20180814-Huntsville-foss4g

Date
August 14th 2018

Description
This is Alabama's First FOSS4G meeting.

It's an opportunity for Free and Open Source Software for GIS users in the area to get together and discuss projects, software, and get to know one another. This is a free event, registration is appreciated to help plan for lunch.

Location
Madison City Hall 100 Hughes Rd, Madison, AL 35758

Tickets
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/foss4g-huntsville-2018-an-open-source-gis-event-tickets-47856090856

Speakers
Robert Nall with nSide: Spatial statistical analysis with R

Matt Brown with Alabama 811: The use of open source GIS tools at Alabama 811 from humble beginnings to an impressive modern cloud-based GIS stack

Trevor Gevers with Serverless Solutions: QGIS Leaflet plugin and Google integrations with GIS

Randy Hale with NRGS: A run through of some of the major changes to QGIS and where he thinks it’s headed

Michael Hughes with Franklin County: How do I do that with open source GIS software?

Adam Dunlap with Hexagon: An overview of using PostgreSQL, PostGIS, and pgRouting to build tools for GIS based data and routing linear data sets.

Joe Francica with Pitney Bowes: GDAL/OGR support for new MapInfo vector and raster formats --