Tom Kralidis
Tom Kralidis is with the Meteorological Service of Canada and longtime contributor to FOSS4G. He leads and contributes to numerous projects in the Geopython ecosystem. He is the 2024 recipient of the Sol Katz Award for Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial (FOSS4G), awarded annually by OSGeo to individuals who have demonstrated leadership in the FOSS4G community.
Tom is the co-chair of the OGC API - Records Standards Working Group, chair of the WMO Expert Team on Metadata, and serves on the OSGeo Board of Directors.
Sessions
This workshop will provide an introduction to performing common GIS/geospatial tasks using Python geospatial tools such as OWSLib, Shapely, Fiona/Rasterio, and common geospatial libraries like GDAL, PROJ, pycsw, as well as other tools from the geopython toolchain.
pygeoapi is an OGC Reference Implementation supporting numerous OGC API specifications. This workshop will cover publishing geospatial data to the Web using pygeoapi in support of the suite of OGC API standards.