[Ica-osgeo-labs] Urban Science - City Analytics - first thoughts

Tue Feb 24 06:43:16 PST 2015

Hi all,

I've added some headings and one (potentially important) idea at the bottom
[1].
Others, please start adding information/ideas. Let's see where this takes
us.

Cheers
CHarlie

[1] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/GeoForAll_UrbanScience_CityAnalytics

On Mon, Feb 23, 2015 at 5:46 PM, Suchith Anand <
Suchith.Anand at nottingham.ac.uk> wrote:

> Hi Chris, Patrick, all,
>
> The wikisite for the Urban Science and City Analytics Thematic is now
> ready at http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/GeoForAll_UrbanScience_CityAnalytics
>
> Please start using it ( you need to first register an OSGeo account ) and
> start adding all info in this website. You can also create new subsections
> (new webpages) as the theme grows.
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Suchith
>
> PS: I will send a separate email on the Region wise groups and wikipages
> that we have established later today
>
> ________________________________________
> From: ica-osgeo-labs-bounces at lists.osgeo.org [
> ica-osgeo-labs-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Suchith Anand [
> Suchith.Anand at nottingham.ac.uk]
> Sent: Monday, February 23, 2015 1:12 PM
> To: Charles Schweik; Chris Pettit
> Cc: ica-osgeo-labs at lists.osgeo.org; Ingo Simonis; Anthony Beck; Gabor
> Remetey; Doreen Boyd; Chandola,   Varun; Jim Miller (miller at ittc.ku.edu);
> Giuseppe Conti; MELICK Brandt
> Subject: Re: [Ica-osgeo-labs] Urban Science - City Analytics - first
> thoughts
>
> Charlie - thanks for this updates and this sounds perfect call.
>
> The reason that we are now going to setup 5 region wise groups for
> GeoforAll (Europe, North America, South America, Africa and Asia) in
> addition to accommodate the rapid expansion is also to make sure the chairs
> of these regions can then look for appropriate funding calls to expand our
> regional collaborations. Maria Brovelli as chair of Europe has already
> started on this :) She will inform details in due course.
>
> I will create wiki sites for all thematic groups (both regional and
> subject wise) later today and inform you all to start using. The seperate
> maillists etc will take few more days as after 25th Feb, i will send
> request to setup these maillists to OSGeo SAC.
>
> Suchith
> ________________________________________
> From: ica-osgeo-labs-bounces at lists.osgeo.org [
> ica-osgeo-labs-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Charles Schweik [
> cschweik at pubpol.umass.edu]
> Sent: Monday, February 23, 2015 12:43 PM
> To: Chris Pettit
> Cc: ica-osgeo-labs at lists.osgeo.org; Ingo Simonis; Anthony Beck; Gabor
> Remetey; Doreen Boyd; Chandola,   Varun; Jim Miller (miller at ittc.ku.edu);
> Giuseppe Conti; MELICK Brandt
> Subject: Re: [Ica-osgeo-labs] Urban Science - City Analytics - first
> thoughts
>
> Hi,
>
> On the US side, one program we might consider a submission to is the
> National Science Foundation's GENERAL Research Coordination Network program
> [1]. The geosciences directorate is involved in this.
>
> The negative is that while they encourage international participation, the
> funding primarily goes to US participants, but we might be able to organize
> workshops and travel funds to US institutions.
>
> I think we should try and sketch out what we want to do -- e.g., key
> research questions or the network research agenda, etc. -- and then we
> approach the appropriate program officer to see if they would be willing to
> entertain a full proposal.
>
> Lastly, are there any other such network-building funding RFPs in other
> countries or the EU that we should look into?
>
> Suchith - do you want me to start the OSGeo wiki page?
>
> Charlie
>
> [1] http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2015/nsf15527/nsf15527.htm
>
> On Mon, Feb 23, 2015 at 6:44 AM, Chris Pettit <cpettit at unimelb.edu.au
> <mailto:cpettit at unimelb.edu.au>> wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> Great there is such enthusiasm for this thematic and I look forward to
> working with you all on it.
>
> Suchith  is helping us set up our own OSGeo mail server and OSGeo wiki to
> support use. So I think once we have these sorted we can really start
> contributing and documenting all ideas on the wiki so we don’t lose any of
> these.
>
> Charlie, like your 4 direction points. I would like to see we keep point 3
> around inventory of key education needs/desires as a number of us will be
> keen to look at using the open source tools and data for teaching and
> researching into the area of urban science – city analytics, which in turn
> aim to address a number of real world issues facing our cities and built
> environment.
>
> Regards
>
> Chris
>
>
> From: <Hogan>, "Patrick (ARC-PX)" <patrick.hogan at nasa.gov<mailto:
> patrick.hogan at nasa.gov>>
> Date: Monday, 23 February 2015 7:23 am
> To: "ica-osgeo-labs at lists.osgeo.org<mailto:ica-osgeo-labs at lists.osgeo.org>"
> <ica-osgeo-labs at lists.osgeo.org<mailto:ica-osgeo-labs at lists.osgeo.org>>
> Cc: Charles Schweik <cschweik at pubpol.umass.edu<mailto:
> cschweik at pubpol.umass.edu>>, "Chandola, Varun" <chandola at buffalo.edu
> <mailto:chandola at buffalo.edu>>, Anthony Beck <ant.beck at gmail.com<mailto:
> ant.beck at gmail.com>>, Jeremy Morley <Jeremy.Morley at nottingham.ac.uk
> <mailto:Jeremy.Morley at nottingham.ac.uk>>, cpettit <cpettit at unimelb.edu.au
> <mailto:cpettit at unimelb.edu.au>>, SERGIO ACOSTAYLARA <
> sergio.acostaylara at mtop.gub.uy<mailto:sergio.acostaylara at mtop.gub.uy>>,
> Antoni Pérez Navarro <aperezn at uoc.edu<mailto:aperezn at uoc.edu>>, Doreen
> Boyd <Doreen.Boyd at nottingham.ac.uk<mailto:Doreen.Boyd at nottingham.ac.uk>>,
> "Phil Davis (pdavis at delmar.edu<mailto:pdavis at delmar.edu>)" <
> pdavis at delmar.edu<mailto:pdavis at delmar.edu>>, "Suchith Anand (
> suchith_anand at yahoo.com<mailto:suchith_anand at yahoo.com>)" <
> suchith_anand at yahoo.com<mailto:suchith_anand at yahoo.com>>, "Jim Miller (
> miller at ittc.ku.edu<mailto:miller at ittc.ku.edu>)" <miller at ittc.ku.edu
> <mailto:miller at ittc.ku.edu>>, MELICK Brandt <bmelick at springfield-or.gov
> <mailto:bmelick at springfield-or.gov>>, "Mueller, Thomas" <Mueller at calu.edu
> <mailto:Mueller at calu.edu>>, "Tkachenko, Nataliya" <
> N.Tkachenko at warwick.ac.uk<mailto:N.Tkachenko at warwick.ac.uk>>, "Ye,
> Xinyue" <xye5 at kent.edu<mailto:xye5 at kent.edu>>, Ruslan Rainis
> <rruslan at usm.my<mailto:rruslan at usm.my>>, Ingo Simonis <
> isimonis at opengeospatial.org<mailto:isimonis at opengeospatial.org>>, Gabor
> Remetey <gabor.remetey at gmail.com<mailto:gabor.remetey at gmail.com>>, "Maria
> Brovelli (maria.brovelli at polimi.it<mailto:maria.brovelli at polimi.it>)" <
> maria.brovelli at polimi.it<mailto:maria.brovelli at polimi.it>>, Giuseppe
> Conti <Giuseppe.Conti at trilogis.it<mailto:Giuseppe.Conti at trilogis.it>>
> Subject: RE: Urban Science - City Analytics - first thoughts
>
> Charlie,
>
> Yes! We need a list of use cases that cities have for addressing their
> needs.
> Then we need to boil that down into a set of requirements/functionalities.
> We need to assess which are of more common interest and which might be
> easier or smarter (more fundamental) to build first.
> And we’ll want real cities interested in participating, to be testing this
> out and providing feedback.
>
> As for a foundational platform, yes World Wind is there, Java, iOS and
> Android. The interesting thing about the web version
> (JavaScript/HTML5/WebGL) we are developing now is that it will provide
> visualization for the subsurface. Much of a city’s infrastructure is
> underground, so this would seem an essential element. I think the only
> requirement should be that the OSGEO solution does not require proprietary
> software and has an open source license that allows others to continually
> advance the platform as needed.
>
> And I don’t think this effort requires an education component (your item
> 3). It certainly would be free for GIS courses to include it in their
> real-world teaching experience. That will happen all on its own, especially
> if what we are doing proves valuable to the municipalities.
>
> As for Goog docs or OSGEO wiki, the only reason Goog is being ‘nice’ is to
> sift you and sell you out. So I would prefer an OSGEo wiki.
>
> -Patrick
>  650.604.5656<tel:650.604.5656> (office)
>  650.269.2788<tel:650.269.2788> (cell)
>
> From: Charles Schweik [mailto:cschweik at pubpol.umass.edu]
> Sent: Sunday, February 22, 2015 12:33 AM
> To: Hogan, Patrick (ARC-PX)
> Cc: Chandola, Varun; Anthony Beck; Jeremy Morley; Chris Pettit; SERGIO
> ACOSTAYLARA; Antoni Pérez Navarro; Doreen Boyd; Phil Davis (
> pdavis at delmar.edu<mailto:pdavis at delmar.edu>); Suchith Anand (
> suchith_anand at yahoo.com<mailto:suchith_anand at yahoo.com>); Jim Miller (
> miller at ittc.ku.edu<mailto:miller at ittc.ku.edu>); MELICK Brandt; Mueller,
> Thomas; Tkachenko, Nataliya; Ye, Xinyue; Ruslan Rainis; Ingo Simonis; Gabor
> Remetey; Maria Brovelli (maria.brovelli at polimi.it<mailto:
> maria.brovelli at polimi.it>); Giuseppe Conti; ica-osgeo-labs at lists.osgeo.org
> <mailto:ica-osgeo-labs at lists.osgeo.org>
> Subject: Re: Urban Science - City Analytics - first thoughts
>
> Patrick, Chris, All:
>
> One direction would be to use this common interest across the network to
> do these things:
>
> 1) Inventory who in our network is doing what development or application
> in this Urban Science area currently;
> 2) Inventory key needs or research questions on the development (and
> application) side;
> 3) Inventory key educational needs/desires;
> 4) Use this above to develop a shared document (Google Doc or OSGeo wiki
> page maybe?) that we could use to go after funding to support our network.
>
> I'm now freeing up to start to think about research network grant proposal
> writing... I don't know if somehow NASA's Worldwind could be a foundational
> technology here somehow?
>
> My two cents,
>
> Charlie
>
>
> On Sun, Feb 22, 2015 at 6:33 AM, Hogan, Patrick (ARC-PX) <
> patrick.hogan at nasa.gov<mailto:patrick.hogan at nasa.gov>> wrote:
> Dear Urban Science - City Analytics Folks,
>
> Chris Pettit is leading this and I am here to help. Each of you who are
> personally addressed, have expressed interest in moving this Urban Science
> - City Analytics theme into a bright future. If we think of this as putting
> the planet on track from the ground up, this is it, one city at a time!
> Solutions that we collectively share!!! To become a groundswell for all!
>
> I think there may be a better name for this than "Urban Science - City
> Analytics" maybe 'Municipal Munificence' (just kidding) but at lease
> something less techno, i.e., SmartCity? This enterprise will not only
> address management of city infrastructure, zoning, permit process,
> taxation, flooding, traffic, routing of garbage trucks, and all the other
> munificent things integral to community living, but it will do this with an
> eye for constant improvement (analytics) to increase sustainability,
> prepare for climate change, and simply orient ongoing repair and growth in
> ways that continually improve the quality of city life.
>
> This will necessarily decrease vehicle traffic, increase bicycle and
> pedestrian traffic, enhance more self-sufficient communities, increase
> cooperatives, and make schools, stores and services more accessible to more
> 'localized' communities. Then connect those local communities with each
> other via major public transportation arteries.
>
> Okay, however ideal we orient, we must first address ^basic^ city
> management issues. Let's put together a list of what those are and then
> together prioritize them. At least that will establish the target. I see a
> lot of activity out there already thinking about these things. . .
>
> Master programme in Sustainable Cities at Aalborg University Copenhagen
> http://sustainablecities.aau.dk/
>
> Climate Adaptation Guidebook for Municipalities
>
> http://www.cmap.illinois.gov/documents/10180/14193/FY13-0119+Climate+Adaptation+toolkit+lowres.pdf
>
> General background info:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sustainable_city
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sustainable_energy
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sustainable_transport
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sustainable_living
>
> WoW! A place where I would like to live!
> A rural town in Italy, a leader in energy sustainability:
> http://reregions.blogspot.com/2010/03/varese-ligure-italy.html
>
> Local Grocery
>
> http://www.cooperativegrocer.coop/articles/2004-01-08/mondragons-eroski-mass-retailer
>
> http://www.yesmagazine.org/issues/the-new-economy/mondragon-worker-cooperatives-decide-how-to-ride-out-a-downturn
>
> Local Agriculture & Industrial Equipment
> http://opensourceecology.org/gvcs/gvcs-machine-index/
> http://www.ted.com/talks/marcin_jakubowski
>
> Anyway, just a shot over our bow.
> What shall we do? Where to from here?
>
> -Patrick
>
>  Patrick.Hogan at nasa.gov<mailto:Patrick.Hogan at nasa.gov>
>  Project Manager
>  NASA World Wind
>  650.604.5656<tel:650.604.5656> (office)
>  650.269.2788<tel:650.269.2788> (cell)
>
>
>
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>
> Associate Professor, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
> Dept of Environmental Conservation and Center for Public Policy and
> Administration
>
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>
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