<div dir="ltr">"City Slicker" colleagues:<div><br></div><div>I made several updates to our wiki [1], trying to help with the roadmap and particularly the "social dimension".</div><div><br></div><div>1) Under "Who's Here" I added the option of "participant categories" (there might be others)</div><div><b style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.6999998092651px;line-height:19.0499992370605px">(a) U - User/practitioner; (b) D-Developer; (c) R - Researcher/Scientist; (d) E - Educator</b><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.6999998092651px;line-height:19.0499992370605px">.</span><br></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.6999998092651px;line-height:19.0499992370605px"><b>Please edit your entry and add your categories</b>. This is important for us to understand each of our incentives for participation which can help us maybe steer the ship better... (see "</span><font color="#000000" face="sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12.6999998092651px;line-height:19.0499992370605px">Social dimension" under "CItySmart Roadmap"</span></font></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.6999998092651px;line-height:19.0499992370605px"><br></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.6999998092651px;line-height:19.0499992370605px">2) Under "<b>social dimension</b>" I added the ideas of </span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.6999998092651px;line-height:19.0499992370605px">- "Transdisciplinarity" and a good citation -- which is what we are trying to do and could be useful in grant proposals as a concept</span></div><div><font color="#000000" face="sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12.6999998092651px;line-height:19.0499992370605px">- The idea of "urban sustainability and resilience" as what I think should be a key interest area for us.</span></font></div><div><font color="#000000" face="sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12.6999998092651px;line-height:19.0499992370605px"><br></span></font></div><div><font color="#000000" face="sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12.6999998092651px;line-height:19.0499992370605px">3) Perhaps most importantly, I added the sub-heading:</span></font></div><div><font color="#000000" face="sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12.6999998092651px;line-height:19.0499992370605px"><div style>'<b>Key City Analytic Needs or Needs by our Community above'</b>. </div><div style>The idea here is that we should try to build a list of key urban science\city analytics areas our community want to focus on. Such as "crime mapping/analytics" which Tom just raised. My idea is that we could list topics of interest and then add people's names below those interests. This would be especially useful if the city "practitioners" (for lack of a better word) could add their most critical needs here. </div></span></font></div><div><br></div><div>I hope these edits are helpful. </div><div><br></div><div>Charlie</div><div><br></div><div>[1] <a href="http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/GeoForAll_UrbanScience_CityAnalytics">http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/GeoForAll_UrbanScience_CityAnalytics</a></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Mar 22, 2015 at 7:54 PM, Hogan, Patrick (ARC-PX) <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:patrick.hogan@nasa.gov" target="_blank">patrick.hogan@nasa.gov</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<p class="MsoNormal">Dear OSGeo, especially you City Slickers,<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#44546a"> </span>(the Urban Science Analytics folks)<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">The group of individuals listed <span style="color:#44546a">
here</span> are some very special people<span style="color:#44546a">,</span><u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/GeoForAll_UrbanScience_CityAnalytics#Who.27s_Here.3F" target="_blank">http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/GeoForAll_UrbanScience_CityAnalytics#Who.27s_Here.3F</a><u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Thank you for your big heart and hard work! We are here to make a positive difference on a global scale. And as much as we may talk about this, we do more than talk. The world dearly needs what we are intent on delivering, that is the ability
to see ourselves, better understand our circumstance and be in a stronger position to do wise things about it. We have some pretty ‘hairy’ planetary-scale issues that are increasing, without pause. We must to do something grand to facilitate solutions
<span style="color:black">and increase value for life</span>. This is also the title for my keynote at FOSS4G where I very much look forward to being together with many of you.
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<p class="MsoNormal">We are consuming our resources at an entirely unsustainable rate. And if that isn’t bad enough, there is a pretty ugly piper-to-be-paid for the massive uncontrolled waste ‘poisoning’ our biosphere, from carbon to fertilizers. We are trashing
our life support system, the only one we’ve got. Climate change and over-population are already leading to mass-migration, low-level conflict, all-out war, industrial slavery and a future where hope is getting harder to believe in.
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<p class="MsoNormal">Let’s take a stand somewhere with <b>F</b>OSS4G, <b>R</b>DA,
<b>O</b>SGeo and <b>G</b>eoForAll (FROG, one step for greenness, a great leap for life! Just kidding). Let’s agree to do something we all need. The world’s population is rapidly moving from rural to urban. This is non-intuitive given our increasing need for
good food, especially as climate change makes subsistence farming and industrial scale agriculture a more difficult and very dicey prospect.
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<p class="MsoNormal">We must invest in our present for a better future, and give a ‘present’ to the future! I am thinking a CitySmart virtual globe app with an API for the menu system. This way academia, entrepreneurs, government, NGOs, essentially everyone,
could build functionalities, commercial or free, for a platform we are all advancing together. We spend a lot of time talking about getting data to behave, to be standardized and accessible. This CitySmart platform would be the forcing function to drive that.
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<p class="MsoNormal">Every city needs many of the same tools/functionalities. A CitySmart app is a platform all of us can collectively build and share. If we did this, that event alone, the cities of the world working together and challenging each other to
collective greatness, would be the brightest ray of hope for a viable future that has ever occurred. Our present for the future, a planet of people, working together to solve common problems and yet free to use that platform and suite of functionalities to
solve any number of unique problems. No more re-inventing the GIS wheel, just a growing suite of functionalities, many of which we will share.<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Though we want to do this platform as a web app, the City of Springfield Oregon has shown their leadership for our *<b>present-to-the-future</b>* with a Java app,
<a href="http://www.nsdinow.org/SDI_Now_02/Technical_Support.html" target="_blank">http://www.nsdinow.org/SDI_Now_02/Technical_Support.html</a>. There must be others. Where are you?<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Get onto the mail list, grab hold of this wheel and start steering!
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<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://lists.osgeo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geoforall-urbanscience" target="_blank">http://lists.osgeo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geoforall-urbanscience</a>
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<p class="MsoNormal">-Patrick<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"> <a href="mailto:Patrick.Hogan@nasa.gov" target="_blank"><span style="color:blue">Patrick.Hogan@nasa.gov</span></a>
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<p class="MsoNormal"> Project Manager<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> NASA World Wind<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> <a href="tel:650.604.5656" value="+16506045656" target="_blank">650.604.5656</a> (office)<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> <a href="tel:650.269.2788" value="+16502692788" target="_blank">650.269.2788</a> (cell)<u></u><u></u></p>
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