My Mission
Promoting the OSGeo software stack within the national, european and global historical community.Biography
| Niklas Alt is an active member of FOSSGIS e.V (since 2016).He is currently employed at the Hessian Institute for Regional History in Marburg. He aims to foster the use and acceptance in historical academic research and public institutions on the federal, national and european level. His academic interest lies within the spatial humanities, using exlusively an OSGeo Software Stack and promoting the use of free and open software and a commitment to open historical geodata and open standards within this community. His work involves the reconstruction of historical boundaries, the georeferencing of historical maps and the reconstruction of historical spatial reference systems. To this end he is using PostGIS, GDAL, PROJ, QGIS, GRASS GIS and OpenLayers. He is working on Open Educational Resources (OER) for QGIS in the historical sciences. He coordinates an international data standardization group aiming to build an open data model to standardize the data structures in the Historical Town Atlas (HTA). The
HTA aims to reconstruct the face of the premodern European cities using a critical cartographic edition of the first exact cadastral maps. |
