GeoRabble returns to Melbourne on Wednesday September 12th at CQ Melbourne. Doors open 5.30 pm, talks start from 6.25 pm. Grab yourself a free ticket and enjoy the night with friends sharing geospatial ideas, free of sales pitches and hidden agendas! Each presentation is light, relevant to geo-something and only 10minutes long.
Special thanks to our GeoAwesome Rabble-esque Sponsor …
Come and see what the fuss is all about Canberra! We have Master of Ceremony (and Govhack organiser) Pia Waugh introduce some excellent and innovative speakers who worked on entries into Govhack 2012 utilising geospatial data in their hacks… This will be followed by an invigorating discussion when you can have your say on topical issues. Join in the dialogue, enjoy the tapas, and join the Rabble.
We have some great talks lined up for our next Sydney GeoRabble, on Thursday 23 August.
In a GeoRabble first, Tim Leigh will let the audience choose the topic for his talk. Democracy at its best! Choose anything from Web GIS to Mobile App development or Dog Sledding, and Tim will improvise!
Other Rabblers include:
There are still speaking slots open. Have something interesting, passionate of fun to share? let us know by emailing sydney@georabble.org.
For this GeoRabble, we are bringing back the free Pizza (thanks to EBR), so don’t miss out! Spaces are limited. Join our Meet-up group, or register here!
GeoRabble #3 Perth, 25 July, Belgian Beer Cafe
A very successful event attended by 80 people, of which half had not attended before. Several of the usual faces commented that they did not know quite a few people, so perhaps GeoRabble is succeeding in reaching out beyond the spatial nucleus. Tom Brownlie was the Master of Ceremony and reminded people of the rules of GeoRabble – including to celebrate all things spatial. Bringing the rabble together to quiet down and listen to the two speakers was easier than thought with the amount of chattering. David Brady gave us a interesting talk about fact and fiction using maps as the examples. Apparently there are lies/inconsistencies within the Asterix maps!
Continue reading GeoRabble Perth #3
The panel is confirmed, the food’s been ordered, the venue has been cleaned…
Wednesday 25 July 2012
Trappist on King
Cnr King & Murray Sts Perth
With two short talks, speakers David Brady (Fiction and Fact); and Lance Martin (WA Police Concept Car) are set to plumb the depths of the abyss that is the geospatial mind and see what pearls they can find.
Our expert panel of Phil Beach, Chelsea Samuel, Sonny Tham, Bernard O’Sullivan and Richard Brown have not been allowed in the same room together in the hopes of some rabble fireworks.
Big thanks to this evenings sponsor Amristar
If you would like to talk at a future GeoRabble event, please send and email with the title and a short description to perth@georabble.org. Talks are limited to 10 minutes.
Join us for the fifth Sydney GeoRabble, with great (short!) talks, cool people and a few drinks. And: we’re bringing back the free pizza!
When: Thursday 23 August 2012
Where: Occidental Hotel, 43 York St, Sydney.
Doors open 5:30 PM, talks start 6PM. Please join our Meetup Group, or RSVP here, so we can plan catering.
We will be announcing speakers soon.
If you would like to talk, send an email with the title and short description to sydney@georabble.org. Talks are limited to 10 minutes.
Trappist on KingCnr King & Murray Sts PerthPerth, Western Australia 6000
As promised, here’s the deck from tonight’s GovHack kickoff in Sydney. Enjoy!
GeoRabble GovHack Sydney Intro Slides
…and here’s the PPT file with the notes from the preso: PPTX
Dots on maps don’t always tell you the full story behind the numbers. In cases where you’ve got postcode, suburb or council based data – you’ll want to be able to map those boundaries to tell a richer story than text, numbers or dots can do.
Here’s a quick and dirty guide to getting up and running with boundary data just in time for GovHack:
1 – Install PostgreSQL 9.1 : http://www.enterprisedb.com/products-services-training/pgdownload
2 – Install PostGIS 2.0 : http://www.postgis.org/download/ (there are now 64bit binaries for those who want serious spatial power)
3 – Download some Shapefile (SHP) formatted boundary data and load it into PostGIS (there’s a GUI – PostGIS Shapefile and DBF Loader 2.0 – inside the PostgreSQL Admin Console). If you’ve got another format there are OS tools you can use – try OGR2OGR (handy guide here)
4 – Download some data to go with those lovely boundaries – e.g. some juicy hot off the press ATO Tax data
5 – Install PHP 5.3 on your web server with the PostgreSQL PDO drivers : http://php.net/downloads.php
6 – Download the PostGIS RESTful Web Service Framework 1.1 (PRWSF)
7 – Edit the PRWSF /inc/database.inc.php file to set your PostgreSQL database connection
8 – Download Leaflet Javascript API
9 – Get a Cloudmade account for a free API key to access to an OpenStreetMap tile layer of your choice
10 – Edit the PRWSF /v1/ws_geo_attributequery.php file to support callbacks for cross domain JSON:
echo $_GET[‘jsoncallback’] . ‘(‘;
require_once(“../inc/format.inc.php”);
echo ‘)’;
11 – Leech some code from GitHub
FYI – the ABS has a rich collection of boundaries for you to use under Creative Commons licensing. This links directly to their own stats as well as the stats of many other agencies and organisation, such as the ATO (who recently released a tonne of tax data!). This data is ripe for rich visualisation:
http://www.abs.gov.au/websitedbs/D3310114.nsf/home/ABS+Geography+Publications#Anchor8
Note: 2006 Census data uses he ASGC boundaries. 2011 Census data will use the ASGS bdys when the data is released on June 21.
Here’s a cool site which allows you to compare the size of various map objects: http://mapfrappe.blogspot.ca/2011/02/australia.html
If we could move Uluru to Manhattan:
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