[OSGeo-Discuss] GeoAmbassador – Barend Köbben

Sat Feb 3 05:20:50 PST 2018

Congrats to Barend also from our side!

:Stefan

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2018-02-03 13:22 GMT+01:00 Maria Antonia Brovelli <maria.brovelli at polimi.it>:
> Congratulations Barend!!!!!
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> Da: Discuss <discuss-bounces at lists.osgeo.org> per conto di Suchith Anand
> <Suchith.Anand at nottingham.ac.uk>
> Inviato: sabato 3 febbraio 2018 13:17
> A: geoforall at lists.osgeo.org; discuss at lists.osgeo.org
> Oggetto: [OSGeo-Discuss] GeoAmbassador – Barend Köbben
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> Dear colleagues,
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> On behalf of the GeoForAll community, it is my great pleasure to honour
> Barend Köbben as our GeoAmbassador.  Barend holds an MSc in Geography,
> specialising in Cartography, from Utrecht University in The Netherlands. He
> worked for 9 years as a Lecturer in cartography at that university and then
> moved to the International Institute for Geo-Information Sciences and Earth
> Observation (ITC) in 1997. The ITC is an international school providing
> courses on GIS and Remote Sensing to students from all around the world,
> ranging from short courses, through 18 month MSc degree courses, as well as
> a PhD programmes. Since 1 January 2010, ITC is a Faculty of the University
> of Twente. Barend is at present Senior Lecturer in GIS and cartographic
> visualisation in the Department of Geo-Information Processing (GIP).
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> His  teaching subjects include Cartographic Theory, WebCartography and
> WebGIS, Geo-webservices, web application building and 3D visualization.
> Outside ITC, Barend is  involved in teaching short courses and workshops in
> Open Source GIS & WebMapping, promoting the use of the Open Source
> geospatial applications and data.  The Commission on Open Source Geospatial
> Technologies of the International Cartographic Association (ICA) organised a
> series of short courses and workshops on Open Source GIS & Webmapping, for
> which they at ITC have developed course materials and provide teaching staff
> and resources.These are mostly hands-on practical workshops, intended to
> introduce the possibilities of using Open Source applications for GIS and
> webmapping to people who are interested in this technology, but that do not
> yet have much experience in the actual practical use of OSGeo applications.
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> Barend used a set of exercises that guide the participants in setting up a
> webmapping site using OpenStreetMap data, adding their own data using the
> desktop QGIS application, serving that data as a Web Map Service using
> Geoserver and/or Mapserver, and finally bringing it all together on a
> interactive “slippy map” website using OpenLayers. Barend is using in
> general the free and open source GIS and webmapping applications from the
> OSGeo LiveDVD. Barend teach and have taught these workshops and courses in
> many forms: From very short (2 hours) to long (2/3 weeks), either
> face-to-face or using Distance Learning technology.
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> Some examples of the Past courses & workshops that he contributed include:
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> ·Hands-on Open Source GIS & WebMapping for UN staff -- 24 & 25 November 2014
> -- Vienna (Austria) -- 2-day workshop organized especially for members of
> staff of United Nations (UN) bodies and entities.
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> ·Hands-on Workshop Cartography in a Web World -- 3 October 2013 -- Amsterdam
> (Netherlands) -- Intro to OpenStreetmap, OpenLayers and CartoDB
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> ·EuroSDR EduServ11 Open Standards & Open Source WebMapping -- 8-19 April
> 2013 -- On-line course (organised by 3rd party)
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> Concepts and tools for Spatial Data Visualization -- 13 December 2012 --
> Amsterdam (Netherlands) -- Intro to OpenStreetmap, OpenLayers and CartoDB
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> ·Hands-on Workshop Open Source GIS & WebMapping for UN staff -- 20 & 21
> November 2012 -- Vienna (Austria)
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> ·EuroSDR EduServ10 Open Standards & Open Source WebMapping -- 7-18 May 2012
> -- On-line course (organised by 3rd party)
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> ·Workshop Open Source GIS & WebCartography -- 24 April 2012 -- Avignon
> (France)
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> ·Walk-in Workshop Open Source GIS & WebCartography -- 5th, 6th & 7th July --
> Paris (France)
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> · YYou can also  kobben at itc.nl to request a course to be organised for your
> organization.
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> Barend participate in the research activities of the departmental Research
> Theme STAMP (Spatio–Temporal Analytics, Maps and Processing).
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> His main research interests are:
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> - Automated mapping in a services environment, with middleware services and
> Open Web clients (using the D3 library).
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> - Animated vector map services, using among others the RIMapper WMS Open
> Source platform that he developed.
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> - The SDIlight concept. The term SDI for Spatial Data Infrastructure may be
> usually connected with (very) large regional or national spatial data
> warehouses, but the principles of SDI can also be applied in more simple and
> cost–effective ways. The down–to–earth approach of SDIlight provides
> students and researchers with a platform for relatively simple, low–cost,
> yet powerful ways of sharing data amongst various distributed offices and
> institutions as well as the general public. To achieve this, he used open
> standards whenever available and open source solutions where possible.Barend
> have been involved in various consultancy projects in The Netherlands,
> India, Iran, Italy, Malaysia, Namibia, South Africa, Thailand and Zambia.
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> Barend is  Map Editor and member of the Editorial Board of Geografie
> (Journal of KNAG - Koninklijk Nederlands Aardrijkskundig Genootschap, ISSN
> 0926-3837); Charter Member of the Open Source Geospatial Foundation; Member
> and Publications Chair of the ICA Commission on Open Source Geospatial
> Technologies.
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> We are proud to honour Barend Köbben as our GeoAmbassodor and we are
> extremely grateful for his contributions to GeoForAll and for his selfless
> contributions for expanding geoeducation opportunities for all.
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> Best wishes,
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> Suchith Anand
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> GeoForAll
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