Cartonama Conference
Making the most of geospatial data, community mapping, and location-based services.
Sep 2012
17 Mon
18 Tue
19 Wed
20 Thu
21 Fri
22 Sat 10:00 AM – 04:30 PM IST
23 Sun
The ‘Where’ question is central to our everyday lives. Geospatial data shapes our ability to answer that question and build intelligent applications, whether on the web or on your mobile device.
Supported by contributions from crowd-sourced data projects and open source software, geo data and its technology spectrum has grown impressively in recent years. In the face of this massive and diverse range of spatial data and technologies, the ability to choose effective methods for storage, retrieval and visualisation becomes critical .
The Cartonama conference is about geographic data, the technology behind it, the applications built around it and the overarching aspect of community and mobility.
Workshops
We will organize workshops along with the conference. The goal would be to provide hands-on training to collect, store and visualize geographic data, and finally, to build location-based services with these tools. Workshop theme falls into:
- Nature of Geospatial Data: Structure, Formats and Operations
- Collection, Storage & Delivery of Geospatial Data: Crowd-sourced Models, Standards and Databases
- Location-based Services: Front-end and Back-end tools to build and manage your applications
- Leveraging Open Geographic Data Repositories: Using OpenStreetMap to visualize and tell stories through maps
You can submit your workshop proposals via the submissions through the funnel below.
Speaking submissions
You can submit a proposal to speak at Cartonama via the submission funnel below. Please describe your proposal in as much detail as possible. Detail is important if you'd like to be voted up into the schedule.
Your submission will be up for public voting for up to 2 weeks before the event. For the final tally, we will only consider votes from ticket holders, as a way to ensure participants get exactly what they pay for.
Making a funnel submission does not guarantee final selection. Selected speakers will get a free ticket to the event (limited to one speaker per proposal). Proposers whose talks are not on the final schedule will be able to purchase tickets at the prevailing rate for the day on which they made their proposal.
You can buy a ticket to the event here.
Accepting submissions
Not accepting submissions
Journey of an open geodata geekConvince you how free licenses and geographic data can change the world more
Technology
Beginner
Lecture
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The basic cartography workshopThe 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
Technology
Intermediate
Workshop
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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
Applications
Intermediate
Tutorial
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The importance of 'messy' map makingThe 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
Data
Beginner
Lecture
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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
Data
Intermediate
Lecture
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SteveC OpenStreetMapLearn 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
Data
Beginner
Lecture
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Spatial data and environmental governanceTo discuss the applications of spatial data on environmental governance, in India and around the world. more
Applications
Intermediate
Discussion
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The Classic, the Radical and the Weird - A Brief History of Making MapsTo 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
Technology
Intermediate
Lecture
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Painless web maps with Leaflet.jsIntroduce 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
Technology
Intermediate
Demo
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Kristine Gali Mapping a Solution to an Unknown LocationTo demistify the current address system used throughout India. An explanation of the many complications associated with getting from point A to point B. more
Data
Beginner
Discussion
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Map My RideThere’s more to taxis than taking your drunken-self home. This session should tell you why! more
Applications
Beginner
Lecture
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Varun Shingal Challenges and Best Practices when working with location based data.Challenges and Best Practises when working with location based data. more
Technology
Intermediate
Lecture
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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
Technology
Intermediate
Lecture
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The basic QGIS workshopFrom (not knowing) the difference between raster and vector data to (knowing) how to work with spatial data. more
Applications
Beginner
Workshop
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Solving Where Am I Problem - LokasiGPS 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
Applications
Intermediate
Lecture
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Lalit Mangal Lessons Learnt while building a "great" property search on MapWould like to share our learning while building the Map based property search on CommonFloor.com more
Applications
Intermediate
Demo
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Naveen Francis Proposing Wikiminiatlas and how Wikipedia is using geospatial data ?Wikiminiatlas How wikipedia is using geospatial data more
Applications
Beginner
Demo
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Augmented Reality based Navigation in a mobile appAugmented 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
Applications
Intermediate
Demo
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3 real-world map-related projectsGo through code and demos for 3 interesting map-related projects. more
Applications
Intermediate
Demo
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Geo-simulation using open geodataTo introduce and explore methods in geo-simulation for modeling varied geographic phenomenon. more
Technology
Intermediate
Workshop
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Ecological Niche Modeling using Open GeodataTo demonstrate application of some of the methods to study and understand the distribution of species using open geodata. more
Applications
Intermediate
Lecture
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Spatial Decision Support System for Home Land SecurityThis 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
Applications
Intermediate
Lecture
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Sourcing, processing, and indexing location data for searchOne can learn about the following by attending the lecture: 1. Open sources of geodata 2. Tools to process such data 3. Indexing them to build a simple location-enabled search engine more
Technology
Intermediate
Workshop
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Geohash System and "Nearby" searchesAn 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
Applications
Beginner
Lecture
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Building a location-based platform/application from Zero.One can expect the following: 1. 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. 2. Challenges and Best practices in developing a location-based application, based on our experience in developing DelightCircle android application. more
Technology
Intermediate
Lecture
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GIS based framework for Real Estate AnalyticsTo provide a contemporary perspective for understanding the Real estate Markets (Processes, Resources and Market participants) through a GIS based framework. more
Applications
Intermediate
Lecture
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Reading and Writing GeoData on the webThis 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
Applications
Beginner
Workshop
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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
Technology
Intermediate
Workshop
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