Fwd: Open Source GIS Knowledge Exchange Day, 12 August 2016, 8:30 to 15:30

[Adi Eyal]

Hi All

The open source GIS knowledge exchange day is being held next week in Mowbray. I think it's worthwhile attending, even if you're not a mapping expert. For details see below:

Adi

 

 

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Invitation to Open Source GIS Knowledge Exchange Day

 

Venue: Ulwazi Conference Room, National Geo-spatial Information, 20 Rhodes Avenue, Mowbray, Cape Town, 33°57'03"S; 18°28'07"E

 

Date:   Friday 12 August 2016

 

Agenda

 

1.	Welcome	08:45 – 8:50	Aslam Parker
2.	Introduction to South African + CT public GIS datasets available and tools for processing	08:50 - 09:30	Grant Slater
3.	Introduction to the QGIS project	09:30 - 10:00	Tim Sutton
4.	Tea/Coffee	10:00 - 10:20
5.	Hands on Processing NGI Aerial Imagery at scale / Intro to gdal library	10:20 - 11:00	Grant Slater
6.	Making spatial data accessible to non-technical people	11:00 - 11:30	Adi Ayal
7.	How I built http://dotmap.adrianfrith.com (tools / data / js)	11:30 - 12:00	Adrian Frith
8.	Affordable "survey gps" - rtklib with Trignet is max 15mins	12:00 - 12:15	Grant Slater
9.	General Open Q&A session and where users can demonstrate ideas and projects	12:15 - 13:00	All
10.	Finger Lunch	13:00
11.	Open Source Shared Collaborations Session/open practical- hands on session	13:45-15:30	All
12.	Closure and thanks	15:30	Tim/Grant

 

There is space for 40 participants, Please RSVP to https://www.eventbrite.com/e/open-source-gis-knowledge-exchange-day-tickets-26895701768   by no later than Monday 9th August 2016 at 15:00

 

 

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Tim Sutton

 

Co-founder: Kartoza

Project chair: QGIS.org

 

Visit http://kartoza.com to find out about open source:

 

Desktop GIS programming services

Geospatial web development

GIS Training

Consulting Services

 

Skype: timlinux 

IRC: timlinux on #qgis at freenode.net

 

Kartoza is a merger between Linfiniti and Afrispatial

 

 

 

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Adi Eyal

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[riyaaz ismail]

Hi Adi

The link does not work.

What seems to be the problem?

Riyaaz

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[Adi Eyal]

What's wrong with the link - it works for me

Riyaaz

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[riyaaz ismail]

I saw that you need an account on Eventbrite.

Thanks

Enjoy the weekend.

Riyaaz

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