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FOSS4G 2010 : Spatialytics will give a tutorial on the Spatial ETL GeoKettle

Community Manager — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 02:51:39 +0000

Spatialytics will be present at FOSS4G 2010 in Barcelona to represent Spatialytics.ORG Open Source Geo-BI projects.

Dr. Thierry Badard will give a tutorial on the Spatial ETL GeoKettle at FOSS4G.

The following points will be addressed during this 30 minute tutorial:

- Short introduction to fundamental concepts on ETL and data warehouses
- Installation of GeoKettle: software prerequisites and supported platforms
- Exploration of the graphical user interface
- Basic concepts: transformations, steps, jobs and entries
- The transformation repository
- Access to heterogeneous data sources: ESRI Shapefiles, spatial DBMS, …
- Writing geospatial data: PostGIS tables, Shapefiles, …
- Transformations: spatial selection and filtering, schema changes, SRS handling, coordinates transformations, integration of several data sources, geoprocessing, use of scripting capabilities, …

About GeoKettle :

GeoKettle is a Spatial ETL (Extract, Transform (integration, data cleansing, data structure, “updating”, …) and Load) tool powered by Kettle, a Pentaho Open Source project. GeoKettle is a true and consistent integration of the spatial component where all steps provided by Kettle are able to deal with geospatial data types. Some geospatial dedicated steps have also been added. Download GeoKettle.

The presentation I gave at the Location Intelligence Conference 2009 (#LI09) is now on SlideShare.net.

Luc Vaillancourt — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 19:29:36 +0000

The presentation I gave at the Location Intelligence Conference 2009 is now on SlideShare.net.

The title was : “Demonstrating the Benefits of Open Source Geospatial Business Intelligence”

The plan of this presentation was :

1. Spatialytics
- Dr. Thierry Badard
2. Business Intelligence
- BI Offering
3. Open Source
- Open Source BI Players
– Pentaho Offering
4. Spatialytics.org Offering
- GeoKettle
- GeoMondrian
- SOLAPLayers
5. Summary

Participation to the first WhereCamp Montreal (#wherecamp #wherecampmtl), Oct. 23

Luc Vaillancourt — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 20:37:47 +0000

I will do a “Lightning talk” on Spatialytics.org Open Source Geo-BI suite during the very first WhereCamp in Montreal, Friday, October 23rd.

The typical “BarCamp” formula applied to geospatial is generally called a “WhereCamp”. The formula is voluntarily simple, with little or no costs for the registration but with an obligation in return from each participant to present a topic in relation with “Where / Geo / Location” … being a novice or an expert, with questions and/or to present facts with the audience.

This unique activity will be held at the Redpath Museum of McGill University.

All the information here.

Spatialytics will be present at Geomatics 2009 (#geo09), Oct. 21 and 22

Community Manager — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 20:09:22 +0000

Spatialytics will be present at Geomatics 2009 and talk about Spatialytics.org. This is an event organized by the Montreal Chapter of the Canadian Institute of Geomatics (CIG) that will be held October 21 and 22 in Montreal at the Hilton Montréal Bonnaventure hotel. This Conference comes back every two years.

Luc Vaillancourt will give a presentation (in French) with the title “GeoKettle, GeoMondrian et SOLAPLayers : an Open Source Geo-BI suite“, Wednesday Oct. 21 at 2:55 PM in the “Verdun”conference room.

More information by visiting the Event Website.

Spatialytics presents Spatialytics.org projects at Location Intelligence Conference 2009

Community Manager — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 18:52:47 +0000

Luc Vaillancourt, co-founder and CEO of the new company Spatialytics Solutions inc. (Spatialytics), did a presentation of Spatialytics.org Geo-BI Open Source projects at LIC 2009 (Location Intelligence Conference) last week at Westminster, CO. Mr. Vaillancourt had to replace Dr. Thierry Badard who originally was representing his research team GeoSOA of Laval University.

This presentation was the first public appearance for the new company. The message was all about the three Open Source Projects (GeoKettle, GeoMondrian and SOLAPLayers) hosted at Spatialytics.org who originated at Laval University and their role in the Business Intelligence Open Source stack from Pentaho.

Presentation of Spatialytics.org Geo-BI Open Source projects at the AGMQ Conference, Septembre 2009

Community Manager — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 18:01:14 +0000

September 29th 2009, Dr. Thierry Badard gave a presentation at the autumn Conference of the AGMQ (Association de géomatique municipale du Québec) whose main theme was “Geomatics: Essential tools for public safety“.

This conference was held at Laval university, in Quebec City. The presentation which Dr. Badard gave was about the results its GeoSOA research team work.

The title was “Putting the techniques and tools of Open Source Geospatial BI at the service of public safety”. It, amongst other things, presented the three Geo-BI Open Source projects developed at Laval university, GeoKettle, GeoMondrian and SOLAPLayers.