Open Source Geospatial Software

Barry Rowlingson has worked at Lancaster University on the integration of spatial statistics and GIS since 1990. He is involved with a WHO-funded project on disease mapping in Africa which he presented at the FOSS4G 2007 conference in Canada. His contributions to open-source include packages for the R statistical software system and plugins for Quantum GIS. One idle day he mapped part of Lancaster for OpenStreetMap.

Jason Jorgenson is a PhD student at the University of Liverpool, and uses GIS to help reconstruct how ancient settlements may have utilized their landscapes. He is a keen advocate of Free Open Source Software, and has licensed his software, LandUse Analyst, as FOSS. He has been a constant presence (pain might be another good word?) in the open source GIS community for about three years.

Jo Cook is a Senior IT Support and Development Officer for OA Digital, working in their Lancaster office. She undertakes IT support and applications development, GIS, database, and web-based, and helps to manage small and large-scale GIS projects. She is actively involved in promoting the company's move towards a more open philosophy - open access to data, open standards, and open source software, helping to develop the workflows and protocols that make this process happen. Her main interest is in making GIS software and data available to people, to make their work easier and more enjoyable.

Carson Farmer is a PhD fellow with the National Centre for Geocomputation at the National University of Ireland, Maynooth. His research interests include spatial econometrics, spatial-temporal data management and analysis (including spatial time-series data), as well as issues specifically relating to spatial and temporal scale.