Lior Kaplan
My name is Lior Kaplan and I've being involved in Open Source for more than 20 years. In the last 5 years I've been consulting regarding Open Source software and especially on GIS related software. QGIS, PostGIS & GeoServer the the popular tools I work with.
Sessions
In 2022 we've prepared an infrastructure based on QGIS & Input for Municipal surveys - Helping cities and regional councils in Israel to collect geospatial data with Open Source tools.
Especially focusing on common surveys which would save resources for each participating entity such as road signs, city infrastructure, number of routine oversight acitivty (littering, fixes , upcoming works, traffic issues and gardening & cleaning) along longer term planning like zoning or mapping residents complaints over time.
Our goal is to allow medium to low socioeconomic status municipalities to get the opportunities of "richer" municipalities, who spend much of their budget on proprietary GIS software. In some cases, this opens the door for the first GIS software in for such municipalities.
This talk would cover both the technical aspects and the project management aspects of our efforts, as "converting" a market, traditionally familiar with only proprietary software, to Open Source, has it challenges, especially when it is the public sector.