[California] RE: Cartography Sprint

[Alex Mandel]

Since no one outside of Davis could make the Friday time we opted to
just do it on the Wednesday which is GIS day. I'd say this is going to
be a good trial run to work out a lot of the kinks with group
collaboration, formatting and repositories.

Landon, maybe we can add a track to the Hack-a-thon in March
specifically for Cartography stuff. Might attract some non-programmer
designer/artist types.

I went ahead and opened #osgeo-ca on IRC freenode service if anyone
wants to join in remotely.

Thanks,
Alex

On 11/02/2010 10:02 AM, Landon Blake wrote:
> I could host part of the event in Stockton on Saturday afternoon if
> there was interest.
> 
> Landon
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Alex Mandel [mailto:tech_dev at wildintellect.com] 
> Sent: Monday, November 01, 2010 4:15 PM
> To: Landon Blake
> Cc: Joe Larson; california at lists.osgeo.org
> Subject: Re: [California] RE: Cartography Sprint
> 
> That's not out of the question to do a 2 day if people are willing to
> work on Saturday. Once I get a little more organized I was going to see
> if others around the world wanted to participate, so maybe Sat will be
> the remote session where we all work via the net?
> 
> Thanks,
> Alex
> 
> On 11/01/2010 10:32 AM, Landon Blake wrote:
>> Saturday would work better for me to.
>>
>> Landon
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: california-bounces at lists.osgeo.org 
>> [mailto:california-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Joe Larson
>> Sent: Monday, November 01, 2010 9:45 AM
>> To: california at lists.osgeo.org
>> Subject: [California] RE: Cartography Sprint
>>
>> Sounds good Alex! Maybe we can roll it through the weekend, if needed
> (19th is a Friday, I see myself with a normal work day)?
>>
>> I've already tackled something similar to this and feel quite primed
> to help...I just converted symbology for the Fire Incident Mapping Tools
> extension (ArcMap)
> http://www.fs.fed.us/r2/spf/fire_incident/index2.shtml from
> jpg/ESRI-style to .png/.svg/.ttf with Inkscape and FontForge...went
> quite smooth.
>>
>> Will definitely be remote participation for me -- looking forward to
> it!
>>
>> ~Joe Larson
>>
>> On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 9:00 AM,  <california-request at lists.osgeo.org>
> wrote:
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>>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>>> From: Alex Mandel <tech_dev at wildintellect.com>
>>> To: california at lists.osgeo.org
>>> Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2010 16:27:12 -0700
>>> Subject: [California] Cartography Sprint I've brought it up before, 
>>> but this time I think it'll actually happen.
>>>
>>> So here's what I'm thinking:
>>> The week of Nov 15-19 is GeoAwareness week, with Nov 17 being GIS
> day.
>>> Both of these things are heavily sponsored by National Geographic and
> 
>>> ESRI and have been going on for years.
>>> On the 19th I'm proposing that a few of us get together to do some 
>>> collaboration similar to a code sprint. We could do it in multiple 
>>> small groups linked via the internet, one large group and other 
>>> joining remotely etc. I am offering to host at UC Davis - 
>>> room/internet
>>>
>>> The focus will be on converting the vast number of Public Domain 
>>> iconography out there from things like USGS, USDA (NFS), NPS and 
>>> other public agencies with a history of mapping to usable symbology 
>>> primarily for QGIS but would also work for mapserver, mapnik, etc.
>>>
>>> The only tool we really need is Inkscape. And the only experience 
>>> people need can be taught in 5-10 minutes.
>>>
>>> It's good timing because we're doing a Cartography class at Davis 
>>> this quarter (I know Berkeley is too). So I'm hoping to rope in a 
>>> bunch of students for a couple of hours at a time keep momentum the
> whole day.
>>>
>>> If you're interested in participating in this event in person or 
>>> remotely please let me know. Also if you know of any icons that could
> 
>>> use some converting I'm beginning to collect pdfs, urls etc Given 
>>> time and participants we may dabble into creating new line types and 
>>> fill patterns too.
>>>
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Alex
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>>> From: "Landon Blake" <lblake at ksninc.com>
>>> To: <tech at wildintellect.com>, <california at lists.osgeo.org>
>>> Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2010 16:28:10 -0700
>>> Subject: RE: [California] Cartography Sprint Alex,
>>>
>>> I'm not too bad with Inkscape and I would be interested in attending.
> 
>>> My particular interest would be with symbols related to topographic 
>>> mapping, land surveying, and flood control.
>>>
>>> Landon
>>> Office Phone Number: (209) 946-0268
>>> Cell Phone Number: (209) 992-0658
>>>
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: california-bounces at lists.osgeo.org
>>> [mailto:california-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Alex Mandel
>>> Sent: Thursday, October 28, 2010 4:27 PM
>>> To: california at lists.osgeo.org
>>> Subject: [California] Cartography Sprint
>>>
>>> I've brought it up before, but this time I think it'll actually
> happen.
>>>
>>> So here's what I'm thinking:
>>> The week of Nov 15-19 is GeoAwareness week, with Nov 17 being GIS
> day.
>>> Both of these things are heavily sponsored by National Geographic and
> 
>>> ESRI and have been going on for years.
>>> On the 19th I'm proposing that a few of us get together to do some 
>>> collaboration similar to a code sprint. We could do it in multiple 
>>> small groups linked via the internet, one large group and other 
>>> joining remotely etc. I am offering to host at UC Davis - 
>>> room/internet
>>>
>>> The focus will be on converting the vast number of Public Domain 
>>> iconography out there from things like USGS, USDA (NFS), NPS and 
>>> other public agencies with a history of mapping to usable symbology 
>>> primarily for QGIS but would also work for mapserver, mapnik, etc.
>>>
>>> The only tool we really need is Inkscape. And the only experience 
>>> people need can be taught in 5-10 minutes.
>>>
>>> It's good timing because we're doing a Cartography class at Davis 
>>> this quarter (I know Berkeley is too). So I'm hoping to rope in a 
>>> bunch of students for a couple of hours at a time keep momentum the
> whole day.
>>>
>>> If you're interested in participating in this event in person or 
>>> remotely please let me know. Also if you know of any icons that could
> 
>>> use some converting I'm beginning to collect pdfs, urls etc Given 
>>> time and participants we may dabble into creating new line types and 
>>> fill patterns too.
>>>
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Alex
> 
>