Maptime: Tile Servers!
LOCATION CHANGE: We’ll be meeting in the Boundless offices at Landing Zone this month. Details below.
We’ve talked about feature layers. We’ve talked about mapping libraries. We’ve talked about data sources. This month, we’re tackling Tile Servers!
So how do we actually get the source material for tile servers? Those images gotta come from somewhere. Somehow a photograph taken from the sky gets turned into the type of data we need to use in a tile server and ends up on our screen in neat seamless tiles. Magic? Maybe. But we’re in luck, because Elias loup is gonna walk us through how tile servers work. Elias works with the Geospatial Computing Section of NRL and wrote a textbook that covers a lot of cool stuff: Tile-Based Geospatial Information Systems: Principles and Practices.
Schedule:
Pizza and geo-gossip @ 6pm
Discussion & tutorial @ 7pm
(Lock-up @ 9pm)
Landing Zone Info
625 Celeste Street between Felicity and Religious.
Parking
There is a parking lot on the St Thomas/Felicity corner but a lot of people usually park in the neutral ground triangle thing and on occasional street parking. Parking behind the building is not public (marked in red).
The front door has a temp code for us and you take an immediate left to enter the Landing Zone. We’ll be downstairs in the kitchen/break area which has tables, couches, chairs and TVs we can use.
Jackson (91) and Tchop (10) buses will stop right in front, too.
