PDX OSGEO 20110824 Minutes

PDX-OSGEO OpenSourcery, NW Portland Wed August 24th, 2011

Atendance

 * Attending: Skip, Percy, Christian, Ryan, Darrell, Tim, Eli, Neil

Announcements

 * New meeting time 6-7 and social afterwards across the street,
 * WhereCampPDX Oct 8th - we should be involved with this. Perhaps setup software walk through of the OSGeo Stack

Demo I – bioregion and convening

 * Simple: very stripped down MarineMap
 * Tool to explore bioregions
 * Various factors (Tempurature, precipitation, language, etc) used as user defined input to model
 * GRASS is the backend for the model. Based on wrapper of GRASS that makes shell calls.
 * Model returns bioregion based on least-cost analysis
 * User can refine parameters
 * Can edit, move, refine, share results
 * Once bioregion is defined, reports are available (Climate Change, Socio-economic, Natural hazards) done with PostGIS
 * Working with Global datasets for analysis was a challenge
 * Probably rebrand MarineMap as a general purpose spatial platform sometime in the future
 * Uses Google Earth browser plugin

Demo II - eCatch

 * Mobile - needs Chrome, Safari, or other WebKitSDK browser
 * Continue across the street