Bob Basques 3

Bio: I am interested in Business Intelligence and data management, specifically spatially based data. I am currently employed as a GIS Systems Developer at the City of Saint Paul, MN. I've also gained experience from my community and volunteer work at SharedGeo in the field of information management. I'm self taught in the field and began my career before titles existed for any type of digital data management. I’ve worked my way up through the ranks and have front line experience in the business areas related to Public Works Engineering and records management. This work also relates to other City departments of which I'm currently managing digital data for. My experience with the City has afforded me the opportunity to become familiar and work with many different, new, and evolving technologies. From these experiences I've developed successful methods for providing digital information to City personnel and its customers.

Lightening Overview of the Best Geospatial Open Source

This presentation provides a lightning overview of the breadth of quality geospatial open source applications, which are available for the full range of geospatial use cases, including storage, publishing, viewing, analysis and manipulation of data. The presentation is based upon documentation from OSGeo-Live, which is a self-contained DVD, USB thumb drive and Virtual Machine, based on Lubuntu. It includes over 50 of the best geospatial, open source applications, pre-configured with data, project overviews and quick-starts, translated into multiple languages. It is an excellent tool for demonstrating GeoSpatial Open Source, using in tutorials and workshops, or providing to potential new users.

Open Source, Software, Geospatial, GIS