 I would like to welcome everybody to this happy event here at IT Delft. In particular the people who are coming outside, the visitors outside from IT Delft and Hans's parents are here. So I'm quite happy that they are also made it. My name is Charlotte de Fature. I'm a professor in land water development, but also the vice rector here at IT Delft. And on behalf of the rectorate, I would like to welcome everybody on this book lounge and napagon as the people are coming in still. Every now and then I get a WhatsApp of my brother and he's also in GIS and he's always expressed, he's not IT Delft, but he's kind of related to the GIS world. And every now and then I get this WhatsApp and say, wow, really, what a convenient power and what a great initiative. And so I would like also to express my admiration to Hans Hans Cross that he has the need, this convenient power and this initiative of really pushing open source GIS, huge GIS here in the Institute. The rectorate is fully supporting this really push to open source GIS. I also would like to congratulate both Hans from Cross and Kurt Menken with this book. I already have trouble writing just a short article so I can imagine what it takes to write a book. So thank you. I think I'll hand it over back to Hans for further the elaboration of the program. Thank you. Thank you for the nice words. Really great to see everybody here for the book launch. We'll have a few talks before we get to the official handover of the book so I will speak a bit and then Kurt will speak a bit. So we are, of course, very happy that this book is here now and that we are even in this week using the book in our short course. There are the short course participants also in the room here. They'll also join the map at home later. And they are the first users in the world using this book. Great test for us. Always very excited. And until now it has been very good. They're also very good participants. But yeah, open source recipes for catchment hydrology and water management. It's a bit of a cookbook. I always tell my students that, yeah, if you make the dish of your country, you know, our students come from everywhere in the world. Do you get a cookbook from your mom or your dad, the person who cooks in your house? And often the answer is no. It's just explained. And I said, we make it then exactly the same as a person who teaches you how to make the dish. No, no, we give it a twist, personal twist, a bit more spices, different vegetables. So that's also what you should do with these kind of books, didactically. It has many steps, but the software goes much further and there's where real innovation is. And I'm going to talk a little bit about that. So here we are at IHE Institute for Water Education. We are in water management hydrology and basically our unit that we use is the catchment to understand how flows in the catchment work. From the upstream to the downstream, that's also groundwater, relation with vegetation, biology, agriculture, all kinds of things. So the catchment is an interesting unit. Most important chapter in this book is about how to derive from open data, free data available on the internet, a catchment using free tools. So basically you only need capacity, skills. That's what we work on. But you see a nice example from a field work area where IHE students go in the end of May, beginning of June. And this is made in QGIS, the 3D viewer. And it's open data from EGM straight over an elevation model. I try not to use too many technical terms for people who are not in QGIS. But now what does open mean? The concept of open means we explain because it's not just that you can have something for free. It goes further. The concept of open means that you're also free to reuse it for your own purposes, that you can redistribute it, that you can add services on it. And the only limitation that we put on an open license is to... We can ask people to attribute to the source. That's important. In academia we want to be acknowledged for when we make intellectual property. And that people share it in the same way, share alike. You can put that on the license. Here you see some pictures. We do it at IHE Law of Open Educational Resources. If you go to GISOpenCourseWare.org you can find our free GIS courses. And there's the Open Water Network where my colleague An van Genspen is very active to connect people working in water to deal with open source modeling and data. And we organize workshops around the world. I want to tell you the difference between open source and proprietary software. Because in our field there's a very famous other package that is proprietary software, but you can't do the same things as with open source. Because open source, if you support from the community, there's no cost of the license, but that's maybe not the best reason to use it. What's the best reason to use it is optimal interoperability. Difficult word, but it means that it connects to other software that other people develop and to open data and you can integrate things better. You don't have to buy the product from one single company and then add on. We all know that if you buy Mac stuff, iPhone, then you need to buy everything from that brand. That's not the case with open source. It relies therefore on open standards and for academia very important, we can peer-review the code and we can contribute to it. Because it's openly shared. We can have the whole source code of QGS on our laptop and check it if you can read the code. New developments are quicker implemented because there's a big community contributing to the code page. Obviously, with proprietary many things are opposite. You need to call the vendor, have a license cost, pay for support, they try to lock you in their software and mostly they use protected formats that we cannot open in other software, but with open source we use standards. It can't be peer-reviewed, so you're relying on the people who make the code and they're generally slower with implementing new features, although people might think that it's the opposite. I want to tell you a little bit about my open source journey. That's not really the journey. Kurt, Sarah and I made this weekend. There's always a big hydrology climate tour that I make for visitors. Visiting Kinderdijk with the water bus and then watching the windmills at Kinderdijk and then do a hydrological climate tour and watch it down to get climate attention. That's another type of journey, but it started for me around 2003. I think Raymond is here in the room, still remembers, because we were sharing the office around that time, both doing PhD. I started learning more advanced things with PCRuster as a dynamic GIS for modeling and they were moving it to Python and to make it to go to open source completely. I also learned about GDOM for conference. A lot of technical things, but there it started. When I moved to the Flemish Institute for Technological Research, we had this great team of young researchers that gathered once in a while to discuss things that we could do with Python and to move the organization from MATLAB to Python and to do great things. Very inspiring. We produced a lot of help to each other, a lot of things shared for GoodSpirit. In 2013, I came here at IHE and started developing the curricula. Of course, first with the traditional software and then moving stepwise to open source. The next batch, all our students will be in module 2 exposed to open source GIS, 2 GIS. Later they can choose, but at least they know that open source exists and what they can do with it. It took some years before I became more active in the QGIS community. Kurt will talk a bit more about the community, but I went to a Hexfest, a so-called Hexfest in Nodobo in Denmark, where I met the people who make the software and people who also are the community. It's a big family, literally, because you can come even with your family there to enjoy the environment and to work on improving the software, which is not only coding, it's also documenting translations in many languages, so if you just available many more languages, Kurt will talk more about it, it should be shorter then. Then, in 2018, I asked Kurt to be here in IHE as a guest lecturer the same courses we are giving this week, and then the seed was planted for an idea to make a book on the QGIS for hydrological applications. But we made it more concrete, it took until March, it should be 2019 by the way, March 2019, where we were in the QGIS Hexfest in Spain, in Acronia, and Gary really gave it a start. I got in touch with Locate Press, with Gary Sherman, who is the inventor of QGIS, and very nice to work with him and produce this beautiful book. I also made two plug-ins in Spain for hydrology, I'll show some examples. Now, 2019, we have all the students of IHE into open source GIS as a starting point, and we also have in terms of educational materials the full range. We have open courseware, completely free, no assistance. We have online courses where people can pay a fee, get some assistance and a certificate. We have the book for if you'd like to have a book next to your computer, which is very useful if you work with the computer to not have everything as a PDF on your screen. And we have, of course, our short courses here, and we also use the same stuff in the modules for the masters. Open source GIS is not only QGIS, but everything works together, so there are lots of other packages to explore, but QGIS is a bit the integrator of many tools, under who there's a lot of things and there's organizations. They'll be short. So what do you learn in the book? Well, our focus is a good book, a great book to start with, so it doesn't give you all the advanced options that we can also talk hours about and give lessons in. But what we wanted to start with is a good practice book where you learn how to delineate the catchment, import data, and geo-reference maps, how to find open data and other great hobby of mine. There's a lot of data, I'm sure NSO's done a couple, so maybe a bit about it. There's a lot around, but many of our people who study here don't know that a lot is around. It's not only the software, it's also the data that we need. And in the end, the book ends with creating a beautiful catchment map. So I'm really looking forward to the next patch who's going to use this book and to finally see really good maps like these ones. QGIS comes with a lot of hydrological tools. They're provided by Saga, for example, or Grass or Integrase. And there was some questions on if you want to have the flow direction, typical hydrological thing, the flow direction of water, if you want to visualize that. And, yeah, in fact, if you want to visualize that, you need a circular gradient, because normally the gradients are linear, but northeast and northwest are very close together, so you need to not do it linear, but in a circular way. So we integrated that in the book, but in Acronia I made a plug-in, and that was fun. I was inspired by Kord. He gave a workshop in Acronia. I followed that, and I ended up with this nice video. It's using mesh data, they use it a lot in climate. Winds, hurricanes are very actual, to visualize that. So it has different dimensions, and it reads special files, like Grip or NetCDF. And I thought, okay, that's connected to, we have the flow direction from Saga, and we have the visualization of the mesh. Can't we visualize flow direction also with these nice beautiful arrows, like also PCRuster is doing for people. And then these guys made that plug-in for the mesh, and I said together with them, and we together made the new plug-in, which is available to have flow direction in the form of arrows. This is how a hackfest looked like. It's somewhat unconference, so there's no rules. You just sit there, you come with ideas, there's a whiteboard, and you meet people you want to meet to make things, or to write a computation, or to learn about things. So this is an example of how that works. So you just get your flow direction map, you want to bit the interface, so we made this plug-in here, it converts it to a mesh, you drag it from the browser to the map canvas, talking Chinese now for a minute. Doesn't matter. Colors are nice. Colors are nice. It becomes nicer. Okay, we changed some settings in the viewer, and then we get arrows on the map that show the direction of flow of a few simple steps that we could implement just by community work. Users engaging with people who make the software to come to great ideas. Well, great, small great ideas. But it looks great. So this is the flow of water. I made another one to calculate catchments for different points. So you fill it with a point file, a point vector file, and it calculates all the sub-catchments. It saves it to a folder. Now, what you're going to do in a bit, and Eric will talk more about it, is the map-a-ton. We had many map-a-tons before, and hopefully we'll have many more during each GIS course, organized one together with the Red Cross, 510 Global, they are also around today. It's really great. Eric also always helps. And we see here a comparison between Google Maps and OpenStreetMap. In Google Maps, so this is a rural area, and Google is not much interesting rural areas because you won't navigate there with your Google Apps and there are no hotels and restaurants to bring you to when they found out about you through your Gmail. So, no need to map that area. So we do that with our students during a map-a-ton, and we have this place called the Kessie, Masai area, Alpec, and in Kenya, and people now find themselves on the map. That's very useful. Not only for the people living there, but also for humanitarian things. There's more data around IHE building, the tunnel or the traffic lights, the building, the water point in front. This is not government data. It's made by citizens like you. And that's what you're going to do today. And it doesn't end there because people in our GIS course today learned how to use that data in QGIS to do analysis. So that data from older Kessie in Alpec, so we can find the place even to the databases, put a point on the map, there we go, we zoom in. The background map is a picture from OpenStreetMap and we know that everything that's on that picture can be downloaded as factor data points, lines, and polygons that we can then further use in GIS. So that's a quick OSM plugin that we can use for that. So plugins are written by third party. Many people can contribute to plugins like I did. We select here some options. We want all the rivers in the area that we zoom in to generate a script. You don't have to look at it. You can also simply click run. You don't want to know that. I want to know that. And then we have it. We give it a styling. And there it is. We remove the picture in the background and we see that we have the rivers. There was more blue on that map but they are not tagged as rivers. Maybe streams or other things. So that's how you can easily get data from things that you're going to map today. I'm going to skip that one. This short presentation is innovation is about connecting the dots. But for connecting the dots you need the right tools and you need the right people around you. Therefore you need the team effort of QGIS. HackFest are great fun. So with buying, with purchasing the book you will contribute to a fund that allows me to bring students to these HackFests. HackFest also have a presentation part where you can share your academic findings and participate in HackFest to contribute to the product. It's a great tool for hydrology. I hope I have convinced you with just a few slides and join the community. And we are a certified institute. So all the participants who make it to the end get official QGIS certificates. We pay that for them and it's our contribution to QGIS. It's 20 euros per certificate. 100% of that amount is used to further improve the software. So you see all these win-win business models. We can say we are a certified organization. QGIS gets money to improve and the students are happy because they have an official certificate. Okay, I hope this was a bit inspiring but I'm sure that Kurt Menke, who came all the way from the US for the course and also for this presentation you can tell a bit more about the community. Hey everyone, so Hans asked me to say a few words about the QGIS community to introduce people what that is like if you don't already know. And before I do that I have a couple shameless plugs. So Hans talked about his journey over the years getting into open source. I'm just going to, my journey I'm going to talk about is just this year before this is about a book launch for our QGIS, for hydrological applications but before that this winter wrote this book Discover QGIS which is a 400 page workbook for the classroom. It's a much more general treatment of QGIS and so I have a shameless plug for that. I'm also donating a copy of this book to the IHE Delft Library tonight so that students here will have access to it and I'll have a couple copies downstairs too. And so Hans talked about using open source and education and the other software that shall not be named it also is prevalent at most colleges and universities around the world. My hope with this book is that instructors and professors can use this to start incorporating QGIS into their curriculum when they're teaching about GIS. It's also good for self-study. I had to mention that. I have one more shameless plug I apologize but while I'm here in the Netherlands I'm teaching a master class Monday. Thanks to Eric Muirberg for organizing it. So I'm going to be teaching a workshop on cartographic skills. One of the funnest part of QGIS is kind of geeking out on all the crazy things you can do styling data with it. It's really powerful. It's an amazing piece of software just for creating visualizations. So we're going to on Monday if you're interested there's still a few seats. You're going to do fun things like Tanaka contours up here. Lego maps and silly things but also animating mesh data like Hans showed in his previous thing. Animating temporal data with time manager and doing lots of cool things. You can talk to me later or Eric later about how to sign up for that. So with those out of the way I want to talk about the community. QGIS is obviously a piece of software but it is also a vibrant welcoming community and I think I love the software and I love the community even more. It's really one of the aspects of the whole project that just keeps me engaged and wanting to come back for more. This is a photograph of the user conference in Hackfest in Ocaronia in March where Hans and I finalized our plans to write the book that we're launching tonight. So what makes QGIS a success it's the people it truly is. People unfamiliar with open source will often assume that there's some kind of for profit corporation behind software like QGIS but there is no corporation behind QGIS. It's a community grassroots developed piece of software. So everyone in here who has downloaded QGIS and started working with it you are now part of the QGIS community. So it's you as a user and a contributor to the project that really drives QGIS forward and makes it what it is. With the internet we're all over the world but we can collaborate together from far away. So QGIS is truly a team effort. There's a lot of things a lot of ways you can contribute and one of the first ways you might think of well I'm not a C++ programmer so how could I contribute to QGIS? Well there's a lot of ways I'm not going to go through them all but for example QGIS is translated into I don't know what the current count I'm going to say it's about 42 languages these days so you can actually put the interface into different languages so there are people in different countries who have done that translation work. The documentation if you find something that can be improved you can improve the documentation that's an area that has a lot of needs. Writing books, writing plugins teaching all there's so many ways and then there's a lot of things behind the scenes that are going to take a lot of work. Packaging up QGIS every four months for Mac and Linux and Windows and people who are maintaining the website. Now all these things are pieces that need to be worked on and make QGIS what it is. So just to kind of put a face to this community here are some pictures of some of the more prominent members of the QGIS community so it's a very diverse group of people from all over the world. So these are people who you can approach, you can ask questions so if you, I recommend everyone come to a Hackfest and meet people that's one of the great things about open source that you don't get proprietary software because you can actually sit down over a cup of coffee and talk to a developer and if you have an idea or if you want to contribute you will try to help mentor you and things like that. You can ask some questions. So QGIS as an organization operates like a democracy. There is a formal steering committee and a chair of the project who vote on issues to steer the project forward. There are also the developers and another way, I'll get to that in a second, but one of the thousands here are QGIS user groups which I'll talk about in a moment. So if you are part of a national QGIS user group that user group will have one vote on issues around the QGIS project. So there's a lot of ways that you can plug in from lots of different directions. So the developer meetings which get called Hackfest and once a year also contributor meetings look like this where sometimes in the evenings you know there's people playing games enjoying good food sitting around and working on the project sharing their knowledge fixing bugs all the things that have to happen some more shots this was the first one I went to in Notabo in 2015 it was a fantastic experience and it was transformative for me and I've been trying to go to as many as I can ever since they're usually a long trip for me being based in the United States but it's well worth it. So the QGIS user groups this is one of the first ways that people can start engaging these are the countries that have active user groups right now so if you're from a country that isn't green on the map you could start a QGIS user group in your country and so why would you do that well that there is it kind of allows you to organize user meetings with your community and share knowledge get together on some regular basis and show each other how to do things that you've learned maybe inform people about what's going on with QGIS.org worldwide at a meeting organize crowd funding events some larger national QGIS user groups are raised funds within their country and actually sponsor the project financially this is Anita Grazer here from Austria and she said this at least I don't know if she's the first one to say it but she's the first one I heard say it so I'll put her picture up there she said QGIS is a duocracy and so what that means is if there's something if you get into QGIS and you say oh I wish it did this instead of just complaining you can actually be empowered and do something about it you can contact a developer and ask them how much that would cost to develop the new feature if you can't afford it you can develop a crowdfunding campaign to pay for it if you actually can code you could build it yourself you could probably get mentored along the way and so one of the first experiences I had with this was this little animation is playing is a raster data set and we don't need to worry about what that is but this is showing vegetation types and all of this kind of data and there are a few years ago there wasn't a convenient way for QGIS to render that and symbolize it and make it look nice and so myself and several users on the listserv found each other and one of the developers said you guys should all get together scope this out and ask someone what it would cost and so we did that and to make a long story short we ended up funding it collectively amongst about eight organizations and within three weeks this was in the nightly build of QGIS and is now a feature that was actually used this week in our QGIS for hydrological applications course by our students so you can make changes to the software if you need to and I think that's one of the keys to the dynamic of working in open source so I encourage everyone to follow QGIS you can get onto Twitter and follow QGIS on Twitter both the official QGIS account and also QGIS users GitHub or better just be part of QGIS yourself so think about how you can contribute because we can all be users but it's important for everyone to at some point find a way to give back in some way even if it's just organizing a small local meeting in your community but coming together that's what makes QGIS what it is so that's my getting off my soapbox as we say in America for talking about the QGIS community and now I have a little prize for my co-author Hans, you want me to come up here for a minute so this is where I live this is the United States and I call it North America these days this is my state in New Mexico anyone who watches TV may know Breaking Bad that is affiliated with my town for better or for worse I live in the town where that was filmed and in my state it's a rural state with desert and high mountains and there's a lot of Native American reservations and pueblos in my state within an hour's drive of my house there are 16 American Indian nations so it's a big part of where I live the American Indian culture so there's one tribe here Zuni Pueblo about a two hour drive west of us and they have a beautiful reservation on the border with Arizona this is what it looks like there and they make these things called Zuni Pueblo fetishes these fetishes are small carvings usually made from onyx and inlaid with turquoise and things like that and there are individual animals and so these animals are believed to have kind of powers that will help the owner of these little fetishes so I brought one for Hans you can open it very curious it's not a real fancy packing job but it has to travel 11 hours by air wow beautiful so this is what he's opening up does anyone recognize what this is it's a beaver so if you're not familiar with what beavers are beavers are water engineers they cut down trees they build dams and so what could be more appropriate as a spirit animal or Hans thank you hey thank you Cory that was great and inspiring to go to the inside in how QGIS works so that you can really be part of it now we move a bit to the official part of this book launch so I'm going to I was looking for somebody to take the first book and since we are international institute in water and it's about data about dealing with data I thought okay might be good to look at Madeline's space office where Regis Trim is working he's a senior policy advisor and he runs a very nice program on using geo information for water and agriculture and I was very happy that Ruth responded very positively to my request to hand over the first symbolic book to him today so I would like to ask him forward to receive the first book and then he will present also something about QGIS sorry about NSO's work I heard about the good things to do with data and open source software okay thank you very much just for your information the space office is part of the Dutch government so we are dealing with everything related to space satellites and all the data that is coming down from it actually we are talking about water and when I was listening to your presentation I remember there was a time that I was also in academics and I was doing a PhD and I was looking at water and interstellar objects with telescopes so these are great astronomy but I'm not an astronomer and I'm a physicist and I did some experiments in the laboratory so we put water on a very cold piece of metal we put some other ingredients on it and we put a lot of UV on it the nice thing that one of the elements that you get then about cooking recipes was alcohol very useful so what we were doing at that time was trying to understand what was in fact was measured by astronomers in all kinds of interstellar objects but also on cometary ices to understand what is going on there and what kind of ingredients are there and in fact we were building our cookbooks by ourselves at that time and I was also at that time programmed I lost that skill but I think it's very great that these kind of initiatives are there and that this effect enabling a lot of science but also I think a lot of businesses doing making applications that are really useful for society and that maybe brings me to the program that I'm coordinating as a program from the Netherlands the Ministry of Foreign Affairs let's say we are doing a lot of great stuff with satellites and maybe we should put presentation on it so we have been working in space for a long time we have the European Space Agency we have NASA and there is a lot of let's say satellites in orbit and the question was we are working with all these satellites and a lot of data is being used for governments and maybe also for science but our Ministry of Foreign Affairs just asked me a simple question of course simple questions are very difficult to answer is how can we support small whole of farmers, food producers in developing countries okay we did not really let's say how we could reach the gap from that technology livelihoods of small whole farmers but we decided to have a look into that and in fact out of this simple question our Ministry of Foreign Affairs said okay if you can develop a program that really helps this type of citizens you can have some money and you can initiate stimulate development of services so that's what we have done so in fact the basis of our program is in fact the fact that the European Space Agency has three different types of satellites operational two are in orbit and one hard as on the ground so if one fails they could very quickly the third one into orbit this is providing operational satellite data continuously that is very important because otherwise both the clients and let's say the service providers are not going to build services provide services in operational manner the European Commission said okay to stimulate that this data should be open and for free so I don't know who of you are working anyway with maybe this type of data can you raise hands not so much yet let's see how it will come into the future so on the right hand side we have effect let's say the beneficiary the farmer in many developing countries is facing climate change so all the conditions are going to differ so all the traditional knowledge is not really working anymore so how can we help them and what he needs is effect more and timely information for instance about the weather but also related to that what is the best moment to provide fertilize or to put pesticides maybe even not to put pesticides because if they put it on on their plots if there is a heavy rain shower coming in 48 hours then all the pesticides fertilizers is lost and they lose also money so there are different ways that you can help the farmer but to bring such an advice it's maybe very simple by SMS or maybe by call center there is a lot of technology behind it it starts with the satellite data with other geodata there is a lot of technology in the cloud to process all this data to do the agricultural modeling and to change this information into an actionable advice for the farmer so this is what we are bringing together in our program all the different actors that are active that say on various specific elements there is no single organization or company that really can run this the whole information chain so we are bringing them together and also to engage with the farmers you need organizations that understand these farmers so these are very often NGOs governmental organizations that have been working with these farmers for a long time but can also be extension officers from governments or from large companies so that is how you can understand what is needed what is the farmer needed but also to help them to engage with this new type of advice so how does it work out the program started about 5 years ago and actually the first projects are perfect now coming to an end we have 25 projects in 15 countries they will only give you 3 or 4 examples an insurance service is developed which effect looks at a certain area and if the conditions are less favorable then the average over a certain period then there is an automatic payout so a farmer subscribes via an insurance company and if the conditions effect are too low they will get partial or full payout this is also related to water we call the Tom Tom for pestilists navigation system but the navigation system goes by just by a coal center so a pestilist is in an area where there is a shortage of water which probably also is indicating shortages in vegetation so they want to go to another area where there is enough vegetation and water available for the herd but if you go from place A to place B in this straight line you probably are going to cross aquaculture zones and if that is happening I was very surprised 2 years ago in the summer period in Nigeria 1500 people died because of fights between farmers and pestilists so it's not only that they beneficiary the herd but it also saves actually lives an aspect I was also very surprised with a project in South Africa where let's say the service is provided by a partnership in which is include the local meteorological office and local aquaculture research center and they have been working together and providing now services related to weather information and some aquaculture advices and they have built a very large IT infrastructure around it and they are able to plug in in their app, let's say a new decision rule every day when that comes up so if I hear about your community that you are really rapidly developing so what happens if you can maybe your community to this kind of development I don't know then let's say a little bit the more difficult thing about this is that let's say there are businesses involved there are a lot of cloud computing involved and it costs money and that is maybe different maybe from let's say when you are working in the academic area so what we are doing here is to keep the costs as low as possible but still let's say the operation should be financed so there is behind each product there is a kind of creative let's say maybe business model you can but anyway there should be incomes that say finance the operations of these services but maybe this will inspire you and maybe you come along in your country similar activities maybe you can think about how can we connect with maybe a huge community to this type of fund I don't know but maybe we here maybe a few years from now thank you very much and just to give you an illustration I have time for that space is everyone and it's providing a new currency of information satellite information rapidly evolving to help solve challenges like food security this changing again 70% of the world's food is provided by small holder farmers and in the face of climate change through the number of global mouths to feed and increasing and our resources depleting small holder productivity is within all of our interests satellites and increasing connectivity are enabling transition from traditional acupuncture to climate smart technology new levels of information on climate related challenges such as flooding and droughts combined with personalized details crop type of scale of boosting crop productivity pestilates to the most optimal time to fertilize soil satellites and changing farming industries and lives space is not only an opportunity to make our planet future it's making farmers more resilient changing centers such as microcredit and insurance offering scalable opportunities to business enterprises and investors it's providing a paradigm shift and the most exciting part you can be involved join us in using the climate smart tools of today to ensure that food security is in our world tomorrow thank you Lut I think that was also very inspiring making our next book should be about remote sensing for hydrological applications using open source for example and get involved in what you've seen let's see we're almost at the end but there are a few more things I would like to ask the vice rector to come to stage again because both court and me who already said it want to donate also a book to the librarian the library couldn't be present here happy to thank you I'm sure there will be good to very good use I'm sure that it will be very hard to get out of the library because constantly there will be problems thank you Hans okay and then so what the program is now is there will be an explanation on mapotons by Eric I'll go forward in a bit it's better to explain the program now then we'll go down for having food and you can install yourself and there will be volunteers around helping you with the mapoton part you can eat your food and have drinks there you can also buy the books there we got some boxes of books with us you get a 40% discount tonight on the book so it's 20 euros you can pay in cash and signed by the authors yeah it's a great occasion that we're both authors here so use that opportunity I would like to call Eric Mirberg forward because he's not only going to present us the mapotons the instructions but I also he also did something very nice for both court and me we also know Eric of course from the open source scene he's a very active open source we say engaging a lot of people in open source in the Netherlands and he wrote this very nice forward about the book and about us and we really appreciate that and therefore of course we can give Eric also one of the books enjoy and I'm really curious about this forward because normally when you write something for a publication of someone else you get it back asking could you please change this a bit this might be a bit slightly and I didn't get it back at all it was perfect so I was wondering did they just change my text think so there's always something wrong with it especially if I write it okay enjoy it you want to use yes please I'll keep it very short because most of the people probably will know something about mapotons I can answer some questions that's it and there it is a very simple concept the concept is that anyone here everyone could be a participant in OpenStreetMap you can edit OpenStreetMap for an area that you know very well but there's some years ago when the IT earthquake the whole HOTOSM started that's Humanitarian OpenStreetMap team and they thought if we can get so many people after a disaster to help mapping why not do it because it also strikes so that is why the whole HOTOSM Humanitarian OpenStreetMap team got set up that evolved and then at some point the Red Cross and the Medi-Sensual Frontier the doctors who had borders they joined forces with HOTOSM in order to prepare their field work with OpenStreetMap and that is what became known as Missing Maps Project is what we're here for today and we use it for preparing the field area for Red Cross or at least that is how it is always explained to me but luckily there are a few people from the Red Dutch Red Cross here in the audience and I heard that someone will explain it a lot better than I did it's Agap in the meantime I'm going to show you something here about the idea we have the task manager there's a lot of tasks always available and if you're there and you start mapping and then yes of course I can click this way and you see there's always high priority or low priority and you see there's a few things here like level and what campaign that is and who's asking so for example here it is itself that is asking well today we're going to work on a project and the project has this beautiful name it's called 6755 we're going back to where we're going to Haiti the Netherlands Red Cross is the organization that's asking and I think I can give you something about Red Cross I have just one slide you have one slide? that's about where we are going to now okay great am I allowed to use this on your computer? it's an IHE it's an IHE one while you're doing that it might be good to mention that Agata is an alumna I think she graduated last year in England and she works now for this year I did and works now for 5th and below GIS is a part of Red Cross for us to get to know I think you said everything I'm sorry I think this is okay I'll just run it straight from you but yeah I didn't that should be go okay okay that's not I'll just leave it on I think it's okay like this that should be okay yeah that's better run it yes but I think you say mostly everything so yeah I'm Agata I'm also a former IHE student in the hydrology and water resources yeah so like why we are like so 510 global it's also one team of the Netherland Red Cross and we are focusing in data and digital and we help other Red Cross society in the world to reduce the impacts of disaster and especially the impact of most of the people who are going to do is work on high tea and on the project focusing on the Arty Bonitz river so it's this catchment so I don't know and that's this big catchment here basically this area it's really at a lot of flood risk so you have a lot of different flood happening you can have flood coming from the coast also flash flood coming from the side of the basin riverine floods happening but also we have a dam here and then this dam can also break so we could have risk of dam break and also overflow of this dam so that's why this area is really of interest and in this area we focus for tonight on this downstream part of the catchment where actually all the risk are combined here so I think that's the most thing and why my pattern as you explained for Red Cross it's really important for Red Cross in high tea to work on the disaster risk management so the first part like prevention of preparedness and they want to implement in this area early warning early action so to be able to know who is at risk where which person are most vulnerable and what to do if we know that a cyclone for instance we need to know where people live and what are the main infrastructure and also for disaster response because if we have all the world there then they will also know where to send emergency teams and what are the best access yeah so I think that's one thing if people don't know what 510 is why is it called 510 let's for the land like the earth area and and the 510 global team can always use extra help right if somebody finishes studies here and is still here but doesn't have a job yet and got a few months to spare while doing it especially the people who are good at GIS and at data yeah we always need the volunteer to help so and they use open source yes you learn a lot there things I got this one so we are mapping this project whenever you map a project like this there's a few simple things to know I cannot find them here oh wait wait wait I have to click it first I thought I was already there and you've got a nice overview of your project what will be happening there and here you see a couple of tabs and one is the instructions and those are extremely important because in the instructions well there are the instructions on what to map and how to map them so as a Dutch male person I find it extremely hard to read instructions and to follow them but in this case it is really important even I read them here because here it says for this task we have to do buildings simply trace the outline of all buildings but a building should also be tagged it should be tagged as a building of type building there are a lot of types in building like schools well and whatever but a lot of them like farms, shops well but the thing is you cannot see that from the air or most of the time you cannot see it so just make it a building that's an important thing another thing is make sure you square the corners of the building most of the buildings tend to be square sometimes they're round sometimes they're really weird shapes but most of them tend to be square so please square them the one important function is that even if you think a building is not square but it's a bit like this if a lot of buildings are like that on the map and they all differ it looks terrible and people don't trust the map anymore so please square the buildings it's just marketing another thing is missing roads main roads are already on the map and etc and for this place if waterways are not well mapped or not much mapped at all add them to the map but those are the things we do buildings, roads, water now there are loads of other things you can map and you're allowed to do so because it's a free world and it's an open map but for this project those three things are important no water so if you want to you can check these stick to these guidelines now you see here you see an overview of the area so this is the lower river area here and you just click on a square for you and then oh this was a day ago yep and so confused by this layout of the laptop you just click on one and you say start mapping in your laptop this will be a lot better there should be a start mapping thing I'm not so sure why this isn't happening but anyway normally you would just click start mapping now and it would go like this luckily there's a good instruction leaflets as well on the table Raymond where did I go wrong here I don't know yeah sure no it's a good thing but oh no it's view should be here maybe refresh oh no I'm not on maybe I thought I wasn't locked on I don't know there's an exclamation mark there maybe I'm blocked yeah yeah well I wanted to just show you that you could come into the editor then but that will work out while we go maybe you just show OpenStreetMap without the task rectangle and this demonstrates how it keeps in OpenStreet just go to OpenStreetMap.org and do some random error but yeah this is different well at least it is oh I know this area we were there yeah I just heard that they shared an apartment sometime or a room in the office building we shared an apartment last month that was nearby here we could add a dead apartment say it's a very nice one so we could log in here and start editing and what we do is we use the id in browser editor that's the simplest editor and there you see you immediately get an aerial picture and from the aerial picture you can see what is going on here it looks a bit strange you have to get used to this view but you could see for example here that the building here there is some open space in it so you could edit that and you could change that here this is for I'm not going to change Bucharest I don't think they would like that but this is what happens this is the main interface thank you Eric I think everything becomes more clear if you start working with it we have some food we come to the restaurant and get some food get in the store we install ourselves in the booth you can pass by there will be also an online hopefully the mapping with us enjoy happy mapping