Paul Shapley's Open Source Geospatial Blog

The departement of Public Health of the Strasbourg University Hospital (GMRC, Prof. Meyer) and the Laboratory of Biostatistics and Medical Informatics of the Strasbourg  Medicine Faculty (Prof. Sauleau), to the extent of their means and expertise, are contributing to the fight against Covid-19 infection. Doctor Fabacher has produced an interactive map for global monitoring of the infection, accessible at : https://thibautfabacher.shinyapps.io/covid-19/ This map, which complements the Johns Hopkins University tool (Coronavirus COVID-19 Global Cases by Johns Hopkins CSSE), focuses on the evolution of the number of cases per country and for a given period, but in terms of incidence and prevalence. It is updated daily. The period of interest can be defined by the user and it is possible to choose  : The count of new cases over a period of time or the same count in relation to the population of the country (incidence). The total case count over a period of time or the sa...

QField syncing at last...! https://qfield.cloud

Ever get fed up with installing software then upgrading every so often? 'rollApp' is another example of 'SaaS' but larger government departments and companies may find the cost of doing this work often more than the cost of the pricing polices of running the software in the 'cloud'. In the UK this amounts to £71.88 or £5.32 a month (at time of writing) for individual accounts. There is a discount if your on the 'premium for groups' level which is £471.59 a month for 100 users. A quick search on the apps reveals that there appear to be all of the FOSS applications you would need including spatial and mapping (sadly...no 'RStudio'). I've tried the 'free' tier and the performance is very good and usable as long you don't 'save' anything to local disk or cloud. Worth a try even just for the convenience of being able to use your applications on any device!

As usual some exciting stuff going on around Open Source Geospatial. https://media.ccc.de/c/foss4g2019 Education Materials https://www.osgeo.org/foundation-news/please-share-geoforall-teaching-research-resources-colleagues-students/

https://home.cern/news/news/computing/microsoft-alternatives-project-malt

For those potential GI users who are too busy to learn GIS skills but need to know where those boundaries are, this could be the answer for you. Through a simple leaflet map we can connect directly into our spatial data in PostgreSQL/PostGIS data with 'R' and 'Shiny'. For more information click the link. https://shiny.rstudio.com/ In the example below we are going to install 'RStudio-Server' on an Ubuntu 18.04 LTS server in order  to run an 'R' script although I could just as easily have created this script using any other IDE or text editor if preferred. 'RStudio' is a complete environment for prototyping web apps (known as 'Shiny' apps) which allow the user to interact with the data imported from various sources for example to look into changes over a ten year timescale interactively from an excel spreadsheet. 'RStudio-Server' is a free and open-source integrated development environment (IDE) for R, a programming language...