Location - LizardTech at 1008 Western Ave, Seattle, WA 98104
Doors are locked after hours. Enter through doors to the south east lobby off Post Alley. A phone number will be posted on that door to call for entry.
Loose agenda:
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Seattle Times hackers @deanOhYeah and @laurenmichell will talk about their web maps and tooling
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Renegade Cartographer and Designer @mapsam will be talking about d3.geo, mapshaper.org, and share the GISCollective with the world
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Jared Erickson @jericks is back with more cool projects – Boom! He’ll be showing off the geoserver-shell
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mpg [citation needed] will provide a brief update from OSGeo HQ
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@aaronr will present something magical and awe inspiring (time permitting)
Possible but not confirmed:
Pushed to August 2013 Meeting:
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Crazy smart David Shean @dshean will return from his adventures to give us a show-and-tell on his timeseries of 2 m/px DEMs for this region teaser here
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The Empower Engine creators will join us and present something about their company vision and toolchain. Boom!
Notes:
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29 people
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New space might be in order in the future…
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OneOcean to host in Sept!
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Fall Bling (new name needed?) in Oct 16th (ish)
- Seattle Times
- Started making maps in May
- Editors need something simple for editing
- Went with CloudMade for tiles
- Mapbox for the js and map
- Google spreadsheet (with google form) for the data behind
- Also used Flickr
- “Table Top” javascript lib integration to google spreadsheet
- Turn it into GeoJSON
- There is a caching layer to make sure data is not dropped
- First project was parks
- Next was the Skagit Bridge collapse (up in 12 hours)
- They are using Handlebars for templates
- Third one was 4th of July Events (Intern in a couple hours)
- Filters in the spreadsheet are just a column
- Ideas for Seattle Times
- Leaflet clustering for points
- Map Sam
- D3… lots of interest from the group
- Ben shows off a nice D3 map as well
- Idea to have a D3 showdown
- Jared (GeoServer Shell)
- GeoServer Shell
- GIS Job open at Pierce County
- Great talk on the why and how of Geoserver Shell
- Wrapper around GeoServer REST API (creates data, hits URL, presents response
- Possible integration with MapFart? ;-)
- MPG
- OSGeo update