Cool presentation! I recently gave a talk as well at the Soil Science Society of America meetings in Utah last month on a tool that we have developed with Mapserver+MySQL+PHP.
If anyone is interested the site is: http://casoilresource.lawr.ucdavis.edu/drupal/node/27 Cheers! -- Dylan Beaudette Soils and Biogeochemistry Graduate Group University of California at Davis 530.754.7341 On Monday 21 November 2005 05:34 pm, Aaron Racicot wrote: > Hello, > > Sorry for the possible cross post, but I thought that this might be of > interest to some people on both the Mapserver and Natural Resources > Mapping lists. While this presentation is not just about Mapserver, it > is about Open Source GIS in our organization and where we are trying to > take the integration of web mapping and server side GIS. > > This presentation was my keynote talk on Open Source GIS made at Oregon > State University (OSU) for GIS day last week (Thanks to Dawn Wright for > the invitation!). While the event is pretty much sponsored by ESRI, > there was a very high level of interest in Open Source tools this year. > We had a packed house of Faculty, Staff, Grad Students and industry > folks all with an open ear ... very cool experience. The reactions were > great and I wanted to make this material available for anyone else who > might be interested in giving such a talk or just interested in my > self-centered look at Open Source GIS today. I hope people are able to > follow the slides without me talking to them, but if there are any > questions or if it spurs some thoughts people want to talk about I am > very interested. > > Feel free to download, pass on, munge, or whatever you feel like. I am > always interested in what people think and maybe this will even spur > some chatter on these lists about Open Source GIS and Web-Based Decision > Support Tools! > > Aaron > > http://pearl.ecotrust.org/gis_day_05/index.phtml > > Jeff, > I do not have permissions to add to the new "Mapserver Presentations" > page on the Plone site. Can you either post this there or let me know > how users can get permissions to update these pages? Thanks > > +----------------------------------------+ > > | Aaron Racicot | aaronr(at)ecotrust.org| > | GIS Programmer | 503.467.0759 | > > +----------------------------------------+ > > | e c o t r u s t | > | Jean Vollum Natural Capital Center | > | 721 NW Ninth Avenue | > | Suite 200 | > | Portland, OR 97209 | > | www.ecotrust.org | > > +----------------------------------------+
