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Ben DeMott

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Aug 26, 2010, 4:45:18 PM8/26/10
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So recently (over the last two weeks) I've had to work a bunch with
matplotlib (PyLab) and Shapely / Rtree

Shapely is a GIS implementation based on GEOS -> Geos is the GIS
backend behind PostGis (The Postgres Geographic Search Module)

If anyone is interested in me doing a talk or explaining how you can
use the tools together to do dimensional searches and plot the results
I'd be happy to share my experience over the last couple weeks.
Both of the tools require a decently high learning curve and although
both tools are documented fairly well - the examples are usually
underwhelming or overwhelming so it can be a struggle to get started.

Ben Rousch

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Aug 26, 2010, 4:59:49 PM8/26/10
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Pick a date! Our next meeting is Sept 20, and no talks are scheduled yet.

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Adam Tauno Williams

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Aug 27, 2010, 6:27:47 AM8/27/10
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On Thu, 2010-08-26 at 13:45 -0700, Ben DeMott wrote:
> So recently (over the last two weeks) I've had to work a bunch with
> matplotlib (PyLab) and Shapely / Rtree
> Shapely is a GIS implementation based on GEOS -> Geos is the GIS
> backend behind PostGis (The Postgres Geographic Search Module)
> If anyone is interested in me doing a talk or explaining how you can
> use the tools together to do dimensional searches and plot the results
> I'd be happy to share my experience over the last couple weeks.

This sounds really cool; always wanted to know more about PostGIS but
I've never had the time to tear into it.

> Both of the tools require a decently high learning curve and although
> both tools are documented fairly well - the examples are usually
> underwhelming or overwhelming so it can be a struggle to get started.

+1 When I browsed around the examples I find were so "Hello World"
they weren't very enlightening.


Adam Tauno Williams

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Aug 27, 2010, 6:30:15 AM8/27/10
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On Thu, 2010-08-26 at 16:59 -0400, Ben Rousch wrote:
> Pick a date! Our next meeting is Sept 20, and no talks are scheduled yet.

I assume the ics feed is correct and the upcoming dates are correct:

Sept. 20
Oct. 04
Oct. 18
Nov. 01

<http://www.google.com/calendar/ical/1ucr722j7r7jn...@group.calendar.google.com/public/basic.ics>

Ben Rousch

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Aug 27, 2010, 7:48:35 AM8/27/10
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You are correct sir.

Ben DeMott

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Aug 31, 2010, 4:13:21 PM8/31/10
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Sorry been out of touch - and Google Groups was broken for me when I
tried it over the weekend! (how dare they)

Sept 20th works for me

On Aug 27, 7:48 am, Ben Rousch <brou...@gmail.com> wrote:
> You are correct sir.
>
> On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 6:30 AM, Adam Tauno Williams
>
>
>
> <awill...@whitemice.org> wrote:
> > On Thu, 2010-08-26 at 16:59 -0400, Ben Rousch wrote:
> >> Pick a date! Our next meeting is Sept 20, and no talks are scheduled yet.
>
> > I assume the ics feed is correct and the upcoming dates are correct:
>
> > Sept. 20
> > Oct. 04
> > Oct. 18
> > Nov. 01
>
> > <http://www.google.com/calendar/ical/1ucr722j7r7jn3qf165d3s2...@group.calendar.google.com/public/basic.ics>
>
> >> On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 4:45 PM, Ben DeMott <ben.dem...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> > So recently (over the last two weeks) I've had to work a bunch with
> >> > matplotlib (PyLab) and Shapely / Rtree
> >> > Shapely is a GIS implementation based on GEOS -> Geos is the GIS
> >> > backend behind PostGis (The Postgres Geographic Search Module)
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Adam Tauno Williams

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Sep 1, 2010, 5:56:36 AM9/1/10
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On Tue, 2010-08-31 at 13:13 -0700, Ben DeMott wrote:
> Sorry been out of touch - and Google Groups was broken for me when I
> tried it over the weekend! (how dare they)
> Sept 20th works for me

Awesome.

Ben Rousch

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Sep 1, 2010, 7:04:15 AM9/1/10
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On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 4:13 PM, Ben DeMott <ben.d...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Sorry been out of touch - and Google Groups was broken for me when I
> tried it over the weekend! (how dare they)
>
> Sept 20th works for me

Excellent. I'll add it to the web page and send out an announcement next week.

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