Meeting Info

Date & time
18 Jun 2014, 6:00pm

Host
ClipCard

Address
720 Olive Way 14th Floor, Seattle WA 98121

The main entrance is on Olive, between 7th and 8th Street. Just take the elevators up to the 14th Floor. Call 206-595-2567 or 206-395-5541 if you get lost.

47.614116, -122.334624

Location - ClipCard, New office address: 14th Floor, 720 Olive Way (map)

The main entrance is on Olive, between 7th and 8th Street. Just take the elevators up to the 14th Floor. Call Ryan @ 206-395-5541 if you get lost.

Loose agenda:

  • @cliffordsnow will give a short update on the August 9th OSM 10th Anniversary Event.
  • @twelch will give an update on FOSS4G 2014 planning. You did register before the early bird deadline right?
  • @jdomingu will talk about an Opacity Controls plugin for Leaflet. As a side-note, he will use the plug-in to highlight some of the changes to Seattle’s landscape since 1890.
  • @hallahan will provide a sneek peak at the future of web mapping - WebGL. He will also talk more about PostGIS as well as his attempts at importing the OSM planet.

###NOTES:


New place to meet after (Elephant)


  • @cliffordsnow gave a quick history to OSM (10th aniversary in August). Date: August 9th - Tableau Software Go and sign up (limited space) Topics for event will be educational
  • Pointers on mapping in OSM
  • Q&A
  • Map Making
  • Extracting
  • Drones Call for presentations and funding… send ideas to Cliff

Ideas people had for topics

  • Research ideas around OSM data (i.e. how people name things)
  • JSOM (and iD)
  • Best way to load a planet and render
  • Drones
  • HOT

  • @twelch will give an update on FOSS4G 2014 planning. You did register before the early bird deadline right?

  • Freelance consulting now
  • 2014.foss4g.org
  • 750 people expected
  • 20 countries represented
  • WherecampPDX, JS.Geo and Code Sprint on Saturday after
  • Field trips - brewery, winery, portland timbers game
  • Volunteers - Students are a priority
  • Website is Sam Boom Time!

  • Tim is going to work on a “sandbox” … a real sandbox and Kenect sensor
  • Sam put out a call for help to get someone to kick in on laying out the schedule on the WP site

  • @jdomingu will talk about an Opacity Controls plugin for Leaflet. As a side-note, he will use the plug-in to highlight some of the changes to Seattle’s landscape since 1890.

  • Jared wrote this plugin
  • Simple slider that adjusts the opacity
  • Follow Jareds work on the LizardTech blog

  • @hallahan will provide a sneek peak at the future of web mapping - WebGL. He will also talk more about PostGIS as well as his attempts at importing the OSM planet.

He did not show up!!!!


  • @aaronr has some job openings (web stuff) to talk to folks about.

Future topics

  • Revisit some QGIS talks (long live the desktop)
  • MapBox GL
  • Glimps (social spatial checkins)
  • Cognative Maps (Tableau - Sarah Battersby)
  • Dann Strevee to talk about projections (Live Nation)
  • Indoor location (PowersA)
  • D3 GeoPantry (not cookbook) d3-geo repo at svmatthews git repo - Anyone who wants to help?
  • PostGIS Instance - Examples of use yet? Refresher
  • Get and OSM instance running again.

CUGOS sidecars are going strong… next Thursday will be the next one.

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