[OSGeo-Announce] Ohio's First Open Source Geospatial lab will be established at Kent State University

[Anne Ghisla]

Kent State University will be home to Ohio's first Open Source
Geospatial Laboratory. The laboratory will support computational social
science research and educational excellence through the development,
implementation, and application of open source geo-computation and
geo-visualization.

The laboratory is expected to attract considerable interest from
spatial scientists, economic/urban geographers, regional scientists,
and policy-makers who are keen to contribute to and learn about the
evaluation, extension, and implementation of multi-scale and
multi-mechanism framework for comparative space-time analysis of
regional and urban dynamics. The laboratory will be active in
dissemination of new comparative metrics for the broader research
community. The software used to support most activities of the
laboratory is open source, meaning the source code can be modified and
re-distributed royalty and fee free. This open source geospatial
laboratory is a joint initiative of the International Cartographic
Association (ICA) and the Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo).

Professor Xinyue Ye, GIS Faculty at Kent State University and founding
director of computational social science research lab will lead the
initiative. The facility will open in September 2013.

Further Information: 
Dr Xinyue Ye
Director, Computational Social Science Lab
Department of Geography
Kent State University
Email: xye5 AT kent.edu

OSGeo is a not-for-profit organisation founded in 2006 whose mission is
to support and promote the collaborative development of open source
geospatial technologies and data.


ICA is the world authoritative body for cartography, the discipline
dealing with the conception, production, dissemination and study of
maps.
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