For our April socially distanced Maptime, we held a virtual show-and-tell video conference, seeing a variety of interesting projects people are working on, including some from special guests far beyond Boston!
Below is the chat transcript, including links to work that was shown as well as other related items.
[beginning with silence as we asked for volunteers to present something next]
19:17:53 From Garrett Nelson : You have to call on us Andy
19:18:34 From Daniela Waltersdorfer : noted. I’ll call on Garrett next!
19:18:51 From Garrett Nelson : 🙀
19:27:13 From Alan Bragg : I improved my connection by turning video off.
19:27:43 From Daniela Waltersdorfer : good to hear, and to know you’re still around. Are you able to see Garrett’s screen?
19:30:36 From Alan Bragg : Yes, I can see everything.
19:32:33 From Garrett Nelson : https://geoservices.leventhalmap.org/map-stories/#tremont-subway/1
19:48:55 From Matthew Wigginton Conway : https://files.indicatrix.org/Conway-Stewart-2019-Charlie-Fare-Constraints.pdf
19:50:50 From Daniela Waltersdorfer : do you at least recognize Andy or me?
19:51:15 From Andrew Woodruff : I don’t think I was at the PostGIS Day thing!
19:51:42 From Gary Baker : I was there, it was a couple of years ago right?
19:51:44 From Garrett Nelson : Matt, love that your domain name. You should join my band: https://twitter.com/en_dash/status/1141838125808988165
19:53:58 From Daniela Waltersdorfer : oooh the PostGIS Day event held during GIS WEEK? I didn’t go -_-
19:56:10 From Andrew Woodruff : That PostGIS Day thing kind of a “maptime affiliated” event, not exactly one of ours.
19:58:26 From Alex (aweech) : Speaking of lidar, I found out a few weeks ago that GRANIT has a ton of lidar data for NH and parts of surrounding states. There are lots of ruins and other fun details! http://www.granit.unh.edu/resourcelibrary/specialtopics/lidar/#what
19:59:10 From Matthew Wigginton Conway : USGS 3DEP also has a lot of LIDAR data for the US
19:59:44 From Matthew Wigginton Conway : https://www.usgs.gov/core-science-systems/ngp/3dep
20:00:41 From Garrett Nelson : I’ve got to jump off for baby duty. Nice seeing everyone!
20:03:01 From Daniela Waltersdorfer : Thanks for joining!
20:05:17 From Daniela Waltersdorfer : yay!! Curb LR!!
20:09:42 From diane fritz : Very exciting Emily! LIke it.
20:19:58 From diane fritz : A neat thread on those travel maps: https://twitter.com/oliviacpaschal/status/1245711609890320386
20:25:27 From Daniela Waltersdorfer : Really cool, Kent!
20:32:50 From Gary Baker : sorry, I have to run, thanks everyone!
20:32:59 From Daniela Waltersdorfer : thanks for joining, Gary!
20:35:19 From Daniela Waltersdorfer : v cool, andy!!
20:35:47 From Horace Williams : is that availabel online somewhere to check out?
20:35:51 From Horace Williams : the mbta thing i mean
20:35:54 From Emily Eros : i really like the aged-paper-colored background
20:36:20 From Horace Williams : also this is the link for the tool I was showing: https://github.com/worace/geoq. Thanks for letting me share!
20:36:32 From Andrew Woodruff : https://www.dropbox.com/s/mdq32q9fw2l1b5j/railmap_smaller.jpg?dl=0
20:37:37 From Daniela Waltersdorfer : https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Foundation/Local_Chapters/United_States/Virtual_Mappy_Hours#Schedule
20:37:38 From Horace Williams : i’ve been to a couple of the mappy hours – they’re fun
20:39:54 From Alex (aweech) : All of these show-and-tells make me want to finish up the project I’ve been working on, haha
20:40:30 From Kent Johnson : Thank you for organizing this!
20:40:39 From Horace Williams : thanks for letting us out-of-towners join
20:41:36 From Horace Williams : i got to run but thanks again
For our July meetup, Bill Morris visited town to talk about geoprocessing with turf.js, along with the history and future of browser-based GIS. Bill’s slides and links are at https://wboykinm.github.io/maptime-turfjs/.
In March we were very pleased to have Regina Obe and Leo Hsu give an introduction to PostGIS. Materials (including scripts and data) can be found here.
We are going to get into QGIS (formerly known as Quantum GIS). QGIS is free, open-source, and highly capable GIS software. If you’ve ever been curious about QGIS and want to learn more, or never even heard of it, join us! We are going to go through some of the basics of using the QGIS software, including adding data, projecting data, symbolizing and map design, and geoprocessing.
If you’ve been using QGIS for years, come and lend your expertise to help others get started and answer questions.
Before coming, be sure to download QGIS. Beginners are very welcome. Don’t forget to bring a laptop!
Many of the topics we’ve covered at Maptime Boston have repositories on out GitHub page: https://github.com/maptimeBoston. Below is a list of tutorials and resources from most of our past meetups. Additional links can often be found in discussions on our Meetup event pages, so be sure to look there too.
Web Maps 101 by Andy Woodruff and Mike Foster
OpenStreetMap 101 by Jake Wasserman
Intro to QGIS - Make a Map by Mike Foster
Leaflet: Make a web map! by Andy Woodruff
Git and GitHub for Geodata by Calvin Metcalf
Mapping with D3 by Andy Woodruff
Spatial Data Formats by Shaun Walbridge
Projections and Coordinate Systems by Mike Foster
Hand Drawn Maps by Carolyn Fish (see the maps people drew, too)
Migrating to Leaflet 1.0 by Ryan Mullins
Mapping with R by Kent Johnson
Intro to PostGIS by Regina Obe and Leo Hsu
Map Design by Mike Foster and Andy Woodruff
Geospatial Processing with Python by Jake Wasserman
Geoprocessing with turf.js by Bill Morris
Geospatial Processing with Julia by Yeesian Ng
