Conference Programme

24th - 26th August

Wednesday 24.8.
Time	Plenary Chamber	Room Bonn	Room Berlin	Fireplace Room	Rhinelobby	Tunnel	Plenary Office	Lab1
08:45	Beginn, Welcome from Conference Chair								Opening Session
09:00	Welcome by Mayor of Bonn
09:10	Introduction by Conference Chair
09:30	Lightning Talks
10:00	Keynote I Andreas Veispak (European Commission)
Coffee Break (10:30 - 11:00)
	Session Chair: Marc Vloemans	Session Chair: Anthonia Ijeoma Onyeahialam	Session Chair: Alexander Salveson Nossum	Session Chair: NA	Session Chair: NA	Session Chair: Marc Jansen	Session Chair: Manuel Grizonnet	Topic Talk How Open Source and Open Standards development profit from each other Athina Trakas, Ingo Simonis	Morning Session 1
11:00	Welcome to the FOSS4G Community Jody Garnett	Shortest Path search in your Database and more with pgRouting Daniel Kastl et al.	Coordinate systems and map projections with EPSG.io Petr Pridal	QGIS and database based system for managing urban drainage system data Dr. Jörg Höttges	Evolving JSTS to a modern port of JTS using AST transformation Björn Harrtell	MapStore 2, modern mashups with OL3, Leaflet and React Mauro Bartolomeoli	Building an open source imagery browser: UX and technical decisions to develop OpenAerialMap Daniel da Silva
11:30	There is no such thing as a free lunch Steven Feldman	The secret story of real time routing told by OpenStreetMap, pgRouting and OpenLayers Daniel Urda et al.	Nobody cares about your datum: or the Kleinstaaterei of spatial reference systems Calvin Metcalf	An environmental modelling and information service for health analytics Oliver Schmitz et al.	Academic Track Leaflet.annotate - Semantic markup for geographic web maps in HTML Malte Reißig	MapMint 2.0: a new version of the 100% service-oriented GIS platform Gérald Fenoy et al.	From outer space to your browser Carmen Tawalika
12:00	Open Collaboration and the Price of Butter Andrea Ross	Dealing with change - OSRM Version 5 Johan Uhle	---	Urban SDG Measuring System using the Open Geospatial Data of the International Organizations Dr. Junyoung Choi et al.	---	Provide applications with Geoportal Framework Mapbender3 Astrid Emde	PROBA-V mission exploitation platform Jeroen Dries
Break & Poster Session (12:30 - 13:30)
13:30	Keynote II Dirk Frigne (Geosparc)								Afternoon Session 1
	Session Chair: Joana Simoes	Session Chair: Eddie Pickle	Session Chair: Lene Fischer	Session Chair: Abigail Page	Session Chair: Robert Noldan	Session Chair: Stefan Keller	Session Chair: NA	Topic Talk An overview of the best Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial Angelos Tzotsos
14:00	An R-tree index for RocksDB Volker Mische	Sat-utils: Landsat, Sentinel and the use of open raster data Matthew Hanson et al.	QField, a touch driven QGIS interface Matthias Kuhn et al.	Kickstart your web map app! Sami Mäkinen	Challenges of indoor mapping formats Iván Sánchez Ortega	Routing for Driving Pleasure Dan "Ducky" Little	Recording land tenure rights using GeoODK and Cadasta Platform Erick Omwandho Opiyo et al.
14:30	How GIS-friendly are Graph Databases today? Felix Kunde	Serving earth observation data with GeoServer: addressing real world requirements Simone Giannecchini et al.	QGis as a platform: transforming the desktop QGis for tablet use in Flanders fields Roel Huybrechts	GIS FOSS based products for renewable energy mapping and assessment in the Arabian Peninsula Luis Calisto	How to Visualize Indoor Data in 2D Map? Is This the Way to Go? Jiří Kozel	Academic Track Developing an Open Pedestrian Landmark Navigation Model Anita Graser	How the Land Administration community profits from Open Source Arnulf Christl
15:00	Spatial is not special: architecting for high performance geo Mark Varley	Standard-compliant geoprocessing services for Earth Observation time-series data access and analysis Jonas Eberle	QWCII: A new QGIS Web Client Andreas Neumann et al.	Academic Track Paleomaps: SDI for paleoenvironment GIS data Christian Willmes et al.	Trying to visualize GIS & BIM information on the web: a solution using Leaflet and Cesium Fabrizio Massara	---	OGC's Land Administration Working Group – Building Bridges between communities Athina Trakas
Coffee Break (15:30 - 16:00)
	Session Chair: Johan van de Wauw	Session Chair: Ari Jolma	Session Chair: Steven Feldman	Session Chair: Moritz Lennert	Session Chair: NA	Session Chair: NA	Session Chair: Gérald Fenoy	Topic Talk Become INSPIRE'd by OSGeo Dirk Frigne,Robin Smith	Afternoon Session 2
16:00	Using PostGIS in a real advanced way ! Olivier Courtin	How WebGL vector maps work Vladimir Agafonkin	Geomajas: Where did we go wrong? Oliver May	QGIS Lessons plugin. A new way of teaching QGIS Víctor Olaya	Open Source strategies in a federal office - migrating from closed software to OS development Dr Marco Lechner	Garbage Collection with FOSS4G Daniel Kastl	RESTful Geoprocessing API Benjamin Pross
16:30	Postgis Topology will replace simple feature. Lars Aksel Opsahl	Web maps & WebGL Iván Sánchez Ortega	The Evolution of the GeoNode Community Jeffrey Johnson	Train the users! No GIS is easy... Erik Meerburg	Bringing benthic data to the surface - moving Marine Recorder into an open source spatial database. James Hutchison	Open Source Street Routing With PgRouting For Local Government - Dynamic Data and Performance Joseph Miller	Academic Track From global observations to local information: The Earth Observation Monitor Jonas Eberle
17:00	Auditing PostgreSQL Databases Using Logical Decoding Sebastian Schmidt	geotiff.js and plotty.js - Visualizing Scientific Raster Data in the Browser Fabian Schindler	One year of open governance for OTB: thoughts and context Manuel Grizonnet	Visualizing uncertainty in data Sven Christ	Academic Track Analysing the practical feasibility of FOSSGIS in military operations – A Cholera outbreak use case Susanna Jacoba Henrico et al.	---	The Blue Hub, an integrated analysis platform with a WebGIS front-end to exploit maritime Big Data Vincenzo Gammieri
17:30	BoF Sessions I								Bof's
19:00	Ice Breaker
after	Pub Race

Thursday 25.8.
Time	Plenary Chamber	Room Bonn	Room Berlin	Fireplace Room	Rhinelobby	Tunnel	Plenary Office	Lab1
08:45	Introduction by Conference Chair Day 2								Come Together Session
09:00	Keynote III Thomas Zerweck (Munich Reinsurance)								Come Together Session

	Session Chair: Pekka Sarkola	Session Chair: Ari Jolma	Session Chair: Jorge Gustavo Rocha	Session Chair: NA	Session Chair: Scott Clark	Session Chair: Sven Böhme	Session Chair: Andrea Antonello		Morning Session 1
09:30	QGIS what's new Marco Hugentobler	Develop without developing Karl-Magnus Jönsson	GeoExt3 — Universal WebGIS applications with OpenLayers 3 und ExtJS 6 Christian Mayer et al.	---	Mastering Security with GeoServer and GeoFence Simone Giannecchini	deegree Enterprise - Open Source to get a grip on complex spatial data infrastructure demands Torsten Friebe et al.	3D Tools in gvSIG using NASA World Wind Óscar Martinez Olmos
10:00	QGIS 3: plans, wishes and challenges Hugo Mercier	Command Line Geography Erik Escoffier	GeoMapFish 2 - Ready for the Future Yves Bolognini et al.	---	Enterprise Single Sign-On in GeoServer: where do we stand? Francesco Bartoli	MapProxy in practice Oliver Tonnhofer	Academic Track Is there life in Virtual Globes? Theofilos Papadopoulos et al.
Coffee Break (10:30 - 11:00)
	Session Chair: Johan van de Wauw	Session Chair: Jachym Cepicky	Session Chair: Kari Salovaara	Session Chair: Paul van Genuchten	Session Chair: Erik Meerburg	Session Chair: NA	Session Chair: NA	Topic Talk From big to small, and keeping track of it all - what is LocationTech working on? Andrea Ross,Joe Allnutt	Morning Session 2
11:00	State of GeoServer Jody Garnett et al.	Open Source Photogrammetry with OpenDroneMap Dakota Benjamin	Using SQLite to take maps offline on mobile devices Dino Ravnic	The OGC's Standards Process and the Role of Reference Implementations Athina Trakas et al.	Open Data Revolution of the Deutsche Bahn (German Railways) Alexey Valikov	Cheap (and good) data capture for environmental projects David Currie	Free, Open and Libre María Arias de Reyna
11:30	GeoServer in Production: we do it, here is how! Simone Giannecchini et al.	Academic Track A Framework for an Open Source Geospatial Certification Model F.-J. Behr et al.	The most popular OpenStreetMap editing application Ilya Zverev	Validating services and data in an SDI Clemens Portele et al.	Effects of Opening up Data (Hans) Gregers Petersen	The economics of bringing a new geo product to market by leveraging open standards, FOSS and FOSS4G Michael Terner et al.	When politics meet maps there is no right Steven Feldman
12:00	geOrchestra SDI - Project Status Report François VAN DER BIEST	Using Open Source Tools to Visualize Spatial Activity Drone Restrictions Aäron Trippaers	Digital field mapping with Geopaparazzi and gvSIG Andrea Antonello et al.	OGC Soil Interoperability Experiment - Experiences in using a standard to exchange soil data Jorge Samuel Mendes de Jesus	Open Source as part of an Open Data initiative. Brent Wood	Commercializing open data in Norway Alexander Salveson Nossum	SMW @ OSGeo Wiki – How semantics improve the wiki and facilitate a collaborative database for OSGeo Christian Willmes
Break (12:30 - 13:30)
13:30	Keynote IV Bianca Hoersch ( ESA Centre for Earth Observation)								Afternoon Session 1
	Session Chair: Michael Blaschek	Session Chair: Gérald Fenoy	Session Chair: Jakob Ventin	Session Chair: Just van den Broecke	Session Chair: Jessica King	Session Chair: NA	Session Chair: Calvin Metcalf	Topic Talk Open Source Opportunities for Land Management Arnulf Christl,John Gitau
14:00	GeoNetwork: State of the Art María Arias de Reyna et al.	GDAL 2.1: what's new ? Even Rouault et al.	Magnacarto – Create map designs for MapServer and Mapnik Oliver Tonnhofer	Unleashing the potential of your sensor data with istSOS Milan Antonovic et al.	Open data and the 'power of the crowd' Jaap-Willem Sjoukema	Still waiting for someone else to do it: Writing documentation for an open source project Mike Pumphrey	A New Vision for OSGeo Jody Garnett
14:30	Scalability of GeoNetwork: Current Status and Future Directions Joana Simoes et al.	OpenDEM Generator: combining open access Digital Elevation Models into a homogenized DEM Luca Delucchi et al.	Creating Stunning Maps in GeoServer: mastering SLD and CSS styles Andrea Aime	Sensor Web for Oceanology Simon Jirka et al.	Academic Track Involving communities in environmental protection by Community Information Systems: the case study of “La Cuicadora” Domenico Vito	Bait and don't switch: Using FOSS4G to attract bright young talent Robert P. V. Nordan	Getting it done at LocationTech Jody Garnett et al.
15:00	Leveraging Big Geo Data through Metadata Joana Simoes et al.	Geospatial web services using little-known GDAL features and modern Perl middleware Ari Jolma	GeoServer Styling Hints and Tips for Prettier Maps Ian Turton	Microservice approach of sensor data integration Nikolai Bock	Development of national spatial information sharing system using the FOSS4G and CKAN , Drupal Yoichi Kayama	---	From a Knitting Podcast to a Geospatial Meetup. Building community to share your passion. Guido Stein
Coffee Break (15:30 - 16:00)
	Session Chair: Ant Scott	Session Chair: Sean Gillies	Session Chair: NA	Session Chair: NA	Session Chair: Martin Seiler	Session Chair: NA	Session Chair: Gérald Fenoy	Topic Talk Challenges and opportunities in improving crisis response and peacebuilding through Collaborative Mapping, Open Source Geospatial Technologies and Open Data Lars Wirkus,Fabian Selg	Afternoon Session 2
16:00	MapServer Status Report Thomas Bonfort et al.	mapchete - parallelized batch geoprocessing using Python Joachim Ungar	NextGIS Mobile - mobile GIS alternative Maxim Dubinin et al.	Delivering high resolution deformation maps with high performance and extensive proc Marco Duiker	Global Forest Watch: Using Open Data to Save the World’s Forests David Gonzalez	A RESTful API for linking geodata Francesco Bartoli	Software comes and goes. Mind the Data! Arnulf Christl
16:30	MapServer MapCache: Project Status Report Thomas Bonfort	Academic Track Development of a new framework for Distributed Processing of Big Geospatial Data Angéla Olasz et al.	Two-way-databinding on mobile applications with Yaga Arne Schubert	Academic Track Identification of SAR Detected Targets on Sea in Near Real Time Applications for Maritime Surveillance Sergey Voinov et al.	A crowd-sourced public transportation map for Nicaragua's capital Felix Delattre	How Linked Open Data finds the bar near you Rob van Loon	Durable geospatial data and the budding open-source ecosystem driving it Jack Reed
17:00	Stress Testing and Analysing MapServer Performance Seth Girvin	Academic Track Building applications with FOSS4G bricks: two examples of the use of GRASS GIS modules as a high-level "language"' for the analyses of continuous space data in economic geography Moritz Lennert	---	How to make a 3D web geoportal Gilbert Jeiziner	Academic Track Optimizing Last mile Vaccine Supply Chain in Northern Nigeria using FOSS4G Solutions Dami Sonoiki	Integrating the spatial web with linked open data using GeoDCAT-AP María Arias de Reyna et al.	Academic Track OSGeo conference videos as a resource for scientific research: The TIB\|AV Portal Peter Löwe et al.
17:30	meeting: OSGeo AGM	---	---	---	---	---	---
18:00	17h30 - 18h30	BoF Sessions
18:30 - 01:00	Gala Dinner Ship Cruise
01:00	Pub Race

Friday 26.8.
Time	Plenary Chamber	Room Bonn	Room Berlin	Fireplace Room	Rhinelobby	Tunnel	Plenary Office	Lab1
08:45	Introduction by Conference Chair Day 3								Come Together Session
09:00	Keynote V Ton Zijlstra (change management consultant)								Come Together Session

	Session Chair: Till Adams	Session Chair: Hans-Jörg Stark	Session Chair: Gérald Fenoy	Session Chair: Abdul Kadir Taib	Session Chair: NA	Session Chair: NA	Session Chair: Scott Clark	Topic Talk	Morning Session 1
09:30	What's new and cool in OpenLayers Andreas Hocevar et al.	Humanitarian Capacity Building and Preparedness with QGIS Ant Scott	A complete toolchain for object-based image analysis with GRASS GIS Moritz Lennert	GeoDataStore; governmental open data cloud storage and easy metadata creation Paul van Genuchten et al.	Using Mapillary data for editing maps Peter Neubauer	An overview of Docker images for geospatial applications Daniel Nüst	OpenSky Network - Crowdsourced and Open Air Traffic Surveillance Network Alexey Valikov
10:00	Interoperability with OpenLayers 3 Bart van den Eijnden	Building Sustainable Resilient Communities with FOSS4G and Open Data Jeffrey Johnson	Processing Copernicus Sentinel data with GRASS GIS Markus Neteler et al.	KNReise: OpenSource access to open, geospatial cultural and natural datasets Atle Frenvik Sveen	OSM Stats: Rewarding contributors and real-time tracking of OSM Matthew Hanson et al.	Integration testing of Web Mapping applications (including web mapping server) using Python Jáchym Čepický et al.	Open Source Motorsports Dan "Ducky" Little
10:30	Faster, smaller, better: Compiling your application together with OpenLayers 3 Tobias Sauerwein et al.	---	ORFEO ToolBox status report Manuel Grizonnet	---	Towards a more readable Openstreetmap based world map for westerners Sven Geggus	Borsch: modern build system for C/C++ GIS projects Dmitry Baryshnikov et al.	Academic Track Mapping WiFi measurements on OpenStreetMap data for Wireless Street Coverage Analysis Andrea Valenzano et al.
Coffee Break (11:00 - 11:30)
	Session Chair: Julien-Samuel Lacroix	Session Chair: Eddie Pickle	Session Chair: Adam Steer	Session Chair: Andrea Antonello	Session Chair: Michael Blaschek	Session Chair: Christian Willmes	Session Chair: NA	Topic Talk Open Data with Open Software - the Copernicus Program Markus Neteler, Christian Strobl	Morning Session 2
11:30	OL3-Cesium: 3D for OpenLayers Beraudo Guillaume	State of GeoGig Gabriel Roldán et al.	The new PyWPS-4: your Python based WPS server (PyWPS project report) Luís de Sousa et al.	Flood mapping and analysis platform based on open satellite data and free and open source geospatial Vasile Crăciunescu	Towards pycsw 2.0 - project report Angelos Tzotsos et al.	Using and extending GeoPackages Pirmin Kalberer	---
12:00	Point Clouds in a Browser with WebGL Daniel Kastl et al.	Collect & Manage Geospatial Data Edits with GeoSHAPE Syrus Mesdaghi	ZOO-Project 1.6.0: News about the Open WPS Platform Gérald Fenoy et al.	FloodWatch: Combining Wearable Tech + Disaster Alerts Tomas Holderness	Spatial data and the Search engines María Arias de Reyna et al.	GeoJSON and the IETF Sean Gillies	Real-time large format maps for passenger information on railway disruptions Mario Härtwig
12:30	iTowns, a new framework for 3D web visualization Vincent Picavet	An Open Source Approach to Multi-user Distributed Geospatial Data Management Dami Sonoiki	birdhouse: a collection of web processing services for climate data Nils Hempelmann	Spatial tools for LiDAR based watershed management and forestry analysis integrated in gvSIG Silvia Franceschi et al.	Implementing Open Geospatial Data Portals with CKAN, pycsw and PublicaMundi: the geodata.gov.gr case Angelos Tzotsos	---	MapFish Print 3: Reporting meets maps Tobias Sauerwein et al.
Break (13:00 - 14:00)
14:00	Keynote VI Klaus Deininger (World Bank)
	Session Chair: NA	Session Chair: Moritz Lennert	Session Chair: Paul van Genuchten	Session Chair: Ari Jolma	Session Chair: NA	Session Chair: NA	Session Chair: NA	Topic Talk	Afternoon Session 1
14:30	Vector Tiles with GeoServer and OpenLayers David Blasby et al.	The PDAL Pointcloud Engine Michael Smith	Crunching Data In GeoServer: Mastering Rendering Transformations, WPS Processes And SQL Views Andrea Aime	OpenSource tools for water network management Vincent Picavet et al.	Students Afternoon	Sponsor Slots	Sponsor Slots
15:00	Create Vector Tiles from OpenStreetMap Manuel Roth et al.	500+ Billion Points: Organizing Point Clouds as Infrastructure Connor Manning	Automating your analysis using SAGA Gis Johan Van de Wauw	IWRM* in Mongolia (MoMo): Managing geodata with SHOGun and empowering the people Hinrich Paulsen	Students Afternoon	Sponsor Slots	Sponsor Slots
15:30	Hosting vector tile maps on your own server Petr Sloup et al.	Towards open, interoperable, and transdisciplinary point clouds for high performance computing Adam Steer	hale studio: Effective Data Analysis and Transformation for Open Standards Thorsten Reitz	Academic Track GET-IT: an open source, free software for Long Term ecological research Simone Lanucara et al.	Students Afternoon	Sponsor Slots	Sponsor Slots
Coffee Break (16:00 - 16:30)
16:30	Keynote VII Peter Kusterer (IBM Germany)								Closing Session
17:00	Sol Katz Award & Students Award
17:30	Closing notes by Conference Chair
18:00	Pub Race