Well, it was a great week in Victoria BC for this years FOSS4G conference! Besides the great chance to hang out with the OS GIS community, it was a great chance to take a look at what is hot in our field. Keep checking back to the FOSS4G web site as many of the presentations as well as video from the plenaries are being uploaded.
My talk on the use of PyQGIS (Python bindings to QGIS) for development of some stand alone desktop tools went well. My powerpoints are here (6 meg). I even have a couple of snapshots of giving the talk (thanks to Gary Sherman).
Gary Sherman gave a great workshop on Monday. He has posted the slides and ISO image of the live CD on the QGIS blog. Here are a couple images that show Gary laying it out and some of the students soaking it in. I also had a voice recorder and have made streaming mp3’s of the session available at the following links:
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We also had a great QGIS BOF session which was well attended by a diverse group of developers, users, and interested newbies. All in all I think QGIS had a great showing at FOSS4G and am looking forward to pushing many of the ideas talked about there forward.
General
Well, to my amazement I found this little nugget in my logs this afternoon (click to see full size)…
Looks like someone from Redlands is drinking afternoon coffee while watching some vids!
General
(UPDATE: Ecotrust has asked me to remove material related to the Calzone and Gulf Tool. Please feel free to contact Ecotrust directly to find out more about those tools)
I have been working on a new decision support tool for Ecotrust over the last few months, so today I decided to make some screen casts (with audio!) of some of our work.
Cal-Zone – Web based DST based on Marxan / Marzone for helping evaluate site selection of marine protected areas. Marxan / Marzone results are generated and stored in PostGIS for display via OpenLayers. New windowing functionality introduced to allow for future enhancements such as multi-run comparisons and use of region of interest tools for site selection.
http://www.reprojected.com/demo/cal-zone-demo.html
Gulf Tool – Web based DST based around scenario development for Gulf of Mexico fisheries. Uses a Chameleon based frontend, Mapserver on the backend and all data storage and queries through PostGIS. GMT is used for graphing.
http://www.reprojected.com/demo/gulf-demo.html
Just a snapshot into some of the DST development we are undertaking and very excited about. Hope you enjoy…
GIS Projects Ecotrust, General
CUGOSians,
Hope all are well. I just wanted to send out a quick reminder that we will be having our first CUGOS meeting tomorrow (Wednesday – 03/21/07) at the Seattle LizardTech offices. We will kick things off at 5:30pm and wrap-up by 7pm. Some of us will most likely grab a beer near by after as well. Looks to be a great turnout with about 30 new people signed up!
I am really looking forward to meeting everyone and making these meetings a great venue for social interaction and learning for Open Source GIS professionals. See you all tomorrow!
GIS Industry, General
Well, I am back again after being been hit by the Planet Geospatial Voodoo. James has been nice enough to go under the hood of the ever so sensative PG and re-link to my blog. Must have been dropped in the shuffle of the last few months, but rest assured I have not gone away. I have had some new info posted since last I was linked here and hope that some people find it useful…
New Presentation
New Paper
CUGOS
General
We are off and running! Josh Livni (Umbrella Consulting), Michael Gerlek (LizardTech) and Aaron Racicot [ME!] (Ecotrust) got together and decided it was time to rally the troops. We have scheduled our first official meeting to take place at the LizardTech office in Seattle on the 21st of March. We hope to see many of the GIS professionals in the Puget Sound region for this great time to meet others in the area who share a passion for Open Source GIS.
See you there!
Environmental Tech, General
I have posted a new presentation on Open Source GIS that I gave on Feb 21st 2007 at Portland State University. Included is an audio recording of the talk, a ppt presentation, and a flash demo of doing some simple GRASS interaction.
http://www.reprojected.com/geoblog/presentations/
Enjoy!
Aaron
GIS Projects Ecotrust, General, OSGeo
I went ahead and added some build notes that I have created in the past for setting up new Fedora based machines with a web GIS stack. Currently building on FC6 and will post soon. Hope this helps some folks out.
FC3 and FC4
Also, added a couple more historical presentations for archiving!
GIS Tool Install, General
Thought I would take a few minutes tonight to brainstorm some topics I will be writing about in the near future. There is not any particular order but it does give an idea of some of the things I am working on currently. Looking forward to writing some of this up.
http://www.reprojected.com/geoblog/topics-to-write-about/
Comments and suggestions are always welcome…
General
Sean Gillies posted about this talk at the end of November and it just got posted on Slashdot yesterday, but it was only until last night that I woke up and watched it. While Eben Moglen might not be able to bring down the house with his camera presence, his talk on social justice and Open Source software is truly interesting and inspiring.
Well worth it… an hour well spent.
Environmental Tech, General
