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Drupal as a GIS/Mapping Platform

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jimcraner - Sun, 02/10/2008 - 11:11pm
Presenters: 
Jim Craner
Brandon Bergren
Rebecca White
Track: 
site building
Proceedings Have Been Posted: 
no
Session Description: 

SESSION OVERVIEW
This session, presented by the maintainers of the Location, OpenLayers, and Gmap modules, will examine the current state of GIS- and mapping-related technologies on Drupal, along with a look at the roadmap for 2008 and beyond. This session will be a mix of background information presentation and active discussion.

TRACK
Site Building

AGENDA
* Brief discussion of mapping and GIS use cases, including the ever-popular mash-up as well as participatory mapping
* Examination of current Drupal GIS offerings
* Examination of compatible GIS systems (OpenLayers, QGIS, PostGIS, etc.)
* Look at 2008 roadmap for GIS-related Drupal development, including the new Location 3 module

GOALS
The goal of this session is to inform attendees on the state of GIS and content-mapping tools on Drupal, along with the outlook for the future. Ideally, discussion will be inspired by both end-user and developer needs.

RESOURCES
No GIS background should be required to benefit from attending this session.

Scheduled: 
accepted
Session start time: 
03/05/2008 - 1:30pm - 03/05/2008 - 2:30pm
Average: 4.5 (4 votes)

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schedules don't agree

mroswell - Sun, 03/02/2008 - 11:01am
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I’m a long-time GIS-er, looking forward to this session.
But this page:
( http://drupalcon.redndahead.com/ ) lists an ubercart session at the same time.
This schedule:
( http://boston2008.drupalcon.org/files/drupalconschedulev13.pdf ) lists the GIS session at that time.

Which schedule is correct for that session? Is GIS session actually happening at 3:30 pm on Wednesday?


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Official Conference Schedule

tourguide_cdmug - Sun, 03/02/2008 - 2:45pm
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Official Conference Schedule for sessions can be found here - http://boston2008.drupalcon.org/session-week-glance

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mapping newsworthy dataset

mroswell - Wed, 03/05/2008 - 12:06pm
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I’ve got the beef recall dataset described in today’s paper
http://www.usatoday.com/money/industries/food/2008-03-04-california-meat...

would love to map it in today’s session, or BOF. Can I email you a copy of the dataset? drop me a line.

mroswell at gmail


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