Rasmus Ewehag
GIS-specialist, developer and solution architect with a history of working with GIS/IT in governmental, municipality and the private industry. My focus is often user benefits, method acceptance and finding smooth and sustainable ways of handling problems. Currently leading the migration from proprietary to Open Source GIS at SMHI, Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute.
Session
After analysing needs, capabilities and costs SMHI decided to move from proprietary towards Open Source GIS. QGIS is now the recommended GIS-tool. PostGIS is the recommended database. For automated map rendering, open geopython libraries like shapely, geopandas, GDAL/OGR are used. This talk will cover many aspects of moving from proprietary to Open Source GIS tools. What decisions are needed by the leaders of the organization? How do you analyse your organisations needs? What other type of change management is needed to make a transfer successful?