PostGIS Day 2014 – Brought to you by OSGeo:UK

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Intro talk for PostGIS Day 2014 at the BCS HQ, London

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PostGIS Day 2014

Brought to you by OSGeo:UK

Organised by Jo Cook aka @archaeogeek and Matt Walker aka @_walkermatt

So who are OSGeo?

Open Source GEOspatial Foundation (osgeo.org). Founded in 2006 to...

support the collaborative development of open source geospatial software, and promote its widespread use

osgeo.org

And what about OSGeo:UK?

The UK chapter of OSGeo (obv)

Helping to nurture and facilitate open source GIS in the UK since 2007

osgeo.org/uk

Nurture and Facilitate? How exactly?

We brought FOSS4G to the UK in 2013

We hold smaller events (like today)

We help other groups like QGISUK

We can educate people in what "open source" really means

We have a GitHub Repository at github.com/osgeouk

and so to today's event

Welcome to PostGIS Day 2014!

An informal celebration of all that's awesome about PostGIS

Long Talks

Lightning Talks

Discussion

A chance to meet the community

When What Who 10:15 PostGIS at the Ordnance Survey Tim Martin 10:45 AWS for Megadata Andrew Zolnai 11:15 Oracle Foreign Data Wrappers Aileen Heal 11:45 Using PostGIS to power an interactive dashboard Stephen Knox 12:15 Towards a true 3D GIS Claire Ellul 13:00 Lunch n/a 14:00 Raster processing in PostGIS Dave Barter 14:15 Map My Article Kevin Daniells 14:30 Loading... Matt Walker 14:45 Architecture and Triggers for data creation and management Simon Miles 15:00 Coffee n/a 15:15 How to build an audit in PostGIS Andy Bailey 15:30 Metadata in PostGIS Claire Ellul 15:45 Discussion - useful utilities and where to get help Jo/Matt 16.30 End n/a

Everything will be archived at:

osgeouk.github.io/pgday

Use the hashtag #postgisday if you want your twitter messages to be archived for posterity

Thanks to...

The BCS for letting us use the venue

Astun Technology for sponsoring the lunch

All our speakers

Everyone for coming along