GeoPhilly MeetUp on Open Source

Summary from LocationTech & GeoPhilly present: 2015 Geo Open Source Meetup

LocationTech & GeoPhilly present: 2015 Geo Open Source Meetup

Thursday, Oct 8, 2015, 6:00 PM

Quorum at the University City Science Center
3711 Market Street, Floor 8 Philadelphia, PA

139 Mappers Went

Philadelphia’s third annual LocationTech event is an evening speaker series featuring technical talks on the convergence of open source and geospatial. This is presented by GeoPhilly and hosted by Azavea.  This event follows the JS.Geo conference in Philadelphia and is conveniently located in the same venue.RSVP to join Philadelphia’s experts in m…

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Three takeaways

#1 Geo tech is hard stuff

The under pinning of GEO is more than a casual hackathon learning session.  There are great tools out there for making it consumable for all levels are developers, but if you want to get into the weeds prepare to wowed by a lot of very smart folks.

[@RedLine13 has two projects that make it easier to consume for mere mortals RealTimeMap and ZipCodeApi]

#2 Open Source projects abound

This was probably the tip of the iceberg regarding open source projects but all of this was covered at a high level with some showing off demos as well.

GeoGig – http://geogig.org/
GeoServer – http://geoserver.org/
WindShaft – https://github.com/CartoDB/Windshaft
Static Tiles with TileMill https://github.com/mapbox/tilemill
GeoTrellis – http://geotrellis.io/
CesiumJS – http://cesiumjs.org/
G3M – https://github.com/glob3mobile/g3m

All great but my favorite as CesiumJS, amazing what they accomplished.

#3 Philly and GEO

Definitely bigger than I thought.

• The CesiumJS project is by AGI
• And Azavea list of projects is too long, check it out