Conference

First edition of Pycon Africa took place in Accra in August 2019. I had the opportunity to talk about Python and GIS Development with my talk titled “Geo+Python: A Shallow Dive into GIS Development”. This basically a quick introduction to GIS for Python developers and also highlighting Open Source Geospatial tools and packages that can be used by PyDevs in their projects. The presention consisted mostly: Introduction to GIS; Data types, projections, etc OSGeo: QGIS, GDAL, GeoNode, etc OpenStreetMap; the free and colloborative map of the world Some geospatial libraries Find my slides here

One local proverb in Ewe states: “Even if it takes years it definitely will be called tomorrow”. December 31 is that day of the year that is farthest from January 1, it is rather the opposite between January and December. 2015 was not an easy year as well. It was rough and smooth. My 2015 was a year of getting addicted to the Open Source Way in every aspect of my life....