[California] NACIS Talk in Oct

[Landon Blake]

How slow is it going to be running our applications from the LiveDVD?

I'll try to get you some small TIFFs to put on the DVD before I go home
today. They are already tiled, but I need to reproject them.

Is anyone driving north to Sacramento along I-5? I'd like to carpool if
we could (and I can drive from Stockton).

What is the parking situation like? Can anyone recommend a nearby garage
or lot at a decent price?

Landon
Office Phone Number: (209) 946-0268
Cell Phone Number: (209) 992-0658
 
 
-----Original Message-----
From: Alex Mandel [mailto:tech_dev at wildintellect.com] 
Sent: Friday, October 02, 2009 3:19 PM
To: Allan Hollander
Cc: Landon Blake; Brian Hamlin; erictheise at gmail.com
Subject: Re: [California] NACIS Talk in Oct

Wanted to check in with everyone to see how things are coming along.
We need to be there at 8:30am Wed Oct 7th, I'm not sure what time we're
talking but as part of our discount we said we'd hang out most of the
day, FYI keynote in the evening is from Stamen Designs.

It's the Holiday Inn in downtown Sacramento on 3rd, across the street
from the Amtrak station and Old Town.

Holiday Inn Sacramento Capitol Plaza
300 J Street
Sacramento, CA 95814
www.sacramentohi.com
(916) 446-0100

Now for the details:
I was hoping to run all the demos from one machine using the new Live
DVD.
You can all get a copy from
http://download.osgeo.org/livedvd/
It can be tested as a live disc or you can boot it up in Vmware player,
server, Virtual Box. (There will be a vm image later today that might be
easier to use)

So if everyone could test your code, etc. using it that would be great.
I'll customize over the weekend for us so let me know if you have any
data you want in there, my plan was a directory in /home/user like so
/nacis/
 *.shp
 *.tiff
 *.kml (or whatever point type you want for OL)

I pulled all the files from the SACOG site and unzipped them, + the
mrsid for Sacramento county.
Data Source: http://www.sacog.org/mapping/clearinghouse/

Landon I forgot to mention, that smaller tiff's are available by usgs
topo index on the Casil site, which might be easier than cutting tiles
out yourself(maybe).

Remember each of us will have about 10 minutes total including questions
minus 2-3 minutes at the beginning to explain what OSGeo is (Brian can
we use some of the slides you made for OSCON?)

And they want demo/how to, so plan show them how to make a script, sql
or map.
For ease make sure you have a finished end product too. My suggestion is
to show: add 1 vector, 1 raster and perform 1 operation (postgis will be
different of course)

And don't forget to send me the files as you make them so I can put them
into the virtual machine.

Eric, side note, I'll add openlayers to the root of Apache for you
/var/www/openlayers/openlayers.js and Allan will send you a path to the
mapserver wms that will be locally on the machine.

Thanks,
Alex

> The MRSID file is pretty big. I'm going to download it and create a
> couple of small TIFF tiles with worldfiles. I will try to get a couple
> of tiles close to the conference site. We will be presenting at 300 J
> Street in Sacramento, CA, correct? I'm going to re-project the tiles
> from UTM Zone 10 to CSPC so it will fall right behind the vector data.
> 
> Does anyone have GPS tracks from a garmin from around this part of
> Sacramento? I'd like to show how this data could be imported into
> OpenJUMP, but I doubt I will have time to get to Sac to collect data
> before the conference.
> 
> Landon
> Office Phone Number: (209) 946-0268
> Cell Phone Number: (209) 992-0658

Allan Hollander wrote:
> I like the idea of working with Sacramento-area data, since the
conference 
> attendees will like seeing maps of the meeting environs.
> 
> -- Allan
> 
> On Sunday 13 September 2009 18:45:26 Alex Mandel wrote:
>> That could work, my other suggestion would be to pull from SACOG or
the
>> City of Davis.
>> http://www.sacog.org/mapping/clearinghouse/
>> http://cityofdavis.org/gis/
>>
>> Let's decide this week on a few good layers and starting building
demos
>> early next week.
>> Roads
>> Rivers
>> Parks?
>> Air Photos (Note Davis has higher res than NAIP 1m)
>>
>> What else?
>> Alex
>>
>> Landon Blake wrote:
>>> I've got some simple vector data in ESRI Shapefile format we can
use.
>>> There is stuff from a couple local counties, and some land boundary
data
>>> I am working with for an area South of Stockton.
>>>
>>> This is just a suggestion. I know my data may not work the best for
>>> others.
>>>
>>> I can also supply 1M color aerial photography for the Stockton/San
>>> Joaquin County Region. This raster data can be easily tiled.
>>>
>>> Landon
>>> Office Phone Number: (209) 946-0268
>>> Cell Phone Number: (209) 992-0658
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: Alex Mandel [mailto:tech_dev at wildintellect.com]
>>> Sent: Tuesday, September 08, 2009 12:38 PM
>>> Cc: Landon Blake; Brian Hamlin; Allan Hollander;
erictheise at gmail.com
>>> Subject: Re: [California] NACIS Talk in Oct
>>>
>>> NACIS Talk team,
>>>
>>> So we've got an hour of time now for the talk, and the rates have
been
>>> worked out. With a month to go now's the crunch time to get the
>>> presentation together. Lucky for us, they mostly want demos not
slides.
>>>
>>> So here's what I'm thinking, we should take advantage of the new
>>> GISVM/Live Disc that's gotten a lot of attention lately. Mostly
because
>>> it's got all the software we want setup in a consistent manner. That
way
>>> if we each work on our part of the demo, we know the software is
there
>>> and setup already. There should be a test version out at the end of
the
>>> week that everyone can download. In the meantime we should settle on
a
>>> set of sample data to use, and I'll make sure it get's into at least
a
>>> local copy of the VM for our presentation.
>>>
>>> Any suggestions? Really since we each have 10 minutes or less I
think 1
>>> raster, with 1 point and 1 line or polygon layer is probably more
than
>>> enough.
>>>
>>> Other than that we need to decide between PostGIS/Openlayers for
Brian
>>> and Eric.
>>>
>>> Any suggestions on the data to use? We should really set it soon so
>>> people have time to make sample scripts etc for use in the demo and
so
>>> Openlayers can use WMS from Mapserver, layers from PostGIS etc...
>>> Only thought I had so far was the GRASS North Carolina dataset,
which we
>>> could unGRASSify.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Alex
>>>
>>>
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