[Ica-osgeo-labs] Urban Science - City Analytics - NEW IDEA

Wed Feb 25 12:36:36 PST 2015

Hi All,
I've been watching this thread from the sidelines. (I'm involved in the 
OSGeo-Live project, and have also been working professionally with Chris 
Pettit in Australia in advising on their AURIN Open Cities program).

What I think will be valuable for all grant writers, and for us all as a 
whole, is if we author a manifesto, or guiding policy which we 
collectively agree to. It should cover our principles:
* Material created is made available for all under an Open License
* Material is of sufficient quality that it can be built upon by others 
in the network
* Aim is to reuse, extend, invent material (in that order). Note that it 
is more valuable to have one set of core maintained material than have 
lots of competing material.
* Covers specific topic areas - spatial, ...
* ... (what else?)

With many organisations signing up for this manifesto, it will make each 
application stronger, as it will demonstrate a much greater pipeline for 
distributing collected research, as well as sharing the workload of 
developing research (resulting in greater value for each $ invested).

On 26/02/2015 5:44 am, Hogan, Patrick (ARC-PX) wrote:
> Giuseppe,
> Ciao! This sounds great! Whether it's a university campus or a city,
> they need to know what they have and where it is.
> So i-Locate would seem a natural piece to assembling this puzzle into a masterpiece.
> Let's please have this as part of the OSGEO assembly of tools.
> Whenever you consider it appropriate, we'll always want to hear how i-Locate can help,
> given the general use-case and, as things shape up, more specific descriptions of use-cases.
> Grazie mille,
> -Patrick
>   (650) 604-5656 (office)
>   (650) 269-2788 (cell)
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Giuseppe Conti [mailto:Giuseppe.Conti at trilogis.it]
> Sent: Wednesday, February 25, 2015 10:35 AM
> To: Hogan, Patrick (ARC-PX); Phillip Davis; Charles Schweik; Suchith Anand
> Cc: Doreen Boyd; ica-osgeo-labs at lists.osgeo.org; Ingo Simonis; Anthony Beck; Chris Pettit; Gabor Remetey; Stepanov Alexander; Chandola, Varun; Jim Miller (miller at ittc.ku.edu); MELICK Brandt
> Subject: Re: [Ica-osgeo-labs] Urban Science - City Analytics - NEW IDEA
>
> Dear Patrick, all,
>
> First of all thank you for this initiative. We could bring on the results of www.i-locate.eu. This is an *open source* solution for interoperable indoor and outdoor location based services. The first version of the system is already available for download and the final solution will be available by June this year. Hopefully this can be an enabler for urban sciences and city analytics scenarios.
> Regards to everybody,
>
> Giuseppe Conti
>
> Mob: +39 366 3384232
> Skype ID: gc_177
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>
>
> Il giorno 25/02/15 16:01, "Hogan, Patrick (ARC-PX)"
> <patrick.hogan at nasa.gov> ha scritto:
>
>> Phil,
>>
>> Fantastic! That would be a perfect opportunity to grow some wings for
>> this thing.
>>
>> Please cook up whatever you can to get this juggernaut up to speed!
>>
>> Held og lykke! ("Good luck" in Danish, pronounced 'Held og Luke' I
>> think)
>>
>> -Patrick
>> 650.604.5656 (office)
>> 650.269.2788 (cell)
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Phillip Davis [mailto:pdavis at delmar.edu]
>> Sent: Wednesday, February 25, 2015 6:23 AM
>> To: Hogan, Patrick (ARC-PX); Charles Schweik; Suchith Anand
>> Cc: Doreen Boyd; ica-osgeo-labs at lists.osgeo.org; Ingo Simonis; Anthony
>> Beck; Chris Pettit; Gabor Remetey; Stepanov Alexander; Chandola, Varun;
>> Jim Miller (miller at ittc.ku.edu); Giuseppe Conti; MELICK Brandt
>> Subject: RE: [Ica-osgeo-labs] Urban Science - City Analytics - NEW IDEA
>>
>> Thanks Patrick.  The GeoAcademy will be attending the QGIS hackathon in
>> Copenhagen in May and will strive to meet principles in the Sustainable
>> Cities program ________________________________________
>> From: ica-osgeo-labs-bounces at lists.osgeo.org
>> [ica-osgeo-labs-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Hogan, Patrick
>> (ARC-PX) [patrick.hogan at nasa.gov]
>> Sent: Wednesday, February 25, 2015 7:57 AM
>> To: Charles Schweik; Suchith Anand
>> Cc: Doreen Boyd; ica-osgeo-labs at lists.osgeo.org; Ingo Simonis; Anthony
>> Beck; Chris Pettit; Gabor Remetey; Stepanov Alexander; Chandola, Varun;
>> Jim Miller (miller at ittc.ku.edu); Giuseppe Conti; MELICK Brandt
>> Subject: Re: [Ica-osgeo-labs] Urban Science - City Analytics - NEW IDEA
>>
>> Charlie and Sasha,
>>
>> The DOE donated their NetCDF management code (iGlobe) into the open
>> source, http://www.cse.buffalo.edu/~chandola/iglobe/iglobe.html
>> It is now a seed crystal for others to extend.
>> Prof Varun Chandola (formerly with DOE) is now moving this code forward.
>> http://forum.worldwindcentral.com/forumdisplay.php?48-iGlobe
>>
>> Prescient of this effort, the city of Springfield Oregon did the same
>> with their city management efforts, actually initiating a call for
>> cities to work together
>> http://www.nsdinow.org/SDI_Now_02/Technical_Support.html
>> Prof Jim Miller has been working in support of this.
>>
>> It would be fantastic to have universities doing more of this as an
>> OSGEO organized worldwide operation.
>> We should all be using each other to maximum collective effect.
>>
>> I'm sure this university would be interested:
>> Master programme in Sustainable Cities at Aalborg University Copenhagen
>> http://sustainablecities.aau.dk/
>>
>> There is so much opportunity serving everyone's self-interest here!
>> It's easy to imagine this kind of effort being spectacularly successful.
>>
>> I'll do whatever I can to help.
>>
>> -Patrick
>> 650.604.5656 (office)
>> 650.269.2788 (cell)
>>
>> From: ica-osgeo-labs-bounces at lists.osgeo.org
>> [mailto:ica-osgeo-labs-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Charles
>> Schweik
>> Sent: Wednesday, February 25, 2015 1:45 AM
>> To: Suchith Anand
>> Cc: Stepanov Alexander; ica-osgeo-labs at lists.osgeo.org; Ingo Simonis;
>> Anthony Beck; Chris Pettit; 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 - NEW IDEA
>>
>> Hi Urban Science working group:
>>
>> 1) Great to see the edits/additions on the wiki [1]. Keep them coming.
>>
>> 2) I have an idea. (sorry for a long note, but I don't want to add this
>> to the wiki, at least yet).
>>
>> I have added my colleague, Alexander 'Sasha' Stepanov to this email
>> thread. He is the 'GIS Architect' for our university campus. Sasha and
>> I have had an idea of offering a different type of advanced GIS course
>> for students that follows new pedagogies: "flipped" (uses online open
>> access information read outside of class), team-based learning, and
>> service learning.
>>
>> Sasha's enterprise GIS for our campus is amazing. He has been
>> emphasizing to me that it is a "small city" and there is an opportunity
>> for students to do projects working with him on different "city
>> management" GIS applications. For example, last semester we had two
>> students do campus GIS projects on Tree Management, and also Recycling
>> Management. (this was using ESRI technologies).
>>
>> What I am wondering is how many others on this thread are at
>> universities that are using GIS to manage their campuses.
>>
>> If there are some, I wonder about the idea of an educational grant
>> proposal to support our network that would:
>>
>> 1) Establish "City Analytics" systems to support our campuses;
>> 2) Develop parallel "flipped, Team Based learning, Service learning"
>> classes run at the same time/semester across a network of campuses;
>> 3) Include some webinars that all our classes would attend;
>> 4) Build together a MOOC with open educational material that we would
>> all use and share in these courses.
>> 5) We could test the learning of people just doing the MOOC versus the
>> MOOC and service learning as a research question.
>>
>> Reactions? Anyone working at a university campus who would be
>> interested in these ideas?
>>
>> Charlie
>>
>> [1] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/GeoForAll_UrbanScience_CityAnalytics
>>
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