February’s impressions: the Italian Open Geodata Day (Rome)

On Feb. 27 2014, the second Italian open geodata day was held in Rome. The meeting organisers reported some 500 registered attendees. The event was arranged in a plenary session in the morning, and four parallel sessions in the afternoon. This was -if I am not mistaken- the second Open Geodata Day. Last year I … Continue reading February’s impressions: the Italian Open Geodata Day (Rome)

Talks

This is a partial list of talks given in “institutional” settings. To these you should add the events I directly organized since 2008, and the invited talks in more “creative” settings on palla a 21, buiometria partecipativa and similar topics. You may find a reference to these in the pibinko.org blog and in the News … Continue reading Talks

Presentation of the “Citizens in Tuscany” experience in the INSPIRE Conference

Having learned that the 2013 INSPIRE Conference would have been in Florence, and being Florence one of the locations where I was acting as citizen science coordinator for the ENVIROFI FP7 EU Research project, I proposed to the project managers to hold an outreach event at the conference. This would have been to share the … Continue reading Presentation of the “Citizens in Tuscany” experience in the INSPIRE Conference

The BuioMetria Partecipativa data are available in KML format

The BuioMetria Partecipativa data are available in KML format, for immediate visualization via Google Earth (or any other software reading the KML format ). Each point has the place name, the average SQM reading and the number of measurement taken at a given location. For a full access to the parameters associated to each measure, … Continue reading The BuioMetria Partecipativa data are available in KML format

In between the Cathedral and the Bazaar: Points of View on free/open geographic information from 2007 to 2013

[blog post added on July 25, 2015. The official version of this article, in Italian, is available from the official archives of the Geomedia magazine, which I thank once more for hosting it. The article was written sometime between December 2009 and January 2010 and was, in fact, published after I left GFOSS.it. One of … Continue reading In between the Cathedral and the Bazaar: Points of View on free/open geographic information from 2007 to 2013