AntholoGIS

Welcome to AntholoGIS - by Eduardo Kanegae
Full name: Eduardo Patto Kanegae

Living: Vitória, ES - Brazil /*– Born: 1978, Ribeirão Preto, SP - Brazil –*/

Background:

• Forestry applications developer
• MapServer & related FOSSGIS technologies - more than 60 people taught over the last 6 years
• 2003 - minor course “Geographic Informatin Systems”
• 1999 - undergraduate “Computer Technology and Data Processing”

Disclaimer: this blog contains my own personal opinions and do NOT represent my employer’s view in anyway.

CHANGELOG

2007

• created AntholoGIS blog
• nominated Charter Member of Open Source Geospatial Foundation ( OSGeo )
• joined a forestry systems company in April as a GIS application developer and consultant
  • moved to Vitória, ES
• turned off WebMapIt website after ~5 years of posting. See also: stats and the wayback machine.
• article ( in portuguese) “O Guia de software livre do geoprocessador desesperado” published at InfoGEO magazine issue 45
• generated an updated version for the ShapeLib Tools - User Guide document

2006

• Alpina Ambiental - prototyping of a web application for registering environmental events using PHP, MySQL, MamboServer, Chameleon and MapServer
• KNBS - training & consulting services: GIS concepts, MapServer, PostGIS and related technologies
• VCP ( Votorantim Celulose e Papel - Forestry division )
  • prototyping of a Spatial Database using MS-SQL Server 2005 with MsSqlSpatial extension. A simple map viewer was done using OpenLayers/WMS + MapServer/OGR connections
  • Projeto INTEGRA - joined the solution design team of the forestry register module using SAP PM. Development of data migration routines using MS Access and VBA. General overview of the following processes: Harvesting(PP), Silviculture(PM & QM), Nursery(PP), Long term planning and Transportation
• 1st portuguese MapServer online course published
  • course materials was also used during the 2nd and 3rd Brazilian MapServer Meeting

2005

• VCP ( Votorantim Celulose e Papel - Forestry division )
  • development of dinamic web reports with PL/PgSQL and JpGraph under MamboServer
  • implementation of a web knowledge portal using comunication frameworks: Blog ( MamboServer), Forum ( phpBB), Wiki ( MediaWiki) and project manager ( dotProject)

2004

• SNTGEO
  • development of a web property catalog system using MapServer/MapScript under MamboServer
  • implementation of a project manager tool for the company project operations using dotProject
• 1st Brazilian MapServer meeting - helped Univali folks to organize and run the first Brazilian MapServer conference edition
• creation of the “ShapeLib Tools - User Guide” document
• portuguese translation of Thuban desktop GIS viewer interface
• MapServer in-house trainings: Brazilian Ministry of Health ( data processing team), OmniLink, Escopo Geomarketing and others
  • in fact, this year training demmand helped me to draft materials that later( 2006) became my MapServer online course

2003

• VCP ( Votorantim Celulose e Papel - Forestry division )
  • data model design and description of the Forestry Register, which was implemented using ABAP and had some interfaces with PP and PS SAP modules
  • development of a web mapping & SAP integration tool using MapServer & PHP/MapScript
  • development of a tool for extracting Forestry Register ABAP/Z tables to a MS-Access external file using Visual Basic 6 and RFC API
• published a web forum for discussing MapServer and related topics using phpBB at my own site - for more than one year I kept this board running ( +2,000 messages) before transfering it to Univali
• 1st MapServer Users Meeting - St.Paul/MN/USA
• GeoBrasil 2003 conference - made a presentation for introducing web mapping concepts ( in portuguese : “O Brasil visto por clicks - a aplicação do web mapping como ferramenta de consulta de informações”)
• created my first web mapping application (ClickBrasil) using shapefiles and MapServer 3.x to display general maps and census data from Brazil
• my first web article “Democratizando a geoinformação através do web mapping” was published at MundoGEO website
• mdb2shapefile - developed a simple tool for exporting attribute data from a MS-Access97 database file to shapefiles

2002, 2001

• VCP ( Votorantim Celulose e Papel - Forestry division )
  • development of an intranet website for displaying operational reports and charts. The application was developed with PHP, MS-SQL Server 2000, JpGraph and a small use of MapServer. In fact, because of this project that I knew MapServer
  • development of import/export routines using Visual Basic 6, MS Access and MS-SQL Server

2000, 1999

• MPA
  • development of a web invoice application with MS-SQL Server 2000 and ASP
• VCP ( Votorantim Celulose e Papel - Forestry division )
  • Forestry Inventory Data Processing System - this was the my first real job as a programmer. It was also the base code for what today is known in Brazil as SPP Inventar - a forestry prediction platform