Training Sessions
Geographic Information and Content Management
Training details
Language:
English
Level:
Basic
Summary:
Web-GIS is a very difficult environment for non-experts, but the need to integrate advanced map funcionalities (editing tools, cartography data management, georeferencing and geo-coding information) in every kind of web content and application has dramatically grown in the last few years.
This training is aimed at all the beginners who want to learn how to use the most popular web-gis libraries such as OpenLayers, Leaflet and Google API.
Speaker details
Roberto StarniniRoberto has been devoloping software for the Italian Public sector for the last 19 years. He has been giving lectures both at University (Genova, Trieste and Venezia IUAV) and at professional training courses. His background is in maths and after a few years spent working as a freelance programmer, Roberto founded GisWeb, an Italian software company aimed at offer the best Open Source Web applications for the management of e-services, integrating geographical information. He works in a variety of programming languages, including Python and Pearl, and has great expertise in DB design (PostgreSQL, Oracle MS Access, SQL Server). His professional specialities include: Plomino-Plone, MapServer, Openlayers, Google Map API, Javascript, Visual Basic, GIS. He is the responsible of the Open Source GisClient project development. Roberto is also the main developer of IstanzeOnLine, the E-goverment Plone-Plomino based platform that has genereted much interest and very positive feedback in the Italian PloneGov Community.
