[Ica-osgeo-labs] Urban Science - City analytics - thematic labs

Mon Feb 16 08:03:17 PST 2015

Dear all,

I'm a bit late to the party, sorry, it's been a hectic couple of weeks.

Here at the University of Nottingham we have an activity just ramping up
in the area of city sustainability covering a range of disciplinary points
of view from the physical sciences aspects of flux balances and entropy
modelling through to the socio-political and economic systems. While I'm
leaving this university at the end of March, there will be continuing
development here. I've copied in Dr Ant Beck who is the researcher who
will be developing the data and modelling environment for the centre, and
Dr Doreen Boyd who will be leading the relevant work package. I'm sure
they will be interested at least in tracking and hopefully contributing to
a wider open source environment for such work.

Regards,
Jeremy

(Apologies if some of you get repeated copies - I'm not sure who is not
included in the email list!)

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Jeremy Morley
Geospatial Science Theme Leader, Nottingham Geospatial Institute,
Triumph Road, University of Nottingham. NG7 2TU, United Kingdom.
Web:   http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/ngi     Twitter: jeremy_morley
Tel.:  +44/0 115 84 68411
Email: jeremy.morley at nottingham.ac.uk

On 16/02/2015 06:19, "Hogan, Patrick (ARC-PX)" <patrick.hogan at nasa.gov>
wrote:

>Chris,
>
>If we can identify our common interests, prioritize them and begin
>solving them together, how big a dent would that put into city management
>productivity!
>Every city must assuredly address similar issues.
>
>I'm imagining a platform, a virtual globe app that works with
>QGIS-PostGIS-GRASS-MapServer (and each of these already does to some
>degree) where functionalities could be 'dropped in,' further optimized
>and further shared. If roughly architected, this might define an open
>challenge to university GIS and computer science departments to show
>their stuff in building those functionalities, even just one.
>
>This outcome from this kind of competition would continually improve the
>quality of life for municipalities. And the notoriety of the solution
>providers, the university students and their professors, would be sweet
>music and resume magic!
>
>From the cities, we'll need a laundry list of well-defined use-cases that
>address a city's needs. Then we can challenge those nascent software
>engineers (and post doc gray beards) to solve accordingly.
>
>-Patrick
> 650.604.5656 (office)
> 650.269.2788 (cell)
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Chris Pettit [mailto:cpettit at unimelb.edu.au]
>Sent: Sunday, February 15, 2015 7:30 PM
>To: Suchith Anand; Hogan, Patrick (ARC-PX); SERGIO ACOSTAYLARA; Antoni
>Pérez Navarro
>Cc: MELICK Brandt; Chandola, Varun; ica-osgeo-labs at lists.osgeo.org; Jim
>Miller (miller at ittc.ku.edu); Bhaduri, Budhendra L.
>Subject: Re: Urban Science - City analytics - thematic labs
>
>Hi Suchith,
>
>No worries, happy to take the lead on this and work with interest people
>from the labs and RDA communities to taking this forward.
>
>Regards
>Chris
>
>Chris Pettit, PhD
>Associate Professor
>Strategic Implementation Coordinator, AURIN
>
>
>On 14/02/2015 7:58 pm, "Suchith Anand" Suchith.Anand at nottingham.ac.uk
>wrote:
>
>Chris,
>
>Thanks for this great thematic idea. It definitely creates synergies
>and you are best person to lead this. So please take the leadership on
>this.
>I will work with you and Patrick to create a new maillists etc for this
>to get this started (geoforall-urbanscience at lists.osgeo.org ) and we
>can also use the RDA meetings in San Francisco to expand ideas/synergies.
>
>Best wishes,
>
>Suchith
>________________________________________
>From: Hogan, Patrick (ARC-PX) [patrick.hogan at nasa.gov]
>Sent: Saturday, February 14, 2015 2:46 AM
>To: Chris Pettit; Suchith Anand; SERGIO ACOSTAYLARA; Antoni Pérez
>Navarro
>Cc: MELICK Brandt; Chandola, Varun; ica-osgeo-labs at lists.osgeo.org; Jim
>Miller (miller at ittc.ku.edu); Bhaduri, Budhendra L.
>Subject: RE: Urban Science - City analytics - thematic labs
>
>Chris,
>We are here looking for exactly that! Urban science/analytics in full
>OSGEO glory!
>This new 'web version' of World Wind will display the subsurface (WoW!)
>and thereby help manage municipal utilities, flooding scenarios,
>aquifers, max radiance for solar panel arrays, etcetera.
>
>And we have a bit of world history working in this direction
>http://eurochallenge.como.polimi.it/
>Grazie mille to Prof Maria Brovelli!
>http://www.ege-como.polimi.it/index.php?content=maria_brovelli
>
>And http://nsdinow.org/SDI_Now_02/Technical_Support.html
>Thanks to Brandt Melick, the IT Manager for the City of Springfield
>Oregon.
>https://www.linkedin.com/pub/brandt-melick/22/869/261
>
>NASA World Wind 'web version' with some examples:
>
>http://worldwindserver.net/webworldwind/examples/PlacemarksAndPicking.html
>
>http://worldwindserver.net/webworldwind/examples/PickAllShapesInRegion.htm
>l
>http://worldwindserver.net/webworldwind/examples/GeographicText.html
>http://worldwindserver.net/webworldwind/examples/ScreenText.html
>http://worldwindserver.net/webworldwind/examples/SurfaceImage.html
>http://worldwindserver.net/webworldwind/examples/ScreenImage.html
>http://worldwindserver.net/webworldwind/examples/Example001.html
>
>API documentation is here:
>http://worldwindserver.net/webworldwind/api-doc/
>
>One issue. . .soon to be fixed. . .
>Firefox reports script errors until browser cache is cleared.
>The script errors mention that globe.tessellator is undefined, which
>suggests that my Firefox instance was using a combination of old and
>new JavaScript sources. We'll need to investigate whether or not
>there's a way to indicate that the browser should invalidate it's cache
>of these sources.
>
>We are here to kick some big patooti into a sweeter world where we all
>live even ^more^ happily ever after.
>Or the next best thing! Given that it's our kids at stake!
>Such very high and beautifully wished for stakes!
>We must win for them!!! Collaborate or die!
>OSGEO direct our compass!
>-Patrick
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: ica-osgeo-labs-bounces at lists.osgeo.org
>[mailto:ica-osgeo-labs-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Chris
>Pettit
>Sent: Friday, February 13, 2015 5:56 PM
>To: Suchith Anand; SERGIO ACOSTAYLARA; Antoni Pérez Navarro
>Cc: ica-osgeo-labs at lists.osgeo.org
>Subject: [Ica-osgeo-labs] Urban Science - City analytics - thematic
>labs
>
>Hi All,
>
>I am keen to know which other labs might be interested and have a focus
>in the area of urban science / city analytics and might be interested
>in establishing such a thematic?
>
>Cheers
>Chris
>
>On 14/02/2015 3:44 am, "Suchith Anand" Suchith.Anand at nottingham.ac.uk
>wrote:
>
>Sergio, this is good idea to build thematic networks within the
>Geo4All initiative to support  different needs such as language etc.
>
>I suggest you take the lead to establish Spanish thematic and setup
>separate maillists etc in Spanish (in the osgeo maillist like
>geoforall-spanish at lists.osgeo.org )  but feedback the important ideas
>back to all of us also to build synergies.
>
>Also any others who wish to setup other thematic networks, please take
>the initiative and establish it.
>
>Suchith
>________________________________________
>From: SERGIO ACOSTAYLARA [sergio.acostaylara at mtop.gub.uy]
>Sent: Friday, February 13, 2015 2:57 PM
>To: Antoni Pérez Navarro; patrick.hogan at nasa.gov;
>maria.brovelli at polimi.it; Suchith.Anand at nottingham.ac.uk
>Cc: ica-osgeo-labs at lists.osgeo.org
>Subject: RE: [Ica-osgeo-labs] Geo for All - "Open Education Award"
>
>Hi. I would like to bring-again-attention to something related to
>this thread and is my concern with translation efforts (in both ways)
>that are needed to achieve a true efficient global lab network. I also
>suggested some time ago (related to this also) the need to build
>thematic networks within the Geo4all initiative, for example regional
>networks that share a language and/or similar economic, cultural or
>social characteristics. In my opinion this can strengthen the
>initiative by widening the possibility of joining the ICA-OSGeo-ISPRS
>lab network. It will be easier and more effective for instance if
>Spanish speaking members discuss these and other topics between each
>other and give their point of view. If any in the list agrees with
>this please let me know.
>
>Thanks,
>Sergio Acosta y Lara
>Sección Sistemas de Información Geográfica Dirección Nacional de
>Topografía Ministerio de Transporte y Obras Públicas URUGUAY
>________________________________
>De: ica-osgeo-labs-bounces at lists.osgeo.org
>ica-osgeo-labs-bounces at lists.osgeo.org en nombre de Antoni Pérez
>Navarro aperezn at uoc.edu
>Enviado: lunes, 09 de febrero de 2015 14:59
>Para: patrick.hogan at nasa.gov; maria.brovelli at polimi.it;
>Suchith.Anand at nottingham.ac.uk
>Cc: ica-osgeo-labs at lists.osgeo.org
>Asunto: Re: [Ica-osgeo-labs] Geo for All - "Open Education Award"
>
>Thank you Suchit.
>
>Therefore, the template would be:
>
>+ Title in English
>+ Language
>+ Original title.
>+ ECTS credits/Hours
>+ Number of editions
>+ Kind: Virtual, face-to-face, blended Target (professionals,
>+ technical students, children, teenager, embedded in a wider program,
>etc.)
>+ Medium number of students per edition Goal (maximu 150 words): what
>+ is the goal of this course in its socio-economical context and why the
>course was created?
>+ Contents
>+ Links to course, materials, contents, etc.
>+ Licenses of every single material
>
>Antoni Pérez Navarro
>Estudis d'Informàtica, Multimèdia i Telecomunicació [Responsable de
>les assignatures de Física i Sistemes d'Informació Geogràfica]
>Universitat Oberta de Catalunya
>
>
>--- Missatge original de Suchith Anand
>Suchith.Anand at nottingham.ac.uk per a patrick.hogan at nasa.gov, Antoni Pérez
>Navarro aperezn at uoc.edu  maria.brovelli at polimi.it
>ica-osgeo-labs at lists.osgeo.org
>ica-osgeo-labs at lists.osgeo.org enviat el 09.02.2015 13:32
>
>
>Thanks Antoni. This is a good template for sending nominations to
>Charlie. Only thing i will add is also info if the teaching materials
>are available in Open Licences (Creative Commons) for others to
>use/reuse as needed .If there is url/weblinks it will help a lot to
>get some overview of the course irrespective of the language/regions.
>
>Suchith
>________________________________________
>From: Antoni Pérez Navarro [aperezn at uoc.edu]
>Sent: Monday, February 09, 2015 10:21 AM
>To: patrick.hogan at nasa.gov; maria.brovelli at polimi.it;
>Suchith.Anand at nottingham.ac.uk
>Cc: ica-osgeo-labs at lists.osgeo.org
>Subject: RE: [Ica-osgeo-labs] Geo for All - "Open Education Award"
>
>O.K. thank you, very much.
>
>Maybe a template for the nomination can be created. A first
>approximation:
>
>+ Title in english
>+ Language
>+ Original title.
>+ ECTS credits/Hours
>+ Number of editions
>+ Kind: Virtual, face-to-face, blended Target (professionals,
>+ technical students, children, teenager, embedded
>in a wider program, etc.)
>+ Medium number of students per edition Goal (maximu 150 words): what
>+ is the goal of this course in its
>socio-economical context and why the course was created?
>+ Contents
>+ Links to course, materials, contents, etc.
>
>Antoni Pérez Navarro
>Estudis d'Informàtica, Multimèdia i Telecomunicació [Responsable de
>les assignatures de Física i Sistemes d'Informació Geogràfica]
>Universitat Oberta de Catalunya
>
>--- Missatge original de Suchith Anand
>Suchith.Anand at nottingham.ac.uk per a "patrick.hogan at nasa.gov"
>Antoni Pérez Navarro (aperezn at uoc.edu), maria.brovelli at polimi.it
>ica-osgeo-labs at lists.osgeo.org
>enviat el 09.02.2015 11:11
>
>
>Hi Antoni,
>
>Thank you for these two good points. We greatly welcome nominations
>for educators who have created GIS courses from different languages
>and regions in developing and developed world. The nominator can send
>the summary details in English along with the nomination which will
>help the committee members to understand its impact. For example, you
>will have more ideas on the various Spanish GIS courses and its impact
>. So please nominate them with their details.
>
>All ideas/inputs welcome.
>
>Best wishes,
>
>Suchith
>
>________________________________________
>From: Antoni Pérez Navarro [aperezn at uoc.edu]
>Sent: Monday, February 09, 2015 9:00 AM
>To: patrick.hogan at nasa.gov; maria.brovelli at polimi.it;
>Suchith.Anand at nottingham.ac.uk
>Cc: ica-osgeo-labs at lists.osgeo.org
>Subject: Re: [Ica-osgeo-labs] Geo for All - "Open Education Award"
>
>Dear all,
>
>I am sorry if I say something that you probably have taken into account.
>
>I find the award a very good initiative, but how can the
>different languages of several courses be taken into account?
>I know many GIS courses in Spain, but most of them are in Spanish.
>
>On the other hand, I think that the basis have to be very well
>established and considering the social environment to which the course
>belongs and its target. It is not the same a course in a country with
>low GIS penetration, than in a country where GIS is a common tool in
>several companies and administration.
>
>Well, these are only two items I was thinking about.
>
>Best regards,
>
>
>Antoni Pérez Navarro
>Estudis d'Informàtica, Multimèdia i Telecomunicació [Responsable de
>les assignatures de Física i Sistemes d'Informació Geogràfica]
>Universitat Oberta de Catalunya
>
>--- Missatge original de "Hogan, Patrick (ARC-PX)"
>patrick.hogan at nasa.gov per a Suchith Anand
>Suchith.Anand at nottingham.ac.uk,Polimi maria.brovelli at polimi.it
>ica-osgeo-labs at lists.osgeo.org
>enviat el 08.02.2015 01:22
>
>
>Suchith,
>
>Thanks! Go FOSS4G 2015 Como!!!
>http://europe.foss4g.org/2015/
>OSGEO is a lightning rod for OS leading the world by example!
>
>And if any of you OSGEO leaders are not eligible, which doesn't seem
>fair, but oh well. . .
>i.e., http://wiki.osgeo.osuosl.org/wiki/Ica-osgeo-isprs_award
>
>Please get your 'stuff' to a GIS teacher who is! Or a super TA!
>Let's begin the constructive collaborating now!!!
>Maybe even post your stuff, and advertise so others can plagiarize,
>the highest form of flattery!
>:-)
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Suchith Anand [mailto:Suchith.Anand at nottingham.ac.uk]
>Sent: Saturday, February 07, 2015 3:52 PM
>To: Hogan, Patrick (ARC-PX); Polimi
>Cc: ica-osgeo-labs at lists.osgeo.org
>Subject: RE: Geo for All - "Open Education Award"
>
>Hi Patrick,
>
>Great points and i couldn't agree more...
>
>Thank you for this kind offer. I will ensure that if no one match
>funds your offer, i will do that.
>
>I really hope OSGeo Board will take positive decision on the Student
>Awards proposal that we submitted on behalf of Geo for All. We will be
>happy to provide any further info needed. Once this is done and OSGeo
>Treasurer agrees to be in charge of the Student Award accounts, we can
>easily get many organisations to contribute.
>
>Time is the essence. For example, we were able to take quick action to
>support this Open Education week because of the funding we had within
>the 5k USD from OSGeo budget for ICA-OSGeo lab activities. Investing
>in education for the future generations is the best investment we make
>and i am sure OSGeo Board will strongly support our Education investment.
>
>Best wishes,
>Suchith
>
>________________________________________
>From: Hogan, Patrick (ARC-PX) [patrick.hogan at nasa.gov]
>Sent: Saturday, February 07, 2015 7:26 PM
>To: Suchith Anand; Polimi
>Cc: ica-osgeo-labs at lists.osgeo.org
>Subject: RE: Geo for All - "Open Education Award"
>
>Dear Open GeoSpace, Open Minds and Open Source Folks,
>
>A challenge. . .
>Please note, this FOSS4G crystal bull is a ^matching grant^ that is
>challenging others to donate as well, at whatever level. So, this one
>comes forward as long as another ?200 comes in from others, whether
>alone or combined. Alternatively, if it is recommended to receive cash
>instead of a trophy, I am glad to do that instead. A ?20
>here-and-there adds up.
>Let?s recognize the best with a boost!
>
>Please help us find organizations to donate!!! We want Charlie Schweik
>to have a real kitty to work with. Maria Brovelli needs help too! She
>is trying to make generous accommodations for students and others at
>the best FOSS4G yet! The website is a gorgeous start! Como should be
>very proud to host such an auspicious event!
>
>A thought. . .
>There is no more important profession on the planet than welcoming our
>children to this world we find ourselves in, and that welcome should
>be with the best education possible. Rewarding those who do this well,
>especially when they share their ?how-to? talents with the rest of us,
>is an honor we must strongly commit to.
>
>A concern. . .
>These are especially challenging times of a rapidly warming world that
>will continue to impact our ability to survive, as does the increasing
>concentration of wealth that wants to accelerate consumption and
>greatly limit democratic choices for a more sustainable future.
>
>-Patrick
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Suchith Anand [mailto:Suchith.Anand at nottingham.ac.uk]
>Sent: Saturday, February 07, 2015 12:44 AM
>To: Hogan, Patrick (ARC-PX); Polimi;
>ica-opensource at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
>Cc: ica-osgeo-labs at lists.osgeo.org
>Subject: Geo for All - "Open Education Award"
>
>Hi Patrick,
>
>Many thanks for this kind contribution to the "Open Education Award"
>we will give to honour and thank the greatest contributions to Open
>Education principles in the Geo domain. I will speak with Maria and
>should be able to arrange free conference registration for the winner
>to attend FOSS4G-Europe. As Jeff will be there at FOSS4G-E , he as the
>OSGeo President can directly give the award to the winner.
>
>Best wishes,
>
>Suchith
>
>______________________________________
>From: Hogan, Patrick (ARC-PX) [patrick.hogan at nasa.gov]
>Sent: Friday, February 06, 2015 11:07 PM
>To: Polimi; Suchith Anand
>Cc: ica-osgeo-labs at lists.osgeo.org; cschweik at pubpol.umass.edu
>Subject: RE: [Ica-osgeo-labs] Open Education Week (9-13 March 2015):
>Call for Participation - Spread the News and Participate
>
>Maria and Suchith and Charlie and OSGEO Community,
>
>If anyone else will donate to this ?Teacher Award?
>
>maybe to help cover their travel expenses, I am willing to ?match?
>that with one NASA crystal bull
>
>(~200 Euros out of my own pocket)
>
>See it here:
>
>http://eurochallenge.como.polimi.it/
>
>But it will have different text, maybe:
>
>              ?YOUR NAME?
>  GeoforAll Educator of the Year
>
>-Patrick
>
>______________________________________
>From: Polimi [mailto:maria.brovelli at polimi.it]
>Sent: Friday, February 06, 2015 2:16 PM
>To: Suchith Anand
>Cc: Hogan, Patrick (ARC-PX); ica-osgeo-labs at lists.osgeo.org;
>cschweik at pubpol.umass.edu
>Subject: Re: [Ica-osgeo-labs] Open Education Week (9-13 March 2015):
>                        Call for Participation - Spread the News and
>Participate
>
>Yes!! Great idea!!!
>
>Maria
>
>----------------------------------------------------
>Prof. Maria Antonia Brovelli
>Vice Rector for Como Campus and GIS Professor Politecnico di Milano
>FOSS4G EUROPE - Don't miss it!  Homehttp://europe.foss4g.org/2015
>
>______________________________________
>Il giorno 06/feb/2015, alle ore 21:51, Suchith Anand
>Suchith.Anand at nottingham.ac.uk ha scritto:
>
>Hi Patrick,
>
>This is great idea that will help to further make impact in Openness
>in GeoEducation .
>
>Out of the 5k USD we have got allocated for ICA-OSGeo labs from OSGeo
>budget we have earmarked 3500 USD for website development requirements
>( to be finalized with more inputs from all and OSGeo Board) and 1000
>USD for NASA WW Challenge student winner teams, so we still have 500
>USD to plan some activity to further our aims.
>
>So i suggest that we plan an award for the Course leader/Lecturer of
>the best Geospatial course ( online or class based) based on Open
>Principles . That will be a great way to honour and recognise the
>educators who made it possible and will be an inspiration to others to
>build upon  for future years. We will use the same Award Committee
>that we set up for the ICA-OSGeo-ISPRS student awards to decide the
>best course based on nominations received to Charlie Schweik (chair of
>the Award Committee) cschweik at pubpol.umass.edu before 28th Feb 2015.
>Please note that all members of the Award Committee
>
>http://wiki.osgeo.osuosl.org/wiki/Ica-osgeo-isprs_award will not be
>eligible even if they are running excellent programs - sorry folks :)
>
>The Award will be announce on 9th March (start of Open Education Week)
>and given at FOSS4G Europe conference in Como. We will send a formal
>call on this Course leader Award soon.
>
>We have some courses run by many universities in our list itself, so
>feel free to nominate those courses and we now have opportunity to
>recognise both the students and educators.
>
>Best wishes,
>
>Suchith
>
>________________________________________
>From: Hogan, Patrick (ARC-PX) [patrick.hogan at nasa.gov
>Sent: Friday, February 06, 2015 7:59 PM
>To: Suchith Anand; ica-osgeo-labs at lists.osgeo.org
>Subject: RE: [Ica-osgeo-labs] Open Education Week (9-13 March 2015):
>                        Call for Participation - Spread the News and
>Participate
>
>Suchith,
>
>How about an award for the best GIS course! Teachers need GIS love too!
>
>1. This can be the complete syllabus for the class, as open source!
>This would allow other teachers to benefit and improve the course
>(still open source). The next year's award might go to who has
>improved that course the most! This is the beauty of open source, we
>continually rise to collectively-stand on each other's shoulders. And
>^all^ of our students are the beneficiaries.
>
>2. And maybe another category for best ^online^ GIS course (open
>source of course).
>
>3. And maybe an award for the best student-produced GIS app (open
>source). To make this a more reasonable exercise for the 'judges,'
>each GIS teacher would be able to submit just one of their
>student-team's projects, or maybe one for each class taught. That
>would help improve and narrow the field of candidates.
>
>-Patrick
>
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