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Open Source In Accessibility Analyses - Modeling Of Street Petrol Station Accessibility In Germany, Stefan Neumeier
Open Source In Accessibility Analyses - Modeling Of Street Petrol Station Accessibility In Germany, Stefan Neumeier
Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial (FOSS4G) Conference Proceedings
The paper relates two closely intertwined story lines. A socioeconomic one concentrating on street petrol station accessibility in Germany’s rural areas and a geospatial one concentrating on the usability of the Open Street Map within rural studies. This is attributed to the fact that the paper builds on findings from applied research within rural studies and is intended to serve as a “practical experiences report” assessing the usability of open source GIS/- data in rural studies. Here we analysed the accessibility of street petrol stations as one core service of general interest important for the overall individual mobility of the …
Osm - Gb: Using Open Source Geospatial Tools To Create Osm Web Services For Great Britain, Amir Pourabdollah
Osm - Gb: Using Open Source Geospatial Tools To Create Osm Web Services For Great Britain, Amir Pourabdollah
Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial (FOSS4G) Conference Proceedings
A use case of integrating a variety of open-source geospatial tools is presented in this paper to process and openly redeliver open data in open standards. Through a software engineering approach, we have focused on the potential usability of OpenStreetMap in authoritative and professional contexts in Great Britain. Our system comprises open source components from OSGeo projects, the Open Street Map (OSM) community and proprietary components. We present how the open data flows among those components and is delivered to the Web with open standards. Apart from the cost issues, utilizing the opensource tools has offered some distinct advantages compared …
Gis For All: Exploring The Barriers And Opportunities For Underexploited Gis Applications, Hao Ye, Michael Brown, Jenny Harding
Gis For All: Exploring The Barriers And Opportunities For Underexploited Gis Applications, Hao Ye, Michael Brown, Jenny Harding
Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial (FOSS4G) Conference Proceedings
Geographical Information Systems have been existed since the early 1960s, but evidence suggests that adoption of GIS technologies still remains relatively low in many sectors. We will explore both the barriers that affect the utilisation of GIS and opportunities to overcome these barriers. As part of this exploration we performed a literature review, collected responses from quantitative questionnaire survey and interviewed a range of technical and domain experts. Having analysed and collated the results of these studies we have identified ways forward for future research and development to facilitate wider spread adoption and exploitation of GIS applications. Our discussion focuses …
Mapping Wifi Measurements On Openstreetmap Data For Wireless Street Coverage Analysis, Andrea Valenzano, Dario Mana, Claudio Borean, Antonio Servetti
Mapping Wifi Measurements On Openstreetmap Data For Wireless Street Coverage Analysis, Andrea Valenzano, Dario Mana, Claudio Borean, Antonio Servetti
Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial (FOSS4G) Conference Proceedings
The growing interest on smart cities and the deployment of an ever increasing number of smart objects in public locations, such as dumpsters, traffic lights, and manholes, requires ubiquitous connectivity for these devices to communicate data and to receive configurations. Opportunistic WiFi connectivity is a valid alternative both to ad hoc solutions, like LoRa, which require costly deployments, and to communicating through the mobile network, which is both pricey and battery power hungry. In this paper we present a tool to analyze the WiFi coverage of home Access Points (AP) on the city streets. It can be of interest to …