E021 Tõnis Kärdi and Open Source Geospatial Software and Consulting in Estonia
Posted on Tuesday, Sep 19, 2023
Show Notes
Welcome to today’s episode of Tartu Geo. The podcast for geography and GIS brought to you from the Department of Geography of the University of Tartu, Estonia.
For today’s episode with with Tõnis Kärdi, self-proclaimed hobby GIS specialist, we dive into Open Source Geospatial Software.
Important links:
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What is Open Source? https://www.osgeo.org/about/what-is-open-source/
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OSGEO projects (aka open source geospatial software projects): https://www.osgeo.org/choose-a-project/
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Ian Turton’s presentation: Earning Your Support Instead of Buying it, Tõnis mentions in this episode
Tõnis is an OSGeo Charter Member and has helped co-organize FOSS4G conferences over the last years. He is also in organising team for this year’s FOSS4G Europe conference:
FOSS4G Europe 2024 Tartu, Estonia, 1-7 July
Funding disclaimer:
This podcast episode is made possible with the support of grant PSG841 ‘Framework for Spatial Predictive Modelling of Soil Properties Using Machine Learning’ from the Estonian Research Council, led by truly yours.
Guests
Tõnis Kärdi
Tõnis keeps himself busy as a freelance-GIS-person under the name LonLat OÜ. Most often you’ll find him offering services under the auspices of UEC OÜ to bring you spatial awareness in IT consultancy.
Tõnis is an OSGeo Charter Member and has helped co-organize FOSS4G conferences over the last years. He tries to do some writing up on the things he is doing with (mainly) FOSS4G software on his website: https://tkardi.ee/writeup/post/ in the hope it’ll be useful.
Hosts
Alex Kmoch
Alex is a Distributed Spatial Systems Researcher with many years of international experience in geospatial data management and web- and cloud-based geoprocessing with a particular focus on land use, soils, hydrology, and water quality. His interests include OGC standards and web-services for location-based data sharing, modelling workflows, machine learning, and interactive geo-visualisation. Alex has been involved with SDIs and the OGC for a long time and was recently elected board member of the Estonian Geoinformatics Society (EstGIS) and European Co-Chair for the OGC University Domain Working Group. He is based at the Chair of Geoinformatics and Cartography at Department of Geography of the University of Tartu.