When Geometry meets Geography
2021-09-30, 08:00–08:30, Bariloche

Geometry is clean, easy and polished. Geography is messy, dirty and unfitting. When we -geospatial developers and technicians- built applications to solve real life issues usually rely on the first. But eventually, we have to deal with the second. This talk is a very short sneak peak of a book I am writing to explain the most interesting cases I have experienced when working in the industry.


Can a buffer tell me if I can take a walk to the nearest park? How a disputed territory such as Nagorno-Karabakh is displayed in a webmap? How geocoders understand the wide diversity of national postal systems?

Geometry is clean, easy and polished. Geography is messy, dirty and unfitting. When we -geospatial developers and technicians- built applications to solve real life issues usually rely on the first. But eventually, we have to deal with the second. This talk is a very short sneak peak of a book I am writing to explain the most interesting cases I have experienced when working in the industry.


Authors and Affiliations

Ramiro Aznar
Geospatial Data Engineer at Planet

Track

Transition to FOSS4G

Topic

Data visualization: spatial analysis, manipulation and visualization

Level

1 - Principiants. No required specific knowledge is needed.

Language of the Presentation

English

Geospatial Data Engineer at Planet. Previously Solutions Engineer at CARTO.