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Let's Map This Out! Working with GIS and OpenStreetmap Data

In this Fork Pull Merge Push episode, we discuss geographic information system (GIS) - not a well-known domain to many. Henna Kalliokoski, a GIS professional and functional programming enthusiast will share her knowledge on GIS data, coordinate systems and e.g. accessibility. GIS data can be used in many different ways and she will shed light on e.g. how open source communities contribute to GIS data and service development.

Guest
Henna Kalliokoski a full-stack developer and a GIS professional at Reaktor. Henna gets inspired by people and wants to make the world a better place. She believes in the power of open source and open data. In her free time, Henna learns Chineese and enjoys painting.

Hosts 
Anna Fröblom is a great programmer, problem-solver, hobby photographer, lego enthusiast, and simply a nice person.

Esko Lahti is an engineer who now works in the company that got him into Clojure. Now, his party trick at meetups is to rapid-fire through an extensive list of parentheses jokes.


Useful links

Open Street Map

Source code of Digitransit 

Microsoft AI buildings in Humanitarian OpenStreetMap

Open Source vector tiles

OSGeo foundation

Open Geospatial Consortium
 

About Reaktor

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