[OSGeo-Conf] OSGeo/FOSS4G '07 Location

[raghavan]

Jeremy,

Thanks. Will pass on your info to colleagues in
India.

Regards

Venka

Jeremy Morley wrote:
>
> Venka, (and anyone else!)
>
> The demo will be in a session on 26th September in Goa just before an
> ISPRS Commission IV meeting. There are details of the meetings here:
>  http://commission4.1uphost.net/symposium.html
>
> Our demo content is still evolving ;-) but the general theme is tracking
> of disease spread following major flooding. The case study is of the
> spread of Leptospirosis following the flooding of Mumbai and its
> surroundings last year (end of July/early August). The scenario involves
> a health worker recording disease cases in the field and reporting them
> back to base over a low bandwidth (eg GPRS) link.
>
> Scenario sequence
> 1 Health worker in base office accesses variety of information 
> regarding status of flooded region: CSW, WMS, WFS, WCS.
> 2 PDA is sync’ed with desktop computer holding the information 
> gathered in #1.
> 3 Health worker travels to field surveying for evidence of disease 
> spread: possibly from medical clinic, possible mobile.
> 4 Cases are recorded on PDA, e.g.
>     Location of worker
>     Date of record
>     Home location of patient
>     Age & sex of patient
>     Date of first symptoms
>     Family size
>   (attributes to be examples, not necessarily definitive)
> 5 At local base, worker can browse latest images (etc.) via link to 
> home server (here, ICEDS), e.g. to map change in flood extent.
> 6 Worker decides on most useful maps to download as updates to PDA.
> 7 Case records can be uploaded to central server (WFS-T).
> 8 When back at home base, PDA can be sync’ed with server to upload 
> remaining records.
>
> We're still looking for contacts in India, particularly with experience
> in Leptospirosis outbreaks and/or this particular outbreak, or with OGC
> services that might be relevant. We plan to use the Mumbai Freemap as
> one source of data but haven't had much luck finding other relevant data
> services in India.
>
> We'll be cascading all WMS (etc.) requests through our ICEDS service
> (http://iceds.ge.ucl.ac.uk). The idea is that ICEDS is acting as a proxy
> of sorts and will compose the maps requested by the PDA in order to
> limit bandwidth needed to download update maps to the PDA. ICEDS will
> also host the WFS-T. We use mapserver mostly on ICEDS but will be using
> geoserver and PostGIS for the WFS-T element (but mapserver will provide
> the WMS interface to PostGIS).
>
> The PDA end will be proprietary technology built by a company here in
> the UK called Comsine.
>
> I hope this is enough background.  Any ideas or contributions welcome!
>
> Regards,
> Jeremy
>
>
> raghavan wrote:
>> Hi Jeremy,
>>
>> Jeremy Morley wrote:
>>> I'm sorry we've not been involved in this year's meeting - we have an
>>> OGC GEOSS demo coming up the following week in India and so we've been
>>> rather focussed on that.
>> Can you give more details about your demo in India. OSGeo members from
>> India find your demo useful.
>>
>> Regards
>>
>> Venka
>>
>>
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