Mapbender at Where 2.0

From MapbenderWiki

Brent Owens and Arnulf Christl (alias Sevenofnine) presented Mapbender and GeoServer in the oh-smashup talk (~Open Source Mashup). The main focus of the presentation was yet again on standards and the high affinity of Open Source Software development at implementing these. The online demos featured Mapbender user interfaces and GeoServer as WFS server highlighting more offbeat uses of the WFS standard. In the Mashup presentation the newest GeoServer release was requested as datasource of a locally installed GoogleEarth instance. Mapbender was used as a digitizing front end using WFS-T standards. (Read the IRC log look for OpenSource)

Brent and Arnulf (Image from Flickr Where 2.0)

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Speakers

Information from the Where 2.0 conference site.

Brent Owens

Brent Owens is one of the lead GeoServer developers for The Open Planning Project (TOPP) in New York. Owens has been an open source developer for the past four years, working on projects for Canadian provincial and federal government offices, and projects that have developers around the world including GeoServer, GeoTools, and Community MapBuilder. His exposure to writing applications for datasets large, gigantic, and small has left him with a thirst for overcoming the challenges of GIS, that “we have so much data, it tends to break things."

Arnulf Benno Christl

Christl started as a Unix administrator focusing on GIS in the early '90s and worked for several years as a freelance developer, consultant, and trainer. In 1998 he founded the business CCGIS http://www.ccgis.de and specialized in providing spatial technology.

In 2002 he started to adopt open source business models and switched development to Free Software, the most prominent result being Mapbender. In 2003 he co-founded the Geo-Consortium, together with seven companions from affiliated businesses, to provide commercial services for open source solutions.

In February 2006 he joined The Open Source Geospatial Foundation where he spends a cent or two every now and then. Somewhere along the road the profession turned into an avocation which is a lot more fun.