[California] NACIS Talk in Oct

Fri Oct 2 19:18:43 EDT 2009

OSGeo "State of" pdf from OSCon
http://71.202.181.1/osgeo/SOLT.pdf

* added subset of sac mapping layers suggesiton to the osgeo wiki page 
for this event
NACIS_2009:Demo

   -Brian

On Oct 2, 2009, at 3:28 PM, Alex Mandel wrote:

> I'm going to run it as a virtual machine on my laptop with a core 1-2GB
> of ram, and 128MB+ video ram dedicated to the virtual machine, with VT
> instruction set, it should run as if it was a normal persons desktop
> machine.
>
> Parking there is parking in Old Town Sac (Not sure how much) and there
> are some nearby $10 all day places. The train is a good option, or park
> and ride the light rail from southern sac.
>
> Alex
>
> Landon Blake wrote:
>> 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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