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Cartonama

Cartonama Conference

Making the most of geospatial data, community mapping, and location-based services.

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Arun Ganesh

Journey of an open geodata geek

Convince you how free licenses and geographic data can change the world more
  • 1 comment
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  • 07 Aug 2012
Section: Technology Technical level: Beginner Session type: Lecture

Arun Ganesh

The basic cartography workshop

The basic cartography workshop gives participants an overview of GIS concepts, mapping and hands on knowledge in using free and open source digital cartography tools. You will also learn about copyleft licenses and how to add your work to wikipedia. more
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  • 07 Aug 2012
Section: Technology Technical level: Intermediate Session type: Workshop
Gaurav Lochan

Gaurav Lochan

Now, to build location based services on Android...

Introduce audience to the location based services in Android, and share some (very reusable) lessons from an app in the marketplace. more
  • 2 comments
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  • 10 Aug 2012
Section: Applications Technical level: Intermediate Session type: Tutorial

siddharth hande

The importance of 'messy' map making

The objective of this session is to highlight the importance of certain concepts that questioned the epistemology of ‘conventional’ GIS practice. It aims to provide a critical lens through which individuals that attend can gauge their community based geospatial work. more
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  • 10 Aug 2012
Section: Data Technical level: Beginner Session type: Lecture

Sajjad Anwar

When Maps Go Wrong...

The objective is to demystify the state of the popular geospatial repositories. It is important to understand how the type, quality and strategy of data collection and analysis varies with respect to the agency or organization formulating the process. And what happens when things go wrong... more
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  • 12 Aug 2012
Section: Data Technical level: Intermediate Session type: Lecture

SteveC

OpenStreetMap

Learn about OSM, the worlds free editable map. Like Wikipedia, OSM allows anyone to edit a map of the world which is then made freely available. This talk will go over the past, present and future of the project. more
  • 1 comment
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  • 14 Aug 2012
Section: Data Technical level: Beginner Session type: Lecture

Shashank Srinivasan

Spatial data and environmental governance

To discuss the applications of spatial data on environmental governance, in India and around the world. more
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  • 14 Aug 2012
Section: Applications Technical level: Intermediate Session type: Discussion

Sumandro C

The Classic, the Radical and the Weird - A Brief History of Making Maps

To take a run through the long history of cartography and pause briefly to look at various fabulous maps -- the classic ones, the radical ones and the weird ones. To explore the technological and political issues underlying these cartographic milestones. more
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  • Confirmed & scheduled
  • 16 Aug 2012
Section: Technology Technical level: Intermediate Session type: Lecture

Yuvi Panda

Painless web maps with Leaflet.js

Introduce the Audience to Leaflet.js, a nicely designed Javascript library for displaying maps. Show off what is possible - from the basics (Showing maps, controls, markers) to advanced usage (Overlays, Editing, Plugins, Mobile). Fawn over the simplicity of the API. more
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  • 19 Aug 2012
Section: Technology Technical level: Intermediate Session type: Demo

Govil Khatri

MyPath.IO

Audience will get to know how to use Location & Map APIs in their apps and the challenges we face while developing Location based apps, also a little about on andriod maps like overlays, mapview, graphics etc. more
  • 2 comments
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  • 19 Aug 2012
Section: Applications Technical level: Intermediate Session type: Demo

Kristine Gali

Mapping a Solution to an Unknown Location

To demistify the current address system used throughout India. An explanation of the many complications associated with getting from point A to point B. more
  • 1 comment
  • Confirmed & scheduled
  • 22 Aug 2012
Section: Data Technical level: Beginner Session type: Discussion

Rajath Kedilaya

Map My Ride

There’s more to taxis than taking your drunken-self home. This session should tell you why! more
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  • 22 Aug 2012
Section: Applications Technical level: Beginner Session type: Lecture

Varun Shingal

Challenges and Best Practices when working with location based data.

Challenges and Best Practises when working with location based data. more
  • 1 comment
  • Confirmed & scheduled
  • 23 Aug 2012
Section: Technology Technical level: Intermediate Session type: Lecture

Sunil Pai

Locations services at Yahoo!

To give an overview of location services at Yahoo, and how different properties across the company utilize them. Also, an introduction to public facing location services exposed by Yahoo via YQL, etc. more
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  • Confirmed & scheduled
  • 23 Aug 2012
Section: Technology Technical level: Intermediate Session type: Lecture

Shashank Srinivasan

The basic QGIS workshop

From (not knowing) the difference between raster and vector data to (knowing) how to work with spatial data. more
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  • 27 Aug 2012
Section: Applications Technical level: Beginner Session type: Workshop

Mayank Sharma

Solving Where Am I Problem - Lokasi

GPS tells you the lat-long of your current location. Which is pretty much use-less to you or to your friend who wants to guide you. How exactly do you translate the simple machine understandable XY to something that you and I can decipher and is action-able? more
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  • Confirmed & scheduled
  • 28 Aug 2012
Section: Applications Technical level: Intermediate Session type: Lecture

Lalit Mangal

Lessons Learnt while building a "great" property search on Map

Would like to share our learning while building the Map based property search on CommonFloor.com more
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  • Submitted
  • 28 Aug 2012
Section: Applications Technical level: Intermediate Session type: Demo

Naveen Francis Proposing

Wikiminiatlas and how Wikipedia is using geospatial data ?

Wikiminiatlas How wikipedia is using geospatial data more
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  • 29 Aug 2012
Section: Applications Technical level: Beginner Session type: Demo

Anenth Guru

Augmented Reality based Navigation in a mobile app

Augmented Reality has now become a easily accessible technology with almost all smartphones having the ability to provide a decent experience. This talk will be a demo of how a mobile application that helps in Navigation can be built with Layar Augmented reality toolkit. more
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  • 30 Aug 2012
Section: Applications Technical level: Intermediate Session type: Demo

Sanjay Bhangar

3 real-world map-related projects

Go through code and demos for 3 interesting map-related projects. more
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  • Confirmed & scheduled
  • 31 Aug 2012
Section: Applications Technical level: Intermediate Session type: Demo

Sudhira

Geo-simulation using open geodata

To introduce and explore methods in geo-simulation for modeling varied geographic phenomenon. more
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  • 31 Aug 2012
Section: Technology Technical level: Intermediate Session type: Workshop

Sudhira Proposing

Ecological Niche Modeling using Open Geodata

To demonstrate application of some of the methods to study and understand the distribution of species using open geodata. more
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  • Submitted
  • 31 Aug 2012
Section: Applications Technical level: Intermediate Session type: Lecture

sanganabasayya

Spatial Decision Support System for Home Land Security

This provides effective and efficient approach for Emergency Management System.This paper provides the Spatial Decision Support System (SDSS) for govt. and concerned bodies for effective planning, damage assessment, taking decisions based on real time monitoring within short span of time. more
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  • Submitted
  • 31 Aug 2012
Section: Applications Technical level: Intermediate Session type: Lecture

oligoglot

Sourcing, processing, and indexing location data for search

One can learn about the following by attending the lecture: more
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  • Confirmed
  • 31 Aug 2012
Section: Technology Technical level: Intermediate Session type: Workshop

sandeepbhaskar

Geohash System and "Nearby" searches

An introduction to Geohash system of spatial data structure, few applications of it like geohash.org. Also, to get understanding on geohash system can improve your applications “nearby” searches. more
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  • Confirmed & scheduled
  • 31 Aug 2012
Section: Applications Technical level: Beginner Session type: Lecture

Raviteja

Building a location-based platform/application from Zero.

One can expect the following: How to store, index and query the geo-spatial (location) data, taking Mongo DB, one of the most popular open source databases, as an example. more
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  • Confirmed & scheduled
  • 03 Sep 2012
Section: Technology Technical level: Intermediate Session type: Lecture

GIS based framework for Real Estate Analytics

To provide a contemporary perspective for understanding the Real estate Markets (Processes, Resources and Market participants) through a GIS based framework. more
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  • Confirmed & scheduled
  • 11 Sep 2012
Section: Applications Technical level: Intermediate Session type: Lecture

Yuvi Panda

Reading and Writing GeoData on the web

This workshop is aimed at getting people to fully understand the basics of building an end-to-end geo data pipeline - getting data in, storing/representing it, and displaying it in various ways. more
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  • Submitted
  • 12 Sep 2012
Section: Applications Technical level: Beginner Session type: Workshop

Sajjad Anwar

GeoCommons and TileMill: Stories through maps.

Introduce two major web mapping tools - GeoCommons.com and TileMill. Equip the participants to mashup interesting data to make quick maps and render custom maps using OpenStreetMap data. more
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  • Submitted
  • 13 Sep 2012
Section: Technology Technical level: Intermediate Session type: Workshop

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