PDX OSGEO 20120222 Meeting

PDX-OSGEO meeting 2/22/2012 6-7:30 Location: Collective Agency, 322 NW 6th Avenue, Suite 200, Portland, OR 97209; Beer at nearby pub to follow, probably Pints

• Buzz "200" when you arrive. The phone rings once or twice, then you'll be buzzed up. Elevator access available. Indoor bike parking available upstairs.

Agenda

Introductions

• Rob, Edwin, Tanya, Eli, Rafa, Matt, Scott, Tim, Jeremy, Jeff, Andrew, Neal

Regular meeting business

(e.g., Upcoming GIS events/conferences, next meeting presenters or topics, discussions, updates, etc.)

• Gift for OpenSourcery. If you were able to enjoy our old meeting space with them consider bringing a contribution of $5 or more.
  • Soft Cities midnight commander blanket - contribute funds. Sign card too

Presentations

• UTFGrid support for openlayers (Matt)
  • ascii art mapped to data dictionary
  • all in browser, avoids going to server
  • Adding this new to OpenLayers (was in some others [modest maps, leaflet] already)
  • New OpenLayers Layer and Control (UTFGrid) - similar to tiles - x/y/z
  • ascii art and corresponding data dictionary are all in json file, can have multiples
  • UTFGrids created by TileMill, TileStache (both Mapnik) python implementation perhaps coming

• Spatial surveys on the windows tablet (Tim/Ryan)
  • Continue technique of using Django to take applications on and offline
  • Tablets now - Windows 7 talet demo'ed
  • Attribute surveys
  • Mapping component (ExtJS, GeoEXT, OpenLayers...)
  • Bigger buttons, pinch zoom, swipe, digitize
  • TileCache pre-generated and accessed on hard-drive
  • Easier to do on a full blown OS and get access to computer as opposed to iOS or Android

More regular meeting business

• GIS in Action conference talk proposals. Give your talk or let's brainstorm for them. Do we want to do an unconference day?
  • Morning session will be smackdown - interfaces: leaflet(Lev or Rafa?), Google (Christian)
  • Karsten not able to present due to schedule uncertainty
  • Afternoon session will be smackdown - caches/servers: TileMill (Edwin), MapCache (), (Or: give afternoon time slot back, change title from ESRI+Open Source, Brian might have something, Dean ORTools...?) Update: depending on time slot, Dean can do ORTools
  • GIS In Action table: Sign up with Jeremy, include some focus on Surveyors (gvSIG/Sextante), GPS/Mobile,

• OSGeo 2011 Annual Report - see also: Discuss call for reports
  • Notes in italic here

• State of the Map US in Portland in fall