt] [sxi]
  • Sylvain Pasche - e-geo.ch, an Internet GIS Framework for the Swiss Federal Administration Based on CartoWeb, MapServer, and PostGIS [pdf]
  • Wim de Haas & Chiel Stroeven - Dutch Ministry of Transport, Public Works and Management implements OpenGIS web services with Open Source Software [ppt] [sxi]
  • Doug O'Brien - Open Source Solutions for a Growing Atlas of Canada [ppt] [sxi]
  • Mark Lucas - Open Source Software Image Map (OSSIM) Overview [ppt] [sxi]
  • Xiaoyuan Geng - Dynamic Data Access and Dynamically Generated WMS Layers - Using and Creating Open Source Technologies [ppt] [sxi]
  • Micheal Leahy & Brent Hall - Federal, State, and Local Government applications: Interfacing Multiple Geographic Levels of Decision Support with MapServer to Evaluate Education Quality in Peru [ppt] [sxi]

workshops

Day 3

  • Dave McIlhagga - Partnerships between Industry and Communities through Open Source [ppt] [sxi]
OSGIS 2004 & MUM2
June 9-11, 2004
Carleton University
Ottawa, Canada