[Aust-NZ] CrisisCamp Pakistan Floods, Sydney (4-5 Sept)

[Gavin Treadgold]

Hi all,

Just to add to Shoaib's introduction...

I'm going to be attending as well and representing the Sahana Software Foundation. 

One request we've received from the field in Pakistan is the ability to create simple A4 maps from a web-based system. Perhaps something a bit like Walking Papers <http://walkingpapers.org/> - although it is something we need embedded within Sahana Eden (a web2py/python app that uses OpenLayers) so that we can export pdf maps for printing utilising both remote layers, as well our our internal data.

Our current deployment is at <http://pakistan.sahanafoundation.org/>

If anyone has any bright ideas on how we could achieve this - we'd love some input from the geospatial community. Likewise - we'd gladly take any support from people with experience in python, openlayers and other relevant geospatial tools.

Cheers Gav

On 2010-08-23, at 17:37 , Shoaib Burq wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> Thought some of you maybe interested in coming along and helping out
> at the CrisisCamp being organized at UNSW Sydney on the weekend of 4-5
> Sept.
> 
> An enterprising team of volunteers and organisational supporters such
> as Students in Free Enterprise (SIFE) and Center for Innovation and
> Entrepreneurship (CIE) at the University of New South Wales, and
> Drumbeat, an open web initiative of the Mozilla Foundation and the
> World Bank  are coming together on the weekend of September 4-5, 2010
> in CrisisCamp in Sydney, Australia.
> 
> We will help find, organize and share spatial information for relief
> agencies in Pakistan via open source platforms such as Sahana,
> OpenStreetMap and Ushahidi:
> 
> Please come along if you have:
> 1 mapping experience or
> 2 can code/program or
> 3 can research for information on the internet or
> 4. speak local Pakistani languages or
> 5. are familiar with the geography of Pakistan or
> 6. generally understand disaster response
> 
> More details at http://pkfloods-sydney.eventbrite.com/
> 
> To help us organize the catering please register at:
> http://pkfloods-sydney.eventbrite.com/
> 
> Feel free to share the event details amongst your contacts. If you
> have any further queries please don't hesitate to contact me or Vicky
> 
> Shoaib Burq
> Skype:       spatialgoat
> Twitter:      http://twitter.com/sabman
> 
> Vicky Pinpin-Feinstein
> Skype:       Pinpinfeinstein
> Twitter:      http://twitter.com/Pyrmontvicky
> 
> kind regards
> Shoaib Burq
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> Canberra, Australia
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