Calgary IG

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This page containes information on the activities of the Calgary FOSGIS interest group (IG) / Local Chapter.

Meeting April 2010
The mindmap on the right summarizes what we talked about on the meeting, i.e.:
 * finding objectives of the group (i.e. forming a mission statement)
 * define what we don't want
 * discuss further meetings



Meeting June 2010

 * 1) First Stefan Steiniger talked for about an hour on state of FOS desktop GIS. This talk was actually his OGRS 2009 conference talk.
 * 2) * A copy of those slides is available here
 * 3) Then we discussed how we continue with the groups objectives. We looked for instance on the Mission Statements of the OSGeo Chapters of BC, Quebec and Ontario (see the http://wiki.osgeo.org). We agreed here that we keep working on a mission statement - but will probably wait 2-3 more meetings until we figured what each of us does and is interested in. However we already identified three main points of interest:
 * 4) * Alberta geodata
 * 5) * free GIS tools in Oil & Gas & Energy
 * 6) * GIS software n general
 * 7) We also agreed that it may be useful to setup a member list. Stefan created a new wiki page for that, see OSGeo Alberta Members

Meeting July 2010
This meeting we had two talks: Finally we had a discussion on free local data: see here the emails (1 and 2) by Brent Fraser sent the other day.
 * a demo/talk on Autodesk's MapGuide Open Source by Trevor Wekel (OTX Systems)
 * a talk about HEAT, a web mapping site to identify Hot-Spots on your house, by Chris Kyle (CDK Digital Knowledge & Univ. of Calgary)

Resources / Projects

 * Canadian and Alberta GeoData
 * a web page that provides an overview on Free and Open Source Desktop GIS - including articles
 * Articles on Free GIS Software

Contacts

 * our email list: http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/alberta


 * If you have suggestions or comments or anything else, please write us:
 * Stefan Steiniger - ssteinig[-at-]ucalgary.ca - (Geography Dept., UofC)
 * Andrew Hunter - ahunter[-at-]ucalgary.ca - (Geomatics Dept., UofC)