Enock Seth Nyamador
Enock Seth Nyamador is a FOSS4G and Open Data Consultant and advocate. He is an active OpenStreetMap contributor and OSGeo Charter member, as well as a member of the OSGeo Marketing Committee and OSGeoLive PSC. He also participates in the Free software and Free content movements.
Sessions
This workshop provides a practical, overview of key software used within a Spatial Data Infrastructure SDI.
In the workshop we will use OSGeoLive and the Open Source software and sample data shipped with it to get to know the components of an SDI.
PostgreSQL is a powerful, open source object-relational database system. It can be extended with PostGIS which allows you to store and handle geospatial data in the database.
This combination is very powerful and provides many possibilities.
Everything is possible in the databse with some magic lines of SQL. This workshop will help you with the first steps.
Many processes that you did before with you Desktop GIS (f.e. intersection, union, buffer) can be easily done via SQL using PostGIS functions.
pgRouting is an open-source library that provides a variety of graph algorithms tools as an extension of a PostGIS enabled database on PostgreSQL.