Maptime: Location Matters!
This month’s topic: Mapping location for authentication and authorization!
We all use location aware applications in our day-to-day life. This not only helps the customer, but also helps businesses reach the right audience more effectively. The ubiquity of geolocation as a dimension used in authentication and authorization workflows makes location matter.
Schedule:
Pizza and geo-gossip @ 6pm
Discussion & tutorial @ 7pm
(Lock-up @ 9pm)
LOCATION CHANGE: We’ll be meeting in the Boundless offices at Landing Zone this month. Details below.
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.
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.
Maptime: Projections and City Data
We hope you thoroughly enjoyed Carnival! Note: we pushed back the meetup a week due to Ash Wednesday. Our meetup is normally 2nd Wednesdays of the month.
Schedule:
Pizza and geo-gossip @ 6pm
Discussion & tutorial @ 7pm
(Lock-up @ 9pm)
As always, during geo-gossip we’ll continue our show & tell of interesting projects, news, and resources. If you have any links you’d like to share send them to maptimenola@gmail.com or tweet them at @maptimenola (or remember them).
After geo-gossip, we’ll be hosting a discussion & lab on projections, datums, and accessing public data from the City of New Orleans’s data portal and using it in community mapping tools.
If you’ve ever tried this before, you might have found it a little intimidating with different file types and projections associated with each data set. Marc will lead us through a tutorial and share his experiences making it work.
If you’re interested in civic hacking or working with the city’s public data get on this. Bring your questions! One of us might know how to trouble shoot it, and if not, we’ll be putting together a list of questions for the City.
Many thanks to Boundless for sponsoring our Pizza this week and to maptime member Marc Cenac for leading this month’s discussion.
Maptime: Collaborative Mapping with GeoJSON, Leaflet, and Github
Save the date!
We’re gonna follow up on our Anatomy of a Webmap & leaflet.js tutorials and build an awesome, collaborative map… a great excuse to learn more about git, GitHub, and GeoJSON. This project uses git for version control, GitHub to house the data, and provides editing examples using geojson.io, a great tool for editing GeoJSON files.
This will be a gentle introduction to GitHub for beginners (no command line today, folks) I’m excited to try out this collaboration technique for building small crowd-sourced geographic datasets and displaying them with our newly acquired leaflet skills! If you missed the last meetup, no fear. We’ll catch ya right up!
Bring a laptop if you can, and go ahead and setup a github account if you don’t already have one.
As always, we’ll continue our show & tell of interesting projects and blogs. If you have any links you’d like to share send them to maptimenola@gmail.com or tweet them at @maptimenola (or remember them).
Pizza and geo-gossip @ 6pm
tutorial @ 7pm
P.S. we’re looking for more skill-share presenters! If you’ve got some map-related skills you’re excited to share let us know and we can get ya up on the calendar.
No Maptime: See You Next Year!
Enjoy the holidays! We’ll be back in January with more mappy fun!