Open Source WebGIS and Spatial Data Sharing

Open Source WebGIS and Spatial Data Sharing

Geoinformatics Center (GIC) of Asian Institute of Technology (AIT) conducted a two-week training program on “Open Source WebGIS and Spatial Data Sharing” from 8th to 19th June 2015. Five participants from Ethiopian Agricultural Transformation Agency (ATA) and one Indonesian participant attended this training. The program was held at GIC, AIT.

This training program was tailored to fit with the requirements given by ATA, Ethiopia. The main objective of this training was to get a clear and sound overall idea about the existing WebGIS and Spatial Data sharing technologies and to get an intense hands-on experience of the selected tools.

Following topics were discussed and hands-on sessions were conducted during the training.

• GeoServer
• PostgreSQL/ PostGIS
• RDBMS
• OpenLayers
• GeoNode
• Quantum GIS