Meeting Info

Date & time
17 Jul 2013, 6:00pm

Host
Lizard Tech

Address
1008 Western Avenue Suite

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.

47.604096, -122.336667

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:

  • Seattle Times hackers @deanOhYeah and @laurenmichell will talk about their web maps and tooling

  • Renegade Cartographer and Designer @mapsam will be talking about d3.geo, mapshaper.org, and share the GISCollective with the world

  • Jared Erickson @jericks is back with more cool projects – Boom! He’ll be showing off the geoserver-shell

  • mpg [citation needed] will provide a brief update from OSGeo HQ

  • @aaronr will present something magical and awe inspiring (time permitting)

Possible but not confirmed:

Pushed to August 2013 Meeting:

  • 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

  • The Empower Engine creators will join us and present something about their company vision and toolchain. Boom!

Notes:

  • 29 people

  • New space might be in order in the future…

  • OneOcean to host in Sept!

  • 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

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