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

Demos

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