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

Mon Feb 23 04:43:33 PST 2015

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>
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>
> Date: Monday, 23 February 2015 7:23 am
> To: "ica-osgeo-labs at lists.osgeo.org" <ica-osgeo-labs at lists.osgeo.org>
> Cc: Charles Schweik <cschweik at pubpol.umass.edu>, "Chandola, Varun" <
> chandola at buffalo.edu>, Anthony Beck <ant.beck at gmail.com>, Jeremy Morley <
> Jeremy.Morley at nottingham.ac.uk>, cpettit <cpettit at unimelb.edu.au>, SERGIO
> ACOSTAYLARA <sergio.acostaylara at mtop.gub.uy>, Antoni Pérez Navarro <
> aperezn at uoc.edu>, Doreen Boyd <Doreen.Boyd at nottingham.ac.uk>, "Phil Davis
> (pdavis at delmar.edu)" <pdavis at delmar.edu>, "Suchith Anand (
> suchith_anand at yahoo.com)" <suchith_anand at yahoo.com>, "Jim Miller (
> miller at ittc.ku.edu)" <miller at ittc.ku.edu>, MELICK Brandt <
> bmelick at springfield-or.gov>, "Mueller, Thomas" <Mueller at calu.edu>,
> "Tkachenko, Nataliya" <N.Tkachenko at warwick.ac.uk>, "Ye, Xinyue" <
> xye5 at kent.edu>, Ruslan Rainis <rruslan at usm.my>, Ingo Simonis <
> isimonis at opengeospatial.org>, Gabor Remetey <gabor.remetey at gmail.com>,
> "Maria Brovelli (maria.brovelli at polimi.it)" <maria.brovelli at polimi.it>,
> Giuseppe Conti <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 (office)
>
>  650.269.2788 (cell)
>
>
>
> *From:* Charles Schweik [mailto:cschweik at pubpol.umass.edu
> <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); Suchith Anand (suchith_anand at yahoo.com); Jim Miller (
> 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); Giuseppe Conti; 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> 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
>  Project Manager
>  NASA World Wind
>  650.604.5656 (office)
>  650.269.2788 (cell)
>
>
>
>
>
> --
>
> Charlie Schweik
>
> Associate Professor, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
>
> Dept of Environmental Conservation and Center for Public Policy and
> Administration
>
>
>
> Personal website: http://people.umass.edu/cschweik
>
> Publications: http://works.bepress.com/charles_schweik/
>
>
> Author, Internet Success: A Study of Open Source Software (MIT Press,
> 2012) - see http://tinyurl.com/d3e4545
>
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-- 
Charlie Schweik

Associate Professor, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Dept of Environmental Conservation and Center for Public Policy and
Administration

Personal website: http://people.umass.edu/cschweik
Publications: http://works.bepress.com/charles_schweik/

Author, Internet Success: A Study of Open Source Software (MIT Press, 2012)
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