PDX-OSGEO

Welcome to the Portland, OR Chapter of OSGEO - serving Oregon and SW Washington!
This wiki page is mostly historical at this point, head over to our current website
== News ==
* We now meet on the 3th Wednesday of every month from 6:00-7:30 PM at various locations.
=== Meetings ===
We don't seem to update the Meetings portion of the website. Checking Caligator for "OSGeo" is probably the best route. 
 Past Meeting Notes
 How to plan a meeting
 PDX-OSGEO Meetings, third Wednesdays, for 2015, 6:00-7:30 PM 
Date 	Location	Speakers, Topics
January 21 	Cramer 	QGIS and InkScape - Producing great cartography with open source tools by Dave Mangold.
Feb 18 	Cramer 	CartoCSS and UTFGrids for collaborative mapping by Nick Martinelli.
March 17 	Cramer 	http://justinmiller.io/posts/2015/01/20/anatomy-of-a-travel-map/ ]
April 15 	Cramer 	Katie Urey, Ryan Peterson [http://spiderosm.org ]update
May 20 	location	tbd
June 17 	location	tbd
July 15 	location	tbd
August 19 	location	tbd
September 16	location	tbd
October 21 	location	tbd
November 18 	location	tbd
December 16 	location	tbd
== Events ==
 links for various FOSS4G 2014 pages
=== Upcoming Events ===
Category:Events
2015 Summer Outdoor Mapathons, tentative schedule.
*Monday July 6 - 6PM The Portland Building under Portlandia statue. Gab for 10 minutes, divvy up quadrants- head out.
*Monday July 13 - Along Orange TriMet MAX line, N Killingsworth St MAX Station Stop ID 11512, Morning or noonish to work with Babies and strollers.
*Monday July 20 - Evening, Eastside... MAX Orange Line?
*Monday July 27 - noonish, – 82nd Ave and Division? Other ideas?
=== Past Events ===
2014 
* Sep. 8-13 (Mon-Sat) FOSS4G 2014 (Portland, Oregon, USA, Earth, Sol, Milky)
2013
* Mar. 21 (Thu) GPS, Geodesy and the Ghost in the Machine: A Workshop for Surveyors and GIS Professionals (PDF) (Salem, Oregon)
* Apr. 30 - May 1 (Tue-Wed) GIS In Action 2013 (PDX)
* May 2 (Thurs) 2013 Unconference (PDX)
* Aug. 27-29 (Tue-Thu) 34th Canadian Symposium on Remote Sensing (Victoria, B. C., Canada)
* Sep. 4 (Wed) Central Oregon GIS - Cartography Outside of ESRI (Bend, Oregon)
* Sep. 21 (Sat) Willamette Valley GIS Users Group Summer 2013 Quarterly Meeting (Salem, Oregon)
* Sep. 23-25 (Mon-Wed) 2013 GeoAlberta Conference (Edmonton, Alberta, Canada)
* Sep. 27-29 (Fri-Sun) {http://wherecamppdx.org/ WhereCampPDX 6] (Portland, Oregon)
* Oct. 14-18 (Mon-Fri) NWGIS Sunriver 2013 (Central Oregon)
* Oct 19 OpenStreetMap Fall Editathon (Portland)
* Oct. 16 (Wed) CUGOS 2013 Fall Fling (Seattle, Washington)
* Oct. 23 (Wed) Randal Schwartz interviews Tim Sutton and Gary Sherman of QGIS on FLOSS Weekly TV (internet)
* Oct. 25 (Fri) American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ASPRS) Columbia River & Puget Sound Regions 17th Annual Technical Exchange (Vancouver, Washington)
* Nov. 8 (Fri) 2013 Portland Cartography Symposium (Portland, Oregon)
2012
* Presentation for PLSO/ORURISA GIS in Action Conference 2012 - Open Source Smackdown - Web Mapping Clients Edition
2011
* Details on 2011 Open Source GIS unconference
 More past events 
== About the PDX-OSGeo Local Chapter ==
=== Introduction ===
PDX-OSGeo is a Local Chapter of OSGeo. PDX-OSGeo has a catchment area equal to the PDX airport, Oregon and SW Washington (Vancouver, WA / Clark County, WA). Monthly meetings are held in Portland.
=== History ===
PDX-OSGeo has been around and meeting in one form or another since before February 2009 under various names. Since September 2010, we have been recognized as an Oregon-URISA Special Interest Group (SIG). Since 2010, the local chapter has coordinated an open source unconference with ORURISA and GIS In Action. There are also deep roots with our sister OSGeo Local Chapter, CUGOS. In August, 2012, we became an official OSGeo local chapter by action of the OSGeo August, 2012 board meeting.
=== Mission ===
The PDX-OSGeo Chapter strives to promote the local use of Open Source Geospatial software, particularly new users in the Oregon/SW Washington area. The group hosts monthly meetings providing presentation, discussion, and educational opportunities and focuses on materializing an annual Open Source GIS unconference.
=== Objectives ===
Monthly Meetings, usually totaling 10/year:
* Presentations (Application and Technical)
* Chapter business
* Social gathering
Regional Events:
* Open Source GIS unconference
* Conference participation
Communication:
* Mailing List
* Wiki Development
* Monthly meetings
Legal Status:
* No real independent legal structure.
* No real capacity to independently hold funds in other than ad hoc informal manner.
* Affiliations with OSGeo and ORURISA help us with some of the tasks that require legal recognition as an independent entity. 
* There are currently no plans to seek any independent legal structure in the future.
=== Annual Reports ===
* 2013
* 2012
* 2011
* 2010
== Getting Involved ==
The PDX-OSGeo Local Chapter is a flexible organization, join us and help steer.
=== Membership ===
Anyone who wants to help support our mission is free to become a member. 
List yourself on the PDX-OSGEO Member Page and you're in!
=== Mailing List ===
Please join our mailing list to make sure that you know what's going on. Sign up and participate (or just lurk for a while). We have two main lists:
* For general discussion and announcements: http://groups.google.com/group/pdx-osgeo You do need to answer the questions (what is your favorite map and something else I think) to the extent needed to demonstrate that you are a person and have the minimal amount of GEO knowledge to not be a random spammer.
* For planning upcoming meetings (open to all participants): http://lists.pdxosgeo.org/sympa/info/planners
=== IRC ===
We can be found on irc://irc.freenode.net/#osgeo-pdx when there is something to discuss.
=== Leadership ===
To the extent that we think that we need leadership, it is Percy. Mostly we expect everyone to step up and help on most tasks resulting in a light load for all.
=== This Wiki ===
==== How To Write WIKI ====
Check out WikiPedia, where else. This is a great resource for many wiki writing tips
* How to Write Wiki
=== Event Set Up ===
Event set up notes.
== Geo Resources ==
=== SPRING GIS ===
SPRING is a state-of-the-art GIS and remote sensing image processing system with an object-oriented data model which provides for the integration of raster and vector data representations in a single environment. SPRING is a product of Brazil's National Institute for Space Research (INPE/DPI (Image Processing Division)...
SPRING GIS documentation
=== USDA - NRCS SSURGO Soil Database Migration to PostgreSQL ===
An example of how to get SURGO soils data into a PostgreSQL database on a GNU/Linux-based OS. 
File:SSURGO_to_PostgreSQL.odt|USDA - NRCS SSURGO Soil Database Migration to PostgreSQL
===The top seven alternatives to the Google Maps API===
Wm Leler of the PDX-OSGeo presented this topic and Net Magazine requested that he write it up at http://www.netmagazine.com/features/top-seven-alternatives-google-maps-api Article date: 2012-06-18.
=== Other useful links===
* GIS Stack Exchange for any GIS question for any software
* Slash Geo
* Planet OSGeo
== Acknowledgments ==
Thanks to various OSGeo local chapters and other wiki contributors whose work we borrowed and particularly CUGOS.
Category:Local Chapters
Category:PDX-OSGeo