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

This wiki page is mostly historical at this point, head over to our current website

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 Caligator for "OSGeo" is probably the best route.

Past Meeting Notes

How to plan a meeting

**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/ ]
April 15	Cramer	Katie Urey, Ryan Peterson [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

links for various FOSS4G 2014 pages

Upcoming 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) 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 (PDF) (Salem, Oregon)

Apr. 30 - May 1 (Tue-Wed) GIS In Action 2013 (PDX)

May 2 (Thurs) 2013 Unconference (PDX)

Aug. 27-29 (Tue-Thu) 34th Canadian Symposium on Remote Sensing (Victoria, B. C., Canada)

Sep. 4 (Wed) Central Oregon GIS - Cartography Outside of ESRI (Bend, Oregon)

Sep. 21 (Sat) Willamette Valley GIS Users Group Summer 2013 Quarterly Meeting (Salem, Oregon)

Sep. 23-25 (Mon-Wed) 2013 GeoAlberta Conference (Edmonton, Alberta, Canada)

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

Oct. 14-18 (Mon-Fri) NWGIS Sunriver 2013 (Central Oregon)

Oct 19 OpenStreetMap Fall Editathon (Portland)

Oct. 16 (Wed) CUGOS 2013 Fall Fling (Seattle, Washington)

Oct. 23 (Wed) Randal Schwartz interviews Tim Sutton and Gary Sherman of QGIS on FLOSS Weekly TV (internet)

Oct. 25 (Fri) American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ASPRS) Columbia River & Puget Sound Regions 17th Annual Technical Exchange (Vancouver, Washington)

Nov. 8 (Fri) 2013 Portland Cartography Symposium (Portland, Oregon)

2012

Presentation for PLSO/ORURISA GIS in Action Conference 2012 - Open Source Smackdown - Web Mapping Clients Edition

2011

Details on 2011 Open Source GIS unconference

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 Special Interest Group (SIG). Since 2010, the local chapter has coordinated an open source unconference with ORURISA and GIS In Action. There are also deep roots with our sister OSGeo Local Chapter, CUGOS. In August, 2012, we became an official OSGeo local chapter by action of the OSGeo 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

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-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 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

How to Write Wiki

Event Set Up

Event set up notes.

Geo Resources

SPRING GIS

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)...

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.

Acknowledgments

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

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 '''Welcome to the Portland, OR Chapter of OSGEO - serving Oregon and SW Washington!'''
+'''This wiki page is mostly historical at this point, head over to our current [https://www.osgeo.org/local-chapters/pdxosgeo/ website]
 == News ==
 * <span style="color:#ff0000">We now meet on the 3th Wednesday of every month from 6:00-7:30 PM at various locations.</span>
-* The [[PDX-OSGeo_2013_Unconference | 2013 PDX-OSGeo Unconference]] happened on May 2nd.
 === Meetings ===
-The [[PDX_OSGEO_20130821_Meeting | next meeting]] is August 21st, 2013, at Ecotrust.
-The [[PDX_OSGEO_20130918_Meeting | meeting after that]] is September 18th, 2013, at TBD.
+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.
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 [[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.
+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 ===
+* Sep. 8-13 (Mon-Sat) [http://2014.foss4g.org/ FOSS4G 2014] (Portland, Oregon, USA, Earth, Sol, Milky)
+* 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)
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 * Oct. 14-18 (Mon-Fri) [http://sunriver2013.nwgis.org/ NWGIS Sunriver 2013] (Central Oregon)
-* Oct. 23 (Wed) Randal Schwartz interviews Tim Sutton and Gary Sherman of [qgis.org QGIS] on [http://twit.tv/show/floss-weekly FLOSS Weekly TV] (internet)
+* 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)
-* Sep. 8-13 (Mon-Sat) [http://2014.foss4g.org/ FOSS4G 2014] (Portland, Oregon, USA, Earth, Sol, Milky)
-=== Past Events we participated in ===
-* May 2 (Thurs) [[PDX-OSGeo_2013_Unconference|2013 Unconference]] (PDX)
-* Apr. 30 - May 1 (Tue-Wed) [http://www.orurisa.org/GIS_In_Action GIS In Action 2013] (PDX)
-* 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)
 * Presentation for PLSO/ORURISA GIS in Action Conference 2012 - [https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1JlmI9S6ZHYtW2pEwe4VtVYw1rehxbqdgkutoWbKjAw4/edit Open Source Smackdown - Web Mapping Clients Edition]
 * Details on '''[[PDX-OSGEO#Unconference_March_31st_and_April_1st.2C_2011 | 2011 Open Source GIS unconference]]'''