CLSA 2014 Conference OSGeo Open Source GIS Track

Introduction

There is an opportunity to host an open source GIS event at the Annual California Land Surveyors Conference. The conference is typically held at the end of March or April in Reno, Nevada.

The CLSA Committee that organizes the conference has asked for a preliminary event schedule before making a final decision on placing the open source GIS event into the conference program. Details on that preliminary event schedule are on this wiki page.

A half day event would need 3 hours of talks/workshops. A full day event would need 6 hours. The preliminary event schedule below is organized into three main sessions: GIS Concepts, GIS Software, and GIS Programming. It is set up for two tracks, but could be shrunk to a single track.

If you are interested in giving a talk or workshop as part of the track, please contact Landon Blake (sunburned.surveyor@gmail.com).

Speaker Biographies

To be completed.

Preliminary Track Schedule

GIS Concepts

• Hour 1 - Track 1: GIS Basics for Land Surveyors (Landon Blake)
• Hour 1 - Track 2: Mobile GIS Data Collection with Android and IOS Devices (Ragi Burhum)

• Hour 2 - Track 1: GIS Design Concepts (Landon Blake)
• Hour 2 - Track 2: GIS Database Concepts With Post GIs (Jeff Hobbs)

GIS Software

• Hour 3 - Track 1: Introduction to OpenJUMP (Landon Blake)
• Hour 3 - Track 2: Dealing With Temporal Aspects of Large Raster Data Sets (Peter Baumann)

• Hour 4 - Track 1: Mobile Data Collection with Open Data Kit (Landon Blake)
• Hour 4 - Track 2: The Role of Open Standards in Processing Large Raster Data Sets (Peter Baumann)

GIS Programming

• Hour 5 & 6 - Track 1: Using OpenJUMP as a GIS Tool Framework (Landon Blake)