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PDX-OSGEO

2015-07-02T23:41:57Z

Wiki-Rbracket: /* Upcoming Events */ added location for July 13 event

'''Welcome to the Portland, OR Chapter of OSGEO - serving Oregon and SW Washington!'''

== News ==
* We now meet on the 3th Wednesday of every month from 6:00-7:30 PM at various locations.

=== Meetings ===

We don't seem to update the Meetings portion of the website. Checking [http://calagator.org/events/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&query=osgeo Caligator] for "OSGeo" is probably the best route.

[[PDX_OSGEO_Meeting_Notes | Past Meeting Notes]]

[[PDX_OSGEO_Meeting_Planning | How to plan a meeting]]

{| class="wikitable"
|+ '''PDX-OSGEO Meetings, third Wednesdays, for 2015, 6:00-7:30 PM'''
|-
! Date
! Location
! Speakers, Topics
|-
| January 21
| Cramer
| QGIS and InkScape - Producing great cartography with open source tools by Dave Mangold.
|-
| Feb 18
| Cramer
| CartoCSS and UTFGrids for collaborative mapping by Nick Martinelli.
|-
| March 17
| Cramer
| Vector Tiles, Justin Miller [[http://justinmiller.io/posts/2015/01/20/anatomy-of-a-travel-map/ | http://justinmiller.io/posts/2015/01/20/anatomy-of-a-travel-map/ ]]
|-
| April 15
| Cramer
| Katie Urey, Ryan Peterson [[http://spiderosm.org| http://spiderosm.org ]]update
|-
| May 20
| location
| tbd
|-
| June 17
| location
| tbd
|-
| July 15
| location
| tbd
|-
| August 19
| location
| tbd
|-
| September 16
| location
| tbd
|-
| October 21
| location
| tbd
|-
| November 18
| location
| tbd
|-
| December 16
| location
| tbd
|-
|}

== Events ==

[[FOSS4G_2014 | links for various FOSS4G 2014 pages]]

=== Upcoming Events ===
[[Category:Events]]

2015 Summer Outdoor Mapathons, tentative schedule.

*Monday July 6 - 6PM The Portland Building under Portlandia statue. Gab for 10 minutes, divvy up quadrants- head out.

*Monday July 13 - Along Orange TriMet MAX line, N Killingsworth St MAX Station Stop ID 11512, Morning or noonish to work with Babies and strollers.

*Monday July 20 - Evening, Eastside... MAX Orange Line?

*Monday July 27 - noonish, – 82nd Ave and Division? Other ideas?

=== Past Events ===

2014
* Sep. 8-13 (Mon-Sat) [http://2014.foss4g.org/ FOSS4G 2014] (Portland, Oregon, USA, Earth, Sol, Milky)

2013
* Mar. 21 (Thu) GPS, Geodesy and the Ghost in the Machine: A Workshop for Surveyors and GIS Professionals [http://www.ogug.net/PDF%20files/Dennis%20GPS.pdf (PDF)] (Salem, Oregon)

* Apr. 30 - May 1 (Tue-Wed) [http://www.orurisa.org/GIS_In_Action GIS In Action 2013] (PDX)

* May 2 (Thurs) [[PDX-OSGeo_2013_Unconference|2013 Unconference]] (PDX)

* Aug. 27-29 (Tue-Thu) [http://geog.uvic.ca/CSRS2013/CSRS_2013/Home.html 34th Canadian Symposium on Remote Sensing] (Victoria, B. C., Canada)

* Sep. 4 (Wed) [http://www.orurisa.org/Events?eventId=702687&EventViewMode=EventDetails Central Oregon GIS - Cartography Outside of ESRI] (Bend, Oregon)

* Sep. 21 (Sat) [http://www.orurisa.org/Default.aspx?pageId=507168 Willamette Valley GIS Users Group Summer 2013 Quarterly Meeting] (Salem, Oregon)

* Sep. 23-25 (Mon-Wed) [http://gisgig.com/gisevents/2013-geoalberta-conference/ 2013 GeoAlberta Conference] (Edmonton, Alberta, Canada)

* Sep. 27-29 (Fri-Sun) {http://wherecamppdx.org/ WhereCampPDX 6] (Portland, Oregon)

* Oct. 14-18 (Mon-Fri) [http://sunriver2013.nwgis.org/ NWGIS Sunriver 2013] (Central Oregon)

* Oct 19 [http://calagator.org/events/1250464914 OpenStreetMap Fall Editathon] (Portland)

* Oct. 16 (Wed) [http://cugos.org/events/2013/10/16/fall-fling/ CUGOS 2013 Fall Fling] (Seattle, Washington)

* Oct. 23 (Wed) Randal Schwartz interviews Tim Sutton and Gary Sherman of [http://qgis.org QGIS] on [http://twit.tv/show/floss-weekly FLOSS Weekly TV] (internet)

* Oct. 25 (Fri) American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ASPRS) Columbia River & Puget Sound Regions [http://columbia.asprs.org/CRR/index.html 17th Annual Technical Exchange] (Vancouver, Washington)

* Nov. 8 (Fri) [http://www.christinafriedle.com/1/post/2013/09/save-the-date-2013-portland-cartography-symposium.html 2013 Portland Cartography Symposium] (Portland, Oregon)

2012

* Presentation for PLSO/ORURISA GIS in Action Conference 2012 - [https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1JlmI9S6ZHYtW2pEwe4VtVYw1rehxbqdgkutoWbKjAw4/edit Open Source Smackdown - Web Mapping Clients Edition]

2011

* Details on '''[[PDX-OSGEO#Unconference_March_31st_and_April_1st.2C_2011 | 2011 Open Source GIS unconference]]'''

[[PDX_OSGEO_Past_events | More past events ]]

== About the PDX-OSGeo Local Chapter ==
=== Introduction ===
PDX-OSGeo is a Local Chapter of OSGeo. PDX-OSGeo has a catchment area equal to the PDX airport, Oregon and SW Washington (Vancouver, WA / Clark County, WA). Monthly meetings are held in Portland.

=== History ===
PDX-OSGeo has been around and meeting in one form or another since before February 2009 under various names. Since September 2010, we have been recognized as an Oregon-URISA [http://orurisa.org/PDXOSGIS Special Interest Group (SIG)]. Since 2010, the local chapter has coordinated an open source unconference with ORURISA and [http://orurisa.org/GIS_In_Action GIS In Action]. There are also deep roots with our sister OSGeo Local Chapter, [http://cugos.org CUGOS]. In August, 2012, we became an official OSGeo local chapter by action of the OSGeo [[Board_Meeting_2012-08-09 | August, 2012 board meeting]].

=== Mission ===
The PDX-OSGeo Chapter strives to promote the local use of Open Source Geospatial software, particularly new users in the Oregon/SW Washington area. The group hosts monthly meetings providing presentation, discussion, and educational opportunities and focuses on materializing an annual Open Source GIS unconference.

=== Objectives ===
Monthly Meetings, usually totaling 10/year:
* Presentations (Application and Technical)
* Chapter business
* Social gathering

Regional Events:
* Open Source GIS unconference
* Conference participation

Communication:
* Mailing List
* Wiki Development
* Monthly meetings

Legal Status:
* No real independent legal structure.
* No real capacity to independently hold funds in other than ad hoc informal manner.
* Affiliations with OSGeo and ORURISA help us with some of the tasks that require legal recognition as an independent entity.
* There are currently no plans to seek any independent legal structure in the future.

=== Annual Reports ===
* [[PDX_OSGeo_Chapter_Annual_Report_2013 | 2013]]
* [[PDX_OSGeo_Chapter_Annual_Report_2012 | 2012]]
* [[PDX_OSGEO_Chapter_Annual_Report_2011 | 2011]]
* [[PDX_OSGEO_Chapter_Annual_Report_2010 | 2010]]

== Getting Involved ==
The PDX-OSGeo Local Chapter is a flexible organization, join us and help steer.

=== Membership ===
Anyone who wants to help support our mission is free to become a member.
'''List yourself on the [[PDX_Member | PDX-OSGEO Member Page]] and you're in!'''

=== Mailing List ===
Please join our mailing list to make sure that you know what's going on. Sign up and participate (or just lurk for a while). We have two main lists:

* For general discussion and announcements: http://groups.google.com/group/pdx-osgeo You do need to answer the questions (what is your favorite map and something else I think) to the extent needed to demonstrate that you are a person and have the minimal amount of GEO knowledge to not be a random spammer.
* For planning upcoming meetings (open to all participants): http://lists.pdxosgeo.org/sympa/info/planners

=== IRC ===
We can be found on irc://irc.freenode.net/#osgeo-pdx when there is something to discuss.

=== Leadership ===
To the extent that we think that we need leadership, it is [[User:Percyd | Percy]]. Mostly we expect everyone to step up and help on most tasks resulting in a light load for all.

=== This Wiki ===
==== How To Write WIKI ====
Check out WikiPedia, where else. This is a great resource for many wiki writing tips
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Editing#Organizing_your_writing How to Write Wiki]

=== Event Set Up ===
[[Event set up]] notes.

== Geo Resources ==
=== SPRING GIS ===
[http://www.dpi.inpe.br/spring/english/index.html SPRING] is a state-of-the-art GIS and remote sensing image processing system with an object-oriented data model which provides for the integration of raster and vector data representations in a single environment. SPRING is a product of Brazil's National Institute for Space Research (INPE/DPI (Image Processing Division)[http://www.dpi.inpe.br/spring/english/index.html ...]

[[SPRING GIS documentation]]

=== USDA - NRCS SSURGO Soil Database Migration to PostgreSQL ===
An example of how to get SURGO soils data into a PostgreSQL database on a GNU/Linux-based OS.

[[File:SSURGO_to_PostgreSQL.odt]]|USDA - NRCS SSURGO Soil Database Migration to PostgreSQL

===The top seven alternatives to the Google Maps API===
Wm Leler of the PDX-OSGeo presented this topic and Net Magazine requested that he write it up at http://www.netmagazine.com/features/top-seven-alternatives-google-maps-api Article date: 2012-06-18.

=== Other useful links===
* [http://gis.stackexchange.com/ GIS Stack Exchange] for any GIS question for any software
* [http://slashgeo.org/ Slash Geo]
* [http://planet.osgeo.org/ Planet OSGeo]

== Acknowledgments ==
Thanks to various OSGeo local chapters and other wiki contributors whose work we borrowed and particularly CUGOS.

[[Category:Local Chapters]]
[[Category:PDX-OSGeo]]

PDX-OSGEO

2015-07-02T22:17:20Z

Wiki-Rbracket: /* Upcoming Events */ summer 2015 mapathons

'''Welcome to the Portland, OR Chapter of OSGEO - serving Oregon and SW Washington!'''

== News ==
* We now meet on the 3th Wednesday of every month from 6:00-7:30 PM at various locations.

=== Meetings ===

We don't seem to update the Meetings portion of the website. Checking [http://calagator.org/events/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&query=osgeo Caligator] for "OSGeo" is probably the best route.

[[PDX_OSGEO_Meeting_Notes | Past Meeting Notes]]

[[PDX_OSGEO_Meeting_Planning | How to plan a meeting]]

{| class="wikitable"
|+ '''PDX-OSGEO Meetings, third Wednesdays, for 2015, 6:00-7:30 PM'''
|-
! Date
! Location
! Speakers, Topics
|-
| January 21
| Cramer
| QGIS and InkScape - Producing great cartography with open source tools by Dave Mangold.
|-
| Feb 18
| Cramer
| CartoCSS and UTFGrids for collaborative mapping by Nick Martinelli.
|-
| March 17
| Cramer
| Vector Tiles, Justin Miller [[http://justinmiller.io/posts/2015/01/20/anatomy-of-a-travel-map/ | http://justinmiller.io/posts/2015/01/20/anatomy-of-a-travel-map/ ]]
|-
| April 15
| Cramer
| Katie Urey, Ryan Peterson [[http://spiderosm.org| http://spiderosm.org ]]update
|-
| May 20
| location
| tbd
|-
| June 17
| location
| tbd
|-
| July 15
| location
| tbd
|-
| August 19
| location
| tbd
|-
| September 16
| location
| tbd
|-
| October 21
| location
| tbd
|-
| November 18
| location
| tbd
|-
| December 16
| location
| tbd
|-
|}

== Events ==

[[FOSS4G_2014 | links for various FOSS4G 2014 pages]]

=== Upcoming Events ===
[[Category:Events]]

2015 Summer Outdoor Mapathons, tentative schedule.

*Monday July 6 - 6PM The Portland Building under Portlandia statue. Gab for 10 minutes, divvy up quadrants- head out.

*Monday July 13 - Along Orange TriMet MAX line, Morning or noonish to work with Babies and strollers.

*Monday July 20 - Evening, Eastside... MAX Orange Line?

*Monday July 27 - noonish, – 82nd Ave and Division? Other ideas?

=== Past Events ===

2014
* Sep. 8-13 (Mon-Sat) [http://2014.foss4g.org/ FOSS4G 2014] (Portland, Oregon, USA, Earth, Sol, Milky)

2013
* Mar. 21 (Thu) GPS, Geodesy and the Ghost in the Machine: A Workshop for Surveyors and GIS Professionals [http://www.ogug.net/PDF%20files/Dennis%20GPS.pdf (PDF)] (Salem, Oregon)

* Apr. 30 - May 1 (Tue-Wed) [http://www.orurisa.org/GIS_In_Action GIS In Action 2013] (PDX)

* May 2 (Thurs) [[PDX-OSGeo_2013_Unconference|2013 Unconference]] (PDX)

* Aug. 27-29 (Tue-Thu) [http://geog.uvic.ca/CSRS2013/CSRS_2013/Home.html 34th Canadian Symposium on Remote Sensing] (Victoria, B. C., Canada)

* Sep. 4 (Wed) [http://www.orurisa.org/Events?eventId=702687&EventViewMode=EventDetails Central Oregon GIS - Cartography Outside of ESRI] (Bend, Oregon)

* Sep. 21 (Sat) [http://www.orurisa.org/Default.aspx?pageId=507168 Willamette Valley GIS Users Group Summer 2013 Quarterly Meeting] (Salem, Oregon)

* Sep. 23-25 (Mon-Wed) [http://gisgig.com/gisevents/2013-geoalberta-conference/ 2013 GeoAlberta Conference] (Edmonton, Alberta, Canada)

* Sep. 27-29 (Fri-Sun) {http://wherecamppdx.org/ WhereCampPDX 6] (Portland, Oregon)

* Oct. 14-18 (Mon-Fri) [http://sunriver2013.nwgis.org/ NWGIS Sunriver 2013] (Central Oregon)

* Oct 19 [http://calagator.org/events/1250464914 OpenStreetMap Fall Editathon] (Portland)

* Oct. 16 (Wed) [http://cugos.org/events/2013/10/16/fall-fling/ CUGOS 2013 Fall Fling] (Seattle, Washington)

* Oct. 23 (Wed) Randal Schwartz interviews Tim Sutton and Gary Sherman of [http://qgis.org QGIS] on [http://twit.tv/show/floss-weekly FLOSS Weekly TV] (internet)

* Oct. 25 (Fri) American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ASPRS) Columbia River & Puget Sound Regions [http://columbia.asprs.org/CRR/index.html 17th Annual Technical Exchange] (Vancouver, Washington)

* Nov. 8 (Fri) [http://www.christinafriedle.com/1/post/2013/09/save-the-date-2013-portland-cartography-symposium.html 2013 Portland Cartography Symposium] (Portland, Oregon)

2012

* Presentation for PLSO/ORURISA GIS in Action Conference 2012 - [https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1JlmI9S6ZHYtW2pEwe4VtVYw1rehxbqdgkutoWbKjAw4/edit Open Source Smackdown - Web Mapping Clients Edition]

2011

* Details on '''[[PDX-OSGEO#Unconference_March_31st_and_April_1st.2C_2011 | 2011 Open Source GIS unconference]]'''

[[PDX_OSGEO_Past_events | More past events ]]

== About the PDX-OSGeo Local Chapter ==
=== Introduction ===
PDX-OSGeo is a Local Chapter of OSGeo. PDX-OSGeo has a catchment area equal to the PDX airport, Oregon and SW Washington (Vancouver, WA / Clark County, WA). Monthly meetings are held in Portland.

=== History ===
PDX-OSGeo has been around and meeting in one form or another since before February 2009 under various names. Since September 2010, we have been recognized as an Oregon-URISA [http://orurisa.org/PDXOSGIS Special Interest Group (SIG)]. Since 2010, the local chapter has coordinated an open source unconference with ORURISA and [http://orurisa.org/GIS_In_Action GIS In Action]. There are also deep roots with our sister OSGeo Local Chapter, [http://cugos.org CUGOS]. In August, 2012, we became an official OSGeo local chapter by action of the OSGeo [[Board_Meeting_2012-08-09 | August, 2012 board meeting]].

=== Mission ===
The PDX-OSGeo Chapter strives to promote the local use of Open Source Geospatial software, particularly new users in the Oregon/SW Washington area. The group hosts monthly meetings providing presentation, discussion, and educational opportunities and focuses on materializing an annual Open Source GIS unconference.

=== Objectives ===
Monthly Meetings, usually totaling 10/year:
* Presentations (Application and Technical)
* Chapter business
* Social gathering

Regional Events:
* Open Source GIS unconference
* Conference participation

Communication:
* Mailing List
* Wiki Development
* Monthly meetings

Legal Status:
* No real independent legal structure.
* No real capacity to independently hold funds in other than ad hoc informal manner.
* Affiliations with OSGeo and ORURISA help us with some of the tasks that require legal recognition as an independent entity.
* There are currently no plans to seek any independent legal structure in the future.

=== Annual Reports ===
* [[PDX_OSGeo_Chapter_Annual_Report_2013 | 2013]]
* [[PDX_OSGeo_Chapter_Annual_Report_2012 | 2012]]
* [[PDX_OSGEO_Chapter_Annual_Report_2011 | 2011]]
* [[PDX_OSGEO_Chapter_Annual_Report_2010 | 2010]]

== Getting Involved ==
The PDX-OSGeo Local Chapter is a flexible organization, join us and help steer.

=== Membership ===
Anyone who wants to help support our mission is free to become a member.
'''List yourself on the [[PDX_Member | PDX-OSGEO Member Page]] and you're in!'''

=== Mailing List ===
Please join our mailing list to make sure that you know what's going on. Sign up and participate (or just lurk for a while). We have two main lists:

* For general discussion and announcements: http://groups.google.com/group/pdx-osgeo You do need to answer the questions (what is your favorite map and something else I think) to the extent needed to demonstrate that you are a person and have the minimal amount of GEO knowledge to not be a random spammer.
* For planning upcoming meetings (open to all participants): http://lists.pdxosgeo.org/sympa/info/planners

=== IRC ===
We can be found on irc://irc.freenode.net/#osgeo-pdx when there is something to discuss.

=== Leadership ===
To the extent that we think that we need leadership, it is [[User:Percyd | Percy]]. Mostly we expect everyone to step up and help on most tasks resulting in a light load for all.

=== This Wiki ===
==== How To Write WIKI ====
Check out WikiPedia, where else. This is a great resource for many wiki writing tips
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Editing#Organizing_your_writing How to Write Wiki]

=== Event Set Up ===
[[Event set up]] notes.

== Geo Resources ==
=== SPRING GIS ===
[http://www.dpi.inpe.br/spring/english/index.html SPRING] is a state-of-the-art GIS and remote sensing image processing system with an object-oriented data model which provides for the integration of raster and vector data representations in a single environment. SPRING is a product of Brazil's National Institute for Space Research (INPE/DPI (Image Processing Division)[http://www.dpi.inpe.br/spring/english/index.html ...]

[[SPRING GIS documentation]]

=== USDA - NRCS SSURGO Soil Database Migration to PostgreSQL ===
An example of how to get SURGO soils data into a PostgreSQL database on a GNU/Linux-based OS.

[[File:SSURGO_to_PostgreSQL.odt]]|USDA - NRCS SSURGO Soil Database Migration to PostgreSQL

===The top seven alternatives to the Google Maps API===
Wm Leler of the PDX-OSGeo presented this topic and Net Magazine requested that he write it up at http://www.netmagazine.com/features/top-seven-alternatives-google-maps-api Article date: 2012-06-18.

=== Other useful links===
* [http://gis.stackexchange.com/ GIS Stack Exchange] for any GIS question for any software
* [http://slashgeo.org/ Slash Geo]
* [http://planet.osgeo.org/ Planet OSGeo]

== Acknowledgments ==
Thanks to various OSGeo local chapters and other wiki contributors whose work we borrowed and particularly CUGOS.

[[Category:Local Chapters]]
[[Category:PDX-OSGeo]]

PDX-OSGEO

2015-07-02T22:14:40Z

Wiki-Rbracket: /* Upcoming Events */ added summer mapathons

'''Welcome to the Portland, OR Chapter of OSGEO - serving Oregon and SW Washington!'''

== News ==
* We now meet on the 3th Wednesday of every month from 6:00-7:30 PM at various locations.

=== Meetings ===

We don't seem to update the Meetings portion of the website. Checking [http://calagator.org/events/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&query=osgeo Caligator] for "OSGeo" is probably the best route.

[[PDX_OSGEO_Meeting_Notes | Past Meeting Notes]]

[[PDX_OSGEO_Meeting_Planning | How to plan a meeting]]

{| class="wikitable"
|+ '''PDX-OSGEO Meetings, third Wednesdays, for 2015, 6:00-7:30 PM'''
|-
! Date
! Location
! Speakers, Topics
|-
| January 21
| Cramer
| QGIS and InkScape - Producing great cartography with open source tools by Dave Mangold.
|-
| Feb 18
| Cramer
| CartoCSS and UTFGrids for collaborative mapping by Nick Martinelli.
|-
| March 17
| Cramer
| Vector Tiles, Justin Miller [[http://justinmiller.io/posts/2015/01/20/anatomy-of-a-travel-map/ | http://justinmiller.io/posts/2015/01/20/anatomy-of-a-travel-map/ ]]
|-
| April 15
| Cramer
| Katie Urey, Ryan Peterson [[http://spiderosm.org| http://spiderosm.org ]]update
|-
| May 20
| location
| tbd
|-
| June 17
| location
| tbd
|-
| July 15
| location
| tbd
|-
| August 19
| location
| tbd
|-
| September 16
| location
| tbd
|-
| October 21
| location
| tbd
|-
| November 18
| location
| tbd
|-
| December 16
| location
| tbd
|-
|}

== Events ==

[[FOSS4G_2014 | links for various FOSS4G 2014 pages]]

=== Upcoming Events ===
[[Category:Events]]

2015 Summer Outdoor Mapathons, tentative schedule.

Monday July 6 - 6PM The Portland Building under Portlandia statue. Gab for 10 minutes, divvy up quadrants- head out.
Monday July 13 - Along Orange TriMet MAX line, Morning or noonish to work with Babies and strollers.
Monday July 20 - or a date that works for Matt Sayler, meet after work downtown Vancouver. Gab and Go.
Monday July 27 - noonish, – 82nd Ave and Division? Other ideas?

=== Past Events ===

2014
* Sep. 8-13 (Mon-Sat) [http://2014.foss4g.org/ FOSS4G 2014] (Portland, Oregon, USA, Earth, Sol, Milky)

2013
* Mar. 21 (Thu) GPS, Geodesy and the Ghost in the Machine: A Workshop for Surveyors and GIS Professionals [http://www.ogug.net/PDF%20files/Dennis%20GPS.pdf (PDF)] (Salem, Oregon)

* Apr. 30 - May 1 (Tue-Wed) [http://www.orurisa.org/GIS_In_Action GIS In Action 2013] (PDX)

* May 2 (Thurs) [[PDX-OSGeo_2013_Unconference|2013 Unconference]] (PDX)

* Aug. 27-29 (Tue-Thu) [http://geog.uvic.ca/CSRS2013/CSRS_2013/Home.html 34th Canadian Symposium on Remote Sensing] (Victoria, B. C., Canada)

* Sep. 4 (Wed) [http://www.orurisa.org/Events?eventId=702687&EventViewMode=EventDetails Central Oregon GIS - Cartography Outside of ESRI] (Bend, Oregon)

* Sep. 21 (Sat) [http://www.orurisa.org/Default.aspx?pageId=507168 Willamette Valley GIS Users Group Summer 2013 Quarterly Meeting] (Salem, Oregon)

* Sep. 23-25 (Mon-Wed) [http://gisgig.com/gisevents/2013-geoalberta-conference/ 2013 GeoAlberta Conference] (Edmonton, Alberta, Canada)

* Sep. 27-29 (Fri-Sun) {http://wherecamppdx.org/ WhereCampPDX 6] (Portland, Oregon)

* Oct. 14-18 (Mon-Fri) [http://sunriver2013.nwgis.org/ NWGIS Sunriver 2013] (Central Oregon)

* Oct 19 [http://calagator.org/events/1250464914 OpenStreetMap Fall Editathon] (Portland)

* Oct. 16 (Wed) [http://cugos.org/events/2013/10/16/fall-fling/ CUGOS 2013 Fall Fling] (Seattle, Washington)

* Oct. 23 (Wed) Randal Schwartz interviews Tim Sutton and Gary Sherman of [http://qgis.org QGIS] on [http://twit.tv/show/floss-weekly FLOSS Weekly TV] (internet)

* Oct. 25 (Fri) American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ASPRS) Columbia River & Puget Sound Regions [http://columbia.asprs.org/CRR/index.html 17th Annual Technical Exchange] (Vancouver, Washington)

* Nov. 8 (Fri) [http://www.christinafriedle.com/1/post/2013/09/save-the-date-2013-portland-cartography-symposium.html 2013 Portland Cartography Symposium] (Portland, Oregon)

2012

* Presentation for PLSO/ORURISA GIS in Action Conference 2012 - [https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1JlmI9S6ZHYtW2pEwe4VtVYw1rehxbqdgkutoWbKjAw4/edit Open Source Smackdown - Web Mapping Clients Edition]

2011

* Details on '''[[PDX-OSGEO#Unconference_March_31st_and_April_1st.2C_2011 | 2011 Open Source GIS unconference]]'''

[[PDX_OSGEO_Past_events | More past events ]]

== About the PDX-OSGeo Local Chapter ==
=== Introduction ===
PDX-OSGeo is a Local Chapter of OSGeo. PDX-OSGeo has a catchment area equal to the PDX airport, Oregon and SW Washington (Vancouver, WA / Clark County, WA). Monthly meetings are held in Portland.

=== History ===
PDX-OSGeo has been around and meeting in one form or another since before February 2009 under various names. Since September 2010, we have been recognized as an Oregon-URISA [http://orurisa.org/PDXOSGIS Special Interest Group (SIG)]. Since 2010, the local chapter has coordinated an open source unconference with ORURISA and [http://orurisa.org/GIS_In_Action GIS In Action]. There are also deep roots with our sister OSGeo Local Chapter, [http://cugos.org CUGOS]. In August, 2012, we became an official OSGeo local chapter by action of the OSGeo [[Board_Meeting_2012-08-09 | August, 2012 board meeting]].

=== Mission ===
The PDX-OSGeo Chapter strives to promote the local use of Open Source Geospatial software, particularly new users in the Oregon/SW Washington area. The group hosts monthly meetings providing presentation, discussion, and educational opportunities and focuses on materializing an annual Open Source GIS unconference.

=== Objectives ===
Monthly Meetings, usually totaling 10/year:
* Presentations (Application and Technical)
* Chapter business
* Social gathering

Regional Events:
* Open Source GIS unconference
* Conference participation

Communication:
* Mailing List
* Wiki Development
* Monthly meetings

Legal Status:
* No real independent legal structure.
* No real capacity to independently hold funds in other than ad hoc informal manner.
* Affiliations with OSGeo and ORURISA help us with some of the tasks that require legal recognition as an independent entity.
* There are currently no plans to seek any independent legal structure in the future.

=== Annual Reports ===
* [[PDX_OSGeo_Chapter_Annual_Report_2013 | 2013]]
* [[PDX_OSGeo_Chapter_Annual_Report_2012 | 2012]]
* [[PDX_OSGEO_Chapter_Annual_Report_2011 | 2011]]
* [[PDX_OSGEO_Chapter_Annual_Report_2010 | 2010]]

== Getting Involved ==
The PDX-OSGeo Local Chapter is a flexible organization, join us and help steer.

=== Membership ===
Anyone who wants to help support our mission is free to become a member.
'''List yourself on the [[PDX_Member | PDX-OSGEO Member Page]] and you're in!'''

=== Mailing List ===
Please join our mailing list to make sure that you know what's going on. Sign up and participate (or just lurk for a while). We have two main lists:

* For general discussion and announcements: http://groups.google.com/group/pdx-osgeo You do need to answer the questions (what is your favorite map and something else I think) to the extent needed to demonstrate that you are a person and have the minimal amount of GEO knowledge to not be a random spammer.
* For planning upcoming meetings (open to all participants): http://lists.pdxosgeo.org/sympa/info/planners

=== IRC ===
We can be found on irc://irc.freenode.net/#osgeo-pdx when there is something to discuss.

=== Leadership ===
To the extent that we think that we need leadership, it is [[User:Percyd | Percy]]. Mostly we expect everyone to step up and help on most tasks resulting in a light load for all.

=== This Wiki ===
==== How To Write WIKI ====
Check out WikiPedia, where else. This is a great resource for many wiki writing tips
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Editing#Organizing_your_writing How to Write Wiki]

=== Event Set Up ===
[[Event set up]] notes.

== Geo Resources ==
=== SPRING GIS ===
[http://www.dpi.inpe.br/spring/english/index.html SPRING] is a state-of-the-art GIS and remote sensing image processing system with an object-oriented data model which provides for the integration of raster and vector data representations in a single environment. SPRING is a product of Brazil's National Institute for Space Research (INPE/DPI (Image Processing Division)[http://www.dpi.inpe.br/spring/english/index.html ...]

[[SPRING GIS documentation]]

=== USDA - NRCS SSURGO Soil Database Migration to PostgreSQL ===
An example of how to get SURGO soils data into a PostgreSQL database on a GNU/Linux-based OS.

[[File:SSURGO_to_PostgreSQL.odt]]|USDA - NRCS SSURGO Soil Database Migration to PostgreSQL

===The top seven alternatives to the Google Maps API===
Wm Leler of the PDX-OSGeo presented this topic and Net Magazine requested that he write it up at http://www.netmagazine.com/features/top-seven-alternatives-google-maps-api Article date: 2012-06-18.

=== Other useful links===
* [http://gis.stackexchange.com/ GIS Stack Exchange] for any GIS question for any software
* [http://slashgeo.org/ Slash Geo]
* [http://planet.osgeo.org/ Planet OSGeo]

== Acknowledgments ==
Thanks to various OSGeo local chapters and other wiki contributors whose work we borrowed and particularly CUGOS.

[[Category:Local Chapters]]
[[Category:PDX-OSGeo]]

PDX-OSGEO

2015-05-11T21:38:16Z

Wiki-Rbracket: /* Meetings */ --added date for July...July 15..

'''Welcome to the Portland, OR Chapter of OSGEO - serving Oregon and SW Washington!'''

== News ==
* We now meet on the 3th Wednesday of every month from 6:00-7:30 PM at various locations.

=== Meetings ===

We don't seem to update the Meetings portion of the website. Checking [http://calagator.org/events/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&query=osgeo Caligator] for "OSGeo" is probably the best route.

[[PDX_OSGEO_Meeting_Notes | Past Meeting Notes]]

[[PDX_OSGEO_Meeting_Planning | How to plan a meeting]]

{| class="wikitable"
|+ '''PDX-OSGEO Meetings, third Wednesdays, for 2015, 6:00-7:30 PM'''
|-
! Date
! Location
! Speakers, Topics
|-
| January 21
| Cramer
| QGIS and InkScape - Producing great cartography with open source tools by Dave Mangold.
|-
| Feb 18
| Cramer
| CartoCSS and UTFGrids for collaborative mapping by Nick Martinelli.
|-
| March 17
| Cramer
| Vector Tiles, Justin Miller [[http://justinmiller.io/posts/2015/01/20/anatomy-of-a-travel-map/ | http://justinmiller.io/posts/2015/01/20/anatomy-of-a-travel-map/ ]]
|-
| April 15
| Cramer
| Katie Urey, Ryan Peterson [[http://spiderosm.org| http://spiderosm.org ]]update
|-
| May 20
| location
| tbd
|-
| June 17
| location
| tbd
|-
| July 15
| location
| tbd
|-
| August 19
| location
| tbd
|-
| September 16
| location
| tbd
|-
| October 21
| location
| tbd
|-
| November 18
| location
| tbd
|-
| December 16
| location
| tbd
|-
|}

== Events ==

[[FOSS4G_2014 | links for various FOSS4G 2014 pages]]

=== Upcoming Events ===
[[Category:Events]]

PDX-OSGeo members are encouraged to participate.

=== Past Events ===

2014
* Sep. 8-13 (Mon-Sat) [http://2014.foss4g.org/ FOSS4G 2014] (Portland, Oregon, USA, Earth, Sol, Milky)

2013
* Mar. 21 (Thu) GPS, Geodesy and the Ghost in the Machine: A Workshop for Surveyors and GIS Professionals [http://www.ogug.net/PDF%20files/Dennis%20GPS.pdf (PDF)] (Salem, Oregon)

* Apr. 30 - May 1 (Tue-Wed) [http://www.orurisa.org/GIS_In_Action GIS In Action 2013] (PDX)

* May 2 (Thurs) [[PDX-OSGeo_2013_Unconference|2013 Unconference]] (PDX)

* Aug. 27-29 (Tue-Thu) [http://geog.uvic.ca/CSRS2013/CSRS_2013/Home.html 34th Canadian Symposium on Remote Sensing] (Victoria, B. C., Canada)

* Sep. 4 (Wed) [http://www.orurisa.org/Events?eventId=702687&EventViewMode=EventDetails Central Oregon GIS - Cartography Outside of ESRI] (Bend, Oregon)

* Sep. 21 (Sat) [http://www.orurisa.org/Default.aspx?pageId=507168 Willamette Valley GIS Users Group Summer 2013 Quarterly Meeting] (Salem, Oregon)

* Sep. 23-25 (Mon-Wed) [http://gisgig.com/gisevents/2013-geoalberta-conference/ 2013 GeoAlberta Conference] (Edmonton, Alberta, Canada)

* Sep. 27-29 (Fri-Sun) {http://wherecamppdx.org/ WhereCampPDX 6] (Portland, Oregon)

* Oct. 14-18 (Mon-Fri) [http://sunriver2013.nwgis.org/ NWGIS Sunriver 2013] (Central Oregon)

* Oct 19 [http://calagator.org/events/1250464914 OpenStreetMap Fall Editathon] (Portland)

* Oct. 16 (Wed) [http://cugos.org/events/2013/10/16/fall-fling/ CUGOS 2013 Fall Fling] (Seattle, Washington)

* Oct. 23 (Wed) Randal Schwartz interviews Tim Sutton and Gary Sherman of [http://qgis.org QGIS] on [http://twit.tv/show/floss-weekly FLOSS Weekly TV] (internet)

* Oct. 25 (Fri) American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ASPRS) Columbia River & Puget Sound Regions [http://columbia.asprs.org/CRR/index.html 17th Annual Technical Exchange] (Vancouver, Washington)

* Nov. 8 (Fri) [http://www.christinafriedle.com/1/post/2013/09/save-the-date-2013-portland-cartography-symposium.html 2013 Portland Cartography Symposium] (Portland, Oregon)

2012

* Presentation for PLSO/ORURISA GIS in Action Conference 2012 - [https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1JlmI9S6ZHYtW2pEwe4VtVYw1rehxbqdgkutoWbKjAw4/edit Open Source Smackdown - Web Mapping Clients Edition]

2011

* Details on '''[[PDX-OSGEO#Unconference_March_31st_and_April_1st.2C_2011 | 2011 Open Source GIS unconference]]'''

[[PDX_OSGEO_Past_events | More past events ]]

== About the PDX-OSGeo Local Chapter ==
=== Introduction ===
PDX-OSGeo is a Local Chapter of OSGeo. PDX-OSGeo has a catchment area equal to the PDX airport, Oregon and SW Washington (Vancouver, WA / Clark County, WA). Monthly meetings are held in Portland.

=== History ===
PDX-OSGeo has been around and meeting in one form or another since before February 2009 under various names. Since September 2010, we have been recognized as an Oregon-URISA [http://orurisa.org/PDXOSGIS Special Interest Group (SIG)]. Since 2010, the local chapter has coordinated an open source unconference with ORURISA and [http://orurisa.org/GIS_In_Action GIS In Action]. There are also deep roots with our sister OSGeo Local Chapter, [http://cugos.org CUGOS]. In August, 2012, we became an official OSGeo local chapter by action of the OSGeo [[Board_Meeting_2012-08-09 | August, 2012 board meeting]].

=== Mission ===
The PDX-OSGeo Chapter strives to promote the local use of Open Source Geospatial software, particularly new users in the Oregon/SW Washington area. The group hosts monthly meetings providing presentation, discussion, and educational opportunities and focuses on materializing an annual Open Source GIS unconference.

=== Objectives ===
Monthly Meetings, usually totaling 10/year:
* Presentations (Application and Technical)
* Chapter business
* Social gathering

Regional Events:
* Open Source GIS unconference
* Conference participation

Communication:
* Mailing List
* Wiki Development
* Monthly meetings

Legal Status:
* No real independent legal structure.
* No real capacity to independently hold funds in other than ad hoc informal manner.
* Affiliations with OSGeo and ORURISA help us with some of the tasks that require legal recognition as an independent entity.
* There are currently no plans to seek any independent legal structure in the future.

=== Annual Reports ===
* [[PDX_OSGeo_Chapter_Annual_Report_2013 | 2013]]
* [[PDX_OSGeo_Chapter_Annual_Report_2012 | 2012]]
* [[PDX_OSGEO_Chapter_Annual_Report_2011 | 2011]]
* [[PDX_OSGEO_Chapter_Annual_Report_2010 | 2010]]

== Getting Involved ==
The PDX-OSGeo Local Chapter is a flexible organization, join us and help steer.

=== Membership ===
Anyone who wants to help support our mission is free to become a member.
'''List yourself on the [[PDX_Member | PDX-OSGEO Member Page]] and you're in!'''

=== Mailing List ===
Please join our mailing list to make sure that you know what's going on. Sign up and participate (or just lurk for a while). We have two main lists:

* For general discussion and announcements: http://groups.google.com/group/pdx-osgeo You do need to answer the questions (what is your favorite map and something else I think) to the extent needed to demonstrate that you are a person and have the minimal amount of GEO knowledge to not be a random spammer.
* For planning upcoming meetings (open to all participants): http://lists.pdxosgeo.org/sympa/info/planners

=== IRC ===
We can be found on irc://irc.freenode.net/#osgeo-pdx when there is something to discuss.

=== Leadership ===
To the extent that we think that we need leadership, it is [[User:Percyd | Percy]]. Mostly we expect everyone to step up and help on most tasks resulting in a light load for all.

=== This Wiki ===
==== How To Write WIKI ====
Check out WikiPedia, where else. This is a great resource for many wiki writing tips
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Editing#Organizing_your_writing How to Write Wiki]

=== Event Set Up ===
[[Event set up]] notes.

== Geo Resources ==
=== SPRING GIS ===
[http://www.dpi.inpe.br/spring/english/index.html SPRING] is a state-of-the-art GIS and remote sensing image processing system with an object-oriented data model which provides for the integration of raster and vector data representations in a single environment. SPRING is a product of Brazil's National Institute for Space Research (INPE/DPI (Image Processing Division)[http://www.dpi.inpe.br/spring/english/index.html ...]

[[SPRING GIS documentation]]

=== USDA - NRCS SSURGO Soil Database Migration to PostgreSQL ===
An example of how to get SURGO soils data into a PostgreSQL database on a GNU/Linux-based OS.

[[File:SSURGO_to_PostgreSQL.odt]]|USDA - NRCS SSURGO Soil Database Migration to PostgreSQL

===The top seven alternatives to the Google Maps API===
Wm Leler of the PDX-OSGeo presented this topic and Net Magazine requested that he write it up at http://www.netmagazine.com/features/top-seven-alternatives-google-maps-api Article date: 2012-06-18.

=== Other useful links===
* [http://gis.stackexchange.com/ GIS Stack Exchange] for any GIS question for any software
* [http://slashgeo.org/ Slash Geo]
* [http://planet.osgeo.org/ Planet OSGeo]

== Acknowledgments ==
Thanks to various OSGeo local chapters and other wiki contributors whose work we borrowed and particularly CUGOS.

[[Category:Local Chapters]]
[[Category:PDX-OSGeo]]

PDX-OSGEO

2015-05-07T20:22:11Z

Wiki-Rbracket: /* Meetings */ January unbolded, spelling correction

'''Welcome to the Portland, OR Chapter of OSGEO - serving Oregon and SW Washington!'''

== News ==
* We now meet on the 3th Wednesday of every month from 6:00-7:30 PM at various locations.

=== Meetings ===

We don't seem to update the Meetings portion of the website. Checking [http://calagator.org/events/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&query=osgeo Caligator] for "OSGeo" is probably the best route.

[[PDX_OSGEO_Meeting_Notes | Past Meeting Notes]]

[[PDX_OSGEO_Meeting_Planning | How to plan a meeting]]

{| class="wikitable"
|+ '''PDX-OSGEO Meetings, third Wednesdays, for 2015, 6:00-7:30 PM'''
|-
! Date
! Location
! Speakers, Topics
|-
| January 21
| Location
| Monthly Meeting
|-
| Feb 18
| location
| Monthly Meeting
|-
| March 17
| Cramer
| Vector Tiles, Justin Miller [[http://justinmiller.io/posts/2015/01/20/anatomy-of-a-travel-map/ | http://justinmiller.io/posts/2015/01/20/anatomy-of-a-travel-map/ ]]
|-
| April 15
| Cramer
| Katie Urey, Ryan Peterson [[http://spiderosm.org| http://spiderosm.org ]]update
|-
| May 20
| location
| tbd
|-
| June 17
| location
| tbd
|-
| July
| location
| tbd
|-
| August 19
| location
| tbd
|-
| September 16
| location
| tbd
|-
| October 21
| location
| tbd
|-
| November 18
| location
| tbd
|-
| December 16
| location
| tbd
|-
|}

== Events ==

[[FOSS4G_2014 | links for various FOSS4G 2014 pages]]

=== Upcoming Events ===
[[Category:Events]]

PDX-OSGeo members are encouraged to participate.

=== Past Events ===

2014
* Sep. 8-13 (Mon-Sat) [http://2014.foss4g.org/ FOSS4G 2014] (Portland, Oregon, USA, Earth, Sol, Milky)

2013
* Mar. 21 (Thu) GPS, Geodesy and the Ghost in the Machine: A Workshop for Surveyors and GIS Professionals [http://www.ogug.net/PDF%20files/Dennis%20GPS.pdf (PDF)] (Salem, Oregon)

* Apr. 30 - May 1 (Tue-Wed) [http://www.orurisa.org/GIS_In_Action GIS In Action 2013] (PDX)

* May 2 (Thurs) [[PDX-OSGeo_2013_Unconference|2013 Unconference]] (PDX)

* Aug. 27-29 (Tue-Thu) [http://geog.uvic.ca/CSRS2013/CSRS_2013/Home.html 34th Canadian Symposium on Remote Sensing] (Victoria, B. C., Canada)

* Sep. 4 (Wed) [http://www.orurisa.org/Events?eventId=702687&EventViewMode=EventDetails Central Oregon GIS - Cartography Outside of ESRI] (Bend, Oregon)

* Sep. 21 (Sat) [http://www.orurisa.org/Default.aspx?pageId=507168 Willamette Valley GIS Users Group Summer 2013 Quarterly Meeting] (Salem, Oregon)

* Sep. 23-25 (Mon-Wed) [http://gisgig.com/gisevents/2013-geoalberta-conference/ 2013 GeoAlberta Conference] (Edmonton, Alberta, Canada)

* Sep. 27-29 (Fri-Sun) {http://wherecamppdx.org/ WhereCampPDX 6] (Portland, Oregon)

* Oct. 14-18 (Mon-Fri) [http://sunriver2013.nwgis.org/ NWGIS Sunriver 2013] (Central Oregon)

* Oct 19 [http://calagator.org/events/1250464914 OpenStreetMap Fall Editathon] (Portland)

* Oct. 16 (Wed) [http://cugos.org/events/2013/10/16/fall-fling/ CUGOS 2013 Fall Fling] (Seattle, Washington)

* Oct. 23 (Wed) Randal Schwartz interviews Tim Sutton and Gary Sherman of [http://qgis.org QGIS] on [http://twit.tv/show/floss-weekly FLOSS Weekly TV] (internet)

* Oct. 25 (Fri) American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ASPRS) Columbia River & Puget Sound Regions [http://columbia.asprs.org/CRR/index.html 17th Annual Technical Exchange] (Vancouver, Washington)

* Nov. 8 (Fri) [http://www.christinafriedle.com/1/post/2013/09/save-the-date-2013-portland-cartography-symposium.html 2013 Portland Cartography Symposium] (Portland, Oregon)

2012

* Presentation for PLSO/ORURISA GIS in Action Conference 2012 - [https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1JlmI9S6ZHYtW2pEwe4VtVYw1rehxbqdgkutoWbKjAw4/edit Open Source Smackdown - Web Mapping Clients Edition]

2011

* Details on '''[[PDX-OSGEO#Unconference_March_31st_and_April_1st.2C_2011 | 2011 Open Source GIS unconference]]'''

[[PDX_OSGEO_Past_events | More past events ]]

== About the PDX-OSGeo Local Chapter ==
=== Introduction ===
PDX-OSGeo is a Local Chapter of OSGeo. PDX-OSGeo has a catchment area equal to the PDX airport, Oregon and SW Washington (Vancouver, WA / Clark County, WA). Monthly meetings are held in Portland.

=== History ===
PDX-OSGeo has been around and meeting in one form or another since before February 2009 under various names. Since September 2010, we have been recognized as an Oregon-URISA [http://orurisa.org/PDXOSGIS Special Interest Group (SIG)]. Since 2010, the local chapter has coordinated an open source unconference with ORURISA and [http://orurisa.org/GIS_In_Action GIS In Action]. There are also deep roots with our sister OSGeo Local Chapter, [http://cugos.org CUGOS]. In August, 2012, we became an official OSGeo local chapter by action of the OSGeo [[Board_Meeting_2012-08-09 | August, 2012 board meeting]].

=== Mission ===
The PDX-OSGeo Chapter strives to promote the local use of Open Source Geospatial software, particularly new users in the Oregon/SW Washington area. The group hosts monthly meetings providing presentation, discussion, and educational opportunities and focuses on materializing an annual Open Source GIS unconference.

=== Objectives ===
Monthly Meetings, usually totaling 10/year:
* Presentations (Application and Technical)
* Chapter business
* Social gathering

Regional Events:
* Open Source GIS unconference
* Conference participation

Communication:
* Mailing List
* Wiki Development
* Monthly meetings

Legal Status:
* No real independent legal structure.
* No real capacity to independently hold funds in other than ad hoc informal manner.
* Affiliations with OSGeo and ORURISA help us with some of the tasks that require legal recognition as an independent entity.
* There are currently no plans to seek any independent legal structure in the future.

=== Annual Reports ===
* [[PDX_OSGeo_Chapter_Annual_Report_2013 | 2013]]
* [[PDX_OSGeo_Chapter_Annual_Report_2012 | 2012]]
* [[PDX_OSGEO_Chapter_Annual_Report_2011 | 2011]]
* [[PDX_OSGEO_Chapter_Annual_Report_2010 | 2010]]

== Getting Involved ==
The PDX-OSGeo Local Chapter is a flexible organization, join us and help steer.

=== Membership ===
Anyone who wants to help support our mission is free to become a member.
'''List yourself on the [[PDX_Member | PDX-OSGEO Member Page]] and you're in!'''

=== Mailing List ===
Please join our mailing list to make sure that you know what's going on. Sign up and participate (or just lurk for a while). We have two main lists:

* For general discussion and announcements: http://groups.google.com/group/pdx-osgeo You do need to answer the questions (what is your favorite map and something else I think) to the extent needed to demonstrate that you are a person and have the minimal amount of GEO knowledge to not be a random spammer.
* For planning upcoming meetings (open to all participants): http://lists.pdxosgeo.org/sympa/info/planners

=== IRC ===
We can be found on irc://irc.freenode.net/#osgeo-pdx when there is something to discuss.

=== Leadership ===
To the extent that we think that we need leadership, it is [[User:Percyd | Percy]]. Mostly we expect everyone to step up and help on most tasks resulting in a light load for all.

=== This Wiki ===
==== How To Write WIKI ====
Check out WikiPedia, where else. This is a great resource for many wiki writing tips
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Editing#Organizing_your_writing How to Write Wiki]

=== Event Set Up ===
[[Event set up]] notes.

== Geo Resources ==
=== SPRING GIS ===
[http://www.dpi.inpe.br/spring/english/index.html SPRING] is a state-of-the-art GIS and remote sensing image processing system with an object-oriented data model which provides for the integration of raster and vector data representations in a single environment. SPRING is a product of Brazil's National Institute for Space Research (INPE/DPI (Image Processing Division)[http://www.dpi.inpe.br/spring/english/index.html ...]

[[SPRING GIS documentation]]

=== USDA - NRCS SSURGO Soil Database Migration to PostgreSQL ===
An example of how to get SURGO soils data into a PostgreSQL database on a GNU/Linux-based OS.

[[File:SSURGO_to_PostgreSQL.odt]]|USDA - NRCS SSURGO Soil Database Migration to PostgreSQL

===The top seven alternatives to the Google Maps API===
Wm Leler of the PDX-OSGeo presented this topic and Net Magazine requested that he write it up at http://www.netmagazine.com/features/top-seven-alternatives-google-maps-api Article date: 2012-06-18.

=== Other useful links===
* [http://gis.stackexchange.com/ GIS Stack Exchange] for any GIS question for any software
* [http://slashgeo.org/ Slash Geo]
* [http://planet.osgeo.org/ Planet OSGeo]

== Acknowledgments ==
Thanks to various OSGeo local chapters and other wiki contributors whose work we borrowed and particularly CUGOS.

[[Category:Local Chapters]]
[[Category:PDX-OSGeo]]

PDX-OSGEO

2015-05-07T20:17:54Z

Wiki-Rbracket: /* Meetings */ added meeting time

'''Welcome to the Portland, OR Chapter of OSGEO - serving Oregon and SW Washington!'''

== News ==
* We now meet on the 3th Wednesday of every month from 6:00-7:30 PM at various locations.

=== Meetings ===

We don't seem to update the Meetings portion of the website. Checking [http://calagator.org/events/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&query=osgeo Caligator] for "OSGeo" is probably the best route.

[[PDX_OSGEO_Meeting_Notes | Past Meeting Notes]]

[[PDX_OSGEO_Meeting_Planning | How to plan a meeting]]

{| class="wikitable"
|+ '''PDX-OSGEO Meetings, third Wednesdays, for 2015, 6:00-7:30 PM'''
|-
! Date
! Location
! Speakers, Topics
|-
! Janauary 21
| Location
| Monthly Meeting
|-
| Feb 18
| location
| Monthly Meeting
|-
| March 17
| Cramer
| Vector Tiles, Justin Miller [[http://justinmiller.io/posts/2015/01/20/anatomy-of-a-travel-map/ | http://justinmiller.io/posts/2015/01/20/anatomy-of-a-travel-map/ ]]
|-
| April 15
| Cramer
| Katie Urey, Ryan Peterson [[http://spiderosm.org| http://spiderosm.org ]]update
|-
| May 20
| location
| tbd
|-
| June 17
| location
| tbd
|-
| July
| location
| tbd
|-
| August 19
| location
| tbd
|-
| September 16
| location
| tbd
|-
| October 21
| location
| tbd
|-
| November 18
| location
| tbd
|-
| December 16
| location
| tbd
|-
|}

== Events ==

[[FOSS4G_2014 | links for various FOSS4G 2014 pages]]

=== Upcoming Events ===
[[Category:Events]]

PDX-OSGeo members are encouraged to participate.

=== Past Events ===

2014
* Sep. 8-13 (Mon-Sat) [http://2014.foss4g.org/ FOSS4G 2014] (Portland, Oregon, USA, Earth, Sol, Milky)

2013
* Mar. 21 (Thu) GPS, Geodesy and the Ghost in the Machine: A Workshop for Surveyors and GIS Professionals [http://www.ogug.net/PDF%20files/Dennis%20GPS.pdf (PDF)] (Salem, Oregon)

* Apr. 30 - May 1 (Tue-Wed) [http://www.orurisa.org/GIS_In_Action GIS In Action 2013] (PDX)

* May 2 (Thurs) [[PDX-OSGeo_2013_Unconference|2013 Unconference]] (PDX)

* Aug. 27-29 (Tue-Thu) [http://geog.uvic.ca/CSRS2013/CSRS_2013/Home.html 34th Canadian Symposium on Remote Sensing] (Victoria, B. C., Canada)

* Sep. 4 (Wed) [http://www.orurisa.org/Events?eventId=702687&EventViewMode=EventDetails Central Oregon GIS - Cartography Outside of ESRI] (Bend, Oregon)

* Sep. 21 (Sat) [http://www.orurisa.org/Default.aspx?pageId=507168 Willamette Valley GIS Users Group Summer 2013 Quarterly Meeting] (Salem, Oregon)

* Sep. 23-25 (Mon-Wed) [http://gisgig.com/gisevents/2013-geoalberta-conference/ 2013 GeoAlberta Conference] (Edmonton, Alberta, Canada)

* Sep. 27-29 (Fri-Sun) {http://wherecamppdx.org/ WhereCampPDX 6] (Portland, Oregon)

* Oct. 14-18 (Mon-Fri) [http://sunriver2013.nwgis.org/ NWGIS Sunriver 2013] (Central Oregon)

* Oct 19 [http://calagator.org/events/1250464914 OpenStreetMap Fall Editathon] (Portland)

* Oct. 16 (Wed) [http://cugos.org/events/2013/10/16/fall-fling/ CUGOS 2013 Fall Fling] (Seattle, Washington)

* Oct. 23 (Wed) Randal Schwartz interviews Tim Sutton and Gary Sherman of [http://qgis.org QGIS] on [http://twit.tv/show/floss-weekly FLOSS Weekly TV] (internet)

* Oct. 25 (Fri) American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ASPRS) Columbia River & Puget Sound Regions [http://columbia.asprs.org/CRR/index.html 17th Annual Technical Exchange] (Vancouver, Washington)

* Nov. 8 (Fri) [http://www.christinafriedle.com/1/post/2013/09/save-the-date-2013-portland-cartography-symposium.html 2013 Portland Cartography Symposium] (Portland, Oregon)

2012

* Presentation for PLSO/ORURISA GIS in Action Conference 2012 - [https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1JlmI9S6ZHYtW2pEwe4VtVYw1rehxbqdgkutoWbKjAw4/edit Open Source Smackdown - Web Mapping Clients Edition]

2011

* Details on '''[[PDX-OSGEO#Unconference_March_31st_and_April_1st.2C_2011 | 2011 Open Source GIS unconference]]'''

[[PDX_OSGEO_Past_events | More past events ]]

== About the PDX-OSGeo Local Chapter ==
=== Introduction ===
PDX-OSGeo is a Local Chapter of OSGeo. PDX-OSGeo has a catchment area equal to the PDX airport, Oregon and SW Washington (Vancouver, WA / Clark County, WA). Monthly meetings are held in Portland.

=== History ===
PDX-OSGeo has been around and meeting in one form or another since before February 2009 under various names. Since September 2010, we have been recognized as an Oregon-URISA [http://orurisa.org/PDXOSGIS Special Interest Group (SIG)]. Since 2010, the local chapter has coordinated an open source unconference with ORURISA and [http://orurisa.org/GIS_In_Action GIS In Action]. There are also deep roots with our sister OSGeo Local Chapter, [http://cugos.org CUGOS]. In August, 2012, we became an official OSGeo local chapter by action of the OSGeo [[Board_Meeting_2012-08-09 | August, 2012 board meeting]].

=== Mission ===
The PDX-OSGeo Chapter strives to promote the local use of Open Source Geospatial software, particularly new users in the Oregon/SW Washington area. The group hosts monthly meetings providing presentation, discussion, and educational opportunities and focuses on materializing an annual Open Source GIS unconference.

=== Objectives ===
Monthly Meetings, usually totaling 10/year:
* Presentations (Application and Technical)
* Chapter business
* Social gathering

Regional Events:
* Open Source GIS unconference
* Conference participation

Communication:
* Mailing List
* Wiki Development
* Monthly meetings

Legal Status:
* No real independent legal structure.
* No real capacity to independently hold funds in other than ad hoc informal manner.
* Affiliations with OSGeo and ORURISA help us with some of the tasks that require legal recognition as an independent entity.
* There are currently no plans to seek any independent legal structure in the future.

=== Annual Reports ===
* [[PDX_OSGeo_Chapter_Annual_Report_2013 | 2013]]
* [[PDX_OSGeo_Chapter_Annual_Report_2012 | 2012]]
* [[PDX_OSGEO_Chapter_Annual_Report_2011 | 2011]]
* [[PDX_OSGEO_Chapter_Annual_Report_2010 | 2010]]

== Getting Involved ==
The PDX-OSGeo Local Chapter is a flexible organization, join us and help steer.

=== Membership ===
Anyone who wants to help support our mission is free to become a member.
'''List yourself on the [[PDX_Member | PDX-OSGEO Member Page]] and you're in!'''

=== Mailing List ===
Please join our mailing list to make sure that you know what's going on. Sign up and participate (or just lurk for a while). We have two main lists:

* For general discussion and announcements: http://groups.google.com/group/pdx-osgeo You do need to answer the questions (what is your favorite map and something else I think) to the extent needed to demonstrate that you are a person and have the minimal amount of GEO knowledge to not be a random spammer.
* For planning upcoming meetings (open to all participants): http://lists.pdxosgeo.org/sympa/info/planners

=== IRC ===
We can be found on irc://irc.freenode.net/#osgeo-pdx when there is something to discuss.

=== Leadership ===
To the extent that we think that we need leadership, it is [[User:Percyd | Percy]]. Mostly we expect everyone to step up and help on most tasks resulting in a light load for all.

=== This Wiki ===
==== How To Write WIKI ====
Check out WikiPedia, where else. This is a great resource for many wiki writing tips
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Editing#Organizing_your_writing How to Write Wiki]

=== Event Set Up ===
[[Event set up]] notes.

== Geo Resources ==
=== SPRING GIS ===
[http://www.dpi.inpe.br/spring/english/index.html SPRING] is a state-of-the-art GIS and remote sensing image processing system with an object-oriented data model which provides for the integration of raster and vector data representations in a single environment. SPRING is a product of Brazil's National Institute for Space Research (INPE/DPI (Image Processing Division)[http://www.dpi.inpe.br/spring/english/index.html ...]

[[SPRING GIS documentation]]

=== USDA - NRCS SSURGO Soil Database Migration to PostgreSQL ===
An example of how to get SURGO soils data into a PostgreSQL database on a GNU/Linux-based OS.

[[File:SSURGO_to_PostgreSQL.odt]]|USDA - NRCS SSURGO Soil Database Migration to PostgreSQL

===The top seven alternatives to the Google Maps API===
Wm Leler of the PDX-OSGeo presented this topic and Net Magazine requested that he write it up at http://www.netmagazine.com/features/top-seven-alternatives-google-maps-api Article date: 2012-06-18.

=== Other useful links===
* [http://gis.stackexchange.com/ GIS Stack Exchange] for any GIS question for any software
* [http://slashgeo.org/ Slash Geo]
* [http://planet.osgeo.org/ Planet OSGeo]

== Acknowledgments ==
Thanks to various OSGeo local chapters and other wiki contributors whose work we borrowed and particularly CUGOS.

[[Category:Local Chapters]]
[[Category:PDX-OSGeo]]

PDX-OSGEO

2015-05-07T20:16:42Z

Wiki-Rbracket: /* Meetings */ Added a table of 2015 meetings

'''Welcome to the Portland, OR Chapter of OSGEO - serving Oregon and SW Washington!'''

== News ==
* We now meet on the 3th Wednesday of every month from 6:00-7:30 PM at various locations.

=== Meetings ===

We don't seem to update the Meetings portion of the website. Checking [http://calagator.org/events/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&query=osgeo Caligator] for "OSGeo" is probably the best route.

[[PDX_OSGEO_Meeting_Notes | Past Meeting Notes]]

[[PDX_OSGEO_Meeting_Planning | How to plan a meeting]]

{| class="wikitable"
|+ '''PDX-OSGEO Meetings, third Wednesdays, for 2015'''
|-
! Date
! Location
! Speakers, Topics
|-
! Janauary 21
| Location
| Monthly Meeting
|-
| Feb 18
| location
| Monthly Meeting
|-
| March 17
| Cramer
| Vector Tiles, Justin Miller [[http://justinmiller.io/posts/2015/01/20/anatomy-of-a-travel-map/ | http://justinmiller.io/posts/2015/01/20/anatomy-of-a-travel-map/ ]]
|-
| April 15
| Cramer
| Katie Urey, Ryan Peterson [[http://spiderosm.org| http://spiderosm.org ]]update
|-
| May 20
| location
| tbd
|-
| June 17
| location
| tbd
|-
| July
| location
| tbd
|-
| August 19
| location
| tbd
|-
| September 16
| location
| tbd
|-
| October 21
| location
| tbd
|-
| November 18
| location
| tbd
|-
| December 16
| location
| tbd
|-
|}

== Events ==

[[FOSS4G_2014 | links for various FOSS4G 2014 pages]]

=== Upcoming Events ===
[[Category:Events]]

PDX-OSGeo members are encouraged to participate.

=== Past Events ===

2014
* Sep. 8-13 (Mon-Sat) [http://2014.foss4g.org/ FOSS4G 2014] (Portland, Oregon, USA, Earth, Sol, Milky)

2013
* Mar. 21 (Thu) GPS, Geodesy and the Ghost in the Machine: A Workshop for Surveyors and GIS Professionals [http://www.ogug.net/PDF%20files/Dennis%20GPS.pdf (PDF)] (Salem, Oregon)

* Apr. 30 - May 1 (Tue-Wed) [http://www.orurisa.org/GIS_In_Action GIS In Action 2013] (PDX)

* May 2 (Thurs) [[PDX-OSGeo_2013_Unconference|2013 Unconference]] (PDX)

* Aug. 27-29 (Tue-Thu) [http://geog.uvic.ca/CSRS2013/CSRS_2013/Home.html 34th Canadian Symposium on Remote Sensing] (Victoria, B. C., Canada)

* Sep. 4 (Wed) [http://www.orurisa.org/Events?eventId=702687&EventViewMode=EventDetails Central Oregon GIS - Cartography Outside of ESRI] (Bend, Oregon)

* Sep. 21 (Sat) [http://www.orurisa.org/Default.aspx?pageId=507168 Willamette Valley GIS Users Group Summer 2013 Quarterly Meeting] (Salem, Oregon)

* Sep. 23-25 (Mon-Wed) [http://gisgig.com/gisevents/2013-geoalberta-conference/ 2013 GeoAlberta Conference] (Edmonton, Alberta, Canada)

* Sep. 27-29 (Fri-Sun) {http://wherecamppdx.org/ WhereCampPDX 6] (Portland, Oregon)

* Oct. 14-18 (Mon-Fri) [http://sunriver2013.nwgis.org/ NWGIS Sunriver 2013] (Central Oregon)

* Oct 19 [http://calagator.org/events/1250464914 OpenStreetMap Fall Editathon] (Portland)

* Oct. 16 (Wed) [http://cugos.org/events/2013/10/16/fall-fling/ CUGOS 2013 Fall Fling] (Seattle, Washington)

* Oct. 23 (Wed) Randal Schwartz interviews Tim Sutton and Gary Sherman of [http://qgis.org QGIS] on [http://twit.tv/show/floss-weekly FLOSS Weekly TV] (internet)

* Oct. 25 (Fri) American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ASPRS) Columbia River & Puget Sound Regions [http://columbia.asprs.org/CRR/index.html 17th Annual Technical Exchange] (Vancouver, Washington)

* Nov. 8 (Fri) [http://www.christinafriedle.com/1/post/2013/09/save-the-date-2013-portland-cartography-symposium.html 2013 Portland Cartography Symposium] (Portland, Oregon)

2012

* Presentation for PLSO/ORURISA GIS in Action Conference 2012 - [https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1JlmI9S6ZHYtW2pEwe4VtVYw1rehxbqdgkutoWbKjAw4/edit Open Source Smackdown - Web Mapping Clients Edition]

2011

* Details on '''[[PDX-OSGEO#Unconference_March_31st_and_April_1st.2C_2011 | 2011 Open Source GIS unconference]]'''

[[PDX_OSGEO_Past_events | More past events ]]

== About the PDX-OSGeo Local Chapter ==
=== Introduction ===
PDX-OSGeo is a Local Chapter of OSGeo. PDX-OSGeo has a catchment area equal to the PDX airport, Oregon and SW Washington (Vancouver, WA / Clark County, WA). Monthly meetings are held in Portland.

=== History ===
PDX-OSGeo has been around and meeting in one form or another since before February 2009 under various names. Since September 2010, we have been recognized as an Oregon-URISA [http://orurisa.org/PDXOSGIS Special Interest Group (SIG)]. Since 2010, the local chapter has coordinated an open source unconference with ORURISA and [http://orurisa.org/GIS_In_Action GIS In Action]. There are also deep roots with our sister OSGeo Local Chapter, [http://cugos.org CUGOS]. In August, 2012, we became an official OSGeo local chapter by action of the OSGeo [[Board_Meeting_2012-08-09 | August, 2012 board meeting]].

=== Mission ===
The PDX-OSGeo Chapter strives to promote the local use of Open Source Geospatial software, particularly new users in the Oregon/SW Washington area. The group hosts monthly meetings providing presentation, discussion, and educational opportunities and focuses on materializing an annual Open Source GIS unconference.

=== Objectives ===
Monthly Meetings, usually totaling 10/year:
* Presentations (Application and Technical)
* Chapter business
* Social gathering

Regional Events:
* Open Source GIS unconference
* Conference participation

Communication:
* Mailing List
* Wiki Development
* Monthly meetings

Legal Status:
* No real independent legal structure.
* No real capacity to independently hold funds in other than ad hoc informal manner.
* Affiliations with OSGeo and ORURISA help us with some of the tasks that require legal recognition as an independent entity.
* There are currently no plans to seek any independent legal structure in the future.

=== Annual Reports ===
* [[PDX_OSGeo_Chapter_Annual_Report_2013 | 2013]]
* [[PDX_OSGeo_Chapter_Annual_Report_2012 | 2012]]
* [[PDX_OSGEO_Chapter_Annual_Report_2011 | 2011]]
* [[PDX_OSGEO_Chapter_Annual_Report_2010 | 2010]]

== Getting Involved ==
The PDX-OSGeo Local Chapter is a flexible organization, join us and help steer.

=== Membership ===
Anyone who wants to help support our mission is free to become a member.
'''List yourself on the [[PDX_Member | PDX-OSGEO Member Page]] and you're in!'''

=== Mailing List ===
Please join our mailing list to make sure that you know what's going on. Sign up and participate (or just lurk for a while). We have two main lists:

* For general discussion and announcements: http://groups.google.com/group/pdx-osgeo You do need to answer the questions (what is your favorite map and something else I think) to the extent needed to demonstrate that you are a person and have the minimal amount of GEO knowledge to not be a random spammer.
* For planning upcoming meetings (open to all participants): http://lists.pdxosgeo.org/sympa/info/planners

=== IRC ===
We can be found on irc://irc.freenode.net/#osgeo-pdx when there is something to discuss.

=== Leadership ===
To the extent that we think that we need leadership, it is [[User:Percyd | Percy]]. Mostly we expect everyone to step up and help on most tasks resulting in a light load for all.

=== This Wiki ===
==== How To Write WIKI ====
Check out WikiPedia, where else. This is a great resource for many wiki writing tips
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Editing#Organizing_your_writing How to Write Wiki]

=== Event Set Up ===
[[Event set up]] notes.

== Geo Resources ==
=== SPRING GIS ===
[http://www.dpi.inpe.br/spring/english/index.html SPRING] is a state-of-the-art GIS and remote sensing image processing system with an object-oriented data model which provides for the integration of raster and vector data representations in a single environment. SPRING is a product of Brazil's National Institute for Space Research (INPE/DPI (Image Processing Division)[http://www.dpi.inpe.br/spring/english/index.html ...]

[[SPRING GIS documentation]]

=== USDA - NRCS SSURGO Soil Database Migration to PostgreSQL ===
An example of how to get SURGO soils data into a PostgreSQL database on a GNU/Linux-based OS.

[[File:SSURGO_to_PostgreSQL.odt]]|USDA - NRCS SSURGO Soil Database Migration to PostgreSQL

===The top seven alternatives to the Google Maps API===
Wm Leler of the PDX-OSGeo presented this topic and Net Magazine requested that he write it up at http://www.netmagazine.com/features/top-seven-alternatives-google-maps-api Article date: 2012-06-18.

=== Other useful links===
* [http://gis.stackexchange.com/ GIS Stack Exchange] for any GIS question for any software
* [http://slashgeo.org/ Slash Geo]
* [http://planet.osgeo.org/ Planet OSGeo]

== Acknowledgments ==
Thanks to various OSGeo local chapters and other wiki contributors whose work we borrowed and particularly CUGOS.

[[Category:Local Chapters]]
[[Category:PDX-OSGeo]]

PDXOSGEO Member Listing

2015-05-07T19:06:40Z

Wiki-Rbracket: Added my Name to member list. (Katie Urey)

{| class="wikitable" style="margin: 2em auto 2em auto" border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" align="center"
|+
! ''' No.
! ''' Full Name (nickname)
! ''' Job or Personal Desc.
! ''' Affiliation/GIS interests
|-
| align="center"|'''1.
| Jeremy VanGelder
| GIS Technician
| I-10 Associates
|-
| align="center"|'''2.
| Robert Denner
| GIS Coordinator/Techie
| City of Philomath
|-
| align="center"|'''3.
| David Percy
| Geospatial Data Manager and Map Wrangler
| Portland State University Geology and Urban Planning Depts
|-
| align="center"|'''4.
| Eli L Adam
| GIS Analyst
| Lincoln County, GeoMoose, GDAL, PostGIS, webmapping, OSGeo, fun maps
|-
| align="center"|'''5.
| Melelani (Mele) Sax-Barnett
| GIS Technician
| TriMet, OpenStreetMap
|-
| align="center"|'''6.
| Ryan Hodges
| Applications Developer
| Ecotrust
|-
| align="center"|'''7.
| Matthew Perry
| Applications Developer
| Ecotrust
|-
| align="center"|'''8.
| Rafa Gutierrez
| Cartographer/Developer
| Grafa Geographic Design
|-
| align="center"|'''9.
| Scott Fletcher
| Applications Developer
| Ecotrust
|-
| align="center"|'''10.
| Darrell Fuhriman
| Engineering Manager
| Renewable Funding, LLC
|-
| align="center"|'''11.
| Justin Healy
| Analyst/Project Manager
| Real Urban Geographics, LLC
|-
| align="center"|'''12.
| Tim Welch
| Senior Developer
| Ecotrust
|-
| align="center"|'''13.
| Justin R. Miller
| Developer
| MapBox
|-
| align="center"|'''14.
| Grant Humphries
| GIS Analyst
| TriMet, OpenStreetMap
|-
| align="center"|'''15.
| Heather K Cowley
| GIS Analyst
| Cowley GIS
|-
| align="center"|'''22.
| Amber Case [http://www.twitter.com/caseorganic @caseorganic]
| Co-founder
| [http://geoloqi.com Geoloqi], OpenStreetMaps, GPS, Location, Mobile
|-
| align="center"|'''23.
| Tom Kline
| GIS wannabe
| KMCTF Cave inventory GIS [http://kmctf.org kmctf.org]
|-
| align="center"|'''24.
| Matt Sayler [http://www.twitter.com/MattSayler @MattSayler]
| GIS Analyst @ Clark Public Utilities
| Interests: web maps, javascript, python. My (neglected) [http://mattsayler.com website]
|-
| align="center"|'''25.
| S. K. A. Smith(Kelley)
| Open source advocate
| LiDAR, remote sensing, GIS in Urban Planning/renewal
|-
| align="center"|'''26.
| Anthea Fallen-Bailey afallenb@gmail.com
| Geographer + GIS, looking for new job
| Interests: GIS for disaster planning, prep., response; Web GIS; mobile; volunteer GIS
|-
| align="center"|'''27.
| Jason Roebuck [mailto:jroebuck@resdat.com jroebuck@resdat.com]
| GIS Developer
| Resource Data, Inc. - Also: Geography Grad Student @ PSU
|-
| align="center"|'''28.
| Katie Urey
| Retired
| Interests: walkway networks(for pedestrian routing), QGIS, OpenStreetMap
|-
| align="center"|'''#.
| '''*''' start with the line above
| align="center"|copy this''' TEMPLATE '''
| * include the next line '''*'''
|-
| colspan="4" align="left"| To EDIT this page and add your name follow the directions below.
 1.) Please click on the '''"EDIT"''' tab above.
 2.) Once in Edit mode, find and copy from the template above
 ......(hint: look for the following line - '''"| align="center"|'''#)'''"'''.
 3.) Locate the last entry and paste just below that. Change the '''"No."''' field to the next member number and add your personal data.
 
 '''If you are new to Wiki editing and would like a hand with adding yourself as a member, then just ask another member at the next meeting you attend to help!'''
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