The Sol Katz Award for Geospatial Free and Open Source Software (GFOSS) is awarded annually by OSGeo to individuals who have demonstrated leadership in the GFOSS community. Recipients of the award will have contributed significantly through their activities to advance open source ideals in the geospatial realm. The award both acknowledges the work of community members, and pays tribute to one of its founders, Sol Katz.

For more information on the award, please see the Sol Katz Award wiki page.

For years, Mapnik has been the cartographic tool of choice for web designers. Sometimes however a web map requires more than rendered tiles. It requires the power of a complete geospatial service. Wouldn't it be nice to bring Mapnik's design prowess into GeoServer's full-featured, batteries-included management interface and standards-compliant services? Now you can!

In this talk we introduce mapnik2geotools -- a configuration importer from Mapnik to GeoServer. We will sample renderings from Open.Mapquest.com Mapnik styles and data from OpenStreetMap, compare the quality and styling options of Mapnik and GeoServer's rendering engines, and discuss future directions for the toolkit.

More than ever, users expect to interact with maps on the Internet. Developers need lightweight and capable ways to integrate interactive maps with their websites.

Applied Geographics has been solving web mapping problems for over six years. In this time, we have created solutions for displaying geographic data from different servers simultaneously, allowing users to interact with that data comfortably and giving developers ways to streamline their code.

This presentation will discuss these mapping problems, some of the existing open-source solutions and how our approach has produced the foundation of a new, open-source JavaScript mapping API.